His recent interviews have been the cherry on top. This man continues to not mentally age beyond 14 years old and he's made a career out of that. Edgelord teen filmmaking at its finest.
@@JoeChilltonhe always has. Have you seen watchmen? Guy clearly read the graphic novel and went "this is SO COOL" and then made a movie around that ethos to serve his inner child...instead of...ya know...maybe reading between the lines and getting a sense of the things that story was trying to say about superheroes/comics
My thing about that is: did people forget that his Army of the Dead universe was supposed to be sequel after sequel with an anime too? And that only ended up getting a prequel film. This, imo, is where his Rebel Moon franchise ends
And what is it to you though? Simply don’t watch and let the people that enjoy it enjoy it! Focus on what you like and I promise your misery will disappear
The thing is you internet lames that don’t have a women to focus your time and affection on think the world revolves around you? What about us? The ones that liked it? My girl and I were glued to the tv set and I ain’t a blind follower! I was disappointed with part 1 but man was part 2 good! Funny thing is the audience score on rotten tomatoes is growing! It started off bad cause haters gave it 1 start before even seeing it. Imbd had bad ratings before the film even came out! Yall are fkn miserable! Get a life! I’ve never gone somewhere to spew hate on something I don’t like! I simply move on! I don’t waste time on it. Get a life! Take some dance classes. Learn a new language! Do seomthing productive! I swear I would never waste 20 min of my time watching a review of something I don’t like or care about! Yall weird homie
Cody, you say WB fucked Zack. Yet in retrospect it seems the guy needs boundaries and to be monitored creatively. The “interference” that is so widely spoken about on his DC projects is blown out of proportion.
Its sad you even have to spell out that you are a fan of him despite not liking the film. Because there is always those fans that are like “omg you didn’t blindly love it like i did” …if you didn’t like something you didn’t like it
@@jeffn4836 I mean you aren’t wrong lol his films are divisive he makes some good ones like Watchmen but i truly don’t understand people coming to watch a review and only want to hear positive things about something they already love. Makes 0 sense.
One of the worst writing aspects was that they had "5 days" to get the harvest AND prepare and train the defense of the village. Either make it only 5 days for defense, and show the villagers struggle to learn stuff (but the harvest is already prepared). Or give them more time, like 5 weeks at least. Could've easily wrote in that it would take at least that long for the Admiral to get better/resurrected, before they show up. The idea that they harvested manually in 3 days, then dug trenches and taught the villagers defense tactics in less than 2 days (to the point that they are all perfectly accurate, and great with hand to hand) is outrageously stupid. How did that village girl even have time for sewing them personalized blanket gifts in that time, even if all she did was work on them? Yet they show her also training and harvesting...so WTF?! When did she even have time to get to know them enough to personalize these gifts? So dumb.
@@mmm-mmmI know, I know. Literally almost every scene in the movie can't pass the 2 second brain test. If you think about it longer than 1 second, it falls apart. Everything...is sooo dumb. It's mind numbing. From the motivations, the time frames, the tactics, the strategy, the chatacters, their back stories and their motivations, the assassination scene is on another level of high brow stupidity, to the incessant overuse of slo-mo, and the god damn coal powered space ship...it's all sooo unbearably stupid.
The idea that the directors cuts will be good movies is comical. If a restaurant serves you dog crap the problem is not that the portions are too small.
I literally bitched about that to my friend. I mean... it was LITERALLY the first half hour of the movie. Doing that is INSANE contempt for people's time.
Not forgetting cinematography - Sucker Punch, BvS and Watchman looked crisp thanks to Larry Fong A decent action choreographer - BvS Batman fight scene - don't know name.
@@martinwinter615 Batman action scene was directed by Damon Caro, the 2nd directing unit thats why its different from the rest of the movie and other action scenes of Snyder
I watched Army of the Dead and knew everything I ever wanted to know about Snyder and his ability to put a movie together. No thank you, sir. I'll be having none of what Snyder is serving :p
Because he's great at creating jangling-key cinema. He makes cool imagery with characters spouting lofty-sounding dialogue to trick dumb people into thinking it's deeper than it is.
