Rebel Moon: Part One - Review

Zack Snyder starts building a brand new universe in Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire.
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[@ChrisMeadows1992]

That intro was sublime.

[@waywardmind]

Absolute perfection

[@terrymcginnis01]

That was hilarious 😂

[@Theinfamouskiki411]

I howled😂

[@RJCE420]

The Vagina portal was pretty damn funny LOL!

[@dissolution]

Seriously

[@mistermazurk]

"a super high budget Asylum film." Absolutely brutal, Dan.

[@MisBabbles]

I remember seeing "Snakes on a Train" at a local video store and thinking, "oh, Asylum, you truly have the market cornered in Movies that Confused Grandmothers Buy for Grandchildren."

[@matthewhunter1193]

That opening really got me, man

[@FurryStockings]

I started laughing at the first damn slow motion shot, zack loves his slow motion.

[@ANTIStraussian]

It's seems so dated lol. Felt like 2015

[@KevinOfferman-by5es]

it was a slow motion of the farmer throwing BEANS it was so stupid i couldn't stop laughing

[@AsyrafNararendra]

If I ever met Zack Snyder, I would move in slow motion

[@kc5997]

Didn't you notice? He now does slo mo within a slo mo!

[@alexnclips6790]

Cliche filmmaking

[@dwarrenmsp]

Just because something "violent" or "gritty" doesn't mean it's good. I wish people could understand that.

[@ZachBobBob]

Yeah people that think that are completely immature.

[@MatthewBreck]

Zack Snyder fans are a lost cause just give up

[@LinkMarioSamus]

@@ZachBobBob The stupid thing is that I tend to prefer more lighthearted comic book movies, which is why I'm more lenient on stuff like Joel Schumacher's Batman movies, Wonder Woman 1984, and Thor: Love & Thunder than many are...yet my favorite comic book movie is The Dark Knight.

[@brandonkukumayeyi6048]

Fax bro

[@Wolfhunter5607]

yea idk how people don’t understand story matters no matter what it’s rated

[@lauristonbrewster9097]

Zack Snyder is in the habit of making beautiful laptop wallpapers. But then he wants to add a plot and dialogue to the wallpaper and call it a movie.

[@rahullulla352]

2:13 "recruit a group of Fighters to protect her Village like some kind of Seven Samurai Squad" great joke 😂

[@knk9118]

Dan was a little too proud about that intro .. I loved it 😂😂😂

[@Isaac-rz2hs]

Watching this movie, I found myself laughing at the awful writing and simultaneously really wanting to find out more about the lore of this universe. There are so many cool things introduced that are just glossed over in favor of "this is Katana and she has my back" storytelling.

[@julianseguin2748]

There's not a single moment like that, man. You weren't paying attention if you believe that.

[@soulwarrior]

@@julianseguin2748 don't be ridiculous. I'm 30 minutes into the movie and had to pause it to try and find out whether it's going to go anywhere. I'm bored to death and the lackluster dialogue is a big reason why.

[@liveac3694]

@@julianseguin2748 There was a moment exactly like that. At the end when generic bad guy had captured the heroes he was delivering clunky exposition on each one Suicide Squad style. The Katana scene was the first thing I though of when I saw it.

[@julianseguin2748]

@@liveac3694 That's not really the same. The guy is effectively putting them on trial. Makes sense he'd list their crimes. It's not a dumb montage with Seven Nation Army playing in the background. And the biggest difference is that Katana was introduced like that. The dialogue here happens towards the end. And this kind of dialogue was used Star Wars as well. With Leia and Obi-Wan. Oh, and Darth Vader. Which wouldn't mean anything if there wasn't a sequel. And I wouldn't call Noble generic anymore than Thanos.

[@liveac3694]

@@julianseguin2748 When I first saw the scene I actually laughed out loud because I started thinking about the katana moment. This movie is full of clunky exposition and the script is terrible. Do you actually think this dialogue is good or that Noble is as well written as Thanos? Come on man, no one but the most fantatic Snyder fans are defending this mediocre crap.

[@wimvanderstraeten6521]

The 1980 movie Battle Beyond the Stars (produced by Roger Corman) tells essentially the same story as Rebel Moon and does that in less than two hours. There's no need for a movie like this one to consist of two parts. This is another good example of how a story is unnecessarily drawn out to create a franchise whereas a single movie would suffice.

