Based on interviews, the difference between Snyder and those better directors ultimately comes down to their grasp of the material.

Those better directors tried. They made a damn concentrated effort to try and translate a work that is very much a product of the medium it’s written in (as is often the case with Alan…

If his handling of Jimmy Olsen is anything to go by, expect Snyder to include Gleek, but he’ll be drawn and quartered on screen.

Made all the more darkly funny by the fact the last DC release before this was a movie about people getting what they wished for, but having it come out ‘wrong’ somehow.

Correction - MOST reviewers.

Armond White is already reserving a spot on his ‘Best of 2021' list for it.

full of people patting themselves on the back saying “we did it!” as if they’d caused some massive societal shift by being loud and obnoxious online about a movie?

If DC somehow caves to them, there’s only one way it can be done -
Take a page from Infinite Crisis and have the whole thing caused by Superboy having a tantrum that he looks at the world and sees things are ‘wrong’ and punching reality so hard it fractures.

Cause if ever DC created the perfect way to symbolize that…

I’ll die on the hill that The Dead Zone is one of the few genuinely perfect Stephen King endings.
No real deus ex machina and it’s a perfectly logical, if tragic, conclusion to the story he was trying to tell (and really, given the nature of the story, a tragic ending is fitting.)

The only thing I’d argue as a demerit…

That was the part of this story where I winced a little.

Still kind of an up-and-coming actor. Not really someone who was seen as a breakout prior (including on this project), and now is largely championed by Zack Snyder fans more as an extension of how Snyder was wronged.

There was no part of this scenario where Fisher…

I think the only reason he hasn’t personally murdered anyone (that we know of)

To borrow a phrase heard from someone else:
“They all love the invisible hand of the free market until it smacks them.”

Falls in, and then it takes a cue from American Dad!
*Fett falls in, cuts to another character in a location completely related to the incident*
“That’s it, y’all! Fett’s dead!”
*credits*

How many times does she have to get proven wrong before people stop going to her for industry news?
Still remember back when she insisted Kathleen Kennedy was being sacked pre-RoS.

Joe McCarthy was using the clout of the government to basically publicly slander people he suspected of being Communists, whether they actually were or not.
Not really the same thing as a private company looking at the very public actions of one of the people representing their brand (up to and including her co-stars…

To be fair to Raiders, the version where Indy doesn’t get involved means Marion gets tortured and likely murdered by Toht and his goons.

So, all things considered, that one is still more of a net gain that he did take the job.

On the plus side, the fact Larry was cast/written as black this time means they’ll probably be avoiding THAT uncomfortable conversation with his mother.

...and I look back and this now and realize that should have been The Last Temptation of Christ.

My mistake and now I feel awful that I mixed up a movie an acclaimed filmmaker got death threats over with the first major warning signs of another filmmaker’s REALLY sketchy issues with Jewish people.

So did The Lincoln Project.

Being against Trump doesn’t automatically mean you don’t have some right-leaning tendencies. It tends to mean best case you have a conscience, worst case you recognize he’s a bad investment.

It has always struck me as darkly comic that Cimino went from wanting to adapt that to then making the movie that is now regarded in film history as the ultimate cautionary tale about the dangers that can come with total artistic indulgence.

I mean, it’d be one thing if it had just been him going down, but he basically…

and don’t let this guy see the reaction Scorsese got to Passion of the Christ when he made that (hey, he only said still working today, he didn’t say the vitriol had to be recent. Though look how much shit that man got JUST for saying maybe comic book movies weren’t the end-all, be-all of cinema.)

He’s still working and next role on screen will be playing an unstable maniac in The Stand.

...not quite by intent, I imagine, but damn if it doesn’t fit.

(That said, he’s gonna have a hard time topping Matt Frewer’s take.)