An online petition calling for the Snyder Cut racked up over 100,000 signatures within a week of JL hitting cinemas.
It started with a tweet and soon became a fully fledged movement. A version of the film that would right all of the Whedon wrongs.Īnd so they asked for it. Except a certain sect of disappointed people: Snyder Truthers.ĭespite no official confirmation from any party involved with production, they were convinced that a superior, 100% Snyder-fied cut was out there somewhere laying dormant on an editing suite’s hard drive. Like most shitty films, people soon forgot about it and moved on with their lives. What resulted was a bad visit to the uncanny valley’s barber shop.Ĭritics panned Justice League and the majority of fans were disappointed. It’s hard to say exactly how much of the film was changed between hands - Snyder thinks about “a fourth” of his original cut made it into the finished product - but perhaps the truest way to tell is to tally the scenes dominated by Henry Cavill’s infamous CGI’d upper lip.īecause much of Justice League’s cast had to be called back in for reshoots once Whedon took over, Cavill had already grown a mean ‘stache for his role in Mission: Impossible Fallout, which he was contractually obliged to not shave. It’s probably safe to assume that it boils down to a studio Frankenstein-ing two distinct visions into one, singular product.
Aside from a patchy script, shoddy special effects and an unconvincing climax that pinned everything on its famous stars coming together, despite the fact that most of them appeared for the first time earlier in the same film, it’s hard to pinpoint what was so off about Justice League. The resulting Whedon cut, or ‘Josstice League’, was absolutely rinsed. The director and his wife, also a producer on the film, exited the production and Joss Whedon - writer/director of The Avengers - was asked to step in and finish the film. Then, midway through post-production, family tragedy struck: Snyder’s daughter died. The DCEU was off to a rocky start - and that’s without even going into Suicide Squad. Snyder followed it up in 2016 with the equally grim and even more reviled Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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Critics and fans alike wondered how the heck a movie whose titular character is the symbolic embodiment of hope could be so damn morose and unlikeable.
Enter: Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel.ĭesigned to kickstart the DCEU (DC Extended Universe) and re-introduce the world to Superman, the film was instead met with a lukewarm reception. In 2013, while Disney was in its fifth year of printing money at the box office with the industrial-scale interconnected Marvel Cinematic Universe, Warner Bros/DC Comics were priming a cheeky little cinematic universe of their own. But drop those fateful words in the presence of a cinephile and you’ll be met with either the mother of all eye rolls or an impassioned rant about how the truth and vision of an era-defining auteur shouldn’t be obstructed.Īll for a movie about a guy who dresses like a bat and his super powered friends. Mention the phrase “Snyder Cut” to a regular person and they’ll probably assume that you’re a butcher indulging in a little chop chat.