From this adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen, I can only guess that the writer is a very, very, bitter hippy. The story is a paen to pre-70's America, the death of the 60's and, as one character points out, the American dream.
Zack Snyder's clever use of 60's music are the sounds that you imagine these aged heroes listening to as they break the bones of infinite bad guys. Its interesting to hear the most familiar songs from Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen played in the most unfamiliar of territories: the comic book movie.
It is a paradox of a film, at once cynical and idealistic, and this is best illustrated in having one of the hero's themselves assassinate JFK. The film can come across as contrived, yet earnestly enthusiastic. With all the references to parody and humanity being a practical joke, Watchmen is a strange mix of being tongue in cheek and unapologetically American. Sometimes it comes over ironic, and then the next scene is set in Mars, testing the limits of my suspended disbelief. In all the confusion though its never more than greatly entertaining, and is one of the most creative and interesting comic book movie's i've seen.
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