Rurouni Senator wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 1:40 pm
Rando Yaguchi wrote: ↑Sun Mar 28, 2021 9:09 pm
Many people I know (including some who hate the previous films as much as I did) are saying the Snyder Cut is great. Even the boys at RedLetterMedia liked it. Color me intrigued...
Great is a stretch of a compliment to that version.
Not really,
fantastic is the general consensus for
that version.
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My thing is, if people want their safe lighthearted quippy central, comedy, family films there's clearly already a universe out there doing that.
Why should DC copy that? Look at where that's lead us, WW84, SS, I'd even put Shazam in there for the fact that his movie was literally just
Spy Kids: Superpowers which feels completely dissolved from what we got in MOS and BVS.
But I'm sure most of you guys'll disagree, I'd prefer if DC films focused on being these grandiose sci-fi fantasy epics, like ZSJL, or dark, grounded, and gritty situations our heroes go through daily, like MOS, BvS or TDK, or even Aquaman. I hear some of you calling BvS and MoS "bloated" or "pretentious" or literally "miserable experiences", and I can say without a doubt you're exaggerating.
Heroes struggle, Movies have literary themes, CBM stories can strive for a higher level of thinking, and character arcs exist. It seems like some people don't want to see the genre evolve beyond villain of the week Macguffin comedies because "Comic books". To that I say, read a DC comic book and you'll find the tone to be much darker, and much deeper than just fisticuffs.