Adaptations not being "comic accurate"

[Nazrel]

once in a while the adaptations can streamline the original work in ways that actually benefit the overall story being told... reaching back 15 years for an example, when Zack Snyder did Watchmen and ditched the whole squid side-story... instead, he had Veidt manipulate Manhattan into helping him harness/re-create his own powers, and used "Manhattan turned on us!" as his plot instead of the alien invasion.
I get that the alien squid thing in the original was probably meant as a jab at the over-complicated-villain-plot tropes of yesteryear, but even so, the way the movie approached it worked better for the story itself in my estimate. same points are made and same end result is still accomplished, and there doesn't need to be a whole side-story that seems completely out of place until it gets tied together in the third act.

No, that's actually an example of a bad adaptation change; the alien invasion was a nebulous threat from the unknown that everyone would have to join together in an effort to be prepared for; Manhattan was the known U.S. super weapon, and if it looked like he just took out several major cities, they wouldn't have waited around to compare notes.

[Aarkus]

No, that's actually an example of a bad adaptation change; the alien invasion was a nebulous threat from the unknown that everyone would have to join together in an effort to be prepared for; Manhattan was the known U.S. super weapon, and if it looked like he just took out several major cities, they wouldn't have waited around to compare notes.

you forgot about the part where he teleports to Mars on live T.V. in front of the world and is still there when the attacks are launched... everyone KNOWS he already left Earth, and would assume he implicitly disavowed any government loyalties in the process.
being aware that he left the planet + the attacks happening everywhere in the world + all having Manhattan's exact energy signature = no one is going to mistakenly blame the U.S. for launching the attack. if anything, it would take the U.S. government down a few pegs on the world stage, in the aftermath, when other nations start to berate them for losing control of Manhattan.

[Refrax5]

you forgot about the part where he teleports to Mars on live T.V. in front of the world and is still there when the attacks are launched... everyone KNOWS he already left Earth, and would assume he implicitly disavowed any government loyalties in the process.
being aware that he left the planet + the attacks happening everywhere in the world + all having Manhattan's exact energy signature = no one is going to mistakenly blame the U.S. for launching the attack. if anything, it would take the U.S. government down a few pegs on the world stage, in the aftermath, when other nations start to berate them for losing control of Manhattan.

Especially since he also attacked a major American city.

[ChrisIII]

I haven't read the original novels but


Lynch's adaptation of Dune is pretty hilarious in light of the new on and what I'm aware of from how the novels continue with it's "and they all lived happily ever after" style ending narration.