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Justice League official "Zack Snyder" cut on HBO Max

A movie after dinner, is just an excuse not to do the dishes immediately.

A long movie after dinner is just an excuse to do the dishes tomorrow morning.

What this new cut means is dirty dishes for at least 3 days.
 
Snyder explains the difference between Superman wearing the blue suit and the black suit in the cut

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"The black suit, you can say that in modern Krypton, when he left, everyone was wearing black suits," Snyder explained. "So it is sort of linked to, in some ways, the old world. I think is a more direct relationship to his family. In a lot of ways, the blue suit, to me, represents his kind of place on Earth. The blue suit is his suit of a hero, the suit of his destiny, whereas the black suit is more personal in a lot of ways, more about his family. One is outward, and one is inward, and I think that those things, the expression of that could be - let's put it this way. It was always my intention with the larger arc of the movies to realize that more completely, but I think you get a sense of it here."
 
Superheroes are not comedies, nor serio-comedies. The failing of most of the MCU and older crap such as the George Reeves Superman TV series or Reeve's Superman III and IV, is that if the content is treated as a tongue-in cheek joke (or attempting to fulfill the Daddy needs of certain audience members) instead of how it should be, the audience will find it lacking or pointless and ages badly out of the gates

Older crap like Indiana Jones, Burton Batman, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who, LOTR...
 
Superheroes are not comedies, nor serio-comedies. The failing of most of the MCU and older crap such as the George Reeves Superman TV series or Reeve's Superman III and IV, is that if the content is treated as a tongue-in cheek joke (or attempting to fulfill the Daddy needs of certain audience members) instead of how it should be, the audience will find it lacking or pointless and ages badly out of the gates.
I think at this point the MCU has proven this isn't true. It's been going for over a decade, and it's still going strong with no signs of any of the things you've said.
Yes, there are good serious superhero stories, but even they don't take themselves as seriously as this seems to be.



Certainly more realistic than the cartoony crap seen in the last two Avengers movies. Not once did Thanos, Hulk and so much else look like anything other than painfully obvious CG.
I'll take the "cartoony crap" over the art style in this a million times over. The designs for Darkseid and Steppenwolf look like the people who designed them were trying to out "EXTREME!" '90s comics.
 
I think at this point the MCU has proven this isn't true. It's been going for over a decade, and it's still going strong with no signs of any of the things you've said.

James Bond has run for more than a half century, but that does not mean it had periods where it suffered from silly, nonsensical crap. Lifespan does not naturally walk hand-in-hand with quality, and that is clearly an issue with the MCU.


I'll take the "cartoony crap" over the art style in this a million times over. The designs for Darkseid and Steppenwolf look like the people who designed them were trying to out "EXTREME!" '90s comics.

Apparently, you are not familiar with comics of the 1990s, since the characters look nothing like that horrific, talent-challenged period of comics.

Mcdonald's is cheap. There is nothing cheap about the mcu. People legitimately like it, and you'll have to accept that.

McDonald's is a billion-dollar company, not a hole-in-the-wall. Regarding the MCU. some like it, others do not. The fact that some enjoy it--like McDonalds--does not mean it is good or great.
 
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Homogeneity and formulation might be popular and generate profit, but some of us want to actually be invested in the entertainment we consume.

And it's a proven fact and reality that 90% of the MCU has been homogenous and formulaic.
 
The only "homogeneous" thing about the MCU is that it's consistently Good.

"How about no".

The last time that the MCU consistently delivered movies that weren't the same cookie-cutter action fest where nothing actually matters was when they released Avengers Age of Ultron.
 
Not to mention that Snyder's work is pretty damn homogeneous, in visual style, tone, writing style, etc. There is much more difference between, say, GotG and Captain America then there is between any two Snyder films.
Except maybe dawn of the dead, which was more of a normal horror movie.
 
"How about no".

The last time that the MCU consistently delivered movies that weren't the same cookie-cutter action fest where nothing actually matters was when they released Avengers Age of Ultron.

"Nothing actually matters"

Like what, exactly? You expect them to ruin their universe and kill everyone in every film?

James Bond, nothing actually matters there.

Mission Impossible, nothing actually matters there.

Indiana Jones, nothing actually matters there.

By your logic.
 
People can enjoy entertainment that is pure formulaic and homogenous spectacle, but enjoyment does not equal quality.

Speaking purely from a standpoint of objective quality and averaging the franchise as a whole, the MCU is middling at best, regardless of how popular it is and how much money it has made.
 
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