[@richtes]

Are we allowed to have a Sybil Danning in her space girl costumes anymore?

[@GoTenDu]

You don't know that, since you don't know what happens in part 2.

[@Noodles1771]

The director of Commando has more talent than Snyder ever will. 😂😂

[@Madame702]

No this movie tell you that Hollywood cannot handle the demand for content yet. It doesn't have the people in place or the studios to handle the demand. This is just a poor movie with Zack Snyder's name on it because the Streaming Services threw him a bunch of money to produce it.

[@bluenoahx]

and you understand the "samurai" recruits motivation, 2 at least are bored (or looking for adventures), 1 glory and fun, 1 got tricked, 1 looking a place to hide / home, and the rest just the hate the bad guys.

[@xTraexEdge]

I don't remember who said it but years ago around the time 300 came out someone said that Snyder is not a director, he's a visualist. Since then that one description has explained everything that is wrong his films for me.

[@Christian_Ada1]

The only Director in history who needs 10 hours to make sense of a film and then wants to have a directors cut That’s 15 hours long. Kinda crazy only because it is I have no love for that guy

[@IAMBATwal]

When you wonder why us Snyder fans get tired or even trying to have civil discourse over his films when people like you say idiotic things like this. Any director can take as much time as they have to tell their story. It’s no different than books or comics, or tv shows. Movies have always been as long as they needed to be. Zack’s a fan of depth and he always delivers that in his actual realized visions. For PG13 Rebel Moon he did Netflix a favour so they could milk it. It’s business but unlike the dipshits at WB he didn’t have to fight for a directors cut because Netflix said “fuck yeah we want that” he shot variation scenes. Once for PG13 once for rated r and then more for that version. He wants to tell his story why do you have such a problem with it? Who are we be it fans of the guy or not to tell him how a film needs to make sense? Many conventions of writing and filmmaking and storytelling have evolved past ancient times so why don’t we just let him cook? If you’re so wise to his “flaws” and intricacies as a filmmaker than instead of combating everything he does why don’t y’all try to go in with an open mind? Saying he can’t tell a story in less than 10-15 hours is such bs I’m sorry. He just gave you a competent cut to that point. If this wasn’t your jam watch the original directors cut or don’t watch anything. You don’t have to love the guy but god damn anyone who isn’t a Snyder fan wonders why we love him, I’ll tell you the very basic reason, because we UNDERSTAND HIM! Maybe it takes a dedicated passion and love for the guy as a human first to truly respect and grasp his qualities. I prefer to stay stanning and grasp the man and embrace his art at it stands and evolves than delve into calling him out on what works for him. Some of the greatest pieces of art have been over 3-4 hours don’t be keeping this heat for Zack go back and call out the legends too then. Zack’s a legend in my book and I can’t wait for more give me all the hours no stress 😎

[@andywilson5234]

@@IAMBATwal Your rant just demonstrated why people who aren't Snyder sycophants consider those who are as part of a cult. "You don't have to love the guy but... we do because we UNDERSTAND HIM!"😵‍💫

[@bigdreams5554]

Snyder is overrated. Nuff said.

[@ocularpatdown]

@@IAMBATwalblah blah blah You made OP’s point.

[@callumjohnston858]

@@IAMBATwal First, I'd recommend paragraphs when you go that long. Second, I disagree that Zack's a fan of depth. His adaptations often strip depth in favour of aesthetic callouts. They have the illusion of depth, but often defy deeper readings, because he seemingly directs based on what he find coolest. Which he certainly can do, but nobody has to call him artistic for it, anymore than they have to call me a good DM for shamelessly stealing ideas from better sources. Yes forms have evolved, but if it's incoherent or messy, that's still an issue. Since we're watching it (and paying for it) we get to say if it's good or not. He doesn't have to care, but still. Just because something is long, doesn't make it good. Battlefield Earth wasn't going to be made good by a 3-4 hour cut, for example. Not saying his work's on the same level, but the point is, the issue isn't the length, it's the quality. If it were good, nobody would care about the length. When it comes to his issue of length and needless complexity (again, without depth), my go-to is the Snyder Cut, but it fits for all his work. Why is Martian Manhunter there? Why did he pose as Martha, why do we need such long action sequences to get to a point, why does the firing of the signal arrow take so long, I can keep going. And then there's all the Frank Miller references/adaptation, often without understanding the fascism of Miller, and the politics behind that, or the adaptation of Alan Moore's work without fully grasping anything beyond 'edgy superheroes are cool'. Why all the Jesus and God shit in his Superman/Lex Luthor adaptation when this theme really doesn't go anywhere beyond Superman being good and coming back from the dead one time? Why does his Superman care about humanity beyond 'there's a woman here he likes?' Again, I can keep going, but the point is there's a lot of themes and ideas flying around, but very little gets real development or focus, even in his extended cuts where he has significant creative control. As I said, length without depth, complexity without necessity. You say you like him because you understand him? I say I hate his style and dislike him on a personal level because I understand him. Like I'm sure he's nice to talk to, but going by his filmmaking and what personal views have bled through there, I don't much care for the man. And I've genuinely tried to look for something to like beyond the aesthetics. But even they're taken from elsewhere. Ultimately, he's just a less interesting Uwe Boll.

