C'mon brehs...outside of the final "monster" it was a frame for frame remake. We can praise one without tearing down the other. Watchmen is still one of the most faithful cbm adaptions.
Well... no. Snyder missed basically
all of the subtext the source material was layered in, and cut an entire plotline out of the movie outright that actually destabilizes the ending itself. It was so bad, Moore disavowed the thing loudly before it even came out - sure, for Moore reasons, as well, but also because... Snyder missed the
point of the movie he was trying to make. Changing the ending from Squid to Manhattan not only proved the lack of understanding for what the ending was supposed to accomplish in providing a threat to unite under (you can't do that with Manhattan. He's damn near a god. No amount of uniting from US/USSR saves anyone), but the fact that he felt like it wouldn't make sense just shows the failings of the movie.
He had 3 hours to make sure the ending of fukking
Watchmen made sense. One of the most iconic endings to a piece of media insofar as subversion of expectation goes... and he failed to do that so to the point that they changed the ending. So no. Snyder wasn't a faithful adaptation - dude made a movie based on a one-dimensional, surface-level interpretation of a comic that was
always more subtext than overt, even when people were getting punched in the face.