Most graphics of the 2000s, how Hard-R superhero movies were destroyed by their warnings

Joshua Tyler | publishing 7 minutes ago

Until the early 2000s, no one took superhero movies seriously X-Men and Spider-Man Prove that they may be more than spandex squirts out old-fashioned conversations. The early superhero revival reached its peak Dark Knight In 2008, the film proved that not only could you take superhero movies seriously, but you could also say something important.

Then, as usual, Hollywood took things too far and started to take superheroes too seriously. The result is WatcherThis is a 2009 film based on one of the greatest comics in history.

This is a film about what happens to a replacement world that takes place after a high-profile assassination, a conspiracy that seems to be related to anyone paying attention to current events in 2025. But that didn’t matter in 2009, the movie with a large budget failed at the box office after it got fans angry.

Can now be the right time to revive it and give it another chance? As we explore, stick to finding out how they merge together Why the Watcher failed.

Set clock motion

Warner Bros. Green Zack Snyder Watcher In the mid-2000s, they thought they were offering game-changing landmarks. The 1986 work by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is still considered one of the greatest comics of all time. Naturally, Hollywood thought: “Perfect. Let’s be blockbusters.”

Iconic director Terry Gilliam famously left for one reason Watcher In the 1990s, it was called “unrealized”. This story spans multiple time periods, transforming perspectives and comic comic clips.

compression Watcher A two and a half hour movie may always be impossible without getting it dirty. Director Zack Snyder tried it anyway. He almost left everything except the black freighter segment in the comics and stuffed it into a movie.

Watchmen begin with assassination

Edward Blake’s murder (renamed as comedian) The Watcher’s Stories in the movement. When paranoid superhero Rorschach investigates the death of the comedian, he discovers a wider conspiracy against costume heroes.

What Rorschach found prompted the scattered former heroes to reunite and reevaluate their past choices, as well as the plot behind the death of the comedian. His murder is the catalyst for everything that follows, symbolizing the beginning of the death of moral ambiguity and the dark estimates of power, justice and sacrifice.

Visually amazing recreation can cause confusion

Each frame Watcher From Dave Gibbons Watcher comics. The dialogue line is wholesale from the panel.

Watcher it’s beautiful. The scores are incredible and incredible. The performance is worthy of award-winning. The character jumps off the screen. But it is also a disgusting and unfulfilling experience.

Literally, it was stuck in a cartoon version of the 80s. While the main characters of the film are complex and compelling, the surrounding 1985 world runs in the form of childish good and evil, with government officials spinning their beards on their way to the nuclear war.

The newcomer was confused. Too many fans were angry.

Zack Snyder Stylist

Zack Snyder is a designer, not a storyteller. He confirmed his style Watcher.

dawn Shows that Snyder can act. 300 Prove that he can create a moving comic panel.

Watcher More than he had done before. It needs to be subtle. It needs to be ironic. Snyder won’t do that either. Anyway, some of them are passed through simple copying of the comics. But not all.

He filmed sex scenes on Archie like a soft core music video. He turned the battle in prison into a slow ballet.

Designed by Alan Moore Watcher Deconstruct superhero fantasy. Snyder accepted these fantasies.

Instead of seeing the superhero deconstruction, the critics watched a superhero movie without happiness. It has a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but it has almost nothing. Watcher Split immediately.

Watchmen try to do more when no one wants

Time was killed Watcher Almost as much as it is executed. It was released in March 2009. Just a year ago, Dark Knight If superhero movies are redefined, it proves that they can be morally complex and are critically respected.

Watcher Try to do more and work harder, but by then, the audience is ready to be easier. In response, Marvel began assembling its cinematic universe, leaning towards accessibility and fun.

Watcher Sitting between Batman fans and Marvel fans, attracting both. At the same time it is too cold and too shallow.

Break the Watchman’s ending

Snyder has very little adaptability Watcher Enter the feature film. One big change he made was a huge mistake.

In the initial case, Ozymandias carried out fake alien squid attacks to unite the world with a common enemy. In the film, Snyder restructured it as Dr. Manhattan’s energy signature, causing global destruction and forcing allies to oppose him.

Fans hate it. For them, it puts the weirdness and irony of the squid into trouble. For outsiders, the Manhattan framework is hard to understand. To be fair, this huge squid attack may also be difficult for outsiders to understand.

Still, it doesn’t end with a shocking, ridiculous twist, but ends with a chaotic special effects sequence that feels like the other superhero climax. Watcher It’s a story surrounding this twist. That’s why Alan Moore wrote about it. When you build the whole story in one big twist and then spin the twist, you kill your movie.

Watcher Died in the last scene.

Crushed marketing disaster

Know The Watcher’s The ending is the problem. People have to see it. It’s difficult to attract audiences to see it.

The Watcher’s The trailer is beautiful. Set in haunting pumpkin songs, these ads offer something more to action movies. They sell it as a wealth of experience. This never works on average, most of them are interested in superhero action only.

Dark Knight It’s already very deep, but WB slides it in. They didn’t sell it except for the movie’s cool special effects sequence.

this Watcher The trailer tries to deliver both at the same time: an incredible sequence of effects and a strong deconstructed naval gaze. For ordinary idiots, that’s too much.

Open Weekend Watcher There is a large $55 million in funding, but the decline is disastrous. By the second week, the audience had given up on it. The final global box office was $185 million, with little production, let alone marketing. In Hollywood math, this is a loss.

The modern meaning of the watchman

In 2019, HBO proved Watcher A brand new idea that can work on the screen when given space, subtle and unrelated to the original comics. It just does it while completely ignoring the original material.

In the Zack Snyder movie, this raw material, perhaps the Zack Snyder movie is suddenly more relevant than ever. Maybe it’s time to reevaluate Watcher..

Zack Snyder Watcher Failed because Alan Moore’s original story is always more than just a comic book. It’s a cruelty of power, a cynical anatomy, a social fracture, how leaders lie and how single men’s killings rippled through history.

In Moore’s story, Blake’s death uncovers the corrupt network and triggers the breakdown of everything. The most frightening prediction Watcher Shocking rarely stops assassination.

None of this eliminates the epic failure of the 2009 film. It should be a definite comic adaptation. Instead, this became a box office disappointment, a point of contention among fans, and a textbook example of why every great story should not be translated literally into a movie.

Ironically Watcher Superhero movies should have been deconstructed. Instead, it was deconstructed by them.