Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
I didn't really like this. There is some merit to it, as the story it faithfully adapts is of course great, but at the same time, that's kind of the film's biggest problem - it's too faithful. Watchmen, the comic, isn't structured like a movie, paced like one, or written like one. It's lengthy, episodic, revolves around a number of very complex characters, hops backward and forward in time frequently, and takes place in a universe with plenty of both subtle and major differences to ours. So, on the one hand, it's not a great choice for a film adaptation (a TV show might have worked better), but if they insisted on making it a movie, then they really needed to take a scissors to the source material and make a proper adaptation, rather than just including everything that was in the comic because that's what the fanboys hoped for. Moloch, for example, should have been left out. The news vendor and the animated depiction of the Black Freighter story absolutely should have been left out, and I was honestly stunned to see it be included. Even the dialogue should have been trimmed down considerably, as a lot of what was in the comic is too wordy to really work in live-action, when you need to have actors actually sounding out the lines and have it flow with what's happening onscreen. The "What happened to the American Dream?" line stood out as a big example of that. It's a neat exchange in the comic, but in live-action it sounds so rehearsed that it just comes across as hokey.
I mentioned the word "fanboys" above, and that's one way to summarize the whole issue. This is a movie for fanboys, and only for fanboys. I can't imagine anyone not already at least reasonably familiar with the comic being anything other than confused by this. Also, the blood and gore in this movie is disgusting, and I don't mean that in a good way. It's not artsy, it's not beautiful, it's just ugly. And nobody try and say that was the point, because Snyder films it far too lovingly for that to have been the intended effect.