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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-20 (Saturday)
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On 4/21/2024 9:33 AM, suzeeq wrote:
> 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...

As I very vaguely recall "Rebel Moon" was originally going to BE a Star 
Wars movie.

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