Of course, Snyder finds great foundation in his clear source material - Frank Miller's seminal The Dark Knight Returns - pages from which are veritably brought to life on the Big Screen. You can now see the whole trilogy, as it was arguably meant to be seen
None of this would have been possible without the reframing of the end of Man of Steel - where Superman saves the entire globe from being terraformed by Kryptonian tyrant, General Zod - from the point of view of a helpless Bruce Wayne, who is at ground zero in Metropolis as the towers come down, and can but see two unstoppable gods punching each other through buildings with no concern for the loss of life on the streets below. Superman's all-powerful god frustrated that his repeated acts of miraculous rescue are being reframed due to collateral damage or political and public concern, and targeting Gotham's violent vigilante who he feels is the real villain that people should be focusing their attention on. Batman's bitter, ageing vigilante, concerned about this super-powered alien from above, and the fact that nobody on earth could stop him if he went off the rails.
Without that, Snyder would have been unable to build his two titular titans to the point where you can genuinely see them facing off. And yet Batman v Superman's entire premise - indeed, likely its whole, meticulously crafted, first half - is founded upon the Independence Day-levels of destruction seen in the last hour of Man of Steel. Man of Steel's superb two-father build-up across the first two acts appears utterly at odds, both thematically and tonally, with its city-destroying punch-em-up finale. You see both of the first two entries - Man of Steel and Batman v Superman - go off the rails for the most part in the final act. Snyder released a 4-hour cut of the movie, the majority of which being footage that nobody had ever seen before, and rekindled interest in the franchise.Īnd, crazy as it may seem, Zack Snyder's Justice League has actually made the trilogy - as a whole - somehow work better. Yet the unthinkable has happened, even for people who positively hated 2017's Justice League. WW84 and the passable but ridiculously expensive Birds of Prey were but the nails in that coffin. After Whedon's Justice League, the DC game was largely over. That's not to say that each and every entry isn't flawed - they all still are - but the gift of hindsight actually works wonders for this frequently studio-hobbled saga, particularly in what is now likely the closest we will ever get to Snyder's original vision for the films. Revisiting Zack Snyder's " Man of Steel Trilogy" puts a lot of things into perspective. A new look, a new ratio, and the superior R-rated longer cut - after the success of Zack Snyder's Justice League maybe there's no better time to reassess the deeply flawed Batman v Superman.
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