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Title: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: karlos on 22 August, 2023, 07:35:50 PM
https://youtu.be/_rHLOXbFZtI

Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 22 August, 2023, 10:43:52 PM
Wow... that's a beautifully rendered/shot collection of startlingly obvious visual cliches.

I'm assuming the pitch for this was "It's Suckerpunch, only Star Wars".
Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: Funt Solo on 23 August, 2023, 12:42:30 AM
I was getting hints of the sort of galactic drama we've been screened recently with Foundation and Dune. Of course, there's no arguing the Star Wars link because A) light-sabers, B) it's got "Rebel" in the title and C) it "began development as a Star Wars film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Moon:_Part_One_%E2%80%93_A_Child_of_Fire#:~:text=Rebel%20Moon%20is%20inspired%20by,on%20the%20Star%20Wars%20universe.)"

I enjoyed the trailer - it looks like good action sci-fi. Hopefully, the villains won't pontificate too much.
Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: karlos on 13 November, 2023, 11:21:40 PM
https://youtu.be/fhr3MzT6exg?feature=shared

Another trailer - bits look great, other bits look, to me, derivative but hey, I'm still looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: RookieNerd on 17 November, 2023, 05:09:27 PM
Snyder has done anything artistic since Watchmen. If it's ends up like a dumb fun popcorn flick like Aqua-man I will probably see it at some point.
Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: karlos on 22 December, 2023, 08:07:05 PM
Out now on Netflix and I caught it earlier today.

It's fun enough but not spectacular.

If you are not a Snyder fan will this convert you? Probably not.

Anyway, there's always a place in my heart for big, daft sci-fi, and I'm sure in yours, too.
Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: rogue69 on 24 December, 2023, 11:30:11 PM
Just watched this, it's Zack Snyder does 7 Samurai meets Star Wars whilst using imagery from the old Imperial Russia to show the bad guys. It is trying to be an epic on the lines of Dune but feels more like the Chronciles of Riddick. Not a bad film all together definitely worth a watch
Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: Barrington Boots on 02 January, 2024, 10:24:14 AM
Rubbish Moon more like.
In fairness not a huge fan of previous Snyder stuff and this was very Snyder-y. Felt like a bunch of cardboard cutout characters in various cool set pieces, strung togther by the thinnest of plot. Great dislikable villain though!
Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: broodblik on 02 January, 2024, 10:46:42 AM
I enjoyed it but it felt a little bit disjointed
Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: The Legendary Shark on 02 January, 2024, 12:06:39 PM

I fell asleep a third of the way in and didn't bother rewinding when I woke up. Pish.

Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: Funt Solo on 02 January, 2024, 03:29:15 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo [R] on 23 August, 2023, 12:42:30 AMI was getting hints of the sort of galactic drama we've been screened recently with Foundation and Dune. Of course, there's no arguing the Star Wars link because A) light-sabers, B) it's got "Rebel" in the title and C) it "began development as a Star Wars film (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Moon:_Part_One_%E2%80%93_A_Child_of_Fire#:~:text=Rebel%20Moon%20is%20inspired%20by,on%20the%20Star%20Wars%20universe.)"

I enjoyed the trailer - it looks like good action sci-fi. Hopefully, the villains won't pontificate too much.

Shit Moon, more like. Black sidekick dies. The entire village walk around a corner in "most stupidly choreographed sequence in a movie ever". The "let's meet the gang" sequence of vignettes doesn't tie into any of the rest of the movie. Chekhov's gun, you fucks! Mini-Solo uttered "how come none of the bullets ever hit her"? Engage your Willing Suspension of Shitbelief bafflers and turn them up to eleventy-stupid.
Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: Link Prime on 03 January, 2024, 05:21:43 PM
Anecdotally, I know a lot of non-genre fans who watched this over the holiday period and really liked it.
I though it was watchable, but nothing special.
Better than Episodes VII / VIII, but that's no stretch.

Worst sin was the not very memorable ship designs.
Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: Daveycandlish on 03 January, 2024, 06:59:53 PM
I watched the first 45 mins of this and started to question my life choices.
Off it went.
Title: Re: Rebel Moon (2023)
Post by: Funt Solo on 03 January, 2024, 07:04:24 PM
Possible spoilers: this was my favorite part of Rebel Moon: Tarak rides Bennu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AvIEr2dxVo)!