"I'm just not having a ton of fun" sums up my Snyder experience largely lol

Snyder is an incredibly talented music video director that keeps trying to make movies. If he'd just stop trying to write and story break these things himself and just directed scripts by actual writers he could probably make some pretty great projects.

The ONE aspect of this film that I genuinely like: I really appreciate that Charlie Hunnam's character is introduced as a good-for-nothing scoundrel who's only in it for himself - and then it turns out that he genuinely *IS* just a good-for-nothing scoundrel who's only in it for himself! No heart of gold hiding underneath his mercenary exterior, just a legit amoral guy who's happy to sell out his companions for his own benefit. The fact that he's handsome and charming doesn't mean he's trustworthy - which is a nice subversion from the dozens of stories where his type of character invariably winds up becoming a selfless, helpful true believer in the greater good. :) But yeah, aside from that part, this movie's a dumpster fire.

Ah, Rebel Moon. AKA Star Warhammers Of The Dune Ring 40K: The Quest For Deus Excalibur Machin-Avatar.

Gotta hand it to you. The Harry Connick Jr. callbacks were more entertaining than the whole of the movie itself.

Really grateful to you boys for covering these movies. I couldn't bring myself to watch them, but something tells me your reactions have made them way more entertaining.

Cha Boyz singing the "Dune" theme over and over was hilariously entertaining 😅

I mean, if we’re talking about Star Wars and Seven Samurai, it should be noted that The Mandalorian managed to do a pretty solid take on the story in just over half an hour (S1E4). But here’s the thing: In an alternative universe where the original Star Wars bombed in theaters - so that it never became a franchise - that one movie is still a complete story with a beginning, middle, and - most importantly - an end: the bad guy’s base is destroyed; Tarkin is dead; the princess is rescued; the scoundrel learns there’s more to life than money; and the simple farmer stops whining about his lot in life and manages to save the day. Sure, there are loose threads (like Vader surviving), but you don’t _need_ those to be explored in order for that first film to be satisfying. This is the same mistake Zack Snyder made with the DCEU: building a franchise requires more than the “building a franchise” part; each of the individual components have to be compelling in their own right. (This is also why the MCU has fallen off; each piece of content has increasingly become little more than an ad for the next piece of content.)

to me it felt like a first year film student just realized they could add slo-mo to a movie, and just added it for no reason everywhere.

I felt like I was watching a movie recap of a book I hadn't read and neither had the director. So ultimately all I got was that there was woman who wanted to take down a bad employer she used to work for in SPAAAACCCEEEE!

It’s so bad, not even the fact that it opens with Megatron’s dingdong flying through a space vajayjay can save it.

Best things to come from this movie: 1. Rockin' hog of a ship 2. "Is that Harry Connick Jr?"

This wasn't a movie. This was a series of well shot sequences, a handful of cool character designs & establishing shots, and a waste of time for the audience. Netflix & Snyder owe everyone who watched Rebel Moon the run time in life back.

26:07 "I am... wh.. whoever.. whatever his name was..." Yep. That's basically every single character in this movie.

I'm only 12 minutes into the reaction, but thank you guys for confirming I'm not insane. I'm glad someone else was as frustrated at this movie from the jump as I was.

Bro you made me spit my coffee out at 14:10 with the Dune soundtrack and the axe lol

The Seven Summaries… everyone just reads out the back of their toy box. Good god.

It's not exposition if a Robot explains it.

I feel like this movie doesn't answer the question: "why should I care?" (This reaction does, because I want to watch you guys, but not the movie! 😂)

I think it really wants to be Farscape, but Snyder doesn't understand why Farscape works.

This movie feels like Zack Snyder saw 7 Samurai when he was 10 and then wrote this when he was 13.

Seriously, I have a high tolerance for garbage... I can find redeeming qualities to almost anything... but when I sat down to watch this I just ended up drinking too much.

Daario Naharis (I) vs Daario Naharis (II). The recasting in GOT turned DN (I) evil . . . Also Seven Samurai in space. Oh, wait. They already did that - Battle Beyond the Stars.

It's like this movie was written by ChatGPT after it was instructed to mix a compilation between 10 random sci-fi movies/series.

