Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon

[ironwez20]

I am absolutely convinced if this was dropped on Netflix under another director's name there is no way it would be hated as much as it is.

What I also find strange is people hate Zack Snyder's movies and then even after years of complaining about how bad they are, and each one is terrible, year after year they keep spending their time complaining that they are bad. You said it 9 times, we know.

There are people in here complaining about a movie they haven't even seen.

I mean you guys kinda bring up it up endlessly how good and deep his movies are and how nobody gets them. Not to mention the spam of hashtags and trying to “break the internet” by constantly repeating the same thing over and over. Do of course you guys are going to be on everyone’s crap list cause you constantly try and shove it down our throats

 

[Senfi83]

I hate plenty of things but I'm not going to spend much time in a thread about the thing I hate. I'm curious why others approach it differently and spend so much energy on it.

Don't get it either. It's totally ok to express your dislike but when your'e repeating what you don't like again and again it develops into a never ending rant and it just comes over as obsessive. Same thing happens over in the Disney Star Wars threads all the time. Same people, same complaints for the billionth time.

 

[Sassafras]

I think he has made plenty of movies that are true works of art, we are just waiting for some of the audience to catch up

Nah. Snyder's got his own style for sure, and some of his "wind whispering through the grain sunset shots" are IMO pretty effective, as well as the lighting -
but this was seriously poor. The "I partied with a lot of 'shrooms and binge watched 20 movies in random order and then threw up my own film over 3 days with no sleep and only energy drinks" school of filmmaking.

The argument could be made that all stories are already told and folks are just re-telling, like Lucas or anyone else drawing on others for inspiration etc., but this was more along the lines of watching a kid with a big playset re-enacting favorite movie scenes. The only thing that made my jaw drop is how any experienced director could sit in an editing room and not realize they should scrap this thing before they get sued. I liked the lead, too, but don't think she had the presence to pull this off.

Don't get it either. It's totally ok to express your dislike but when your'e repeating what you don't like again and again it develops into a never ending rant and it just comes over as obsessive. Same thing happens over in the Disney Star Wars threads all the time. Same people, same complaints for the billionth time.

Speakin' for myself - it's a way to deal with shock. The brain engages in circular thinking in order to come to terms with the WRONGNESS in the environment, which causes stress and is viewed as a primal threat . You should feel compassion, because, the same thing went on more or less with any viewing where the world tilts - like Mando holding the purse for Bo-katan, the lame Wakanda battle in IW, Prometheus - not to mention the brutal scars left from the Star Wars ST. We want the world to be the way it was, not seeing both the DC and MCU universes crash and burn in the same month,

knowing the only possible salvation on the horizon is Dune. Like, you used to get these big directors and you could be confident at least there'd be SOMETHING worth the ticket price. Then you sit through Suicide Squad 2.

 

[T8OO]

I mean you guys kinda bring up it up endlessly how good and deep his movies are and how nobody gets them. Not to mention the spam of hashtags and trying to “break the internet” by constantly repeating the same thing over and over. Do of course you guys are going to be on everyone’s crap list cause you constantly try and shove it down our throats

Not really. That's just a poor justification.
Bring it up where? In forum threads specifically about the movies? Personal Twitter posts? Dedicated Facebook groups? Where is it exactly that it is thrust upon where you literally can't escape it?
Have you tried muting the hashtag, muting stuff works wonders, you can avoid the things you don't like.

To me, it comes across as some sort of need to constantly bash his movies like it's having some sort of effect.

 

[jye4ever]

Ok here goes nothing.

I started up my Netflix subscription again just for this

Hitting play.

See you in a few hours.

 

[jye4ever]

I hit pause for a second just to say that 25 minutes in and ZS has given humanity to a droid sitting at a pond that I haven’t experienced in quite a long time.

Ok back to the movie.

 

[ironwez20]

Not really. That's just a poor justification.
Bring it up where? In forum threads specifically about the movies? Personal Twitter posts? Dedicated Facebook groups? Where is it exactly that it is thrust upon where you literally can't escape it?
Have you tried muting the hashtag, muting stuff works wonders, you can avoid the things you don't like.

To me, it comes across as some sort of need to constantly bash his movies like it's having some sort of effect.

