Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (Zack Snyder, Dec. 22 on Netflix)
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Indeed.
Zach is like J.J. Abrams to me.. as in.. Why do people keep on giving this person money to make movies?? There not that good.
So, just finished it.
An entertaining and visually impressive scifi movie, with mediocre acting and dialogue. I'm sick and stuck at home, so I was entertained well enough. But paused it three times to check some stuff on my phone.
I'm interested in Part Two, but not on the edge of my seat or anything.
An entertaining and visually impressive scifi movie, with mediocre acting and dialogue. I'm sick and stuck at home, so I was entertained well enough. But paused it three times to check some stuff on my phone.
I'm interested in Part Two, but not on the edge of my seat or anything.
So basically it's a reverse of what they did with Deadpool 2? I can kind of see the appeal, because there are apparently still quite a few who don't see R rated movies, so this way both the no R rated crowd, and the R rated crowd get their own version.
Eh, making money is preferable to making good movies from the studio's perspective. Though both options give the studio things they can blurb "Critically acclaimed" and "Box office smash!"
Netflix seemingly has money to burn -- Rebel Moon, Red Notice, The Gray Man, Bright -- 9-figure budgeted movies that will be forgotten a week later.
Riff here, riff there, but I think people often forget how revolutionary the first Star Wars was on a technical level, such as photography, editing, pacing etc. It wasn't only a FX showcase. It's truly a "modern" film.
I enjoyed it, movies are more than a script, as a sci-fi spectacle package I liked it quite a bit. If it's style over substance at least it delivers in spades.
I really like the Anthony Hopkins soldier bot, neat design and his voice is great.
Now I feel I should renew my gym membership...
I really like the Anthony Hopkins soldier bot, neat design and his voice is great.
Now I feel I should renew my gym membership...
Well. That was a film that I watched.
I doubt I will tune in for part two.
I doubt I will tune in for part two.
And a house is more than its frame, but it'll still collapse if the frame isn't solid.
I loved this movie... when I saw it in 1980 under the name Battle Beyond The Stars.
Nice visuals, but nothing of substance under the hood. Characters are under-cooked, including the protagonist. Dialogue is bad, almost reaching Voyager "Nemesis" levels. I don't see a long-term franchise here. Nice diversion, but nothing more.
And then before that, as the Magnificent Seven....and before THAT as the Seven Samurai.
Every generation deserves their own version. 
And maybe the next generation’s will be good
It's funny because we all know how storyline (and characters) of Star Wars: IV was taken from the Hidden Fortress... but Snyder's original intent was this to be a Jedi version of Seven Samurai and a Star Wars film, but the negotiations broke down at some point and he turned it into an 'original/non SW' setting.
So it would have been another SW film copying Kurosawa.