#pro Zack Snyder

[miasmultifandomdump]

If you think it's okay to say Zack Snyder is to blame for his daughter's suicide, you need to go outside and touch grass. Fun fact as someone who lost my best friend to suicide, guess what suicide loss survivors tend to do? Blame ourselves. I don't know how much time was wasted thinking of what I could have done better. When you blame Zack for his daughter's death, you are perpetuating the idea that suicide loss survivors are right to blame. Another fun fact! Guess what people who lose people to suicide are more likely to do? TAKE THEIR OWN LIVES. Do not pretend like you care about suicidal people when you're contributing to stigmas that worsen people's suicidal thoughts.

And why? Is Zack Snyder some kind of terrible person like Roman Polanski and Woody Allen, who are sex offenders? No. He just makes movies people don't like.

Ffs leave the Snyders alone. You're welcome to hate Zack's movies but there is no need to treat him and his family like garbage, use a poor depressed girl's memory to hate on a man she seemed very close to, and perpetuate the stigmas that comes with losing someone to suicide.

And hey, if you need someone in Hollywood to rage against, the aforementioned sex offenders seem to still be doing pretty well, so maybe you could turn your attention to people like that. People who, you know, actively abuse other people. Just a thought.

[shaneyunfiltered]

Not all heroes wear capes... and in all true heroes, hope never dies. The dream lives on in all of us, and Autumn's memory will live on forever. If no one else ever guarantees that, we most certainly will.

Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you’re currently wearing.

[imjustheretoseetheprivateblogs]

Watching army of the dead right now. And I can only wonder why no one ever hired Zack Snyder to do a resident evil movie. the amount of story and energy put into the opening alone just puts me in awe.

[hawkofkrypton]

[postilionstruckbylightning]

Some thoughts on ‘Wakanda Forever’

So here are my pros and cons. I’ll start with the cons, because there aren’t too many.

Cons:

The slow-mo is used a bit too much and gave me flashbacks to Zack Snyder.

Not enough Nakia. Needs much more Nakia.

I feel like the US government is let off a little too easy for their actions in the story.

A little uncomfortable with Letitia Wright’s prominence, considering some of her recent pronouncements.

Pros:

Angela Bassett kicks so much arse.

Lupita Nyong’o continues to be amazing, and is as gorgeous as ever. Though there is not enough Nakia (see above), what there is, is great.

Danai Gurira is given a lot more to do, and gets to be funnier and more rounded as a character. Plus in one scene she looks like an assassin designed by Gucci and it’s awesome.

Tenoch Huerta is magnetic as Namor. He’s one of the best antagonists (not villains) the MCU has ever had.

The story is fun and exciting, with good action scenes and some electrifying moments that are just two people talking.

All the references to T’Challa (and, sub-textually, Chadwick Boseman), are very respectful and emotional. I teared up a bit.

There is a really great cameo that I won’t spoil but is actually a great part of the story and not just fan-service.

It can be funny, but not overly quippy.

I don’t really care too much about CGI, but if you do, it’s a big improvement over the first ‘Black Panther’. And the costumes and sets all look great too.

In conclusion, ‘Wakanda Forever’ is great. Go see it if you like superhero films.

[tvrundownusa]

tvrundown USA 2024.09.19

Thursday, September 19th:

(exclusive): A Very Royal Scandal (APrime, dramatization mini-series, all 3 eps), The Queen of Villains (netflix, Japanese pro wrestler drama mini-series, all 5 eps), Monsters (netflix, season 2 "The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" available, all 9 eps), Twilight of the Gods (netflix, Zack Snyder's animated Norse mythology series, all 8 eps)

(movies): "Deadly Intentions" (BET+, conspiracy thriller), The Jane Mysteries: "Murder at Moseby" (Hall+), Love on the Danube: "Royal Getaway" (Hall+), "Lethal Lookalike: The Viktoria Nasyrova Story" (TUBI, thriller based on a true story, ~90mins)

(streaming weekly): Trigger Point (BritBox, next 2 eps, season 2 finale), LotR: The Rings of Power (APrime), Frasier (Para+, season 2 opener, first 2 eps), Reasonable Doubt (hulu), "Are You Sure?!" (dsn+, limited docuseries finale), The Chicken Sisters (Hall+), Celebrations with Lacey Chabert (Hall+), Fifteen-Love (AMC+|SundanceNow, season 1 finale), "The Tailor of Sin City" (AMC+|SundanceNow, part 2 of four), "Coming From America" (MAX), "Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist" (Peacock), Kold x Windy (AllBlk, season 2 finale), Haus of Vicious (BET+, season 2 opener, first 2 eps), Ruthless (BET+, on hiatus)

(also new broadcast): "Gaslit By My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story" (LMN original movie, 2hrs), The Penguin (HBO, Oswald Cobblepot series premiere, special night, 70mins)

