Zach Snyder On Xerxes And His Other Upcoming Projects

snyder is a hack.. he cant do anything original. Its all prewritten... he has no vision.. he needs o do effects because when something is written he can make it look good but thats only looking off of paper

Matches- Diddo, bud ;)

blankofthedead- I think you mean "Snyder" instead of Miller. And although i mostly agree with what you say here, i think he's still good at what he does. I guess it all depends at what we prefer to see in a film adaptation of a comic book ;)

Orehrepus- Personally, i'm not interested in Xerxes either but i think his style would better fit a Miller Batman project than any other. I'd love to see it get done :)

Snyder needs to gather Frank Miller and Bruce Willis and hunt down the WB studio heads to make DKR ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!

GIT-R-DONE!!!!

Ok Blank, so what your saying is, any director that doesn't write the script himself and then direct it is a hack? Aren't you a Robert Rodriguez fan? Isn't there no other movie as plastered from the page to the screen as Sin City? Be consistent dude! And didn't you see the great job he did on Dawn Of The Dead? No graphic novel for that one. I think he did a great job with staying true to the original comics with 300 and Watchmen. My God, there is just no pleasing some people. If he had of went and made it his own there would be cries of "Noooo, its not like the comic!"

@Shaman-Bruce Willis for old Batman! Brilliant, sir!

@Ror-Agreed on Dawn of the Dead. One of the few good remakes.

Love this guy.

Ror- Yeah, i'd really like to see what Snyder could do with not only Batman but Miller's 60 year old Batman ;)

Matches- Actually, i didn't come up with it myself. I have no idea to who the credit goes but this wasn't my baby :P I think it was LEEE777's, actually. I just completely fell in love with that choice the second i heared it! Bruce Willis is ideal for TWO cbm roles IMO. Miller's DKR and Earth X's Cap!!! But yeah, i think Miller, Snyder and Willis would be an ASTOUNDING team to bring DKR to the screen, the second Nolan's trilogy is done! If i get DKR with Snyder and WIllis as a promise after Nolan, it would be the only reason i'd be okay with waiting on JLA a bit longer :))

@ror- the cry remark was just a rebuttal to you suggesting my "cries of 'nooo..'" Therefor I took it as an attack rather than a debate. I'd personally rather the debate but it seems like we have the same mindset on it. I do like the movies hes put out excluding watchmen which I couldnt enjoy at all. I think hes good at what he does but that doesnt qualify him as a good director as a whole, just adaptations.

@the question- dawn of the dead is a remake of 1978's George A. Romero movie. I thought the remake did it much more justice that the night or day remakes but it still is an adaptation, it's not something new or fresh, it's safe. It's something that is already well recieved and known. its a safe zone rather than a having a new script with no predecided fanbase. Mind you I did enjoy the dawn remake, and his style was fun in it, but not one of the best horrors in recent memory IMO. It's still a run of the mill horror movie. Hell saun of the dead did a better job IMO. but to each his own.

Wanne see a Sequel!

You shouldn't be watching Watchmen anyway Flames! Some nasty goings on in that movie.

Blank, the cries of NOOO were not solely directed at you. Sometimes I just honestly don't think some fans can be pleased.

Shaman cmon dude, time to see that damn movie! Rent it even. It was on tv the other night too apparently.

I love Snyder's style of filming he has been on the adaptation boat for a bit and you know what I'm ok with that. Who says he has to do something of his own, maybe this is his niche, a lot of directors can't do what he does which is make a damn good comic book movie adaptation. Look at all the failures that attempted to improve characters that were fine as is.

Blank, I don't think you're giving Snyder enough credit. Simply stating he's a hack because he only does adaptations. Maybe that's just his specialty, and the argument about Dawn of the Dead being a safe bet isn't necessarily true. I've seen a few adaptations of the original Day of the Dead that were absolutely horrid, one of which was 3D...ugh. Regardless, Snyder's vs Romero's version are very different from each other. Snyder could have f^cked it up, it is possible even with a well renowned horror flick. Look at Willy Wonka remake, the original was fantastic only to be completely butchered in '05.

@ror- I think Snyder is talented but I'm waiting for him to do something adult. (Yes, I know he's done rated-R films.) What I mean by this is that I think he has a very adolescent mindset when it comes to his films. This worked for 300 and Dawn of the Dead, but not so much for Watchmen. His movies are more about aw gee that's cool rather than having any real emotional depth or social commentary. Watchmen was lacking because of that.

