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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No disrespect Zack, but shouldn’t a good film director be able to make the film they wanted to the first time around?
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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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