{"id":601214,"date":"2023-12-15T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-knocks-off-star-wars-and-a-dozen-other-sources\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:00:00","slug":"watch-knocks-off-star-wars-and-a-dozen-other-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-knocks-off-star-wars-and-a-dozen-other-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Knocks Off &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; and a Dozen Other Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf08000db8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf08000db8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-knocks-off-star-wars-and-a-dozen-other-sources\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Knocks_Off_%E2%80%98Star_Wars_and_a_Dozen_Other_Sources%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Knocks Off &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; and a Dozen Other Sources&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-knocks-off-star-wars-and-a-dozen-other-sources\/#%E2%80%9CKnocks_Off_%E2%80%98Star_Wars_and_a_Dozen_Other_Sources%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Knocks Off &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; and a Dozen Other Sources&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Knocks_Off_%E2%80%98Star_Wars_and_a_Dozen_Other_Sources%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Knocks Off &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; and a Dozen Other Sources&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CKnocks_Off_%E2%80%98Star_Wars_and_a_Dozen_Other_Sources%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Knocks Off &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; and a Dozen Other Sources&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Zack Snyder is a pop-fantasy filmmaker who now has a fanboy cult around him. In the two decades since he made his feature directorial debut with the grainy unsettling 2004 reboot of \u201cDawn of the Dead,\u201d Snyder\u2019s flamboyant fusion of visual wizardry, technological fixation, and kick-ass spirit has made him, at least in some quarters (read: the Comic-Con and video-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> demo), a creative hero for the Age of Escapism. Fans who grew up feasting on such Snyder extravaganzas as \u201c300,\u201d \u201cWatchmen,\u201d and \u201cSucker Punch\u201d then saw his much-ballyhooed entr\u00e9e into the DC comic-book sphere marked by ambitious but maligned misfires. Yet in 2021, the release of \u201cZack Snyder\u2019s Justice League\u201d \u00ad\u00ad\u2014 his uncut and quite extraordinary version of the movie that Warner Bros. had t<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed Joss Whedon to mangle into an \u201caudience-friendly\u201d product \u2014 was a vindication that also marked a new peak of reverence for the Snyder cult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Despite cries for other \u201cSnyder cuts,\u201d Warner Bros. wasn\u2019t about to let a big-money maverick like Snyder back into the vaults. But Netflix, a studio streamer that never met a director it couldn\u2019t throw a zillion dollars at, along with the words \u201cPlease let the film run on as long as you\u2019d like,\u201d rolled out the red carpet for Snyder to make \u201cRebel Moon,\u201d a four-and-a-half-hour interplanetary sci-fi action spectacular that\u2019s being released in two parts. \u201cRebel Moon \u2014 Part One: A Child of Fire\u201d will be given a limited theatrical run starting Dec. 15, before it drops on Netflix one week later. \u201cRebel Moon \u2014 Part Two: The Scargiver\u201d is set to be released on April 19, 2024. (And \u2014 surprise! \u2014 longer R-rated versions of both films will be available to stream on Netflix at a later date.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cRebel Moon\u201d isn\u2019t based on anything; it\u2019s a complete original. Yet in another sense it\u2019s based on about twelve things. It\u2019s \u201cStars Wars\u201d meets \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d meets \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d meets \u201cBlack Panther,\u201d all smelted down and reduced to a highly edible sauce of overfamiliar tropes, minus any semblance of a sense of humor. <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movies<\/a> this derivative, in my view, are inherently uncool, but you could argue that what\u2019s <em>almost<\/em> cool about \u201cRebel Moon\u201d is that it\u2019s so unabashedly a gloss on <em>only<\/em> the 1977 \u201cStar Wars.\u201d It\u2019s got a very basic rebels-vs.-the-evil-empire plot, with rubber-faced creatures and a noble stoked-with-moxie Zen fighter heroine, Kora (Sofia Boutella), who\u2019s like Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia all rolled into one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The story begins on Veldt, a moon of what looks like a fusion of Jupiter and Saturn (the planet looms in the background like a weirdly artificial piece of wallpaper), where Kora is part of a hearty community of medieval farmers who live in the shadow of the Motherworld. The Motherworld\u2019s king and queen have been assassinated and replaced by vicious autocrats, who want to crush the pocket of insurgents known as the Bloodaxes. The good farmers of Veldt have sold some of their grain to the Bloodaxes, and early on they\u2019re invaded by a Motherworld brigade led by Atticus Noble, an evil admiral who specializes in face-to-face terrorism. The British actor Ed Skrein, in his fascist-with-bangs haircut, is the best thing in the movie. He\u2019s like Rami Malek playing Jim Carrey as Darth Vader as a Nazi out of \u201cCabaret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Kora has a thorny and rather turgid backstory (after her family was killed, she was adopted as a daughter by the Motherworld\u2019s ominous overseer). But now, as a resident of Veldt, it\u2019s up to her to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> to distant planets \u2014 a great many of them \u2014 to gather up\u2026a fellowship of rebel fighters! The movie is episodic in the extreme. Here\u2019s another planet, here\u2019s another Colorful Character to recruit for the team, here\u2019s another slow-mo interlude of ultraviolent combat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Snyder, who shot the film himself, stages it on an impressively lavish scale (all the CGI sprawl a budget of $166 million can buy), and a handful of the episodes are fun, like one where the noble hunk Tarak (Staz Nair) frees himself from indentured servitude by harnassing a giant blackbird who\u2019s like a Ray Harryhausen creature. Sofia Boutella, as Kora, holds the film together with her dour ferocity, and Djimon Hounsou (as the fallen but still noble <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Titus), Charlie Hunnam (as the mercenary starship pilot Kai), and Anthony Hopkins (as the voice of Jimmy the droid, who\u2019s like C-3PO with more acting talent) make their presence felt. Yet \u201cRebel Moon,\u201d while eminently watchable, is a movie built so entirely out of spare parts that it may, in the end, be for Snyder cultists only.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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