Curiosity Inc.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Hiring Zack Snyder to direct Man of Steel was a catastrophic decision. I get how it might’ve made sense on paper at the time, and it still isn’t the worst decision in WB’s history (The tax write-offs, anyone?), but it has to be in the top five. In retrospect, Snyder and his team did not get the character, and it became immediately apparent that this wasn’t the team to give us the uplifting and inspiring Superman we needed. This only became more apparent when the filmmakers and studio execs went forward with Batman v Superman, charging ahead with blind arrogance, a hundred percent confident that this grimdark Frank Miller portrayal of the characters was what we wanted to see. Then they floored the pedal right into a brick wall. Read the rest of this entry →