10 Movies You Could've Watched Instead Of Campaigning For The Snyder Cut
Was it really time well spent?
The long-speculated 'Zack Snyder Cut' of DCEU's Justice League is finally being released - albeit with millions of dollars spent on filling in the blank space Snyder (through no fault of his own!) had not completed, as well as re-assembling the cast members to re-shoot a movie for a third time.
It's a ridiculous amount of effort, time and money, just to satisfy curious fans. And while the case could be made that the King of Quips (Joss Whedon) ruined Snyder's film, and that now the original director is correcting that fault, it was still a surreal campaign led by the internet on a superhero movie from 2017.
Couldn't that same energy have been channeled into other things, like... watching a different film, maybe?
There's nothing wrong with wishing for a better film, but the internet went ballistic for the incomplete, original cut that (maybe?) didn't exist to begin with, and now it's actually becoming a thing. Congratulations!
It's been affirmed that if you annoy studios enough, they'll get the band back together and remake a movie you're not satisfied with. Maybe if we kick Disney enough, they'll release the "Edgar Wright Cut" of Ant Man?
So while that bleak idea of the future of cinema peculates in the back of your mind, let's look at ten films the internet could have watched instead of spending time demanding a revision of the Justice League.
10. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings films are like a fine wine - getting better almost every year. When compared to the CGI diatribe that was The Hobbit Trilogy, there is so much that holds up about the epic first trilogy that graced cinemas back in the early 2000's.
For (subjectively) the best film in the original trilogy - The Two Towers is in a way very much like Justice League. An evil dark lord is planning an invasion with a horde of ugly monsters, there's a magical object everyone is vying for, a powerful character thought to be dead comes back to life in a ridiculous way, and there's only three or four characters actually worth caring about.
While you can't watch one Lord of the Rings film without watching all of them, there is something to be said about the most grounded and darkest film in the series.
You might speed through the Merry & Pippin and marching Ent scenes, but the moment you see Aragorn and his buddies draw swords in the rain to defend Helms Deep, your fists are pumping as Legolas and Gimli trade scores for who got the most kills.