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Going through a process of looking back at tons of Josstice League edits as a step of preparation for trying to make an edit of ZSJL. So far I've rewatched two edits not on IFDB, including JL: Origins and the "Ultimate Fan Edition" I think it was (I don't have that hard drive at the moment and I'm struggling to remember the name). The former was alright, the latter was less-so. But this was always gonna be my winner (Well, I say that still not having seen the Ultimate Edition by Bobson). For years this was my definitive Justice League. The color grading was exactly where I wanted it, even more-so than the ZSJL we got which I feel over-compensates for the hyper-saturation of Josstice League too much. While I would've used more of the old scores, I like the minimalism quite a bit. The worst jokes were excised and some bad Whedon scenes legitimately became a lot better in editing. This cut is one of the best examples of how editing really is the final rewrite of a movie, and it ultimately just reflects even worse on WB because it shows that even with the Whedon footage and how much was already cut, something decent could've been made had they taken some more time to polish it like you did. With this, Josstice League felt like something genuinely different not just from the MCU-esque tone of the TC, but even from the Snyder tone. Looking back, this cut still holds up as being my favorite "middle road" cut, even more-so than cuts that combine ZSJL and the TC together. The tone is different from Snyder and Whedon, if anything I'd say Wonder Woman is the closest tonal comparison here. But what it results in is I guess a window into another world. A world where the writer who won out at that "Summit" they had wasn't Whedon, but Allan Heinberg. Do I like it more than ZSJL? No, but I'm a hopeless Snyder fan at the end of the day who was always gonna like the 4:3 4 hour bloated version the most, regardless of its issues. Regardless, this still stands as my second favorite Justice League, and for that honor to be held by a Josstice League edit and not something using ZSJL as a base is a testament to the quality of this cut and to how clueless WB was. If fans could do it with Blu-Rays and trailers, why couldn't WB have made something this polished with their millions of dollars?