The Scargiver Completely Changed my Mind about Rebel Moon | Rebel Moon Part 2 Review

The time has come to talk once again about Zack Snyder and the

rebel

lious Moon, unlike most of you. I actually enjoyed the first entry in Snider's space epic. Yes, it was full of problems, but I found them easy to overlook, at least much easier. than in films like BVS, but the latter video's open dialogue brought great points to the talking points about botched characterization and poor use of time in arcs, and many long-time Snider fans even went as far as to point out that this movie had some of sny's worst cinematography to date given All I can say with 100% certainty that if the first

part

wasn't your thing, the second

part

won't win you over, we'll go into deeper details in wait but from a top down view I actually thought this movie was the weaker of the two, unfortunately I had two separate points while watching this where I had to pause the movie just to see how much more time I had have to last, which is never what you want your viewers to do, hey, leave that aside.

You are doing? A lot of people talk about Snider's constant need for more time to tell his story, but I don't think that's the case here. I think he incorrectly chooses his scenes with some character changes and some cuts in parts one and two. I think the mediocre Parts One and Two could have been one really compelling movie, but like I said, we'll talk about all of this in detail a little later, so without further ado, let's talk about Rebel Moon, Part Two. Scar Giver by the by begins the new film with a brief re

mind

er of what came before.

I gave Zach a lot of odds in the first half. I mainly like characters that feel like they had potential for meaningful stories as the series progressed, but that video wasn't No Complaints, my main issue was how things went and the moment of Kai's betrayal at the end of part one. , the entire Final Act felt jumbled up just to give that part an exciting climax, we would also discuss characters like Jimmy and Private Aris. The Arc of him helped contribute to a 40-minute Village segment before the actual Journey began in Child of Fire. Matters were made worse by the fact that Jimmy and AIS seemed set to be the main Heroes alongside Kora, but we were on the sidelines for the last hour and a half of the movie, so how does Scar Giver address my concerns and not just mine?

Many of you provided a number of character dynamic issues for our team, showing that each one felt more like a role than an actual character. something that had to be addressed for this movie, so let's start there with the team of recruits who help Kora in the velt defense. Beyond Kora and Gunner Rubble Moon has given a real focus to the trik characters Nemesis and General Titus. I want to start with Titus. First, in regards to my video about Child of Fire, I

completely

forgot to mention Titus because he had

completely

forgotten that he was a character.

Titus was really useless for the first half of the story, but the scar Giver is looking for. mend this, this isn't a completely unheard of tactic in movies and stories that feature large group ensembles, some characters will play roles of varying sizes throughout the adventure. The Alron era gave us a lot more focus on Hawkeye and Black Widow's characters where they were. What's missing from the first film of the popular anime, One Piece, regularly propels different members of the team into important roles in its different arcs. Of all the characters, he felt he was the most natural for the role in The Narrative.

Titus was recruited as a leader and proves that he is the leader The Village needs. He feels personalized to the point that the villager's faith in him actually feels genuine and this little moment between them. He and Hagen at the end of the battle feel won. That being said, while I feel like Titus has come a long way thanks to his work with the villagers, I feel like the relationship between him and Kora fell flat, they had few scenes together where Zack and his team. I tried to build chemistry through mutual trust and respect and while they are both accomplished heroes, neither feels like they should have had the bond they did, especially since there were little moments to hint at this soldier bond that then dissipated until their next Interaction 40 minutes later, I understand that this was done so that Titus could motivate Kora to move for the events of a future part, but I think there were better means to do this and we will discuss later the ones that said he did think about the actors. did a great job of building an on-screen brotherhood between Titus and tricking the pair into having little moments that build a believable friendship, so that when it comes time for them to lead their troops on the front lines, the chemistry leads you to feel that the pair are a powerful duo capable of anything as long as they fight together, unfortunately, that's all the praise I can give TK in this movie, which is a shame since he was the character I really liked in the movie. first part.

