This is the most insanely pedantic thing I've ever said, but I can't even agree with that. There is no interesting weirdness or fascination in Snyder's films for easily the past 10 years. They're all the same: predictably juvenile, pretentious, self-serious slop that's edgy and violent for its own sake. Full of bits so obviously lifted from other things I can practically see the glue with which he put different names and faces on things. And whenever there is something baffling or weird, it's not so in an interesting way where you go "Oh this is really weird, what were they going for with this?" It's more "Oh god, what the fuck were they thinking with this?"Snyder might wake up tomorrow and decide to make a Live Action MechWarrior adaptation and I would watch it because why not, itll be weird
I went to his IMDB and to my horror I realized I'd completely blanked Army of the Dead from my mind, that's how much his movies blur together. His works with preestablished intellectual properties might as well be summed up with this SNL skit. I still consider Snyder an auteur because he seems to be one of a handful of directors working today who has a style and aesthetic all their own; you'll never mistake a Snyder film for anything else. It's just that in Snyder's case that sensibility is one which considers a Big Mac to be the height of cuisine.