Zack Snyder's 8 Best Movies, Ranked

Slow motion, gray skies, at least one guy screaming in the rain. Here's Snyder ranked by movie.guru score, not by whoever yells loudest in the comments.

Number one exists because the internet refused to stop asking. Fight about it below.

1. 8
   Sucker Punch (2011)2.5

   A video game cutscene that forgot to hand you the controller.

   Movie.guru score 2.5, Rotten Tomatoes 22%. It made $89.8M worldwide on a reported $75 to $82M budget. Gorgeous slow motion, zero reasons to care about anyone in it.
2. 7
   Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)3.8

   Ben Affleck's Batman deserved a much better movie than this.

   $874M worldwide and a 28% on Rotten Tomatoes. Jesse Eisenberg plays Lex Luthor like a TED Talk after nine espressos. Movie.guru score 3.8.
3. 6
   Justice League (2017)4.2

   A reported $300M movie that plays like a rough cut.

   39% on Rotten Tomatoes, $661M worldwide. Audiences still handed it a B+ CinemaScore, the most generous thing anyone did for this version.
4. 5
   Watchmen (2009)5.8

   Slavishly faithful, which is both its gift and its problem.

   IMDb 7.6 from 618K voters, Rotten Tomatoes 65%. The opening credits montage is Snyder's best filmmaking. Only $185M worldwide on a reported $130 to $150M.
5. 4
   Man of Steel (2013)6.2

   Perfect Superman casting trapped inside a gray, gloomy movie.

   A minus CinemaScore, $670M worldwide, Henry Cavill nailing the part. Then the last act flattens a city like it owes rent. Guru's Take 5.1, under the 6.2 score.
6. 3
   Dawn of the Dead (2004)6.8

   His best actual movie, and the ranking is wrong about it.

   Reported $26M budget, $102M worldwide, and a 77% on Rotten Tomatoes, the highest of all eight. Running zombies, a shopping mall, Ving Rhames. Halloween sorted.
7. 2
   300 (2006)6.9

   Nothing but abs, slow motion and shouting. Iconic anyway.

   Critics beat only 39% of movies, audiences beat 84%. $456M worldwide on a reported $65M. Gerard Butler yelled one line and it outlived the whole decade.
8. 1
   Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)7.9

   The fan-demanded recut is his best movie. Deal with it.

   Movie.guru score 7.9. Audiences beat 96% of movies, critics only 49%. Rotten Tomatoes jumped from 39% for the 2017 cut to 71%. Same team, wildly different movie.

$226.41 says the first reply argues Dawn of the Dead should be number one, and honestly they've got a point.

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