Today's Fact: In 2013, a man in California sold a pair of 19th-century photographs for 2.3 million dollars that he found at a garage sale for 45 dollars.

I love the thought process of “Hm, so we have one Asian person in our movie. How should we make her unique?” “How about we make her the only character that fights with swords?” “Yeah, and make her super obsessed with honor and stuff like that.”

I am grateful to Zack Snyder for making something that I can heartily recommend to people whose time I don't respect.

what i find funny is when he was describing one of the generals where a guy said "oh thats THE general? the genius one", i instantly remembered a documentary where they said they tried NOT to do that exact thing, and to instead show the characters importance, rather than have it stated in passing. i think it was a star wars documentary 😭

I cried when this character, who gets introduced 10 minutes before the climax and gets no development afterwards, heroically sacrifices himself to save all these people he hardly knows. Definitely a movie. Bravo, Zack.

“It’s like Zach Snyder forgot to write their personalities” Implying he ever knew how to write characters with personality

I hated the captain/general guy they found at the colosseum. It made 0 sense to me. They hyped up finding this guy, even formed a team to go and get him. But then when they find him he’s just drunk, and then with 0 explanation given to him (just half of a motivational speech) decides to join the team. 0 explanation of anything done here. Just caveman language. “We need captain” “We find captain” “Captain join us “ “Okay 👍”

Someone on Critical Drinker's channel said this movie is exactly what he would expect to see if AI wrote and directed a movie, and the more I hear about this film, the more it seems to be appropriate.

I find it hilarious how Rebel Moon advertises itself as this original piece of work, but it literally feels like an AI saw Star Wars, Seven Samurai, Harry Potter, and Dune and then tried to make a movie from those four.

I really wanted to watch this with my girlfriend and we finally did. After it was done I told her "I'm sorry, I thought this was gonna be different"

It's a shame to hear that "Rebel Moon" didn't live up to its potential. I was initially excited for the film, but I'm starting to see why critics have been so harsh. It sounds like there are a lot of missed opportunities and underdeveloped elements that could have made it a more compelling sci-fi spectacle.

Oh Charlie, just wait until you watch the second one. It's even worse.

The most outrageous part, Charlie didn't fully explained that scene of a character jumping, it starts with a 75% slow mo, then a 50% then a 25% when the jump happens, it's so ridiculous, they really slowed a slow motion scene

I love how the fans accused reviewbombing when 65% audience score is very much proof that they themselves have reviewbombed that movie.

I remember seeing a poster at a theater when this movie was about to come out and i thought it was a new Star Wars spinoff.

The battleship cruiser thing has zero defenses against fighters. It just has cannons and looks like a luxury cruise.

This movie had every single trope imaginable. From the space Nazis, all the way down to the bad guy falling off a really high platform at the end.

Imagine if everyone in team avatar was convinced to join aang by a 50 speech check and then none of them ever said anything to anyone ever again. That's kinda what the movie felt like to me...

my uncle and i had a drinking game whenever there was a slow motion sequence happening, we woke up in a hospital

The concept of writing a character is foreign to Zack Snyder.

the movie is amazing because the boring feeling you feel while watching it leads to despair, so you can really feel how bad the characters are feeling.

"Playing with action figures" is the perfect way to describe how Zack Snyder does movies.

I loved it when the guy who owns the slave/prince says he'll let him go if he can tame the griffin that he also owns. It makes no sense for him to do it and he could have done it any time he wanted, but because the protagonist girl showed up he'll do it now so he can tack on an agreement that she'll be his slave if the slave/prince fails... an agreement that he could never have enforced anyway... best movie ever.

I actually thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie! From the first scene where she huffs the soil to the very end, my husband and I were making up dialogue and were in stitches the whole time. 😂

When Charlie uses the term "Gobbledygook", everything feels right in the world.

This thing honestly sounds like a session of DnD but without the roleplaying

This was a really good movie, I enjoyed it while doing the dishes, taking care of my property taxes, calling my car finance company, canceling my gym membership, and other tasks throughout the day.

Kinda felt like they pulled a lot of stuff out of 40k. The look of the imperial officers, those medics at the end resemble technomancers or tech priests, the wording of things like the academy militarum. I dont think it's the worst thing I've seen, definitely far from the best (still better than the sequels iykyk). The film pulled a lot of inspiration out of lots of other media seemingly, not just star wars. But I think the biggest thing I hate is that the movie was advertised essentially to be star wars but with sex, gore and cursing. This all felt very PG13 to me when I think it could've benefited from being the rated R experience they were selling to people. Apparently the rated R cut will be coming later but I think it's hilarious that zack deliberately chose to make this version the first impression rather than the rated R cut. It's a bad look and the real reason this film should be criticized. They specifically watered down this version so people would be drawn to the rated R cut in the future. It's like selling a DLC of a movie. Absolutely hilarious.

fun fact: snyder actually pitched this to lucasfilm as a star wars movie. when it got rejected, he tried to turn it into a video game or spinoff, until it became what it is now

This movie felt like it was AI generated. Like whenever you ask ChatGPT to write a paragraph for you and it gives you like 6-10 sub-paragraphs with no connection to eachother. Thats how the locations and the structure of the entire movie felt

Don’t forget, the anti-climatic lunge of the Bloodax character. Where he totally misses only to attempt again in slow motion.