[@chrisdurham3825]

I agree completely. Hate movies that have modern or advanced technology being defeated with a sword or metal bar. Like have 7 people in speed boats armed with pistols and swords beating an aircraft carrier.

[@darthstryk7169]

I've been saying this forever. He's a director, he's not a writer. He needs a good writer and he can make good movies. His writing is for shit. They were a couple of really cool storylines that they just never got back to. The princess that could bring things back from the dead? That seems like a way cooler storyline than anything we got.

[@hotlinesanzensekai7084]

It's a movie that from the title you can deduce was made with a sequel already in mind. So a lot of things will probably just be explained in the other movies.

[@callumjohnston858]

I think he's a competent cinematographer, but his direction is kinda crap imo.

[@dingus2k]

@@hotlinesanzensekai7084you have to pay off some set up to make a satisfying narrative. one movie full of setup will feel boring and exposition filled. sequels are for building on that, not for answering a bunch of unanswered questions

[@TommyGreen333]

It felt rushed and so many of the characters seemed really unnecessary but i found the aesthetic and world funky enough that i would like to see more stories in it. I agree that he needs new writers.

[@ANTIStraussian]

The slow mo fight scenes are soooo dated. He needs to move on.

[@Pooh0Bear8]

💯

[@scratchy996]

the aesthetic is so 2006, he didn't evolve since he made 300.

[@bizuko2307]

Agree with all of your points. It felt SO LONG but it was just one giant "getting a crew together" sequence so many other movies have done far faster. Worse, after the recruits get their introductory action scene they just awkwardly stand around, not doing anything. Hell, Djimon Hounsu and Ray Fisher don't even *get* introductory action scenes. Maybe the sequel will be good but this was just so bad.

[@cowboywayne35]

Didn't feel too long at all for me. I paused to make some popcorn and thought "aw only 44 mins left".

[@cowboywayne35]

Also if you thought this was bad try watching Napoleon lol

[@VonJay]

I think that’s when the movie lost me. It was a bit choppy here and there, but the robot with the farm girl scene was amazing in my opinion. And that’s when I bought into film. When it did its own Star Wars cantina scene I thought it looked great especially with that parasite monster. But when it devolved into a get three crew together type thing especially with excessive green screens I completely lost interest. Idk why he thinks a shirtless guy taming a giant eagle horse is entertaining but to me it was the opposite of the robot and the girl scene.

[@donkeydarko77]

What I find absolutely hilarious is that Snyder's best film was written by James Gunn.

[@IVMZR]

That was also Gunn's only good writing which got re-written even when it was remake of already made screenplay. Both are good Director but need some restriction. Without restriction Gunn do too much unfunny Dick jokes, full of potholes and Snyder with too much slomo lack of character development.

[@andrew4233th]

That opening Dan 👏👏👏

[@JohnMcVay1]

I love the intro to this video, Dan! 😂😂😂👏

[@hectoraccented5312]

The Mandalorian did this plot in under half an hour, and more entertaining

[@darthfader7414]

That’s not strictly the truth though.

[@leonardocucchiara4782]

​@@darthfader7414if you strip down the extremely thin story it's actually pretty much the truth

[@alwayswannabewrite]

My thought process on Zack Snyder is that the man thinks things are only cool when they are dark and depressing. “I want to do superheroes, but I want them to be emo and murder all of the time. I want to do Star Wars, but it needs to be rapey and super violent.”