(hour 1): Press Your Luck (ABC), Big Brother (CBS)

(hour 2): Lucky 13 (ABC, 2hrs), Totally Funny Animals (theCW) / . / Totally Funny Kids (theCW), . / "Fall First Look" (CBS, annual previews special)

(hour 3): Lucky 13 (ABC, contd, season 1 finale), The Old Man (FX), Impractical Jokers (TBS), "The Tailor of Sin City" (Sundance)

(hour 4 - latenight): Ricky and Morty: The Anime ([adultswim], dubbed)

[creativejamie]

Review of the director's cut of the Rebel Moon duology Movie Explained: What’s Up With the Ending?

On August 2, the streaming service Netflix released the director’s cut of Zack Snyder’s epic space opera Rebel Moon, both parts of which last almost 6.5 hours. In the review below, we explain why binge-watching this impressive running time can be compared to a superhero feat. Pros: The R rating is a plus, and the final action of both parts is enough to captivate; Minuses: the main problem is that…

[shaneyunfiltered]

Zack Snyder understands Superman and every DC hero and/or story he's ever worked with perfectly, exponentially better than most "fans" claim they understand them

You guys have no idea just how many death threats I'd get just for saying this 💀💀💀💀💀

Reblog this with your unpopular, most controversial opinion about your Blorbo

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All Charles Charleston ever wanted out of life was to quit his dead end job as a pulmonologist to become a professional gamer. And he did just that during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But even after several years of playing games such as Dirk Nutter's Pro Rollerblader and Fuwa-Fuwa Voyeuristic Photography Club, Charles often finds himself with an audience measured in single digits.

"I even resorted to playing in a hot tub while wearing assorted fetish gear," Charles said.

Some critics have suggested that Charles' lack of personality might be what is holding him back. One critic, known only by their internet handle, xXnipple_pleaserXx, commented that they grew weary of Charles' pontificating, often for hours on end, on the philosophical and socio-political insight of director Zack Snyder's filmography. Another, InsertRacialSlurHere, frequently shared their frustration about Charles' lack of larger breasts.

Charles, meanwhile, insists his lack of success is rooted firmly in a bizarre conspiracy involving the U.S. National Park Service, a local stray cat, and actor-comedian Marc Maron.

"The fifth letter of every other sentence in his special 'Thinky Pain' spells a direct threat on my life," Charles explained. "And don't even get me started about what they're hiding under Joshua Tree."

We didn't, but he did anyway.

[shaneyunfiltered]

Henry Cavill is literal PERFECTION as Superman~ 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[danman007]

I posted 234 times in 2022

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Zack Snyder's REBEL MOON adds two-time Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins in the voice acting role of Jimmy, a sentient JC1435 mechanized battle robot and one-time defender of the slain King.

34 notes - Posted June 8, 2022

#2

WWE signs MMA fighter Valerie Loureda as part of elite athlete push

As a red blooded man, I approve of this signing. 

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My #1 post of 2022

The Jurassic World movies aren't any good(the first JW had an interesting premise with the park being open) and I honestly think they would have been better off if they were directed by Eli Roth.

The best sequel to Jurassic Park is The Lost World.

Anyways the best reason to watch any of JW movies is Bryce Dallas Howard. She thicc.

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(Repost) Why Batman should never use guns

Note: This article was originally posted September 16th, 2014 on the Agony Booth, which I used to write for. Since that site is sadly no longer with us, I’m reposting my old articles here.

Oh, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Will I ever not be talking about you? Every time I think I’m done and can forget about you until next year, another damn picture comes out that I have to discuss. It’s beginning to feel like watching Zack Snyder’s Twitter feed is my whole job now.

In this case, as you’re likely already aware, the picture under scrutiny is the above image of the new Batmobile design. I’m not a fan of it overall; maybe it’s just the angle, but it seems to be a knockoff of the “Tumbler” from Christopher Nolan’s movies with a minimal hint of the ‘89 look. It’s just plain ugly with no style and nothing recognizably “Batmobile-ish” about it*.

[*So hopefully they’ll never actually call it the Batmobile, like they did with the Tumbler, so I don’t have to ever recognize it as the actual Batmobile.]

But aesthetics aren’t what we’re here to talk about. What I’m here to focus on are these things right here:

As if it wasn’t tank-like enough already, this new “Batmobile” has a prominently displayed gun turret on its front hood. There is some precedent for this: I’m told the Batmobile in the upcoming Arkham Knight video game has a similar look, and the Batmobile in the ‘89 film sported hidden artillery under the hood. But this is the first time a movie has featured Batman driving something quite so aggressively militarized in appearance. Likely, it’s meant as yet another reference to The Dark Knight Returns, which from all accounts Dawn of Justice is heavily influenced by, and which featured a huge, tank-like Batmobile armed with rubber bullet-loaded cannons.

