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Zack Snyder to Ruin Next Superman Movie
Deadline.com reported earlier tonight that Warner Bros. has chosen terrible director Zack Snyder to ruin the next installment in the Superman movie franchise. After weeks of speculation that a talented director such as Christopher Nolan or Darren Aronofsky could potentially helm the picture, the film studio decided to go with a director known for making horrendous adaptations of popular comic books to continue in the tradition of making Superman movies that no one enjoys.
Snyder has directed two bad comic book adaptations previously in his lackluster career. 2007’s 300 was an overtly homoerotic film enjoyed by dozens of movie-goers in 3-10 minute fits of masturbation. It also incorporated extended scenes of women writhing underwater to try to trick straight viewers into enjoying the horrible movie. 2009’s Watchmen was an abysmal cinematic translation of what most consider the greatest comic book ever created. Snyder managed to include the overly violent fight scenes and multiple shots of giant blue penises that were critical to the source material while avoiding any of the deeply emotional and thought-provoking aspects of the story.
Snyder plans to begin work on his atrocious Superman film as soon as his stupid movie about owls comes out and he finishes up his assumedly awful movie Sucker Punch.
It feels like you might be biased.
I have yet to see a Zack Snyder movie I haven’t liked. I thought “Watchmen” was as good as (albeit different) from the comic.
Ditto “Dawn of the Dead” and “300.”
At any rate, it couldn’t be as dead-boring as “Superman Returns” and the last character on Earth who needs Christopher Nolan’s touch is Superman.
Now, I am all about Nolan taking on “The Shadow” or a real “Green Hornet,” but Superman? Not so much.
I actually did really like Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead and feel it’s really underrated in the spectrum of zombie movies. And I agree Nolan would be a wrong choice for the Man of Steel. But really, no one can make a good Superman movie. I don’t even like the original Donner flick. Superman is just too boring as a character.
Agreed that Superman is a boring character, at least when he’s portrayed as the Second Coming in tights. I enjoyed the first two “Superman” movies because Donner was actually able to inject humanity into the character by giving him difficult choices with consequences that couldn’t be undone with heat vision or super-strength.
Unfortunately, they could be done away with by flying around the Earth at super speed, but I digress…
I think the best way to do a Superman movie is to establish an in-movie limit to his powers. It doesn’t have to be explicit or quantified, just there.
This happens a lot in the comic books on a story-by-story basis, and was the best thing about his post-Crisis reboot, IMO – for a while, Superman was extremely powerful without being all-powerful and a lot more interesting as a character (though a lot of the actual stories stunk on ice).