The Snyder Cut’s Release is a Loss for All of Us

The fabled Snyder cut is real and it’s coming to a streaming service near you. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it’s been a fixture in pop culture, nerd culture and Hollywood circles for going on three years now. Its origins trace back to when Warner Bros. Studios released Justice League in 2017 to much… disappointment. The film was meant to compete with the likes of Marvel’s Avengers but ended up becoming the source of audible groans of frustration from fans the world over. But what was to blame? Well, for a vocal contingent of fans, the obvious answer was that Justice League switched directors in the final hour as Zac Snyder (300, Watchmen and Man of Steel) had to depart the project late into production following a family tragedy in March 2017. To help bring the film home, Joss Whedon (The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Buffy the Vampire Slayer) stepped in two months later to make some final adjustments (read: reshoots) to the version that was ultimately released and scored a middling 40 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Then, before the dust even settled, anonymous Redditors and self-proclaimed insiders started leaking theories that Snyder’s film would’ve looked totally different and somehow not have been victim to the same issues. You know, despite the fact that he was involved in most of the film’s production.

In fact, these same “sources” claimed the Snyder cut was so far along that there was practically a full film waiting to be released with some minor refineme…