If anything, I think Snyder was too faithful to the books. i still stand by my statement that Snyder fixed Moore's mistakes, one of the most horrendous mistakes that was really awesomely fixed is doctor manhattan's diologue, if you read the comic, skipping over the scenes that don't have manhattan in them, you'll notice that in the comic manhattan's diologue doesn't really make sense, in the movie his dialogue is totally fixed Really, the story as written in the books is too damn big for a movie. I think Terry Gilliam was right, that it should have been a mini-series. if it had been made into a mini-series, they would have ended up doing a shot for shot copy of the books which would have sucked, i like how they changed the "psionic monster" into a bomb, with everone thinking dr manhattan was attacking earth, better explains why manhattan leaves earth at the very end, and the parts with dan drieberg doing more stuff than in the comic made him a much more 3-dimensional, more human character Funny thing is, that's probably more doable nowadays than when Gilliam was working on it. it's totally doable now, but no one would watch it now because of how much all those critics hated the watchmen movie
I think some reimagining can be good. I liked what they did with V for Vendetta, for example. They modified the story so it works as a film, rather than be a slave to the original book. this is how i feel about the watchmen movie, the edited out parts were edited out for time, to fit the watmen into a single movie instead of doing it as a mini-series, also love how rorschach gets his "face" back from the therapist in the movie (And I don't care what Alan Moore thinks, since he's going to hate it regardless.)
i would love to see alan moore face-2-face and tell him that i felt Zak Snyder fixed the mistakes he made in the comic, alan moore didn't want to have anything to do with the making of a watchmen movie that wasn't going to be a complete panel-to-frame copy of his comic, and i'd like to tell moore that his caomic was full of mistakes an Snyder fixed them, moore thinks he's the most awesome comic-book-writer of all time and i'd like to tell him that he's not and that Brad Meltzer's Identity Crisis was way better than Alan Moore's Watchmen
Personally, I was kinda interested when Paul Greengrass was attached and was talking about moving the story to modern times. my understanding was that it would have been exactly the same except for the time-frames for real-world-events, where the death of the comedian would occur in the same year that the movie hits theaters, so that the audience would better feel the importance of solving the comedian's murder, and everyone would be de-aged where Osterman's Accident with the intrinsic feild subtractor doesn't happen untill after the end of the veitnam war and the scene with the comedien and doctor manhattan fighting side-by-side in the military is up-dated to be "desert storm" Obviously, it would have been a very different story not neccassarily and I'm not sure it would have worked, it could have totally worked, in that it could have easily been a movie really really entertaining to those specific people that have never read the comic but I don't know if people before my generation would really understand the politcal climate in the 80s which Watchmen was very much tied to.
