So I watched the trailer. Can someone explain to me the point of this movie? The DCEU is all but dead, Wonder Woman is the only passable character they have and her last movie was a bomb. What's the point of a 4 hour cut of a 4 year old movie? Just to show it could have been good with an additional year of production, a few extra million and 2 more hours of run time? Like does anyone think Ben Affleck or Henry Cavill will be rehired and come back and this will get the DCEU back on track?
It almost feels like a spiteful vanity project. This is Zack Snyder dunking of WB for being shitty to him over his daughter's death, which fair enough, but this is a lot of work for a 4 hour long 'Fuck you'.
Isn't there like 7 different cuts of Blade Runner?
Also Justice League was originally planned a 2 films and by the looks of the newest trailer what people got in cinemas was the script cut down to just what would have been the first film of the two.
As for spiting WB? well it might not just be WB but all the people who were against it, all the people who were lets say very on the Whedon train and pretending Whedon was the best and his version wouldn't be able to be surpassed by a "hack" like Zack Snyder. The biggest thing? It's a fuck you to corporate plans and media people who dunk on fandoms a toxic and entitled for actually saying what they want to see happen.
In a wider context it's another "The fans just won" vs corporate boot lickers. There's been a thing going on for a while a sort of "elitism" in media criticism of "We're the intelligencia what we say goes you plebians are wrong and should never be listened to" Some of it is just hipster assholes who want stuff to be bad to snark on it like those media people who said Sonic the Hedgehog shouldn't be re-designed in The Sonic Movie, they wanted it to be an awful looking abomination because people like sonic and their only joy anymore is trying to ruin things for people. Just look at all the BS trying to get Joker to fail claiming it was harmful and dangerous?
If other directors want to give doing their own cuts a shot why not?
The extended cut of Suicide Squad filled in a lot of missing stuff. E.G. there's a moment joker confronts a guy over gambling debt early on. People thought that was to get the location of the lab for the neck bombs. It wasn't he's the guard who hands Harley Quinn the cellphone before they leave for the mission.
I don't think Birds of Prey's directors cut would be good but if she's so sure Warner Brothers version of her movie is worse I'd still like to see her version of it be judged,