@shaman- yeah i mean hes not bad at what he does, I jsut think he's very limited by it.. I didnt like watchmen as a movie, Its like a book on tape but definitely worth a watch if you enjoyed the book, probably better if you havent read it tho.

@flames- LMAO! the collector? uuugh that movie could give plan 9 from outter space a run for it's money. I saw it like 2 weeks ago. Maybe theres some suspense but its not scary, it's all gore and really what are the odds this family is so unlucky that they get a robber and a killer coming on the same night? It was basically the saw producers putting together a compilation of death scenes with no plot and the movie jsut had no point.

@ror- my apologies. Given our last argument I guess I automatically took your comment the wrong way.


@stumblin- Its a guilty pleasure and it does spit in the face of the original but i did enjoy the most recent wonka film lol. And I never said snyders dawn was bad. IT wasnt and its a masterpiece compared to the other horror remakes of late, BUT i think it's a safe bet, not so much for the sake of knowing it will be a success.. but knowing that there is already a cult fn base for it. hell a movie doesnt get a remake unless it has one hell of an original following. With new ideas there is always the possibility that NO ONE will care or be interested, but with dawn, the fans of the original will atleast think about seeing it.. thats what i mean by safe. A pre-existing fanbase.

@pope- I get what your saying nd I agree because he's good at that- But he as an overall directoris a one trick pony.

@up- completely agreed (except the part aobut his potential to be one of the greats) it translates poorly on film but its almost frame by frame by the book. Thats how i feel about snyder as a whole.. hes good with the CBMs but as an overall movie fan he's jsut a one trick pony

@Blank- Legend of the Guardians actually looks pretty good from the trailer I saw before TS3 and it's definitely a step away from Snyder's usual fare. I'm looking forward to it. Snyder at least has some potential. Because of that, I'm not putting him in the hack pile yet.

@ stumblin-Yeah i hear you.. but praising a movie for NOT effin up is hardly a major accomplishment. I think he will do some original stuff soon and when he does i'll decide if i was wrong about him. The whole premise of a director is that you take words on paper and create an image for them.. a unique vision. he's jsut trading one media to the next.. simply a middle man rather than the supplier. I think we all have the same feelings towards him im jsut on the pessimistic side lol

@shaman- well the book is to me a great piece of art.. but books and film follow a different composition. thats where the film fails. You should really rethink you choice to dislike the older movies though man.. you're missing out. The best stuff out there is pretty old. Maybe thats ecause im a horror movie fanatic though. But hey at least you have all of the 80's to enjoylol

@upup- yeah i guess he hasnt proven that he can't do it.. maybe he will prove himself with original work with this. But i think to start that with an animated movie shows hes testing the water slowly. Maybe some fear of the unknown but who knows. Regardless.. TS3 was perfection can we agree there?

I've seen Watchmen a bunch of times and out of all the CBM's I've seen, it had the most depth of character, the most history and a great story. There aren't that many other movies, let alone CBM's that can compare on that level. I thought Snyder did a great job bringing this to life and I applaud him for taking such a risk and making something truly worthwhile. I'm looking forward to Xerxes and anything else he does as well.

The only other CBMs that I think compare favorably to Watchmen are Road to Perdition, Sin City and The Dark Knight, but I've always favored the darker, seedier side of film making.

Watchmen was just one of those movies where you're gonna love it or hate it. I just happened to love it.

Of course it's gonna have its flaws like any other movie, but i thought the only terrible flaw was Ozymandias. Goode was just terrible. He didn't understand the character at all and completely butchered a unique villain.

blankofthedead- Nah, i'm not a huge fan of horror films made before the 80ies.

Ror- Nope, those never appealed to me at all. Never saw them though but they really don't pull me in.

Thats mad, for me the 80s is when they stopped being horror movies for the most part. Masterpieces like The Shining, The Exorcist and the original Halloween left their legacy and then so many movies stood on their shoulders. there are great ones after the 80s too of course. But anyway, if you like sci-fi, check out 2001, its the daddy!

Well i did enjoy the first Holloween but not Evil Dead. I'm a slasher type fan and the most fun slashers, as blank says, are in the 80ies. At least for me they are.

The only time i've ever felt intrigued by 2001, was when i saw the south park spoof with kyle & cartman. that's the only time i actually went "hmmm, i'll have to check it out". Yet it all washes away by the end credits.

I'm also really not a fan of [frick]ed up movies like Videodrome and Clockwork Orange. I'm very far away from being a fan of Oliver Stone, Kubrick or Scorcese. In fact, the only film i liked from Kubrick was Eyes Wide Shut cause it had to do with a sex cult. It would have completely lost me without that sex cult.