What Do You Guys Think About Zack Snyder?

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Permalink Reply by Tommy on September 14, 2009 at 10:25pm

Really liked Dawn of the Dead, thought 300 was mediocre and liked Watchmen. Probably have to wait until after his next film to judge for sure.

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Permalink Reply by Stephan on September 14, 2009 at 10:53pm

Overrated. His only strength is in visual effects, he can't direct a real movie because he's just a horrible director with good artistic vision. Except, he doesn't even have that because he keeps stealing frames from the comic books he adapts, so he's got very little talent.

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Permalink Reply by Boatloads1017 on September 14, 2009 at 10:57pm

Exactly. Visual effects are his forte, so he's really not that great of a director. He's in the same boat with Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich, pretty much.

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Permalink Reply by Stephan on September 14, 2009 at 10:58pm

Well, he's at least a bit more talented than those guys. His movies don't COMPLETELY suck.

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Permalink Reply by Boatloads1017 on September 14, 2009 at 11:17pm

True, but my point was that they were visually driven directors. Bay with his cocaine induced stupor and Snyder with his hour and 40 minutes of slow motion.

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Permalink Reply by Undkor on September 14, 2009 at 11:16pm

Oh, my love for Snyder is a beautiful downward spiral of what was previously my love towards a zombie film maestro!

I adore his adaptation of Dawn of the Dead!

I feel thoroughly indifferent regarding 300!

I fucking hate Watchmen, as it's only film that has ever convinced me fleeing the theater would be a capital idea!
(Truth be told, I actually don't find the graphic novel very engaging either)

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Permalink Reply by AcE! on September 15, 2009 at 12:10am

Dawn of the Dead is fun.

300 is great fun.

Watchmen is terrible. I'd like to see him try to create an original intellectual material, but so far he appears incapable. He had absolutely no depth to bring to Watchmen; he was just interested in recreating the pictures in live action, not telling a story. Just listen to the interviews. What is it he's always going crazy over? The god damn sets. How he put a copy of Under the Hood on a bookshelf in the background. That was his source of excitement.

I honestly don't think any fans of the Watchmen film should give Snyder any credit at all. All he did was recreate the setting and film the actors delivering Alan Moore's dialogue verbatim. He brought NOTHING.

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Permalink Reply by khuff92 on September 15, 2009 at 6:02pm

Style over substance.

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Permalink Reply by foshizzle on September 15, 2009 at 6:16pm

Dawn of the dead was awesome. I turned off watchmen :P && 300 I havent seen.

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Permalink Reply by Reekzilla on September 15, 2009 at 6:17pm

i thought DoD was good, not great, but passable
and 300 was better, again not all that, but still a enjoyable film
Watchmen(to me) was his best film and i enjoyed every moment of it
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i don't think its fair to say Snyder is a bad director because he relies on graphics and visual effects
i mean i think of directors like i think of rpg hero attributes
story> blah blah/camera work>blah blah, and so on
i mean
if i were to say Scorsese sucks because he doesn't have cars flying at the screen crushing people
or brain matter all over the walls of his scenes, then i'd be shunned from the internet
the guy's only done a few films, give him a chance

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Permalink Reply by Stephan on September 15, 2009 at 6:32pm

There's a flaw to your argument.

Scorsese = substance over style, focus on good story and acting and less on looks.

Snyder = style over substance, focuses completely on looks with no regard for acting or story.

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Permalink Reply by Cheshire Cat on September 15, 2009 at 7:30pm

I liked Dawn Of The Dead and 300, but Watchmen was shit. He was not the right person to direct that movie

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