The beautiful title sequence to Watchmen is loaded with secret references that couldn't fit into the film (like the entire history of the Minute Men). Check what you may have missed and what got cut.

Everybody wants to know more about Zack Snyder's title scene from Watchmen and interestingly enough it was one of the first things that got the director rolling on this project. Snyder explains how he dreamed up this gorgeous little shot:

From the very beginning I said I want to do a cool title sequence from the movie. It was actually the thing that got me started drawing Watchmen [the storyboards]. Because they wanted to know how much did this movie cost....So to get a handle on some of the things I went to the title sequence to see how big that was. I literally went to the beginning of the movie and started. I couldn't just draw it as a stand along piece because it didn't make sense to me. I just started drawing from the beginning of the movie and I knew when the button lands we're going to go into the eye of the button, and that's where it will start. So I drew up to there. It was funny because I had the music, I knew that was going to be "The Times They Are A Changin'" and I was pretty positive about that. It started to take shape for me as let's find out where we are in the world. Tracing the alternate history.

And those five minutes, in which we get to know the history of the Minutemen and so forth, are absolutely jam packed with Easter Eggs and Watchmen shout-outs for things that couldn't fit into the movie. But there were also a few shots that didn't make that cut..