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What I hate, ultimately, about Watchmen is that Snyder cut out the soul. It was like watching a live action storyboard, and, with few exceptions, no one on screen had any connection to the story being told. Granted there's an element of soulless-ness in the original story to begin with, but the characters there all have emotional connections to the narrative, and Snyder's direction was unable to convey it. In his quest for visual authenticity, he extracted the life from it. It's like a taxidermist's vision of that story.

That's my final summation. It failed. Moore was right. It's an unfilmable story.