In 2017 after so much hype, the Justice League Film of the DCEU was released. At last all of Snyder's, Ayer's and Jenkins among most director's works, was finally gonna pay off after so much controversial bullshit they were put through. Or so we thought. The movie was not only horrendous, but fans of DCEU, DC and Snyder despite their differences all agreed this was not the true film. For better context let me explain.
When the movie was first being put into production, Zack Snyder had a different idea in mind. What it was, I never knew and while many fans interpreted it based on his words and pictures among most things gave them somewhat of a complete picture of what he had in mind. However we can never really know until we see the full picture with our own eyes. This picture, was essentially his original cut of the film. Dubbed the Snyder Cut by both fans and detractors alike. With the fans believing it existed while the detractors believing it to be a Myth at best or at worst, an outright lie. But be that as it may, what he originally planned was a hell of a lot better than what we got. Unfortunately before he had the opportunity to give the finishing touches of it, a tragedy struck.
Autumn Snyder, his daughter passed away, causing Zack to halt production until he was ready to come back. However WB, Geoff Johns and Joss Whedon, whom was originally hired as a screenwriter for the flick had a different idea. Rather than go with the idea Zack had in mind or at the very least attempt to poorly rip it off, Warner Bros. wanted to captialize on the future success of the next recent Avengers movie at the time. The recent one, Infinity War, being released just a year after. So, believing they had a golden goose in the form of a man who got MCU's ball rolling with the First Two movies, they made Whedon director in everything but name and as a result is the clusterfuck of a poor movie we have seen. Plan 9 should win an Oscar out of general principle, because of what this abomination was.
When I did my twitter promoting my recent work as a musician I was basically an outsider of the cause at first. Mainly because I believed there was a Snyder Cut based on certain principles of my own:
For Starters. It took more than 2 decades for Richard Donner to get his Alternate Cut of Superman II off the ground and I believe WB and the fans owe Snyder that long of a time frame.
Second, the idea of denying a certain cut existed, like these detractors did is asinine when you consider many filmmakers had their own alternate cuts all the time. James Cameron had a Special Edition of Aliens and Termniator 2. Ridley Scott had 3 different cuts of Blade Runner: Theatrical, Director and Final. Hell even Zack Snyder was no slouch, since Watchmen and Batman V Superman before it, had their fair share of alternate cuts. So why is this any different?
And third, while it took 2 - 3 years, almost everyone that has worked on it: Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Jay Oliva, Jason Momoa. Just to name a few crew and even Zack Snyder himself confirmed that said cut exist. Yet despite that, said detractors double down and insist they are either lying for relevancy or claiming they never said it at worst. John the douchebag Campea being the worst offender because he himself has lied more than once prior to the confirmation. He claimed that Rotten Tomatoes wasn't rigged. Event though a member of Rotten Tomatoes flat out admitted it, just to give an example.
By the time of that third reason I was no longer an outsider, I too supported the movement. While I am not like the so called "True Snyder Fans." as to my admittance I never cared for either Sucker Punch or Dawn of The Dead Remake. Nor was I in a position to do such great things such as donate for suicide prevention or pay for billboards which could be seen by millions; I did my best to spread hope that people would see it again simply because it was the right thing to do and call out those that: A. Were the most severe detractors, going so far as threatening fans because they hated being proven wrong. (Threats I will not mention, because they are too fucking disgusting.) Or B. Extremist members of the movement who take their shit too far, attack those that disagree with them and to add insult to injury went as far as having their twitters suspended when their bully tactics don't work. Myself included.
Two Twitter members, the most despicable extremists I have come across. Saw fit to harass a contest host based on two things: 1. One of the Entries, was created by a despised member of a faction that was part of a great divide between the members of the movement on how the movement should be handled. In an attempt to have this person barred from the contest, they harassed the host by bombarding them with screenshots of what said entry did. 2. They continued to harass the contest host, spreading lies about them simply because the host blocked one of them. I myself have gotten into an altercation. All I did was call them out on trying to disrupt the contest as well as offer them a better way to handle this entry. Namely wait till said entry lost and revel in their humiliation. Not only was I rudely rebuffed, the only thing they used to attack me, was bring up my own past as well as bombarding me with pointless gifs and pictures, as though to them, they were enough to claim victory. In my last ditch effort, I decided on my own volition to expose them to my own followers. Not to incite harassment, but to warn them on the off chance they were following these people, what kind of scumbags they would become. Naturally they saw fit to report me and have my account suspended. These two have had a history of false reports as well as have other members of each faction of the movement become sick and tired of their bullshit.
And that's just two examples of the more extreme of the movement. There are hundreds more, but if I listed them all this would take hours to read.
Point being, is I witnessed this clusterfuck first hand, I tried my best to help through with it and I paid the price for it. Yet I wouldn't trade it all away for the world. I will still find other ways to spread the word. To give hope that this cut will see the light of day.
And to those two along with the hundreds of others, that agree with their way of doing things. I am still standing. It's gonna take more than simply suspending my twitter to destroy me and I still stand by what I say: You are a bunch of toxic assholes, you make the movement look bad, you're an embarrassment to this movement and you can go fuck yourselves. I dare you to Dox me.
To everyone else. #ReleaseTheSnyderCut
