Rebel Moon: Part One - Spoilers Discussion! 

Kora: “I don’t like to talk about my past.” *explains her entire backstory after being asked once*

Nobody noticed how a turret gunner can control the movement of the entire ship eventhough he was clearly not in the cockpit. Like do all turret gunners fight over which way the ship goes.

One thing that was very ridiculous was that they were told to find love in the Empirial army- which directly contradicts what Kora says in the beginning about having love beat out of her and seeing love as a weakness 😅. I was like wtf?

The film felt like a fantasy RPG where you spend the first half recruiting your party but you don’t bother to go through each of your companion’s dialogue options to max out their affinity. Your only interest is that everyone looks cool and has good stats.

the start was great I just dont understand why the robot and the private where just dropped out of the movie. They spent 30 mins building there characters they should of been part of the team.

Kora: I'm incapable of love, they beat it out of me Flashback Kora: The Empire encouraged we fall in love with a fellow soldier, so I did.

the stabbing cockpit guy scene is beyond stupid not just because the way it comically happens but also because the glass shield of a goddamn space warship is easily breakable with a stick

This feels like a first draft. It has paper thin characters with zero development or arcs, nonexistent themes and paint by numbers plot that just feels like checking boxes. Edit: Also I totally agree with Joe about the regent. He looks like the lucky charms guy or a Keebler elf in a shitty fake beard.

It kinda bothered me that "generic bad guy" was wearing a shirt and tie when the other characters were dressed like Warhammer 40k/Dune/Star Wars cosplayers.

Zacky always promises the director's cut is going to be better. Why not make it good in the first place?

34:33 When the leader of the militia gets killed, taking down the ship, one of his lieutenants (the only survivor from that faction) cries from the top of her lungs: "No!!!!", yet nobody cares... for he had no arc... only quite a fake one. A failed attempt of drama, not to become melodrama, but mostly a joke.

The robot was the only thing in the entire movie that was genuinely super interesting

By the Spider Lady part, I was puttering around on my second screen, reading news stuff. I would look up and go "Hunh, that's a thing there..... " every 15 minutes or so after that.

The worst thing about this movie is that there isn't one single moment of the heroes connecting with each other on the ship. That's how their backgrounds and motivations should have been revealed. Also, the final battle should have shown them bring their skills together to win. Instead, one guy spears the big ship through the windshield which is utterly stupid.

Dont forget the close up of the admiral losing his teeth then he suddenly had all his teeth back after he was in the goo or whatever it was.

I thought it was funny how Kai knows where all these rebels and people that the Empire placed extremely high bounties on are, but he does nothing with that knowledge until he sees Kora in the bar. Like, he’s clearly fine with selling out people for financial gain, but yeah it totally makes sense that this guy would totally just sit on his knowledge of valued targets that the Empire would pay handsomely for information on, and just wait until some high-valued target stumbles into him instead. Also, I found it interesting that it shows Nemesis cutting off Spider-Lady’s legs, yet every time it showed a widescreen of her/it, she/it has all her/its limbs still. The same thing happened with Ajax when he was fighting Kora on the platform. Kora hits Ajax, and they make a point of showing (in slow motion, btw) multiple teeth getting knocked out of his mouth and off the platform. After he gets thrown off the platform and falls hundreds of feet, a ship shows up and just instantly knows where his body was. Looked pretty good for a guy that fell hundreds of feet. Anyway, when they load him onto the gurney, you see that Ajax still has all of his teeth, which you see again when he talks to low-budget Emperor Palpatine. It was like Zack Snyder kept forgetting what happened seconds earlier in the movie, and didn’t bother to go back and check to make sure the continuity was intact.

I said this also on the other video, but the films Snyder gets lauded for in terms of cinematography (300, Watchmen for instance) he was NOT the cinematographer. That was Larry Fong.

Whoever wrote the "farmer scenes" has never planted a single flower in their life.

Kora - amazing fighter and battlefield mind. General Titus - a warrior genius. Neither saw the grifter betrayal coming a mile away. In fact carried the boxes that were the scorpion shackles off the ship?! Like no has seen those boxes before?!

The exposition dump where she stop and says “I’m telling you this so you know who I am” reminded me of a bad video game cutscene from something that was originally Japanese and translated to English without any proofreading.

Thank you for addressing that situation where they turn the tide after being captured and dead to rights 😂!!!

The thing is - once the bad soldiers in the village were killed, they didn't have to look for mercenaries anymore. The reason the were looking for mercenaries to defend the village was because they feared they would be wiped out. However, with them dead and having another 9 weeks before the rest come back - they could have easily migrated off to other planets available in that galaxy and simply got themselves absorbed into society since no soldier actually remembers who they are. I mean Kora and her companion were planet hopping with ease all over the galaxy. There is no reason for the villagers to stay and risk their lives fighting alongside mercs. If there was an in-movie reason why they should stay, then fine but none was ever given. Galaxy travel was available but yet they chose to stay and hope they can get mercs to save their collective asses. That's a huge plothole.

