Zach Snyder is a shit director.. change my mind - Has Snyder made a single watchable film?

[Mullti Port RDRAM]

If I had to describe JJ, it's someone being really good at emulating Spielberg without the writing capacity or the sense of scale. He also works with absolutely pathetic writers, and relies too much on the throwback. And it's not just Star Wars or Star Trek: Super 8 is a feature length throwback to E.T. and it aged like dog shit. And it's probably the most original, "I have full control" production he's ever made.

 

[Mullti Port RDRAM]

You know, my original assessment of him being a shitty director may have been off

Edit: I'm gonna attach the image

 

[Tragi-Chan]

If I had to describe JJ, it's someone being really good at emulating Spielberg without the writing capacity or the sense of scale. He also works with absolutely pathetic writers, and relies too much on the throwback. And it's not just Star Wars or Star Trek: Super 8 is a feature length throwback to E.T. and it aged like dog shit. And it's probably the most original, "I have full control" production he's ever made.

I just find the guy boring. I honestly can’t think of any qualities that say, “this is a JJ Abrams film,” other than superficial things like lens flare.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

Man of Steel was good except for the dildo prisonships.

I just find the guy boring. I honestly can’t think of any qualities that say, “this is a JJ Abrams film,” other than superficial things like lens flare.

Characters running around screaming "Go go go! Punch it!" is what always comes to mind for me.

 

[Kornula]

I mean at least he's a pretty nice person in person or at works from what I reads at least not as bad as some peoples in Hollywood.

Althrough some of his later works is polarizing but I like 300 and Watchmen.He's has a styles which differs from a hacks. So Zack Snyder is not a hack. End of discussion. A hack doesn’t care about what he does. A hack doesn’t have a vision. A hack doesn’t try. None of these things are true about Snyder. He has a vision. He tries. And he can make good movies. He might have (ironically) been the best person to adapt Watchmen precisely because he doesn’t seem to have understood the metaphor, and he was unquestionably the best person to direct 300. Dude can block the hell out of an action scene, and he has wagered his career more than once on some really dubious prospects because he believed in them. Sucker Punch was not made by a hack, like it or not. The Owls of Gerwhoosit or however you spell the name was not made by a hack. He makes his choices and he commits to them.

People are complicated. Snyder is the real deal. He’s an incredible producer and his best suit is in making movies where action is a critical part of the story. You feel the power of the superheroes he helps bring to the big screen. He lacks in making scripts that work for most people, but that can be fixed the same way it was fixed for George Lucas — find a really amazing partner and let her (or him) dive in and make sure the script makes sense.

Every one of us has limitations. Snyder too. What we CAN NOT say is how much he’s responsible for the floundering DCEU. We can’t say that because none of us knows fully all the details behind the scenes of the movies he’s made.

As others have said, Snyder is nowhere near as bad as JJ Abrams. JJ doesn't have a single good film and I believe his success is all due to luck and industry cocksucking. Or Paul Feig who is a hack that ruined Ghostbuster

End of my autism rant.

Except Snyders films have not gotten better over time. From the many responses on this thread, even people who like his films say they are not fantastic.. An artist would learn from their mistakes and improve over time. Snyder has fallen into his own hype right after 300. It appears that that style is making him money..so why bother improving himself right?

 

[Polyboros2]

I'm surprised at the threads mostly positive outlook on Watchman, I thought I was going to come in here and be contrarian about it saying that it's alright. It's the best adaptation you could get out of a big budget Hollywood production(look up some of the earlier script synopsis).

Having read the comic after seeing the movie I think the Dr Manhattan switch at the end was better for a movie. I know there is a lot of build up and pay off to the psychic squid monster with minor/background characters, but that shit would of been so fucking out of nowhere and time could not be given to make those payoffs.

300 was ok, I guess. I loved it as a kid/young adult, I've never watched it again, I'm not inclined to. Same goes with the Dawn of the Dead remake.