Rebel Moon final trailer

[KorvinStarmast]

The problem is that if you just blindly mash movies up you get a story that doesn't make any sense. It's possible to come up with situations where a massively powerful galactic empire could want the resources of a poor-as-dirt farming village badly enough to send a cruiser squadron over to extort it, but you have to actually put in the work and it doesn't sounds as though the writers on this film did.

This makes sense to me.

So what if Rebel Moon doesn't do the exact same thing as the Seven Samurai? That just means it's telling a different story.

It's trying to tell the same story, but does it badly. The Magnificent Seven (McQueen, Coburn, Brynner, et al) did a decent job of telling the same story well enough. (The original is still superior, in my view).