Synder is like a middle schooler who makes action movies they think looks cool. It's style, special effects and music OVER characters, story, plot, character development and meaningful acting. All his movies are that way really. It's all show and no go.
As a fan of Zack Snyder, who thinks his Snyderverse is one of the great trilogies...he has bought into his own hype and become his own worst enemy, and Netflix giving him carte blanche is only pouring gasoline on that already out of control fire. Like Cody said, Snyder is a visual storyteller, and a masterful one at that. But he is NOT a screenwriter. He can take words in the page and translate them into visual images that don't need words. As long as they are someone else's words. Partnered with accomplished writers like James Gunn, David Goyer, or Chris Terrio, he can achieve greatness. But when he's working from his own script, his weaknesses overcome his strengths. I haven't watch Rebel Moon 2 yet. But since I didn't care very much for the first one, I don't expect much anymore.
This is why the "Good" Snyder films are the ones he doesn't write. 300, Watchmen, Man of Steel, Dawn of the Dead, that Owl movie. Sure, he directed them, but the movies never really suffered from the writing. More the Snyderisms, the slomo, bloated action. The "bad" ones are written by him or co-written by him. He's kind of like JJ Abrams, Abrams suffers from the same thing. He's not good when he directs the films he writes. Snyder needs to focus on directing, let some one else write.
@@isacctavares1368 I think Abrams has an entirely different problem. He's great at setting up stories but has no clue how to pay them off. That's why bringing him back to direct Star Wars Episode 9 was the biggest mistake they could've made. They were looking at him to wrap up the trilogy and he had no idea what to do. It's literally the most "make it up as we go" movie ever made.
@moviefan2517 you are right, but besides Mission Impossible 3, which he wrote and directed, most of his films that were written and directed by him are not great or okay.
The scene that the main group and the villagers at the long house is so freaking cringe and not making any sense. Like the farm girl represent the village to give the group some gifts and complement on each member's "qualities". How the heck did she or the village know that? All the past days they only spent working their ass off, no time for talking and interactions. Yet she had time to make the gifts specificly for each one and complement their qualties as if she really know them. So faking and try hard to much.
The movie completely failed to establish the main characters in time. So Zack just decided to tell viewers who they are and how you should feel about them. truly a display of writing excellence.
The best scene in the movie was the one minute long scene when the boy was messing with the swordswoman, sticking the wheat under her hat. It’s perhaps the ONLY time we get any real taste (a very small one) of the personality of ANY of the characters.
In the first movie, where the Anthony Hopkins robot had a flower in his hands for some reason (can't remember why) I switched it off and never returned. The out of focus background and the in focus foreground together literally gave me a headache. It was terrible. For that reason, I will skip the rest of Part 1 and skip Part 2 completely. What's the point of having a 4K tv when most of the image is blurry. That was just a dumb decision.
This movie just felt so empty to me. I still didnt care about the characters. I didn't feel the stakes. I didn't feel what the characters were fighting for.. Even when they tried to give the characters some development in the middle of the film. It all felt like the same story to me. Even the final battle was somehow, so boring in my opinion. It's not the worst movie i've seen this year. But it is in my bottom 5
Wowza, looking at the RT reviews for this, I'm just asking myself what version of this COULD'VE worked. Is it A. The Two separate Three Hour R-Rated cuts of these films B. A version that's both of these films mashed into one C. None of the above, just watch Seven Samurai and A New Hope again instead of these. I'm thinking it's C on this.
I don't know why we got these shorter cuts. They could've just made it into a show. And if the extended cuts are going to bring stuff to a 6-hour runtime, they could've done a show of 6 parts at 50-60 minutes each. And people WILL watch it all, especially in one day/one sitting. They do it every time a new season of Stranger Things releases, or pretty much any show. Doesn't have to be a returning show. It can be Season 1 of a show and something "fresh." So no reason to make this 4 hours and broken into two parts that are 2 hours each. They could've just given us all 6 hours at once.
