Rogue 3 Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 Anyone over in the US gone to see this? Limited theatrical release, so presume everyone is waiting for the Netflix drop on the 21st. Seems to have got average reviews but critics don’t put me off as it sounds interesting and they seem to have a story fleshed out for the follow up films. Hopefully will be worth a watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 I'm going to watch it today, on Netflix. Here's the true Hollywood story for this-- Snyder meets with Lucasfilm and says "I want to make a Star War." Disney says NO WAY. Why? Possible reasons: SW already has toxic fans, adding the Snyder cult into the mix might drive away every last SW fan that isn't a bro. Snyder has a very dominate style that is very not SW. To remain true to itself, the cinematography and visual language of SW is still very stuck in a old school style-- Abrams and Johnson pushed it with the ST by using a lot of interesting color choices and things like inserts, close-ups, and dynamic camera movement-- but it's still pretty neutral. Whatever the reason, Lucasfilm tells Snyder NO, and he says "Okay, I'm going to do it anyway." Netflix, always wanting franchise power, says "We're in." Honestly, when I look at the trailer, it reminds me of nightly in 1999. Having just seen TPM and had my heart broken, and also having just seen the Matrix (which was obviously the birth of style still ripped off to today), I recall a thread called "what if SW debuted NOW." And we all assumed Jedi would be wearing shiny black jumpsuits and doing bullet time kung-fu, that all the production design would lift from high concept sci-fi shooter video games and anime, and that it would of course be "grim-dark." This is exactly what Rebel Moon is giving! I've also seen people calling it Bro-wars, which cracks me up. I looked at the response to an ad on Twitter for it, and it was a three way fight between a bunch of Snyder-bros, a host of old white dudes saying "it better not be woke," and confused regular folk saying "Is this Star Wars?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue 3 Posted December 17, 2023 Author Share Posted December 17, 2023 Nice one - hope you enjoy it! I’m looking forward to catching it, think it hits us here in the UK on Friday. Yes, absolutely agree with the background! Fingers crossed it will be a nice pre-Christmas treat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainbleh Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 A remake of Battle Beyond the Stars, cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 I was wrong, it’s not our u til the 21st on Netflix here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoLA Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 Not sure I'll watch it, I'm not too keen on Snyder movies. Most of the ones I've seen from him are very mediocre, to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Every time I see the trailer the Christ Rock scene from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back pops into my head-- GEORGE LUCAS GONNA SUE SOMEBODY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 It looks woke. IT BETTER NOT BE WOKE! Actually it reminds me more of Dune than Star Wars, except the wannabe lightsaber guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Yeah, but Star Wars cribbed enough from Dune that Herbert tried to sue Lucas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacen123 Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 I hope to watch this at some point, but I am so hopelessly behind on shows and movies that it could be awhile. I have liked many of Snyder’s movies for what they are, which are typically flawed films that feature some really cool moments and a visually interesting look, so I am sure this will scratch that itch when I want to watch something pretty that I don’t want to get into too much. Him trying his take on something like Star Wars is at least intriguing to me, too. However, I am also damn tired of hearing arguments about his movies all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 This movie looks really bad and I am a big Snyder fan (I am the person that loves his DC work). Something I thought of in the trailer, but I hate people fighting mythological type animals in sci-fi films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 5 hours ago, Hobbes said: This movie looks really bad and I am a big Snyder fan (I am the person that loves his DC work). Something I thought of in the trailer, but I hate people fighting mythological type animals in sci-fi films. People riding some sort of creature is in every Star War there is, and it is always the worst special effects in said given film. The only time, ONLY time it seemed justified was on Hoth, when the speeders couldn't adapt to the cold. Any other time, why would you ride a critter when spaceships and speeders are as common as cars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Well that was awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 On 12/20/2023 at 10:48 PM, Tank said: People riding some sort of creature is in every Star War there is, and it is always the worst special effects in said given film. The only time, ONLY time it seemed justified was on Hoth, when the speeders couldn't adapt to the cold. Any other time, why would you ride a critter when spaceships and speeders are as common as cars? Yeah, I mean no one rides horses in our time when cars are available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainbleh Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 6 hours ago, Tank said: Well that was awful. I had a small hope that it might so-bad-its-good bad, even though that's unlikely from Snyder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 5 hours ago, The Choc said: Yeah, I mean no one rides horses in our time when cars are available. Oh please. No one rides a horse now in a professional or daily travel capacity. It's recreational or competitive. You're doing that thing where you pretend to be way dumber than you are to start an argument. I'm just saying, if you got spaceships and hoverbikes, you don't need to ride a giant lizard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 4 hours ago, captainbleh said: I had a small hope that it might so-bad-its-good bad, even though that's unlikely from Snyder I was at least expecting some cool visuals and action scenes since that's his bread and butter-- but it's so over-processed and effected it looks muddy and out of focus 85% of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue 3 Posted December 22, 2023 Author Share Posted December 22, 2023 Ahhh. Well that was not quite what I was hoping for. I quite liked the opening 20 mins or so, then it turned into a Dirty Dozen style recruitment where each character has 5 mins of focus, then next to nothing for the rest of the film. Felt like a lot was cut on characterisation as the ending made it feel like you knew these people better? I agree that there was a lot of stuff out of focus. Most notable was when the girl and the robot were talking by the stream. Slow mo - jeez man. Enough. The main lead wasn’t convincing either. Not drawn into any of the characters with the exception maybe of the robot. I’m sure I will watch part 2 in April still, but man that was disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 3 hours ago, Tank said: Oh please. No one rides a horse now in a professional or daily travel capacity. It's recreational or competitive. You're doing that thing where you pretend to be way dumber than you are to start an argument. I'm just saying, if you got spaceships and hoverbikes, you don't need to ride a giant lizard. Its overdone in Star Wars and other sci fi but there are people who use horses for reasons other than recreation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 I forgot to mention parades and glue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odine Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 To be fair farmers and hunters use horses all the time, particularly in mountainous terrain. Also rebel moon looks terrible. I've read some pretty funny user reviews. But the general consensus seems to be a 13 year old boy must've written it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 13 hours ago, Tank said: I forgot to mention parades and glue. Amish and Mennonites still use horses for transportation. Obviously they are used on ranches. The Postal Service uses mules to deliver to certain isolated mostly indignious populations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamevet Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 The Thanos ripoff story was pretty obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacen123 Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 On 12/22/2023 at 1:26 PM, Tank said: Oh please. No one rides a horse now in a professional or daily travel capacity. It's recreational or competitive. The closest grocery store to me has a hitching post that I’ve actually seen get used. Of course, a lot of the roads just out of the city still are called farm-to-market and I see folks who wear homemade clothes from out of town just about every week, so things may just be a bit different away from coastal cities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Okay! Fine! Some people use horses! But it still doesn’t explain, outside of Hoth, that storm troopers would use dewbacks, or why Obi-wan picked that whatever it was in ROTS! In a universe where gravity isn’t a big issue riding animals is silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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