Watchmen.
I miss having a discussion on Watching the Detectives about how the Kitty Genovese murder and the Bernhard Goetz case completely rebooted the way America responds to crime from "Good Samaritan laws," the 911 call system, gun carrying laws, and media limitations in courtroom trials. I miss how we can chat for pages about the story's theme on cycles and circles going through time and coming full circle in a vicious cycle.
Now any day on any Watchmen board, someone comes in and shares their enlightening opinion with a new thread entitled DR. MANHATTAN IS AN EMO PUSSY! Then there are the individuals who criticize the ending because Rorschach died and Adrian lived, and which somehow spoiled the story. There also the characters with the bravery to write things such as "Alan Moore is a *****, Zack Snyder did insurmountable justice to the comic and nothing shall ever eclipse his effort. And he made it more interesting with beatiful action sequences to speed up the story that was too slow." And of course, the ones in denial who see the truth sheeple refuse to acknowledge, "That mainstream America couldn't handle a movie this smart, and by a director this visionary."
Today, I gag each time a bus passes me with an ad for Sucker Punch and I read "From Visionary Director Zack Snyder."
I don't doubt he has vision but what he sees, I don't don't find worth watching.