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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9144467" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Mind you, I haven't seen all of Snyder's work*, but my understanding of critiques against him was more along the lines that he is a hack who falls back on a handful of visual tropes and techniques in all his movies and often doesn't really understand the IPs or very concepts his work is covering/exploring, not that he borrows from others. Is this a thing he does?*I believe I have seen (/+ response to each):Dawn of the Dead -- high production value zombie movie300 -- Horrible understanding of history; mildly imperfect understanding of Miller's comic series. Perfect understanding of what 13 year old boys want manliness to be about. Watchmen -- visually interesting movie that wildly misunderstands the source material, but does tell an interesting tale about manipulating the masses.Sucker Punch -- tale about women facing power structures from someone who seemingly understands neither.Man of Steel -- About 20 years too late for "I'm going to deconstruct the superhero genre" to seem fresh. Can't say he doesn't understand the source material since he's clearly trying to subvert parts of it, but also can't say he was successful.Suicide Squad -- Fine. Not good, but not horrible. Somehow made Captain Boomerang one of the more interesting characters (props to Jai Courtney on this one, as he and Will Smith seemed to be the only people putting their all into their roles). Shared the issue with most of DCEU in that the stakes/villain are uninspiring. Snyder cut Justice League -- better than the Whedon cut (IRL issues aside, Whedon's canned snark-humor just doesn't mesh with this narrative). My high school English (so writing) teachers would all tell him that fitting your story concisely into the space your audience expects for your medium (short story vs novel, movie vs miniseries, etc.) is a skill and that if you need 242 minutes to tell your tale without killing your darlings (favorite lines or scenes), then you have failed to do your job as a writer.I mean, whose minds are going to be changed? Are there people out there that don't already think that Netflix is a toxic company that mistreats their customers, show-makers, and employees? Seems people have thought that for at least a decade and yet people still keep their subscriptions renewing (mostly).</blockquote>

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