My concern with Zack Snyder is he has in several interviews said yep close to the book as we can get, yep no changes, accurate as possible. But they changed the ending to be more current time appropriate or some BS like that.
So regardless...I will go see it in the theater. I'm also going to do my best to not check out Rotten Tomatoes and others reviews Thursday night like I did for the day the earth stood still(because if the reviews are as awesome as they were for that one I'll likely change my mind - I thought the trailers for TDTESS actually maybe had some promise...when I saw the reviews plumet 10 points or so in an hour down from around 30% that was the sign to avoid it).
Initially the first trailer I saw for the Watchmen(with a good Smashing Pumpkins song) I was like oooh that looks awful.
Then I read the book....
Then I found the blog.
http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/
Now I'm interested and see it all differently. Hopeful that it wont suck.
They are sticking to the book and details, even very small things are being taken very seriously.
I've personally enjoyed the various viral marketing too...
Oh and on the blog site above is a link to 7" vinyl picture discs set...that seems interesting. The score seemed maybe ok and the soundtrack seems ok... All along the watchtower by hendrix is always good, but the my chemical romance cover of some dylan song I've never heard IMO sucks, maybe the original song did too...
The 12" picture disc is neat and the fact they are offering the soundtrack and score on vinyl...pretty cool!
Search youtube for watchmen for some of the viral marketing and this page is neat...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thenewfrontiersman/
soundmotor of those you listed...for some reason I don't hate TLOEG, I know a lot of people despise it...I thought it was neat for what is was and far more watchable than Daredevil(yech), Ghost Rider(bigger yech) and Spiderman 3(yech) - (I never saw Elektra).
Maybe everyone doesn't know but Alan Moore has officially said any hollywood versions of any of his work suck and he will never see them.
I thought V for Vendetta was decent but thought it was just slightly overhyped...