Everything Wrong With Rebel Moon

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When I heard that Zack Snyder would be going ahead with his idea for a Star Wars movie in the form of an all new movie called Rebel Moon I was hoping for a Disney Star Wars killer... that's not quite what we got, so let's take a look...
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[@therichieclare]

Only one thing wrong with it really. That bit at the beginning that went on until the end

[@smd1876]

😂😂 you had me there for a minute.

[@backalleycqc4790]

That pretty much covers it 🤣

[@EternalGaze8]

I love the part when she sniffs the manure in the beginning as a nod to what we are about to watch.

[@backalleycqc4790]

@@EternalGaze8 🤣🤣 Yup, epic foreshadowing...

[@michaellane5381]

To be fair to the movie... He was wrong about the characters being introduced once... They were introduced and then the characters had their character sheets read in full before the final battle. It was like a learning experience and probably a cinephials guide to each characters better movie they were taken from. That said... I learned one character name and maybe could say 3 of them by the end but could only pick one from a line-up... Also that guy that died... Is just the guy who died, it felt like the plot barely had anything to do with it either, he would have been shot without joining them and killed the enemy without their cause.

[@doc8013]

I'll never not laugh at how a reviewer opens up a review by telling you how little he trusts these reviewers that review a movie.

[@RangerHouston]

_I believe the only thing Zach Snyder should direct is the parking lot at the bingo hall._

[@psugal6477]

As soon as I watched Rebel Moon, I thought I can't wait for Jonny's commentary. I mean the entire movie was a series of 10 minute monologues reveling each characters entire background and info dumping.

[@r3dr4te963]

Some commenters say it's basically a "teaser" for upcoming movies/series. Like the Justice League movie, where they drop the heroes first before their own movie coming (Wonder Woman, Aquaman, etc)

[@TheYetixOUTx]

​@@r3dr4te963I still think that this movie is better than Bvs

[@daethalion1725]

If you liked that, you'll love Auralnauts' interpretation of the Snyder cut of A New Hope.

[@shadowfox8425]

The biggest gripe I have with this movie is that Korra knows exactly how the new and old Empire work, which implies the only difference between both empires is that she doesn't work for them and that they don't have a royal family. But they behave and operate exactly the same.

[@TheMelancholicWriter]

Supposedly the Royals were all good and lovely, right? Well it turns out they were war mongers committing genocide and conquering the galaxy! No wonder they were all assassinated😂

[@kirschakos]

True. The previous empire should have been a prosperous, peaceful realm until Balisarious came and turned it to a war machine. Would have make much more sence.

[@Violaphobia]

Well you see, before they were bloodthirsty and ruthless, but now they’re ruthless and bloodthirsty. Unacceptable.

[@epicfail3167]

Also that one guy who died whose name think was bloodass or something, CHARGED A SPACESHIP WITH A SPEAR What were they thinking

[@scratchy996]

In the next movie, we will see the Imperial ships ambushed by space Indians , shooting bows, while riding space horses ...in space !

[@yetipotato8567]

TITUS!!

[@nichoudha]

@@scratchy996 Don't be ridiculous. Star Wars already did that with Return of the Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. lol

[@scratchy996]

@@nichoudhaYeah, but they were not directly shooting bows at starships in slooooowww mooooo....

[@arjuns2858]

what even funnier is that it worked XD! How in the world was he able to so easily break the glass that is supposed to withstand all the forces that come along with high speed space travel. Not only that, the entire ship could be controlled from what looked like an artillery unit of the ship. Hilarious stuff

[@Iamdroopy]

The stylistic things you liked from this movie came from the Warhammer 40k universe. The plasma guns, power swords, imperial army, and the cyborg dudes at the end are all just ripped out of the 40k lore.

[@themanofshadows]

Almost every franchise borrows from someone else. Originality is just taking inspiration from someone else and making your project as different as possible from the inspiration.

[@josephmayfield945]

@@themanofshadowsnice try 😂

[@themanofshadows]

@@josephmayfield945 It’s the truth. WH40k borrows a lot from other IPs as well. And Star Wars borrows from Dune, and Dune borrows from Foundation. That’s how it is.

