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Zack Snyder was ahead of his time, but not in a good way (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Trying to watch the director's cut of Rebel Moon 1 (giving up after ten minutes), I was struck with how much Zack Snyder's slick but unoriginal style of shooting as well as his total lack of sense of pacing, plot and characters while relentlessly copying elements from the works of better directors and writers (in case of Rebel Moon, George Lucas), how all those elements that make a movie Zack Snyder-y, are almost exactly the same elements that are present in AI slop that tries to be cool and cinematic. In that sense, Snyder actually predicted the rise of AI slop cinema, which we will likely see more and more of in the coming years.

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[–] 33 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Lot of words to say zack snyder makes dogshit .

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    • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I liked "The Watchmen", but yea, everything else he did is low quality.

    I hate "Man of Steel". He made Superman a cop, and the climax is eleven nine-elevens in Metropolis.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Hm, 300 and dawn of the dead are cool.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    When he has solid source material to work with and he doesn’t get the liberty to stray away from it too much, he usually makes good stuff. But that’s pretty much it. Stuff he makes on his own are usually bad.

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    • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think Synder is just following in the grand artistic tradition of Michael Bay.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    They were actually class mates at a film school that emphasized visual art over storytelling. Tarsem Singh too.

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    • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Slop was trained on the stuff Snyder did and inspired.

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    [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Rebel Moon was Star Wars fanfic Disney refused to let him make, so he slightly rethemed the story.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Watchmen, Dawn of the dead & 300 are good but snapping necks superman kind of out of character lol

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    • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I mean they probably trained the AIs off his work, so it’s more like Snyder is the AI’s daddy.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    AI Slop is the best description for Rebel Moon!

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    [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I worry that the man is mentally disturbed

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I read an interview with him. He talks about how he had a Fortnite addiction until his wife made him quit and take up pottery. He talks about his brother dying when Zack was in middle school and how much it affected him.

    I’m convinced his brother’s death emotionally stunted him and he’s really a middle school kid, emotionally, with enough adult intelligence to make movies.

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    • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    Pretty sure Rebel Moon was written with AI, yes

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