I thought there was a thread started already and there probabaly is somewhere however we all know the search is terrible here.
Netflix starting to release more promo stuff now ahead of the Christmas release.
I have to say I am looking forward to seeing what he does here.
Behind the scenes promo
Poster
The Magnificent Rebel Moon Seven.
The most interesting character for me was the robot.
This is actually an insult to cinema. The worst thing I've ever seen. What's with all the pointless slow motion stuff
The spider thing looks like the Borg queen and the alien that was watching the Northern Ireland lads ship take off looked like the alien James Kirk kicks in the knees that turns out to be the aliens nuts in start trek VI.
This is a mix of a lot of things imo!
Was alright. But definitely not as good as I'd hoped it could be.
The guys that turn up on the spaceship remind me of the Necromongers from chronicles of riddick.
Is this supposed to be linked to that story?
They know it's a turkey from the start. Basically uwe boll checked to see which big actors were on a break between movies and approached them with a project to do between movies. They'd usually agree to just to keep themselves busy and earn some money between projects. It's why he managed to get relatively big stars on board.
So to me it pretty much felt like a remake/take off of Battle Beyond the Stars which was a remake of The Magnificent Seven which itself was a remake of Seven Samurai.
Collect a band of heroes to save the day.
Trailer for part 2
Thought it started getting a bit better towards the end, so talks of a trilogy are encouraging. It was slow in places but overall a decent watch. Would definitely watch the second part when it comes out.
First 30mins was a slog. Also thought it looked like a cheap TV set for most scenes.. will dip back in over multiple views to finish.
It’s grand. Perfectly watchable, unfortunately it doesn’t amount to much more than that. Story is paper thin. It’s a predictably boring tale at how the main character gets the band together, which seems to come together conveniently easy.
it looks great, but the setting is so singular, you could hardly call it a space opera. At times It almost feels like a pilot of a new TV show.
Yep (Fra Fee), the aging up is not well done...plus the main character hasn't aged a day.
Mark Kermode wasn't quite as scathing as I thought he might have been but he did mention the awful Charlie Hunnam/humdrums accent.
I thought the Dolby Vision / Atmos worked very well on this. Thats where the positives end though. Shambles on the story / character front. When I see a movie like this I always think back to this gem from Uwe Boll and wonder at what point do the cast know its a turkey.
Btw I recommend watching In The Name Of The King. Unintentional comedy gold.
Decent enough film, nothing special and don't care about any of the characters, thought some of the CGI very ropey - hard to miss all the similarities from other sci-fi films, I mean it's really just a remake of Battle Beyond the Stars but I think that film had more heart
I actually enjoyed it. Wouldn't know a Snyder from a picasso so it didn't bother me.
A decent story line. Disappointed that pt2 is 4 months away
Debating if I'd let my kids watch it. The attempted rape scene didn't leave much to the imagination of what would happen. Not something I want my kids to watch.
just watched it, it's everything thats wrong with modern movies
style over substance
at the end I didnt care if they ALL died
is yerman at the end in heavy makeup to make him look older?
There were definitely some post-process aspect-ratio changes, very noticable at the start with some of the character close ups.
There's also plain old chromatic abberation, either natural or again induced in post-process (since for some reason even game developers think it's a good idea to add in...).
Was this filmed with a fisheye lense or something the edges of the screen are blurred far to often. It's akin to looking through an oculus quest with the sweet spot in the middle but the edges lacking detail.
A solid 'meh' . I didn't expect much from the story but he's usually at least a master of fast action and spectacle and I could settle for a silly Friday night popcorn muncher but it fell really short there too imho. Too many slowdowns, events that should be happening in parallel instead being serial and making no sense outside of an Anime that the world would just effectively freeze while each character was having their zoom in moment and enemies in the background would do nothing. Too many pauses and ridiculous telegraphing took every bit of energy out of what could have been decent action scenes.
I did like the nod to Battle Beyond the Stars 'Nell' with the Blood axe flagship though (I'd literally just talked to my wife about the other 7-samurai derivatives and it being a corny but fun scifi version when they flew in).
It's about 9/10 Snyders on the Snyder-scale. I'm deducting 1 Snyder for using Hopkins as purely a voice-actor. Cos that is a great call.
Well this was poor....very poor. I think even the Snyder fanboys will struggle to hype it up. Worst of all it is boring. Stupid slow mo scenes, clunkily directed, badly acted and with trite lumpen dialogue. Another netflix dud to add to the growing pile.
I think I read it was failed Star wars universe film pitch it feels like it.
A special shout out to Charlie Hunnam and his northern Ireland accent at least I think that's what he was going for....brutal.
I've watched an hour so far and will probably finish it tonight....it's actually decent from what I've seen, and one of Snyder's more subdued films (I know how mental that sounds).
If being derivative is its worst crime, I could point to a certain other studio that could be accused of that for the last decade plus yet get a far easier ride from critics.
It's meh. Derivative McDerivative. It was suitable hangover material for me today. If you can forgive the total lack of any originality then you may be mildly entertained. For me another to add to Netflix's panteon of bang average films and yes it is about as Snyder as things can get.
Well, Part 1 is out today for those curious to see how Syndery it all is.
That "It's the cinematic equivalent of an NFT" is a savage burn. Jesus. Remember those tens of thousands of jpgs that were supposedly worth tens of thousands EACH? Rings a bell, right? But that's it.
Ouch
Most of the reviews seem to say exactly what most here have been saying: Style over substance and totally derivative. I mean, we all gave examples purely from the trailer and the couple of clips I've seen are just as shallow: The rich-looking merc/gent who is secretly dead inside (queue going out in a blaze of glory saving some kids or numble maiden who rook a shine to him) to the mystical Not-native-American taming a flying beast. No doubt later referred to as a mythical "Sky-Rider".
I don't have a problem with material referencing itself. For God's sake, how many other riffs on Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven/... Battle Beyond The Stars are there. The problem I have is with his, aptly-described-above, strangely obsessive and cine-illiterate fan base. They seem to think that he invented every trope that he trots out and that he is bringing something radically new and game-changing to cinema.
It's a bit sad really
i mean, anyone can do whatever they want, but if you want a project to be good, then ideally you get the best people suited to work on each part of it. That's sorta the point of filmmaking. Sometimes to make the idea you love be the best version of itself, you have to be open to delegating on areas you're weak in - which is pretty undeniably the case with Snyder and screenwriting.
And it's just a bit of a shame for this much effort from so many people (actors, costumers, H&MU, cinematography, VFX staff, production designers etc etc) to go into something that ends up bad because of a reason like that. Everyone still gets their paycheck, but it's always so much more rewarding to be a part of something good.
I'm just a bit disappointed to hear how much of a slog this seems to be, as it's exactly the sort of thing I want to see made, and every bad end product makes life harder for the next persons pitch.
To be fair to Snyder this seems to be a labour of love for him, so why would he hand over the writing to someone else? He's dying on the sword he believes in which is fair enough to me.
I'd say after these Rebel Moon films he's just going to step away from directing and be full on producing with his wife.
He just really needs to stop trying to do these auteur projects, cause he's really bad at it. Plenty of directors only work on projects that someone else has developed and written. Scripts are important and should ideally be left to people who can write them.
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