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That tweet is some rabble-rousing to the max. He's not wrong in the full quote. quote:Yes, but I think that probably is what caused the movie to be so polarizing. I think, and maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like a lot of people went into the movies for going like, ‘Oh, it’s the superhero romp, right? Let’s have fun with it.’ And we gave them this sort of hardcore deconstructivist, heavily layered, experiential modern mythological superhero movie that needs…that you really need to pay attention to. That was not cool [for them]. That’s not something anyone wanted to do. They were like, ‘What? No! That’s exhausting. How about, why do they fight at night?’ I hate that. Not a stretch to say that at the height of Marvel action-comedy romps having something like this come out went against expectations. It was even really different from the film that preceded it.
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# ¿ May 10, 2023 19:14 |
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# ¿ May 9, 2024 22:27 |
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I don't believe there's any world where the Theatrical version did well. The Ultimate, if pitched properly as a "blockbuster epic", might have made it. Maybe. The elaborate "lead-lined" wheelchair stuff in the Director's Cut isn't something I liked. I flip-flopped over that part but settled on "could have done without it". It has the unfortunate side effect of Superman using his xray vision willy-nilly. Like he's inherently suspicious of people. Him not seeing it because he chose to believe the man was there in good faith is a better reading. Mr. Apollo posted:I think especially so with Musk's buyout of Twitter and Trump's "stolen election" stuff. All the stuff in the movie about Lex manipulating everything behind the scenes and the massive polarization of public opinion on Superman that people criticized as "unrealistic" seems like it would fit in pretty well today. One great yet often overlooked part of the film is that the media increasingly get unhinged and hyperbolic as it goes on. By the end they were practically declaring the bombing of the build was an inside job. It's great! Manufacturing consent, babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
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# ¿ May 10, 2023 20:40 |
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CelticPredator posted:I know how to fix the scene for everyone who hates it Please add this to the OP. Thanks!
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# ¿ May 11, 2023 18:49 |
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SuperTeeJay posted:Oppenheimer is going to be great. Haha, jokes on you. The audience won't be able to understand any of the dialogue!
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# ¿ May 12, 2023 14:22 |
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I figured I'd move my huge freaking effort post on Man of Steel from the old thread to the new thread for fun and discussion. I was going to do one of these for Batman v Superman and I took notes and everything while watching it last but I got distracted by other junk and it got lost in the shuffle. I may do one some day. The original had more formatting but here I just can't be bothered other than for the paragraph splits.quote:When watching a movie, you have to ask yourself a basic question: what did this movie set out to say and was it successful? In watching the film you seek to find these answers. This is especially important to films based off of existing IPs due to a rich history and expectation. Does the film capture the essence of the character? If it deviated, why? How, through the film-making, does this film tell it story, convey its themes and characterization?
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# ¿ May 20, 2023 21:16 |
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Man of Steel and Legend of the Guardians never got director's cuts. I wonder why.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2023 15:17 |
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Snowman_McK posted:If there's any CGI industry goons here, I'd genuinely love them to explain what's going on with the Flash. Something about every big effects shot from it that I've seen has been...off. Don't know how to explain it but it's off. like, not just in the sense of it not looking realistic, but looking straight up at odds with reality. It's a shame that it isn't being used to depict 'non-euclidean geometry' because if it was intentional, it's use of perspective and motion would be unsettling in a cool way instead of leaving you wondering what kind of hellish production process it had. The horizon is in the middle of the screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POgWODZyUGQ&t=203s
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2023 03:38 |
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I can see how an opening depicting Krypton suffering from environmental collapse due to the socio-economical system their society has adopted and it naturally turning to fascism when things get really bad certainly wouldn't have any bearing on the rest of the film where Superman *checks notes* goes to earth. It literally sets up the entire rest of the movie and gives you glimpses of Kryptonian society so you can compare and contrast it with earth and the trajectory it is taking without Superman. "We're already dead" Jor-El says before the planet and everyone in it is engulfed in flames. "They're already dead" the voice over the radio says about the oil rig workers before Superman saves them from being engulfed in flames. I dunno, maybe this similar line with contrasting visuals and outcomes means something from a director even this antis say is good at visuals. Nah, it just means Snyder thinks the world and everyone in it is a gently caress and just waiting to die. An Objectivist nihilist. In this youtube video I saw...
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2023 13:54 |
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That's the trailer that sold me on the film. I watched it like a dozen times when it came out.
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2023 18:38 |
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https://twitter.com/ZackSnyder/status/1674811715228430336
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2023 17:27 |
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Do they call the rebel moon inhabitants Mooninites?
