I've started watching the Snyder cut - and I've begun to realize that I don't remember the Whedon cut well enough to know for certain what changed on a "content" level or "story" level. I do however see the obvious differences on a stylistic level. Snyder is operatic, Whedon is not. It would be...like having Woody Allen do a Coppola film.
I mean Whedon is not a cinematographer, while Snyder definitely is. There are some beautiful shots in the first hour - I've seen Part 1 and Part 2.
That said, the film still suffers from poor CGI - which may be because it was added digitally to film stock? I can't remember if Whedon had the same problem or not. I may have to re-watch the Whedon film to get a better idea. The scenes with Aquaman under the sea with William Dafo don't quite work as well with the CGI, nor does portions of the flashback battle, or the aliens. Some do, some don't. Use of CGI in film however - is problematic across the board - in some films its cleaner than others. I thought it was very clean in Infinity War and Endgame, but less so in Suicide Squad, and here. If used poorly the film can feel like you are watching a video game - which isn't necessarily a bad thing, some video games I'm told have great visuals. (I'm not a gamer, so I don't consider myself qualified to speak on that score.) But it does jar me a bit. Again, I'm not sure this is just Snyder who struggles with CGI, I think others have as well. And it was a problem I had with Aquaman movie, and the Suicide Squad film (which I agree is a mess).
On Watitiki - after I wrote my post, I looked up Thor Raganorck, only to realize that I was in the minority - in that I really enjoyed the film, and most fans disliked it. LOL! The comedic undercut didn't bother me - because I tend to do the same - to laugh at tragedy. Waitiki kind of does that - I think he did it with Jojo Rabbit. Kind of shows you how subjective all this is? It makes it hard to review this stuff or to know if you'll like it from someone else's review.
By the way, the funny thing I realized is that we will probably get a reboot Justice League film in about a decade, once the current actors age out and the new Batman trilogy is finished.
Oh definitely. As long as there's an audience - they'll do it. They are already rebooting the Superman franchise again. This round with a black Superman, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who wrote Captain America comics, and Black Panther comics, and is now over at DC. He's a writer though not a director - so curious to see who they get to direct. A lot of it will depend on who is cast in the role.
My guess is they'll keep Gadot's Wonder Woman for a bit - since it's been successful. And the next film up is The Flash.
What they appear to have figured out - from Marvel - is to build up to the epic films gradually, not rush it. Rushing it is always a bad idea. You want to have an invested audience. So if you build up slowly through numerous films - you'll get there.
Snyder has moved on to zombie flicks again. He's doing a Netflix series - Army of the Dead. So, it's not a big deal to Snyder.
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I mean Whedon is not a cinematographer, while Snyder definitely is. There are some beautiful shots in the first hour - I've seen Part 1 and Part 2.
That said, the film still suffers from poor CGI - which may be because it was added digitally to film stock? I can't remember if Whedon had the same problem or not. I may have to re-watch the Whedon film to get a better idea. The scenes with Aquaman under the sea with William Dafo don't quite work as well with the CGI, nor does portions of the flashback battle, or the aliens. Some do, some don't. Use of CGI in film however - is problematic across the board - in some films its cleaner than others. I thought it was very clean in Infinity War and Endgame, but less so in Suicide Squad, and here. If used poorly the film can feel like you are watching a video game - which isn't necessarily a bad thing, some video games I'm told have great visuals. (I'm not a gamer, so I don't consider myself qualified to speak on that score.) But it does jar me a bit. Again, I'm not sure this is just Snyder who struggles with CGI, I think others have as well. And it was a problem I had with Aquaman movie, and the Suicide Squad film (which I agree is a mess).
On Watitiki - after I wrote my post, I looked up Thor Raganorck, only to realize that I was in the minority - in that I really enjoyed the film, and most fans disliked it. LOL! The comedic undercut didn't bother me - because I tend to do the same - to laugh at tragedy. Waitiki kind of does that - I think he did it with Jojo Rabbit. Kind of shows you how subjective all this is? It makes it hard to review this stuff or to know if you'll like it from someone else's review.
By the way, the funny thing I realized is that we will probably get a reboot Justice League film in about a decade, once the current actors age out and the new Batman trilogy is finished.
Oh definitely. As long as there's an audience - they'll do it. They are already rebooting the Superman franchise again. This round with a black Superman, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who wrote Captain America comics, and Black Panther comics, and is now over at DC. He's a writer though not a director - so curious to see who they get to direct.
A lot of it will depend on who is cast in the role.
My guess is they'll keep Gadot's Wonder Woman for a bit - since it's been successful. And the next film up is The Flash.
What they appear to have figured out - from Marvel - is to build up to the epic films gradually, not rush it. Rushing it is always a bad idea. You want to have an invested audience. So if you build up slowly through numerous films - you'll get there.
Snyder has moved on to zombie flicks again. He's doing a Netflix series - Army of the Dead. So, it's not a big deal to Snyder.