Justice League Snyder Cut Is 10% Slow Motion | Screen Rant
According to some calculations, Zack Snyder's Justice League is 10% slow motion. With last week's release of the Snyder Cut, director Zack Snyder's original vision for the DCEU's first Justice League film has finally been restored. Snyder was one of the primary architects of the DCEU when it first began, but after a family tragedy made him step away from Justice League, he largely left the DC world. However, fan enthusiasm persuaded Warner Bros. to release Snyder's finished cut of Justice League on HBO Max, thus offering some closure after years of uncertainty.
Going into this, Snyder ensured he would maintain complete creative control over Justice League. Save for an order from Warner Bros. that he remove John Stewart's Green Lantern from the film, Snyder was able to introduce the characters he wished, present the film in his chosen aspect ratio, and up the overall MPAA rating. Justice League is being viewed as perhaps the most Snyder movie Snyder has ever made, so it's no surprise that a lot of his signature moves are on full display.
That includes plenty of slow motion action. Justice League employs a great deal of slow-mo shots, usually for the fight sequences. If anyone has ever wondered just how much of the movie is in this style, IGN has them covered. Two employees - Simon Cardy and Matt Purslow - gathered every single shot from Justice League that was clearly rendered in slow motion. Some were unable to be definitively declared slower than normal, so they were left out. In total, Justice League featured 24 minutes and 7 seconds of slow motion footage (or 1,447 seconds).
Including credits, Justice League is 4 hours, 1 minute, and 53 seconds long, or 14,513 seconds. Those 24 minutes of slow motion amounts for 9.97% of the entire film. To look at it from another angle, when removing the credits, Justice League clocks in at 3 hours, 53 minutes, and 7 seconds, so the slow motion is then 10.35% of the movie. Though 24 minutes might not feel like a lot when compared to a four hour movie, it's notable that all the slow motion footage in Justice League actually amounts to a tenth of the picture. No wonder it was so noticeable.
For the most dedicated Snyder fans, though, the lengthy runtime and slowed down moments were hardly seen as a bad thing. The general consensus regarding the Justice League Snyder Cut is that it is a big improvement over the 2017 theatrical version, as it gives more weight to its story and characters. If fans are pleased with the abundance of slow motion, then that's great for them. Snyder made the movie he always intended to, and it proved to be just what audiences were looking for.
Source: IGN