Hey folks! The original plan was to release EFAP Movies: Home Alone 2 today but its not QUITE finished cooking. For now, you can enjoy a big ol Christmas discussion about Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon! a cinematic classic! More importantly though, MERRY CHRISTMAS FOLKS, HOPE YOU'VE HAD A WONDERFUL DAY!

Rebel Moon is the movie Zak Snyder fans deserve.

"Where did you learn to rebel? ON A MOON?!"

My dad tried to watch Rebel Moon twice. He fell asleep in the first 20 twenty minutes the first time, the next day he tried again and finally gave up after saying "What the hell is this? Who are these people? Why are they doing this?" and he started watching football instead.

I owe Michael Bay an apology. At least Michael Bay had the decency to say "I make movies for teenage boys" and I legitimately liked Bad Boys 2, The Rock, The first Transformers, and Pain and Gain. Snyder is a friggin hack and hasn't made a good movie since Watchmen.

I love how at the beginning of the movie, Kora says she was told love was weakness, and had it beaten out of her. Then the flashbacks tell us that she was encouraged to have a lover, to give her something to fight for. I come to Snyder movies for the consistency.

It's not his fault guys, there was studio interference! He was only the writer, director, cinematographer & producer. Just you wait til the director's cut, it's gonna be epic! 😂😂😂

This is Nemesis she's gonna watch my back I recommend not being killed by her her plasma swords trap the souls of its victims

The Blood Axes is literally the name of one of the main ork klans in 40k.

This movie is basically what happens of you skip all the gameplay and only watch the cutscenes.

“Scargiver” is such a non intimidating title. It just means you’re so shit at killing people they just end up with a scar at the end of the fight lol

The first twelve minutes of this EFAP is an absolute masterpiece of borderline nonsensical sarcasm. Snyder missed a chance to make Nemesis’s lightsabers take the souls of the people she kills

Ambiguous hero lady Kora: all love was beaten out of me and they taught me love is weakness Same ambiguous hero lady Kora 15 minutes later: they told us to fall in love because it will help us keep grounded and remind us why we fight

Finally, a mature film for grown up adults who aren't several children in a trench coat. Who do adult things. Like go to work and do business. And Groceries. That's why I love Rebel Moon and can't wait for the follow up 'Revolt Planet'. 11/10. Zack Snyder has done it again. A brilliant mind to rival Neil Druckmann.

Pro Tip: Do not pick up and smell the soil directly behind the draft animal you're using to work a field.

Slow motion is Zach Snyder's only joy in life.

Modok: We have barely enough to feed ourselves here. All the while you can plainly see everyone in the village is a swoll cross-fit bodybuilder type. But sure, maintain the illusion. Could have at least brought out all the skinny people, if they have any.

"Story is what lead us to action." Michael Bay "Story is when happen." Zack Snyder

It kills me that with the "General join us for revenge" part happened right after they did a Vengeance is bad scene.

Timestamps 0:00 EFAP Into The Snyderverse 11:25 How is Rebel Moon? 13:04 Comparision & Connection 14:49 A Star Wars Story 17:00 Cinematography 19:32 Netflix 20:40 Dave, Zac & Fringy's Doubt 23:49 Micheal Bay vs Zac Snyder 27:44 Works, Orignality & Chanches 32:24 At 32 min they start talking about Rebel Moon 40:49 The First Shot 42:24 The Main Character 46:25 The Community 50:28 Kora 55:45 This Village Is Under Attack! 1:03:25 The Grain Issue 1:15:32 The Crazy Evil Squadron 1:18:30 I Robot 1:25:57 Farmer vs Spacenazy 1:28:30 Rapetime & Slow Fight 1:37:09 The Plan 1:38:50 Backstory 1:40:57 The Cantina Scene 1:51:32 Sexy Octopus 1:52:36 The Shirtless Man & The Mystical Creature 2:06:12 Nemesis & The Spider 2:14:06 Lies & Backstory 2:17:00 Gladiatortime 2:19:00 Villanscenertime 2:20:27 The King & The Fake Planet 2:25:03 Pilotman & Kora 2:26:28 Planetary Destruction 2:30:20 Betrayal, Fights & Sacrifice 2:42:36 Boss Battle 2:44:20 The Beginning Of Something 2:47:34 Back Home 2:48:12 Next Episodes 2:50:07 Evilman Will Return 2:51:39 Director's Cut 2:54:58 The Movie And The Other Projects 3:00:39 Actors, Characters & Alternative Plotlines 3:08:33 Daydream & Opportunity 3:12:30 Closing

You know the Rick and Morty "Heist" episode? That's what the gladiator scene reminds me of. They show up, say a thing and he goes "you son of a bitch, I'm in"

The pronunciation of Reb-el Moon makes this episode better every time it’s said 😂😂

This movie is like someone who adores Star Wars and wanted to make a homage to it, but used only Disney Star Wars as a template. An absolute triumph, my guys.

