Watchmen - It wasn't nearly as bad as I suspected it might be. I even enjoyed it. Yes, it was comic-bookish and the plot was not particularly well developed in the film in comparison to the Graphic Novel but it was a well enough developed film in its own right. And yes the politics were silly, incredibly unrealistic, and comic bookish too, as is almost always the case with comic book materials, but given the source I thought it was a pretty good tale on the level of the individual character (especially as regards Manhattan and Adrian, whom I really thought I wouldn't like beforehand) and liked it for that. But for love of Red Skelton, I wish though that comic book writers and film-makers alike would stop already with the 5th grade juvenile American Empire/Dystopia/Utopia Hippie-squiggly/porky-piggly in first deep doe-eyed puppy love with the failed throwback Sixties (even in a series set in the Eighties they gotta go back to the Sixties, like the Seventies weren't bad enough or like the world first arose in that mostly stupid, backwards, febrile, misguided era) sea of moss green catfish crap they so often love to swim in. Man, what do most of them get their visions of the world and history from nothing more than other comic books? Even when they write anti-comic-book comic books (excuse me Graphic Novels) that's about the extent of their "prophetic visions" of the present and future.