TK doesn't progress in this movie. He is still the compassionate and noble fighter we were introduced to, but really nothing more and, what's worse, his original purpose seems completely abandoned. My main takeaway from TK's introduction is that he is a beast tamer, since they were in Velt Farmland. I thought he would find something. way to gather the wildlife here to even the odds against the great numbers of the mother world, instead he's just another soldier, a tough one with some flashy sequences, but flashy it's all. I'll give them Nemesis in the meantime, he falls right in the middle of my gaze. in T and Titus Nemesis was a character that Zach completely understood, but seemed to have some trouble conveying that we were introduced to her as the defender of the children and that is what she does in her role in battle, being the protection of the non combatants, admittedly, although that's a pretty mediocre role for one of our main heroes in the grand scheme of things, so let's introduce some spice and giving Nemesis a little boy to bond with was a great idea, but the execution feels forced, starting with awkward glances that feel very strange, to say the least, personally.

I think introducing the guy with this scene and introducing him as the lovable Troublemaker from The Village would have been enough and then showing him upset about being ostracized for fighting, so when Nemesis catches him trying to steal a gun, he instead gives him a knife and teaches him. how to defend themselves, this still perfectly connects the couple and establishes their role in their final fight and death. I understand that Zach's strengths lie in his visuals, but sometimes there's nothing wrong with letting some action do the talking instead of gunshots and awkward, but on-topic looks. of actions and conversations, we need to talk about Scar's worst scene.

A scene where a fellow writer really made me sit up for a moment when I realized exactly what Snider's writing team had just done. I mentioned this in a few of my previous videos, but for those who don't know I actually went to film production school, don't ask me how much money I spent on it while we were there, we were given a series of do's and don'ts in filmmaking and many of us constantly felt trapped by a scene like this. I will directly admit to you my exact scenario. I was in a screenwriting class and toward the end of the semester, after turning in our second-to-last draft, my professor approached me with some edits.

The main complaint is that while I had good characters in Arc, they rarely spent time bonding with each other, making it very hard to believe that they all chose to be so selfless for each other in the climax, now it would have made a good writer. I spent those last two weeks of class reevaluating the story and finding where I could alter the beats and bring some characters together to build their bonds. What I did was construct a three-page scene where our characters spend one last night in the city. together to bond and share stories under the pretext that this could possibly be her last night being the good teacher that she was my teacher came to talk to me some time after I submitted my final project and made it clear to me that everything that made this scene was creating it became clear that I was marking a quota and not adding anything of real meaning to the story, stepping back from my own experience, the moment Titus called everyone to share their backstories, I was transported back to what a lazy 20 year old told me what he did.

Avoiding doing actual work in the last two weeks of my semester was bad enough for me to do as a college student, but seeing professionals make this mistake was jarring and while I don't want to assume negatives, this mistake is often built . out of laziness, not ignorance, just to clarify, having one last big harah before the big final clash is not a bad thing in itself, but those scenes have to be earned, there are moments where we see how far the characters have come and how. We have built trust between us, they are not meant to replace the actual bonding process and if the only use is to create chemistry between the characters so that some tension can be felt then it is not being used correctly now before we go and play K.

I want to talk about the real heart and soul of Rebel Moon's original story, The Village on velt. Everything until now built around the destiny of this small and innocent village that was left defenseless under the hand of the mother world. It's pretty normal for most big budget movies. making a village like this simply a path of destruction for our heroes rather than a living, breathing being as is what happened to New York in the Avengers and Metropolis in Man of Steel, but the villagers play a prominent role in the fight personally. In fact, I felt something seeing so many of them fall during the battle.

These weren't fully developed characters, but there was a strong heart in this Villa and I felt the pain in every loss and all their great players have a moment or a role to play. In the main battle, Dendi is fighting for his people and went straight to Noble after seeing him massacre so many of his friends, there is a sense of nobility in his death when Den was introduced as the village heartthrob. . He expected him to play a more antagonistic role. Gunar and Kora and I was worried that with his return some kind of Love Triangle fiasco would break out, but Den remained part of the heart of that Village.