The reason Zack Snyder gets work is because while he gets older, teenage boys stay the same age.

HISTORY LESSON Back in 2013, while the Hunger Games hype was in full swing, Hasbro tried to cash in on Katniss' popularity by releasing a new line on NERF blasters aimed towards girls. This blaster line, named "Rebelle", featured more feminine designs and a white, pink, and purple color palette. The line was discontinued in 2018, I don't need to tell you why. I had almost forgotten about this golden moment in human history until the cast of EFAP decided to remind me of it with their incredibly appropriate pronunciation of this film. Thank you, EFAP. Thank you for reminding me of that dumpster fire.

The breakdown and commentary is so much more interesting than the actual film.

Watch on 0.25 speed for authentic Snyder experience Vaseline smeared on your eyeballs, optional.

Quite possibly the single most bloated feeling and aesthetically embarrassing movie I have ever had the displeasure of witnessing. This is therapy for me.

The robot said Mechanicus Militarum and I pulled a Will Smith.

The scale of the Imperium was such a problem for this, thank you for pointing it out. In Seven Samurai, the Samurai are against 30 Bandits - they're outnumbered, but they reckon there's a fair chance of defeating them if they play it right. But when the Imperium is so huge, Kora easily recruiting so many people willing to do this is just kinda unbelievable. Just another example of Zack wanting to ape off Seven Samurai without understanding how the characters even work.

1:13:42 I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but Monty Python kind of successfully did this in comedy with the Romans in Life of Brian. They are definitely evil and there are resistance groups plotting against them, but the scene where John Cleese asks what the Romans ever did for them and then everyone begins to list all the technological and societal benefits that the Romans did bring… one of my favorite scenes, but a “realistic” portrayal of a ruthless empire that also is benefiting everyone in tangible ways.

Zack Snyder is Sid from Toy Story. He doesn’t wanna play with the toys, he wants to torture and destroy them.

I knew as soon as I saw Zack's name attached this would be terrible. I doubt he can write his name without creating plot holes.

"While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME!!.. I was being trained to conquer galaxies!" I swear, Battlefield Earth is this movie, but entertaining and funny.

The reason everything is blurry like that is that he used a bad lens he tracked down specifically on ebay just because it gives this effect, Zack LIKES this, he thinks it's GOOD.

Rebel Moon is the end result of a 12 year olds fanfic of both Star Wars and Warhammer 40k. It literally is copy and paste of the premise/aesthetic of both universes - it even went as lazy as to have the tech guys of the evil empire be red robed priests that are literally called the Mechanicus

Snyder reminds me of Nicholas Hoult’s character from the Menu. The passion and trivial knowledge is there, and so frequently shared to the point of obnoxiousness, even if not really practically understood (film makers use dirty lens right? That’s film making?). But when push comes to shove he can’t channel it into the craft in any sensible way.

54:30 When Star Trek was good one of the most interesting species was the Cardassians. They were hyper militarized and pretty much the Yatzies and soviets but their inner social sphere was fascinating they were very devoted to their families and the family unit and it drove them.

A few days ago he announced that he's also making a "Director's Cut" of _Sucker Punch_ (2011). Apparently the film where he had $80,000,000 to write, produce and direct with full creative impunity just wasn't crafted to his vision...

The secret of the Snyder Cut is that Zack listens to all the criticism of the first release and tries to fix it in the second. That's why he can't release the Directors Cut straight away.

"Getting the love beaten out of me is the only thing that brings me joy." -Francis Noble

Tearing Zack Snyder movies is the only joy in my life. Merry Christmas everyone!

I made a post on social media on Rebel Moon asking about the harvest god worldbuilding and I came across my first Snyder fanboy. I quoted the worldbuilding that Sindri gives, “We all know that it’s the thrusting of hips and the loud sounds of pleasure that summon the seedlings to sprout.” Which screamed to me that Zack is a 12-year-old but also it’s weird that this community of farmers is so small because wouldn’t they be having sex all the time to make sure the seedlings sprout? Also why is there no children in this community? And the fanboy responds, “I don’t know maybe read a book? The most common activity during old pagan fertility festival like bealtaine is precisely the encouragement of sex. Maybe because zack Snyder has read joseph cambell and james frazer and you have not.” Which still doesn’t answer my question of why is the community so small if part of the cultural beliefs is that is that sex encourages growth. Also why does referencing a book make it good?

