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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-20 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 09:33:19 -0700
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On 4/21/2024 9:28 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> 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.
> 
Well darn, here I'd thought I found a new SW story to watch...