Okay I don't want to hate on snyder but man he isn't making it any easy either. This movie & the previous movie has the plot of a bugs life yet that movie managed to be somehow shorter & to the point without needing 2 directors cuts. These 2 movies thus far have just been Kurisawa, Star wars, Bugs life & Battle beyond the stars yet those movies add something of their own to those movies age old used story tropes.
We need to talk about the elephant in the room, which is Synder hasn't had a good theatrical since Man of Steel. Since then its just been Extended cuts or Directors cuts. Which all end up suffering from pacing issues. Zack has now bought his own juice, The Snyderisms that made his movies great are now part of what holds it back.
Love how these Snyder fans r gonna say we’ll just wait for directors cut and act like this won’t exist. Get over it, Zack Snyder is so overrated that he has to be given 4 hours to tell a decent story. I said this when part 1 came out and now part 2 is even worse. Zack Snyder ruined dc for me with his shitty dceu and ruined the dc brand and now James Gunn has to clean up his mess.
I love seeing multiple RU-vidrs put out reviews on the same movie and then immediately I just search Cody Leach to hear his take instead😂😂 no disrespect, just love me some Cody Leach🫡🔥
I think snyder has the potential to be a great director. Don't get me wrong I love Man of Steel, Watchmen, Dawn Of The Dead and 300 but snyder is clearly a style over substance director and has no creativity other than in his visuals. Even half of his films stories were practically already written for him in graphic novels such as 300 and Watchmen and he just took the images from them and put them on screen. Even Dawn of the dead was a remake 💀. I love a lot of what snyder does but there is no doubting he is extremely flawed.
My biggest problem with the first was how little character development happened and inorganic the plot points seemed. Stuff just happened and I didn't believe why any of these people would give a shit.
@holyglitch1126 Says the guy who tracked down my Facebook because he got a lil mad because I compromised his ego. 🤡 You're the kind of person they ban from having phones for life because they're a fuckin creep.
I liked Zach Snyder's DC Trilogy, but understand why not everybody didn't. And yet, he says if you don't like my take on the characters then that means you're brainwashed. Which is 100% not correct. Most people are used to seeing Batman not use guns and Superman being more joyful. So if you didn't like what he did with the characters that's fine. And if you did like what Zach did with the characters, that's also fine. Everybody is entitled to their own opinions. Zach Snyder has no business saying otherwise, especially the brainwashed part.
Wanting more, and wanting less is EXACTLY how I felt watching both movies. On the one hand I kept thinking "he's doing all this slo-mo BS just to pad out run time". On the other hand I wanted so much more world building, character development, and just better/tighter writing/storytelling. So it literally is the worst of both worlds. It feels overly padded and indulgent, yet somehow also paper thin, and lacking detail. It blows my mind, especially considering the budget he had to work with.
