Looking at the hit/miss list, the lesson I see most clearly is “enough with the grimdark”.

EXACTLY!

Yeah, Snyder’s take on Clark’s parents is just fruit loops, Martha Kent’s whole “you don’t owe these people anything” pep talk is kind of sickening.

I might agree with you if the HBO show hadn’t blown him out of the water without even showing a single scene from the comic. Even if the comparison isn’t one to one, it serves to show that there are filmmakers who actually understand Moore and can tell a story with characters, not talking action figures.

Oh yeah, Jonathan Kent in any other iteration would NEVER tell Clark to let someone die to keep his secret. Much less a BUSLOAD of children.

Problem with framing Manhattan is that the attack was meant to be from an otherworldly alien that galvanizes folks to get past our petty partisan differences and pursue peace amongst the threat. By making it Manhattan, folks would just blame the US.

Honestly, as much as I dislike Snyder artistically, I find myself liking Man Of Steel. It’s not perfect and it’s not even a great Superman movie, but it just has a je ne sais quois.

Damn, Letterkenny is ending? That makes me sad.

Tbf, the notion that a mega-derivative standalone flick is “original” compared to a franchise sequel that treads new ground has been a popular take for years now.

It’s so clearly a terrible grimdark interpretation of “A New Hope” that I know the writers basically totally cribbed star wars and basically played ad libs when Lucasfilm declined to pick it up.

Indiewire called it "the cinematic equivalent of an NFT". 

“Zack is trying to do something very different here that really hasn’t been done in a long time. This isn’t an IP. This is an original story. It’s being created by hundreds, if not thousands of technicians. That’s a really bold thing.”

A little off? It missed almost every fucking point Alan Moore was trying to make because it was too busy slavishly aping Gibbons panels.

I know I’m not. I knew just the idea of “I’ll make my OWN Star Wars, with blackjack! And hookers!” was a DOA idea that would only be embraced by his ride-and-die stans.

I do think it’s funny that the only Zack Snyder movie I like was written by James Gunn. 

He makes movies that are fun to watch, and that’s it.

He makes movies that are fun to watch, and that’s it.

It’s more like “Holy shit, this Whopper I ordered has wilted lettuce, old cheese, and I’m pretty sure this isn’t even beef.”

Beautiful shitty movie from Zack Snyder, must be a day that ends in -y

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