The villain's name is "Noble"?......even though he acts IGnoble?? OMG, my expectations were just subverted so hard that I had to clean up my computer screen afterwards -how does Snyder come up with these genius character beats??

OMG... just occurred to me... This is live action, A Bug's Life!

Alright calling it now, Khora is the assassin who killed the King and Queen, setup by those who wanted to seize power. She carried out her mission, but couldn't kill the princess though, so absconded with the child to this farm planet. The bad men have made Khora public enemy #1 because they need her to find the princess and finish off the bloodline. That girl who was about to be raped was actually the princess, which is why the robot was reminded of her. Also it's why the robot was able to shoot the bad man, since it could only use weapons to protect the royal bloodline. The soldier boy is the romantic interest of the princess, and will probably play a bigger role in the 2nd film, and the robot of course will be the princess's bodyguard/protector as she is the last of the bloodline. Why do I think this? Because Zack Snyder lacks any imagination at all, and 90% of this film is just stolen bits of other movies, especially Battle beyond the stars which the first half of the film is almost a 1 to 1 rip. There are also bits of Star Wars, Free Willie, Independence Day, Crouching Tiger Hidden dragon, hentai tentacle porn, Gladiator, Dungeons and Dragons, just to name a few. It's as if Zack took segments of scenes he liked in various movies and fed them into an AI script generator, and filmed what came out the other side.

"There's a suspicious amount of women on this Rebel Moon." - Atticus NoBull

I was totally with Rags when they were saying “oh yeah there is actually going to be a director’s cut.” I thought they were memeing until then

A line of 1,886 kings and not once did they have a War of the Roses? If they each only reigned for 5 years, that’s 9,430 years. That’s ridiculous!

I love how paying with the next harvest makes perfect sense as a bargain in Seven Samurai because it's set in Edo Period Japan but it makes absolutely no fucking sense in a Sci-Fi Space Opera and they didn't even bother trying to change things around a bit. You're telling me that these people have mastered advanced space travel, laser weapons and robotics but can't figure out automated farming and hydroponics?! Stuff like this is why i have zero sympathy for Hollywood script writers, these people don't deserve to be paid more, they don't deserve to be paid anything, you see better writing from random fanfic online.

I'm calling it right now: the second or third movie will have bad guys using 8 ft tall genetically enhanced super soldiers in power armour called "The Marines"

So far, this movie is making Jupiter Ascending look like a masterpiece.

Just realized how bad Scargiver is as a title/nickname because it means they only cut a person not actually land killing blows

I remember when people were saying Rebel Moon could be a Star Wars killer. I also remember laughing my butt off after hearing that and knowing who was directing/writing. Sure, it was possible, but it's like winning the lottery. There is always a chance. A very small one. Now we just have one more modern sci-fi story to add to the dumpster. The Disney Star Wars and Star Trek stuff has kept the fire nice and toasty in there.

If Snyder was a movie reviewer, he’d be Chris stuckman

You know it’s a bad/empty movie when EFAP’s “complete rundown” of a film is less than an hour longer than the film.

But guys part 2 will make it all better And then the directors cut of part 1 will make it all better And then the directors cut of part 2 will make it all better They got their whole cope train planned out for them for quite some time. So glad to get you guys covering this. Merry Christmas lads

You know it's gonna be ass when Disney of all companies see it and go "nuh uh".

I laughed out loud when Rags said “Right now she’s a child of dirt.” 🤣

If wood can block the plasma from guns in this universe, would Groot be bulletproof?

EFAP ripping on Zach Snyder is the only thing that brings me joy in life.

