Amph Waiting For Superman: Gunnverse DCU/Elseworlds (New Trailer!)

But I read all of your "Ask Dr. Love" columns?

 

Well, hey, there’s Jason S- oh wait, he’s at Bloomberg now, carry on.

I’m so sorry for your loss.

 

Maybe he’s practicing to audition for a Salo remake. “MANGIA!” and all that.

 

Yeah because Tim Rogers is no longer there.

 

Hasn't G/M Media or whatever they're called now gutted Kotaku along with all the other former Gawker and Onion sites?

 

This is what Zack Snyder said in a 2008 interview with Entertainment Weekly promoting his Watchmen film and his thoughts about Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins,

"Watchmen is like the music you feel is written just for you. ”That’s my song, no one else gets that but me.” That’s why the fan base is so rabid, because they feel personal about it.
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Everyone says that about [Christopher Nolan’s] Batman Begins. ”Batman’s dark.” I’m like, okay, ”No, Batman’s cool.” He gets to go to a Tibetan monastery and be trained by ninjas. Okay? I want to do that. But he doesn’t, like, get raped in prison. That could happen in my movie. If you want to talk about dark, that’s how that would go.”"
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More recently, back in March 2019, Zack Snyder speaking at a Director's Cuts event hosted by Vero (via Reddit), the director told those in attendance at a Q&A that those who disagreed with the creative decision to make Bruce Wayne darker than expected are "living in a [frakking] dreamworld".

I'm sure Zack Snyder is a great pitch man for his films as he has interesting ideas and concepts as he pitched his DC films to be Watchmen-like, and that's why WB hired him. WB took a risk on Snyder and his more modern and "real world" take on Superman because Nolan's Batman did so well with audiences and critics; whereas the Green Lantern movie bombed with both.

Snyder didn't want to take Superman on a Joseph Campbell hero's journey, but down the path of deconstruction. Thus, I really don't blame Snyder for putting his vision to screen. I rather blame the studio. I mentioned this before that Snyder was "miscast" as director for Man of Steel; especially since he expressed no interest in doing "the Big Blue Boy Scout" version of the character as noted in this June 13, 2013 article from Hero Complex/LAtimes:

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Later in the same article, Zack said this about his creative choices and decisions for Man of Steel:

In a June 21, 2016 interview with Vanity Fair, Deborah Snyder (wife of Zack Snyder and a producer on his films) said,

I can see that Zack Snyder was influenced and inspired by Alan Moore's Watchmen, but as Kevin Smith put it he has a fundamentally misunderstanding of superheroes, as he stated in his Hollywood Babble-On Podcast back in March 2016,

So, Zack Snyder wasn't going to make Justice League the "Marvel way" because it's just not him, and that's one of the reasons why people want to see his cut of Justice League.


In today's news...

‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Ending to Feature a “Massive Cliffhanger”, Plus Details About Batman and Deathstroke

 

I want to see HBO Max's data on how many people stop at the first part.

 

I will watch it all and cry through the pain.

 

It'll be amusing if there's Superman footage in ZSJI that was used in Whedon's JI and everyone was complaining about the digital mustache removal but it's actually original clean shaven Henry Cavill footage that's in both versions of the movie. The clips of Clark, Lois and Martha at the farmhouse in the latest trailer looked like the same clip from Whedon's JI.

 

Didn’t this happen in the Animated Universe? I’m not too upset we’re not seeing it, but it’s not the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.

What about the mental health awareness the whole movement’s promoted? I’d say that’s a big plus, right?

Yes, I know my bias is obvious.

 

“What about that thing observers have called an ultra-cynical attempt to deflect criticism?” is not the most compelling argument that there are no bad actors when I’m not even ascribing negative behavior to “the movement” in its totality, no.

Incidentally calling a bunch of online posting about getting a film remade a “movement” is linguistically tying you to some online trends you probably don’t want to be all that tied to if you are actually interested in trying to convince me the fan base doesn’t have toxic elements.

 

Feel it needs to be said again - show me an online fanbase that DOESN'T have "toxic elements". The thing is, if you don't care for the fanbase in general, you use that to imply that the fanbase is generally toxic or unsavory. I've certainly heard more than enough about how "toxic" the Star Wars fanbase is, over the last several years - and yet here we are.

 

Again, how exactly are my statements on the matter substantially different from this:

Save from being in the opposite direction and, ironically, way less general?

 

Is this an ST debate in disguise?

 

In the sense that it keeps coming back up when we all should have moved on with our lives? Absolutely.

 

Well, we have. It used to be PT debates.

 

I regret to inform you one of them occurred the other week.

 

*Pessimistic flute music*

 

What's there to debate about ST?
It's a fun series overall, especially the ones that feature Mr. Spock.