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There is no such thing as ‘Audience Incompetence’. You could argue that a film is , ahead of it’s time. In 1969 2001: A Space Odyssey was ahead of the audience. However that film was obviously visionary and hugely ambitious, even to people who didn’t ‘get it’ at the time and the track record of Kubrick is almost without peer in the history of Cinema. He managed to make something that wildly surpassed his source material ( Arthur C. Clarkes SENTINEL short story. ) So far Snyder has yet to make anything that aspires to anything higher than making people buy Popcorn.

I am not sure this is necessarily a situation Directorial Incompetence. For one, the director has shown himself competant in the past. And as for audiences not appreciating what was intended…that happens to a lot of directors. Some “classic” films were met with a resounding thud upon release and only became treated as works of art years later. While I am not claiming this will be the case for Watchmen, to suggest initial audience reaction means the film failed as a peice of work really jumps the gun. It could very well be audience incompetence for missing the point of the slow mo and so on.

They had no idea the novel would become such a hit, just happened to be, I believe its because it relates to the mind set and fears of that era, the approach was something new, with different kind of “super” heroes, us, what made us who we are and whom we can become if we’re fully committed to what we believe.

The only mistake from the studio is that there’s no way this movie would appeals to a mass audience. The majority of people didn’t even know about the novel to the day the marketing campaign started, curiosity brought them to see it, they expected a superhero action packed movie, instead they got a slow paced psychological thriller.

The box office numbers make sense to me.

I love the novel and the movie, I think Snyder did an amazing job, the story is so complex, people will always complain, the truth is, they’re not complaining about the movie but the fact that it isn’t the way they would’ve wanted it to be or imagined it would be, that’s all.
I don’t agree with everything in the movie but who cares, the essence is there.

Can’t even be compared to V for Vendetta, cause this one is way more complex with the many characters development, etc…

These people became superheroes w/o powers except the one that counts the most, the mind/will and the belief you can change the world, to the point that Veidt perfected and marketed a method to reach that super human potential.
So if Batman can defeat Superman, well I believe in what they can do in this movie.

Do not forget to dream, be inspired and entertained, that’s what this is about, not to analyze.

This is the birth of an instant “underground” cult classic;o)

The screenwriter wrote this in order to get people to watch:
http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com/031109-watchmen-movie-david-hayter-open-letter.php which includes the phrase “Trust me. You’ll come back, eventually. Just like Sally.”

After that I decided there wasn’t anything he could bring to the characters that I wanted to see.

In fact, it’s all about Dr Manhattans Dick. In the book, Gibbons drew it as a demure little thing, that’s how we knew that Ostermann/Manhattan just didn’t care about being a human being anymore. Though he could have made it any size, shape or colour that he chose, these social pressures had ceased to be significant to him.

Zack Snyder had to have the big Dick.

I rest my case.