I think everyone already knows what to expect from this movie, honestly. Have you seen Man of Steel and Batman v Superman? It's gonna be more of that. If you enjoyed them, chances are you'll enjoy Justice League. If you didn't, chances are you won't. I doubt Snyder is gonna blindside everyone and make Justice League a romantic comedy all of a sudden.
It's coming out on March 18th, actually.
Well...yes...but does that suddenly seem like a good idea to anyone else, or is it just me?
I love Man of Steel, but I found Batman v Superman pretty average and bloated. The theatrical cut of Justice League I found pretty average too.
I'm gonna be honest. I still haven't seen Batman vs Superman or Man of Steel. I kinda checked of DC's stable for a while after The Dark Knight Rises and came back for Wonder Woman, which I kinda liked(Though I kinda wish Ares would have been her dad as a twist on the divine parentage trope).
Man I *hate* the Aliens Director's Cut. Every change I picked up on made the original much worse.
Mostly the same for me. I saw MoS, and thought it was ok. Had some major issues, but mostly..."meh, it's fine." But I didn't enjoy it enough to want to see BvS, but BvS also had a LOT going against it for me personally. I loathe, absolutely LOATHE, the whole "2 friends fight! who will win?!?!" title fight bullshit kind of story, where all it is, is some arena for fans to divide into camps and argue about how "X is going to spank Y because of Z", and then the other side to counter with "Nuhuh! Y will totally counter Z with A! And turn it around on X!" and it doesn't matter because we all know it's going to be a fucking draw, and nothing will come of it. And if it's something like Thor: Ragnarok, where he fights Hulk, the solution is easy. "Whose movie is it? Who is the title character? Is it called Hulk: Ragnarok? No? Then he's going to lose." I became disgusted with this Versus behavior mostly due to playing a ton of World of Darkness back in the day, and hearing the never ending debates about Vampire vs Werewolf vs Mage, and so I just curl away from any such story like it's radioactive. Hearing that BvS, was unsurprisingly, pretty shit, just made me glad I didn't bother seeing it. And I certainly wasn't going to watch JL, which built off it.
As far as directors cuts go, one of the best one and most useful is Dark City Directors Cut. The theatrical cut is terrible, because it spoils the plot within the first 5 minutes with an opening monologue. I didn't know about that detail the time, because whenever my brother and I saw the movie we saw it on HBO and it was usually five minutes after the movie started. But if you ever decide to watch Dark City, make sure it's the directors cut version. It's one of those cases where the director's true vision holds a lot of water.
I vaguely remember that the theatrical cut. I was a really small child when I first saw Aliens on cinemax. I never actually got a home copy until I was 13 or 14. I got the director's cut on DVD.
I loathe that version. Adding scenes of the mining colony before Ripley shows up just undoes every step to creating tension around their eventual arrival. I hate that they are there, I hate that we even see Newt before Ripley shows up (so instead of going "Holy shit a kid!" like her we go "Oh it's that kid from before") and I especially hate the goofy Troll 2 style zoom on her dad's facehugger while she screams.
I don't think its the best film of all time at this point in my life, but I still think its one of the most overhated film, especially since I've read worse comic books that shat on the iconic DC heroes even worse. (Catholic Wonder Woman)
That's one of the bigger ones, yeah. The couple times I watched the Director's Cut I just fast-forwarded past that dumbass scene. Then there's other tiny additions that are supposed to add tension, but since we already know they lead to nothing based on the theatrical version they just come across as utterly pointless. Like the first time the motion tracker goes off before Newt's appearance and it turns out to be a pet mouse, or when the turrets are firing on the aliens and get close to running out of ammo. Oh no, what'll happen? Yeah, nothing, but we already figured because we saw the original version. So why the hell even add these scenes?
I'm shocked there was even a fandom at all.
You are never the only one.
They can't be everywhere at once and they're not going to look at every single video a minute. I know Double Toasted got some crap, but they had legit complaints with Batman v Superman. I know the haters left just around when Aquaman came out. They thought it was okay but most of the DC fan boys had moved on to something else or someone else. I can't stand a lot of hot takers either, but not every argument is done in bad faith. If you disagree with the people that's fine and all, but that's life. Not everyone's going to like the same thing you like. that is okay and there's nothing wrong with that. My only problem stems when you start making fun of or mocking people for liking or disliking something and being complete dicks or asses.
Nah, Snyder's movies have failed to become big with general audiences, but they have gotten a dedicated cult audience. Which is basically what this Director's Cut is about. It's not meant to win over people not already on board with Snyder's DC movies in the first place. It's meant to provide closure to the niche fanbase they have found for themselves. Well, and also for Snyder himself, I imagine.
Watchmen's interesting because it's basically Alan Moore going "yeah if you make superheroes realistic they'd be violent emotionally stunted maniacs and would all ultimately be kind of pathetic" and thousands of people like Zack Snyder read it and decided "yeah if you make superheroes realistic they'd be violent emotionally stunted maniacs which is actually really cool" so then we got the Watchmen movie which is basically just Watchmen but through the lens of someone who doesn't find protagonists either repulsive or sad.
