I honestly think that, if I never read Watchmen ever again, I wouldn’t feel any sort of tremendous loss. Yeah, I understand it’s an important work and all that. I get that it showed comics can tell Serious Stories, though we (comics readers) need to have a conversation as a community about how “serious” apparently has to for some reason include rape.
I mean, is there anyone out there who actually enjoys reading Watchmen? Someone who reads it for pleasure, and not because it’s part of some canon of Serious Graphic Novels?
Sketches From Memory 
There is one person.
Alan Moore.
(Disclaimer: I’ve never even read Watchmen… or either of Frank Miller’s Dark Knight books)
Dark Knight Returns is pretty damn solid and lives up to the hype. Dark Knight Strikes Again, not so much.
I was given Watchmen as a gift, I made it about 3/4 of the way through and then just rented the video (before then I didn’t even know there was a movie). I’ve enjoyed some graphic novels, but to be honest I do not seek them out as entertainment.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love comics and graphic novels. The Watchmen movie had serious flaws of its own (as do all Zach Snyder films). I do recognize that the comic was important, and Moore did some cool stuff with structure and pacing, but it’s not, like, an enjoyable read.