What Zack Snyder’s 2009 Watchmen movie got right (and wrong)

5. Commentary on society

Alan Moore’s original graphic novel had a lot to say about the world and out place in it, suggesting that the world would always be at war –whether physical, ideological, or otherwise — unless we could be united against a greater, alien threat. It’s a bleak take on humanity, and one that Snyder’s adaptation kept in place.

Ozymandias was a complex villain, someone who did horrible things in the service of a noble goal. The characters themselves are pretty much all morally compromised or emotionally broken in some way, even if they are superheroes. Yes, it’s a fantasy movie featuring a blue atomic being who can see through time, but even so, Moore’s work feels remarkably grounded and even realistic. Snyder preserved almost all of Moore’s plot points in often slavish detail, so it retains the message.

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