The part when they were captured and Kora escapes but Bloodaxe and General Titus and them is still shackled up 10 feet in front of the senator and a platoon of heavily armed bad guys. The antagonists could've easily shot up the lot of them ending the rebellion but was fixated on just killing 1 person Kora hiding behind them is crazy. Such a bad scene lol. Come on now.

Im convinced snyder cultists need smooth brains to join.

The villian actor was very good. Because that sort of scheming villain often comes out as pathetic or stupid. He managed to amazingly thread the role to not come off as bad or generic as it could have.

I was laughing when I saw all the side character have their action side quests shown, but then we see the "Infamous General Titus" just drunk, then after a pep talk he joins our little posse no prop.

The most original thing of the movie is that Korra is not a lesbian. That must have been an endless discussion in Netflix's meeting room.

Imagine there is an aircraft carrier coming to attack your home, near the coast, so you take off to gather an army of 12 people to help you defend against an aircraft carrier... I think that's probably about the same level of ridiculousness.

17:30 The whole lovers-in-battle thing is a lift from the actual historical unit the Sacred Band of Thebes. According to some ancient Greek claims, 150 pairs of male lovers were formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC, ending Spartan domination. The idea is that you fight harder for your lover than your colleague.

Why should I care about any of these characters? I can’t remember half their names. They just get chucked in front of me and there’s no character development. Zach is trying to do too much in a 2 hour movie. The main protagonist is boring. I don’t know who she is as a person.

The spider monster lifting up the samurai chick with laser sabers and just growls at her, while waiting for the samurai chick to stab her.... awful action scene.

Yes more Anthony Hopkins robot. I can't believe how little scenes they gave the BEST character in the game.

The best part of this film? Its existence might inspire people to check out the far superior Battle Beyond the Stars, a movie with 1/20th the budget and 100 times the fun and creativity, that it copies. And, OC, BBtS was a remake of 7S, but it was also a fresh take on it (for the time) and one that was clearly acknowledged.

Perfect review of this movie that had a better tagline synopsis of this movie that I couldn’t capture previously: “…it is a love poem of a collection of masterpieces that ended up a dick pic.” Also love the playfulness spirit back in the banter. I get that you guys interrupt each other, but the space to allow more time to flesh out each viewpoint still with some interruptions feels and flows better. The key seems to be circling back to whomever was interrupted, where before that circling back didn’t happen as frequently.

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I thought it was strange the “Kings Gaze” was taken down from a turret.

When AngryJoe said “the punch sounds epic on my sound system” it reminded me to ask; Can we get a house tour video to see how you guys operate and your setups, I think it would help great content and I’d love to see it

The whole closing fight scene is where I wished Snyder made Kai a double agent instead of a double crosser cos, let's face it, there was no way a grounded army was going to succeed against an airborne dreadnought. The way this movie played out, they could've tweaked it so that, instead of Kai double crossing Kora and company, he just used them as bait to draw in Admiral Noble close enough so they could take him out up close. It really doesn't change the story much but makes everything make more sense.

Kora's entire motivation for this movie, came from the village girl getting taken advantage of. She's ready to run, says it's impossible to win. But hold on, this girl is about to "get some gRapes". So maybe we can make a whole franchise out of this super slim motivation.

The so called boltcasters were so inconsistent. Not only in that first fight but in the bar fight also. The boltcasters can't go through a wood table but they go through people..sometimes when they don't just bounce off. The whole movie was all over the place like it was written by a 12 year old.

47:01 I was also complaining about his survival, but he is most likely only a cyborg. Terminator like... another thing "borrowed"....

That warehouse scene in BVS was thanks to the second unit

The gun is an Motherworld gun. He hid it because it would be dangerous to let the villagers know she was former Motherworld.

When Bloodaxe died and his soldier buddy screamed "Noooo" I laughed out loud 😂. The film wanted you to give a damn about two characters that had less than 5 mins screen time.

Goes to talk to a King Leviticus on a planet where everything...levitates. Yeah...genius writing.

Kora: they taught us love is weakness and I have never known love Also Kora: they made us have a lover and he died in combat in my arms :(

A “director’s cut” is expected, but I cannot fathom why the definitive cut was not the one on streaming. A theatrical cut is tethered by its runtime, but it could be episodical online as this cut feels like. It feels too episodical, as if it was conceived as a miniseries but forced to be clumsily put together as a two-part movie. I like Snyder’s flicks more than most but this “half of a movie” might only be fun if you turn your brain off… or set it in an “ultra slow motion mode”.

