I finally watched Watchmen.

Rating: 8/10 (24 November 2013)

After Snyder's atrocious treatment of Frank Miller's 300 (see my IMDb review for details), I was hardly in a rush to see Watchmen, fearing another digitally graded, big-budget CGI w**k-fest with events playing out at half speed; however, being a fan of Alan Moore's work since the early 80s, I finally relented and was pleasantly surprised by what I saw.
Surprised because, although Snyder's Watchmen contains more than its fair share of slo-mo action scenes, orange and teal imagery, and digitally generated nonsense, it didn't annoy me as much as I had anticipated. Surprised because, despite moving at a leisurely pace for almost three hours, I was never bored. Surprised at the extreme level of sex and violence (I thought they might water this down for mass consumption). And surprised by the intelligence of the script (Moore does intelligent easily; Snyder not so much).
If I had seen Watchmen a few years ago, I would have been rather excited when it was announced that Snyder was reworking Superman. As it happens, I wasn't and Man of Steel turned out to be every bit as dreadful as I had feared Watchmen would be.
7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for Malin Akerman, who looks incredible both in and out of that amazing costume.