sadly, i read this after viewing the uninspired parody…

…Humanity is what Snyder’s Watchmen needs. Moore had many ways to infuse his characters and story with it, from metafictional biography excerpts from Hollis Mason’s Under the Hood to subnarratives like Tales From the Black Freighter[...].

Snyder pushes, ironically enough, in the opposite direction in his R-rated movie, leaning heavily on gore and excess in ways that Moore and Gibbons did not. In the process, the film too easily becomes a horror spectacle rather than a social text, more Dawn of the Dead than Dr. Strangelove.

The Watchmen film is shot through with deviations that seem calculated to connect with an audience of diminished intelligence, whether those viewers have read the comic or not.

via Scott Thill at Wired