Movies, even fantasy, sci-fi, or dark comic book adaptations, are much more than just nailing the visuals. Sure, that’s the first step to convincing the geek constituency a studio is on track, but these films like all pictures, are also about capturing the right mood tenor and tone which infinitely more abstract and sometimes ineffable.

“The Dark Knight” was as super successful and genuinely great as it was not only because it was thrilling, dramatic, well-acted and realistic, but because it carefully zeroed-in on and calibrated the exact right atmosphere and timbre of the goth-y caped crusader.

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According to MTV’s newly launched Comics blog, Splash Page, “Watchmen” director Zack Snyder is trying to inject some counter-culture gravitas into the dark and politically torn world of the graphic novel adaptation.

Snyder tells the blog he’s already using some very iconic songs in the movie by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garkfunkle, Nat King Cole and Nena’s ’80s hit, “99 Luft Ballons.” Snyder tells SplashPage:

“The music we have in the movie right now.

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