[@stormtraitor6545]

Yeah, the rapey vibes just got too problematic for this…

[@alwayswannabewrite]

@@stormtraitor6545 now imagine how rough the director’s cut is going to be.

[@stormtraitor6545]

@@alwayswannabewrite I’m hesitant to check that one out now.

[@laartwork]

Love how he is proud of his original IP. Mine is about a young girl named Marry Hotter who discovers she is a magical witch and starts attending a school for magical children called Smogports. Plotvis loosely based on Mean Girls. But this is my IP

[@martin43427]

Kora: “Hey, join my rebellion against the evil empire.” Warrior: “Eh, I’m not interested.” Kora: “Please?” Warrior: “Oh, alright, I guess.” That’s the most substantive REBEL MOON is.

[@ANTIStraussian]

I kept laughing at the idea the Dreadnought was going to take 12,000 bushels of wheat and then mill it into flower and make bread and pasta to feed its crew. What a hilarious concept for a galaxy spanning military flagship.

[@fredbloggs545]

The bit where she said to the gladiator general, revenge, and his eyes lit up like he had never considered that as a reason to fight, was hilariously bad. He just basically said, oh ok then!

[@relwalretep]

I made it 40 minutes in before falling asleep in my chair. After I woke up, decided I'd wait for Part 2 to drop before trying again. Am halfway through your review and from what I saw, couldn't agree more. My feel was basically: chap needs to find an editor who will tell him to get his hand off it.

[@browniebizzle]

Later e an hour

[@shiftymcgee9359]

Genuine laugh with that intro. Thank you for that.

[@mikem4700]

The dumbest part is, gathering a team of foot soldiers to hold off a dreadnaught that can atomize you from orbit. At least Hoth went to the trouble to have a planetary shield set up. And if they don't want to atomize the entire area, they can use their many gunboats to pulverize individual buildings and people from low orbit.

[@fredbloggs545]

You just know that the second part will be about the bad guys going in waves of small groups to attack rather than launch a full scale offensive from air and and land. Or as you say, simply threaten to level the colony from space. My guess is that the Dreadnought will have some Deux ex Machina design flaw and it drops out of the "sky" from some lucky shot.

[@Ductos]

"A super high budget Asylum film" - Dan's not holding back 😅

[@hectoraccented5312]

But most Asylum films have at least one or two charismatic actors in them tho and don't take themselves so damn seriously

[@awittypseudonym2520]

Snyder had an interview with Simon Mayo, where he mentions he made a 200 page script, didn't know how to shorten it, so made two movies without any real pushback. Which really irks me. Granted, we all complain about studio interference and idolize the creative vision of a singular filmmaker. But instead of tightening the plot via script reworks and editing so that it could make one singular movie, this is acts one and a half ish of a movie instead, which makes for a poor movie, which anyone who has ever had to read or write a screenplay will tell you is a bad idea.

[@NA-ys9ib]

I absolutely get you. It's really annoying because the only reason he can get away with it is because of his connections and because 300 did well almost 20 years ago. Meanwhile more obscure filmmakers have to fight tooth and nail to justify a midly long runtime

[@beavisdoge237]

Dune (2021)

[@awittypseudonym2520]

@@beavisdoge237 was always written with the intent of being a two parter, and works as a self contained movie

[@MysteryMii]

@@beavisdoge237Then again we saw what happened if you tried to condense Dune in to a single 2 hour 15 minute film back in 1984.

[@KellicTiger]

"we're the only two acceptable emotions are stoicism and anger.". Oh so it is a Zack Snyder film? Because that's the only type of movie he can create.

[@kc5997]

He is the Edgelords King.

[@isaacdavey9165]

After the original Star Wars was released roger corman made his own knockoff battle beyond the stars which was basically 7 samurai in space. It’s funny to think that by creating this film, Zack Snyder has essentially done a big budget remake of a corman film

[@rodriguez1025]

One of the first review videos I watched for Rebel Moon said it felt like a remake of Battle Beyond the Stars.

[@_JellyWalker]

Battle Beyond The Stars was written by John Sayles, James Cameron worked on the special effects and James Horner did the score. And I just found out that the director also made When The Wind Blows. Corman productions could have some really interesting teams working on them.

