10% of Snyder’s cut is in slow motion

In addition to “It’s really great!”, One of the most common refrains on Zack Snyder’s version of the Justice League since launch is to point out that it includes much slow motion. The next natural question – or at least the next natural question for us – was to know exactly how much. Well, by our calculations, at least 10% of the film is presented in slow motion. The intrepid Simon Cardy (aided by a man’s slow-motion guarantee department, Matt Purslow) combed through every second of the film, comparing any scene that was shown at what was clearly slower speeds than in real life (professional tip: flowing covers) , fire and waves are really useful to find out if it’s slow motion or just really slow camera movement). Discounting any scene in which the slow motion could not be easily identified, we returned with a total of 24 minutes and 7 seconds (1,447 seconds) of slow motion recording.

With the credits, the film arrives in 4 hours, 1 minute and 53 seconds (14,513 seconds), which means that at least 9.97% of the film is in slow motion. In fact, taken without credits, the film arrives with 3 hours 53 minutes and 7 seconds, making up 10.35% of all the filmed material included in the film.

This is important? Not a lot. Satisfy our curiosity? Absolutely. Is it too much slow motion? Scientifically, we would say yes.

The next natural step from here, of course, is to calculate exactly how long the Snyder cut would last if the entire slow motion were set to real-time speeds. Unfortunately, factors such as ‘slow motion levels vary over time’ and ‘it is very difficult to assign precise speeds to the actions of superpowered beings, even divine ones’, made this difficult to determine at the time of this writing. Perhaps it is for the future.

Have you seen Zack Snyder’s Justice League?

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After a long, tragic and controversial journey, Zack Snyder’s Justice League arrived at HBO Max last week, effectively replacing Joss Whedon’s version of the film with a new 4-hour epic, presented as Zack Snyder originally intended. We rewarded him with an 8/10 review, calling him “a surprise revenge for the director and fans who believed in his vision”. With it finally available, you can check all the differences between the versions of Whedon and Snyder.

Perhaps the most interesting thing now is whether we will see Snyder return to his planned Justice League film trilogy. Despite saying that there are no plans, Snyder was open about why the film creates a sequel, how the trilogy could have ended with a shocking new superhero and much, much more.

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