As with anything that involves Batman and guns, controversy is unavoidable. The Caped Crusader has a long and complicated history with firearms, and even among the fans, there’s still much disagreement on what Batman’s relationship with guns is or should be. Like any fan, I have an opinion of my own, and given the title of this post, you can probably guess what it is. I don’t think Batman should use guns, regardless of what they’re mounted on. There are reasons for this beyond the political*. It goes straight to the whole idea and psychology of the character.

[*But in the interest of full disclosure: I support gun control, and tend to gravitate towards fictional characters with an aversion to guns. So feel free to pigeonhole anything else I say as part of my “agenda”, if it makes you feel better.]

For context, let’s go back to the beginning. When Batman first appeared in the pages of Detective Comics, as pro Bat-turret supporters are quick to point out, he had no issue with guns or lethal force in general. In those early days, he was frequently seen carrying a pistol, and he sometimes casually slew his enemies, or at the very least showed no remorse when the occasional crook bit it along the way.

However, this gun-toting Batman was very short-lived, lasting only a handful of issues. Batman in these early stories had yet to really develop an identity of his own, borrowing heavily from the Shadow, with a little bit of Zorro thrown in. After his origin was eventually established, writers latched onto the idea of Batman having a code of conduct that forbade using firearms or killing his enemies, and it stuck. It’s become every bit as iconic and important to his character as the death of his parents. Almost every time Batman has been seen holding a gun, it’s universally recognized as code for “Something is seriously wrong with Batman!” Often, it appears on covers as a WTF tease to suck readers in. In many ways, the gun, or at least the use of one, is Batman’s equivalent of kryptonite.

But while it’s pretty universally accepted that Batman doesn’t use guns as a rule in the comics, the movies tend to be less consistent. In seven films, there’s only been one concrete reference to Batman refusing to use guns, when he tells Selina Kyle, “No guns, no killing,” in The Dark Knight Rises. And while no director has ever gone so far as to have Batman pick up a glock, many playfully skirt around the issue any way they can.

As previously mentioned, the Batmobile and other vehicles piloted by the Dark Knight frequently feature guns and other artillery. The rule against killing has been even more brazenly ignored, with Batman frequently sending foes to certain death with either casual indifference or willful intent, the most galling of which was the infamous “I won’t kill you, but I don’t have to save you” moment from the end of Batman Begins.

This has, I’ve noticed, led to a certain divide among Batman fandom. For fans who mostly know the character from the movies, his rules against guns and killing are far less firmly established than it is for fans of the comics or the various animated series. This has led to a large portion of Batman fans coming to the conclusion that Batman’s code is not a hard and fast rule, or if it is, it shouldn’t be. They argue that Batman not killing his foes or refusing to use a gun under any circumstances is impractical. In real life, in order to truly make an impact on crime, Batman would have to kill people, and throwing the Joker repeatedly back in Arkham only to have him escape again and kill more people isn’t doing anyone any good.

To me, this argument misses the point of Batman entirely. First, it’s completely irrelevant to argue practicality about fictional stories, especially stories in science fiction or fantasy settings like comic books. Yes, in the real world, Batman would probably find himself in desperate kill-or-be-killed situations that would force him to off people quite frequently. But Batman doesn’t live in the real world. He lives in Gotham City, an exaggerated pulp/noir universe perpetually stuck in a pseudo-‘30s art deco world where a gangster movie is happening on every street corner every damn night. Batman doesn’t find himself in those situations because the writers are under no obligation to put him in those situations. Batman’s entire arsenal and fighting style are designed around nonlethal force. Batman can always take care of any situation with a Batarang instead of a gun, because it’s fiction and he can do whatever the writers need him to do. And the reason he keeps imprisoning the Joker over and over despite how futile it seems is no one wants to kill off Batman’s most popular nemesis. Duh.

But more importantly, arguing practicality with Batman is especially pointless, because Batman doesn’t do what he does for practical reasons. In case you didn’t notice, the entire premise of Batman is entirely impractical. If Batman really wanted to combat crime, he’d do far more good simply using his personal fortune to improve the police force, or better yet, to improve the economic situation of the city to wipe out poverty, a proven cause of high crime rates. Dressing up as his childhood boogeyman and going around taking down criminals one at a time would have almost no effect on crime overall. It’s a pointless endeavor that would, at best, only serve to feed his own guilty conscience.

So why do it then? Why become Batman? This is supposedly the “World’s Greatest Detective”; surely, he knows somewhere deep down that this isn’t the best way to go about things. The answer is pretty simple: Batman didn’t become Batman to wipe out crime. He became Batman in order to be the guy he wishes had been there the night his parents were killed.

