There are two things you need to know about Watchmen, the lavish new film adapted from the 1986 limited-run comic book series that is universally recognized as a seminal point in the history of comics-as-literature:

Not very far into Laurent Cantet’s The Class, there’s a scene in a junior high school’s teachers lounge during which a young, male, bushy-haired instructor bursts into the room and begins to loudly and bitterly unload. The students, he complains, are impossibly base and insubordinate, and impervious to teaching efforts. He’s had it, he proclaims. Finally, another young man calmly suggests they go outside together to get some air. The frustrated venter doesn’t quit.

Do you know what you were doing on May 18, 1999? (No fair checking your diaries.) If not, then you may not be the audience for this comedy about a group of young Star Wars fanatics who cannot wait for 5/18/99, that of course being the release date of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.