Thankyou for reacting to this! I would never have watched this alone, who could be bothered honestly. But... I'm happy to watch the highlights with you guys!🙏

The amount of slow motion used in this movie is crazy🤣🤣

3:35; 😂 There's ppl out there who think the critics have it out for Zack, but can't explain the Audience Scores for the movies he's directed and/or written since 'The Snyder Cut' (RT 93%); Army of The Dead (75%), Army of Thieves (69%), Rebel Moon P1 (57%) & P2 (46%). So why haven't the same ppl who rushed to give the Snyder Cut 93% done the same for the rest?!

You guys reacting to bad movies should maybe become a thing lmao

I started watching Part 2 out of morbid curiosity. It has some startling apparent continuity problems and the most unintentionally hilarious example of diegetic music I've ever seen in just the first 10 minutes. I gave up and went back to watching Shogun.

Man, Djimon Hounsou has been fighting in the Gladiator arena since the days of Maximus Decimus Meridius. It's no wonder he looks rough.

Adam I appreciate you quoting Robin Hood: Men in Tights

"I should be able to glean more information than just from dialogue" - looks at Fallout and nods.

"I was the wizard Shazam, how DARE you!"

I guess my main question is: "Why these specific warriors?" Like, why is the Griffon riding guy absolutely necessary and indespensible from the team? What does he add that noone else in the universe can add? And why is that specific addition something that is worth the time spent doing his companion quest? Example: Oceans 11 needed all of the characters because each had a specific talent and each talent was 100% necessary for the specific heist they were performing. I don't need to know the backstory of each character, because I know a few that I can latch onto. But every character should have a unique personality and a unique, indispensable job.

This is "sit on rock and exposit a flashback" The Movie. Edit: "I'm only telling you this so you know who I am." Yeah, thanks movie... we get it. She should have gone full deadpool and said that directly to the camera.

Never forget zack snyder says this movie would have made more money than barbie if it was released in theaters even with his format of the full movie being dlc and all his fans rejoicing his vision is protected even though hes been in total control of all of his projects at netflix and he Chooses to release a supposedly unfinished product and gets praise for a movie actually making sense which happened with batman v superman and its probably more pointless this time , snyder can make all the directors cuts he wants but dont he shouldnt lie about it lol

the final fight with that book of mormon looking guy was so funny

Parts one and two could have been condensed into a single movie that would have worked much better than what we got.

@29:48 not Adam using D&D rules to explain this scene's failings 😂

People keep hyping that Zack Snyder is going to have a "Director's Cut" for this movie, though since it was done for Netflix, I wonder WHY.

I think the biggest problem with this movie is the pacing and Zach Snyders basic misconception on how that works. I know he's riffing on the Seven Samuari, Magnificent Seven, and a dozen other movies. In every other movie I can think of it takes thirty minutes to form the seven and the rest of the movie is plot, exposition, getting the village ready, and all of that. Even then if you look at the original Magnificent Seven and compare the scene where they recruit Charles Bronson and in Rebel Moon whenre they recruit Staz Nair. They are both doing chores on a farm for money. If takes five minutes to recruit Bronson and you get tons of character about how much he gets typically gets paid and how he's so down on his luck taht teh small amount they're offering is worth is time.Nair spends way more time on screen and we get very little character building. All I know about him is that he's the Navi alagory.

10:24 It was sad when that Nazi officer went, "Negan," on Technoviking. But it did set a serious tone for anyone with less than 50 pounds of plot armor.

Feels like a drug induced fever dream, cool disjointed moments with no consistent thru-line or meaning or depth

As promised, I am here to feed the algorithm because I love you guys, you’re my favorites, even though I absolutely will not watch anything Zack Snyder touches and believe that continuing to engage with his movies (any of his movies) only serves to keep encouraging people to keep giving him chances to make more, much like how Velma was hate-watched into having a season 2. Anyway, all love, as always. I’ll always support you guys. Just, humbly, I have to ask politely if it would be possible not to give Snyder free publicity anymore in the future. ❤️ now eat, algorithm goddess!

I am absolutely more intrigued by the flower robot than the entirety of the rest of the film

52:37 I don't think anyone's gonna come after you guys over this movie😂😂 love you two ❤

To be clear, I'm not saying this as a reflection on you guys, I agree with virtually everything you said...but I think this might be the first reaction where I had to take a break and do something else. There's nothing here, which funnily enough makes me respect you even more for being able to pull a full breakdown out of the whole thing. I think the most damning thing I can personally say about the movie is that I watched it with some friends who enjoyed it. I asked what they liked about it, and one of my friends went on to describe plot points from one of the Aquaman movies he'd seen a day or two earlier. Rebel Moon was so forgettable his brain did a system restore to the last movie he'd seen - as he was watching it.

