{"id":25256,"date":"2021-03-24T09:11:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=25256"},"modified":"2021-03-24T09:11:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:11:21","slug":"on-talented-hackery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2021\/03\/24\/on-talented-hackery\/","title":{"rendered":"On Talented Hackery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1633,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/whatever.scalzi.com\\\/2021\\\/03\\\/22\\\/zack-snyders-justice-league-review&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231206144139\\\/https:\\\/\\\/whatever.scalzi.com\\\/2021\\\/03\\\/22\\\/zack-snyders-justice-league-review\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 23:29:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 11:37:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 22:39:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 21:36:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 21:36:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A few minor edits to this paragraph from John Scalzi&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2021\/03\/22\/zack-snyders-justice-league-review\/\" title=\"Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League: Review | Whatever\">Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League: Review<\/a> and it very nicely sums up my attitude towards all of Zack Snyder&#8217;s films:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;that\u2019s the real problem with [Zack Snyder&#8217;s] films. They look great [but] I find it hard to give a shit about any of them. I don\u2019t hate them, but I don\u2019t especially like them either&#8230;. They exist, and that\u2019s about it. The problem with [Zack Snyder&#8217;s] films is not that they\u2019re dour but that they\u2019re empty. They\u2019re not compellingly written, either in the larger plot sense or the smaller character sense, and when you\u2019re done watching them, most of what you\u2019re left with is a sense that you sure looked at something expensive.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find Snyder to be a very talented hack. What he does, he does very well. Unfortunately, what he does holds very little appeal for me. And with his vision as the guiding force between most of the DC movie universe, it&#8217;s never been a particular surprise to me that I&#8217;ve not really enjoyed any of the ones I&#8217;ve seen, and haven&#8217;t been terribly motivated to watch those I&#8217;ve missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;most of what you\u2019re left with is a sense that you sure looked at something expensive.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-25256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}