[@MrInvinciblewarrior]

​@@_JellyWalkerjames gunn started at troma, horror movies are great and cost efficient to start as a creative

[@TheReelDealwithTomKonkle]

My thought exactly

[@blemski]

Well said, after finishing this it left me highly anticipating part 2 of the sci-fi epic, Dune.

[@KesselRunner606]

To Snyder fans. 1. Mashing together everybody else's visual designs does not make you a _visionary director._ 2. Pointless and repetitive overuse of slow motion gets boring after the 300th time (pun intended). 3. Endless pages of exposition (like an rpger boring the rest of the team with their character's dark and tragic past) is not a screenplay. 4. There's a very broad line between "being influenced by" and outright copy and pasting other people's ideas and calling it "world building." 5. No matter how well you can draw or put a picture together, film making always comes down to story, Story, *STORY.*

[@mathsalot8099]

6. More time is only valuable if used wisely. Just because he has a Director's Cut does not mean it's necessarily going to be better especially since he had full creative control on this movie unlike his DCEU movies. Sucker Punch Directors Cut is more comparable to this movie than Justice League.

[@Matt-st1tt]

Felt like the fan fiction from someone who had never done world building before.

[@artpro5930]

I agree 100% with this review. At this point, it seems Snyder doesn't have a solid grasp on how to structure a film in 2 hours. He needs a stronger editor of both his scripts and his films. For example, this film is (correctly) universally panned for the lack of character development. We keep seeing new characters and then move on to the next new character. It's like Snyder read the synopsis of "The Seven Samurai" and said to himself, "I can do that." Rather than build up some kind of character development for the rest of the "team", Snyder thought "let's have a one minute landing sequence on every planet." The visual excesses are relentless. But that visual candy sacrifices any kind of development of the story or the characters. He can only actually tell a story if he has 3 or 4 hours to do it. That's a sign of a bad director and a bad writer. The film industry Is full of both that can get it done in a normal runtime without the need for an extended "director's cut." It shows he's a lazy editor that doesn't know how to be efficient. There's a lot of potential in this film and the world/universe Snyder built is cool and interesting. He's has an amazing visual style. He just doesn't have a solid grasp on how to actualize it.

[@geeninebee]

I loved the rhymes, perfect for Christmas. Unfortunately it's a bad trend in the movies. It's like the director wanted to do a TV miniseries, and settled for a duology or trilogy. Just imagine if the first Star Wars (episode IV) would have finished just before they made their attack on the Death Star.

[@martindouglass3248]

Bay thinks blowing sh*t up and loud noises are “signatures”. Abrams thinks it’s ludicrous pace and lens flares. For Snyder it’s slo-mo and the color orange. Guys like Spielberg, and for the most part Cameron as well, use all of those “signatures” as tools in telling good stories and have made actual storytelling their signatures.

[@fredbloggs545]

CGI has made film makers lazy.

[@gundamnmechas8518]

Not since the days of Dan and Roth has a review intro had me so gasping for air 😂

[@thekeywitness]

“Stoicism and anger” - yup, that pretty much sums up the cult of ZS and young male disenfranchised Americans raised on broken promises and FPS games.

[@MysteryMii]

inb4 Netflix tries to convince everyone that this film is a roaring success viewership wise.

[@hectoraccented5312]

"Minutes watched"

[@tallyprestin1881]

Everything you said about this movie is exactly what I feel about every ZS movie... Including the ones you've liked. The man can make a scene look awesome... But he can't make a whole movie any good

[@mediumvillain]

He's made one or two that are pretty good, but he's gotten pretty self-indulgent

[@tallyprestin1881]

@@mediumvillain I liked 300... But it's a bit goofy in its machismo. Sucker punch dreams scene looked great... But it wasn't. And he completely missed the point of watchmen and Superman. He's always had these issues, people are just giving him more leeway cause it doesn't seem to matter that he makes bad films. What he really needs is a partner who can cover his deficiencies but give him room for stylistic expression.

