Lagu Pembuka film 'Watchmen'

Opening credit (yang biasanya berisi judul film, aktor, sutradara, produser dkk di awal film) dari film Watchmen adalah bagian terbaik dari film ini. Tampaknya beberapa mencoba mengunggah ke situs Youtube tetapi tak lama kemudian langsung dihapus.

Berisi montase atau kumpulan potongan-potongan sejarah alternatif, merangkum dan menginterpretasi subplot-subplot novel grafisnya misalnya:

1. superhero yang harus masuk sakit jiwa karena depresi;

2. superhero yang tewas karena jubahnya nyangkut di pintu (ingat film kartun 3D The Incredibles milik Pixar™ yang juga membahas masalah jubah? mereka terinspirasi dari novel grafis Watchmen);

3. Presiden Nixon yang terpilih hingga empat kali;

4. keterlibatan salah satu superhero di dunia politik (digambarkan dengan membunuh John F. Kennedy);

5. atau Superhero Wanita mencium perawat wanita di Time Square, NY (di sejarah aslinya, seorang pelaut tak dikenal mencium Edith Shain [yup.. googling "Edith Shain");

6. seorang biksu membakar diri di Vietnam, menentang kekejaman pemerintah Vietnam Selatan (googling "burning monk south vietnam" atau googling " Thích Quảng Đức ");

7. para hippy mencoba memanusiakan para prajurit Garda Nasional dengan menaruh bunga di pucuk senjata ( googling "hippy flower riffle" atau googling "kent state" atau "Allison Krause")

Dan montase-montase itu, diiringi oleh lagu yang juga sesuai berjudul "The Times They Are A-Changin' ". Berikut adalah liriknya:

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.