04-21-2024, 10:36 PM
seen
It’s so Snyder. Some awesome visual elements but vacuous. Characters so underdeveloped that they must explain themselves. So much gratuitous slo mo. Threadbare plot - baddies attack village. Illage defends itself. The action scenes are good conceptually - particularly the light sword fight on the tilted ship - but there was no emotional investment. I was kinda hoping for a Rogue One ending where everybody dies.
What makes this so epically disappointing is like most all of Snyder’s work, it had such potential. Snyder can put together an eye popping scene but he can’t write a story around it. So much resource and effort to deliver something with less depth than an 80s music video.
I kinda liked the coal fueled ship. That was almost funny. The slo mo wheat harvesting got tiresome after 3 mins.
As my mind wandered away, I started imagining this as a Star Wars film, replacing the dreadnaught with a star destroyer, the Motherworld with the empire, the mechs with at-ats, and so on. That didn’t help. As a Star Wars film, it would’ve brought nothing new to the franchise, being so much of a rip off of it.
It was a good role for Cary Elwes. Glad he still finds work. Doona was underused. I did like the final light sword fight.
We’ll be back here for #3, if Snyder can still find money. This was originally to be a trilogy, then each movie was split into two for a hexology. Snyder wants to release an R rated deluxe cut, as if we wanted to watch that at all.
It’s so Snyder. Some awesome visual elements but vacuous. Characters so underdeveloped that they must explain themselves. So much gratuitous slo mo. Threadbare plot - baddies attack village. Illage defends itself. The action scenes are good conceptually - particularly the light sword fight on the tilted ship - but there was no emotional investment. I was kinda hoping for a Rogue One ending where everybody dies.
What makes this so epically disappointing is like most all of Snyder’s work, it had such potential. Snyder can put together an eye popping scene but he can’t write a story around it. So much resource and effort to deliver something with less depth than an 80s music video.
I kinda liked the coal fueled ship. That was almost funny. The slo mo wheat harvesting got tiresome after 3 mins.
As my mind wandered away, I started imagining this as a Star Wars film, replacing the dreadnaught with a star destroyer, the Motherworld with the empire, the mechs with at-ats, and so on. That didn’t help. As a Star Wars film, it would’ve brought nothing new to the franchise, being so much of a rip off of it.
It was a good role for Cary Elwes. Glad he still finds work. Doona was underused. I did like the final light sword fight.
We’ll be back here for #3, if Snyder can still find money. This was originally to be a trilogy, then each movie was split into two for a hexology. Snyder wants to release an R rated deluxe cut, as if we wanted to watch that at all.
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