20 Underappreciated Blockbusters That Are Much Better Than You Remember

14. Watchmen

Watchmen The Comedian Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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Admittedly, it does peak early in terms of its best scene, but that is to be expected when your movie boasts one of the best opening credit scenes in cinema history. 'Visionary director' (ugh) Zack Snyder's adaptation is at times far too slavish to the source material, but offered a uniquely bleak and uncompromising deconstruction of the superhero genre at a time the format was becoming increasingly sanitized.

At 163 minutes (187 for the Director's Cut and a mammoth 215 for the Ultimate Cut), many casual viewers found the narrative impenetrable and the nihilistic tone off-putting, with the $130m adaptation earning just $185.3m at the box office. Opinion was divided among fans of Alan Moore's seminal graphic novel but the big screen adaptation of Watchmen is ambitious, complex, wholly unique and very much underrated.

And the movie's ending is better. Just saying.

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