Who Watches the Watchmen?

A movie based on Watchmen has been in production for over 20 years.
It has long been considered unfilmable, but this Friday it finally comes out.

Who is going to go see it?

In the geek subculture Watchmen is heralded as "The GREATEST graphic novel of all time" and it is, but the normal world...

It doesn't have the name recognition of a Batman or a Spider-man. It's not going to have the built in audience those movies have.

Warner Brothers seems to understand this and is doing a fantastic job promoting. But will it be enough?

We should see Spider-Man numbers with Watchmen. Early reviewers have loved it, but they've all been geeks. It's suppose to have a very hard R rating. Nothing has been held back. This will keep kids from seeing it. It's going to be tough.

I have faith in Zack Snyder (aside: I did a imdb search to verify spelling and see he's attached to a cobalt 60 movie, WOW). Dave Gibbons, non insane co-creator, has been an advisor since the beginning. This has the makings of a geek's wet dream. I plan on buying a blu-ray player when it comes out on disc. I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE.

Anyway... I'm thinking of writing some Watchmen history all this week to keep me geeked up for the movie. Keep your eyes open and try and check out the movie this weekend.