Morach watched Rebel Moon, which he assured me was "one of the moon-types." It's a Zach Snyder movie, which I guess is sort of a genre. I don't hate his movies automatically, and some of them I think are much better than are given credit for. But it does involve recognizing his motives.
I mean, Rebel Moon probably is bad. Gabe genuinely likes bad movies, and to the extent that I can watch them with him, he acts as a natural chelating agent granting me access to otherwise inaccessible nutrition. So if he thinks something is not good, I've come to understand that such media is literally profane. But it's also essentially free, monetarily speaking? I don't know what my calculation is, here. My suspicion is that such calculations must revert, ultimately, to the Ur-Currency - the urrency - called time.
I don't have time to watch every bad movie. I used to think that this was somehow my task, to Bet On Losing Dogs as Mitski would say, but it shouldn't be anybody's task to watch things they don't like. That's just weird. But then I think about all the people who made a thing, and I wonder if there's some way I can see their real heart, their Midnight Work glimmering even there, in that dark place. It's a tension that I find weirdly difficult to manage.
There was an incredibly annoying dialectic surrounding the release of the Snyder Cut, or even just people asking for there to be such a thing as a Snyder Cut after they learned that a Snyder Cut might exist. I don't want to give him props just because he's been deemed a sliver in popular culture which must be squeezed out, just to be on some edgelord shit. The conversation around the Snyder Cut was that it was somehow emblematic of a toxic, malevolent, and entitled fandom. The man has made bad and also genuinely odd films. And I would be open to this interpretation, gruesome as it is, if it weren't for two incontrovertible facts.
1. The Snyder Cut is inarguably superior to the originally released film. That is actually sufficient by itself to annihilate the original assertion: in purely aesthetic terms, a surplus has been generated.
2. The reason the original version of the movie came out the way it did is because Zach Snyder, whatever you think his aesthetic sins may be, was psychologically forced to quit working on the film because his daughter killed herself. A true jackass was enlisted to finish the film instead, and during the prosecution of same, he abused every member of the main cast, and the art that he went on to craft from this abuse was predictably difficult to watch. Here's what happened with the Snyder Cut: Zach Snyder was given the opportunity to literally travel backward through time, exorcize old anguish, redeem his friends, and dedicate the movie his daughter died during - to her. Under these conditions, I could be made to tolerate a movie so bad it literally killed the viewer.
(CW)TB out.
