Rebel Moon Part 2

So I really hated Rebel Moon. It was a perfect example of all the reasons why Zach Snyder is a terrible filmmaker. I love Gail Simone and I know that she liked it but even geniuses make mistakes. Rebel Moon was terribly paced, hollow and a cheap Star Wars rip off made by someone who doesn’t understand even the most basic of filmmaking structures and techniques. The slow motion is tired and overused and I would love to dare him to write just one character with some depth to them. Anyway he is so incapable of storytelling that he can’t contain his shitty original ideas to 2 hours so we all have to endure a second part to this garbage. So here we go, Rebel Moon part 2…

Oh good, a narrator. How creative. I’m watching it at 1.25X speed and it's STILL two hours long. The fucking audacity.

The incredible lack of chemistry between these leads is actually impressive. Their love story is so so forced and it genuinely does not make sense.

Honestly so far this one seems to have the same problem the first one did, which is, it wants too badly to be a Star Wars film. There is a reason that Disney rejected it when Snyder pitched it and it's because it SUCKS. So you have something that simply feels like Star Wars fanfiction by someone who is trying not to get sued.

So there is a lot of music in this one, like he thinks he's Tolkien or something. But it's just the same song over and over again. Just another example of Snyder fundamentally misunderstanding what a motif is. There is even singing at a pre-battle party. Yeah…he wants to be Tolkien so bad but he’s not even the shit Tolkien crapped out.

We are training the people of this tiny village to fight. Right. Because some barely trained people with hardly any weapons totally have a chance against a warship with literally any amount of people on it. And this training montage has some generic ass “inspiration” music behind it and it's so overdramatic and terrible.

Ugh exposition, exposition, exposition. We do not need to hear the backstory for every person in this goddamn group. 5 stories now in this movie. 50 minutes in and we have had 5 exposition heavy backstories. I’m so sorry but there is just no excuse or justification for this. It feels Snyder took inspiration from 3 or 4 brilliant pieces of media and just fucked all of it up. Did every single element in the worst possible way. I think that he thinks that this scene is like the letter writing scene from A Knight's Tale…the difference is that it all tied back to 1 person, the others simply offered perspective with a single line of context. We didn’t go around the circle hearing every person’s personal backstory with the absolute most derivative score.

There is no act structure…again. Rebel Moon part 1 and his version of The Justice League also had this problem. Snyder doesn’t understand how film or writing works to the point where his movies wander aimlessly without goal or motivation. Act structure is there for a reason and he absolutely does not understand it enough to break it.

I’m so over Snyder getting to make movies. We as a society need to stop funding him. He has not produced anything in the last decade that is worth watching. Rebel Moon part 2 continues to serve as an example that filmmaking just isn’t for everyone. Maybe Snyder was meant to run an art gallery, or dig glitches but he most definitely was not made to write or direct. I am not even going to dignify this film with a numbered score. If Netflix wants to put money somewhere how about giving people more episodes of the shows they like, or maybe stop canceling popular shows. Do not waste your time on this overly expositional, Star Wars wannabe.