Zack Dang Snyder

Is anyone else beyond burnt out with the Zack Snyder discourse online? Like he’s not the worst director ever, nor the best. To me he’s very much a modern day Michael Bay, but thinks more highly of his works. Like he has some bangers (300, Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead, and MoS has always been underrated to me) but he also has some real stinkers in BvS, Sucker Punch and Rebel Moon pt 1. I haven’t watched 2 yet. I feel like he’s the Taylor Swift of directors. His haters think he’s absolutely worthless and has never filmed a single good frame and his fans (the ones who aren’t normal people) think he’s movie Jesus who simply operates at a level such a high level that if you don’t like his movies you simply don’t understand.

It doesn’t help that he himself acts like he indeed is some kind of misunderstood modern day Kubrick when, and this is why I don’t personally like him, he’s basically just a middle aged frat bro who doesn’t see the value in movies unless they have gore, tons of cursing, and sex all over the place. Like he has borderline outright said he NEEDS his movies to have some or all of those things to be good in his eyes. Like at least Michael Bay (from what I remember) was like “yea man I just want there to be explosions and attractive people on screen.” Zack personally annoys me because he talks like he’s this Christopher Nolan or Alfonso Cuaron type while placing an inordinate amount of value in very surface level aspects of his movies. And the whole way both Rebel Moon movies are being filmed and split up is insanity to me but that’s a different topic.

TLDR: Its not that deep and it’s def one of those things that I recognize is unimportant but I just wanted to vent because sometimes the internet just has me biting my desk and Zack Snyders haters treating him like he’s Tommy Wiseau or Ed Wood are almost as annoying as his ego and his fans blind worship of him. Let me know your takes, I don’t like him much but it’s ok if you do! I’m just looking for rationality lol