It’s kinda funny. For years, people have been saying Zack Snyder is a terrible writer and director, but has a great eye for action so he “just needs to be a cinematographer.” This is apparently the first movie he was actually his own director of photography. So it sounds like that’s not a great fit for him either.…

I can chop up 4 classic movies and force them into a weak story with no character development and unfinished plotlines/easter eggs made to look like it was shot on my smartphone...where is my $50 million paycheck?

I swear, filmmakers like him could potentially make phenomenal if they put just as much effort into story and character development as they do hOmAgInG, easter eggs, and references.

Clearly put in there as a “yo, let’s f*** with the audience via random Easter eggs like robot/alien zombies: because we know YouTube nerds will over-analyze this thing and they will help with promotion and hype for a sequel!”

Ding ding ding. I’m surprised I had to go this far to find it. What many don’t realize is that digitally-acquired series and movies deal with this stuff almost daily. It’s up to the production just how much they want to spend on QC, which may not catch every dead pixel on every pass, painting out the pixels and…

The review by Redletter Media mentioned the pixels, they figured that one of the camera’s they used must have had sensor issues since it only appeared in certain shots.

How can they have a CGI Zombie Tiger but can’t digitally fix the missing pixels? 

I loved the Dawn of the Dead remake, but this one was... not good. You’d think he would have learned something from Dawn of the Dead and would have been able to pull from that?  I guess it was just his ego and wanting full control, James Gunn wrote the Dawn script and a proper lens was used.

I’m enjoying more and more how much of a mess this film is and yet was given close to glowing reviews by certain outlets as ‘brilliant’.

Which would be a good excuse if the film was going to have an mass Imax release. I imagine all those people with home Imax setups for their HBO Max were blown away.

Snyder did a good remake Dawn of the Dead, so initially people were willing to give him a pass at another zombie movie.. But he didn’t do the cinematography or script for that movie and yikes, these things showed. What a relatively boring script that looked terrible.

This is what I figured, too. I see dead (white) pixels on my local teeveenewz broadcasts all the time, and they only exist on certain field camera shots, never studio shots, so I assumed it was just a quirk of the digital sensor stuff.

“Snyder’s decision not to put a stop on the lenses” - can anyone explain this to me? Is ‘no stop on the lens’ a thing? (My gut instinct is it isn’t...) Is it just a way of saying ‘shooting wide open’ that I’ve never heard? 

Yup, 100% nothing to do with the lens. Dead pixels are pretty common and super easy to paint out - the crazy thing is that nobody on what I assume to be a very experienced post-production team noticed them before they signed off on the movie...

Have to say, I didn’t notice.

That’s just your TV or other device trying to defend itself from having to play back the works of Zack Snyder.

The most obvious cause would be dust particles landing on the sensor when the camera was open during the lens change. While any image focused on the sensor would have varying amounts of blur, a dust particle would be distinct and would eventually be cleaned off. 

I could make aggressively mediocre movies very sloppily too if somebody would just let me! And pay me a fuck ton of money to do it!

For a film being crap/unwatchable, isn’t the more obvious answer is that it was done by Zack Snyder

Synder’s dead pixels is the new unnecessary neck snap.