Rebel Moon - How a Director Became His Own Worst Enemy | Anatomy of a Failure
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Rebel Moon is another Snyderverse universe from Zack Snyder, on Netflix following Army of the Dead. And as you may expect, it's not very good. That's because, despite being a talented visual director, Zack Snyder has a problem. A problem that has made his movies really meh and made him fall off from his best work like 300. Rebel Moon is another Snyder critical flop and probably would've been a box office flop too if it had come to theaters. So today, let's analyze Zack Snyder's problems so that hopefully he can get over them as well as himself.
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Rebel Moon Part 1
A new universe awaits on Netflix, starting December 22. From Zack Snyder, the filmmaker behind 300, Man of Steel, and Army of the Dead, comes REBEL MOON, a 2-part movie event decades in the making. After crash landing on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe, Kora (Sofia Boutella), a stranger with a mysterious past, begins a new life among a peaceful settlement of farmers. But she soon becomes their only hope for survival when the tyrannical Regent Balisarius (Fra Fee) and his cruel emissary, Admiral Noble (Ed Skrein), discover the farmers have unwittingly sold their crops to the Bloodaxes (Cleopatra Coleman and Ray Fisher) - leaders of a fierce group of insurgents hunted by the Motherworld. Tasked with finding fighters who would risk their lives to defend the people of Veldt, Kora and Gunnar (Michiel Huisman), a tenderhearted farmer naive in the realities of war, journey to different worlds in search of the Bloodaxes, and assemble a small band of warriors who share a common need for redemption along the way: Kai (Charlie Hunnam), a pilot and gun for hire; General Titus (Djimon Hounsou), a legendary commander; Nemesis (Doona Bae), a master swordswoman; Tarak (Staz Nair), a captive with a regal past; and Milius (E. Duffy), a resistance fighter. Back on Veldt, rebel moon bad movie flop everything wrong with rebel moon honest trailer zack snyder sucks release the snyderverse snydercut zack snyder problems rebel moon good bad watch rebel moon full movie online free 4k clips hd rebel moon spider ending explained Jimmy (voiced by Anthony Hopkins), an ancient mechanized protector hiding in the wings, awakens with a new purpose. But the newly formed revolutionaries must learn to trust each other and fight as one before the armies of the Motherworld come to destroy them all.
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There's a constant problem nowadays that so many movies think their job is to set up a sequel, when the actual purpose of a first movie in a series is to earn a sequel.
Imagine making a movie about "getting the team together"
I'm pretty sure Anthony Hopkins only signs up for roles where he can record everything in one afternoon and then go home.
The big thing a lot of famous trilogies (that aren't based on previous media) do well is that their first movie stands out really well on its own. Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, The Good The Bad The Ugy, etc. All of them have a complete and sufficient story told in the first movie and don't use their time to set up the next movie.
The way I always viewed Zack Snyder was if Michael Bay and his fanbase thought his films were more deep and well made than they actually were.
A good film doesn't require a sequel or a prequel. A good film makes the viewer wish for those things (sometimes to their detriment) but should not demand it.
+ the movie was absolutely formulaic: the asian person is ruled by honor and is the swordsman, the machine is the sentimental one (as a subversion), the gardener used to be the warrior, the indigenous person has the connection with animals, the ruined general looks for redemption. All the above have been explored somehow in some other movies and books, but these formulaic pieces are just smashed together and not explored, as you mentioned.
Lucas: imitates one of the best (Kurosawa) to create one of the best space opera.
Many people agree that studio interference is a problem. Me too, but I also think there can be an opposite problem, when an author gets lost in their own creative vision and makes a movie only they would enjoy. So there must be people who could tell them 'no'. Rebel Moon and Argyle are proofs of this.
I love the part where the lady has to plant the flag but she's standing on a solid rock so she just holds it up and tries to look cool 😂
Everyone wants to have their own MCU 🙄 They throw as many elements as they can calling it "lore" and "world building" thinking that's how people gets hooked on a new franchise. The MCU started with the story of a man in an iron suit, not with more than 40 characters on the screen.
A great example of trying to have it both ways is when ‘Tarzan’ has to tame the griffin and at first he approaches it softly and horse-whispers it into submission. Very cool, says a lot about that character than in a movie that is already so violent, he has the ability to peacefully… ah, never mind now the griffin freaked out and he has to manually break the animal just like the baddies were trying to do, why? We need that jumping scene, that’s why.
The biggest issue is the announced Snyder Cut of Rebel Moon later on before Rebel Moon was even out.
I just thought of something: the bad guys show up to a random village on a planet. Why? They're not the capital or main village right? So even if they rebel and win whats stopping the bad guys calling for backup?
There's a lesson I remember from creative writing class:
Lex Luthor has a line in BvS where he whispers to General Zod's dead body "You flew too close to the Sun. Now look at you" or something along those lines. I always thought that this one line translates perfectly Snyder's biggest sins, greed and pride. He aims for great heights and wants to tell several plot points and cover lots of ground, but most often than not falls short of his goals and loses ground of his surroundings. He flies too close to the Sun and his wings melt and he falls towards the ground. If only he would listen to his own characters and follow their advices he wouldn't be making so much crap with his movies. 🤷
he never did catch the dragon.....😔
This is why I don’t blame WB for dropping him
Snyder just needs to accept that he can't write a screenplay and that you don't need to slo-mo every action scene.