Yeah, it's Golbat. I don't know if multiple guesses are legal, but since it was your first guess I'll give it to you. Technically in Pictionary you just guess until you're right, but with such a limited subject you could just list the entire Pokédex and be right every time. Seems like there should be some kind of a limit.
I don't really take in many movies (so Watchmen is not on my to-see list) but when I do I expect things to make sense and the plot to be self-contained (unless it is clearly a sequel or an obvious cliffhanger.) This isn't graduate school; there should be no prerequisites to seeing a film, or if there are it had damn well better be a focal point of the movie trailer and television commercials (SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE GRAPHIC NOVEL OR ARE PREGNANT—BECAUSE THE FETUS IN ALL LIKELIHOOD HAS NOT READ THE GRAPHIC NOVEL.) Since that's not the case, if Watchmen leaves general viewing audiences confused, then Watchmen deserves any crap it gets from them. Period.
However, for reviewers it's a two-way street. A professional reviewer has an obligation to understand the source material before seeing the movie, because they have an obligation to review it for Watchmen fans as well as people who have no idea who or what the Watchmen are. Just like if they were going to review a French film without subtitles, I would expect them to understand French before reviewing it. Case in point, back when I used to review games, I was assigned The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (the game), so I went to see The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (at that point having never watched Spongebob even once.) I was pleased to find out that Spongebob can be pretty entertaining, and could tell that the game adapation was reasonably faithful to the movie and not half-bad for a platformer, either. It is a reviewer's job to be able to note plotline inconsistencies and deliver the type of warning contained in this thread, rather than merely giving it a low rating.
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