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2023 17:33 |
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https://twitter.com/ZackSnyder/status/1534213690211201024 He posted this a while back. I'm sure there'll be more alien types once we start seeing finished VFX shots.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2023 19:32 |
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Travis Fimmel was super great in Vikings. The show became objectively worse when he was gone.
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2023 02:24 |
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Assepoester posted:"First The Flash and Gunn bury the Snyderverse, now Barbie comes to piss on The Prophet Zack Snyder's grave, oh is nothing sacred anymore, woe unto me" Please take your meds, Armond.
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2023 00:55 |
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Snyder just laughing like a madman as he holds matches and a can of gasoline over all of the Superman comics. "You won't get to adapt this character, see! If I can't no one will! Such is the Ayn Rand way!"
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# ¿ Jul 27, 2023 02:13 |
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We like to use flippant language around here because of a decade of really weird and bad-faith criticisms leveled at the film, so if you're new and see something kinda out there, it's because it's an in-joke we've all developed in response to being bombarded with garbage-rear end Snyder the Fascist and Snyder the Objectivist takes on social media and elsewhere. Movie's not everyone's cup of tea and those who don't like it while engaging with what it does or just simply isn't something in their wheelhouse is great and all but lot of criticisms do stem from "it's not like [one of three Superman comics], so it's bad" or some nonsense about the director's politics that have no basis in reality or some really creepy psycho-analyst rant about the director. Only directors who got this kind of poo poo was Rian Johnson and Paul Feig and we all pointed out how loving creepy those right-wing weirdos were for doing it.
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# ¿ Jul 27, 2023 23:25 |
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Violator posted:https://vero.co/zacksnyder/sG-xd7PMsx6cX4qw8b7Xt1xT Let's goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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# ¿ Aug 19, 2023 19:36 |
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Mr. Apollo posted:Almost a 4 minute "teaser" trailer, impressive. Zack's so bad at making smaller length films even his teasers run long! Sad!
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2023 20:06 |
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Space Fish posted:https://www.polygon.com/23840513/rebel-moon-zack-snyder-star-wars-sci-fi-preview Something that didn't involve legacy characters? Can't have that! And man, those comments are so wretched. Lots of joyless people on the internet.
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2023 04:20 |
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Yeah, I agree that talking about youtube and other comments on the forum is kinda a crapshoot. It's easier to vent on discord. But I will say that it's annoying that this stuff keeps happening with his films. It's such an annoying derail in the conversation. So instead of talking about how a cool new operatic sci-fi show is coming out that's like Chronicles of Riddick, or John Carter of Mars, or Jupiter Ascending it's how this film is promoting fascism or racism or somesuch nonsense. It's like, why is this even a talking point?
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2023 20:30 |
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RBA Starblade posted:He has a five year plan for his films Funny enough, he did with his Justice League films. Hell yes Comrade Snyder!
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2023 21:09 |
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I blame the rise of the whole "rise and grind" culture. Going to a movie is an afternoon or evening trip. I don't know why anyone would be in such a hurry to go home. Ultimately, these arbitrary length thresholds really only exist to complain about directors you already don't like.
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# ¿ Aug 25, 2023 19:10 |
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Watched the trailer a couple more times and every scene is a painting. It looks so drat good. Really nailed the color palette and conveys the mood really well.
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# ¿ Aug 27, 2023 18:21 |
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McSpanky posted:I put on The Two Jakes last night, then got too tired to finish it and watched the last ~50 minutes this morning, did I just commit some great cinematic crime? Well, you did watch The Two Jakes so maybe?
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2023 15:11 |
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Both versions of Snyder's films are good. The B&W film is actually really sharp looking and shows off how well designed the costuming is and how well they're shot. Ignore the discourse about that versions as some terminally online people got a real bug up their rear end about that version based off of some really bad promo pictures (actually, it's just one and it's of the league standing together) and not of the actual final product. Some real film snobs got real upset at it but don't let it paint your impressions of it. Jimbot fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Sep 5, 2023 |
# ¿ Sep 5, 2023 15:33 |
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Time's a flat circle. Those talking points will be relevant again... *checks notes* still.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2023 23:13 |
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I loved to hear what people didn't like about something and talking about it and how I saw what they didn't like differently. But when it just boils down to "director doesn't get [x]" it's boring and a terrible way to engage with art. That kind of boring and lazy "criticism" is something youtubers across the political spectrum engage with. Some directors being lightning rods for this kind of junk. Every choice and shot has thought put into it. Now if you don't like the decisions that were made then great! But don't say no thought was put into it because that's just empirically false. Even the dismissive and maligned "wow, this'll be awesome!" reasoning is still thinking about how to make that thing awesome. Jimbot fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Sep 18, 2023 |
# ¿ Sep 18, 2023 21:53 |
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Zack Snyder's Ursula K Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea.
