Zack Snyder "accept that you're a cinematographer and stop trying to be a writer/director as well" Challenge
Rebel Moon clearly needed to be a TV series with each of the episodes introducing a new character/scenario, so that there was time to do all the necessary worldbuilding and characterisation properly. The fact that Netflix didn't care about that is concerning.
Like, you want to do 'Seven Samurai' in space? Fine.
But there's a way to do that without it being just an underdeveloped hotchpotch of unrelated action scenes featuring cool-looking characters we know nothing about. Then just hurriedly shoehorning in some exposition and moving on as if having the characters actually interact with each other isn't integral to caring about them.
Honestly, it depresses me so much how normalised it's become for the movie industry to just churn out bigger and bigger blockbusters which are so CGI heavy you can taste it at the expense of everything else that makes a movie, you know, good. And this mindset that, so long as it looks stunning and the fight scenes are 'epic', then it doesn't matter if the story is derivative, predictable and/or poorly-paced and has stilted boring dialogue, is really damaging the craft.
The acting and costumes and sets all typically do their best to keep everything afloat, but if the script is convoluted or just a series of badly-hidden tropes, then that's what comes through.
My biggest fear is that we as an audience are gradually forgetting what a well-crafted movie actually looks like, and just settling for mind-numbing spectacle, because that's all we're being given.
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Noble moaned as the slick black tendrils kneaded and probed his body. The tightening of their grip around his cock, wrists, and neck made him forget who he was and that anything existed outside this bed chamber. He liked to feel his windpipe constrict until the lack of oxygen gave him a sense of lightheaded euphoria. — Rebel Moon Novelization, V. Castro.
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Seth McFarlane to Paramount: Can I make a Star Trek?
Paramount: No
*makes The Orville*
Zack Snyder to Disney: Can I make a Star Wars?
Disney: No
*makes Rebel Moon*
I do kinda like this "fuck you, I'll do it anyway" energy.
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This is random, but I'm watching the Snyder Cut and it just got to the scene of Bruce going over the mountain to find Arthur and I thought to myself "this guy is Relentless" and I realized that I wished there were more Batman fics that explored that. Especially from an outsider POV. Imagine being a villain trying to do crime and the Gotham Creeper is dogging your every step and no matter what you do he just. Keeps. Coming. Ugh. I love Batman.
Yes! Exactly!!
The way I think about it, Bruce has (almost) never found a problem he couldn’t throw money or his body at. Money, being obvious, and his body as in the outer/upper limits of what a human in peak physically condition can truly do.
The problems he can’t solve by being physically faster or stronger or by having limitless gear and technology involve the mind. Bruce — both canonically and in Snyder’s movies — reaches a genius-level intellect, but I don’t think that’s the most important part. It’s, as you mentioned, his relentlessness that’s the linchpin in all of this.
Batman can hunt you down to the ends of the earth; he can outrun you and outfight you if you’re human; he can outsmart you. But most importantly, he is like the ancient hunters, steady and ever-present a quarter mile behind their quarry, unwilling and unable to simply give up.
He will outlast you, and when you stumble, he will be there with bared teeth.
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