After four years and endless hashtags, the long-requested “Snyder Cut” of 2017’s
Justice League has been unleashed. Or a version of it, anyway. Based on Zack Snyder’s original workprint, with some added scenes and tens of millions worth of added visual effects and score, this four-hour epic is nothing any studio in their right mind would have released to theaters upfront. But it’s a bold artistic achievement: a comic book movie that feels like a foreign film, and a reach by director Zack Snyder to enter Terrence Malick territory at times. Now entitled
Zack Snyder’s Justice League, it’s probably not what either diehard devotees or dogmatic haters expected. A slower-paced story about superhero sadness, it features relatively few of the usual big digital brawls. And it also renders the 75% Joss Whedon version, a.k.a. “
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One definite plus side: Henry Cavill s green-screened moustache lip is nowhere to be found.
They say that towards the end of hypothermia, right before it kills you, it actually starts to feel very comfortable. The coldness is replaced by warmth, and you get a sense of calm and ease that washes over you. About 150 minutes into this 242-minute behemoth, something similar happens.
Zack Snyder s Justice League does, eventually, pummel you into some sort of submission, and you learn to stop worrying and love the bomb.
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Let us get the obvious out of the way first, this is definitely better than Joss Whedon s loud-and-fast take on the story, if only because the mish-mash of Whedon s tongue-in-cheek humour and Snyder s sepia-toned seriousness simply did not make good bedfellows. Additionally, someone s math is off: early reports stated that only 10% of Snyder s film ended up in Whedon s final product, but Snyder said none of Whedon s movie is in his cut, and mos
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