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Stringing together one great visual sequence after another doesn't make a director visionary.
At this moment Snyder is a one-hit wonder for me. 300 was unique and original and Watchmen is the greatest ever comic book movie.
But the rest of his movies are forgettable or as I said a collage of visually impressive scenes that don't make sense stringed together (Sucker Punch).
Kubrik is my favorite director of all time easily. You just have to admire his will and his persistency, which were probably simply obsessiveness.
My comparrison comes from the fact that Snyder made a movie that is similarily brutally honest in it's themes. He paints a world that is true to it's nature, there are no good guys, there are no rainbows and happy ever afters. All the 'heroes' suffer from consequences of their actions.
I think that the problem that most 'fans' have with that movie is, that after watching it NO ONE wants to be those guys. No one wants to be THAT Batman, or THAT Superman, because the price is too high, they don't get cheered on, they are isolated. These guys suffer and suffer, but in the context of the movie it is absolutely plausible. Our world is not about right and wrong but about picking sides, and you have to decide for yourself why you do what you do.
In that sense he made a very thought provoking and realistic movie.
He just used comic book heroes for it.
I think a lot of people were simply looking for a movie with an identification figure to latch on to, and have some fun, be inspired or whatever. Like me when i watch Goldeneye :)
But they did not get that at all, instead this is a much more philosophical movie, and an analogy about the time we are living in. There is a preconcived notion of what a superhero movie is spposed to be at the moment (Marvel), and BvS is simply not that.
Snyder took a very different approach.
OH yeah! =D>
i just send Zack Snyder a tweet with that video, hope he sees it.
maybe more people could do that.
i think some positivity is seriously needed right now.
Wow that's pretty powerful.
Why cant people express themselves without unravelling and bursting into tears these days? Jeez; it's just a movie; meanwhile there are people dying and suffering all manners of atrocities and death all over the world and this one wants to be sobbing in front of a camera over cartoon characters. Honestly 8-|
I grew up reading and watching DC and Marvel comic characters and still do today but I'm not going to start getting overly emotional to the point I start crying or lobbying for people to be removed or signing online petitions. I'm passionate by paying money to read and watch this stuff.
That being said, he presented the points of his perspective rather well and I agree with some if not most of it. I don't agree with the need to have seen the death of his parents yet again as I think the film should have highlighted on the death of robin instead. Bruce is well and truly batman and the avenging dark knight, honouring his parents. He comes across all manner of evil but deals with it without crossing the line....until Robin is brutally murdered. We saw the Joker's graffiti all over Robin's costume, indicating Robin's murder and how batman "failed" him. That is what should have been the catalyst for batman to be "out of character". Seeing superman fighting zod, destroying everything could have also been Bruce's perspective of having no choice and to do whatever it takes to put such power down for good and what Alfred said about good men turning bad serves and fuels batman's obsession to hunt down and stop superman with such aggression. The whole mother's having the same name thing is irrelevant and only highlights how poorly conceived this film was and how dumb they made batman. Batman harps on about Supes not being a man but whereas the name of his mother is used as a trigger for batman to at long last pause, think and actually come to his senses, it's actually the acknowledgement of the fact that superman has a mother, has a carer who nursed and nurtured him and has a mother that's in imminent danger in which superman for all his god-like powers was and is helpless and powerless to save.
As for superman, the film did a good job of making me feel sorry for the character but again he's a character that was horribly written. Captain America in the Marvel films is more superman in terms of his ideals, values and conviction of philosophy than the actual superman character himself as presented in MoS and BvS. Captain America's opening narration over the second trailer for civil war says it all really and is more powerful and poignant with it's significance than anything Zack Snyder/Goyer has conveyed with their version of superman.
Yes it felt odd. And Nolan did it way better!!
That's the way I viewed it.
The reason for that should have been shown.
Another mystery only known to the prop department probably ;)
We should petition to have the R rated Directors Cut on the big screen!
I like Cavill and think he could pull off a lot of pure Superman moments, like this one if given the chance:
He's got a charm and innocence about him that Snyder never plays with here, and that's a shame because in MoS, those moments were when Cavill shined most. All we get in this movie is the public hating him, which then leads him to believe he must be the bad guy after all. That's not Superman, I'm sorry. He feels day and night from who he was in MoS to me, because in that film he knew he was a good man, no matter what others said, and knew that soon, the public would join his side and trust him if he gave them the chance and didn't give in to their initial reactions to the dangers they think he could pose. He knew he had to earn their trust and prove them wrong, but in this film, he bends to their hate and is prepared to become what they all claim him to be when he heads off to face Batman.
One of the film's most momentous failures is that
But they kill Superman before the public, the other heroes or even most of the audience connect to him, and they throw any emotional weight built by that moment away by showing us immediately afterward that he's alive and well.
There's so much stuff in this film that could be used to make some of the greatest comic book content in film, but it's never used properly. The lost potential of this film is haunting and I think the biggest pain it dishes out.
$530 after six days, negativity not this films Kryptonite.
Wonder Woman.... ^:)^