* Because of the book I was recently reading on Cambodia, the ending reminded me of the Khmer Rouge. Anytime someone has tried to "reboot" society--that I can think of--it's ended in horrible numbers of people dying, and some sort of deterioration of that society's ability to function.
* However. If you ARE going to re-start society, I definitely recommend doing so with a giant blobby quid. That's awesome.
* I agree with this blogger that the biggest failing re the ending is that the filmmakers don't show the bloody, gory, horrible result of Ozymandias' plan. The movie is overly gory throughout, in ways it doesn't need to be / that the comic isn't, and then when it comes to the most important part--where you need to decide whether this kind of destruction is a worthy means to an end or not--it's sanitized.
* After reading the comic, I felt that the biggest thing missing from the movie was the little human touches. There are all these mini subplots/characters, of the psychiatrist, of the newspaperman, a cab driver etc. throughout the comic, and these are the people you see get killed at the end. It's very affecting, and I think they represent the goodness and decency that still exists, even in an almost amoral society--and therefore their deaths make O's Final Solution that much more chilling. In the movie, you occasionally see those characters, but it's meaningless if you haven't read the comic.
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