Brain Dead and Loving it!

    Zack Snyder is one of those directors they like to call "visionary" because he has undoubtedly a style pretty much his own. A style that he established early on in his career with a slew of ambitious comic book adaptations.   His first feature tackled something sacred; a 2004 remake of the beloved George Romero zombie epic DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978).   While it didn't reach the artistic highs of the original, the film was in no way a bad effort, and even managed many moments of genuine tension and emotionally gripping scenes. A more than worthwhile effort for something that didn't yell out to be remade.   But it's with his next two features that he solidified his stylistic touch, some may call it mannerisms, of muted palette, outlandish action, a liberal use of the sped-up and slow-motion shots, and a genuine love for artificial looking, yet aesthetic visuals. The stunning adaptations of Frank Miller's 300 (2006) and of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbo...

  The very first scene of JUSTICE LEAGUE pretty much sums up the film in a way. Superman had just finished a rescue mission, and kids are doing an interview with him for their blog. The point of view is from a shaky phone camera. The kids giddily ask the polite hero what's his favourite thing about Earth.  He turns his head and thinks for a few seconds. He frowns. The answer should be easy, but it's not. He then smiles and turns back to the camera. He starts to speak and his words are cut short as the scene brutally ends. It's probably my favourite scene of the film, showing a certain sense of poignancy in Henry Cavill's acting, and in the symbolic way the scene is cut short, the same way his life was in the unjustly maligned BATMAN V SUPERMAN . It has a charming sense of ''reality'' that has been lacking in a lot of the DC Films and translate well the inherent goodness of the Man of Steel as well as the admiration children may have ...