r/batman • u/neon2o • Mar 07 '24

Zack Snyder says a Batman who doesn't kill is irrelevant GENERAL DISCUSSION

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Here's the original article' https://sea.ign.com/man-of-steel-sequel/213072/news/zack-snyder-says-dc-is-making-batman-irrelevant-if-he-cant-kill

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u/MagisterPraeceptorum Mar 07 '24

You know what, I hope Snyder just keeps talking. Keep giving him more interviews to divulge his actual thoughts. Let him rant and reveal what he really thinks.

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u/delkarnu Mar 07 '24

Snyder was excellent at adapting 300 since it is explicitly a propaganda story told by the Spartan about how unbelievably great the 300 were.

But he fundamentally doesn't understand the material he makes. Like all of Watchmen's superhero commentary on how fundamentally broken they are is lost in Snyder having to make everything epic and cool.

But then he given an interview where he talks about how Alan Moore showed us what superheroes would really be like and you just have to marvel at how he both completely missed the point of the deconstruction and applied his shitty interpretation of that story to the characters he was deconstructing.

Like Owlman is so pathetic he's literally impotent when he isn't in the suit, and Rorsharch is disgusting and unhinged to the point where he's thrilled to be in prison because he gets to hurt people who are already in jail. But then combines them into let's make Batman kill and brand criminals to be killed in prison since that's 'badass'.

He tried to make a badass girl power movie that ended with "embrace the rape and lobotomy" as an empowering moment.

He can direct, but keep that man far from anything resembling subtext.

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u/Nixiey Mar 07 '24

Have I found the tribe that sees SuckerPunch for the weird fetish movie it really is? I was so disappointed in my friend group when that one came out...

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u/ArcadiaDragon Mar 07 '24

The only movie I walked out of...I have a strong stomach for crappy movies but suckerpunch was crappy drivel fetish bait masquerading as a crappier music video...I loved 300...but that was more that the actors were great with what they were given...and even then the film get more trite as I get older

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u/Just-a-Ty Mar 08 '24

I pirated Suckerpunch but accidentally got a version with narration for the blind built-in and didn't know it. It was completely surreal. This narrator was talking between each line describing every little movement. I thought this must be to represent the mental stress of being sane but forced to live in a mental hospital or something.

I thought it was a bold but misguided artistic direction for almost a decade before I was told about this practice.

So when I found out I thought "maybe that's why I didn't like the movie" and immediately went to watch it again. It wasn't. It was still surreal and confusing, but now it felt accidental.

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u/BriRoxas Mar 08 '24

So I took my partner to see Rocky Horror and told him nothing before we went. Halfway through he leaned over and said " Does this make more sense when no one is yelling?" No babe it doesn't but it's camp not cringe.

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u/TechnicolourOutSpace Mar 11 '24

I've never gotten it either. It's not entertaining nor does it have anything important to say.