Bruce Wayne isn’t fighting crime in a practical sense. He’s fighting the idea of crime, and his idea of crime is personified in Joe Chill, the man who murdered his parents. That’s what a criminal is to him. That’s what he must fight, and to do that, he must become crime’s opposite, which for him means Joe Chill’s opposite. Joe Chill was a coward, thus criminals are a “superstitious and cowardly lot”. Joe Chill killed his parents, therefore Batman must never kill. Joe Chill carried a gun, therefore Batman will never use guns. Batman doesn’t shun even the brandishing of guns because he has no use for one, but because guns, to him, are the symbol of everything he’s fighting against. Guns are the tools of superstitious and cowardly criminals. Batman, in his mind, is above them. Murder is an act of desperation that the cowardly Joe Chill resorted to, and Batman must never stoop so low. Batman is anti-crime, and if “crime” is Joe Chill, than Batman must never be anything like Joe Chill, even in appearance.

Batman’s entire character has revolved around this concept ever since the classic story “The Origin of Batman” from Batman #47*. In it, Batman finally tracks down Joe Chill, and must decide what to do now that he’s found him. It’s the defining moment for the character, when he chooses not to take revenge and not to kill.

[*This story was beautifully retold in an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold titled “Chill of the Night!”, which you should definitely check out if you haven’t seen it.]

The best Batman stories are usually about this difference between justice and vengeance. Even Batman Begins touched on this point: “Justice is about harmony, revenge is about you making yourself feel better.” Chill is crime and injustice personified, therefore Batman is justice personified. Batman must never kill or carry a gun, not because it wouldn’t do any good to anyone, but because if he did, he wouldn’t be Batman anymore. To kill would make him like the criminal, the enemies of justice, and guns have no purpose but to kill. Guns are the tool of the criminal and therefore unjust. Batman is the enemy of the criminal and must never resort to their tactics.

I’m not necessarily saying this is a correct or even healthy worldview. I’m saying this is how Batman sees things. It’s the entire point of his character. And the more we get away from it, the more he ceases to be Batman. His story begins to lose all meaning, and he becomes just another vigilante action hero. So yeah, Batman driving around in a friggin’ tank bothers me. We’ve already seen these filmmakers get Superman wrong, we’ve seen signs that they’re getting Wonder Woman wrong, and now it seems like not even Batman is going to feel like himself in this movie. You may disagree, but to me, this is yet another sign that this movie is going to be oppressively dull.

[seriouslycromulent]

Pardon my French, but if I had a dollar for every time some twat accused Zack Snyder of doing something because "he thought it was cool," I'd never have to work again.

Right now, there are morons falling all over themselves to try to find something, anything, to complain about in the Snydercut. And in the process, doing their level best to beat that drum as hard as they can.

Should I be surprised that the newest drum beat is the final scene with Martian Manhunter? A character who would be new to many mainstream audiences, played/voiced by a Black actor, and leaves the door open for storytelling that doesn't retread the same old tired tropes we've seen for the last 30 years of comic book movie-making.

The claim that this scene adds nothing to the film is just classic White Frat Boy/Fan Boy Bullshit ™. J'onn's scene again sets up a possibility of countless directions for integrating the role of humans in the superhero fight against Darkseid, making it even more brilliant than we could imagine. A true writer and fan could see that a mile away, but these haters are insisting that because Snyder knew he wouldn't get to continue the story, he just threw the scene in there because "he thought it was cool."

How much more evidence does Snyder need to produce to show that his layered storytelling is never for the sake of "being cool." This is not your shitty fanfiction where you reimagine your 12-year-old fantasies and Wonder Woman is your sex slave.

Like Zack. Don't like Zack. I don't care. But stop with the fake analysis where you pretend to know more about storytelling, character development and philosophical debate than someone who has proven again and again that that is his wheelhouse.

Just stop. You're pathetic.

He created a great film, and all of you are grasping at straws to call foul over something that isn't even close to being as flawed as you want it to be.

The scene with Bruce and J'onn isn't the same as that idiotic scene with Howard the Duck in the MCU, but I'm sure these asshats didn't have any problem with that scene. And more than likely praised it.

[thecourtofgraywaves]

Zack Snyder stans? Keep on living your best lives. You guys deserve it.

Gina Carano stans? Shut up and find some other hot Hollywood chick to drool over. Seriously, it’s getting annoying.

[sakebytheriver]

Just found out that ZSJL is supposedly opening on a sequence much like the opening sequence of BVS where we saw the Superman/Zod fight from Bruce's perspective, except this time the fight is Superman's death from the end of BVS from Lois's perspective and honestly I'm living for this news. The opening of BVS was one of the best sequences I had ever seen on screen and to have that, but from the perspective of Lois Lane is going to be so gut wrenching for me