I went to an early screening for Part 2 today and it was just farming and talking for 45 minutes 😭 I fell asleep on a movie at a theater for the first time in my life.

One thing I found really weird. At the beginning, the movie introduced that one young soldier who helps Kora stop the lady from getting raped. He then just-vanishes-from the rest of the movie.

Zack Snyder originally pitched Rebel moon as a Star Wars movie to Disney & Lucasfilm. They said no, and now I can see why.

I liked the part when it turned into How to Train Your Dragon for five minutes and then it never pays off that plot-point in the final battle and the character who was in that scene does nothing but run around shirtless. Also it was nice of Anthony Hopkins to read the Star Wars title crawl as narration so Snyder could avoid being sued.

My main problem was that the main protagonist acting was so bad, i didn’t believe a word she said and it brought down so many other characters acting despite some good actors being in it.

Charlie... with a grey shirt. Never in my time of living would I have thought of witnessing such greatness as the combination of black and white is presented to our eyes.

I know these videos are for people who already watched the movies and can relate to Charlie's misery, but for me they're just a great way to find out what movies I should never watch, before it's too late.

Watching this movie felt like listening someone tell a story through a series of "This happens and then, and then, and then..." with uhmms and pauses here and there

My gf and I started to watch this movie and we immediately turned it off because of how blurry the shots were. It was super distracting

How could you miss the classic interaction of "im a slave." "Youre a slave?" "Yes im a slave" "why?" "Im a slave because of my bad choices" "wanna join me?" "No im a slave brb im gonna stop being a slave. Okay im ready to join you"

This movie feels like a script overview that was supposed to get sent to a writer for touch ups and to flesh out the characters more, but on the way over Zach intercepted it and decided to fill it as is, making up for lost details with slomo

This movei felt like it had no writers, no director and no storyboarders and that they had 5 storyboard slides per scene that were all made by special effects crew of dubious quality.

My favorite part is when the main character gets loud and it resolves any interpersonal confrontation.

The funniest part for me was the rebel dude running up to the turret and it’s supposed to be super badass - but he takes super small steps and it looks super goofy lmao

My favorite part is them showing the Evil Empire being able to completely destroy the surface of the planet from orbit, but the main plot is them getting together to help the villagers fight back. Then in the trailer for Part Two they show the Good Guys training the villagers on how to fight a ground war.

the way charlie describes this movie makes it seem like watching someone’s playthrough of baldurs gate except they never interact with their party members

After watching the movie, my friend Adam told me “Zack Snyder is great at aesthetics and visual worldbuilding, but terrible at story/plot.” And that perfectly encompassed my reaction to Rebel Moon. I’m so glad the spider lady scene got mentioned. That scene was rad. It felt like it was taken from the middle of a better story. The lightsaber wielder had this real sense of honor to her that we just never got to see. She could’ve been an awesome character in a story about her. Additionally, in the beginning there’s this robot soldier, and we hear about how the robot soldiers used to belong to the king and ever since the king died they won’t pick up a weapon. Later, a woman who was nice to the robot is getting assaulted, and something shifts in the robot and he’s able to pick up a gun and shoot the guy grabbing her. That could’ve been another awesome character in a story that was actually about them.

"He has this obsession with slow motion for this movie" I am pretty sure this describes EVERY Zack Snyder movie

One of my fav positive RT reviews was "While the first half takes off after a slow start, it is not a film that will be accused of originality." 💀💀💀

If a space rebellion sounds interesting to anyone you should just read the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. Space action, cool settings, great world building and an interesting group of characters. It’s all there

This movie feels like if Bethesda made a Star Wars game and there’s no main player character, just a bunch of NPCs

Zack is the kind of guy who's really good at copying things 1v1, but if he needs to change even just one tiny little detail, it all goes to shit.

Charlie is dipping his toes into fashion, he's going wild with new colors and ideas. He realizes he can wear black, AND white, at the same time.

This sounds like when I tried to make an “original story” by stealing ideas from shows I liked in 6th grade. The main character was a Mary sue who everyone liked unless a character was evil. And a random spy crew of prince and princesses were being collected to join for no reason. They also all had the same personality. 😭

I’ve been watching you for a little while now and your just so funny dude u flow these connections seamlessly😂

Jimmy (the robot voiced by Anthony Hopkins) had the most personality out of all the characters, by far. This is despite it only really being in a few scenes in the beginning of the movie. I wanted Jimmy to be the main character.

Snyder has 800 years of lore to share. The story really takes off in the 350 year mark.

Tbf, any details or plot points that get hung up or lost could just be setup for the other parts of the planned series.

The way I can describe this movie is if imagine the first Star Wars where the whole movie is Luke and Obi-Wan trying to convince Han and Chewbacca to defeat the empire but the fight only happens during the last 30 minutes with lots of slo-mo.

my fav character was the robot. despite of him being a robot, he had the most life than all the other characters combined.

