Lol, the snyder cut exists in the format it exists because of Covid and the need to figure out what content they could actually generate during the pandemic.
Also: hot take but I always actually kind of passively liked the idea of releasing the "snyder cut" in whatever format it was before he left production. The movie was never going to be "good", but I really liked the idea of actually seeing a workprint cut with all the greenscreen, sound mixing, scoring, color grading, et al moving magic not in the frame yet. So much of these capeshit movies are built in post production I really think it would be fascinating to see what it looks like before all the digital artists do their magic.
I mean I don't even think the Snyder cut was trying to milk the movie for more revenue - the original flopped and there's no way to prove the movie made money on streaming, so they probably did it for a bigger tax write-off on the movie.
"Revenue" isn't the word I'd use. The better term is probably "market share". During covid the big push was to fight for dominance in the streaming wars, and content was king.
Also: the original wasn't really that huge a flop. It made like 230 million domestically and over 650 million worldwide. Given the production and advertising costs for capeshit these days I recognize that its not really a 'hit' unless you're in the billion dollar club...but EOD the movie probably broke even or came close so I think milking it a bit more to actually generate a tiny 'profit' probably makes more sense than any sort of write-off.
That's a great point, tho honestly I think lots of streaming stuff is definitely used for 'creative accounting' sort of purposes.
Uwe Boll made his career exploiting loopholes in German tax law, and if you can finance a movie/show for next to no interest like you could for the last decade and release it on a platform where the success of the content is measured in views, then you can probably realize a pretty big tax write-off by misrepresenting the profitability of your productions - Netflix only paid a 1% income tax rate in 2021
There's also a lot of dick-waving involved in film performance. Supposedly a movie is only a "hit" if it breaks opening-weekend box office records. Anything beyond that is irrelevant because the producers have already been selected for their next projects.
That's true, and also usually the longer a theatrical run is the greater the percentage goes to the theater. Opening weekend is basically make or break as a result.
Also: hot take but I always actually kind of passively liked the idea of releasing the “snyder cut” in whatever format it was before he left production. The movie was never going to be “good”, but I really liked the idea of actually seeing a workprint cut with all the greenscreen, sound mixing, scoring, color grading, et al moving magic not in the frame yet. So much of these capeshit movies are built in post production I really think it would be fascinating to see what it looks like before all the digital artists do their magic.
Sometimes they include stuff like that on special features for a movie, but usually only for a few scenes.
I can appreciate that we at least have two versions of roughly the same movie from two different directors. Being able to see some of the same scenes put into different contexts was a fun treat. Shame that it's for a shit movie, though.
I mean, it was a shit movie, but it wasn't nearly as shit as what was originally released. And I also kinda feel that there's a good hour and a half movie to be mined from those four hours.
Lol, the snyder cut exists in the format it exists because of Covid and the need to figure out what content they could actually generate during the pandemic.
Also: hot take but I always actually kind of passively liked the idea of releasing the "snyder cut" in whatever format it was before he left production. The movie was never going to be "good", but I really liked the idea of actually seeing a workprint cut with all the greenscreen, sound mixing, scoring, color grading, et al moving magic not in the frame yet. So much of these capeshit movies are built in post production I really think it would be fascinating to see what it looks like before all the digital artists do their magic.
I mean I don't even think the Snyder cut was trying to milk the movie for more revenue - the original flopped and there's no way to prove the movie made money on streaming, so they probably did it for a bigger tax write-off on the movie.
"Revenue" isn't the word I'd use. The better term is probably "market share". During covid the big push was to fight for dominance in the streaming wars, and content was king.
Also: the original wasn't really that huge a flop. It made like 230 million domestically and over 650 million worldwide. Given the production and advertising costs for capeshit these days I recognize that its not really a 'hit' unless you're in the billion dollar club...but EOD the movie probably broke even or came close so I think milking it a bit more to actually generate a tiny 'profit' probably makes more sense than any sort of write-off.
That's a great point, tho honestly I think lots of streaming stuff is definitely used for 'creative accounting' sort of purposes.
Uwe Boll made his career exploiting loopholes in German tax law, and if you can finance a movie/show for next to no interest like you could for the last decade and release it on a platform where the success of the content is measured in views, then you can probably realize a pretty big tax write-off by misrepresenting the profitability of your productions - Netflix only paid a 1% income tax rate in 2021
There's also a lot of dick-waving involved in film performance. Supposedly a movie is only a "hit" if it breaks opening-weekend box office records. Anything beyond that is irrelevant because the producers have already been selected for their next projects.
That's true, and also usually the longer a theatrical run is the greater the percentage goes to the theater. Opening weekend is basically make or break as a result.
Sometimes they include stuff like that on special features for a movie, but usually only for a few scenes.
I can appreciate that we at least have two versions of roughly the same movie from two different directors. Being able to see some of the same scenes put into different contexts was a fun treat. Shame that it's for a shit movie, though.
I mean, it was a shit movie, but it wasn't nearly as shit as what was originally released. And I also kinda feel that there's a good hour and a half movie to be mined from those four hours.