Watchmen

300's Zack Snyder brings Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' critically acclaimed comic book -Watchmen to the big screen, courtesy of DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures. Set in an alternate universe circa 1985, the film's world is a highly unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and ...more

Watchmen's superheroes are a lonely, psychologically unhinged bunch. Zack Snyder's big screen adaptation of the revered graphic novel illuminates super-mental disarray above all. Jumping a seemingly insurmountable hurdle, Snyder breathes cinematic life into Alan Moore's allegedly "unfilmable" masterpiece. Watchmen isn't a panel for panel reappropriation of the comic book, but it gets pretty close. In fact, the 300 director preserves the integrity of the story, while adding a few of his own ...more

Surely, one of the greatest quandaries faced by the modern film reviewer is the question of how much credence should be given to fanboys. In a period when adaptations of cult properties are at an all-time high, the inevitably nitpicky opinions of a comic's original fans are often loud enough to eclipse the general sentiment on a film -- even when they represent a tiny portion of the movie's overall viewership. But, of course, part of the reason that old-school fans voice their concerns so ...more