I love how jumping onto the gryphon required 4x slow motion.

35:28 Bread? I like bread!

Falcor the Link Dragon! That is a DEEP CUT for the OG peaches (before we were even called peaches!)

Adam rode the 'I'm determined to hate this' bandwagon in to town on this one. Jay is so much more open to what's good in films that aren't upto scratch.

This feels like if you got A New Hope and dumped all of the PT and all of the EU books into it. 34:33 I think this is the point I couldn’t watch anymore. Usually I power through a movie in pieces if it’s hard to watch. This one I had no desire to finish it.

If I were Ms Boutella I would fire my manager

Yes, it can… I’m utterly disappointed we live in where THIS can be written, filmed, and released to the public

You should definitely watch Ryan George 's Pitch Meeting for this..

I like Adam and Jay not liking things. I know they want to keep it positive because there are so many negative reviewers on youtube but sometimes it feel a little like they searching for good things when there aren't any. This video felt pretty authentic and was a lot of fun! Oh and what is this movie, I don't understand why Zack Snyder gets jobs as a director at this point. He has potential but he hasn't really shown it for years now. Adam was absolutely right, Snyder needs someone to control him and tell him no from time to time.

The only people who like this are Disney haters who want to use it as a way to slam Disney. They dont actually like it, they just want to claim not giving Snyder a Star Wars movie is another bad Kathleen Kennedy decision.

Already looking forward to seeing your review quoted as "Just WOW !".

I honestly believe there was a KERNEL of a fantastic story in there SOMEWHERE but unfortunately it was smothered to death by an excessive amount of slow-motion shots and too many characters with too little actual personailty and backstory to care about them. And unfortunately that Kernel of a good story wasn't even an original story.

I would opine that we are looking at something like David Drake's plasma guns, where all of the thermokinetic force is expended at the point of contact so it does not penetrate. However, if it hits a human, it would cause sufficient hydrostatic shock (along with the heat) to kill them.

Can’t wait to enjoy this amazing reaction love my amazing internet best friends

"Was that a B-Wing?" Honestly, thought it looked a LOT like Ahsoka's ship, but I don't want to subject myself to searching through this movie on my TV to get a closer look.

I really believe that with a better director and editor this could have been great.

I love the banter. 19:50 made me think of "Make a wish..." Candle Maker from Doom Patrol.

25:25 "that's a cool shot." yes it was, when they did it in Harry Potter.

friends don't let friends watch Rebel Moon

They failed at making us care about any of these characters.

I got to about the same point as Adam and went, where is the plot? Why are we collecting these people? Apparently they have bounties on them, but they didn't seem to be hard to find. What's the plan? The bad guys can clearly attack from ordbit, so this is a bit like taking on the Death Star without the all important plans.

you know we just have to pump the red light out of him and fill him with blue light and he will be as good as new

"How far into this are we? *Holy shit*." is probably all that needs to be said, right?

I see a few basic ways of connecting these characters so that it is a coherent plot. 1) The evil general should have either been the official governor of this moon, OR hiding resources and garrisons on the moon because he was planning to backstab the Emperor. Anything that was a more substantial and specific reason for him to care at all about what happens in this region. 2) The prince working as a slave should have been the previous regent of the moon. "Return of the king" is an actual plot point; rescuing some guy just because, isn't. 3) The drunk general could have been from THIS prince's kingsguard. Either that, or his Big Disgrace should be related to the death of the White Lantern Princess. Who cares about whatever battle he lost if it has nothing to do with the big myth or the specific story? Nemesis is just a Jedi expy, so what she doesn't really matter. She's a ronin. Myeh. Gamora's quest should be specific: to regain the power of THIS moon from THIS imperial officer.

Jay yawning & Adam shrugging at the nonsense throughout this - is the best review you can give

"Battleaxe Betty" - I had to pause afterwards 😂

YES! Yes, it CAN be this bad, AND worse! Snyder wants to do six of these trash fires! Let. Him. POOP.

I could've forgiven this movie's other shortcomings if the action was top-notch, cause then you at least understand where the filmmaker's focus is. But like everything else it's just...kinda okay. I fell asleep watching this at my parent's place over the holidays and I feel just fine about that.

