Can't disagree more. DC needs to get far far far away from Snyder.
Was the Snyder cut better than the Whedon version? Yeah, but that's not a high bar to clear. Was it actually a good movie? No.
Snyder is an interesting visual director, but having him involved in the writing and storytelling is just a poor decision. He's about as subtle as a monster truck, and struggles to find a consistent tone. He beats the audience in the face with his "superheroes would be seen as Gods" theme until our nose is bloody, but doesn't actually integrate that into his plot in any meaningful way. And he tries to create a "gritty" experience for the viewer, but does so in the same movie that has space aliens fighting over Totally-Not-Infinity-Stones with a CGI-Cyborg flying around the screen. If you want the audience to feel the weight of the story and feel the grit of the world, you can't ask us to suspend our disbelief that much for such a fantasy-oriented plot and action sequences. Gritty superhero movies are practically a genre to themselves at this point, and virtually every other one of these has understood this (and even Snyder understood this better in his adaptation of The Watchmen, in which he intentionally removed the space monster).
And even from a visual standpoint, there's the whole 4:3 aspect ratio mess. 4:3 isn't IMAX, this isn't going to be shown on IMAX, this wasn't filmed on IMAX cameras, and this wasn't originally framed for a 4:3 aspect ratio. So why is he pretending it's 4:3 for IMAX? It just seems like he wants to stir up controversy and debate more than actually make a good movie. Same with the whole black & white version. Reeks of pretension and measuring his success by the amount of people talking about his movie online (which, granted, I'm doing right now). Not to mention the fact that literally 10% of the movie is in slow motion. We get it Zack, 300 was really cool and slow motion was a big part of that. But you don't have to load so much of that into your movies anymore. ESPECIALLY when slow motion is also being used to establish the speed of the Flash, having other scenes in slomo (many of which are pointlessly so) detracts from the distinguishing factor of the Flash.
Not to mention that BvS is still awful.
I do agree the runtime could have been cut down significantly. Random Norwegian women singing to Aquaman and sniffing his sweater? Not needed. Side plot involving Comissioner Gordon that's forgotten the second after he appears on screen? Ditch it. The Flash applying for a job at a doggy daycare and making googoo eyes at some girl who's never seen again? Cut it. Underwater exposition scenes about some offscreen political drama involving the King of Atlantis? Why was it even there. Wonder Woman saving a bunch of people in a museum from Roose Bolton and self-described terrorists* who have no demands yet still put their bomb on a timer instead of detonating it right away? Unnecessary. Steppenwolf constantly reporting to middle management in the Darkseid HR department? Only needs to happen once, not three times. The entire freaking epilogue? Complete waste that's only there to get #Restorethesnyderverse into social media
*Also, what terrorist calls themself a terrrorist? Freedom fighter or revolutionary or something like that, sure. But nobody thinks of themselves as the bad guy.
