Zack Snyder might be best known for his over-the-top, often loud and incoherent style of action filmmaking, but he deserves some credit for his handling of Alan Moore's seminal graphic novel Watchmen. Here, Snyder toned down his excesses and delivered one of the most faithful Moore adaptations to date. For a violent movie such as this, it perhaps wasn't surprising to see the occasional weapon or two in the trailer, but the Motion Picture Association of America took issue with just how the audience can and can't see guns on screen. They forced cuts on the preview trailers, requesting that all shots of guns pointing towards the camera be cut, presumably in case someone from the past time travelled to the present and thought the gun was being pointed at them. Back in the very early days of filmmaking, the ability for cinema to scare the wits out of the audience was first realised during screenings of Train Pulling Into A Station, where people ran away in fear thinking the oncoming train might burst through the screen and run them over. Today's audiences are obviously more aware of the dynamics of camera angles than the MPAA gives them credit for.
