Maybe Noble the Nazi cosplayer is actually the good guy in this? Talk about subverting expectations lol...
Guys, guys... Can't we all just agree to stop accusing those blankets and get along?
Off topic...the irony of that line
nice one George.
OK, I came across the trailer for RM Part 2. It ends with Ed Skrein's and Sofia Boutella's characters meeting in what looks like a parlay, and Skrein asks "What are we hoping to accomplish here?" She replies "Same thing as the last time we met - to kill you". I also came across an EW article where Snyder explains why he decided to resurrect Skrein's character:
For Snyder, it was logical to carry over the same main villain from the first half of Rebel Moon to the second, citing “the mechanics of having the Dreadnought being on the edge of the Motherworld’s domain. That would mean they would have to go all the way back and get another guy.”
Logical??? WTF?? This is a universe that HE created, and his reason for resurrecting a villain is that it would take the ship too long to go all the way back to its home planet to get another captain? The Imperium couldn't, oh I don't know, give his 2nd in command a field promotion, or reassign their next best captain from a closer ship and have him rendez-vous with the Dreadnaught? I'm assuming there's more than one of those things out there, or is that thing Zack's Death Star?
More from that same article:
Even when Rebel Moon was structured as a single movie, before the Snyders decided to split it in two, the director says there still would have been a Kora/Noble showdown at the halfway point before he came back for the ultimate climax. “It’s a prize fight concept,” Snyder says. “There will be a rematch!”
I guess this is an example of the deep meaning in Snyder's work that Alatar has been trying to convey to us.
OK, I came across the trailer for RM Part 2. It ends with Ed Skrein's and Sofia Boutella's characters meeting in what looks like a parlay, and Skrein asks "What are we hoping to accomplish here?" She replies "Same thing as the last time we met - to kill you". I also came across an EW article where Snyder explains why he decided to resurrect Skrein's character:
For Snyder, it was logical to carry over the same main villain from the first half of Rebel Moon to the second, citing “the mechanics of having the Dreadnought being on the edge of the Motherworld’s domain. That would mean they would have to go all the way back and get another guy.”
Logical??? WTF?? This is a universe that HE created, and his reason for resurrecting a villain is that it would take the ship too long to go all the way back to its home planet to get another captain? The Imperium couldn't, oh I don't know, give his 2nd in command a field promotion, or reassign their next best captain from a closer ship and have him rendez-vous with the Dreadnaught? I'm assuming there's more than one of those things out there, or is that thing Zack's Death Star?
More from that same article:
Even when Rebel Moon was structured as a single movie, before the Snyders decided to split it in two, the director says there still would have been a Kora/Noble showdown at the halfway point before he came back for the ultimate climax. “It’s a prize fight concept,” Snyder says. “There will be a rematch!”
I guess this is an example of the deep meaning in Snyder's work that Alatar has been trying to convey to us.
It's not that the concept of and mechanism for Noble's resurrection were lame but rather the overall execution. Up until that point Snyder didn't give us any indication that the Imperium'e elite had any special abilities (beyond combat training) or had any special tech implants. Noble's indulgences with his pet squid came across as nothing more than a fetish, so without proper foreshadowing it does indeed come across as a cheat and rather lame that he's miraculously resuscitated. Perhaps the lack of foreshadowing is due to the decision to split the movie in two and then further truncate Part 1 with this PG-13 cut? Only time will tell but when you have to refer to the novelization for the answer it's evident that Zack didn't do a good job of presenting it on screen in this version. This project seems it would have been better as a limited series rather than 2 feature films, but perhaps ZS's auteur ego wouldn't allow him to admit that.
