I think you have missed the boat on this one. Watchmen largely concerns itself with fascism and how setting out to fight monsters can turn you into one yourself. It's the whole point of the Black Flag comic-in-a-comic where the protagonist ends up a killer/pirate himself. Veidt makes that transformation from someone…
Don Whiteside
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Egon, your mucus.
I agree, but when you subvert the original themes of the work you had better be replacing them with something equally good. Or be remotely aware of those themes in the first place, maybe.
I couldn't disagree more. As an adaptation it misses so many points and glorifies irrelevancies. Where the comic's Dan and Laurie are wheezing and tired from the fight in the alley, the movie shows us a parkouring pair. (And while Laurie got herself youngified for the movie Dan is still supposed to be middle-aged).…