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Date of upload: Apr 20, 2024 ^^
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My question is, why are we supposed to wait for the directors cut EVERY single time? You don’t see other directors tripping over themselves during interviews, promising how awesome the directors cut will be if we wait. Can we really blame Warner Bros or Netflix for every time? Whatever his next film will be, I’m sure it’ll release to iffy reviews, and then he’ll explain to us how it wasn’t his true vision. Again. And that we need to wait for the R-rated Directors cut. Again. Loved the video by the way. It gave a lot of context to the situation.
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It amazes me how in four hours both movies fail to make you care about any of the characters. People die and the music makes you know you should be sad, but you never really knew these people. Their motives are all the same, "the empire came and killed all my people" and that's it. No one has a scene where you think "please, don't let this character die". The closest thing is the scene where they give them their flags (or whatever they are) and you see them doing something other than fighting or preparing to fight, but even in that scene the girl gives us a quick description of each character instead of the movie showing us they're like that. We don't even see them bonding. That scene shows us that they kinda bonded inbetween movies.
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I think a big problem with Snyder is that, instead of letting certain projects go when it’s clear things aren’t working, he doubles down on them until he thinks the audience will get his vision for it.
With Sucker Punch, a major passion project, it bombed at the box office and with critics, yet he’s still saying he can find a way to make a director’s cut that will make the movie work.
And with these two movies, LucasFilm straight-up told him this idea wouldn’t work, but he doubled down and pushed it to NetFlix because of how passionate he was for it. And now that these movies are tanking critically, he’s going on a “wait for the longer, R-Rated director’s cut” screed, since THAT’LL clearly work, right?
Honestly, I think he got lucky with the whole “Snyder Cut of Justice League” thing. With projects like Sucker Punch and this, though, he needs to know when to let it go.
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Okay, but let's be clear about this. Netflix knows what Snyder's vision is and always has. They never had an issue with his "living dead in Vegas" movie, which was R and fairly extreme. I'm sure they knew he wanted something just as hyperactive for Rebel Moon. That has to mean this is basically a "work" to generate the fan loyalty that coalesced around #SnyderCut. But where that was based on conditions being imposed upon him, this is he and Netflix colluding to create false victimhood and get the same result. They have chosen to release two movies they know are a mess to promote a "Director's Cut" from the sidelines, and that is incredibly disrespectful of the audience. The faint whiff of horse manure is strong on this one.
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As someone who really likes to loves over half of Zack Snyder’s filmography, I can’t say I’m looking forward to the future of his career, especially with Netflix. I absolutely love Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Not to spoil my Snyder ranking, but that movie will be extremely high on that list as one of his strongest pieces of his filmography. However, I think that movie was the worst thing to happen to his career, and Rebel Moon itself and its release strategy is the reason why I think that. Reading and watching a lot of Snyder interviews over the last month for my Snyder deep dive, it’s pretty clear that Netflix and Snyder collaboratively made the decision to this ridiculous release strategy. The Part One and Twos we currently have are about four hours long, and apparently the Director’s Cuts of Rebel Moon are going to be over six hours when combined. But with the versions of Rebel Moon released so far, both parts are somehow underdeveloped and bloated at the same time. The characters, story, and themes are paper thin, but the world building is so needlessly complex that it makes any sense. It’s like Snyder focused on the sides of a meal instead of devoting the majority of his energy on the main course and then figuring out the extras he can add to it to make the meal even better. I think a lot of this boils down the fact that Zack Snyder isn’t a good writer, especially because he brings in people he’s comfortable with to write with him. Because of this, he doesn’t have anyone to actually challenge what he thinks is best for his stories. From his mind to the script to the filming to the editing, there are virtually no question marks or roadblocks to challenge what he wants. That’s a good bit of what I think happened with Sucker Punch, Army of the Dead, and both parts of Rebel Moon. I think Snyder has more respect from some people because he’s an ambiguous filmmaker. But, that’s not what’s happened, which I think is unfortunate.
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I’m a Snyder fan, but it’s becoming harder and harder to defend him. It’s not like Justice League where the movie was taken away from him. He went in knowing he would complete a pg-13 Rebel Moon and accepted that. So, it seems hypocritical to then complain about that. Make the best movie with the limitations you have
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Check out my other Zack Snyder Videos Zack Snyder Films Ranked - https://youtu.be/TMJNNqLI7e0 Dawn of the Dead Review - https://youtu.be/7c0g-VoCP0w 300 Movie Review - https://youtu.be/CNR2r9RR6gc Sucker Punch Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhHlwzRgIR4 Zack Snyder's Justice League Movie Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-8ulQUhJgQ&t=2s Army of the Dead Movie Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPLWxlvlMdQ&t=2s Rebel Moon Part One Movie Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXuIu-ZFUKk&t=2s Rebel Moon Part Two Movie Review - www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC5kXusxwZM
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