10) Snyder Doesn’t Know When To Limit His CGI
You get the impression that Zack Snyder is very much a “we’ll fix it in post” kind of guy. Ever since 300, which used copious green-screen to stylish effect, Snyder’s live-action films have looked sterile at best, and like overly-slick, quasi-cartoons at worst. His latest, Batman V Superman, is lousy with CGI, its backgrounds so awash with pixels that it’s rare you actually feel like the characters are living in a physical place.
Where Snyder paints his movies with CGI in broad strokes, Christopher Nolan prefers to keep his films grounded – i.e. shot in real locations or on physical sets – where possible. The Dark Knight trilogy features giant props and model ‘bigatures’ in the place of CGI, lending a weight to his films that’s sorely lacking in BvS.
If Nolan’s trilogy did use computer imagery, it was used sparingly. And there’s a sense that “sparingly” isn’t in Zack Snyder’s vocabulary.