[@henrycase3788]

Imperial armies aren't from 40K. Look up where God Emperor came from. Someone else pointed out Foundation and Dune so maybe start from there before saying something ripped off from 40K. And this is coming from someone who loves 40K, btw.

[@marvelfuturefight7503]

As if warhammer 40k is original...dune copycat

[@robertpaul50n]

A fight scene set to "I'm Turning Japanese" could be fun

[@user-oj4ll2bf6k]

Rebel moon is Star Wars that turned itself into a salad of different things, where the key ingredient included WH40K. As a result, it now doesn't look like Star Wars or anything else.

[@RyoFramba]

What bugs me is what happened to the "good" soldier at the beginning... It seemed that there was a story there... I'm afraid that director's cut will be 6 houars long 😰

[@loverlei79]

"Yup. That's definitely the sun." 😳💀

[@SafetyBriefer]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw the space va-jay-jay.

[@dadriza5308]

Very accurate review. I hear people saying it would have been better as a series but I don't think more of a bad thing is good. It's like they think Snyder had enought time! He had two whole movies!

[@wetterschneider]

I was dismayed that the crew wasn't Waif Luke, Hornsbot and Spider lady. The point of Seven Samurai is that they were losers, abused by those who are over them, and exploited by the farmers. This movie could have been sooooo good, and I think that it's that broad distance between potential and result that really hurts.

[@mudcrab3420]

Yup. The big take away for most people with Seven Samurai is that there were seven of them and they were Samurai... who are badarse warriors, right? The point that most of the ones who die are shot (rather than killed in honourable fights) is lost completely.

[@wetterschneider]

@@mudcrab3420 And they were hungry.

[@aurawolf2221]

Gave you a sub mate, you've probably become a new favourite reviewer because you're funny as hell 😂

[@JohnDavidSullivan]

Yup he is a good laugh

[@poissonsumac7922]

13:51 The best part of the entire movie. Hamburglar's Bully Maguire scream should be framed in a museum XD

[@winns35]

I will 100% be seeing Godzilla minus 1 minus color if it is in my area. It looks amazing.

[@escarretada]

for me was the movie of the year

[@peterphan227]

If you want to see bad filmmaking, watch Rubble Moon. If you want to see great filmmaking, watch Godzilla Minus One.

[@jaykay6222]

@@escarretada I always forget minus one is the tile and not the average rating of the movie

[@kirschakos]

I don't understand that in an age of color people want to see a black and white movie. Wtf??

[@luishenriquebizinelli9003]

Happy new year BTW.

[@JonnyLawYT]

Back at you mate, all the best ✌️

[@vladimirefest4980]

I've been binging and enjoying your videos so much I cant believe you haven't hit 1 million yet. 2024 will be your year I can feel it. Then everyone here can brag that they were here since before 50k.

[@grantgreyguda]

👍 👍

[@RamblesBrambles]

I liked that slo mo sequence..that really stood out for me

[@AnaFolkenstal]

1:25 I HOPE YOU HAD A SUN FILTER, DUDE 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@michelleyoung731]

Happy New Year Jonny Law !!! Wish you posted more often, but I appreciate all of your work. You're very funny and I like your sarcasm.

[@DarthEvilicus]

Godzilla minus 1 minus color was actually pretty good and made the monster look more menacing

[@cbhlde]

Happy New Year Jonny Law!

[@h-dawg969]

Jonathan Law! Happy new year to you and that savage Mootash of yours my guy!

[@jalengaskin8450]

“Yep. That’s definitely the sun.” Best ad read. 10/10

[@user-lq2in3kc9r]

Brah happy new year this year we must reach 100k subs

[@alexman378]

9:35 Funny you should say that, doing something similar was one of my best achievements too. We were meant to create some sort of “rallying the troops” monologue, I forgot about the assignment until we started getting called up one by one, and I ended up reskinning Sam Jackson’s Pulp Fiction monologue to fit the criteria. Ended up with a 98% and the teacher was impressed I didn’t even use a paper and knew my assignment so well I could recite by heart. 😂

[@MAGAMAN]

Why was this taken down the first time?

