#Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver

[olvaheiner]

Rebel Moon - Part Two : The Scargiver (2024)

[firebirdmaximus]

My Best and Worst Films of 2024

So yeah it kind-of a bit late to be posting my best/worst films of 2023 list three months into 2025, well there's a reason for that.

Since for my 2020 list I had managed to cover both theatrical and streaming releases, I had planed on doing the same from then on. Unfortunately due to a combination of procrastination and me finally managing to get a job after donkey's years of searching, I've fallen a bit behind on streaming. But it was starting to get a bit ridiculous so I've decided to say fuck it and post rough versions of my 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 lists with only the theatrical releases so far, and I'll just add the streaming ones on in italic as I try and catch up over the year.

Hopefully I'll have the lists done by the end of the year. Hopefully.

So anyway in 2024, I saw 93 new theatrical releases (which ones - along with any streaming releases - can be found on my Letterboxd page: ‎(letterboxd.com/firebirdmaximus/list/2024-releases/), twenty-three more than the previous year (firebirdmaximus.tumblr.com/post/776951630323204096/the-best-and-worst-films-of-2023).

And once again a note to non-UK viewers, as with previous years, since I’m English and live in England and subsequently watch films at cinemas in England, this list will be going by UK release dates so If you see a film on the list that you swore was from 2023 it was probably not released here until 2024, contrarywise If your surprised that a particular movie from this year is not on the list it might not have been released here til 2025.

If you see a streaming film here on my list and it's not in italics, that means it probably got a limited theatrical release somewhere in my area and that's how I saw it.

Best Films: * Inside Out 2 * The Wild Robot

Runner Up Best Films: * Better Man * Hundreds of Beavers * Monkey Man * Origin * Paddington in Peru * Poor Things * Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver * Robot Dreams * Sleep * Transformers One * Wicked * Your Monster

Honorary Mentions: * American Fiction * Anora * Deadpool & Wolverine * Dune Part Two * Hit Man * Kneecap * Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes * Lisa Frankenstein * Migration * Moana 2 * Mufasa: The Lion King * Sonic the Hedgehog 3 * Spellbound * That Christmas * The Colour Purple * The Holdovers * The Substance

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The Meh: * Challengers * Despicable Me 4 * I.S.S * Kinds of Kindness * The Book of Clarence * The Outrun ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Worst Films: * Dragonkeeper * Drive-Away Dolls * Evil Does Not Exist * Megalopolis * Spaceman * The Radleys (also a terrible adaptation of a book I like; The Radleys by Matt Haig)

[mostlygibberish]

I liked the part with the slow-motion grain harvesting montage.

More of the same shit. The pacing was maybe a little tighter this time, but the story was no more compelling. Everything was blurry as fuck, the slow-motion was ridiculous, there were too many characters with no good reason to care about them, and the writing was simply awful. 

I don't know how I'm supposed to take seriously a movie with situations and character actions completely at odds with its own worldbuilding. The empire has all these spaceships and laser weapons and armoured battle crawlers, but they desperately need this single field of wheat. 

Then a bunch of space-amish, cottage-core farmers (that don't even own a combine harvester) defeat them with the cunning strategy of... digging tunnels and hiding in a barn. The fact that the ambush consisted of popping out of a hole 15 metres in front of a drop ship and firing a rocket into it while every soldier completely failed to react is almost as stupid as the fact that it actually worked. 

Every single time that one dude with the axes charged at the infantry like a viking berserker I expected him to be immediately gunned down. Even the imperial soldiers were just standing completely out in the open. I guess cover isn't a thing in the future, and the effective range of a laser rifle is a stone's throw.

Once again the cliché evil British guy was utterly boring. The addition of a not-lightsaber duel to the mix was simply embarrassing. The movie ended on a note implying the story has only just begun. We're a solid four hours into this mess at this point, and I have to wonder who's asking for more. I'm sure it's on its way regardless.

Once again Sofia Boutella was the best part of the movie by far. She looked so good in short hair and a tank top, with her strong arms on display. Even though her romantic interest was dull as rocks, she was cute in those scenes too. Let's face it, I'm going to keep watching this drivel just for her.

Laughably derivative and painfully mediocre, just like part one.

[laurfilijames]

It's beautiful.

Is anyone else beyond excited for Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver tomorrow?!?

Just me?!

Cool.

[letthefairyinyoufly]

Staz Nair as Tarak Decimus

[kaipanzero]

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)

[lasaraconor]

[addicted-to-michiel]

Michiel with the portrait of Gunnar at the Album and photography book launch party 💙

Source: Rebel Moon 📸

[lulu2992]

I watched Rebel Moon: Part Two – The Scargiver.

The film felt less “awkward” to me than Part One which, although I agree had flaws, I enjoyed and thought was unreasonably criticized. In my opinion, Part Two’s pacing was better, it was more suspenseful, more “epic”, and there were a few rousing moments. That said, it makes sense since A Child of Fire was mostly about recruiting and introducing a team of warriors while this movie is about them actually fighting.

It was already obvious to me that a lot of work had gone into this project, but then watching Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon confirmed this. They spent so much time building this world, its people, cultures, creatures, technologies, languages, etc. It feels like everything and everyone we see on screen was carefully crafted and has a detailed backstory. Also, they built a spaceship and an entire village, dug a river, created a field, organically grew wheat, and had the actors actually harvest it in the film! I think that’s impressive.

Zack Snyder had been building this universe in his mind for years, drew his own storyboards, and even assembled custom camera lenses because he had a very precise idea of what he wanted the movie to look like. It’s heartwarming to see that people (cast and crew) who worked with him defend the project and say how invested, respectful, and passionate the director was. For him and for the many equally creative, talented, and dedicated teams involved, I’m glad the artistic vision they shared at least had a chance to become a reality.

As imperfect (but honestly far from being as bad as people keep saying) as what we’ve seen so far may be, I still believe the saga has a lot of potential. We’ll only be able to properly judge it after seeing the long, R-rated versions of the films anyway (and hopefully a Part Three)...

In the end, though, I realize what I truly care about, more than how the story of Rebel Moon is told, is its universe as a whole, but also the passion of the many people who put their hearts and souls into bringing it to life to such a high level of detail. It exists, and as someone who’s been building many worlds in my own mind since I was a child, that makes me happy.

[gebo4482]

Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver | Official Trailer | Netflix

Dir: Zack Snyder Star: Sofia Boutella / Charlie Hunnam / Anthony Hopkins

[batfleckwayne]

got a ticket to the NYC Rebel Moon Pt. 2 screening + Q&A next week so I need to scream for a moment

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (that was me screaming)

[olvaheiner]

[embraceyourdestiny]

Watching rebel moon part two and milius is so hot

[ratleyland]

This movie is a sci-fi version of Seven Samurai.

It drags in places and takes a while to get going... but as soon as it does, it was very entertaining.

[flilisskywalker]

Kora: Would you still love me if I killed a child?

Gunnar: Yeah.

Kora: Good. Because man do I have a story to tell you.

[letthefairyinyoufly]