Rebel Moon

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Comic book tie-ins for Rebel Moon are coming out in January next year.









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Part One: A Child of Fire is coming out next month, here is the trailer:

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Part One - A Child of Fire is now going to be released a day earlier than planned: December 21st.

Netflix has really been pushing on the marketing and merchandise on Rebel Moon. I don't think I've seen this investment on an original property since Stranger Things. Here's hoping Part One kicks off well and lives up to the hype.

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Part One: A Child of Fire got negative reviews from critics, and many couldn't help but reveal they have a petty axe to grind by taking personal jabs. You know, the usual personal snide remarks at Snyder and the "sNyDeR cUlTisTs". Unprofessional and childish drivel that comes across as they're less interested in reviewing the film itself and more invested in projecting villainous behaviour onto others. Quite frankly, anyone who says people should be punched in the face for making a movie, like that POS Editor-in-chief at Rotten Tomatoes once said about BvS, doesn't get to cry about fandom "toxicity".

Rotten Tomatoes did get under heavy scrutiny months ago for manipulating reviews (big surprise  ), but even if I disregard that, I'm looking forward to seeing Part One in a few days and judging it for myself. I'll talk about what I liked and didn't like.

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I watched Part One: A Child of Fire.

It's fine. Not the greatest space fantasy ever made and the plot is derivative at times, but it's still a decent viewing experience for two hours and it has some surprising plot twists. It's your usual against-all-odds story about a small team of warriors fighting back against dictators who terrorised and threatened to pillage a small farming world. Aside from one or two shots, it's a beautifully shot film with top-notch CGI. I appreciate the film doesn't go for cheap laughs and plays it earnestly like most films nowadays.

Kora is the most important character in this film, as we see her as a quiet farmer with a troubled past who was once a soldier for the Imperium. After Atticus Noble's presence was more than felt, the guilt and fear for her fellow farmers brought her on a quest to fight back. Sofia Boutella does a fine job in the role and the action choreography on her part is well done.

Although I don't think the film is anywhere near as bad as the critics make it out to be, there are legitimate criticisms for Part One. The biggest issue is like many other Snyder films, this film was truncated as a theatrical cut of sorts, and the full director's cut that tells the complete narrative is coming next year after Part Two: The Scargiver. This means some characters like Nemesis are thrown into the film just for the sake of making up the numbers, leaving their arc very forced and unexplored. This cut relies on exposition to introduce characters like General Titus and Tarak, which is fine and all, but other characters like Jimmy the robot are made to advertise the next film. We'll see how the director's cut turns out to be superior, like Watchmen and BvS.

Like I said, it's fine. Some parts could've been better, some parts are exceptionally well done.

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I rewatched Part One. It flows better than my first time viewing, but it's very heavy on exposition. I got a better sense that Gunnar's farming interests indirectly had a hand in Veldt getting in trouble with Atticus Noble and co, and the plot ties up together with economic conflict as well as the war conflict between the insurgents led by the Bloodaxes and the Imperium. I hope the director's cut adds more meat to the story and doesn't simply rely on R-rated gore for the sake of it.

A teaser trailer for Part Two - The Scargiver has been released.

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I saw Part Two - The Scargiver last week. It's just fine, the first hour is really about everyone preparing for war at the farm in Veldt before Noble returns to wreck havoc throughout the second half. The highlights of the film were the scenes of the main characters were having a last supper-type of moment sharing their tragic stories caused by the Imperium and some of the sacrifices deep in the second half. The film is pretty choppy though; Jimmy once again is very short-changed as a character. Probably the most out of all of them.

The sooner these director's cuts come out, the better. As it stands now, I think I prefer the ArmyVerse better. The writing was tighter, the editing was smoother and everything simply flowed better. So far, Netflix appears to be very happy with the strategy they enforced with the views that Rebel Moon is getting so far, but you still prefer to see the complete version of a film instead of a choppy one. It sucks that Snyder has this reputation of being THE director's cut director thanks to studio politics.

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I watched the Director's Cuts for both Rebel Moon films.

Part One DC showed significant backstory to the Aris character, who was a soldier who betrayed the Motherworld and secretly joined the Veldt farmers to fight the Noble and co, to the point where was yet another victim to Noble's brutality. It is much more violent and enchances how odious Atticus Noble is, and Ed Skrien did a great job conveying such malice.

Part Two DC had more scenes of Jimmy, I enjoyed the takedown of those alien mercenaries spying on the farmers preparing for war on Veldt. Some scenes made me go WTF though because it seems it's setting up for more story in another sequel.

I appreciate Rebel Moon as is, but I still prefer the ArmyVerse films.