Doom Patrol got moved to HBO max and getting a second season. That show is good.
I'm interested I'm the Snyder cut as it would be a completely different movie then the botch job we got from Whedon. As said earlier on this thread, roughly 25% of what Snyder shot was used.
No director could have saved Justice League, and they weren't going to put the movie on ice until Snyder came back. Whedon didn't have a clean slate, he had to work with what footage Snyder left him and the associations of Batman vs Superman looming over the production, he didn't have the lead in he had for the Avengers. Whedon didn't hurt the movie, he gave it more of a life to it. For example, he let Superman speak and gave him a personality closer to the source material and made him charismatic rather than a lonely vengeful god.
Whedon not having a clean slate ultimately doesn't matter. WB shouldn't have tried to "fix" the movie. It was too late for any of the changes they wanted to make. They should have stuck with Synder the whole way through and not panic like they did. It ended up being far worse in the long run.
All of Snyder's movies are poorly received. Go look at his Rotten Tomatoes scores: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/zack_snyder. The last non-rotten score he received was for Watchmen in 2009 (11 years ago).
Snyder is basically a special effects supervisor who was promoted to the director chair. When he first came up (Dawn of the Dead, 300, etc) he was doing things no one else had done before. The stories were still bad, but the visuals were good enough to overcome that.
Eventually the rest of hollywood caught up on special effects and all you were left with was Snyder's crappy stories. He never really cared about story; listen to his interviews. He uses stories to try and set up big special effect scenes that he thinks looks cool.
There's a reason why he's now doing straight-to-Netflix low budget films and not cinema pictures any more.
I'm still planning on watching this, just to see what he was planning to do. I'm curious, ya know?
But I don't think Snyder should ever have been put in charge. 300 was perfectly his speed. Watchmen was faithful, but took all the wrong lessons from the story. I didn't hate MoS.
But anyone who thought starting a shared cinematic universe with your strongest player at the fucking end of their career was never setting you up to succeed.
Audience scores trend towards more positive. So comparing audience scores for his films vs. audience scores to competing films and his are still worse.
I wish him well. If this HBO Max thing goes well maybe he has a future in TV. I wonder if he has the patience to do a series though. Him reemerging to do cinema again seems like wishful thinking to me.
Hmm, I strongly suspect that her introduction in BvS had much if any impact on the film's popularity. I rather suspect it had to do more with the character herself, how she was portrayed, and who directed the film.
I mean, seriously, I get why young girls want to wear a WW tshirt. I also get why few young boys want to wear a Snyder-style Superman or Batman tshirt. Who wants to be like those cretins?