Today FOX has announced they will try to stop the release of Watchmen, since they had the property since the late 1980's and did nothing with it, until WB stepped in. You can see the story here. I think what they should do is stop their bickering and agree to release the film together and split the profits. Put the FOX logo on it along with WB, Legendary Pictures and DC and be done with it. That is all.

From my understanding Fox has been fighting this for a while.  I remember reading something when they started filming. Fox is just being more public about it now.

What I find humorous is this isn't the first time Fox has gone to court over a movie based on Alan Moore's work.  The first time they were being taken to court.  It seems every movie based off Alan Moore's work has some issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_of_Characters_vs._The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen_lawsuit#Lawsuit

Hey, I liked it!  But then again, good special effects can make up for a bad plot for me.

Personally I believe that LXG was a boring movie and special effects shouldn't be used to just tell the story. IMO I think that special effects should be used to help the plot line when needed and not for the lack of plot.
I looked up the Watchmen on Wikipedia to find out more about FOX's fight and it appears that they had gotten the rights in the late '80's and then passed those rights onto a producer of The Watchmen. Then in 1994 FOX filed some kind of extension that in their mind cancel the producer's rights to the movie. The whole thing is a big mess. Maybe WB should ask FOX for the home video rights to the 1960's Batman TV show in exchange that FOX distributes the Watchmen movie.

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Hey, I liked it!  But then again, good special effects can make up for a bad plot for me.

I liked it as well.  I have liked all the movies based off Moore's works

Part of the problem is infidelity to Moore's work. Another is that this is an adaptation to another medium, and Moore is a genius at writing comic books, or graphic panel storytelling or whatever you wnat to call it. Adapting a Moore comic book to a movie is a bit less like adapting a book to a movie (though this can be a problem in itself) and more like adapting an oil painting to a flavor of soda pop.

What seemed particularly silly was the adaptation of From Hell. Yes, it used the same Ripper theory that Moore used in his story, but that theory wasn't original with Moore. The Johnny Depp character in the movie was nothing like the character in Moore's story. The whole tone of the movie was different from that produced by the collaboration of Eddie Campbell (artist) and Alan Moore. I rather wish they'd left Moore's name off it. All they would have had to do was think up another title, since the title was really his only contribution.