The Snyder Cut — Review Thread

That ship has sailed. Kinda itching to rewatch Man of Steel though.

Did they show Barry

Okay. Odd, but let's move along.



Fair enough, however I don't recall saying any media in that format automatically sucks. On the contrary. You literally just quoted me saying "there are good movies".

More to the point is that I believe it's evolved. The choice to move to wide screen formats was a wise choice. So yes, it will bug me when it is attempted to be done today. I cannot think of any permanently made, present day movies in the format that make me think "This movie needed it. The director's vision would have been compromised had it not been". You know, other than for nostalgia's sake. Some of WandaVision's episodes were 4:3 for this reason. Would have drove me crazy if the entire series was that way.

All of this stemmed from the sentiment of "I watch old 4:3 a lot so I'm used to it so whatevs". However we would be having this same conversation if Snyder decided to make this movie black and white (which I think he wanted) or a silent film, because it was his "vision". Either of those artistic directions also would have bugged me. But sure, let's start naming classic b&w and silent films because I said I have a preference to watch my media in color and with sound.

Ben-Hur is an odd example, if you read what I wrote. As I already said, the black bars are not the issue. I believe the wide angle format is the superior way to capture and view media. It has never bothered me to have black bars on top and bottom. Ben-Hur looks fantastic.

Sure, I'm all for discussing the interest in how and why the Snyder Cut was shot the way it was, but that doesn't lessen the fact that it lessens a modern film for me as a result and I don't care for it having been shot that way. Just as I also didn't care for the Grand Budapest Hotel or The Lighthouse being shot that way, despite enjoying them both.

You can indeed call me out on a lack of imagination, which is also fair enough. I have trouble reading full novels in a decent amount of time. It takes me a very long time to finish books.

Yeah, but you had conceded "The only exception being that of IMAX film being shown on a true, traditional IMAX screen" which is exactly what Justice League was shot for, much as Ben-Hur was shot to fill some super cinerama type screen, it seems logical to me to then carry that framing over for a home video release for the same reasons you'd carry the original Ben-Hur aspect ratio.  

Except, again, I'm of the opinion that a wide angle format to any degree is the superior way of shooting and viewing media, regardless. Even Napoleon from 1927 (and that would have been a better example). So Ben-Hur is going to look good to me either way. IMAX is on a whole other level when it comes to needing to be viewed that way, on that type of screen. Far more so than Cinerama ever was or is, nor the film that is used.

But let's get real. This is how you would need to watch a movie if you're wanting to see how it was supposed to be viewed, because it was made specifically for that type of screen, not at home. Personally I'd probably prefer not to, but I wouldn't be against trying:




But even if we're not going that route, you're still talking about basically needing to take the Cinemara wide format and then also blowing it up vertically as well. It's a massive difference between the two to be able to "experience" it as it was in the theater, which is why IMAX film is only good on a traditional IMAX screen. This is your basic screen size difference between the two cinemas:

The highlight of the DCEU is the one time Zack Snyder didn’t use slow motion.





1godzillafan made a valid point about the DCEU wanting to be the LOTR to Marvel’s Star Wars, but I think people just wanted these movies to be more gritty. Marvel’s success in the comics and in the MCU has been its serialization. DC’s success has mostly been its individual stories. There was never any reason for Warner Bros to try and replicate the MCU. If we get one or two Justice League movies, that’s fine, but what people want is a badass Batman movie, a cool Superman flick, etc. Which leads me back to my original point. Zack Snyder excess was never the answer. These DC movies should have been the “scaled back” alternative to Marvel. They shouldn’t have been the LOTR to Marvel’s Star Wars but the Indiana Jones to Marvel’s Star Wars.

Do we know this was actually his choice?

*I guess if it remains the same in the director's cut, then it was.

**Or was it?

I'm having trouble understanding any of those, but I would have loved it if this was literally a viable comparison. Where I could say that perhaps the DCEU was the more calculated, intelligent approach to the genre. Unfortunately...

Just needs more pointy ears either way.




Are we ruling out the possibility that WB might actually consider continuing off of this? It seems far too popular (95% from users on RT) for them to not consider it at all.

Nah.

Part of the problem is that Snyder's master plan was to have Justice League 2 be a big battle between the heroes and Darkseid's invasion and that Darkseid was going to turn Superman and shockingly win at the end, and then Justice League 3 would be what these Knightmare flashforwards are to and would have the ragtag group rally to finally win and set things right in the end... and if that sounds familiar to you it's because the MCU already kind of did it now.  In fact I kind of suspect that Snyder got word of what they were going to be doing in Infinity War and Endgame and awkwardly put those Knightmare sequences in there just so he could "prove" that that was his idea all along and he wasn't just copying Marvel.