[@luishenriquebizinelli9003]

Good way to start the year, with good entertainment! Thanks JL.

[@MAGAMAN]

This is the second time he uploaded this.

[@luishenriquebizinelli9003]

@@MAGAMAN Yes, i know, i watched the first time as well.

[@mxvega1097]

The plasma bullets were cool. I think a number of problems which might have been forgiven in a lengthy movie have been thrown into sharp relief by the two chapter approach. Just, why!?!? If it doesn't add, then it takes away. So now we have a stand-alone 2 hour intro, which is too long for the first act, but doesn't go far enough to reveal the good stuff. There's a crazy lens ripple down the side of a spaceship at one point. Weird.

[@macarahneil2154]

When I saw Michiel Huisman was in it I 😮was like, okay I'll give it a go. I liked him in The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society, The Ottoman Lieutenant, and The Haunting of Hill House. In Rebel Moon, I feel he was the most likeable character with personality and a chance for growth of the bunch. He at least was given two rescue moments that I counted. His first attempt cost someone their life. So I felt that he was on a "when to be heroic" arc. I understand starting off as inexperienced, I don't want to say cowardly, because he's proven to jump in while others watch. The problem with Snyder's Rebel Moon for me...is too many IPs Frankenstein'd together into a sluggish run-time and an exposition dump that felt like nothing. The Slow-mo is atrocious. Why did it work in Alice in Borderland? Because they used it once when Kuina fought Takatora, and it was effective for that one scene. Just because something worked a few successful times, doesn't guarantee it'll be successful in every story. I wanted a gripping story, not just a pile up of visuals that got dull after the first two Slow-mo shots. And nothing about the world building looked visually appealing. It felt like a Slow-mo fanfic of movies Snyder took inspiration from.

[@goodfella1401]

The moment I saw Michiel Huisman's performance in Paul Verhoeven's Dutch movie Black Book that came out in 2006 which was about World War II in The Netherlands I could tell he wasn't a great actor and 17 years later in Rebel Moon he's shown he's still not a very good actor. He's like a lesser version of Jeroen Krabbe who was in The Fugitive and James Bond's The Living Daylights who came to Hollywood with fellow Dutch men Rutger Hauer and Paul Verhoeven in the early 1980s

[@dewulfe9913]

Yeah Huisman is decent - as well as GoT, I saw him in "Treme"...great series (by creators of The Wire). But even good actors have to eat I guess 🤷‍♂

[@davidmarsden192]

I really enjoy your reviews and commentary!!

[@michaelterpea6283]

You got away with redoing Howls Moving Castle. I got caught doing Count of Monte Cristo. Not my best moment. Great review Jonny! Definitely going to see this to satisfy my curiousity, at least now I've got a few things to look out for.

[@DailyDoseOfRandomLogic]

The 'Stairway to heaven' bit was great. You're good! 👏

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

1:29 I was expecting *_"yepp, that's Uranus"_*

[@bartoniuskrunk2366]

Am i missing something? Is snyder somehow connected to the Suicide Squad? I get theyre in the dceu but its in no way a part of the snyder verse...right?

[@saulgoodwin8328]

Just subbed and going through your videos. I’ve been missing out!

[@ALE199-ita]

when you did the rant about pretensious directors, does that include "The Lighthouse" in level 3 or is it excluded? Real question because it technically fits but I wouldn't call the Lighthouse pretentious, it's not tacked on randomly it adds to the atmosphere of the movie.

[@josephmayfield945]

That’s why his whole argument was moot. Most films that are black and white do that for a reason, and it aids the mood the film makers are going for. Take Night of the Living Dead. The Black and White makes it feel more realistic than if it had been in color. Film making is an art form, and styles within a medium should be as varied as possible. You wouldn’t tell a painter that they should only use one style of painting.

[@ALE199-ita]

@@josephmayfield945 Night of the Living Dead was in black and white because of budget reason not stylistic choice. Most movie of the past were in black and white because colour film wasn't a thing yet, I agree film making is an art form but don't mistake the artist using cheap paints for a stylistic choice.

