10 Movie Directors Who F**king Doubled Down On Your Hate

4. Joss Whedon Can't Help But Lighten The Mood

Dunkirk  Nolan
Warner Bros.

Alongside thoroughly sullying his reputation on the back of being accused of showing "gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable" behaviour toward the cast and crew by Ray Fisher whilst working on 2017's Justice League, Joss Whedon was also responsible for completely butchering that aforementioned film by trying to lace his trademark slapstick and other jarring comedy into the limp DCEU flick.

After Whedon's first real stab at the mainstream superhero world, Avengers Assemble, took the world by storm, it was safe to assume fans were in somewhat safe hands when the Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator was at the super-wheel. However, it soon became apparent after Age of Ultron that Whedon was one of the major contributors to the MCU's incessant need to lighten the mood with pointless comedy past the point of being welcome.

And while this trait hasn't been completely eradicated in Whedon's absence from Marvel Studios, it at least hasn't ever been as prevalent as it was in the aforementioned Justice League, with Whedon seemingly hellbent on smashing the more serious tone of Zack Snyder's previously shot work to pieces.

At least we finally got a completely unfiltered version of Snyder's original concept in the end, for better or worse...

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