The only insightful commentary I can offer is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

While I may disagree with your sentiments, I gotta give you props for the nested parentheses.

Shit I'll say it now. BvS wasn't great, but I didn't hate it nearly as much as everyone else. Now, full disclosure, I'm not at all a fan of Superman (in fact, this is literally the only movie with Superman in it I've ever seen), so I have a slightly different frame of reference than most people who hated the movie.

Fair enough, the "Doc Manhattan did it" might not be the best thing they could have done, but I do think it worked better than the Randy Orton RKO-esque "squid monster…from OUTTA NOWHERE" ending.

For me, as much as I hate Phantom Menace, it actually wouldn't be the answer to this question. I was so hyped for it, that I ended up enjoying it in theaters. The hype carried me all the way through to the following morning, before reality set in and I started to realize what a bad movie it actually was.

I never saw that one, but I had the misfortune of seeing The Cat in the Hat in theaters. If I had to pick my least-favorite movie of all time, Cat in the Hat is probably it. I honestly felt sick at the end of that movie*.

The squid ending wouldn't have worked on screen. Hell, it almost didn't work in the comic, and is perhaps my only gripe with the comic itself.

I know. For years people ragged on comic book movies as not being faithful enough, and then Snyder does Watchmen, and suddenly the criticism was that it was "too" faithful. No pleasing some people….

Well I don't wanna make a blanket statement like that. In this case she goes too far though.

I'm right with you, brother. I think the fact that Snyder is so hated now makes everyone want to retroactively pretend that he's never made anything good ever.

I went and looked for it and for the old review: http://www.avclub.com/revie…

Well fortunately you don't have to worry about that in this case, since the film adaptation is definitely not terrible in the slightest!

Sure, it wasn't as good as the comic (what could be?), but it's still an enjoyable watch.

It's confusing to me cause I remember the critical and audience consensus at the time Watchmen came out was "That was pretty alright, kinda good actually!" And then now I only ever hear it brought up as if it's this legendarily bad picture.

Well I guess I just disagree about literally all of your points, but to each their own. Still, my larger point stands. I could understabd being underwhelmed or "meh" about the movie, but the out-and-out hatred the movie gets these days I think is too much.

Easily and by far my worst movie theater experience was that war crime of a movie, The Golden Compass. Those books are some of my all-time favorites and I was hyped beyond measure for the movie. I've never been to let down, and I walked out halfway through.

When did it become so fashionable to hate on Watchmen? I know we are all supposed to hate Zack Snyder and pretend he's the worst thing ever, but Watchmen is a pretty decent film. No masterpiece for sure, but come on!

Yeah but the difference is that Face/Off is actually a good movie, while Con Air sucks.

I wasn't allowed to see this when it came out cause it was rated R, so I didn't see it until many years later when I was in my 20s. And I still loved it.

Tom has this weird bullshit hatred of scifi and invents reasons to exclude them from this column. See also: excluding all three Star Wars movies.