@Se4M4NSt4ine - I may not like most of his characters, but I do like him very much for that. Seems like a genuine nice guy

@Spock0Clock - was it confirmed Heard’s English accent was added before or after Aquaman?

I was always under the impression it was Snyder’s idea to add that horrible accent originally, hence why he brought it back for the additional scenes he filmed?

@Spock0Clock - I can see why Wan opted to leave it out of his movie!

@Spock0Clock - But filmmaking is a collaborative effort. There are plenty of times where actors point out to directors that their character might act a certain way that the director would have never noticed before.

Actors arent only there just to read lines and move around like puppets. They are all creatives and can contribute a lot to the process.

@bkmeijer - Which ones out of the reshoots were necessary?

@Qrboy - The opening cellphone video is awkwardly done, but a very smart concept. In the Snyder Cut, the only direct reminder you give the audience that Superman existed was his weird CG death screams across the opening credits. When Whedon cut that (for time and silliness, I'm guessing), he absolutely needed a marker in the first act so that Superman doesn't come out of nowhere in the last hour.

That video and the montage after set up what a world with Superman and without him are like. It's effective (as rushed as it is).

@Spock0Clock - I agree with the motivation behind the cellphone video. Superman had literally died in the last movie and there was no motivation for the audience to care at all. It was unwarranted and didn't complete any pre-established character arc in BvS.

So showing that cell phone intro at least got me to have some sympathy for reviving the guy.

@bkmeijer - I would assume that large chunks of the movie had yet to be shot and that the movie would have made no sense without them.

Zack's original vision was probably much more ambitious than what we got in ZSJL. Whedon was brought in to, among other things, make the film shorter, so he probably wrote and directed certain scenes to get from A to B quicker.

Of course, after seeing these same scenes in ZSJL... everything I've just said no longer makes sense.
After all Zack was given a budget of $70 million dollars and a whole extra year to reshoot. If there was originally a longer vision, one that can't merely be sped up to fit time constraints, one that would require Whedon to shoot new segments to make the film make sense and wasn't just easily cut flashbacks... then surely with $70mil and an extra year Zack could shoot these scenes.

It's not like he blew all of that money creating and/or souping up action scenes, making a mini-Cyborg origin movie or showing us Darkseid on Apocalips, in various future scenes, souping up Steppenwolf's CG, creating a larger flashback and a brand new Knightmare sequence. Is it?

And there's no way on earth that Zack would ever re-use or re-shoot any Whedon written bridging scene is there?

@GwenLantern - yeah, I also assumed what Whedon did was bringing the movie quicker from point A to B. And the tight structure of that movie still holds up in my opinion, but after having seen ZSJL I don't see why they didn't just shortened this version