Watchmen
Out of context: Reply #85
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I love this comic and thought the movie was okay, however I am convinced that for all his purported love for the comic, Zach Snider fundamentally does not understand what makes it so good. The comic was great because it is a deconstruction of both the medium of comics and the nature of heroism in the sociopolitical climate of the 80's. It's loaded with symbols and allegories that draw direct connections between it's world and the state of hero comics at the time, meaning most of the comic's relevance is tied to it's medium.
Making such a faithful adaptation may be a service to the comic's skin, but Snider decidedly left the internal organs of Watchmen strewn behind him on the editing floor.If you'd like, you can stretch for relevance in Nixon's psuedo-dictatorial rule, Cold War fear-mongering and corporate figure heads that wield too much power, but Snider hasn't done anything to make any of this current. He's done nothing to address the tropes of modern superhero films. He's done nothing to address the current political climate.
No wonder Dave Gibbons was behind this and Alan Moore wasn't, Dave is the only one being celebrated here.