It wasn't all that surprising that after HBO Max released Zack Snyder's Justice League, the same fans who spent three years begging and screaming for their precious "Snyder Cut" began bellowing on social media that WB/DC should continue the "Snyderverse" from Man of Steel, BvS, and Justice League.
Not surprisingly, they've pretty well ignored the data that shows their precious "Snyder Cut" was not really a big hit. In this CNBC article for instance if you read past the headline, it says that while the "Snyder Cut" brought in some subscribers, it wasn't as many as movies like WW84 and Godzilla vs Kong despite all the hype.
More damning was this article that describes how many people watching the "Snyder Cut" stopped watching it before the final battle with Steppenwolf, which was radically different from the original theatrical version. So they missed a big chunk of Snyder's grand vision. They also missed the 7 different ending cookie scenes including the precious "Knightmare" sequence featuring Jared Leto's Joker.
And that's on top of the simple practical reason WB/DC wouldn't make anymore "Snyderverse" movies: letting Snyder reshoot and recut the movie cost about $40 million but much of the movie was already made. To make new movies like Ben Affleck's Batman v Deathstroke movie would cost upwards of $400 million--for each one. That's a huge investment whereas the "Snyder Cut" was about as much as a Super Bowl ad.
But as is typical of America in 2021, there are a lot of stupid people who ignore the truth or deny the truth. On my Facebook feed I see articles from ScreenRant or ComicBook.com or other sites declaring "The Snyder Cut" a success and suggesting that WB/DC is trying to hide its success. They point to things like the 4K DVD selling out in the UK, which is probably a drop in the bucket for what WB/DC needs to recoup its investment. Or they point to the Rock Tweeting something positive about the "Snyderverse", which is fine but he's just an actor and his movie won't even come out for a year or so. Unless it's a huge hit, he's not going to be able to dictate spending hundreds of millions on new movies.
In a country where a large portion of people still believe "The Big Lie" about voter fraud and refuse to get vaccinated against a deadly disease because of bogus "facts" and junk "science" it's not surprising that people still refuse to throw in the towel on "the Snyderverse." And like how MAGA hatters, anti-vaxxers, and QAnoners (often the same people) are enabled by Republican politicians, social media, and Fox "News," Snyder fans are enabled by clickbait sites, social media, and WB/DC themselves when they decided to put out the "Snyder Cut" in the first place.
It's just another sign that we're rapidly spiraling into an Idiocracy situation--centuries before even Mike Judge thought it would happen.
2 comments:
I tend to think that the only reason they green-lit the "snyder cut" was NOT the fans or their social media gnashing of keyboard keys, but was the situation with covid. It was a project that could be done on a relatively small budget, largely without a lot of studio involvement, and they could try to entice people to subscribe to HBO Max because with theaters closed and that huge revenue stream closed off during covid, they needed something...anything...that could bring in money. And even in that situation, it was lackluster.
And it is sad that people these days believe such bald-faced lies...but that's the danger of social media and living in an echo chamber and quite likely in combination with the failure of the American education system where we put science and math on the back burner. But the government thrives on citizens being ignorant and voting against their own best interests because of simple lies that get spoon fed to those brain-dead idiots and they run off on the internet spreading the lies.
It seems to me that some people are afraid of the truth, so they turn to false beliefs and conspiracy theories. I guess they prefer to live in a fantasy world, and some people just don't want to say goodbye to the Snyderverse.
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