Talking about Zack Snyder —and, especially, about his superhero movies— is, except for honorable exceptions in which an increasingly atypical moderation reigns, a matter of love or hate. Since his debut in the DC Universe with the fantastic ‘Man of Steel’, the controversy was at the hand of a clear and concise vision that opted for tonal severity and a criticized reinterpretation of the ethics and morals of its protagonists.
For four years, the Green Bay filmmaker defended tooth and nail a style that was blown up in 2017 for a personal tragedy that, added to Warner’s apparent obsession with imitating the competition formula, gave rise to the abominable ‘Justice League’; a Frankenstein monster headed for disaster led by a Joss Whedon as a substitute, and in which two completely incompatible genetic codes coexisted.
