Rebel Moon
While it never seemed likely that even the “real” versions of the films, director Zack Snyder’s cuts of Rebel Moon Parts 1 and 2 would have the originals’ points of view, they seem to be almost completely ignored.
Both halves of the overall 6.5-hour Director’s Cut debuted Friday. THE WAY of Netflix The job of the lists is that a new show or movie will then be written the next day in a “reset” at 9am. ET. No film entered the US list on Saturday. Neither has now made it on Sunday, although the balance is changing.
Third party evidence suggests that at least in global level the Rebel Moon Part 2 cut is the #5 movie overall global top 10 list. But I’m extremely confused about this since this is Part 2, not Part 1, which isn’t listed at all. How is that even possible? And yes, the two parts are listed as separate on Netflix, not combined, even though they were released on the same day.
As I noted earlier, both films scored a bit higher than their original counterparts in terms of reviews, but when you look at the numbers, you might understand why it’s not really charting. Director’s Cut Part 1 has 7 critic reviews and 250 audience reviews, when the original had 182 critic reviews and 10,000 audience ratings. Part 2 has similar proportions.
Rebel Moon
I’m not trying to bash Snyder specifically here, but rather Netflix for this idea of trying to recreate the Snyder Cut frenzy we saw with Justice League where this time I felt So It’s disingenuous that Netflix was allegedly trying to put some arbitrary PG-13 restriction on a cut while allowing him to film and make an entirely separate R-rated cut for later. Now, the R-rated cut is better (somewhat better, anyway) and only a fraction of the original viewers watch it, it seems. These are probably Rebel Moon’s most die-hard fans already or one of the seven reviewers (I’m one of the seven reviewers).
This is almost certainly the last we’ll see of Snyder’s Rebel Moon universe in live-action form. He talked about big plans for six movies and a AAA video game, but none of that seems likely right now. Maybe he could do something in cartoons or comics, but that didn’t go well for him or Netflix, and I really blame Netflix for giving him carte blanche and trying to orchestrate this four-part movie without censorship. I cut nonsense.
I’ll keep an eye on the chart to see if it shows up, but given these numbers so far, I have my doubts it ever will.
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