{"id":3986,"date":"2023-05-26T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2023-05-25T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:06:54","slug":"blog-death-to-the-snyderverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3986","title":{"rendered":"[BLOG] Death to the Snyderverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all, PCR here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing a lot.. a LOT of chatter lately about &#8220;Justice League 2&#8221; and how the Snyderverse should and will be continued and, I have to admit&#8230; it&#8217;s only slightly less annoying than when people were clamoring for The Snyderverse in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear, was &#8220;Zack Snyder&#8217;s Justice League&#8221; better than Whedon&#8217;s?\u00a0 Admittedly, it felt like it had more gravitas to it and was a more &#8216;serious&#8217; movie.\u00a0 That said, the whole concept of &#8220;The Snyder Cut&#8221; was bullshit from the beginning.\u00a0 Zack and his (vocal) fans on social media made it seem like there was a finished movie hidden in a file cabinet somewhere, when in reality, it still cost over $70 million to film.\u00a0 Snyder has also gone on record talking about the &#8220;torture&#8221; and horrible experience it was working with Warner Bros to get his vision made, to the point that the relationship has deteriorated immensely and reports are *now* coming out that WB wishes the ZSJL was never made in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>My opinion?\u00a0 ZSJL was a creation of the COVID pandemic.\u00a0 Things were shut down, hardly anything was being filmed or created,\u00a0 and here WB had an opportunity to &#8216;relaunch&#8217; something that didn&#8217;t get a resounding review originally into something, hopefully, better.\u00a0 Had COVID never happened, it is unlikely that Zack&#8217;s &#8216;vision&#8217; ever would have seen the light of day.\u00a0 What&#8217;s worse, is that the whole &#8220;Release the Snydercut&#8221; movement was fostered by a VERY vocal minority of fans with severe entitlement issues, and *now* reports are floating around that this was all at least a semi-coordinated effort by Zack, his people, and fans with multiple social media bot accounts.<\/p>\n<p>After ALL that, there is STILL a group of &#8216;fans&#8217; SO hung up on this that they&#8217;re lobbying for WB to sell the rights to Netflix to continue the Snyderverse.<\/p>\n<p>My question&#8230; when is enough enough?<\/p>\n<p>He did his Superman movie ($258 mil budget, $668 mil box office), He did Batman vs Superman ($300 mil budget, $870 mil box office).\u00a0 Justice League *barely* doubled it&#8217;s money with $650 mil box office on a $300 mil budget.\u00a0 The movies weren&#8217;t great, weren&#8217;t reviewed well, and did not do the kind of money that was predicted for them.\u00a0 BvS has set a record for Worst Opening Week Friday to Second Week Friday Decline, and the worst Friday to Sunday of opening weekend decline since 2015&#8217;s Fantastic 4.. yet the entitled cries are the same.. &#8220;Just let him do his movie&#8221; He did.\u00a0 &#8220;Just give him one more shot..&#8221;\u00a0 Shot given.\u00a0 &#8220;Just sell it to another streaming service&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Oh, the streaming service that has a history of cancelling great content before Year 3 so they can save on residuals?\u00a0 THAT service?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for the &#8216;silent majority&#8217; of fans to look at the &#8216;vocal minority&#8217; and tell them to pound sand.\u00a0 The &#8220;Snyderverse&#8221; has come and gone.<\/p>\n<p>It had it&#8217;s chance.<\/p>\n<p>Let it go before we see crazed fans driving around in jacked up Pick-Up Trucks with huge &#8220;Justice League&#8221; flags flying from the back saying Zack got robbed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; PCR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all, PCR here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing a lot.. a LOT of chatter lately about &#8220;Justice League 2&#8221; and how the Snyderverse should and will be continued and, I have to admit&#8230; it&#8217;s only slightly less annoying than when people were clamoring for The Snyderverse in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear, was &#8220;Zack Snyder&#8217;s Justice League&#8221; better than Whedon&#8217;s?\u00a0 Admittedly, it felt like it had more gravitas to it and was a more &#8216;serious&#8217; movie.\u00a0 That said, the whole concept of &#8220;The Snyder Cut&#8221; was bullshit from the beginning.\u00a0 Zack and his (vocal) fans on social media made it seem like there was a finished movie hidden in a file cabinet somewhere, when in reality, it still cost over $70 million to film.\u00a0 Snyder has also gone on record talking about the &#8220;torture&#8221; and horrible experience it was working with Warner Bros to get his vision made, to the point that the relationship has deteriorated immensely and reports are *now* coming out that WB wishes the ZSJL was never made in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>My opinion?\u00a0 ZSJL was a creation of the COVID pandemic.\u00a0 Things were shut down, hardly anything was being filmed or created,\u00a0 and here WB had an opportunity to &#8216;relaunch&#8217; something that didn&#8217;t get a resounding review originally into something, hopefully, better.\u00a0 Had COVID never happened, it is unlikely that Zack&#8217;s &#8216;vision&#8217; ever would have seen the light of day.\u00a0 What&#8217;s worse, is that the whole &#8220;Release the Snydercut&#8221; movement was fostered by a VERY vocal minority of fans with severe entitlement issues, and *now* reports are floating around that this was all at least a semi-coordinated effort by Zack, his people, and fans with multiple social media bot accounts.<\/p>\n<p>After ALL that, there is STILL a group of &#8216;fans&#8217; SO hung up on this that they&#8217;re lobbying for WB to sell the rights to Netflix to continue the Snyderverse.<\/p>\n<p>My question&#8230; when is enough enough?<\/p>\n<p>He did his Superman movie ($258 mil budget, $668 mil box office), He did Batman vs Superman ($300 mil budget, $870 mil box office).\u00a0 Justice League *barely* doubled it&#8217;s money with $650 mil box office on a $300 mil budget.\u00a0 The movies weren&#8217;t great, weren&#8217;t reviewed well, and did not do the kind of money that was predicted for them.\u00a0 BvS has set a record for Worst Opening Week Friday to Second Week Friday Decline, and the worst Friday to Sunday of opening weekend decline since 2015&#8217;s Fantastic 4.. yet the entitled cries are the same.. &#8220;Just let him do his movie&#8221; He did.\u00a0 &#8220;Just give him one more shot..&#8221;\u00a0 Shot given.\u00a0 &#8220;Just sell it to another streaming service&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Oh, the streaming service that has a history of cancelling great content before Year 3 so they can save on residuals?\u00a0 THAT service?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for the &#8216;silent majority&#8217; of fans to look at the &#8216;vocal minority&#8217; and tell them to pound sand.\u00a0 The &#8220;Snyderverse&#8221; has come and gone.<\/p>\n<p>It had it&#8217;s chance.<\/p>\n<p>Let it go before we see crazed fans driving around in jacked up Pick-Up Trucks with huge &#8220;Justice League&#8221; flags flying from the back saying Zack got robbed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; PCR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[215],"tags":[216,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}