Review: "Zack Snyder's Justice League" is a miraculous, improbable landmark of superhero filmmaking
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League, as it appears this week on HBO Max, isn’t the movie Zack Snyder would have finished or released in 2017, even under ideal conditions in the absence of personal tragedy or woeful studio mismanagement. It wouldn’t have been 4 hours long, because the studio would never allow that and theaters would flat-out refuse to show it. It wouldn’t have been presented in a 4x3 open matte aspect ratio, save for the tiny handful of real IMAX theaters still exhibiting IMAX 70mm film. It would have had a different score, as Tom Holkenborg, originally commissioned to score the film by Snyder before being replaced with Danny Elfman for the Joss Whedon-directed theatrical cut,
Review: "Zack Snyder's Justice League" is a miraculous, improbable landmark of superhero filmmaking
Review: "Zack Snyder's Justice League" is a…
Review: "Zack Snyder's Justice League" is a miraculous, improbable landmark of superhero filmmaking
Zack Snyder’s Justice League, as it appears this week on HBO Max, isn’t the movie Zack Snyder would have finished or released in 2017, even under ideal conditions in the absence of personal tragedy or woeful studio mismanagement. It wouldn’t have been 4 hours long, because the studio would never allow that and theaters would flat-out refuse to show it. It wouldn’t have been presented in a 4x3 open matte aspect ratio, save for the tiny handful of real IMAX theaters still exhibiting IMAX 70mm film. It would have had a different score, as Tom Holkenborg, originally commissioned to score the film by Snyder before being replaced with Danny Elfman for the Joss Whedon-directed theatrical cut,