Rebel Moon writer Kurt Johnstad weighs in on Zack Snyder’s newest film getting pelted with bad reviews.

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      I’d say the, ahem, borrowings from The Seven Samurai were quite blatant, via the rightfully forgotten Battle Beyond the Stars

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        Battle Byond the Stars was a classic! A pure fever dream of scifi kitch… this, the dirty dozen, and the price is right were my childhood stay home from school sick daytime tv memories.

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          This line is priceless:

          Remember Lobo? He disobeyed orders, and now Sador’s wearing his left foot

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    I liked it.
    It’s not a good movie, but it was entertaining. The action was fun. A bit too much slow mo.
    I thought it could have been better as a show, but I wouldn’t trust Netflix with it

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    In my career of 20 years doing this, reviews have never equated to performance. A movie will either perform or it won’t. People will either love it and be connected to it, and I think what this movie has is an emotional drive and a core and characters that are vulnerable. And of course, there’s sequence and action and visual — it’s a magnificent looking film. But I think that at the core of it, it’s got emotion. There’s an emotional engine and a currency that runs through the film that I think works, so I’d invite people to check it out.

    Well, it is nice that he believes in Rebel Moon.

    I think it was a pretty weak film but not Batman vs Superman level of bad. Definitely deserves criticism for its poor story, bad dialogue, awful special effects, non-existent editing, and general lack of anything resembling excitement or a soul. Should it be critically panned and/or ridiculed? Absolutely.

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    I always welcome more sci-fi, but Rebel Moon (Part One, at least) was propped up by little more than Boutella’s cleavage-in-slow motion, IMHO.

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    Ragtag group of individuals protect defenceless town from interlopers is one of the most generic premises imaginable, how much writing was really needed. The most recent sci-fi specific version was during The Mandalorian and it was still generic there too.

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      And while generic, it was still better done than the 45 minutes of Rebel Moon I managed to sit through.