[@TheOtherGuy021]

I am not even interested in watching the Snyder Cut on this He can’t keep getting away with this “Look everyone I made this movie, ohh you don’t like it ?? I have a totally different director’s cut” Come on man this is on streaming what are you talking about Rebel Moon was really bad not even gonna watch part 2 This movie has nothing going on, all they do is travel to a planet recruit a character, they explain what his backstory is then do it 4-5 times over and they have a fight at the end (kinda)

[@leonardocucchiara4782]

A peaceful, primitive village of farmers. A brutal, technically advanced, evil force attacks the village. A highly trained, foreign elite warrior looking for a hideout. The villagers ask the warrior for help. The warrior realises that he'll need help from other professionals so he goes and recruits another foreign warrior. Together they train the villagers in weapon use and battle tactic. The evil force returns and the prepared villagers fight off the attack. The end. Sounds familiar? It's point-by-point the plot of the Mandalorian season 1 episode "The Sanctuary". Its almost like Disney tricked Snyder by rejecting his movie script, stripping down the extremely thin story and turned it into a 30 minute series episode. And it's actually more entertaining than the 2 hour+ movie. But than again its basically also a point-by-point rip-off of The Magnificent Seven.

[@KyleSanDiego]

This is the perfect description of the film. You earned my sub. Looking forward to your content

[@guninkdesigns3838]

This review is spot on. I found myself wanting so much more and at the end was left a bit confused. Beautiful to watch so much potential but most of us are left wanting.

[@Lonely_Goat]

It even had the star wars bar scene

[@phineascromwell]

This made Valerian and Jupiter Ascending look like good movies.

[@troywinston]

I really enjoy and appreciate your excellent work, Dan. I must part with you on the director's version thing though. I more often than not prefer extended and director's cuts. But I understand your POV, too, and...do agree also, as there have been some director's cuts that perhaps didn't improve the overall. :-) and Merry Christmas to you!

[@adv8nturenick]

I thought there could’ve been a few more slo-mo scenes and it was definitely in need of a few lens flares.

[@daisyblossomflowerchild9702]

Thank you, Dan, for the spectacular early Christmas present of... a hysterical peom intro🎄🎁😜; it fits my eclectic sense of humour perfectly. Merry Christmas🎄/Seasons Greetings❤️ and a very happy and healthy new year to all🎉. 💙🌼🐱

[@Checkmate9moves]

Snyder hasnt had a home run since 300. Now he's either getting struck out or foul balls

[@JoseRodriguez-un2kc]

Thats what Zack Snyder needs... A great Writer.

[@TimSeraphiel]

Zack still persists in writing his own stuff... and failing. You'd think he'd have learnt his lesson by now.

[@ToolTalkChannel]

Let’s not forget BvS also had a “Snyder cut” hahahaha

[@TheRumblewagon]

Summed up my thoughts pretty closely. Especially about introducing a character, having a coincidental action scene to show why said character is so awesome, and then on to the next character. Rinse and repeat.

[@stealintomorrow]

It brings to mind the Best of the Worst movie I am only familiar of courtesy of Red Letter Media: Kill Squad.

[@johncra8982]

Dan took the comments on the maestro intro joke personally and came out swinging with this one.

[@wazedfox566]

the only interesting thing about this movie is the fact that both the actors who played Daario Naharis in GOT were in it

[@CJKhaos]

The film was very pretty and the world building interesting, even if it was just Star Wars meets Seven Samurai. At this point, I think Zack Snyder is just a better cinematographer then he is a director.

[@mordakie3805]

The world building was horrendous

[@deanwright1609]

Thanks Dan. I was curious about this one and like you as a reviewer. As a 300 fan I'll still check it out, but appreciate your thoughts.

[@kelsanggyudzhin2340]

Zack Snyder would be a phenomenal Director if he wasn't under the delusion that he is a good Writer.

[@Yunggnomoney]

Throw back to the Fandom video where Dan messed up the intro and said “FUCK” then restarted the intro but they forgot to edit it out.

[@DanMurrellMovies]

Hahaha, I don’t even remember that

[@Yunggnomoney]

@@DanMurrellMovies lol, there’s no reason you would. It was late Fandom days, and you guys were putting out a crazy number of videos a week between SJU, honest trailers, charting and misc. straight to camera stuff. It was only up for like an hour before it was corrected but it got a very genuine laugh out of me.

[@JayTillaeon]

This movie was like a Star Wars fan who watched the Prequels and thought to copy and paste the dialogues style to his own low budget film to put on KZbin to "show up" George Lucas because he didn't get what they want.

[@jojosoni]

Eagerly waiting for charts with dan

[@susioeandno1else]

Movies are movies, they don't need DLC... 😂😂😂😂 Truer words have never been spoken

[@sewnetvids]

I will probably see this one eventually. I agree with you about Zach Snyder's strengths and weaknesses.