The problem is I agree that studios mess things up sometimes, but I also think that you do need studios to tame these directors sometimes because sometimes their vision is way too out there and needs to be reined in
This gives me a LITTLE hope to think the Snyderites might pull their thumb out. The issue isn’t JUST these two films, but EVERYTHING he has written (solo) is atrocious. People have said he needs a strong producer to rein him in, but that’s Deb, his wife. You may like the DCEU movies, but they are in line with these in the “style over substance” movies. You might like DC which gave you more leeway to enjoy them, but it’s always been there. He will ALWAYS choose the visual over the story the visual tells. ALWAYS has. I really liked Dawn of the Dead, it missed the consumerism undertone, but James Gunn wrote the screenplay. 300 was pretty amazing, but the movie WAS action and little story and it was storyboarded by Frank Miller for him. Watchmen though visually impressive really missed the point in the end but David Hayter wrote the screenplay. Owls movie I never saw, but have heard decent things. Sucker Punch was a woman empowerment film written by Zack. Are you fucking kidding me Zack?! Then we role into the mess of DCEU and the sizzle existed without the steak. Steak being thought. Ask yourself, who was young Clark impersonating when he was a kid with a towel draped over his back like a cape? When I did it i was impersonating him until the moment I broke my arm and then I was impersonating a crying/whiny mess. Again, beautiful visual with Chris Cornell’s Seasons playing over it. What does it mean Zack? It’s pretty. This has always been Zack but with the beyond ridiculous Snydercut/Snyderverse BULLSHIT, the fans became insufferable and gave him a big head. Ultimate cut is better, but not by much. Snydercut is better, but still stupid as hell and bloated beyond imagination. He got a lot of attention for 300, and rightfully so, but he never evolved. He never matured. He’s still the kid playing with tilt lenses and depth of field in his back yard. Army of the Dead is the best evidence. There is some sort of parasocial relationship there and he is now taking advantage of it by doing this Snydercut bullshit, when most likely the conversation was “make us a movie?” And his response was, “I will if I can say you wanted a PG-13/2 hour cut and I can release the unrated dogshit later and use you guys as scapegoats.” “Sure”. They don’t care about a rating because the release for the first and second was so small to theaters it was nonsensical. His ego is blooming and it’s the Snyderites which helped create it and at this point, I don’t give two flying fucks about his movies anymore. AND I OWN SUCKER PUNCH FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!
Snyder movies is like watching an attractive person lip synching to music but when they actually try to sing, it sounds like nails on a chalkboard and you just want them to stop immediately because it's hurting your brain and yet they keep singing for two hours
U said it!!...Again with the director's cut?!... Take Lord of the rings for example..Now those are director's/ extended cuts!! Both theatrical n Entended versions are great!.. Which this RM absolutely ain't... U saying the reason the original ain't good coz it ain't a true vision?well most can't accept that excuse... The theatrical LOTR were ALREADY Jackson's vision of Tolkien stories comes to life...but made BETTER with the extended cuts! Rebel Moon on the other hand...
At this point, just make your stuff into a mini series. I feel like Snyder having so much to his movies is what creates that studio conflict in the first place 💀
Man, I totally agree with your conclusion. Two and a half hour would have been enough for what seems to be nothing but a build-up for what is going to be. And, trying to avoid spoiling here, what is going to be looks way more interesting than what we just saw.
"a small village on a remote planet fights off a huge intergalactic empire with interstellar travel ability with swords and axes and a dude who can control wild animals but there are no wild animals" is an unsalvagable array of idiotic ideas. You can't add violence and sex to it to the point of making it good, unless you don't watch that and just watch some porn instead.
You know, there is a difference between when comedian talks about pooping on his own audience and when he actually poops on them. Even if it's just out of frustration with the critics. That misdirected spite only further buries the one who becomes bitter. If i was Snider, i would made 33 hour long version. You wanna do the spite? Do it properly. 😂
Rebel Moon Part Two to me is better but its too fast paced because the first 50 minutes of it was characters preparing for another battle and their backstories, but the rest of it is just a big war scene. Don't understand why PG-13 cuts for both are necessary considering most of Netflix's most beloved and known movies and shows are more adult oriented. Hopefully this doesn't happen with the 4 other films if they happen. That's if there are TV-Y cuts of the Netflix Marvel shows before the actual TV-MA cuts.
To me, with how the industry is failing right now, they need to take more time to get it right. They rush stuff way too much, and we end up with crap. The script and story should be completely done before it goes anywhere. Most of these movies now feel half baked.
This method of media production is wild to me. It'd be like going to a restaurant and having to order the same thing several times before you get what's on the menu. Or an author releasing a draft of a novel they're not happy with, only to release the "proper" version nearly a year later. It's an absolute waste, on every level.
What stuck out for me is that the story itself wasn't all that epic... It could have been turned into a single two-hour film. You don't have to provide vast amounts of character back story and world building to make the viewer feel invested in the vision you're creating. Star Wars: A New Hope is the perfect example of that.
One of the big difference's between James Cameron and Zack Snyder is James Cameron's movies make a lot of money and even his Avatar sequel that people thought would flop is the third highest grossing movie of all time.