Why is an entire empire relying on the grain output of a single small farming village? Because Zack is just copy-pasting from Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven, where the bandits are attacking a small farming village for their food, and he doesn't "adapt" the idea to make it fit. This is the height of pulling in elements you don't really understand and just hoping the reference to the other thing is enough to convey the concept. It makes sense for bandits, who don't have any resources other than their willingness to be violent, to be reliant upon the food they can steal from a single location, but not a galactic evil empire. Zack doesn't grasp the things he's stealing from, he's just hoping you'll be pleased by the reference. It's why they never seemingly explain that they're getting together a crack team-Zack is already immersed in his Seven Samurai plot, so he doesn't explain because he wants you to recognize it. But he fails to realize it makes no sense in the context of HIS story. Just wanting to do a Seven Samurai plot in a fantasy or sci-fi setting isn't wrong. I'd watch the hell out of that concept. But this is just superficially that concept, it doesn't actually establish a creative groundwork. You need a scenario in which a small number of highly skilled specialists can swing the outcome. You need them all to have a motivation for joining. It's also nice to give them relationships to each other so you can play off the group dynamic. Seven Samurai isn't good BECAUSE it's a small team assembled to defend a village, it's good because it has clear stakes and objectives, and because the characters go on interesting journeys through the story.

I thought the most hilarious thing about cyborg mans sacrifice is that, he didnt even attack the pilot, it was a dude in a turret and it somehow controls the whole ship, letting it crash, and, like, HOW?! Why does a turret have any control over that massive vessel's bearing? it should only change the turret angle. it's CRAZY

"That's Nemesis, she's got my back."

It legit gives off vibe as if 14yo watched and read Dune, Star Wars and Foundation then decided to write own fanfiction world.

ah yes, one of efap's favorite crash test dummies: zack snyder... 😂😂😂

The Moon say: "I rebel" and then The Moon starts to rebel: "its moonin' time!" (slowmo and angry faces between exlosions)

Remember when Superman in Batman vs “Superman” movie got way less screentime than Lois Lane and Lex Luthor? That’s high form of art right there.

I like 300, but we should also remember that the movie was basically the comic shot for shot (both visually and plot) and, again, Snyder wasn't even the cinematograhper.

Rebel Moon is the result of 30 years of hard work, regurgitating George Lucas' hard work through the anus of Battle Beyond the Stars! What a genius! My mouth is wide open to receive this bounty!

The R-rated cost argument doesn’t work because it’s streaming. This isn’t a film that could be hurt by a smaller audience in theaters (which is also a weak argument after Deadpool and Oppenheimer). But this was released on home media, it can be watched by everyone no matter what a parent says

Rebél moon 's like when you stretch an e3 video game trailer to 2 hours.

That's no, rebel, Moon.

Dear god, the armor worn by the bad guys even looks like the armor that the Imperial Guard in Warhammer 40K wears. Also? 12,000 bushels of wheat? A human can eat ~4 bushels of wheat a year, easily. So you're doing all this, traveling to another planet back and forth twice, just to feed 3,000 people?

52:50 I could actually believe she literally said "sad face" after hearing that dialogue.

i was curious as to why the movie was so bad after the first few scenes because my friend encouraged me to watch this with him. as soon as the credits rolled and i saw Zack Snyder's name, i immediately realized why. in an odd way, since i had no idea it was made by him, it was like a twist ending where it all made sense at that moment lmao

You know how in Star Wars even the poorest people and the simplest farmers and scavengers have droids and everything hovers? Yeah, in this masterpiece derived from Star Wars, they use horses and by-hand labor. And that's integral to the entire Empire entity.

Wait... are you telling me this movie was so lame, the breakdown took just barely more than the running time? 🤨

Rebel Moon, Sucker Punch, Watchmen, Ezra Miller... Not sure why Zack seems to been drawn to adult activity abuse scenes in either movies or actors?

50 bucks says the r-rated version is the exact same movie, but with a lot more octopus fucking in it

First they announced a Zack Snyder "starwarsish" movie. Then they said it's gonna be a two parter. Then they said the first part already has a "director's cut". I'd say someone should buy a pair of scissors and gift it to Zack Snyder, 'cause he obviously doesn't know how to trim down his movies... but I guess at this point someone should get him a paper shredder so he knows what to do with the useless scenes he wrote.

the empire taught her that love is weakness but then later she says they were encouraged to have a companion or something

When your spinal cord is severed like that, you aren't only paralysed, you just die.

It will never cease to amaze me how many movies Zack Snyder still gets to make despite almost all of them getting bad reception. For some reason, corporate executives still see him as some misunderstood artistic genius when in reality he's a mentally 13-year-old hack who can't write at a beginner's level, let alone at a level worth hundreds of millions in production costs.

53:00 She says that love was beaten out of her and taught to be a weakness, yet later, she will say that soldiers were encouraged to have lovers and form couples so they would draw some strength in face of the chaos of battle.

