Zack hates superheroes.
…other medium articles written by the same author:
“What if Famous Film Directors Made Porn”
“How to Get the Perfect Dad Bod”
“12 Signs you’ve joined a Medium Cult”
“Uber Sex has Arrived!”
“I work for Medium as a Troll”
and…
“The Troll Academy.”
…other films by Zach Snyder:
“Morose Asshole Superman.”
“Morose Asshole Batman vs. Morose Asshole Superman.”
“Morose Watchmen”
“300 Morose Crossfit Dudes vs. Sassy Persians.”
He might be the nicest guy in the world. He’s a garbage director and doesn’t have the slightest understanding of the superhero genre and they should never let him direct one again.
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I all fairness, Watchmen is pretty morose. Which doesn’t excuse that train wreck of a movie.
This hijack started because I described Snyder as someone who loves superheroes. Which he does - whatever his merits as a filmmaker - which I agree are limited, at best - he’s very clearly into this stuff. Maybe too into it - he strikes me as the sort of guy who has really, really strong opinions about whether comic books are literature, and his films’ plodding self-importance seem like attempts to demonstrate it. They’re like a pastiche of '90s comics grimdark and the Cliff’s Notes to a Thomas Hardy novel.
That’s different from “understanding” it, though. I don’t generally hold to the concept of “wrong” interpretations of a work of art, but Snyder is remarkably consistent in coming away with takes on comic characters that are almost 180 degrees from my own take on them.
Grimdark addiction is right on.
Ugly, hopeless worlds, with sexy people moving in slow motion. Totes visionary.
Please. It improved upon Moore’s godawful Fake Telepathic Octopus from Space ending. For that alone, it deserves the Oscar.
The HBO series showed that the octopus thing could be incorporated into a compelling, exciting, culturally relevant format that still had all the fun and silliness of a superhero story.
I won’t quibble with his choice to replace it, but the movie as a whole had the feel of something that was trying to be faithful to the source but losing all the spirit of it.
I’m offended by the idea that a fake telepathic space octopus could possibly be improved upon.
It was a Fake Telepathic Octopus from another dimension!
Do not start.
One could buy that Adrian Veidt as portrayed by Jeremy Irons might come up with the octopus idea. Adrian Veidt as portrayed Matthew Goode didn’t give one that impression.
See, I figure Veidt has people for that.
Jesus. That is one horrendous video. Are his movies really like that?
And Liefeld? I haven’t heard that name since the 1980s(?). I can’t believe he’s still employed. Now I’m having flashbacks to overly muscled bodies with disproportionate limbs in impossible positions.
Said nobody who has eyes. And now looking at the above I see his everyone looks exactly alike faces are still a thing. At least he toned down the over muscled stuff.
Perfect example. You know I had to look, right? Thanks.
Hey, I said he’s a far better comic artist than Snyder is a comic book director/writer.
I stand by that. Snyder is worse than a complete incompetent, because he actually has some talent, and has all the pieces necessary to make a good film. He’s just kinda empty.
What?
Which way is his chest supposed to be facing?
This is a professional artist? It looks like some junior high kid’s doodle.
Holy shit, trying to picture that guy’s skeleton is mind-bending.