Wow, This is exactly what we needed for our superhero films! A pretentious, bloated mess of a film that I need to watch the Director's Cut to understand what's going on during the whole thing. It's not like I wanted a coherent, well paced superhero film with some thoughtful commentary put in, but I'll certainly pretend that it's a masterpiece of film, put alongside such classics as Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Vertigo.
Snyder's grip on the characters are also phenomenal! He makes Superman into an angsty sourpuss who seems burdened by his mission rather than the compassionate humanist that we've come to know, Lex Luthor into an angsty, narcissistic creep, and Batman into an unhinged sociopath who's dropping people like The Punisher, but it's all a part of his arc! It's not like his arc is vaguely defined asides from him fearing about what Superman could do and a couple of scenes of him brooding at his parents' grave stones. It's just cinematic visual language for you dumb MCU fanboys to think about. It's not like Snyder's overtly trying to be deep and complex and attempting to overcompensate for it by having his characters be obsessed with being 'badass' and awesome, while also being so brooding and deep to act like the film is saying something profound.
Changes can be good of course, but it's certainly not good if the changes are made in a way where it feels natural to who these characters that we love are. It only matters if someone decides to completely and cynically try to tear down a character in order to make some grand artistic statement, while his grasp on the term might be so limited that it makes The Wachowskis and Neil Blomkemp seem subtle. And James Gunn and Christopher Nolan said that he was good, so why should I question that? It's not like the appeal to authority argument is a fallacy and that even well known figures can be wrong about something, even if I like them.
It was also so mature and dark in its approach, that's always a good sign when it comes to films. Surely there aren't any films that haven't tried to be dark and mature that come off as silly and overtly grim dark (cough cough Hellboy (2019) cough cough). This film is entirely different, it's a pretty looking film that half assedly trying to act like it's high art. It's definitely not like Snyder's been shown up by the MCU on several occasions like with Captain America: The Winter Soldier or any of the other films that The Russo Brothers have put out. Bah! Those are just dumb, predictable, jokey action flicks, of course they can't say anything that's profound or meaningful just because the characters crack wise every once in a while and aren't afraid to be fun.
Perhaps there were the good scenes in this movie, like how the action scenes were well helmed and fun to watch, or Ben Affleck's take on Batman when he wasn't being such a badass sociopath, or great cinematography since Zack Snyder has always been a great visual director, or some interesting ideas thrown in to make this film seem meaningful, but they were made so much better by awkward pacing, pretentious commentary, and peerless direction from the one Zack Snyder, who's like if Stanley Kubrick and Terry Gilliam bumped ugly and made this gift from the Gods themselves. I've certainly sat through enough dumb MCU jokefests that can be surprisingly deft and thoughtful when given to the right director, but this film made that wait so much more fruitful.
And man, that Martha scene, it was SO powerful. It was so misunderstood by those MCU fanboys and it wasn't like that scene was completely pointless because Batman is going around murdering people like Frank Castle and he's already become the thing that he's spent his entire career fighting against. But Batman's been killing people since his beginning as a character, it's not like he was originally envisioned as a knock off of The Shadow and the editors made Bill Finger and Bob Kane give Batman a no killing rule to try and differentiate him from The Shadow, as well as to make a character who kids could identify with and root for. It really shows that Zack Snyder knows what he's doing with these characters.
I can't wait to see those MCU fanboys in the comments section, saying how this masterpiece is such a pretentious, overbloated mess, but I know better. This film is one of the greatest superhero films of all time, even if it's been utterly outdone time and time again. I can't wait to see Snyder continually abuse these characters that I love in order for him to make some half baked attempt to be 'deep' and 'meaningful.'
Snyder's grip on the characters are also phenomenal! He makes Superman into an angsty sourpuss who seems burdened by his mission rather than the compassionate humanist that we've come to know, Lex Luthor into an angsty, narcissistic creep, and Batman into an unhinged sociopath who's dropping people like The Punisher, but it's all a part of his arc! It's not like his arc is vaguely defined asides from him fearing about what Superman could do and a couple of scenes of him brooding at his parents' grave stones. It's just cinematic visual language for you dumb MCU fanboys to think about. It's not like Snyder's overtly trying to be deep and complex and attempting to overcompensate for it by having his characters be obsessed with being 'badass' and awesome, while also being so brooding and deep to act like the film is saying something profound.
Changes can be good of course, but it's certainly not good if the changes are made in a way where it feels natural to who these characters that we love are. It only matters if someone decides to completely and cynically try to tear down a character in order to make some grand artistic statement, while his grasp on the term might be so limited that it makes The Wachowskis and Neil Blomkemp seem subtle. And James Gunn and Christopher Nolan said that he was good, so why should I question that? It's not like the appeal to authority argument is a fallacy and that even well known figures can be wrong about something, even if I like them.
It was also so mature and dark in its approach, that's always a good sign when it comes to films. Surely there aren't any films that haven't tried to be dark and mature that come off as silly and overtly grim dark (cough cough Hellboy (2019) cough cough). This film is entirely different, it's a pretty looking film that half assedly trying to act like it's high art. It's definitely not like Snyder's been shown up by the MCU on several occasions like with Captain America: The Winter Soldier or any of the other films that The Russo Brothers have put out. Bah! Those are just dumb, predictable, jokey action flicks, of course they can't say anything that's profound or meaningful just because the characters crack wise every once in a while and aren't afraid to be fun.
Perhaps there were the good scenes in this movie, like how the action scenes were well helmed and fun to watch, or Ben Affleck's take on Batman when he wasn't being such a badass sociopath, or great cinematography since Zack Snyder has always been a great visual director, or some interesting ideas thrown in to make this film seem meaningful, but they were made so much better by awkward pacing, pretentious commentary, and peerless direction from the one Zack Snyder, who's like if Stanley Kubrick and Terry Gilliam bumped ugly and made this gift from the Gods themselves. I've certainly sat through enough dumb MCU jokefests that can be surprisingly deft and thoughtful when given to the right director, but this film made that wait so much more fruitful.
And man, that Martha scene, it was SO powerful. It was so misunderstood by those MCU fanboys and it wasn't like that scene was completely pointless because Batman is going around murdering people like Frank Castle and he's already become the thing that he's spent his entire career fighting against. But Batman's been killing people since his beginning as a character, it's not like he was originally envisioned as a knock off of The Shadow and the editors made Bill Finger and Bob Kane give Batman a no killing rule to try and differentiate him from The Shadow, as well as to make a character who kids could identify with and root for. It really shows that Zack Snyder knows what he's doing with these characters.
I can't wait to see those MCU fanboys in the comments section, saying how this masterpiece is such a pretentious, overbloated mess, but I know better. This film is one of the greatest superhero films of all time, even if it's been utterly outdone time and time again. I can't wait to see Snyder continually abuse these characters that I love in order for him to make some half baked attempt to be 'deep' and 'meaningful.'