We Watch the Watchmen - The Review

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[Southern!Girl] and I just returned from a pleasant outing to the movie theatre.
We went to see Watchmen.

Now, as a comic book aficionado (and movie buff) I saw the movie quite differently from her. She who is not a comic book reader or a particular movie buff (I know, I'm trying to cure her of this "deficiency").
I thought it would be interesting to write a dual review from the perspective of an Alan Moore and specifically Watchmen fan and from the perspective of someone who is very much not.

First thing's first.
It's not a bad movie.
It was hardly the best movie (or even comic book movie I'd ever seen), but as a work of cinematic craft it was very well done and enjoyable.
Yes, even with Zack Snyder's signature slow-mo.
Oh, Zack Snyder, you terrible, horrible, tasteless director.

( Here be Spoilers )

To conclude.
The movie, as far as movies go, was above average. As a comic book movie, it was okay. A new Dark Knight it is not.

As a different reviewer I read said, it had no chance to be adapted from the book. What Alan Moore created with Watchmen was a new way of writing comics, taking the genre and turning it on its head.
Watchmen enabled and pushed comic books to go beyond what they were at the time and all the genre comic books today can only look back and thank Watchmen for existing.
This movie has not changed the way I look movies.
It didn't teach me anything about humanity that I didn't learn about from the movies it referenced - humans are cruel and self-destructive and everybody thinks they know best.

Nothing new.
But it certainly looked good.