[Film/TV] Why does Alan Moore hate “Watchmen” (2009) so much?

He usually generally hates anything adapted from his comics, I think the only exception is an episode of the Justice League animated series adapting For the Man Who Has Everything in which he allowed his name to be inserted among the authors.

However, although I personally find it to be a generally decent transposition, talking about it with some friends they didn't like it as an adaptation either due to some changes such as the fight scene at the beginning, the absence of the alien squid and Nite Owl II witnessing the death of Rorschach because according to them these are points that should not have been touched.

Why wouldn't he. The movie glorifies everything the comic criticizes. It feels made by someone who only saw the drawings and didn't read it and was like "woah superheroes fucking and killing cool rad bro!"

He hates everything derived from his work generally.

He hates that DC did it because they swiped the rights to it from him. In his opinion anyway.

Moore doesn't really like anything that's come out of his work besides an episode of the Justice League.

To be fair, there also isn't really much that does a great job at adapting any of this work I don't think. But Watchmen is a particularly bad adaptation, it totally misses the point that Moore was trying to make. It's a deconstruction of the superhero genre and Snyder is a seemingly nice and decent bloke but I think he's a bit of a dumbass. He appears to only really have adapted the cool imagery of the novel and not understood that Moore was saying something more to the effect of no this isn't cool it's ridiculous and stupid and ultimately dangerous.

After Rebel Moon, I don't think anyone is going to take him seriously. Two just absolutely horrific and boring movies.

Well the big one is if you look just a little then you'll see he hates DC/WB in general and suits on all their adaption of his work. Of all his work the only thing he has been positive about is Superman For the Man Who Has Everything.

He doesn’t hate it.

Imagine making a masterpiece that took years and I mean years of hard work to create a graphic volume.

Unexpectedly, your graphic novel becomes the greatest, most well received and most sold graphic novel.

Then, instead of reaping the awards, getting the recognition you deserve: you lose all ownership, and you don’t get the money you deserve.

Imagine a master piece of your own creation is stolen from you to benefit others that had nothing to do with its creation.

Ok are you done imagining. Now you know why.

No one answers the question. What I gathered is that, first the movie radically changed the ending, changing the morale of the whole story completely. Second, the characters do a lot of bullet-time which is at the opposite of how Moore imagined them. The owl doing a punch in bullet-time is probably how he sees himself doing it, cool, heroic. But those characters are everything but. Or at least they're not supposed to be portrayed as cool as they are in the movie. I'm talking about the Owl, Silk Spectre and the Comedian specifically. Even Ozymandias in one scene, those who have seen it know what scene. It's not just the bullet-time shots, there are a couple shots where you see them pose for the camera. That would irritate Moore soooo much I think lol.

He hates almost every adaptation of his work

I mean the movie is dull and Snyder directs it like a superhero movie and not the mystery where the characters happen to wear costumes, which it is.

But that's not the reason Alan Moore hates it since he allegedly has never seen it (or most of adaptions of his work), it's because he's a very grumpy man who seems to enjoy being grumpy.

Basically because Snyder read Watchmen and change most of the things that makes the story unique. It’s like the comic tries to talk you about Jews and how they viewed the nazis (meaning from their perspective they’re the bad guys) and then Snyder saw this story and makes the nazis the heroes. That’s exactly the opposite point Snyder for gods sake! Like Rorschach is meant to be a creep who may be right about making an stand for the ozymandias’ lies but is totally wrong about everything else like his view on women, government and so, but the movie make him cool and forget all the issues of someone like him in order to let Snyder jerk off thinking about how great he is.

He got screwed out of the rights to watchmen in his view.

But also the movie isn’t that good so…

bc it's ass

Because he disavows all his works from DC and everything that stems from it. He doesn't bother to watch them...but even if he did, Im sure he'd still hate it. He wrote a masterpiece for the medium it was born in. Want meant to be anything else as it defeated the purpose...so he's not going to be happy about it.

That said, and while nothing will ever compare to the gr. novel, the movie was a fantastic adaptation. Those who say it sux don't understand a thing. It's a movie. Meant to be visual. You always have the book for something deeper. And While the original octopus ending would have been great, the movie chose to ground it a little more in reality. Remember this was all pre-MCU days...audiences weren't conditioned yet to crazy, gonzo, comic stupidities.

Cause it sucks monkey balls

I really liked it this movie. don't know why it gets so much hate

Unpopular opinion #1: I prefer the 2009 Watchmen ending over the original comic book, where Ozymandias' plan is about Doctor Manhattan blowing up New York and not a giant alien squid monster.

Unpopular opinion #2: Watchmen is Zack Snyder's best movie, followed by Dawn of the Dead.

Unpopular opinion #3: Moore may complain as much as he wants, but the movies based on V for Vendetta (2006) and Watchmen are... great, actually.

[EDIT] For the record, I'm not saying that the Watchmen movie is overall better than the comic. Of course the comic is much superior (the same goes for V for Vendetta). Just that I prefer the movie final plot twist than the one we see in the comic.

He never watched it...plus, it sucks.