Justice League’s Snyder Cut has a lot of slow-motion scenes and the film’s cinematographer addressed that choice. Fabian Wagner is impressed with the final product and thrilled that fans are getting what they’ve been asking for after all these years. The cinematographer spoke to IndieWire about the HBO Max release. Viewers quickly made all the jokes imaginable about the sheer amount of slow-mo present in the longer cut. Well, if you listen to Wagner, it was a conscious decision to spotlight the shots. Zack Snyder is nothing if not consistent, and if you were coming for his directorial vision, that means healthy helpings of slow motion. It seems like the fans didn’t mind it all that much because HBO Max saw record numbers flock to the service. In fact, a devious element of this whole thing is the slow-mo makes screen grabs easier to identify and post. Wagner describes more of it below.