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# ¿ Sep 23, 2023 15:19 |
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Hopefully Zack will continue this journey and become a cultural marxist. I will be there to welcome our new comrade.
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2023 00:22 |
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Should have gotten an oscar nod at least for perfectly digitally replacing an entire actor. I wasn't big on that film but that feat was drat impressive. Of course the only thing people talked about was the dead pixel that showed up.
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2023 01:22 |
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People still call Man of Steel a nazi movie. It's bizarre.
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2023 03:30 |
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Yes but he used Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and he doesn't understand that song. No, I won't tell you what I think it means because that opens me up to other people telling me I'm wrong because art is subjective. Just trust me on this.
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# ¿ Nov 22, 2023 21:06 |
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I think with Snyder he wanted to balance that complete deconstruction of the character with something that general audiences can relate to. We've seen the response to him even going that far. Even some of the people who liked the idea would still go "Superman isn't the character to tell these stories with." I feel, like with Star Wars, people who handle the character are so deathly afraid of moving out of the comfort zone of these franchises and that fandom, as a whole, don't want that sort of thing. In Star Wars I'd love stories centuries removed from the current crop with whole new alien and ship designs. Move the timeline forward. But we either go back in time, which is fine, but it still has the same familiarity with the aliens and technology or we're stuck in the same 10-30 year period of the Prequels and Original trilogy. It's creatively stagnant. I feel the same way with how people want the Superman character to be and the situations he finds himself in. Let your dad make mistakes and have complex emotions!
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# ¿ Nov 23, 2023 19:10 |
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https://www.wired.com/story/rebel-moon-director-zack-snyder-on-violence-loss-and-extreme-fandom/ A nice Snyder interview. He talks about all sorts of things and his creative process these days.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2023 17:22 |
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On another forum I mentioned that Snyder and his fandom being maligned as right-wing was just unfair and crappy and I got linked to an article that the Snyder Cut movement was like the TLJ hate crowd that harassed the movie's actors because... they were popular movements. That's it. It did no homework or showed if and how there was overlap in demographics or social circles or anything. It was just two online movements, so they were the same. In the same post they said his films leans towards homophobia, xenophobia, sexism and other vile crap and I wondered what kind of film this person saw and which youtuber they got all their opinions from. This was all in response to the Rebel Moon trailer during the summer game fest thing too. It's maddening. Jimbot fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Nov 29, 2023 |
# ¿ Nov 29, 2023 04:02 |
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The impression I got from that character, having neither read the comic or seen the film, is that he seems to stand entirely alone in not wanting to murder millions of people and has some moral compass. And in that respect he's the only "good" character of the bunch. Maybe that's enough to latch on to and think the character is p cool. I dunno. I don't have a big brain IQ like Watchmen fans so I probably wouldn't understand it like Zack Snyder.
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2023 21:44 |
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https://twitter.com/ZackSnyder/status/1732763116235034669 December 21 at 7pm PST! Call into work and tell your partners! That night is taken!
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2023 15:52 |
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Escobarbarian posted:btw my work had the premiere of Rebel Moon tonight (no idea if it was the world premiere or just a regional one, feel free to let me know). I wasn’t working it but the set dressing the Netflix/events people did that my colleagues sent pics of was insanely cool Dang, wish there was something like this around where I live. I'd see the movie in the theaters if I could!
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2023 04:50 |
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James Woods posted:I just finished watching it, don't ask. I'd like to share my spoiler free thoughts and this looked like the right place. I can't wait to dissect this movie later after release. When the movie is fully out care to elaborate on the first paragraph? I'm sure at that point we'll all see what you mean but, for you, when does influence begin and wholesale copy begin? How is this unique to Snyder that you wouldn't expect him to be wholly original compared to any other director making a new genre IP? This isn't some gotcha or anything, I'm genuinely curious. Even if it's just a "I generally don't care for the guy's work so I'm more critical of these aspects than I would be otherwise" I'd love to know. Everyone has different tastes. That said, that all lines up with about what I put together from all the previews and trailers. While I hoped differently I knew the "dual cut" approach would leave one of them weaker than the other - either the "PG-13" cut would be the definitive way of seeing it and the "R" cut would be a lot of extra fun stuff but ultimately kill the pacing or the previous would be a trimmed down version of the later and suffer from the gaps. Still looking forward to seeing it come the 21st and then the longer version to compare and contrast. The Ultimate Cut of Batman v Superman really made the theatrical obsolete for me. Jimbot fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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# ¿ May 9, 2024 22:27 |
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I like this lens more than the dream one he used in Army. It was certainly gave an unique look to Army but I generally didn't care for it and it had that dead pixel to it (I didn't notice but some people did). Everything I've seen from Rebel Moon looks incredible, though.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2023 02:08 |