*nods* I was actually very impressed that the film was reasonably good (I honestly expected it to suck -- I didn't think they could successfully translate the comic to the screen in a naratively coherent fashion at all, anymore than you could translate Sandman or Cable & Deadpool to the screen without losing a lot of the beauty/humor/charm), but all in all I think 300 was a better movie as movies go. It was definately a visually gorgeous movie, and the extreme violence worked a little better there. There were places in Watchmen where you could just *hear* someone on the production staff saying "Yay! Look, we're being shocking! I bet the audience flnches real hard at this bit!"