That opening scene where the Motherworld wants the town's food is ripped from The Walking Dead's Negan and the Sanctuary.

There's a phrase here which explains this movie well. "Done while running and pissing". Things happen too fast and the good moments are pissed on. I don't want a Snyder cut from this, but maybe the part 2 saves whatever this will become.

The pacing was the most alarming quality I noticed. It's like they squished the story and accelerated everything. I believe that's a mistake the story won't be able to pull away from. The disparate team of super sci fi heroes just start working together without any dialogue between them... blech. It's a shiny turd.

I’m surprised they didn’t recruit the robot and the only solider that was nice in the team or at least show they they were in comms to motherworld ships that everything okay and that why they stay back. There just forgotten after the first act and they could’ve been more of them

Not sure if others said it here. I reckon this would have done better if it was a tv show. We could have had episodes on all our characters with there back stories and then the ending could be a bigger battle with the loses and would hit much harder. My issue was how fast the team was made and I didn't care for any of them.

I was so pissed they made Charlie Hunnam bad and then killed him off. That ruined it for me.

36:02 The force is strong with this one... ups I mean the "plot armor".

I fell asleep after the spider chick was defeated

How any of those Evil Empires last ... if they kill all people who produce food ...

This movie should have been a game that used the movie footage as what it really was - cut scenes. Everything missing IS gameplay if you think about it.

Wait did anyone forget that Kai says that the farmer loves Kora out of nowhere 😂

26:25 i was thinking similar in that it's like they took an art of book from a concept artists entire career of work from various projects, and just shot it page by page as a movie with no concern as to the story or connective world or continuity.

How about when the Samurai woman explains that revenge is bad, and then the main character appeals to the General by telling him he can get revenge.😅

The Creature, World, and Atmosphere designs were done well to a certain point. I like the blaster designs and I still think the size of Kora’s Sidearm is just too gratuitous in size even with the big ass holster it’s in too but I still like how stylized it was in terms of design and decals. And I’ll admit, somewhere deep down I knew Charlie Hunnam’s character Kai would betray the group, but I thought it’ll be like a tricking both sides to side with the heroes but no. The man just decided to stay bad and I’ll admit, as much as that caught me off guard, I actually liked the twist of him actually being a total asshole and I maybe found a little relief in his death. But one thing I’m upset about is Ray Fisher. He got to work with Zack Snyder again but he’s in the film for like the last 10 minutes and he dies. Ray Fisher deserves better man. I also loved Anthony Hopkins as Jimmy and it actually took me a while to find out it was Hopkins voicing him.

A winged beast continued to ram its wings into rocks yet it never lost a feather or broke a wing ? Whew!

Bloodless and brainless is the best description of this movie

I just realized that what they call "the scarring" could mean that regent guy is just eternally in a bacta rig... Which is really dumb if they brought the other guy back from the dead after that fall.

19hrs of content U can see Alex sink and reconsider his line of work

When they were escaping I was expecting someone to get blasted while still struggling in the restaints, but no they all got out one by one while enemies ignored them.

Don't forget that Bellisarius Cawl is also the Adeptus Mechanicus leader that is creating all of the Imperium's technology in 40K. So he just straight up stole a literal name of a main character from 40K.

At 35:50 nominated the funniest “WHAT” of the year

This sounds like even Battle Beyond The Stars did this story better

Watched it a couple of hours ago. I'm normally pretty easy going with sci fi as I find the worldbuilding as interesting as the actual plot but it was just all over the place. I still don't understand the world or care for anyone in it. From memory there's a warhammer style empire, but we learned next to nothing about it. There's a viking farming village for some reason which has orgies in the hopes that it convinces the gods to make their plants grow, since they've decided the only modern technology they're going to use are automatic doors, and that's an overnight hike from a western style town with a space port and a load of aliens which where never explained or expanded on so fuck knows if they're part of the empire, have civilisations outside the empire or fought the empire, and of course there's an Irish guy. There was a cyber punk city where Asian people use swords for honor because we've not moved on from that cliche, and spider women who apparently used to own the planet and so kidnap children, no need to expand on that. A roman colleseum, don't know what the fuck that was about, but i expected to see Russell Crowe wandering around in the background and then at some point conan the barbarian went to an American ranch at hogwarts to train a hippogriff using a slow motion spell or something, I think I zoned out at that part. Then the technology was all over the place too. The blasters couldn't shoot through a wooden table. A space gunship apparently used plate glass windows to protect its gunners who for some reason also controll the whole ship. There's old earth cultures died around with no synergy using a bizarre smattering of technology, but not for important tasks. A lone smuggler can apparently get a private ship, but an entire village that supplies the food to the moon can't. There's a ranch training a hippogriff for some unknown reason who had a prisoner price working as a blacksmith. Like what the fuck is going on. I'm all for a blending of technology and frontier type lifestyle, the empire stuff had some potential, a viking theme sci fi could be a cool concept, a cyberpunk or neo sci fi is always cool, and the story of these combat robots who where imperial guards but turned to pacifism when the emperor and his daughter where assassinated was a fascinating concept, but pick a bloody lane. It was like a bunch of short stories but none of them had any conclusion or cohesion.

