Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Gets An Amish Paradise Music Video
Recently, Zack Snyder launched Rebel Moon: Part 2 – The Scargiver on Netflix, and the movie left many critics downright perplexed about what the veteran director was trying to do. His aesthetic sensibilities are all over the place in this film, especially when it comes to the portrayal of the different people populating a movie that is far, far away from the quality of the Star Wars formula Snyder clearly hoped to copy. The look of this movie is so strange that it inspired us to create our own parody homage: Zack Snyder’s “Amish Paradise.”
“Amish Paradise” was a song released by musical legend Weird Al in 1996 as a parody of rapper Coolio’s hit “Gangsta’s Paradise.”
For the most part, critics savaged the new Rebel Moon for a wide variety of reasons (more on this soon). In his review featured on Rotten Tomatoes, GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT’s Josh Tyler declared that the film “It’s as if Zack Snyder found B-roll from Weird Al’s Amish Paradise video in a dusty old 90s archive and decided it was a perfect fit for his new sci-fi movie.” Truer words were never spoken, and while sci-fi doesn’t have a singular aesthetic, it’s bizarre to see so many characters in a futuristic galaxy looking like extra raggedy versions of the Amish characters that pop up from time to time on Letterkenny.
Unfortunately, this parody of Zack Snyder’s sequel may be the best thing that comes from the sci-fi stinker.
Zack Snyder’s bizarre aesthetic choices inspired the creation of this “Amish Paradise” parody video. If you’re too young to remember, the original “Amish Paradise” was a song released by musical legend Weird Al in 1996 as a parody of Coolio’s hit “Gangsta’s Paradise.” The popular parody caused a minor controversy back in the day, with Coolio complaining that he didn’t explicitly give permission to parody the song, though he later admitted in 2014 that he found Weird Al’s song to be very funny and that it was “stupid” to complain about it in the ‘90s.
Unfortunately, this parody of Zack Snyder’s sequel may be the best thing that comes from the sci-fi stinker. Right now, the film has a staggeringly low 15 percent critical score on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics complaining that the new film does nothing to fix the problems of the first one (which currently has an equally disappointing critical score of 21 percent). Part of the critical consensus of the sequel is that it compounds many of the problems presented by the first film while delivering the kind of space opera so boring you’ll keep checking your watch until the credits roll.
While we really wanted to like Zack Snyder’s latest film, the Rebel Moon sequel was equally disappointing to us here at GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT. We have plenty of goodwill for the man who made such iconic superhero films as Watchmen and Man of Steel, but as noted in the review, “the director who made those movies is long gone.” Instead, he’s become something especially tragic: “a joke without a punchline.”
While we had fun making the music video, it gives us no pleasure to report that Zack Snyder’s attempt to create his own Star Wars-style franchise has failed so spectacularly.
In case you were curious, audiences were a bit kinder to Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon sequel, but only to a certain point. Right now, the movie has an audience score of 52 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, meaning audiences generally liked the film more than the critics but that the majority of them still found it “rotten.” It’s also worth considering that many of the higher audience scores came from Zack Snyder superfans who think the director can do no wrong (to be fair, if your own childhood was spent eating lead chips like these guys, you’d probably join them in thinking Batman v. Superman was a great film).
While we had fun making the music video, it gives us no pleasure to report that Zack Snyder’s attempt to create his own Star Wars-style franchise has failed so spectacularly. At a time when Star Wars has more hits than misses, this would have been the perfect time to get an entertaining alternative to dreck like the Sequel Trilogy. Unfortunately, the only way to be entertained by Rebel Moon: Part Two is to gather your friends together and spend an evening mocking its endless shortcomings in the style of our friends at Red Letter Media.
