“And Zack Snyder knows how to direct plot…” I (among many) disagree and that’s why he gets hate.

What annoys me about Snyder is that he has the right idea a lot of the times, but always ends up messing up his idea with a overly serious approach. It’s as if he thought “this is what Nolan (or any ‘serious’ filmmaker) does…” then he proceeds to do his butchered version of said approach. Seriously, Batman and Superman in the same film is easy entertainment, yet he made a giant peice of nothing.

The theatrical version of BvS made no sense and he needed a directors cut, which was overly long with cheap characters, to make somewhat sense. By saying he focuses on plot is excusing his cheap characters. He clearly focused on character with BvS but it was terrible. Man of Steel was a misunderstanding of Superman (he was either this edgy misunderstood person, but he also wanted to make Supes into being the all American hero. Which then was forgotten and returned to edgy misunderstood dude in BvS). Justice League is a 2 hour film somehow stretched to 4 hours. Because he somehow managed to stretch a plot that was so thin into fluff imagery.

I feel Snyder prior to making Watchmen was a decent director, but post Watchmen he began adding fluff to films that are otherwise pretty straightforward. For instance, 300 was a cool action film with dudes screaming like wrestlers. I bet you if Snyder would have made 300 today it would be 3 and half hours long and in the process put focus on his thinly written characters. The action scenes would be spread out that they would be wasted since they would lack emotional connection/interest.