It's so simple, what's not to get? It's the moon and it rebel. Duh

Can anyone name a more overrated director than Snyder?

I love how the whole efap cast says "robit" like Zoidberg.😂

The fact that this is what got rejected as his Star Wars pitch should automatically indicate this movie's quality

Zack Snyder literally stole the plot from "A Bug's Life". A village is being harassed by bad guys who want their crops, two villagers are sent to gather an army of misfits to fight them back. He stole... from A BUGS LIFE.

Zack Snyder should just be directing commercials and music videos. He'd be fine at that. I don't understand why studios keep giving him films, though.

The contrast between rebel moon and Andor is so big. It’s not night and day it’s heaven and hell. Lol

1:26:13 This is exactly my argumemt against people who critique Sweden and Denmark for their passivity/surrender during WW2- Denmark "surrendered in 6 hours" Yea, not so much surrendering as just realizing facts. The first infantry wave alone was almost _half amillion_ soldiers. Denmarks entire population at the time was like 3 million people, including every single man, woman and child. Just what exactly, would you expect them to do? It wasnt "surendering", it was "not being a suicidal moron"

Before I watch this EFAP, this is my take on the movie. The camera was weirdly in and out of focus. It wasn't too hard to look at, but it was distracting to notice that everything that wasn't in the center always shifted out of focus. The effects were really weird too, since many of the lights, lasers, and such things all completely overtook every scene. This one scene early on when Kora and Oldman were talking, the fire was SO bright, it was the most distracting thing I've ever seen because I'm trying to take in the surroundings, but the fire is SO bright, and the glare effects from it stretch across the scene. The glare as well stretched off the fire and lazers and OVER people's faces, and that was also distracting, especially in the slow-motion scenes that highlighted nothing cool. The slow-motion only slowed down lazers and people's faces, and none of that is cool enough on its own to warrant hyper-fixation on it. Visuals aside, the story was a complete nonsense mish-mash of unexplained names, places, and entities colliding over some drama about kingdom succession and tyranny. All of this unexplained nonsense is then fed through the lens of uncharacterized stereotypes. The "general" does nothing general-like, the saber lady was there to slash at things, some rebel guy sacrificed his life so... something could happen, and nobody cared, including myself. Some super cool badass dude rode a hippogriff, and I accurately called that the PROPER thing to do would be incorporating this skill into a later scene, but it wouldn't happen - I was correct. The people handed one of our protagonists a gun so he could execute his friends himself, and to the surprise of nobody, he used that gun to free everyone and save the day, all the while I screamed at the screen. I thought about the movie after it finished, and came to the conclusion that I know nothing about this world or its inhabitants, learned nothing about myself or my own world, watched a bunch of contradictory scenes with nothing-characters, and only FELT like giving it higher than a 3 because it looked nice at times. Edit: Oh, and I thought Kora was potentially a Mary Sue. She had training we don't see that allows her to win basically all combat scenarios, but she's skinny, she's liked by basically everyone, she never struggles or wrestles with anything, all her enemies get stupider when attempting to kill her, and she's super amiable.

Rebel Noom!

I honestly think Michael Bay would’ve done a better DC Universe than Snyder.

can't wait for super 18+ edition duper extra director's cut, this will definetely make this movie better.

The Zack Snyder Parody character from The Boys Season 3 is more self-aware than the real thing.

The way this efap is titled had me thinking there was a part 2 to this. Im like wtf are they gonna talk about for another 3 hrs

I reminded of The Great Hunt (Wheel of Time Book 2) and a character named Geofram Bornhald. he's is the commander of a legion of the Children of Light, a religious-military group that are basically witch hunters. He's dispatched to an area known as Almoth Plain that has no centralized governemnt. It's jsut independant farming villages. He's there to root out evil and restore order. To make Almoth Plain into a nation for his order to rule in addition to their puppet kingdom of Amador. He isn't there to brutalize the people. He's there to bring them in line. As he heads into one village, he hopes that no young man will do something foolish to impress his girl becuase then Bornhald would have to make an example out of him. He doesn't want to kill an idiot showing off, but he will to impose order. His soldiers are disciplined. There not there to rape and pillage. And yet, everything he's doing is evil. This is an example of an empire conquring people and subjgating them with the intention of ruling over them and adding them to the fold. This book was written by a man who studied history and witnessed war. The Children of the Light have all the best intentions and even some merit to them, but their methodology and narrow world view lead them to great evil. The empitome of the road to hell is paved with good intentions.