Ambarukana Subrahmanyam

Rebel Moon - Part Two IS a good movie. Some say never to judge the audience for the failure of the movie, never to undermine the tastes and the intellect of the audience. But allow me to judge the audience for the failure of this series. In the first movie, the audience are not interested about the roots of any war. Wars are fought for resources - agricultural and mineral. They complained why Jack Snyder wasted more than 1/2 hour showing the village council debating, tilling of the land, how a self-sufficient village lives where all contribute by farming, how armies trade food grains for protection. Lately in all the sci-fi films, the world-building doesn't show the roots of any civilization - farming! I appreciated this movie - all the main characters sweat to harvest the yield. "No Sir, we don't want to see that. We want goofy sidekicks, silly robots like R2D2, flowery romance, some background to protagonists for which we can sympathise, in a war about bloody revolution." For the above, we have already Star Wars the first trilogy! (Star Wars 3rd trilogy was made for pure nostalgic purpose. The 2nd trilogy didn't fare well for the same reasons). I stand with Zack Snyder and very much hope to see the next films in this franchise.

Cliched music, cliched action, cliched dialogue, cliched shots, unconvincing and boring love track, no humour, no emotional punch, cliched dog rescue, cliched graphics of hologram style blue displays and the list goes on. It looks like a wannabe TV serial direecting inspired purely by cliched Hollywood espionage movies. What is the use of imitating Hollywood style direction if there is no on par action? Headache! The movie is a disaster BUT this is a must watch because 1. Sheds light on Adarsh society scam and how a highly classified covert unit (TDS) got burned. From recent interviews it was revealed that all great army personnel of that team are now doing sub-par jobs in the army and lot of assets were permanently lost due to this. 2. The character arc of main lead Sidharth Malhotra is fresh and realistic.

The only saving grace of the documentary is the graphics of the alien world's. Of the 30 min of an episode the graphics are less than 10 min. The rest is correlation between here on earth and the alien world's. More graphical content of the same quality would have been more entertaining as well as informative. However it was refreshing to see that life on alien world's need not be similar to earth but would be adaptive & evolved to its own nature. I learnt new things about symbiosis of honey, insects that procreate only on summer solstice etc. However I was disappointed to see how they showed that an advanced civilization would choose to exist as only as consciousness or brain matter, what is life without 'experience' with the help of organs? the ratio between (moon) satellite and the earth is similar to that of the earth and the sun. This should be taken as a base principal, although not scientifically proven yet. There awas no mention of this in the documentary as satellite would be a prerequisite for life on a planet.

Loved this Znack Snyder vission of Star Wars. What I loved is the movie begins with tilling and farming. Every sci-fi movie even the novels forget farming, the reason of sustenance. Yong authors and creators (from US) have moved far from nature and farming. There are only urban authors who are raised in concrete jungles. The quintessential reason to 'rebel' from times immemorial is how armies plundered the self-sustaining villages in the name of king for their wars. The village head deaftly bargained downplaying the fertile fields. This reminded me how the British Raj plundered the fertile yield and the people from India for the war efforts. Also loved a tidbit about how to honour the yeild and gods - by (progeny) making children. The magic of the princess has us waiting for the sequel.