I saw the movie despite never having seen a single frame of the graphic novel. I thought it was decent. It certainly wasn't great, but I didn't feel like I wasted my money. I followed it well enough to get what was going on. And yes, Rorschash was a bada**. His "You're all locked in here with me" line in the prison was awesome.
My friend is a huge fan of the graphic novel, and ironically his overall opinion of the movie was similar to mine. He said it was as faithful to the novel as it could have possibly been, to the point that most of the lines were verbatim from the novel. In some ways that might have hurt it as a movie, since some things that work in a graphic novel don't work as well in a live action movie, but I think fans of the novel will be pleased at how faithful it was.
My only real gripe was the hideous sex scene. You know your sex scene is bad when half the audience is cringing and half the audience is laughing out loud at it. The end of the scene was legitimately funny though.
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