@tmp3 - Snyder also made it an action movie which totally missed the point of the original comic. It was a deconstruction of the Ditko era and he missed that as well.

@Doomsday8888 - Nothing that's good about Zack Snyder's Watchmen is because of Snyder, and everything that isn't good about Snyder's Watchmen is because of Snyder.

I think it's an okay CBM that has great material behind it (and would have been better received in today's climate, so it can be seen as being ahead of its time). But there is a lot of stuff Snyder didn't get about Watchmen. An example of this is how he chose to shoot the film.

Part of what makes Watchmen iconic is the colour palette. The artists purposely used secondary colours more than primary colours because comic books of that time were obsessed with primary colours. If you have read anything about colour theory in relation to comics, it says that primary colours (red, blue, yellow) are usually reserved for the most important characters in comics. Think Superman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Thor, and Iron Man. Not only are the colour choices made to make you focus on them the most, they're also patriotic colours. Note that green and purple was typically used to frame villains because they contrasted with red and blue the most.



By contrast, Watchmen used more secondary colours such as green, orange and purple to visually highlight this was a different kind of comic book, and the Watchmen themselves had their costumes in greys, golds, purples and browns to represent their moral ambiguity. The colour blue was usually kept to a minimum. Sometimes the only blue thing in a panel was Dr Manhattan, and that helped the character stand out wherever he was.





This is what Zack Snyder didn't understand about what made Watchmen stand out visually, and instead to shoot the ENTIRE FILM with the most generic and desaturated blue and brown filter, instead of using a more unique colour palette to shoot the film, decorate the sets and the costumes.




Zack Snyder may have framed almost every shot in his film to look like the comics, but in my opinion he failed to understand WHY those panels are iconic in the first place. It's not just about the structure, but the colour choices that were used.