Alan Moore would literally hate everyone who talks like this, and he definitely hates the watchmen movie

As someone who loves Snyder's "Watchmen" film & "BvS," and who is also a big fan of "V for Vendetta," I'm always stunned when someone professing to be a fan of Snyder's work disparages the work of another filmmaker in the same manner used by those who hate & attack Snyder's work.

It's especially disheartening when the hate's directed at someone like Gunn, who has a history of making boundaries-pushing films and whose work is among the most director-vision-driven of the MCU releases. I freely admit I love MCU movies as well as DCEU movies, but Gunn's movies in particular are terrific examples of unique outside-the-box approaches largely free of the otherwise common "crossover/tie-in" features of other MCU films.

Gunn's always had a more askew, irreverent perspective about comic book filmmaking, and while I'd not say his style and sensibilities are the same as Snyder's, they're definitely cut from the same sort of "challenge traditional assumptions" storytelling cloth in a lot more ways than many people seem to realize.