10 Most Stunning Comic Book Movies Ever Made

5. Watchmen

Sin City
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Years prior to his efforts with the DCEU - and at least a decade before rampant discussions of the "Snyder Cut" became an internet favourite - Zack Snyder attempted to wrangle Alan Moore's allegedly unfilmable magnum opus onto the big screen - and it is to his testament that the director mostly succeeds on one level or another with what may well be his uncomfortable masterpiece.

Shot by 300 collaborator Larry Fong, it's arguably the peak of Snyder's visual stylings, aptly suited to the quasi-retro stylings of an alternative universe 1985 where the world is a step out of time and sense with our own. It's paradoxically grandiose and intimate at the same time, and it conveys that sense of bleak nihilism with its unflinching eye for visceral shading; seductively bleak and heightened with a strange headiness.

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