It was bad
My dad used to take my sister and I to virtually every movie that even slightly interested him. We saw all manner of R-rated films many years before we should have been allowed to. I'll never forget seeing Internal Affairs with Richard Gere at about age 10, I would guess. I've seen it later in life and was…

While I agree that not all movie adaptations are up to the source material, I don't think that a poor movie is able to devalue the source material in any way. They are different entities. If the movie is not to your liking, does it actually make you think less of the Watchmen comic? Bad adaptations are merely stand…