I really like how offended Charlie sounded while he was describing the scenes.

I actually loved the way he wove Niven, PKD, and among many others, Star Wars references together. It must’ve been meant to be eye candy for us oldsters like Ready Player One. I recognized the multitude of tropes he was extracting ideas from and enjoyed it for what it was.

The General saved them time on insurance, it happened offscreen.

watching this movie felt like playing a bunch of random quests from every bethesda game in no particular order

I loved how the villains looked like a dollar store version of the Imperium in 40k.

It’s like watching your friend play a video game on easy/story mode

The slow mo in this movie genuinely made me leave the room. Definitely not the way i planned on spending my Christmas day

For those familiar with WarHammer 40k you’ll probably be pissed at how much Zach Snyder took from that universe

Charlie perfectly captured my feelings on Rebel Moon. Man, I really wanted to like this movie...but it's genuinely awful...I think Snyder really needs to re-evaluate his approach to filmmaking.

About having slow-mo to fill runtime, we had this group project in school where we had to make a video and we had a minimum length requirement. When we recorded, it wasn't long enough. So, we just added slow-mo to the video to meet the requirements knowing we wouldn't get a good grade.

Saw this film being advertised on a bus and I immediately knew Charlie was going to cover it

There is no director in the world who had more chances that him and consistantly failed EVERY TIME!

I put it on because I'd vaguely heard about it and thought it was a show, not a movie. After realising the first episode wasn't ending I thought maybe it was like 3-4 really big episodes. Then I finally realised it was a movie. Literally felt like they made a TV show, cut all the episodes in half and then glued them together.

I couldn't get through 30 minutes. So many tired tropes I couldn't stop itching my brain with my eyeballs.

You’re wrong… the robot had personality 😂

Watched it with my fiance and the slomo overkill quickly became a running gag that basically was the only thing in this movie which entertained us

Fun fact if Zack didn’t use as much slowmo as he did he could have squeezed in part 2 on this one 😅.

Works as a good advertisement for literally every series they stole from. Warhammer Starwars Halo Dune and the rest.

oh man, i cant wait to hear about the slow mow grain harvest

I totally feel some of the Star Wars writing but honestly my first thought comparison wise was Warhammer 40k -Fascist human empire that is literally called "The Imperium" -Human sect obsessed with technology and augmenting themselves with it literally called "The Mechanicum" -Human leaders name is literally Belisarus (Belisarus Cawl being the leader of The Mechanichum in 40k) -The Ecclesiarchy within this human empire is and the way they act, literally the same feeling as the Inquisition from 40k. Rebel Moon even has these weird priest dudes (who literally seem to do nothing the entire movie) in all red who further reinforce that vibe. And that's just what I remember. To be honest I watched it right as it came out and barely remember much outside the basic premise of the story and the similarities I noticed. The movie was pretty unmemorable so I'm honestly even struggling to remember all the characters names. There could be a lot of other blatant similarities I totally missed. I will say I did enjoy the world/setting in Rebel Moon though, but I love Warhammer 40k so I guess that's to be expected lol

It was written as a Star Wars story. He pitched it, they declined it so he made some changes and made that monstrosity of a movie.

The rare Charles with the GRAY shirt

Strange enough, how the characters in Rebel Moon interact, and the way it was written remind me of the same impression I had when playing FF12 back in the days.

it's a truly genius film that makes you go "wow i could literally watch this, but better" and watch the 'inspired from' films instead

The person reacting to that character death had me in stitches.. even the death itself was laughable

I hate it when Thanos has more personality than the bad guys. In Rebel Moon, they are only angry and psychotic. No charisma. You can't see yourself following them, nor respecting them. Did women make this movie? There are characters who are shown once then never again.

This movie was originally pitched to George Lucas as a potential sequel to Return of The Jedi, but it got scrapped.

The shock baton stormtrooper with the one line of "TRAITOR" from the force awakens has more personality than anyone in this entire movie

Zach Snyder could literally urinate on the camera for 3 straight hours and his armada of fans would call it oscar worthy cinema.

8:42 All this talk of slow-motion makes me want to watch this video in slow-motion lol

I loved the National Geographic voice over intro we get at the beginning of the movie. Made me think I clicked on the wrong movie.

honestly the way charlie described the plot of this feels like it should have been a game instead of a movie. Maybe not a modern AAA but definitely could see something like this coming out during the 360 era and being a banger RPG

Me and my fiance started watching this the other night and he fell asleep during it lmao. The best thing I can say about it is that the CGI is pretty good

I never thought a synder film could put me to sleep.

I heard someone refer to Rebel Moon as Zack Snyder's : We Have Star Wars at Home.

2 days in a row of Charlie not wearing a white or black T- shirt is utter history

Rebel Moon would’ve been an hour long if it weren’t for all the slow-mo scenes lmao

Waited to watch this, thought it would scratch the itch for the Red rising series in production hell.

“The characters don’t interact with each other.” Exactly, the plot felt like building a party in a RPG and skipping all the cutscenes and dialogue.