Alzheimer’s disease is a cruel fate. Having watched someone go through it, I can say it is better to be dead. My grandmother had it, and lost her ability to form new memories, and eventually could only remember things from earlier in life, so she had no memory of me or anyone my age, and didn’t know that her husband…

My feelings exactly. No matter who did that cut, it was doomed to failure. It just happened to be him...and his bullshit

It sucked because they took something that already sucked and tried to fix it. Mash it into something that resembles the Avengers. And it didn’t work, of course.

I was surprised at just how much more sympathy I had for the theatrical cut after seeing the Snyder cut. Fitting that into something that could be played in theaters was going to be difficult no matter what, and then meeting the studio’s mandate to change the tone was going to be nearly impossible without reshooting…

Snyder’s movies feel like something from the pre-2000s, almost in a way like Burton’s Batman movies. They’re not about a director being faithful to a franchise or a character, they’re about a filmmaker with an idiosyncratic style presenting his own take on the property. In the ‘90s Burton did this with Batman and was…

Snyder just isn’t that talented. That’s really all it is, and I say this as someone who really enjoyed Sucker Punch.

The problem is that when you’re script doctoring, you’re taking someone else’s script and adding some flourishes to make it the best version of that person’s script that it can be. I don’t think that was the goal here.

I doubt it.

In the ‘90s Burton did this with Batman and was praised as a genius. Twenty years later Snyder did this with Superman and the other DC characters and was lambasted as a hack.

I mean, I liked Justice League a lot more than most of the other DCU movies to that point. Snyder’s take on Batman and Superman were not for me.

Justice League (2017) was about as much a Whedon film as Speed or Toy Story or X-Men were. He did a little script doctoring, the only difference is he got to film some of it.

The root of the problem isnt that it felt like an obligation at all.

Whedon’s work is what it says on the tin: a director trying to recut another director’s work into a vision the studio wanted. The studio was banking on Whedon’s brand name and it failed.

But the problem, as stated several months ago, largely lies with Warner Bros: it loves to overpromise and underdeliver to the point where it feels like a running gag in a sitcom.

the one thing I appreciate the theatrical version for is that it gave us a Superman who actually acted like Superman. He smiles. He cracks a joke, because he’s not a god he’s a guy from Kansas who has lived on earth his whole life. That’s why I’m glad to see Henry Cavill come back because he already proved that, given…

that sucks man hope you find something good someday

I would push back on “Not a single one of us would go to work if we could afford to” in that a lot of conservatives use that as bullshit reasoning against things like ubi and unemployment benefits. A lot of people find meaning and value in their work and work because they want to. But under the circumstances Chris…

I guess the way it went for Chadwick Boseman put things in perspective for him too

That is my general reply to any certain segment of the population who loudly opines that, “Nobody wants to to work anymore!” Usually preceded by a "Well duh."

Shit dude, no one would blame you a bit for,you know, not going to fucking work.  Not a single one of us would go to work if we could afford to.