When the Ray Fisher allegations first came out- Alan Tudyk made a comment on twitter about not being able to even imagine Joss was capable of this behaviour. (This comment was also liked by James Gunn...and possibly Jewel Staite as well, but I might be misremembering re-Jewel.)
Alan then got ripped into on twitter for…
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“The Snyder cut of Justice League is wildly indulgent and melodramatic, but there’s a lot of fun to be had in its grand spectacle.”
“Joss’ version has the characters play off what has come before (especially Bruce, Clark, and Diana) a lot more than the Snyder Cut”
Yes, I have to really disagree with the reviewer that Whedon added nothing good to the movie. The Superman scenes in his JL are (dodgy CGI face aside) miles better than any Superman scene in Snyder’s.
nah snyder’s justice league was better. it’s still a c+ movie, but it went from a c- to a c+.
Avengers is a great movie by itself, but I also think it’s a perfect example of Marvel’s ability to set the stage for long-term, serialized storytelling and character building.
Agreed. Nobody could have achieved what they wanted him to do, especially with a tiny budget and timeline, and he was too full of himself to say no.
I’m just astonished how well Thor (the character) turned out. I’m a comics fan and I had no issue with any of the other characters but I really thought Thor was not going to work, and the first film really did nothing to allay those concerns. I didn’t even see Dark World, but Ragnarok is one of my favorites and I…
In addition to the requested tonal changes, Whedon also had to cut it down to a 2-hour runtime, and the release date couldn’t be delayed because Execs might miss out on their bonuses.
I was really disappointed in this movie. I thought the villain was obnoxious and the plot (hatched by the villain) was stupid and mostly just a waste of time. Ultimately, it just seemed like so much filler until the final battle. All the snappy dialogue got tiresome pretty quickly too. I remember giving it another…
The theatrical version of Justice League sucks for a lot of reasons, but it’s clear that Whedon did nothing good for the movie
yeah, for the most part Casino Royale works very well ( even though I can’t quite remember what happens at the end). I don’t even remember if there was a villain plot in Casino Royale, it was just “let’s bankrupt this bad guy.”
I’m going to argue that Skyfall is good on the first viewing...but terrible on second viewings.
I always felt the opposite about the Whedon home-hangout stories, even back when I was a Whedon show stan. It made me think he was encouraging a weird cliqueishness on set, and I thought the people who *weren’t* part of said hangouts was kind of glaring. It reminded me of a charismatic HS history teacher I had who was…
A) I guess I’m getting tired of hearing the excuse that Whedon is terrible ( he may very well be ) because he wasn’t allowed in the room alone with teenage actors...because that’s pretty much a film production standard for every Hollywood production.
While we’re speaking uncomfortable truths about Whedon, it should also be mentioned that he wrote X-Men, basically setting the template for superhero movies for the next 2 decades.
Plus the Hulk’s strangely enough a master of disguise. There was a storyline where he reverted to his original grey form and got a job as an enforcer for the mob in Vegas under the alias “Joe Fixit”.
Overall, I love the MCU an awful lot, but I would argue that (even in WandaVision and F&WS) its biggest problem has been individual identify vs. the needs of the bigger universe.
“A few years later, with Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Whedon had ideas he wanted to explore, and Marvel had plot mechanics that it needed to move forward. Ultron made a whole lot of money, but the film only barely survived the tension between what Whedon wanted and what Marvel wanted.”