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Rodney has posted what I consider the final word on 'Watchmen':

[...] Snyder strips out most, if not all, of the 'mad ideas,' dumps the wacky, mind boggling ending and tightly embraces the narrative and structural conceits laid out in the book. When unraveled in movie form, the flaws in the comic's narrative come out. Whats the password to this computer that controls the fate of the world? Oh, its the on the spine of the book sitting in front of me. These and numerous other moments like it may have worked in a movie 20, 30, or 40 years ago but do not fly anymore. Snyder's embrace of the comics sprawling structure seems to be nothing more than of rote formalism. Furthermore, the emphasis on stylized hyperviolence (what would we do without slo-mo martial arts?) where the book largely implied such things as well as the triumph of body fetishism over performances (save for Jackie Earle Haley) boils out any brains that existed in the original material. So, in the end, Watchmen is some sort of 'adult' superhero movie, with the word 'adult' meaning fighting (slo-mo martial arts, anybody?), sex, bad musical direction and some gee-whiz effects. This is exactly the sort of movie that I do not like. [...]