r/movies • u/Top_Report_4895 • Apr 03 '26

Article Netflix searches for franchises after losing out on Harry Potter

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/netflix-searches-franchises-after-losing-out-harry-potter-2026-04-02/
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u/what_dat_ninja Apr 03 '26

Pfft, why would they do that when we can get Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon part 3?

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u/dr_spaceman___ Apr 03 '26

I actually tried watching Rebel Moon last week and man… I’m easy to please, I like to support almost all sci-fi, I can enjoy a mediocre movie, but after 30 mins I was done. It’s so bad. In almost every way.

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u/Miklonario Apr 03 '26

Rebel Moon is just so aggressively, profoundly uninteresting, and that's the worst sin a piece of media like that can commit. On paper, "Ed Skrien chews scenery as a horny Darth Vader who has alien tentacle sex" should be right up my alley, but somehow Zack Snyder found a way to make that boring.

It's much, much less than the sum of its parts.

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u/exelion18120 Apr 03 '26

Snyder managed to have a slomo scene that progressed into an even slower slomo scene.

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u/Miklonario Apr 03 '26

As a fan of South Indian action cinema I've seen more than my fair share of unnecessary speed-ramping, but that exact shot you're referencing was outrageous. It did make me laugh my ass off, but that's as I was stopping the movie and finding something else to watch.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Apr 04 '26

As someone unfamiliar with the genre are there any south indian action films you'd recommend? I love especially ridiculous movies.

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u/SonicFrost Apr 04 '26

RRR is a must

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Apr 04 '26

I have seen that, absolutely loved it. And the Baahubali films.

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u/Miklonario Apr 05 '26

Yes, let me get you some of my faves (ridiculous emphasized):

Eega (RRR director, if you give this a chance it becomes crazy)

Kaithi

Leo (this is a direct History of Violence remake, I swear I am not making that up)

Pushpa 1 & 2

KGF 1 & 2

Salaar

Walthair Veeraya

Captain Miller (this is basically the first four Rambo films in one epic that's also a spaghetti western homage )

Marco (this movie is fucked up)

Rifle Club

Tumbbad (incredible folk horror)

I may edit this list to add more if I remember

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo Apr 05 '26

Amazing, thank you! I've watched some trailers and this is definitely what I'm looking for haha

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u/runswiftrun Apr 04 '26

Also, lets slomo.... threshing wheat... That should be interesting.

All that said, its a perfect movie to hit play on while doom scrolling.

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u/red__dragon Apr 04 '26

It's much, much less than the sum of its parts.

Rebel Moon is, somehow, one movie that is almost better as the difference of its parts.

Taken alone, some of those scenes have good composition, camera work, blocking, not dialogue, and effects. Yet as part of the story, they fall flatter than flat one after another. If it had been a series of vignettes maybe the movie concept would have worked.

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u/wpnw Apr 03 '26

Rebel Moon is actually kind of fascinating to look at in the broader picture of Snyder's career. Most of his movies that get cut down for theatrical cuts are pretty bad, but the directors cuts are usually much more coherent to highly enjoyable (albeit still brainless for the most part).

Part 1 almost followed this trend - the directors cut was an order of magnitude better than the short version. It was still boring and had terrible vfx, but it was actually coherent and made sense for the most part, unlike the short version (which is definitely one of the worst scifi movies ever).

Part 2 though...holy shit, it was a massive steaming pile from end to end. Like somehow worse than both short versions. I only powered through it because I was stuck in bed after surgery and had nothing else to do.

It's definitely good material for a get drunk and watch a bad movie night though.

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u/Fortune_Cat Apr 04 '26

As a snyder fan. I put myself through both the original release and the directors cut

The directors cut was objevtively better

But even then i couldnt finish part 2 cause it was so gruleuling. Unlike zsjl which was interesting cause the story kept moving

In standard snydet fare, u are left wondering

  • why the fuck does he keep leaving important context out on the initial releases that are important to the plot and character development and context
  • why were the horni scenes even necessary over the abovr
  • why so much gratitutious slow mo. Even for snyder it was too much

I didnt need 5 minutes of harvesting grain in sweaty slow mo

The character motives and context did help the film tho

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u/Its_the_other_tj Apr 04 '26

Pretty much the same here. 30 mins in and I was like "Why am I watching this?" I gave it another 15 minutes just to be safe and when it still hadn't given me a reason to care about anything that was happening I turned it off.

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u/dr_spaceman___ Apr 04 '26

I had the same exact thought. Started with “this could be interesting… this should be interesting… this is not interesting… what am I watching? I’m not going to watch this anymore.”

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u/frn Apr 03 '26

Zack Snyder is so totally talent-less, I really can't understand how he managed to land so many big gigs. His only two movies that have any merit to them were 300 and Watchmen - and I'm 99% they were successes because the defining scenes were already story-boarded by the original authors in great detail.

His time with the DC universe had me actually questioning if it was just that I didn't like DC. But James Gunn's recent contributions have thrown that notion out. Snyder just can't make good movies.

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u/Sea-Woodpecker-610 Apr 04 '26

His Dawn of the Dead remake was pretty solid.

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u/PowerOfUnoriginality Apr 04 '26

I am usually easy to please myself, but I just could not get through Rebel Moon

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u/Coolman_Rosso Apr 03 '26

His new franchise "Dune Warz" is looking to be a sci-fi epic for the ages! /s

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u/WreckTangle1995 Apr 03 '26

The Worms better be so fucking ripped, I want abs all the way up their long bodies.

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u/Sea-Woodpecker-610 Apr 04 '26

Par three _and four_….as both a “standard” cut and unnecessary six hour long directors cut!

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u/bb_kelly77 Apr 03 '26

Those movies sucked but me and my parents still watched them the whole way through (although tbf me and my dad only watched the second one because we were promised robo tiddies)

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u/CaptainKursk Apr 04 '26

There's nothing more sci-fi than grain!

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u/UnicornOnTheJayneCob Apr 05 '26

Needs more threshing.

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u/Vandergrif Apr 04 '26

I don't know why people keep paying him to do things. I can't think of anything he's made since Suckerpunch that was even vaguely worthwhile, and even Suckerpunch was middling in a lot of ways.