Pans labyrinth seemed the better inspiration for the commander beating the person to death. Judt throwing that out there.

this movie has so much 40k in it im surprised GW didn't go nuts

Just watched it, and with really low expectations I actually walked out pleasantly surprised. I think I'd give it a 5 or 6, the story was bleh but the visuals and world design generally made up for it, and the score was decent enough.

If you watch this movie as a comedy it makes perfect sense to why people rate it so high

Oh my goodness, it just hit me! This movie reminds me of The Witcher: Blood Origin!

Joe looking like 50 cent from the ryder pt.2 music video 😌

This is like a picture frame with half a picture dangling within 🤨All the characters are performing super heroic actions, but, 'not to care about nothing' is getting to AJ! Most probably the *rebel* part of the title explained in visual form😅

You guys made me want to watch it because it was coming off as a hilariously bad experience, well the movie is no longer on the top header, its not in my recommended movies and when i typed in "rebel;" Gladiator was the top listing so I watched that instead.

19:35: I got Avatar vibes off the Griffin scene.

I've tried to watch it, it's like AI tried to write 'Battle beyond the stars', it's god awful, and his obsession with slow mo is embarrassing, even using it to highlight crappy moves in lacklustre fights, of which there are far too many. There is so much exposition, I think it would take less time to read a novel! It just leaves me dry and doesn't give time for characters to develop before moving on to the next bit.

i think kai intentionally let gunnar free kora. that's why he made him kill her so that he could free her. kai set up this trap to lure in the bad guy. pity, gunnar didn t understand and he killed him. :)

This "movie" Doesnt deserve a spoilers section. There is literally nothing to spoil.

I just watched 13 Assassins because Alex kept mentioning it. So damn good. Thanks for inadvertently recommending it Alex.

You guys mentioned Gladiator twice but failed to mention General Titus is the same actor who played the other slave Maximus befriended in the movie Gladiator. And would the prince Tarak guy please put a shirt on?! Next they're gonna travel to an ice planet and everyone is gonna be bundled up and he'll still have no shirt on.

I thought at the end the Nazi villain guy would be operated upon, made into half cyborg, powerful, and turned into Darth Moon Vader screaming NOOOOOOO!!!...cut to black screen! Roll credits!...

Let's just hope NOBODY involved with this will be involved in Amazon's Warhammer 40k adaptation.

Charlie Hunnam was absolutely wasted as Kai. He was the only character with some personality, and they kill him off after a lacklustre twist.

I was enjoying it up until the barn scene, that’s when I first started to get worried. It felt like the scene from Star Wars when all the guards are stood waiting for their turn. The robot was great! Far more interested in where his story will go. The crew left like hire people on mass effect and just never interacted with them and they are just sat around the ship waiting for the final level. And ow my what a final level it was :|

The blonde chick is going to be the princess right? how come she delayed in saving her. She hesitated to save her when she was screaming. that doesn't make sense

*The King orders a geocidal crusade across the galaxy* The King: "I hope my daughter, the princess brings compassion and peace to this galaxy" Why not stop committing the genocide yourself, dude? Why is the robot simping for a bloodthirsty king.

Didn't Kora tell the rebels it was because of them that the dreadnought came to the farm in the first place? When it wasn't. I guess she could be generalising but it seemed linked to the farmer trading with them. Even though they had no knowledge of that trade.

I really wish Joe and the guys would go through some of the Apple TV+ shows. I despise Apple as a company but their streaming exclusives are solid. "See" with Momoa (dumb but fun), Foundation (probably my favorite), Silo and now Monarch - all worth the time.

It's really funny that the guns punch holes through people and armour but a simple wooden table is impenetrable Ceramite that y not just put wood tables of you ships and body's for protection

I needed more of that robot. So much more. He stole the entire movie for me.

Just turn your brain off and enjoy the dumb fun... Other Joe: "I TRIED!!"

In a sci-fi universe with lightsabers and laser weapons, the main villain's weapon of choice was a shillelagh 🫤

Couldn’t get through RM and was initially excited to see it. Agree with y’all’s points but for me it was the lead, she was boring in every way.

makes perfect sense that a robot programmed for a certain purpose can be talked out of their programming

“It was a slow step." -Alex, 2023

The young soldier who tried to stop the men from raping the girl never shows up again although they didn't killed him.