Two fervent camps seem to be dominating the arena of opinions regarding the recently released Watchmen film.  There have been a small number of moderate or well thought out reviews, but an ideological war seems to be forming between the two differing poles of thought.  It is becoming almost as much a part of the event of Watchmen’s release as the film itself.

The first of these groups are the fan-boy critics who were ready to kneel and service director Zack Snyder before the film was even released.  Any negative remark or insinuation of flaw in the film has been taken not as valid criticism of a piece of work, but as a betrayal of the reviewers own sense of taste.  Any criticism or comment from an outside source is taken as a personal assault.  While showing the ability of Alan Moore’s legendary source material to engross the reader, these reactions illustrate the inability or outright refusal of many critics to separate the source from its cinematic interpretation and treat them as individual entities.
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