Turned on part 1 yesterday, couldn’t make it 5 minutes. Total and utter dogshit

I need to remember to stop giving Snyder second chances.

Ohh boy, part 1 was so bad. I got through the whole thing, but it sure wasn’t easy. And I’m a Sci-Fi nut. Show me spaceships and big planets in the sky and it’s hard for me to dislike your movie. But man this movie sucked. I feel like Snyder asked “how can we make this movie as difficult to watch as possible?” And then he went and outdid himself. He really is a terrible filmmaker, and I didn’t fully understand it until this movie. His movies look gorgeous as a slideshow, but don’t have a coherent narrative or storytelling goal, and the visuals are so damn distracting. They do nothing for the plot.

The slo-mo isn’t cute anymore. It’s incredibly distracting, and the more I see it the more I believe he slows everything way down because he doesn’t trust his actors or the writing to move the plot along. And I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but he’s now resorting to double slo-mos. He slows things way down, pauses, and then slows it down even more. Sorry, but that shit is nothing but a waste of everyone’s time. Seeing a blaster shoot in slo-mo is cool, once. Once. Not every goddamn time.

Leaving aside how hilariously derivative the whole story is, I wish Snyder would at least trust his actors enough to act in a movie, not in a series of slow-moving photographs.

2 hours and only half of the story to tell and the pacing was still a mess. No character development among the main cast except the lead. The most ridiculous part was they got all the good guys captured and no one thought to disarm them. Bloodaxe and Nemesis both had their weapons on hand as soon as they were released. Like most Snyder movies, all style, no substance. While I’d like to see the conclusion, having it come out 4 months later with likely the same quality will just make it a nothing-else-to-watch movie for me.