... "Im just not having a ton of fun" had me DYING lolololol. Yup - that kinda perfectly encapsulates my entire experience with this movie. I wanted desperately to have a better time with this movie, but I could not care about literally any character in it. The coolest part - the Jenna Malone spider lady fight - was just a Doctor Who villain from nearly 20 years ago (The Runaway Bride 2006 Christmas Special - which im gonna guess had 1% of this movies budget). Star Wars has done Seven Samurai a bunch of times already and better than this (see the Clone Wars, Rebels, The Mandalorian, etc). No wonder lucasfilm didnt want this. Woof.

i started this movie to give it a chance. Props to you guys or not giving up. i could make myself sick thinking about all the money spent.

The problem I had with this movie is that it didn't know what kind of movie it wanted to be. They took every single SciFi/Fantasy trope/cliche and mashed them all together trying to make them all work but instead they just got.... mush. Plus I can't stand the guy that played the main evil character so that probably didn't help my perception of the movie at all. It's pretty sad, like you continually pointed out the visuals/special effects were pretty good. Most of the acting was okay, but the writing/story just killed it. Honestly I don't think I'm even going to bother watching Part 2

I've not been able to watch this movie all the way through without getting distracted and walking away several times 😂 you were so ready to enjoy this at the start.

the first 20-30min I enjoyed, but then it all went downhill for me...People saying "oh wait for the directors cut", is nonsense imo. I'm sure it will be better, but why can't you just make a good film the first time around?

This movie is literally 7 samuria, the anime with Star Wars coat of paint. With a lot less character development

I said when the movie came out that it could have been 20/30 minutes shorter without the Slow-Mo in it.... and even then it would be too long and too uninteresting. Snyder apparently wants to make 6 Rebel Moon movies in total. Can't see him getting a 3rd one TBH.

It is clearly a Star Wars Pitch, but I feel notes of Dune and Warhammer 40K too. I was interested in the world. this film was... ok. I liked it, but... yeah. and every single character is as SPECIMEN.

Way to many characters, same problem i had with Eternals!

This movie is 30 minutes of some kind of story. . . . . . the rest is slow motion farming and exposition.

I agree that some (or, face it, many) shots in this movie are just gratuitous.

I love your guys's reactions, they're so funny😂

Why do any of these.... "Guardians of the Farm" even care about this place? It starts as just a job for money, but then kinda morphs into "I'll die for this place"

The directors cuts will be coming in August which add another hour to each installment

This movie would have been a great part 2. Or rewritten to give more character than world building. And the world building was lacking.

Many thanks to Jay & Adam! 🌙 The only thing I loved about this movie was the scene in which 'Sam' (portrayed by the lovely Charlotte Maggi) put the crown of flowers onto 'Jimmy' (voiced by Anthony Hopkins). The rest of it, aside from some lovely visuals, really didn't impact me. I will watch the second part, but it would take a lot to win me over. I guess I'm just not a huge fan of Zack Snyder. Only a couple of his works have appealed to me. Apparently, some people enjoy what he offers.

wait. If it is impossible to fight the motherworld, than wtf does the revolution people do all day? They're kinda just a bikergang, that's probably why they look like that.

The aesthetic is much more in line with the Warhammer 40K universe, and I wonder if word that Cavill is working on this franchise inspired them to make it look similar.

It honestly feels like they cut out an hour of the movie that or they just teleport everywhere

This whole movie felt like we were supposed to understand and care without ever earning that from viewers.

Should check out Slo Mo Guys Zack Snyder. About a 50 min interview/interaction. He explains the camera angles. As well as how they released the pg-13 version first. And the R version comes this fall. Only reason I watched the 1st one, so I can see the difference. The supposedly WAY gorier angle compilation.

I think you guys are right in that we're all way too spoiled by IP that has a backstory and universe lore. I still give Rebel Moon 1 and 2 about a 6.8 out of 10.

Having (regrettably) watched both "parts" of this Zack Snyder "opus," I'm so glad that the two of you are reacting to it so that I know I was not alone in my (admittedly harsh) judgment.

Had to pause and take a break, not because this video is bad, the video is great. But because I can only take so much of rebel moon before I need a break haha

i feel like the punisher meme with this movie AND I LIKED IT!! I LIKED IT!!!