[@Schovelink]

Waaaait... Im absolutely sure I already watched this video yesterday... But now we have its premiere??? Whats going on?

[@robbypodobinski824]

I saw it about a week ago. But I'll watch it again 😂

[@Soupcan13]

You always crush it man, this was no exception. Keep it up!

[@TheMelancholicWriter]

Completely unrelated, but your PC setup looks identical to mine. I have the black & stainless steel version of the case though. Love how it shows off the light show and just generally looks great! ✌🏻

[@user-dk4zj1wu6m]

I will say Stephen Kings the mist movie had a color and black and white version. And the black and white one is significantly better because it helps hide the cgi.

[@josephmayfield945]

Yeah, the black and white makes it feel like a 50’s monster movie. Check out Fury Roads Black and Chrome cut. Both of those film makers originally wanted it in black and white. It’s just a completion of their intended vision.

[@antonslarsson]

"You probably wear a scarf in the summertime" killed me :))

[@ReggieBishop]

Why doesn't Snyder hire a DP?

[@Squall17x]

Congratz on 40k subs, johnny. I remember when I first began to follow your career with great interest at 18 k subs (I still haven't subbed tho)

[@darianstarfrog]

Keep in mind, its chopped for a R13 movie.. its not complete yet..

[@bethelhanley5439]

The plot is basically Seven Samurai in space. Which is all very well, but when you swap out the bandits for an evil empire, it stops making sense as a plot. There's a reason why bandits don't care about the villagers starving - the bandits are a small group and can just move on. But an empire (or any state, for that matter) need to have reliable supplies. If you go in to villages and simply demand all they have, well, you end up with lots of completely pointless battles. The idea was done much better back in 1978 in 'Message From Space' (AKA Japanese Star Wars). Yes, technically it's based on a different Japanese work, but it's close enough.

[@Absolynth]

Now Im just saying, Blade Runner in black and white got somethin goin on.

[@agentsmith2378]

I even luv your ads, nice 1 Jonny.

[@Siegbert85]

Wait... are there both actors of Daario Naharis in the same movie?

[@bullmoose5574]

Yup

[@KGBeast.]

Bro the thumbnail had me WEAK 😂😂💀

[@koreyjeffers6963]

Hello there, Im a bit of a JL fan myself

[@NateTheScot]

"yep, that's the sun" - Fucking slayed me, Jonny, Bravo!

[@markm7411]

just amazing videos, super funny always

[@NameNotAChannel]

It was an "Okay" movie; it just didn't do anything special for me. It was a bit predictable. The clear "star wars, but not" things made it easy to watch it "as if" it were in the Star Wars universe, which gave it a bit more credit than was due to it on its own merit. It FELT more Star Wars than recent Star Wars. (much like Orville feels more like Trek than current Trek.) It would have fared better by breaking that movie up into a series of episodes (given it's on Netflix), while taking the time to flesh out the characters and the world a bit more. Then, once all the main cast were together, they could make a movie set in that universe. I certainly wouldn't have given it the horrible reviews others have had of it... it did have an ending, contrary to most reviews, though not one that people liked, I guess. (on the Snyder note, I don't like or dislike the man, and I liked the Snyder Cut significantly better than the Whedon cut in that debate.)

[@wackjack5667]

"The True Grain was The Grain We Harvested Along The Way" -Jaimie "Fook*n" Lannistah

[@freereinvoltaic]

This is a remake of Roger Corman’s “Battle Beyond the Stars,” the original Seven Samurai in Space.

[@sardonically-inclined7645]

He's not a talentless hack. He's just a talentless writer. He's skilled as a director... *as a director.*

[@Handle35667]

Huh? What are the job responsibilities of a director? I thought it would entail directing the actors, the sequences, the cinematography, the editing, and you know....the overall DIRECTION of a film. I guess now that you frame it like that, the direction on Rebel Moon was fantastic. Such a well-directed movie.

[@scratchy996]

You mean poorly skilled as a director.

