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Comic-con 2008: All eyes watching “Watchmen”

Director Zack Snyder tried to stay as true to the original story as a two-and-a-half-hour movie can to a 416 page novel. "Making a movie about the war on terror and [modern politics] seemed really wrong in a lot of ways to me," said Snyder. "It's cooler if people go, 'Oh hey, this makes me think,' instead of me telling people what to think."