Everything good about the movie 300 happened because Snyder was following the original comic as closely as possible, same with Watchmen (though that film didn't translate as well).
No argument from me there, if they paired him with a decent writer I bet you could get tons of awesome films out of him, but the whole DC cinematic universe has been kind of a wreck from the very beginning. I'm not joking when I say they should have gotten the writers from the cartoons to do the live action scripts, since those are consistently better both at standing on their own and at being in a shared universe.
zack snyder's passion project was unironically watchmen + sucker punch and he's been coasting off doing different configurations of the same film for over a decade while hoping no one notices that he just really wants to make DCAU amvs stretched to 4 hours
this might sound like i'm dissing him but i actually have nothing but respect for zack snyder somehow managing to get $370 million dollars in funding and years of pop cultural clout simply because he makes action figures beat each other up in slow motion on screen. i am morbidly fascinated by modern "auteur" directors getting all this capital to realize their magnum opus, their total "gesamkunstwerk" on screen and it turns out to be mid. i watched Tenet twice not because i liked it (the stunts were cool) but because the second time around i was reading it as a monument to Jonathan Nolan's god complex
at some point - mostly because i hate myself but also because i can't turn away - i will probably torrent this 4 hour movie and watch it on 2x speed or skip around just to witness it
edit: almost 24 hours and no one pointed out i got the nolan bros mixed up but im gonna leave that error there because i think it makes this post funnier
i apologize for triple posting but it is literally so incredible to me that two of the most powerful men in american pop culture at the mountantop of the "peak content" streaming megaconglomerate era are just joss whedon and zack snyder... buffy the vampire slayer and watchmen... much to think about
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300 was seriously homoerotic at least
Man I curse 300 for making Zack a household name. Movie is awesome tho :I
Everything good about the movie 300 happened because Snyder was following the original comic as closely as possible, same with Watchmen (though that film didn't translate as well).
I mean Zack can make things visually stunning, that i have to give him.
No argument from me there, if they paired him with a decent writer I bet you could get tons of awesome films out of him, but the whole DC cinematic universe has been kind of a wreck from the very beginning. I'm not joking when I say they should have gotten the writers from the cartoons to do the live action scripts, since those are consistently better both at standing on their own and at being in a shared universe.
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zack snyder's passion project was unironically watchmen + sucker punch and he's been coasting off doing different configurations of the same film for over a decade while hoping no one notices that he just really wants to make DCAU amvs stretched to 4 hours
this might sound like i'm dissing him but i actually have nothing but respect for zack snyder somehow managing to get $370 million dollars in funding and years of pop cultural clout simply because he makes action figures beat each other up in slow motion on screen. i am morbidly fascinated by modern "auteur" directors getting all this capital to realize their magnum opus, their total "gesamkunstwerk" on screen and it turns out to be mid. i watched Tenet twice not because i liked it (the stunts were cool) but because the second time around i was reading it as a monument to Jonathan Nolan's god complex
at some point - mostly because i hate myself but also because i can't turn away - i will probably torrent this 4 hour movie and watch it on 2x speed or skip around just to witness it
edit: almost 24 hours and no one pointed out i got the nolan bros mixed up but im gonna leave that error there because i think it makes this post funnier
i apologize for triple posting but it is literally so incredible to me that two of the most powerful men in american pop culture at the mountantop of the "peak content" streaming megaconglomerate era are just joss whedon and zack snyder... buffy the vampire slayer and watchmen... much to think about