[@sardonically-inclined7645]

@@scratchy996 Did I?😏

[@josephmayfield945]

He’s good at directing imagery - that’s it. Everything else as a director he fails at.

[@scratchy996]

@@josephmayfield945 I don't know about that either, his last decade he only did shitty looking movies. The guy didn't evolve since 2006.

[@dianabandicoot]

You remind me of Rhys with that stache!

[@4killsfreddy148]

i wasn't going to subscribe to this channel but the surprise BUMDER clip compelled me 😂

[@genmaicha.lapsang]

Nice Moustache! It's come in quite well.

[@Gunnberg85]

Thank The Emperor this wasn't an attempt at a 40k movie.

[@aequitas26]

Don’t know why… but I laughed hard at the “yup… that’s the sun”

[@sturkster]

It would probably work better in B&W with a 4:3 aspect ratio.

[@BigCowProductions]

Yay it's back

[@harbl99]

Jonny: "Me, I'm somewhere in the middle." So, you think he's a visionary hack?

[@JonnyLawYT]

Precisely ☝🏻

[@DarthBobCat]

I did notice that the soundtrack kept trying to become the Wonder Woman theme when the MC started battling.

[@arianafox365]

Ok, that Twitter user joke was pretty good

[@eddiek8179]

The thing is - once the bad soldiers in the village were killed, they didn't have to look for mercenaries anymore. The reason they were looking for mercenaries to defend the village was because they feared they would be wiped out. However, with them dead and having another 9 weeks before the rest come back - they could have easily migrated off to other planets available in that galaxy and simply got themselves absorbed into society since no soldier actually remembers who they are. I mean Kora and her companion were planet hopping with ease all over the galaxy. There is no reason for the villagers to stay and risk their lives fighting alongside mercs. If there was an in-movie reason why they should stay, then fine but none was ever given. Galaxy travel was available but yet they chose to stay and hope they can get mercs to save their collective asses. That's a huge plot hole.

[@bobross1829]

Yes. Good point! Running was never given as a legit choice and it would seem to be one in this case.

[@r3dr4te963]

Seven Samurai and Magnificent Seven works because the villagers have no way to go, don't want to leave their rice fields and farms. Here, I dunno (I forgot the plot already)

[@SaintKimbo]

It was also never explained why a village, near a town with spaceships, Robots and Aliens, is still plowing fields with horses and plows, like they did in the 1800's on Earth, or why they have no plumbing and still have to fetch water from the River in buckets. Then there's the cute little water Girl who is harassed by sex starved Soldiers in the middle of the day, so what does she do? She decides to fetch some more water, by herself, at night, and wanders past the sex starved Soldiers !

[@thorstenguenther]

Yes, but she knew that unarmed Not Rey was around and would easily kill all the bad soldiers because they would literally wait for their respective turns during the fight.

[@SaintKimbo]

@@bobross1829 Running was never an option because 9 weeks on the horses is equal to about 9 seconds on interplanetary express spacecrafts, that EVERYBODY else has.

[@SafetyBriefer]

'The most emotionally stable Twitter user' - damn.

[@jordanngriffith4962]

That's definitely the sun!! 😂😂

[@Treblaine]

I realize he's using slow mo wrong. Slow mo works well when recalling events as it adds a dream like quality but in the middle of a fight scene it just removes the tension, it shows off the domination of the protagonist too much as it's obvious they're going to prevail.

[@ProductionJunction1]

They went to a cloud city and they got sold out by a smuggler. So original.

[@sydneyslaughter7163]

I waited to watch this vid after I watched the movie. My mom had me watch it with her and it just ended a few minutes ago and my frickin head hurts

[@sotiriospeithis6659]

Nice

[@AlessioCollura]

You forgot Titus, but that's understandable. Even Snyder forgot about him.

[@MrEpicness1234]

Even took a little from Spirit 😂

[@footthumb]

You spent almost as much time introducing Djimon Honsou’s Roman general character as the movie did.

