8 Recent Movies Most Obviously Ruined By Bad Editing

Someone needs to explain the purpose of movie-making to Zack Snyder, because it’s really not to vainly adapt the pretty pictures from some of them-there comic books and then stuff every frame of resulting footage into a bloated finished product.

Snyder’s original cut of Batman V Superman was reportedly four hours long, which he got down to three, yet that still needed more work, leading to the choppy two-and-a-half hour version we got in cinemas that boasted a myriad of threads that never came together into a full story. So yeah, it was butchered in the edit, but it is ultimately the director’s fault.

We finally got the three hour version with the Ultimate Edition, but just because there’s more of the movie there doesn’t necessarily make it any better – there were major problems beyond just missing scenes in Dawn Of Justice.

Worst Moment: Lex’s plan.

BvS isn’t short on “Why the f*ck did they think that was a good idea?” moments – Knightmare, Doomsday, Martha – but one of the most muddled is Lex’s plan. So he’s behind Africa and the Senate bombing, and also the bat-branding, and he’s also kidnapped the two important people in Supes' life, oh, and he knows who Bats really is. Sh*t, totally forgot about Doomsday too…

It’s a babble, thanks in no small part to major parts being cut, and while it doesn’t mean Eisenberg’s peppy maniac is suddenly acceptable, the Ultimate Edition did at least provide a better scope of what was actually going on.