Rebel Moon - Star Wars But Not Star Wars

Andromeda was the shit.
It really was, I miss the concept of adventure in western media. Everything's now needs to be serialised or have some gay morals.
Which begs the question of what the whole point was of trying to find the contact in the first place.
I guess it will make sense to make it a chain so even if someone listens to the original message, only the receiver can deduce where the contact is.
 
I know nothing about this film outside of second-hand information but I like the design of the K-2SO/C-3PO knockoff and his antler hat. From what I've heard he's the only one who has any sort of character arc.
The planet is called Veld, and 20 minutes into the movie, someone says "Voetsek". Very subtle.
The idea of a science fiction war taking place in Africa isn't unappealing.
 
The idea of a science fiction war taking place in Africa isn't unappealing.
The film takes place in a generic space opera setting à la Star Wars without any overt references to Earth or real world cultures or nations.

So I thought it was a bit jarring for the film to randomly have Afrikaner type characters making quips in Afrikaans slang.

It would be like if in a Star Wars film, they had a Latino character sprinkling Spanish slang into their English dialog.

What I think happened with this film is that the director wanted the antagonists to have an evil, aggressive accent for their English dialog, and the South African accent certainly can have those connotations. But then they probably went overboard with the Afrikaans slang, and the director was too dumb to realize it and thought that his actors were improvising some kind of cool sci-fi slang and decided to keep it in the film.
 
Man, he really just copied the plot of “Seven Samurai” but just put it in space and changed “rice” to “grain”, huh?

Among all the other stuff clearly ripped from other movies, I mean.
 
My old man tried sitting through this movie. Said he had to watch it for around 30 minutes and switch over to something else and come back later over and over again until he finished it.
 
I liked District 9. It got overpraised because it was about how racism is bad, but I thought it was a good movie.
Yea, I liked the movie for being entertaining. I don't care about the dumbass "deep, metaphoric" commentary people spew out about the movie's "racism bad" shit. It's still a nice, fun movie.
Man, he really just copied the plot of “Seven Samurai” but just put it in space and changed “rice” to “grain”, huh?

Among all the other stuff clearly ripped from other movies, I mean.
A lot of products rip off every other plot or storyline from another product. Star Wars literally copied Seven Samurai, as too with the 1960 western The Magnificent Seven, the 1998 Pixar movie A Bugs' Life, the 2004 PS2 game Seven Samurai 20XX and the 2004 anime Samurai 7.

Having that said, Zack Snyder is a shitty writer and/or storyteller
 
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...moon-r-rated-snyder-cut-ed-skrein-1235775450/

Well apparently there is a Snyder cut they're planning to release, and it's ultra violent, by which it probably means there's a lot of fake blood added in.

I suppose he's settled into this pattern of a 'normie' cut and a proper one for his fans.
My wife watched this while I was in my office working and all I could pick up about the movie is that it was loud and violent.

I'm not a guy who dislikes violence as a regular gun enthusiast and veteran (one of my favorite movies is Hardcore Henry), but the movie just sounded gratuitous and noisy

Now you're telling me he's going to add more of that? Now I'm definitely not interested.
 
Star Wars literally copied Seven Samurai
I can't think of a way it's correct. Seven Samurai is a story that is entrenched by social castes in Japan's past and the plot is peasants hiring Samurai to the very thankless and degrading task of clearing out bandits. While Star Wars is the opposite end of it with a princess asking a space knight order to help her decapitate an empire.

The fights in Seven Samurai are more gritty, with the samurai resorting to train the peasants, make traps and steal the bandit's guns. While SW is more idealized.
 
This crap makes Sucker Punch look like a good movie.
Zack Snyder, even if his movies lack good storytelling, can at least make something that's nice to look at.
Not this time, Rebel Moon is ugly as fuck.
Everything sucks, from the inconsistent art design to the horrible CG.
The action sucks as well, not 1 memorable set piece and I fucking love how the lead woman is so bad at physical acting that everyone else has to slow down too let her do her moves during the fights.
Considering that this is supposedly Zack's passion project, he really phoned this one in.

There is only 1 scene I liked and it's when they go to Mos Eisley and talk to a bug who is controlling a human and talking through him.
That was a really neat concept and if this movie was full of stuff like that, it would be a lot better.

I will give an honorable mention to the villain.
He's fun in the same way Jeremy Irons in Dungeons & Dragons or John Travolta in Battlefield Earth is.
He's so over the top and chews the scenery a lot, seems like the only person on set who is having fun.
Zack even included a scene where the villain has a tentacle hentai monster in his bedroom and we cut away just before he has filthy hentai sex with it.

Sadly, the movie is boring, that's the worst thing about it.
Everything else could be forgiven if the movie was fun to watch but it's not.
I was checking my social media feed quite a bit during 90% of this movie.

Overall, skip this one.
Look up the Mos Eisley scene and the tentacle hentai scene and you will get the good stuff without suffering through 150 minutes of bullshit.
 
I can't think of a way it's correct. Seven Samurai is a story that is entrenched by social castes in Japan's past and the plot is peasants hiring Samurai to the very thankless and degrading task of clearing out bandits. While Star Wars is the opposite end of it with a princess asking a space knight order to help her decapitate an empire.

The fights in Seven Samurai are more gritty, with the samurai resorting to train the peasants, make traps and steal the bandit's guns. While SW is more idealized.
Regardless, my point I'm trying to make is that Zack Snyder is a shitty writer and shitty storyteller and is the reason why shitty writing and shitty storytelling exists today
 
Regardless, my point I'm trying to make is that Zack Snyder is a shitty writer and shitty storyteller and is the reason why shitty writing and shitty storytelling exists today
I agree with the first part, but I think the second part is giving him a bit too much credit, as I'm pretty sure Hollywood had shitty writing and storytelling locked down with or without Snyder.
 
Regardless, my point I'm trying to make is that Zack Snyder is a shitty writer and shitty storyteller and is the reason why shitty writing and shitty storytelling exists today
It's worth pointing out that Star Wars ripping off Seven Samurai is a pretty common saying, as if no media beforehand has someone looking for a renowned warrior.

Also I really wouldn't put Zack as a source of shitty writing. Jar Jar Abrahams was WAY worse with mystery boxes, where you never get a worthwhile result. While Ruin Johnson and other post modern writers just jack themselves off thinking they are better for shitting over genre expectations that are there for a reson.
 
I think I saw some doritos or whatever chips branded with this on it at Wal Mart yesterday?
at first I thought it was some new Mouse Wars thing then I remembered this existed
 
Did Snyder really rip-off, er... pay homage to Space Battleship Yamato?
iirc there's an early doodle-level development sketch of a hero character for War Of Stars The Whills And Robot Adventures or whatever it was at the dawn of Star Wars, where the character has a top that looks sorta like the Yamato guys wore, and Lucas was specifically in Japan for a film festival the same time as the first Yamato movie was in theaters
 
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It's worth pointing out that Star Wars ripping off Seven Samurai is a pretty common saying, as if no media beforehand has someone looking for a renowned warrior.

Also I really wouldn't put Zack as a source of shitty writing. Jar Jar Abrahams was WAY worse with mystery boxes, where you never get a worthwhile result. While Ruin Johnson and other post modern writers just jack themselves off thinking they are better for shitting over genre expectations that are there for a reson.
I'd say Zack Snyder is as bad as Jar Jar Abrams and Ruin Johnson. Just most writers are terrible hack writers in the modern industry as well
 
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