Zack Snyder’s Writing Skills May Be to Blame for His Disheartening Directorial Trend

Summary:

• Despite all the expectations, Zack Snyder’s latest releases keep bringing his directorial reputation down.
• Back in the day, the director had quite a promising career start that later on was completely crashed by critical failures of all his following films.
• Though it’s clear that there’s some issue which Snyder needs to improve before his next film, it may still not be connected to his directing style.

Zack Snyder may be very well-known for directing huge blockbusters like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice or the Rebel Moon franchise, but all these big-budget hits leave quite a lot to be desired when it comes to their critical reviews.

Ever since he directed an action horror Dawn of the Dead back in 2004, Snyder has never got to do better with critics and, what’s even worse, his films since then seem to have adopted some kind of weird trend as the rating gets lower with every new release.

Though the problem may not lie in Snyder’s directorial style, a bizarre coincidence regarding his filmography raises a thought whether he’s just a bad writer and that’s it.

Zack Snyder Should Just Stick to Directing

Zack Snyder’s career had quite a very promising start, but went down right after. Back in 2004, he directed his first ever movie Dawn of the Dead, the script for which was written by DC’s filmmaker James Gunn.

The action horror that initially got to be a remake for George A. Romero’s 1978 movie of the same name eventually became a critical and commercial success garnering more than $100 million in the box office and landing a solid score of 76% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Surprisingly, this is where Snyder’s directorial career started its inevitable decline. His next movie, a 2006 epic historical action film 300, got a rating of only 61% despite making a fortune of more than $450 million in the box office.

The director then continued his disappointing trend even with the biggest blockbusters like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League that got 29% and 39% on Rotten Tomatoes respectively.

Snyder’s latest installments, both parts of the Rebel Moon’s franchise, turned out to be even worse despite all the highest expectations — the first movie released back in 2023 ended up being a disaster with 21% while the brand new second film came as an even bigger disaster with an unfathomable 15%.

The director’s continuous series of failures, every one of which gets to be worse than all his previous works, raises a thought whether there’s something really wrong in his way of making movies.

Some people were already quick to notice that, ever since the beginning of his career, Snyder had only one successful work as a writer when he created the script for 300 — meaning that the rest of his own stories turned into the biggest flops of his career.

Given how bad Rebel Moon: The Scargiver is doing right now amid its recent release, it might become a big incentive for the director to ponder over his repetitive mistakes on the way to so far unattainable success.

After all, to revive the best time of his directorial path from 20 years ago, he probably needs to entrust the writing part to someone else.