I watched a recap and besides being "woke" it looks kinda bad.
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I like Snyder but I don't think I've liked any of his stuff for a while. I think he's kinda passe now
I absolutely fucking loved 300. Thought Watchmen was okay. Didn’t really care much about any of his other films and literally fell asleep in the theatre while Justice League was playing.
But I honestly lost all respect for the guy when he dissed Geeks and Gamers and tried to disavow after they’d raised $1Million for charity. What a piece of shit.
His name is meaningless to me now
Watchmen was a lazy cop-out swapping the fake "alien" invasion for a fake Dr Manhattan attack instead. At that point in the story Manhattan was so detached from humanity pissing him off by claiming he was attacking the planet would not only be retarded but also blatantly obvious as a lie considering just how powerful he was. If he wanted to attack and destroy the planet he could. There wouldn't be anything left after.
The engineered/mutated "alien" psychic brain being teleported into a populated zone worked in the comic because it was literally alien enough in appearance to evoke primal fear just by itself, but the additional 1 shot psychic banshee cry that killed those nearby meant it could never then go on to do more and possibly give away it was a setup.
This sounds like a good criticism from someone who had read the novel.
But someone who had only watched the movie wouldn't necessarily have this insight into the mental state and/or power level of Manhattan.
I went into the movie with very little knowledge of the novel and it didn't seem unreasonable to me.