[@k7l3rworkman97]

In short: The TRAILER was better than the entire movie. Coolest character was the Robot voiced by Anthony Hopkins and it didn’t even get that much screen time or dialogue…

[@akashicrecords9672]

Missed opportunity

[@Colouh]

I felt watching it that it also tried to rip off some of the Warhammer 40k universe, especially since the bad guys are very close in aesthetic to the Astra Militarum and the whole "warp" effect from the vagina at the beginning.

[@larry6360]

You neglected to mention that the story is straight lifted from Akira Kurosaws's ' 7 Samurai ' from 1954. I mean it's pretty much the same, but in space.

[@joannaholden943]

When it opened with "space v", I literally laughed out loud. I could not believe with all the CGI imagery at their disposal, THAT was what they went with. What the heck?!

[@KabbalahSherry]

The MAIN thing wrong w/it: we didn't even get to see the ACTUAL movie that was filmed! 🙄 All we saw was the stripped down, edited PG13 version... even thought the movie that was FILMED, was rated R. And whenever studios ask a director to do that for them (so they can make more money or "so the kids can watch too!") IT NEVER TURNS OUT WELL. This is like the 3rd or 4th time that Zack Snyder has had to take an R-rated project & dumb it down for a PG13 audience. He was asked to cut the film & make it shorter, which means we are missing entire scenes that probably added more character development & backstory. And he was also asked to pare down the violence too. So now, every time there is a close-up kill... the camera quickly pans away. It's annoying AF. They should have just allowed him to release the FULL, R-rated Director's Cut instead. We'll be getting THAT version of the movie before part 2 comes out... but how many people will be willing to even give it a chance, after seeing this version here?! This sh*t is very frustrating! Snyder is a laid back, honorable dude & I respect that. But he's gonna HAVE to put his foot down at some point, and tell these studios to either allow him keep his project R-rated or... NO DEAL. I'l tired of seeing this happen.

[@joelfoguth4248]

Only Godzilla minus one has an excuse to be in black in white imo

[@AgentMoray]

B&W Mad Max Fury Road is pretty good - well worth the watch/rewatch.

[@OGfellowfriend]

Jonny deserves more subs, and I hope 2024 is the year he gets them.

[@sekharraja9679]

You Dropped that "Netflix dropped the worst movie of 2023" a little too early.

[@TC_Stark]

Okay but Logan was okay in B&W 😂

[@plazus]

A McLaren hoodie... I see you are a man of taste!

[@pertuk]

Is it just me or does the spider lady look like a Rancoss from Dr Who?

[@mikeydflyingtoaster]

Was going to say A Ghost Story was in that complete square vignette pretentious aspect ratio but checked and it's actually just 4:3

[@Mr_Mcfeely]

Hurry it tf up, Jonny!

[@JonnyLawYT]

🫡

[@plantemor]

4:42 So... I take that you adored The Lighthouse? xD

[@RPGryphus]

Let me resume everything that is wrong with Snyder in one sentence : He's a master art director/cinematographer who pretends to be able to be a director and writer - but he can't and suck at it.

[@christian-mosesholtz5458]

while i am in genereal with you there is an exception to the black and white transfer: "the mist" is even more bleak and devastating in black and white. also a special case: park chan-wooks revenge trilogy where in it's "directors vision" (synders BS pretty much ruined that term for me, but nonetheless) involves the first film starting in black and white and turn into colour during its runtime and the same thing in reverse for the 3rd film. but as for the snyder cut, there it's just one more gimmick. i am surprised they did not also release a 3D version, a disney ride, a hologram cover DVD, a betmax cassette version and the sundtrack as an 8-track.

[@kool4209]

@6:04 you missed it, they wanted to include the blind/seeing impaired so they made it blurry for the sake of inclusion. lol btw whats with every hack talentless writer, borrowing or copying the past to pretend to make something new.

[@helddermolekule5503]

Our Jonny is a real Tausendsassa. 😁

[@yetipotato8567]

It feels like ai made movie with prompt "grimdark scifi rebel movie" its like starwars, 40k, etc meld.

[@christianboulay]

Your review movie channel stills the best for my opinion. I like the humorous sarcasm you put in it. Thank you Mr. Lawé