Ummm aren’t you guys the ones that say “make our voices heard”. “Spam the hashtag” I mean of course people aren’t gonna like you. Come on man I’ve seen you on Twitter you know what I’m talking about. You yourself may not do it but Snyder spamming and trolling is huge. And they hate it when you say you don’t like his films. Like seriously. You can just say I don’t like them and boom all of sudden “you don’t understand it”

 

[ironwez20]

Anyway I thought this was funny

 

[generalszabo]

Started off pretty good IMO, then the bigger the scope the more nonsensical it got. I didn't care about most of the people they recruited, they should have done a less is more approach and cut some of them out to make it feel more like a hopeless cause. The droid got 10 seconds of screen time in the second half. Maybe we'll see more of his development in the extended version, I'd sure like to know how he made that cool antler hat...

5/10

 

[Wor-Gar]

K2SO seems to be everyone's favorite.

 

[jye4ever]

Ok just finished.

Not the disaster many are making it out to be.

But the recruitments were very rushed to a point where Titus was literally drunk and dirty all they did was clean him up and he said ok i’ll join lol

Yes that rushed!

I was really looking forward to the giant spider but man was that battle super underwhelming.

I liked the Spiders body but not the Borg queen head.

I initially didn’t see the twist coming until 3 minutes before it happened so that was good I guess.

The bird taming scene definitely looked like 200 milion dollar cgi perfect execution.

Good villain though and Sofia did a decent enough job.

What’s really hurting this movie are the rushed recruitments, the resistance fighters was super quick as well

I liked the man of steel percussion musical cues during the giant bird flight scene.

I didn’t recognize Ray Fisher lol

The end neural link was actually pretty unique and never before seen in a sci-fi movie that was actually really different and cool the way it was presented.

Definitely better than Sucker Punch and I’m actually looking forward to seeing part 2 and obviously the directors cut.

Now let me give an example of a Snyder hater reviewer pointing out just how stupid it was to show the slow mode seeds being thrown to the ground by a farmer but what they failed to mention is that literally in the next frame they show the bad guys ship arriving thru the clouds and Kora dropping her entire seed crop onto the ground in horror.

Snyder haters purposely ignoring the entire context of the scene shame on them resorting to that.

So the little princess is

Spoiler

a Jedi.

 

[Wor-Gar]

What’s really hurting this movie are the rushed recruitments

Thankfully, the villain was there to recap the recruits backstory for us, one by one, in case you weren't paying attention.

 

[Shai]

Just saw it. Worst movie ive seen in the last 10 years. I knew it was going to be bad, but never THAT bad. Zero chemistry between the actors or the random characters added to the group. The story is just one big boring cliché. Some of the dialogue sounded like it was written by teenage kids. This movie is the Showgirls of science fiction.

 

[Wor-Gar]

This movie is the Showgirls of science fiction.

Maybe the Director's Cut will give us the Showgirls rating.

 

[Khev]

I was definitely expecting it to be more R-rated (and even think it would have benefited from showing more of the blast wounds and such) but am glad that it was still a nice "hard PG-13" for the most part.

 

[Wor-Gar]

You liked it though, right Khev?

 

[The Buffinator]

Thankfully, the villain was there to recap the recruits backstory for us, one by one, in case you weren't paying attention.

Yes, that was SO MUCH BETTER than learning about them through the actual recruitment process. Hey, no point in actually giving us reasons to care about them BEFORE that point.

 

[Wor-Gar]

They tidied up Titan... but still didn't give a shirt to Tarak...

Thought it was odd right after the witch-lady's speech about how bad revenge is, they recruit the general by offering revenge. They could have at least cut to the witch-lady rolling her eyes; but that would have been funny and Zack don't want that.

 

[Khev]

You liked it though, right Khev?

Yep, very much so. Thought it had great stakes, cool and despicable bad guys, a fun and cool looking cast, awesome production design and visuals, really good world building and a genuine sense of tension throughout.

I really got the sense that you had to be a badass to thrive in this galaxy's outer rim. To me RM just packed a punch sorely lacking in so much of modern Star Wars.

I didn't mind any of the common tropes because I just pretty much took it as a straight remake of Kurosawa in the tradition of Fistful of Dollars and Magnificent Seven.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Alatar just cracked a million dollar smile.