I wish that prior to Part 1 there was a TV-style season, with each episode focusing on the origin story of each individual main character. The last episode would be Kora's story--not her origin (which would be left for the films), but her immediate actions leading up to her arriving on Veldt. Part 1 would then pick up right where that episode left off, creating a seamless integration.
@@mynameisjonboy Netflix wanted a movie. It was going to be a series at one point with the style you mentioned, minus it culminating in a Part 1 movie. It would've all been a series, each episode introducing each characters origin.
@@ndo533 Wow. I can only wonder what it would have been like. Without those backstories and character development, it's like the whole movie is one big third act lol
I cant believe that there is another person that has Lost Boys as their number one! Yea, Fright Night is my top ten, what are the fu**ing odds! I feel like i have made this comment years ago on another video by Cody.... I guess history repeats itself
30 min of cutting wheat in slo mo. Great world building of the main planet. They have hovercraft wagons but only sickles to harvest. Not to mention that if "the empire" gets their way, and kill everyone, they no longer get any grain, which is the whole reason they care about this world in the first place.
When the directors cuts come out, someone should edit these two movies into one 2 hr film or something bc it would be better. I feel like the slo mo takes up at least a 3rd of the runtime
It was fundamentally flawed. The conversations and dialog were generic. It's hard to over come that. The movie also doesn't make much sense. 1. The entire battle could have been avoided. Clearly could've just opened fire on the villain when he stepped out of the ship. Shoulda just used the "bazookas" or even hunting rifles. They don't have "force magic" or force fields. And they "aren't allowed to fight" if the admiral dies. He just stood out in the open. 2. Gunner goes to the main shit with her. And his only job was to keep the ship running. He did practically nothing else and then you find out that he only really came to die. He gets shot in such an unbelievable way that it's embarrassing. 3. The robot did very little when he could've obviously saved most of the villagers... just by participating. He wasn't injured or scared or powering up. He was just absent until he chose to show up. 4. Arthelias...i just like the name. 5. They harvested the grain in like 3 days when it was supposed to be 6 months worth of work. That's laughably ridiculous. 6. There's a character that goes out into the battle using melee weapons against soldiers who are using long range weapons. Why? He eventually uses a rifle anyway. It makes no sense. 7. They could've just planted bombs and traps at the landing area. The villains obviously couldn't detect the guys under ground. So why hide down there when you could have just blown up the entire area? And so on and so on
Zack snyder just needs to be a director for hire. Meaning studios have a goos script/story and just need a director to bring it to screen. Hes absolutely abysmal as a screenwriter/storyteller
My opinion I loved both movies. I absolutely loved Zack Snyder’s JL cut, as well as Batman vs Superman. My heart goes out to him, I admire all producers, writers, directors…it takes a strong will, bravery, & belief in yourself. Hearing & reading all these harsh comments, I couldn’t do it. I watch movies for pure entertainment!! I DO turn my brain OFF; I’ve had to deal with soooooo much in my life, movies are an escape. I’ve watch many movies. A lot of good ones, some bad. We don’t know why ppl may make certain decisions sometimes; he not too long ago had to deal with a loss 😢 I wish him the best & much success going forward. To anyone in the public eye facing the opinions of others, God bless you, stay strong ❤
I liked the first half better too. The second was too long and I found myself fast forwarding through scenes I thought were unnecessary or too long. I would love to see someone edit both part 1 and 2 into a 88 minute film. That might be good. This was one movie not two.
I just think it’s stupid the idea that it was written as one movie. And then decided to split into 2 films. With each film being like 2 hours long or 3 with the directors cut. Because honestly for me this whole thing feels like one movie that’s stretched like an assembly cut
As a Snyderverse fan, after seeing Dune parts 1 and 2, rebel moon is child's play in comparison. Pun intended, season 3 is loosing me ya'll. But yeah this is not it. Even the marketing fumbled the bag for rebel moon. Like why is there even a pg13 cut ?
