Rebel Moon - Star Wars But Not Star Wars

[Rome's rightful successor]

Haven't watch part 2 yet but do they explain who and what the large Lord Farquaad looking aliens are, what do they want, and why they resurrected that buzz cut guy for some reason in the previous movie?

 

[Lazy Printer]

Haven't watch part 2 yet but do they explain who and what the large Lord Farquaad looking aliens are, what do they want, and why they resurrected that buzz cut guy for some reason in the previous movie?

They aren't aliens, they are healers probably inspired by the adeptus mechanicus from warhammer that work in the ship.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

You know, I just remembered there was already a sci-fi anime version of Seven Samurai made like two decades or so ago.

Fuck me, I’m old.

Reasons why that show was better than this:
1. The samurai originally fight bandits rather than immediately the shogunate.
2. The samurai looked like you'd expect from badasses rather than thin lame asian women.
3. The samurai are allowed to have a personality.
4. Animation is a better crutch to show insane acts.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I do not understand Snyder fans.

 

[Milkshake Sniffer]

I do not understand Snyder fans.
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Not understanding Snyder fans is a good thing. It means you still have at least some connection to reality.

As an aside, I'm always astonished at defences of Sucker Punch. I'll rail against the wokies with the most rabid and I've seen many of the tackiest and nastiest of the films on the UK's 80s lists of "video nasties" but Sucker Punch is the only film that has actually repulsed me with it's misogeny.

 

[Foltest]

First Rebel moon was so borin to get through and it convince me that while Zack Snyder is a fine directors at time (Dawn of the dead, 300 etc) he can't write for shit and he should not larp as a writer or DoP (why!??).
Better to focus on being a director then fucking up in other roles.

 

[Commander X]

From the descriptions and what I've seen Rebel Moon seems almost indistinguishable from an AI generated movie. It sounds like something that's just a recombination of every stupid, low-grade forgettable blip of a YA sci-fi/fantasy novel or film of the past decade mashed together into pure Content.

 

[Overly Serious]

I do not understand Snyder fans.
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I probably count as a "Snyder fan" by this thread's standards because Watchmen is one of my favorite movies and I think that the Snyder cut of Justice League is infinitely superior to the Whedon release and a decent movie by its own standards. I also enjoyed Rebel Moon part one and will look forward to seeing the second part soon. Opinions that seem to enrage some people here in the Media forum.

On the other hand 300 bored me so much it's one of the few films I've actually walked out of and Sucker Punch is so disgustingly exploitative, nasty and prurient you'd have to pay me a not inconsiderable amount of money to sit through it.

Anyway, my opinions on Part One are a page or two back for anybody who wants a fairly neutral and non-Nerdorotic sounding review. I'll post my thoughts on Part Two once I've watched it.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

To be fair, the anime had a cyborg dude pick up a giant sword made for mechas and cut the capital ship in half at the cost of his own life. That was pretty cool.

Escaflowne from a few years earlier had a normal human with a fuk huge sword* dismembering fantasy mechs in the beginning of the series.

*Sword big enough Berserk's Guts would've nodded in approval.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I’d like to point out that our main character shot a child in cold blood and only felt bad about it afterwards because she got “framed” for also killing the king and queen.

But she’s supposed to be the good guy.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

The exposition in Part 2 is dreadful.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

The exposition in Part 2 is dreadful.

Having all your main characters sit in a room and go “let’s go around and share our sad backstories in a row” is certainly a new low.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Having all your main characters sit in a room and go “let’s go around and share our sad backstories in a row” is certainly a new low.

It's not even just laziness on the part of the writer/s. Someone genuinely thought this would be compelling cinema.

 

[Male Idiot]

This is what my home folks would call not a B movie, but a Z movie. B movies have standards.

 

[TVB]

This is what my home folks would call not a B movie, but a Z movie. B movies have standards.

Hey, at least Z movies do have charm. The Room, Fateful Findings, Manos, Battlefield Earth, Miami Connection and Birdemic are still masterpieces at the end of the day

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Having all your main characters sit in a room and go “let’s go around and share our sad backstories in a row” is certainly a new low.

And everyone's backstory was virtually the same too. "Everyone I loved died by the empire and I had to become a warrior WAH!"

The exposition in Part 2 is dreadful.

Not just the exposition but the first half of the film really loved to dragged out scenes of people farming.

I’d like to point out that our main character shot a child in cold blood and only felt bad about it afterwards because she got “framed” for also killing the king and queen.

But she’s supposed to be the good guy.

I don't know what's funnier? The villain bringing in a violin ensemble for his betrayal of the king or the main character going at the end of the movie "hey you know that little girl I killed in the backstory? Maybe she's still alive, let's go with that".

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Not just the exposition but the first half of the film really loved to dragged out scenes of people farming.

Yes, riveting stuff.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Bet you could shave 30 mins off the entire film by undoing all the slo-mo.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Yes, riveting stuff.

Zach Snyder: "Wow, wouldn't be really great if we had an extremely slow 10 minute scene of wheat getting cut down? That will surely extend the movie's run time to the 2 hours we need!"

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

I'd like to note that the name "Scargiver" is lolworthy and kinda reminds me of Linkara's "Lightbringer".