xhonzi said:

I thought that Watchmen was a pretty decent adaptation. Just this morning I heard someone else dismissing it.

I think the movie ending may actually (literally) be my preferred ending... though I'm still thinking about that.

What's your beef?

I found the film lost a lot of points with me personally when Dan and Silk Specter are attacked by the goons in the alley.

In the comic it's a spontateous act of surprisiong and frightening violence, and both are clearly shocked in the aftermath.

In the film they smirk at each other before entering a slow-mo orgy of bone breaking. They practically high five at the end.

I think Snyder's love of filmic violence occasionally clouded his attempts to be faithful to the (themes especially of the) book.