I would have preferred a full-length episodic story. However, once they made the decision to make a movie there was no way to include everything from the book.
So we were left with some stuff, most notably the Rorshach origin, which didn't advance the story in the film and could've been cut to make a tighter film.
Similarly, I hate to say it but they could have cut the Hollis backstory all together and not hurt the film one bit.
