Kritikerne har været ret hårde ved Rebel Moon, Zack Snyders seneste storfilm på Netflix, men det har hele tiden forholdt sig sådan, at der er enormt mange der faktisk så den ved udgangen af 2023.
Derfor betragtes den, tilsyneladende, som en slags succes, og Snyder selv lader til at være ret glad for publikummets modtagelse af filmen. For nylig dukkede han frem på The Joe Rogan Experience og afslørede at over 160 millioner har set filmen:
"You think about Netflix, for instance, where you push a button. Rebel Moon, right? Say right now it's almost at 90 million views, right? 80 or 90 million accounts turned it on, give or take. They assume two viewers per screening, right? That's the kind of math. So you think if that movie was in the theater as a distribution model, that's like 160,000,000 people supposedly watching based on that math. 160,000,000 people at $10 a ticket would be...what is that math? I don't know. 160,000,000 times ten. That's 1.6 billion. So more people probably saw Rebel Moon than saw Barbie in the theater, right?"
Regnestykket er 90 millioner views, og at der gennemsnitligt er flere i lokalet når filmen sættes på, som så kan omsættes til en individuel billetpris, hvis altså filmen landede i biograferne.
"That's how crazy Netflix is. That's the distribution model that they've set up. I was at this thing the other day, and we were talking about Rebel Moon 2. And they were like, 'Well, talk about Rebel Moon, the first one.' I'm like, 'No, go f****ing watch it. I know you have it at your house.' It's not like a theater situation. You could turn it on your phone right now and watch it right here if you wanted. That's how crazy it is. This model, this machine they've built, is really something else. It's really crazy if you think about it."