I felt more for his death than for Nemesis, we spent a lot of time in this Village and this. Hien's role as the village's new leader pays off, not only does he give Kora that shoulder to lean on, but he also gives Titus a strong partner to guide the village and help him develop his character, and Sam He works closely with private agents to defend the women and children who allowed him to gain a moment of his own during the defense of the village. Talking about Aris, we finally get a good answer to the question of why he stayed in the village by talking to many of you in the comments of the video above.

I shared my annoyance that AIS simply disappeared in the village after Sam's rescue. Here we see that he has played an important role in convincing the mother world that everything is under control on Velt, saving the villagers from his wrath, so I definitely see this as reason enough to leave him. Ais's absence from the rest of the part one slide makes a lot of sense in the world and I commend Zach for thinking of this, not many would recognize something like that being in play while explaining her absence, she doesn't have a big role to play. in the second part, sure he's important at times, but AIS spent a lot of time setting him up, time that felt out of place, even in the second part, he just feels like a background character and with the way he ends The second part seems like the story of Ais.

It's unlikely he'll venture out with Cor on the next leg of the journey, but at least Jimmy will be joining in on the fun, so at least with his ties to that 40-minute Village sequence it helps bridge the gap, but it's definitely not enough to excuse. Parts one and two made three characters essential to their story, Gunar Noble and of course Kora, so I was surprised that it actually seems so undercooked with Noble and Gunner's characters both feeling identical to the versions. of the first part. There is a lot of growth for either of them. Noble is still the same cruel, evil idiot he was before, only angrier and Gunner is still the same untrained and unskilled combatant with a heart of gold who finds ways to change the game in times of greatest need, something thatclose the circle.

In the final battle with Noble, Gunar is ultimately the one who will defeat Noble and end his threat, saving Kora in the process. I will say that allowing Gunner to be the one to finally take down Noble feels like a nice send-off, a way to let him be a Hero one last time and clear up the blame for their first encounter, even if he really couldn't have done anything to change what happened. before arriving in Kora, although Cor was the one who broke expectations the most for me, sometimes he was welcome and other times he competed more critically, for example.

I wasn't so convinced about her and Gunner's sudden relationship, where they ended up in the first part. I saw that Gunner's crush is unrequited, so for them to suddenly be intimate minutes and feel out of place, you have to recognize that the actors sell it well on screen. the chemistry works and I really like Gunner's character so I was happy for him, but what really got me was the actual murder of Princess Isa and the royal family and how far the events deviated from expectations with the context of the original film. He hoped Bisari would have hers The royal family murdered something that Cor would have discovered, leading him to frame her to protect himself from her.

While most of this happens, Cor was actually involved in the assassination plot one to shoot Isa herself only to have Bisaria stabbed in the back after the ACT. This was the only break that was completely welcome. A unique twist on the typical story beat and something that really explains Cor's guilt. This is not a bug that I could save. his story, this is a story that I couldn't see the light of day until it was too late, as if Vader had allowed Luke to die and realized the mistake only after it was too late to take down Palpatine and save his son .

Kora was the redeemable hero who acted. too late to save the true hero of the universe, it's time for the big one to come, there's still a lack of rhythm this time, unfortunately this time it's the polar opposite of the first, many key moments fall too quickly and Gunner's sudden relationship with the characters Going from revealing Noble as dead to AIS telling me he's alive in the middle of a thought, I feel like jumping right into things, but with how quickly everything is falling, I feel like they might have skipped the beat of the retreating mother world. without their admiral and simply having The heroes prepare to defend themselves from the army and are shocked when Noble actually arrives on the battlefield and the ending itself was a nasty commentary on the lack of honor due to lies, not only getting Titus to reveal who knew the truth from the beginning, but also to forgive her and give her. her, the mission to find Isa, key moments, all thrown together within 15 seconds of each other, it's just a strange moment, one that felt like a studio boss saying, hey, Zach, great movie, really me. loved it and all but one, you didn't make fun of the next one. movie we want a big cliffhanger to bring the people back, I think it can add something to the end, thanks brother, realistically I don't see why Titus couldn't have offered this mission as a means to true redemption of the form in which it was raised.

