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Out of the all the films I've seen in the bunch, I'd rank the Amicus films above the films branded to the HBO series. Demon Knight is entertaining. Bordello of Blood is unwatchable. It's hard to believe it went to the theaters. Everything about it screams "straight to cable." I've never seen Ritual. 

Apparently, BOF's Jett made claims about Affleck's Batman script on Twitter, saying it didn't have a story and that Affleck didn't have the passion for it. Oliva replied back, saying he read it, and that it was the best Batman script he ever read.

For example, that pile of garbage website AV Club ran a headline claiming Snyder's live action adaptation of 300 was foreshadowing the rise of the alt-right. I don't like 300, but even I can see how that claim is ridiculous and baseless.

That's a stretch. I'm personally not a fan of the film either. For me, the experience is like walking pro-wrestling, but I'd hardly link it to the Alt-Right movement. It's just a macho action movie.

The major reason I don't like it is I really don't like Gerard Butler.

Another example is a hack journalist for the Wall Street Journal who wrote an article painting a bad light on the whole fan movement supporting the release of Snyder's real vision of JL. This lead to Jay Oliva, who did storyboard work for the film, calling out the "journalist" for conveniently leaving out information he shared with him, which didn't support the article's agenda.

It's funny how Oliva, an insider who worked on the film, has to argue with outsiders who didn't, but think they know more about the film. Besides, anyone who argues there was never a Snyder cut doesn't know anything about filmmaking. Of course there was a Snyder cut.

There's a good chance there were multiple cuts of the film that were assembled with his input. Movies aren't just edited one time and sent down the line. They would be  very rough, with animatics, blue screen, a temp score, footage that hasn't been color corrected, rough audio, unsharpened pacing, and missing plenty of inserts. It probably wouldn't represent the final film that might've happened had he been allowed to fully shape it. It also wouldn't necessarily be the film he originally envisioned prior to BVS' release and its subsequent shouty, irrational "I didn't like a movie! The end is nigh! How dare they make the dark Superman movie I asked for when Superman Returns came out!" criticism.

Okay.

I apologize. People seemed to be under the impression that I was saying it was wrong to find Wonder Woman sexy, which wasn't my argument at all. If that's what people got, that's not at all what I meant.

Wonder Woman's role in her films hasn't been to arouse the audience sexually.

WW is a character of beauty and that shouldn't be something to be downplayed or be ashamed of.

I didn't argue otherwise.

I can argue there is a big difference between something being sexy/someone finding something sexy and objectification/sexism.

Be my guest.

It all comes down to intentions. Wonder Woman's role in her films hasn't been to arouse the audience sexually. She has a pro-active role that is important to the story. If you cut her out, the story loses a lot. In comparison, they are countless slasher films where the sole purpose of women in the films is to get nude and have a minute affect on the story. If you cut those sort of characters out, you lose absolutely nothing.

I can argue there is a big difference between something being sexy/someone finding something sexy and objectification/sexism.

Neither Wonder Woman nor Justice League sexualized the Amazons. Sure, there's leg, but it's never "Hey, look how sexy these legs are." Meanwhile, there's Michael Bay going, "Hehe, look at the girl's butt."

Try telling the Russo brothers that DC characters can be relatable, because today they came out saying the opposite, due to the characters "having godlike powers".

I have heard that argument before. It's rubbish. I think one of the major things impacting the MCU these days is there a cynical approach bordering on self-parody. I know people like to rag on movies for taking themselves too seriously, but I like when movies take themselves seriously.

Our culture is getting to be where you can't criticize anything without people jumping from 0 to 100. If you don't like a popular movie, you're a non-conformist hipster. If you do like a popular movie, you're jumping on a bandwagon. If you simply try to have a drama-free conversation about film, someone jumps in and it becomes a political war, as if our entire culture hangs on the balance of the sociological applications of movie opinions and how it allegedly shows what's wrong with the world. I'd rather just watch and talk about movies, so I just try to scroll past.