300, minus the rock and roll music, was a really good adaptation of the comic and Sin City was even better than the comics, but Watchmen's style is so not at all like Frank Miller's. The point of Watchmen was that everybody is human and flawed, even if they're pretending to be superheros. It's about questioning the idea that anyone should be put in a position of authority over anyone else, what makes them better? And the way that the trailer hyped them up to be something more than human just missed the whole point. It's looking like its going to be a very untrue adaptation. I hope I don't sound like a snob. The comic itself is very gritty and the characters in it are almost unanimously highly flawed and the point is driven home over and over that they aren't necessarily any better than anyone else. Essentially the trailer made them all look way cooler (more muscular, better costumes, cool at fighting, etc..) than they really were in the book. I hope I'm wrong but I don't see how it could be how I want it to be after seeing the trailer.

(Can you tell I've been excited about this one?)