The problem was, Merrick reported incorrect information, and therefore his conclusion was based on faulty intelligence. The "awesome" music he attributed to Tyler was NOT his music at all. Tyler did the music for Trailer 2. Someone else did the music for Trailer 3 (and it was a riff on the Batman Begins theme).

People pointed out he was wrong in the Talkbacks. Their posts were deleted (along with their entire post history on this site), and then the story was deleted as well. Merrick covering his tracks perhaps?

So anyway, when I saw all my posts (and others) had been deleted, I was upset and couldn't figure out why. Most logical conclusion? Merrick is a dick!

As for the story, I'd think the deal is this: Producers (as usual) ask someone else to re-orchestrate a copyrighted theme. Like the Two Towers trailer used Clint Mansell's music from "Requiem For a Dream", but re-orchestrated by Corner Stone Cues.

Two Steps was hired to re-orchestrate Tyler's music for Trailer 2. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like it was changed enough to be "different" (like their reworking of the Batman Begins theme for Trailer 3), and therefore I dunno if it can actually be copyrighted. I remember the trailer for "Nightmare Before Christmas" has John Williams' magical flying theme from "Hook" reworked so they didn't have to pay for the rights (I imagine).

So at the end of the day- here's my guess: Tyler's music was re-orchestrated, but not seriously changed, for Trailer 2 (like in the Two Towers). Zimmer and Howard's music for Batman Begins was re-orchestrated (and changed enough) for Trailer 3 (like the "Nightmare" example).

I'm still waiting on an explanation as to why people had their histories deleted (because that's still pretty fucked up), but since he's (at least) responded to one mystery, I'm willing to tone down the attitude

Fascinatingly bad. I'm afraid I left two-thirds of the way through, but up to that point, I was mesmerised by how a story could work so brilliantly in one medium - and utterly fail to translate into another.

I think that WATCHMEN might have succeeded as a movie - but it needed a very different director. Snyder failed to establish the characters and the setting; and he made a complete mess of the shifts between time periods. And worst of all, he failed to elicit any kind of plot from the material. The comic was gripping; the movie was like watching paint dry.

Funnily enough, I didn't get annoyed by Snyder's utter cluelessness as to how to make this franchise work. But I DID get annoyed by the soundtrack, which is by far the worst I've ever heard in a movie. It was amateurishness on a scale you don't usually get outside youtube. Can't believe they released the movie in that shape.