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Post by Glitch on Dec 10, 2013 23:30:36 GMT -5
Zack Snyder is basically what michael bay fails horribly at being: an action movie director. I like how he does action. Unfortunately that is the only thing he can do. Which is why Watchmen and Man of Steel fell flat in non-action aspects. Snyder Just can't do anything else. He should stick only to that one genre. I actually look forward to his flicks. I liked most of his movies(yes, that includes Sucker Punch).
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Post by Jiren on Dec 11, 2013 6:41:24 GMT -5
I like Snyder too
The only film of his I disliked was "Sucker Punch"
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 11, 2013 11:09:11 GMT -5
I loved Man of Steel. I'd put it above Dark Knight Rises, but below Batman Begins and Dark Knight, in terms of ranking those four movies.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Dec 11, 2013 16:21:17 GMT -5
in all honesty the only Zack Snyder movie I didn't at least like was Suckerpunch. and in all fairness, his Watchmen was probably as close an adaptation as you'd ever get in a feature film adaptation. hell I know I'm in the minority here but I thought Man of Steel was great.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 11, 2013 19:00:32 GMT -5
I, too am a Snyder fan. I think he's a fantastic director and I've enjoyed every one of his movies so far, except Sucker Punch, but I also haven't seen that, so I can't speak on it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2013 19:16:34 GMT -5
Amazing. Two Pages nobody mentions Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Dec 11, 2013 20:56:58 GMT -5
Amazing. Two Pages nobody mentions Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole Wait, he directed that? It was pretty good!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2013 21:51:14 GMT -5
I didn't like 300, never saw Suckerpunch, love Watchmen to death, Man of Steel, really great, but even when I don't care for the movie itself Snyder really knows how to use effects to make a movie look stylish more than any other director in my opinion, and it helps that he's had some great films.
I have zero patience for guys like Michael Bay who just need another excuse to blow things up. Snyder's movies whether you like them or not at least seem to have a soul behind them, and it helps that he's put out some quality stuff.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Dec 11, 2013 22:21:36 GMT -5
I didn't like 300, never saw Suckerpunch, love Watchmen to death, Man of Steel, really great, but even when I don't care for the movie itself Snyder really knows how to use effects to make a movie look stylish more than any other director in my opinion, and it helps that he's had some great films. I have zero patience for guys like Michael Bay who just need another excuse to blow things up. Snyder's movies whether you like them or not at least seem to have a soul behind them, and it helps that he's put out some quality stuff. If nothing else at least his effects flow with the film and feel like they are part of the film. Bay's films are all just excuses to blow shit up and it shows.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2013 23:24:47 GMT -5
Amazing. Two Pages nobody mentions Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole Wait, he directed that? It was pretty good! Yeah he directed that
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 12, 2013 9:40:50 GMT -5
Snyder has made some movies that are absolute dick (Watchmen joke unintended) but I really think he's one of few directors these days who see cinema as being a visual medium.
The antithesis of this is Kevin Smith, who is just a writer that directs. He's got no real directing chops at all.
Snyder may suck at pacing, storyline, etc. a lot of the time, but he seems determined to make sure everything he does looks AMAZING, and he frequently achieves that. I saw Suckerpunch for the first time within the last few days and I feel the same way about that. It's incomprehensible, but it basically amounts to a bunch of trailers for video games I want to play or just an excuse for some killer music videos being sequenced together.
Compare that to Michael Bay, who seems afraid to let a shot linger for more than a second despite some frequently brilliant CGI.
The other thing is I don't think Snyder is as cynical. I'm not saying he succeeded, but I genuinely believe that he wanted to satirise female portrayal in the media. Michael Bay on the other hand I think knows exactly what he is doing in overtly sexualising everything, because he knows sex sells. Megan Fox has even said as much.
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Post by shaker on Dec 12, 2013 10:11:56 GMT -5
Man of Steel was better than The Avengers. The only reason the internet turned so against MoS was that Avengers came first, and people were convinced that was the best superhero movie of all time.
He's a very good director, even his flops (like Suckerpunch) have some pretty cool directing tricks.
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Post by Danimal on Dec 12, 2013 10:35:38 GMT -5
I really liked Dead, 300, and Watchmen. Ya he tripped-up with Suckerpunch, the only think that helped it was that I'm a sucker for the naughty schoolgirl look. Not sure what he was thinking with that owl thing. Thought he rebounded in a huge fashion with Man Of Steel, it's in my top five all-time for comic/graphic-novel based flicks.
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Post by machomuta on Dec 12, 2013 19:39:02 GMT -5
I thought Watchmen was one of the most boring films ever. Three hours of nothing. Agreed. Watchmen is long and dull. Watchmen is the perfect movie for people who cant sleep.
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Post by Sektor on Dec 12, 2013 19:52:27 GMT -5
He's great when he doesn't have something he's trying to say. That's why Dawn of the Dead and 300 are so good. When he's trying to convey a theme, it's torture. He can't efficiently express ideas, and that's why Man of Steel is so plodding (Seriously, half the movie is secondary/tertiary characters talking about how Supermans gonna change the world. It's f***ing Superman! We get it!) and The Watchmen is such a boring slog. Sucker Punch had creative and fun action, and that's the only nice thing I can say about it.
And, a little OT, but the Man of Steel defense force has become way more annoying than the comic book purists that hate the ending.
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Post by Juice on Dec 12, 2013 22:47:37 GMT -5
Zack Snyder is a f***ing visionary. I love him and always have.
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Post by Stone Cold Eleanor Shellstrop on Dec 12, 2013 23:10:37 GMT -5
Zack Snyder is a f***ing visionary. I love him and always have. This is always said about him and I kind of don't get it. One, because so many of his films involve adapting other people's intellectual properties: Dawn of the Dead is a remake, 300 and Watchmen are comic book adaptations, Man of Steel was a reboot of the Superman franchise. The majority of his films aren't really his visions, but his visions of other people's visions. I guess that still falls under the visionary label, but with an asterisk. Which, hey, if you stop and think about it, the same can be said for Stanley Kubrick. So this isn't a bad thing per se. But on the flip side, 300 and Watchmen, as two such examples, are in many ways so slavish to the original source material, there's really no point in making the book cinematic (i.e. doing something different with it) if you're lifting pages out of the book verbatim onscreen. And even Man of Steel looked a lot like a Terrence Malick film, of all things. It's kind of like tracing over someone else's drawings using moving images. But tracing isn't all that bad: for what it's worth, I like Dawn of the Dead.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 13, 2013 11:27:46 GMT -5
I just don't understand how anyone could find Watchmen boring. It's like when people describe LOTR being a boring walk to a volcano.
I guess it takes a lot for me to find something boring.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Dec 13, 2013 12:24:12 GMT -5
I loved certain parts of 'Watchmen' but I did think the music cues were way off.
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