I've not actually seen the DCEU Snyder films (or actually any DCEU films at all lol, which is odd because I love capeshit but here we are) so I've only know what I've heard second hand. I don't know shit all about their politics so I don't know if there's anything specific that CHUDs latch on to?

I have seen: 300 (which I enjoyed but I was pre-woke then and I'm aware it has some pretty shit politics)

Watchmen (which as a super-fan of the comic I quiet enjoyed for being what I thought at the time was super-faithful adaption, until the ending which I actually preferred to the comic's for making more sense, but I'm aware there's some really good criticisms from leftist fans of the comic about how Snyder didn't actually understand Watchmen but I've never been able to find something in a digestible format about it, just offhand comments in Shaun's twitch chat)

and Sucker Punch (which I enjoyed at the time as dumb fun and because cute girls in hot outfits, I saw it a bit before I started to get woke on feminism though. I have seen defenses of the film from a feminist angle [from MovieBob, lol] that vibe with me but I think in the end even if they were TRYING to do a weird deconstruction/satire they so clearly failed at it based on the reaction, too many feminists hated it and too many men didn't get the subtle message and loved it for what it was pretending to be. So whatever they were trying to do failed too spectacularly for me to give them credit for what they were trying to do.)

I do find it odd though, on the subject of the main question I'm asking here, that Snyder apparently tried to make a subtly feminist movie that involved tricking horny nerds into seeing it and then getting "sucker punched" by the movie's message, but super-fans of the director are all rightwinger anti-feminist nerds who hate Brie Larson?

Please someone explain rightwing superfans of Zack Snyder to me thank you.

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The main reason that the fan base is so dense with chuds is that there is something that they see opposing it that people they don't like enjoy. You saw the same shit with Alita battle angel when it came out around the same time as Captain Marvel (I think). Didn't Tim Poole just release a video juxtaposing the new Harley Quinn movie and fucking Sonic the Hedgehog and take it as a culture war win.

    I think the Zach Snyder hyperfandom is also largely due to how hypermasculine (to an often comical degree) they are. They're very loud dumb movies largely devoid of any nuance and any part that is meant to be emotional is overexplained (HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT NAAAME). He is the closest we have to a real world version of Garth Marenghi.