Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-20 (Saturday)

On 4/21/2024 8:18 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
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What did you watch?

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 I watched:
 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!