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Is that real?
It is. You can order it in your bookstore.
Thank you for the info!
I understand that some folks are most displeased with the way things have gone. Some fans and petitioners appear to have been quite aggressive in their demand for a Snyder Cut, which has led others to suggest that by giving in to their demands, film studios have opened up the gates for a very slippery road towards more ludicrous outbursts from the so-called entitled fans.
On this very forum, we have seen similar plans arise for petitions, open letters and more from deluded fans to EON. These so-called fans (I call them hooligans) somehow feel they have by now earned the right to co-run things at EON, Sony, ... regarding the Bond films. We have read a number of deranged reasonings behind that, from "I paid them enough money in the past" to "I know how to make a Bond film better than Barbara Broccoli." For the record, this forum and its host website will never condone any such actions from its members when carried out under its own umbrella. But I digress.
Now, I don't mind a petition or two, you know, just to make our 'wishes' known to the people with power, hoping that when enough of us have signed on, they would consider throwing that as yet unreleased score on a CD anyway, or give us the original theatrical cut of a movie as the "B side" to more recent releases (Star Wars anyone?). But humbly voicing our wishes is not the same thing as crowdfunding a rather aggressive campaign based on fist-on-the-table demands, spreading videos of people burning their DVDs of a theatrical cut and whatnot. In other words, we can politely request but should never pressure others, or so I think. We're still fans; we don't own those properties and the execs don't really owe us anything. But apparently, things were a bit rough at some point, and yet WB yielded and gave Snyder enough dough to fix us a new cut of JL. Obviously I'm thrilled, but at the same time somewhat ashamed of "fellow-fans" (again, more like hooligans) who went ballistic over this. I want WB and Snyder to mutually agree to do this, and surely they have, as a positive thing, instead of feeling pressured by an angry mob. I doubt the angry-mob model will suddenly dictate things in the business, don't worry, but some journalists have voiced a certain level of discontent, understandingly in my opinion, with the #ReleasetheSnyderCut movement going a little bonkers and WB giving in to their demands anyway. I hope that this book, "Release the Snyder Cut", will examine this phenomenon properly.
Avoid the IGN non spoiler review, if you are well versed in DC comics they give away a major plot point, basically it's obvious what the reviewer is alluding to.
Wasn't there an open letter from MI6.co.uk to Eon to postpone NTTD last year?
Somehow completely different, for whatever reason.
Asking them to postpone a release amidst a pandemic is entirely different from demanding EON folks to sit down with us, listen to our ideas for the next Bond film, take notes and then make that movie, or else.
Okay. Seems quite similar to me (an open letter from fans telling them what they think they should do), but fair enough.
No, it really isn't. Our hosts never asked to be involved in the creative process. Nor did they act up as spoiled children setting standards for the output of Bond films (we want one every two years!). They're not demanding a different cut of a movie, scenes to be inserted back into the movie or someone else to have a go at it than the currently hired director. They asked to consider the release date of the movie in the middle of a global pandemic. The open letter is where the similarity ends. And that is not the point I was making. So no, not similar, not "quite", not even a little.
I remember that one. That was very amusing. Between the lines, he basically wanted to be a producer. It's even more amusing considering the guy who started the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut "movement" is credited as an Associate Producer now, I think. Brass balls pay off sometimes!
It does, doesn't it, @CraigMooreOHMSS? :D Again, one of the reasons why I'd love to read that book if, at least, it talks about these things.
As I said: fair enough. We'll agree to disagree.
I'm not going to search out lots of reviews but I see the new cut has meant Empire has given it three stars as opposed to the original cut's two:
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/zack-snyder-justice-league/
For comparison - he gave MoS three stars out of four, BvS 2.5 stars out of four, and the previous cut of JL three stars out of four.
It really is strange to see critics embracing a Snyder film this way!
It must feel like Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love, getting good reviews! They laughed at Paul Thomas Anderson when he said he wanted to make a Sandler comedy. They both got award nominations, and it’s still some of their best work.
IGN loved it
I lost some respect for Seitz when he started his review of Spectre with this:
"James Bond films are, and always have been, more imitative than innovative. Even in the 1960s they were essentially superhero movies starring an indestructible character who wore street clothes (and the occasional wet suit) instead of tights and a cape. He ran, jumped, drove and flew through loosely connected setpieces that borrowed whatever cliches happened to be popular in action cinema at that moment and amped them up with more beautiful locations, bigger explosions, cornier jokes, and lush, loud music by John Barry."
The words of a casual observer, if ever there were any. I kind of understand where that kind of thinking (even if it's obviously not correct) would come in for casual fans, considering how long Bond has been in the zeitgeist. Ebert also had some strange views when it came to Bond, if I remember correctly?
If you equate our hosts politely and modestly asking to consider a safe way to experience NTTD to entitled fans with silly claims to the keys of the kingdom, just because they wrote an open letter too, yes, then we must disagree. /:)
I had never any hopes that a troubled production could be fixed with this cut, so I too am okay with reviews of an imperfect but improved film. My plans were to sit the film out in one night, but I'll have to sort of plan it in. Four hours is quite something after all. ;-)
I have not watched the 2017 Justice League recently which I am happy about, its not a film I watch often so it won't impact on my viewing of the Snyder Cut that much.
Very good point. I've seen the film four times so far, once in the theatre when it came out. The last time was last Summer. I expect little trouble spotting most of the differences, tweaks and inserts, as well as the new score (as I have listened to the Elfman score often in the past few years.) Part of me wishes I could have gone in 'clean', a virgin viewing of sorts.
From what I gather from some non spoiler reviews some of the scenes we have already seen are presented very differently due to tone and length of scenes.
MoS and BvS I watch often, JL 2017 I have never accepted it as a continuation of the first two films.
Ebert passed away in 2013. This is just a writer from RogerEbert.com.
Yes, I'm aware. I've followed MZS for a long time.
Please, I don't want to argue about this. We just see things differently, that's all.
Yeah, I was going to say I could imagine doing it in an afternoon, but I guess being Snyder it's likely to be so dark that it's a film you have to watch after dusk!
Luckily I only saw it once as I thought it was pretty bad, I can remember almost nothing about it. To be honest, this moving up from 2/5 movie to a 3/5 movie makes me think I'm still not likely to love it, but MoS passed the time well enough watching it for the second time last week, so I'm sure this will be fine.
I watched that Sam Heughan SAS thing last week so it can't be any worse! :)
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I bought the Justice League 2017 twice despite not liking it, Digital Copy and 4K Disk. I buy pretty much any DC content.
The only scene that is any good from that version is when Kal El goes into beast mode after he is resurrected and fights the other Justice League members.
I watched part of his review earlier, Tyrone Magnus is a big Snyder fan like myself. The fact he said its one of the best films he has seen is music to my ears.
I must admit I'm kind of curious about picking up the Ultimate edition of BvS; I hadn't heard of it but someone mentioned it and apparently it's an improvement. I might grab a second hand copy.