Everyone knows by now that due to unfortunate circumstances, Zack Snyder (Director) and his wife, Deborah Snyder (Producer) had to leave the project for personal reasons, which enticed to the studio (Warner Bros.) to bring in 'Avengers' director Joss Whedon and ''finish'' it.
Ultimately, the film seems to have been almost completely re-written and re-shot. I've read a fair amount from people claiming that the film is still around 80% Snyder's vision, I don't think so.
The films original composer (Junkie XL) was quickly dispatched and replaced by Danny Elfman (One could argue that a films score makes up 50% of the film, easily).
Danny Elfman's score is completely flat and heartless. There isn't a shred of emotion in a single note. It sounds out of place, is consistently uneven and the little homages to past themes seem to be thrown in and are used at completely the wrong times.
Almost every scene where Superman appears, he has a ridiculously expensive, computer generated botch job of a mouth to cover up a moustache that Henry Cavill wasn't allowed to shave off for the re- shoots, due to commitments to another film.
As I can recall, there was one scene for Superman where he didn't have the CGI mouth.
The tone and atmosphere of Snyder's style is almost completely lifted from the film, something I'm sure was tampered with in post- production.
It doesn't have any kind of atmosphere at all really, it just feels empty.
The actors are all fine and deliver worthy performances for the characters, it's not their fault that the film which is built around them is a complete disaster.
It just goes to show that the studio couldn't care in the slightest about delivering a serious and decent production. They had a release date and they forced themselves to stick to it, regardless of the outcome.
Most of the film feels completely rushed and cheap, which it shouldn't, given it had a budget of $300 million.
It's simply unacceptable for something of this capacity and scale to be the epitome of a mindless product from a bloodsucking and power driven cooperation.
Would it have been such a loss to put the project on hold until Zack and Deborah Snyder returned, or delay the film until everything was as good as could possibly be? Apparently yes.
There's been absolutely no respect for the source material, the vision of the original director or the target audience from Warner Bros..
Zack Snyder's complete version, I'm sure has its faults and flaws, but nothing can compare to this lacklustre effort.
This should have been the best superhero film ever made, but has been dropped and fallen straight to the bottom of the barrel.
I could go on and on, but I'll stop there.
Ultimately, the film seems to have been almost completely re-written and re-shot. I've read a fair amount from people claiming that the film is still around 80% Snyder's vision, I don't think so.
The films original composer (Junkie XL) was quickly dispatched and replaced by Danny Elfman (One could argue that a films score makes up 50% of the film, easily).
Danny Elfman's score is completely flat and heartless. There isn't a shred of emotion in a single note. It sounds out of place, is consistently uneven and the little homages to past themes seem to be thrown in and are used at completely the wrong times.
Almost every scene where Superman appears, he has a ridiculously expensive, computer generated botch job of a mouth to cover up a moustache that Henry Cavill wasn't allowed to shave off for the re- shoots, due to commitments to another film.
As I can recall, there was one scene for Superman where he didn't have the CGI mouth.
The tone and atmosphere of Snyder's style is almost completely lifted from the film, something I'm sure was tampered with in post- production.
It doesn't have any kind of atmosphere at all really, it just feels empty.
The actors are all fine and deliver worthy performances for the characters, it's not their fault that the film which is built around them is a complete disaster.
It just goes to show that the studio couldn't care in the slightest about delivering a serious and decent production. They had a release date and they forced themselves to stick to it, regardless of the outcome.
Most of the film feels completely rushed and cheap, which it shouldn't, given it had a budget of $300 million.
It's simply unacceptable for something of this capacity and scale to be the epitome of a mindless product from a bloodsucking and power driven cooperation.
Would it have been such a loss to put the project on hold until Zack and Deborah Snyder returned, or delay the film until everything was as good as could possibly be? Apparently yes.
There's been absolutely no respect for the source material, the vision of the original director or the target audience from Warner Bros..
Zack Snyder's complete version, I'm sure has its faults and flaws, but nothing can compare to this lacklustre effort.
This should have been the best superhero film ever made, but has been dropped and fallen straight to the bottom of the barrel.
I could go on and on, but I'll stop there.