Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-20 (Saturday) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:28:46 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 18:28:47 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="41acae05925950650f15b6c908292bfd"; logging-data="425266"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX191n/nE4yxgD3GYmCVxVoShQnbvh1x0Ho4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fu3NWscOfc/Xp4CHZOuIhrzYjzE= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3563 Ian J. Ball wrote: >On 4/21/24 8:44 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >>Rebel Moon (Netflix) parts 1 and 2.  To recap in the first half an evil >>galactic empire is waging war in the stars.  They land on a planet, >>bringing a droid with them of course, and start causing trouble with >>farmers.  One of the farmers leaves her village to get help from an >>alliance of rebels.  First, she makes a stop at a nearby cantina where >>she hires a solo smuggler to fly her off world to recruit fighters >>including one person who wields a saber made of light.  There is new >>hope because the good guys win at the end.  There's even an awards >>ceremony where the newly recruited heroes get prizes, but that takes >>place in part two. >>In the second half the Empire Strikes back against the alliance of >>rebels.  A new plot point has the evil henchman tasked with finding one >>of the rebels who happens to be the (adopted) child of one of the >>villains.  Perhaps if they can find this child, they can be turned to >>the evil side?  Anyway, they show up at the rebel's moon and along with >>their imperial walking machines launch an attack.  The Battle of in-door >>is what you could say about one of the fights that takes place inside a >>building.  Anyway, the rebel who has a saber made of light fights bad >>guys leading to someone having a limb cut off during the fight.  The >>alliance of rebels organizes the people that live on the moon into a >>fighting force capable of going up against a technologically more >>advanced galactic empire.  It's a trap!  Is what you will say at one >>point watching the sequel.  But I did not expect to see an epic battle >>between the hero and villain using their sabers made of lights in the >>villain's headquarters during an attack by the alliance of rebels as the >>headquarters falls apart around them.  Speaking of the alliance of >>rebel's attack, it was really cool how some of them piloted single seat >>attack ships and the camera would zoom in on their face as they talked >>to each other during the space dog fight.  Overall, I have to say this >>was probably the most original sci-fi series ever, and unlike any other >>sci-fi movie ever conceived of with their alien filled cantinas, droids, >>solo smugglers, alliance of rebels, imperial walking machines, and >>wielders of sabers made of light, I just don't know where Snyder gets >>his ideas! >OMG - please tell me you are joking about all of this!! Oh, Ian, Ian Ian What Arthur wrote here in followup was excellent, far better than the movie's script.