I'm, like, the only person on the internet who like that soundtrack (except for the Hallelujah track -- Leonard Cohen was a genius at songwriting, but his rendition of that song is awful. Everyone who's ever covered it sang it better).

I kind of thought the sledgehammer blows worked -- it created this slight ironic distance from the film, which works with Watchmen, I think, because Watchmen is supposed to be very self-aware of how Meta it is and also everything by Alan Moore is kind of intended to have the subtlely of a sledgehammer.

All Along Along the Watchtower was perfect for the scene they used it in, IMO. It was like they'd premade a fanvid for your convenience. (And I'll admit, using very well known and even iconic popular music is something milage can vary heavily on. On the one hand, there's the eternal brilliance of Supernatural's soundtrack, which may be the best soundtrack to anything ever, but on the other hand, there's the heavy use of Evanescence music in the Daredevil movie, which just... I was watching it on DVD thinking "Somewhere on the internet this scene has been vidded to Evanescence" and then "Tourniquette" started playing and I quietly died of LOLs).