Jimbot posted:

Oh, so it's going to be a post-Civil War documentary?

ruddiger posted:

Our current president recently said Lincoln lost the war.

garycoleisgod posted:

I read the article (TLDR; it's stupid) and they are:

1) Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
2) Tommy Wiseau - The Room
3) Paul Feig - Ghostbusters (2016)
4) George Lucas - The Star Wars Prequels (of course they include Lucas and all the poo poo about yes men and too much CGI)
5) Tony Kaye - American History X
6) M. Night Shyamalan - Glass
7) McG - Terminator Salvation
8) Peter Farrelly - Green Book
9) Colin Trevorrow - The Book Of Henry

and of course our boy Snyder.

It's a terrible article too, because in the case at least of Feig, McG, Shyamalan and Trevorrow the "not understanding" the directors show is ... thinking their movie was good when it in fact was bad? That's not a misunderstanding! It's just not making a good movie!

And Glass wasn't bad, it was great!

FilthyImp posted:

Didn't Ang Lee do mocap for Hulk anyway? Second best Hulk rite there

Dreqqus posted:

I'm not a huge fan of Snyder's movies but I love this thread. You folks don't seem to be infected with the cinemasins like so much of the internet.

McCloud posted:

The infuriating thing about cinemasins is how they list "sins" that they claim don't make any sense, but in actuality was explained in the movie and they just weren't paying attention. I see that alot in movie threads these days

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Sucker Punch was the first film that Snyder made that wasn’t based on an existing property. It was a female-led blockbuster based on an original story he wrote. Because of studio interference from Warner Bros., the film was edited down for general audiences, and even the extended version released on DVD wasn’t Snyder’s intended cut. The general consensus from critics claimed the film was sexist, but Snyder felt they misinterpreted it.

Zack Snyder: “I’m always shocked that it was so badly misunderstood. I always said that it was a commentary on sexism and geek culture. Someone would ask me, “Why did you film the girls this way?” And I’d say, “Well you did!” Sucker Punch is a gently caress you to a lot of people who will watch it.” When I asked him if he considered Sucker Punch to be a timely film, in particular with the #MeToo movement and the themes of the film paralleling the experiences of assault survivors, Snyder told me it was liable to happen.

He added that he hopes, one day, the true director’s cut of the film would be released. Warner Bros. heavily altered Snyder’s original idea for Sucker Punch to make it more audience-friendly.

Zack Snyder: “To make them think they’ve had a great show, the movie got changed by the studio for the audience. The voiceover [in the beginning of the film] doesn’t address the actual injustices, but addresses the way the studio would want you to feel, and they don’t want to offend anybody.”

“It’s self-empowering, but doesn’t challenge you the way it was supposed to.” While he thought the voiceover was a “contrived post-production mechanism,” he agreed with the message, even if it was conventional.

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Zack Snyder: “With Army [of the Dead], it’s difficult not to do to a social statement because the movie is about building a wall for refugees and veterans but it’s also fun to do a zombie heist in Vegas. It makes it richer and better. I can’t help myself. I’ve always worked in a self-reflective way. Cinema is a reflective art form.”

Snyder has multiple projects he wants to work on even while he films Army of the Dead in the summer of 2019. For years, he’s wanted to adapt Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. For a while, it was thought that that would be his next project. Although it’s on hold for now, Snyder still has a script in development, not for a feature length film, but for a television series.

Zack Snyder: “The Fountainhead… It’s still important to me, but it’s a really touchy subject right now. People will think it’s hardcore right wing propaganda, but I don’t view it like that. I just think the story is super fun and crazy and melodramatic about architecture and sex.” He added, “It’s about time we get a different president so we don’t take poo poo so seriously!”

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Snyder has multiple projects he wants to work on even while he films Army of the Dead in the summer of 2019. For years, he’s wanted to adapt Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. For a while, it was thought that that would be his next project. Although it’s on hold for now, Snyder still has a script in development, not for a feature length film, but for a television series.

Zack Snyder: “The Fountainhead… It’s still important to me, but it’s a really touchy subject right now. People will think it’s hardcore right wing propaganda, but I don’t view it like that. I just think the story is super fun and crazy and melodramatic about architecture and sex.” He added, “It’s about time we get a different president so we don’t take poo poo so seriously!”

He told me about a conversation he had had with a woman who wrote a book about Rand, and how the woman told him that during conservative regimes, Rand became very unpopular but during liberal regimes, she became popular again. “Not because they’re looking for it, or afraid of it, it’s because of the seriousness with which Rand is viewed varies in regime and power.”

Zack Snyder: “I think she’s incredible and insane and she’s always said story first, not regarding her politics. But it was easy for her to fall victim to her own popularity, and she drank her own Kool-Aid.” Snyder starts laughing. “She didn’t give a gently caress. If she was alive right now she would’ve loving murdered Donald Trump. She didn’t even like Reagan! She thought he was a nationalist. But I’m rambling now, sorry!”

josh04 posted:

It's almost perfectly infuriating.

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There’s even a script written by his screenwriter friend for a Napoleon movie “in the form of Scarface” being considered. “I think it’s loving awesome.”

Guy A. Person posted:

Hahah seriously. Good on him for being honest tho and not just throwing her under the bus. But yeah that fact that he didn't is just going to add fuel to the fire; anyone reading that is just going to confirm what they already think about him.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

What a fantastic weirdo.


OH MY GOD

DC Murderverse posted:

I gotta say, “I hope we get a new president so people stop taking things so seriously” is a Tier One Clueless White Guy take. I love Zach and I think he definitely isn’t a Randian but it’s a very tone-deaf thing to say.

Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:

I mean, it's exactly the same take as the liberal "If Hilary had won we'd all be at brunch right now" crowd, which is absolutely loving hilarious.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

He's basically the same kind of liberal as every other Hollywood lib.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

"Class interests trump personal identity." --Karl Marx, basically

Jimbot posted:

Is that interview why the Snydercut fanbase are super active lately or did something else happen?

Jimbot posted:

Is that interview why the Snydercut fanbase are super active lately or did something else happen?

Mr. Apollo posted:

Basically since Snyder did the Q & A sessions and said the Syndercut exists and it’s up to WB if they ever want to release it, the Snydercut has been more active. Snyder has also been posting production stills of the Snydercut and commenting on how his version was different than what we got.

Equeen posted:

i rather be snyder be all "architecture~" than "rand has a bunch of great ideas, and i want to spread her message" tbh.

i mean, i'm already see people in other threads (i won't name them) using that excerpt proving that he's totally a randian because... he's oblivious to rand's politics.

Snowman_McK posted:

There's something about "Any director of a nerd franchise" that just blinds people. I mean, i get disliking someone's films, but people go out of their way to misread films, statements, scenes...even individual lines of dialogue.

CelticPredator posted:

Jimbot posted:

Judging from his comments, his The Fountainhead movie sounds like it'll be something similar to "The Wolf of Wall Street".