Worth seeing, even with the low rating I gave it

Rating: 3/10 (9 March 2014)

Right after I saw this, I was, for want of a better word, horrified. I've now had some months to think about it, and I put this movie in the same, rarefied category as _Brazil_, _The Wall_, and _Memento_ --- movies that I recommend everyone see, and that simultaneously upset me so much I never want to see them again.
What I took away from _Watchmen_ was a meditation on despair, despair at every level, from the pathetic despair of individuals (like Sally Jupiter's sad life, or Silk Spectre's attempts at romance) to the despair of whole groups of people becoming obsolete to national malaise to the existential despair of Dr Manhattan unable to see any point to life, humanity or the universe. It's depressing stuff, all the way down and all the way through, and I don't find any solace in the minor "triumphs" along the way, thrown in as a bone to please the crowd.
Like I said, worth seeing. But don't blame me afterwards when you find that the mood sticks with you for a long long time, long after you wish it would go away.