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It's sad to see that Alan Moore had his name extracted from the project because this is really, though it's no masterpiece, the best adaptation Watchmen could ever have asked for. Having read the comic, when you look at the movie and see that yeah, there had to be some mercy cuts from the plot to make for a reasonable running time, you see how loyal a devotion Snyder had to the material in what seems to be the stunningly meticulous attention to detail on every set. The acting's still kinda dry, particularly the actress who plays Laurie, but that aside, the director's cut really is (unlike a lot of directors cuts, and movies that call themselves "unrated" or "too terrifying for theaters" and add nothing but an extra thirty seconds of screaming or crying (i.e. Saw III)) a triumph over the theatrical edition, and definitely worth the 25 or 30 dollar price (depending on where you get it). You can't help but at least admire a filmmaker who cares as much about his work as Snyder.