You may be forgiven for the assumption – given that it is four hours, features tons of extreme new expensive images, made just to make it a viable film, and it seems specificallI designed to say goodbye to the broader ambitions of DC Films’ superhero franchise – this Zack Snyder’s Justice League could be the final word of the director on this special set of deeply desaturated characters. But he would have forgiven you for assuming that the above thought was complete and completely naive idiom, because, hey: did you meet this guy Zack Snyder? If you think that he will stop pushing their very specific, very violent, very gray version of the successful superhero until it really ends, you lost your mind about Motherboxing.
Therefore, a whole bunch of revelations from IGNToday’s Fan Fest 2021 event, including the news that Zack Snyder’s Justice League, despite the fact that it is, without a doubt, as definitive a statement about the Justice League as any man could hope to do, it will still end on what Snyder called a “Massive Cliffhanger.” This despite the fact that Snyder know that DC has strayed from his efforts Avengers personal the superhero movie franchiseand that a Snyder verse Justice League 2 it will almost never happen. But, hey: someone paid for all this Darkseid CGI, so they could use it, right?
Speaking of CGI: Snyder also presented an animated clip “Motherbox” which serves as a promotion for the film, in what he could you better be called spiritual sense. Which is to say that it presents slow, melodramatic pans on the heavy metal images of members of the Justice League, while a Tom Waits song makes its way to the dust in the background. It is, like much of the surrounding material Zack Snyder’s Justice League–Jesus Joker, the special version “Justice Is Gray” is on its way for people too overwhelmed by the desaturated version of the new cut, pure Leonard Cohen-ness of all this-Brilliant, in his total immunity to parody. How do you make fun of the anxious religious iconography of Aquaman fighting tentacle monsters while playing pathetic folk? What aspect could you increase for the comic effect? He is the critical equivalent of the rope, exhausting any mockery with the flagrantness of his invitation to mockery.
In fact, “exhausting” (with a side order of “exhaustive”) is the general vibration of the whole project and this last moment of press on its behalf, from speculation about who promised that great “cameo hero” Snyder at the end of the film (Martian Manhunter is easy money, although people with very short memories hope instead for the Green Lantern Corps), la the director’s repeated statement today (doubling on previous feelings) that Ray Fisher’s Cyborg is the heart of the film, and the team. The latter it comes just as Fisher and Warner Media are engaged yet another round of mutual attacks today, Fisher continuing to claim that Walter Hamada of DC Films interfered with investigations into alleged misconduct on the set of the film version by Joss Whedon and the shooting of Warner back through support a statement by one of the investigators concerned, defending Hamada’s character and conduct. Snyder’s defense of his star is admirable, but it also indicates how strange this whole Snyder Cut project was, with a the director actively promotes the work of an actor who is now essentially at war with the studio that produces the film, for a vague and uncertain benefit or gain.
Zack Snyder’s Justice League launches on March 18.
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