not a great trailer - looks like someone took elements from star wars, LOTR, thor, narnia, harry potter, conan, and others, put them in an AI blender, then filmed it. hope i'm wrong and it's actually well-written and fresh. but whoever made that trailer had no problem trying to hit familiar nostalgia receptors.From Zack Snyder, the filmmaker behind 300, Man of Steel, and Army of the Dead, comes REBEL MOON, an epic science-fantasy event decades in the making.
When a peaceful colony on the edge of a galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of a tyrannical ruling force, Kora (Sofia Boutella), a mysterious stranger living among the villagers, becomes their best hope for survival.
Tasked with finding trained fighters who will unite with her in making an impossible stand against the Mother World, Kora assembles a small band of warriors — outsiders, insurgents, peasants and orphans of war from different worlds who share a common need for redemption and revenge.
As the shadow of an entire Realm bears down on the unlikeliest of moons, a battle over the fate of a galaxy is waged, and in the process, a new army of heroes is formed.
Re: Rebel Moon [Snyder]
2welp, i'm assuming no one here watched any of these. i know i'm probably the only person on here who appreciates what Snyder does, generally. but even i waited - i didn't watch either of the neutered versions, as Netflix and Snyder both came out almost immediately and said his longer, extended, and as-intended R-rated cuts would be released "at a later date". turns out that date was a couple weeks ago. so, we plopped them on.
my comments apply to both of them together, as the second entry picks up immediately after the first one ends, so it's really like a 7.5h movie. as i said on Letterboxd, Synder makes visual graphic novels. It's a comic book, and I don't mean that as derogatory. If you enjoyed going to a comic shop and coming home with a First, Image, Rebel, etc. - an independent book instead of Marvel or DC - you should appreciate this. If watching a comic book isn't your thing, this isn't for you. every scene of these films looks like it was/could have been a panel on the page of a pretty great graphic novel. just like he did for Watchmen. that's what he did here, but you know, space. story-wise, it kind of is a mash-up of everything i listed in the previous post, so as far as that goes, that trailer was accurate. again, it's a comic book, with comic book logic and plot holes, comic book characters, and comic book resolutions. and again, i don't mean that as derogatory. Snyder isn't making things to be compared to other great film auteurs, he's making screen versions of comics he wants to see. that's it. i don't mean to speak for him like i know him - i don't - but watching all of his films, this is the obvious conclusion i draw. so that being said, i don't understand why he gets all the hate he gets. i don't think people understand what he's doing. if what he's doing isn't your thing, obviously you won't like it, so why do you continue to watch?
anyway, TL;DR here is that i actually liked these films pretty well. my wife isn't a big sci-fi fan and couldn't pick a Snyder film out of a line up (even though i've shown her all the ones i like) and she stuck through the whole thing, said she really liked it at the end, and wanted to talk about it. for what that's worth. some parts were long and non-sensical, but again, i think about a 12-issue series/arc i liked in some indie comics, and there is usually a sag in the middle, where some character branches off on their own tangent for an issue or something. that's what happened at a couple points here. but generally, everything was moving forward at a decent pace. the nudity and gore were par for the course with indie comics, and part of the reason i bought/liked them over "studio" comics, and it's quite welcome here. grounds these films in some bit of realism, since the actual plot is kind of ridiculous. the villains are cartoony and super-human, just like comic book villains. anyway, i think you get my point - Snyder's films are comic books. they are written like comic books, filmed like comic books, and play out like watching a comic book. and i appreciate them for those reasons precisely. i have no major issue with these films, in that context. i'd say the first one was the stronger of the two, but not by a huge margin.
my comments apply to both of them together, as the second entry picks up immediately after the first one ends, so it's really like a 7.5h movie. as i said on Letterboxd, Synder makes visual graphic novels. It's a comic book, and I don't mean that as derogatory. If you enjoyed going to a comic shop and coming home with a First, Image, Rebel, etc. - an independent book instead of Marvel or DC - you should appreciate this. If watching a comic book isn't your thing, this isn't for you. every scene of these films looks like it was/could have been a panel on the page of a pretty great graphic novel. just like he did for Watchmen. that's what he did here, but you know, space. story-wise, it kind of is a mash-up of everything i listed in the previous post, so as far as that goes, that trailer was accurate. again, it's a comic book, with comic book logic and plot holes, comic book characters, and comic book resolutions. and again, i don't mean that as derogatory. Snyder isn't making things to be compared to other great film auteurs, he's making screen versions of comics he wants to see. that's it. i don't mean to speak for him like i know him - i don't - but watching all of his films, this is the obvious conclusion i draw. so that being said, i don't understand why he gets all the hate he gets. i don't think people understand what he's doing. if what he's doing isn't your thing, obviously you won't like it, so why do you continue to watch?
anyway, TL;DR here is that i actually liked these films pretty well. my wife isn't a big sci-fi fan and couldn't pick a Snyder film out of a line up (even though i've shown her all the ones i like) and she stuck through the whole thing, said she really liked it at the end, and wanted to talk about it. for what that's worth. some parts were long and non-sensical, but again, i think about a 12-issue series/arc i liked in some indie comics, and there is usually a sag in the middle, where some character branches off on their own tangent for an issue or something. that's what happened at a couple points here. but generally, everything was moving forward at a decent pace. the nudity and gore were par for the course with indie comics, and part of the reason i bought/liked them over "studio" comics, and it's quite welcome here. grounds these films in some bit of realism, since the actual plot is kind of ridiculous. the villains are cartoony and super-human, just like comic book villains. anyway, i think you get my point - Snyder's films are comic books. they are written like comic books, filmed like comic books, and play out like watching a comic book. and i appreciate them for those reasons precisely. i have no major issue with these films, in that context. i'd say the first one was the stronger of the two, but not by a huge margin.