So…Why Did we Watch the Snyder Cut?

Well, it’s out there now. It’s been out there for months now. The long awaited “Snyder Cut” of Justice League has made its dramatic, four hour debut after four years, two directors and at least one CGI mouth. I’m willing to start off by admitting that this is probably a landmark in the genre of superhero films. Titled Zack Snyder’s Justice League to differentiate itself from Joss Whedon’s failure, the film adds a great deal of backstory. Additionally, Snyder inserted a ton of filler and cameos into the existing, still-flawed storyline; the five greatest heroes on the planet are completely useless without Superman. This delivers a grander experience that takes the overall content from “outright bad” to “debatably audacious but ultimately mediocre.” After all, it’s not every day a movie is granted an appeal in the court of public opinion… at least not in the social media age. Marvel, for example, has had underperformers in its day but we don’t see them trying to keep our attention with another version of Thor: The Dark World. Having said all that, I was forced to wonder: What was the point of subjecting us to this movie? Was there a point? I was genuinely wondering what the purpose was behind sitting through a four hour retelling of the same movie people largely rolled their eyes at almost five years ago. What makes this a real mystery, is that this movie ended with a dozen cliffhangers that will see no payoff. At this point, Warner Bros is not restoring the Twitter-coined “…