[@sundawg911]

I love Bae Donna, so might just watch it for her but I think I will focus on the Percy Jackson series this weekend lol.

[@metalface_villain]

zack snyder sucks, the most overrated director of all time imo. remove the color, make all the characters edgelords, add slow motion, bastardize the message of the source material and you have yourself a zack snyder movie.

[@syleshwhycantileavethisbla802]

Innumerable critics have praised the visuals in this movie but I just don't see it. Maybe I've been spoiled by the Guardians movies and their vibrant, visually arresting worlds, but I'm not wowed by a series of brown dustbowls that look like they could be from any other sci-fi movie of the last 20 years, no matter how convincing the green screen looks. It's like watching Star Wars but Luke never leaves Tatooine. And I know Snyder does slow-mo action scenes that look like lovely screensavers, but he's been doing them for over 15 years now, and I don't really feel like patting him on the back for showing Ultralord at show and tell for the 7th week in a row.

[@victorvargas2924]

GOATED INTRO!!! 😂

[@frank_av8tor]

From all the bad reviews I went in with very low expectations, but I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't bad. Sure it has it's problems (saw the plot twist from miles away) and is basically the same story from 7 Samurai, Magnificent 7 and 3 Amigos, but at least it didn't hesitate to kill off likeable characters, didn't make Kora an OP, never wrong, unstoppable Mary-Sue, and laid the seeds for a major twist. This is after all a new galaxy and I look at 'Child of Fire' as a foundational element rather than the main course. 3.5/5 for me. Agree that they should just have had one version the extended hard R version, even better, release it as an episodic series taking their time to give each character a real introduction.

[@jasonraschen1109]

Saw the film over the weekend with my Dad. I thought it was ok but he HATED it. Which is interesting because we usually like the same films. So when I told him you didn't care for it, he said you were right.

[@Chris_tothefuture]

I wish it looked better. To me his films have been sort of feeling like a really amazing photoshop creation. Like too much of a collage. Lots of great elements but somehow they just don’t mesh right to feel natural. It’s a stylistic choice I believe, for this film tho it just felt like it needed more work to really pull of visually.

[@denniswade4998]

At the beginning I was excited about the movie being a "Part One", expecting to find characters and a story that I would look forward to seeing more of in the sequels to come. But long before the end of Part One I realized that if this whole project just disappeared and there were no more parts to it, there was an EXTREMELY high chance that I wouldn't even notice. Cardboard characters and a cut & paste storyline with not one iota of originality destroyed any interest in wanting any future parts to this travesty. I could maybe understand if this were made by someone still in directing school as a class project to learn from. But to have it come from someone who has had years of experience in the business making movies with extremely high budgets is mind-staggering! All I can think of is that he somehow destroyed his life to the point where he was in heavy debt to loan sharks who were threatening him with extreme bodily harm if he didn't cough up some cash soon, and slapped together something that would enable him to appease them for a while. Nothing else comes to mind to explain why a big name director would even want his name to be associated with this travesty.

[@BrianHartman]

I really wasn't impressed with the movie. It was Discount Star Wars. As you said, Snyder made no bones about the fact that it started out as a Star Wars script, but I don't think he changed enough about it after Disney rejected it. The cantina scene (including a humanoid creature harassing one of our heroes), the tentacle thing, and even light sabers make an appearance. All of that could be forgiven, though, if the rest of the story wasn't as paper-thin as a porno. 90%+ of it is getting the band together, and all of that amounted to: "Join us!" "No!" "Please‽" "Well, okay....". There was barely any characterization, and a lot of that took place in flashbacks that didn't even bother to give us the whole story. It reminds me a little, now that I think about it, of how they handled Rey in the Star Wars sequels. Just like in those movies, Snyder made the mistake here of keeping her pivotal moment away from the audience for too long.

[@totti2k2]

I honestly saw this as a Live Action Anime. I maybe this is what he was going for. Also with the fact that there’s gonna be related media for it, reminds of Anime OVA’s. So I’m gonna wait for all the media that gonna with it too decide if it’s a hit or miss. This Part One was ok imo.

[@_Amit_Sunil]

But Anime has good writing.

[@donkeydarko77]

lol, that is a ridiculous generalization. @@_Amit_Sunil

[@derpherp7432]

@@_Amit_Sunil lmao no. 99% of anime has horrific writing.

