Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon

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140 million views for both combined.

If Netflix is lying where could you get the information? The image is for the week ending 28th April.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10?week=2024-04-28
Ok well someone is lying cause how come when I pull up top movies it’s not number 1 not yo mention had a drastic dip after the second week and no fan fare whatsoever. So again someone is lying lol

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Oh wait you mean world wide? I mean yea it’s number 1 worldwide but no one is talking about it. I still think they’ll be a third but nobody cares about it
 
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"Rebel Moon - Chapter One: Chalice Of Blood” is the title for Zack Snyder's Director's Cut of Rebel Moon.
The film is Rated R for brutal bloody violence and gore, sexual content, graphic nudity and language.


I'm sure this news will be met with completely reasonable responses.

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Most likely response:

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If it's supposed to show the main character having explicit fun with her boring boyfriend and that's supposed to bring in views - the guy was kinda wimpy and they had as much chemistry as Cheez-Whiz on a lobster tail. :yuck

And after watching the Drinker's commentary about the Titanic musicians with bags on their faces, all I can see is 4 people with, like, the Dr. Strange eyeball alien for heads. They should have done that since this show was into tentacles and ripping off Star Wars.
 
Eh... couldn't care less about gore. It only works if you are invested in the characters, otherwise it just becomes silly (which is fine if you're doing some type of horror comedy, which this isn't). Some sexy time is always fine, but again, it works best when it serves a purpose in the story. And I'm not sure these movies have a good story to tell.
 
Well I for one quite enjoyed it and am looking forward to the R rated version, and couldn’t give a fig what anybody else thinks, so there 😜
 
So I’m expecting the R-rated cuts to be even more controversial and upsetting to many. The Heavy Metal pulpification of the space opera genre feels to me kind of like Star Wars on drugs. Star Wars on shrooms or something. I give Zack credit for doing something artistically offbeat and different in this aspect, by including sexually explicit content and “over the top” violence. And by overloading and exaggerating tropes and what not. If it’s trippy af and wonderfully weird I’ll like it and appreciate it for being offbeat. I’m not particularly a fan of Star Wars so it doesn’t bother me that it’s subverting that franchise’s domination. But honestly, I still wish he’d done something more conventional and just made a grittier, more adult version of Star Wars. He had a golden opportunity to deliver something fairly mainstream that satisfies the normies, but he went heavily subversive with it. With Part 3 he might yet move more in that mainstream direction, though.
 
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There's something hugely distracting going on by releasing two versions. And honestly, I suspect that is likely as much Zack Snyder’s idea as it was Netflix’s. I think Snyder liked the idea because he saw the opportunity to do something very creative with it that has never been done before by any filmmaker. The R-rated version is the film that Snyder actually wanted to make. It’s the original, raw, untamed vision as it exists in his own mind, living like a creature “in the wild.” Here the “natural world” is a highly personalized inner vision. Whereas the PG13 version is basically compromised—even if just by Zack’s own hand in this case—in order to conform to market pressures. It is a “domesticated” version based on Zack’s notion of what studios believe will be most successful. That is, I believe, the message of the scene of Tarak taming the Bennu.

But anyway, for me, Rebel Moon is actually a pretty good story. And I like the characters. There are derivative aspects that are intentional but that’s fine. The grandfather of the genre, 1977 Star Wars, did that whole hog. (Although tbh I also don’t need to have my face rubbed in that either.)

The Heavy Metal pulp stylistic aspects… and saturation of genre tropes and allusions… are in some ways a distraction to me, though. What matters at the end of the day is a good story arc, character development, and likable characters. I feel like those are there with Rebel Moon. I really don’t need to see gratuitous sex and violence. And obvious nods to other films and exaggerations of genre tropes. I’m not really into that in other films tbh. I just want to see the “good bones” that I find to Rebel Moon developed more sincerely and straightforwardly from here on out. I want to see this thing open up into a richly developed new fantasy universe to explore.
 
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I give Zack credit for doing something artistically offbeat and different in this aspect, by including sexually explicit content and “over the top” violence.
Unfortunately there's not enough sex and violence in the entire universe to make this franchise interesting...
 
There's something hugely distracting going on by releasing two versions. And honestly, I suspect that is likely as much Zack Snyder’s idea as it was Netflix’s. I think Snyder liked the idea because he saw the opportunity to do something very creative with it that has never been done before by any filmmaker.

I didn't realize Snyder was the first filmmaker to ever release a "director's cut." Truly a bleeding edge idea. First of its kind.

Can't wait to see what he comes up with next. Maybe he'll release a little two minute summary of his movies before they're released. A "preview" of sorts.
 
I didn't realize Snyder was the first filmmaker to ever release a "director's cut." Truly a bleeding edge idea. First of its kind.

Can't wait to see what he comes up with next. Maybe he'll release a little two minute summary of his movies before they're released. A "preview" of sorts.
One director making two pre-planned cuts on purpose, a studio-mandated cut and a director's cut so they can be released as separate releases and advertised as such? When has that been done before?
 
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