Still waiting for a spinoff about that cow that flew past in the first movie.

Exactly. There must be some kind of shadenfraude in there. We just have to cross several dimensions and crack open a tesseract to find it.
Nolan is brill but, in terms of futurism, creativity and find I’d rather watch a Washowskis production.

Maybe that's the influence. They look at Snyder movies and say "OK, let's make sure we don't do THAT!"

To me, this is even weirder than when we learned that Spielberg liked Michael Bay. So much of what Zach Snyder does looks like what Nolan is purposefully avoiding to do.

The rowing is the least of Oxford Blues’ crimes against authenticity.

How do you feel about Oxford Blues?

Comparing it to some of the most beloved sci-fi movies

The Matrix, maybe?

I wish he had stolen petulant vlogger Kylo instead.

Larry Squatter and the Wizard's Rock.

How much darker could it be? None.  None more dark.

Those sound like great MST3k episodes

Snyder looked at a shot of the vast, darkness of space. “Can we make it darker? I feel that would be edgier,” he directed.

He can be a very nice man who does his best but still makes garbage movies.

“Zack Snyder seems like a very nice man who is doing his best.”

This. The fact he has attracted such weird, angry fan base is a little mystifying. But that said, Snyders work clearly demonstrates he’s the guy who only looks at the covers and splash pages of comic books instead of actually reading them.

Worth mentioning - Zack Snyder seems like a very nice man who is doing his best, this movie is fairly diverse and he’s dunked on some of the alt-right chuds who worship him right to their face - but his fanbase is one of the worst on the internet. The intersection with MauLer fans, who are actually the worst, is…

Snyder fans love this shit though. They don’t want to think about what the characters are feeling (most aren’t very interested in how other people are feeling in-general), they just want to move on to the next overshot tedious action scene. 

To be fair, the music the band’s playing being called jizz makes more sense in that context.

I am so grateful right now that this wasn’t a slideshow

Tom Swift was canceled in June 2022 with its last episode airing August 2022 so it doesn’t belong on this list. There might be others like this, but I’m too lazy to fact check.