Dawn of the Dead (2004)

The scary thing about a zombie apocalypse movie is that the worst horrors it depicts don’t really need zombies to come true.

Watchmen

Zack Snyder’s imperfect adaptation of Alan Moore’s masterpiece still nails a central theme of it: Not every good guy is a hero, and not every hero is a good guy.

300

At last, we finally see what it looks like when somebody makes the perfect comic book movie adaptation.