It feels like a reward for her to finally tell the truth and while it's a good message, I just don't think the couple is cut out to have that kind of relationship, instead Titus tells Kora that Isa is still out there and tells him it's his job. Finding her could have accomplished the same task and felt a little more natural, especially considering that the aforementioned meeting scene actually showed the exact opposite: Titus didn't trust Kora, but respected her decision to need time before he could take action. necessary to earn that. Trust me, although the key moments fall quickly, this is not a quick movie, it still drags and had moments where things felt a little padded.

I mentioned it at the beginning of the video, but I really think parts one and two could have been merged into one. The slightly long first part of the movie was 40 minutes that could have been trimmed between the village and recruitment segments, and this movie certainly could have trimmed some fat during the farming and war scenes that, while interesting, , they could have saved another 25 to 30 minutes, that's an hour of total running time, and if the first encounter with Noble was shortened to reflect the typical Midway conflict seen in most movies, you easily have a movie which lasted just under 3 hours, speaking personally here I would have preferred Noble They ambushed the team on the way back to Bel and Kai saved everyone to show Noble's danger.

The AE blood could still die in the conflict and Kai and cor could have teamed up to kill Noble like before but leave Kai intact instead of all the heroes. The preparations were revealed by a computer. Kai could have betrayed them there, perhaps now capturing Kora before she can board her ship and here Gunar would come to kill Kai and save her like before. This could have solved the Whiplash of Kai's sudden betrayal and helped us as an audience build true trust with him and show why Kora herself would have trusted him so deeply, as the pair would have worked hand in hand to defeat Noble. the first time and preparing Velt for war, so I knew for a long time that more Rebel Moon was to come.

As Zack made it clear that he anticipated at least six of these before his story was complete, but based on how he spoke, I assumed the end of part two would feel more concrete. The Giver Scar wraps up Velt's story very well, as well as The Conflict with Noble with him and Gunner dead, this felt like the perfect ending, well narratively speaking, at least with Noble and Gunner dead. Cor has been given a clean slate, whether he chooses to stay in velt or head to the skies with her. team up to fight more battles would be a complete and solid closure to the story with an easy starting point if it were explored further it felt like the right ending point given this stage of the story, but Snider breaks this by introducing the story of Princess Isis just before the credits.

In this role, this isn't a big deal and at least for fans eagerly awaiting more, they now have a solid idea of ​​what the next stage of the journey will be, but stories also need natural breaks, a point at which things they can feel completely resolved and this. I thought it was a great point to do it at the end. This is Zach's story and he will do what is best for him. I don't want to spend too much time here. This is not a real complaint but rather a personal bias, but I think this was a perfect soft close for the Rebel Moon Universe, the place where it could function as a full WAP while still keeping the door open for fans who wish to continue and I know where this bias comes from when the first part ended.

I wanted to see the next part of the story, but I didn't get it with the second part. I wanted soft clothes so I could be here without worrying about a firm unanswered story looming over me. I still enjoyed my viewing of the first and second parts. but this viewing definitely showed me that while I can find respect for Snider and his work, he's just not for me and I don't see the director's cut changing. Personally, I don't have a problem with director's cuts, but I've always seen them as a plus for viewers, but when Zach makes one, I always felt like it's more like an opportunity to fix previous problems, and since he himself seems to hint that these versions were inferior, it just bothers me that he and Netflix did it. them instead of making the intended Vision, but that's just my opinion and I don't want my opinion to alter anyone else's.

If you are excited about the director's cuts then you should watch them and I really hope they live up to or even exceed your expectations, who knows maybe I will watch the next entry of the Rebel Moon story, unfortunately where the first part generated interest , the second part killed me, so I can't say for sure that another video will appear, it may be high. It's time to accept that Zack Snider is a director I will never fit in with as an aside. I don't know why everyone says this man is humorless, whether intentional or not. This scene was worth a laugh, come on, lazy people, no.

Even you lazy bastards are you lazy people. There's something about watching an overly likable character have to clumsily take charge that makes me laugh.