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'300' director Zack Snyder is 'Watchmen' hero

The clock is ticking on "Watchmen" - finally opening in theaters Friday after more than 20 years of "To Be Continued ..."

A comic-book miniseries so ambitious, so culturally complex and so deconstructive of the superhero archetype that Time magazine in 2005 included it on its list of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923, "Watchmen" daunted such filmmakers as Terry Gilliam, Darren...

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