Zack Snyder "accept that you're a cinematographer and stop trying to be a writer/director as well" Challenge
Rebel Moon clearly needed to be a TV series with each of the episodes introducing a new character/scenario, so that there was time to do all the necessary worldbuilding and characterisation properly. The fact that Netflix didn't care about that is concerning.
Like, you want to do 'Seven Samurai' in space? Fine.
But there's a way to do that without it being just an underdeveloped hotchpotch of unrelated action scenes featuring cool-looking characters we know nothing about. Then just hurriedly shoehorning in some exposition and moving on as if having the characters actually interact with each other isn't integral to caring about them.
Honestly, it depresses me so much how normalised it's become for the movie industry to just churn out bigger and bigger blockbusters which are so CGI heavy you can taste it at the expense of everything else that makes a movie, you know, good. And this mindset that, so long as it looks stunning and the fight scenes are 'epic', then it doesn't matter if the story is derivative, predictable and/or poorly-paced and has stilted boring dialogue, is really damaging the craft.
The acting and costumes and sets all typically do their best to keep everything afloat, but if the script is convoluted or just a series of badly-hidden tropes, then that's what comes through.
My biggest fear is that we as an audience are gradually forgetting what a well-crafted movie actually looks like, and just settling for mind-numbing spectacle, because that's all we're being given.
I can only conclude that Zach Snyder finally got around to watching Krull and decided the reason it underperformed at the box office is because it didn't have enough lightsabres.
It's only fitting that we release a two part video about the making of parts one and two of Rebel Moon. Part one here (of the video, not the movie, that's on @netflix).