[@hellfire5108]

"High Budget Asylum movie", that is spot on.

[@bernadmanny]

Basically the village from Seven Samurai on Tatooine and Warhammer 40K parks in orbit.

[@TheHectorHuescaShow]

We need to start accepting the fact that Zac can't direct...

[@Fuuntag]

It rarely bodes well when you call something “Part 1” nowadays.

[@hungryhungryhobo196]

ZS films feel like he sat around smoking weed and eating door dash just writing down ideas bullet point style on post it notes and was like: "Yup here's my movie!" and does not flesh out or fill the space between those bullet points at all.

[@reviewbomb85]

If you like movies that are obviously shot on sound stages, with sloppy CGI, terrible characters, and lots of slow motion, then this is the movie for you.

[@andrewcosta5001]

My wifi dropped for a cluple minutes while i was watching, it wasnt worth starting again when the wifi returned

[@ubanman]

Somehow this movie felt slow and rushed at the same time. Zack Snyder has always been a visual director, someone else should ALWAYS write for him. After watching the film, I couldn't even thumbs up or down because a down would mean I don't like sci-fi adventure movies (and Netflix algorithm might not recommend more in the future) but there is no way this is a thumbs up LOL.

[@Shadowman4710]

They need to invent a sideways thumb.

[@judahtyreman7806]

Not a Snyder fan, but he family and I watched it last night. It was so much better then the reviews said. Disney could take a cue from this on how to do star wars.

[@Ryan125y]

Did anyone believe not Darth Vader died when he fell? I was expecting his hand to be cut off.

[@harshgarg1448]

Recommend checking out salaar part 1 I a full theatre

[@BoringAngler]

I've never seen Meet the Spartans, time and electricity are too precious, but I'm still very happy to have Dan make a joke about it. I've just realized as Dan's talking about Zack Snyder @6:36, I feel about Snyder's movies the same way I feel about Neill Blomkamp and Gareth Edwards movies.

[@samavila5138]

It felt like an infinitely long movie trailer. The fight scenes don’t make sense. Why didn’t the spider lady keep stabbing her when she landed the arm hit, then later just hold her up like a baby as if she wasn’t armed.

[@chrisplaster3502]

It's always the same with ZS, "it looks great!...but..." Smh

[@laartwork]

Someone explain the single peak mountain with huge waterfalls. Where is the water coming from? Is it a water volcano?

[@slip6hazard9]

Visually Snyder is a unique and talented director. But with story telling and writing IMO he is total garbage. I still think the best movie he's directed is the remake of Dawn of the Dead, he was still fairly new and hadn't quite fallen into his "Snyderisms" (slow-mo, etc) plus the movie itself was written by James Gunn.

[@julianray5240]

I don’t think they manufactured an ending at all. They just amped up what’ll happen in the following movie.

[@mattcolli5265]

The special effects and artful effects were cool!

[@kennethchia4194]

This movie has both Ed Skrein and Michael Huisman? Both Daario Naharises?

[@SzymonAdamus]

Zack Snyder is an author, who thinks he’s much deeper, better in writing and smart than he really is. He is absolutely talented in visual and technical part, but as far as the story, characters, emotions and deeper problems go - he was never that good really. And nothing gives any hope that this will ever change.

[@lordsaile]

Puttin’ up my christmas tree to this. Have a nice holiday!

[@RyanToxopeus]

It really did feel too long... I liked when the Han Solo stand-in had his twist in the story, but there were other characters they picked up along the way that I wasn't sure why they were there at all. Like, aside from some visually cool scenes in the final battle, they didn't even get to use their abilities that they'd shown earlier. I really liked the guy who rode Buckbeak - I mean, the giant bird thing - and thought he'd do some more cool stuff with critters. I dunno... I may watch the second one, just to see if there's payoffs down the road, but I'm not really excited about it.

[@rmarkley79]

Such a great cold open, thanks Dan!

[@JDotWill]

I’m going to wait for the Snyder patch. If I watch this version, I won’t care to watch the “better” version

[@hellfire5108]

I don't want to imagine how would LotR look like if Peter Jackson made it today with the mindset of Ridley Scott or Zack Snyder. That version would be unwatchable.

[@branagain]

I hate everything Zack Snyder touches so I will stay far away.