Star Wars: Rogue One

[B]

someone could blast me in the back of the head with a stick, and I'd never even know it happened.

We do.

[@SkitchP]

someone could blast me in the back of the head with a stick, and I'd never even know it happened.

We do.

Thanks for the top page!

[Strat]

Hmm. Some of it I loved some of it i was bored with. I really think it added to the overal star wars universe but some emotional impact was definitely missing.

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Of course I loved seeing Vader but even still i couldnt help but think "sure, but like 4 days later he can barely move and the fith with obi wan is awful"

Still super great to watch though. Total badass. Makes me want more vader!

Tarkin - My god i couldnt get over that. What an amazing feat.

Lei was a little jaring but super cool.

Not enough Gaelyn and Kenrick conflict. That is a relationship that should have been a major focus of the film i think.

Not having the crawl was cool and im glad they still had "a long time ago...."

There were a lot of orchestral callbacks as well. The score was great. It was new and unique but a lot of the same notes and passages from the prequels and some of OT were definitely weaved into the new pieces. Was pretty cool

Overall, i like TFA better but these really don't need to be compared. 2 different films and i love having Rogue One as part of the star wars universe and ill definitely watch it regularly like most of them! I had fun.

[B]

I don't think I would have noticed the motion capture characters if I hadn't know that's what they were.

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I don't know if Leia will hold up over time, but you had to be scrutinizing Tarkin pretty hard to know he was fake. If I hadn't known he was impossible, I wouldn't have thought much of it. It would have just been another dude.

[dimejinky99]

Red leader and gold leader were unused B roll footage taken directly from a new hope. That was awesome to have them in there

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it was

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I had a realization last night while thinking of R1 and its place within the Star Wars mythos.

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Leia's line of dialogue at the end totally change the original meaning of the first film. Originally, A New Hope signified the new hope for the Jedi and the Rebellion by introducing Luke into the fight. Number one, he's the newest, and presumably only, candidate for being trained as a Jedi and continuing the fight against the Dark Side. And since the goals of the Dark Side coincide with plans of the Empire, by extension, Luke's involvement with the Rebellion has two purposes.

Leia's line that concludes R1 totally invalidates that meaning. "A New Hope" now refers to the fact that the new hope is that the Rebellion has a new hope for victory in the form of the Death Star plans and the knowledge there is a built-in flaw in the structure. (IIRC, in the original film, the Rebels don't find the flaw until studying the plans after being delivered by R2.) So, the meaning behind it has been irrevocably changed. For better? For worse? I'm not sure.

[dimejinky99]

The music as that fucking Awful Rogue One title screen hits... its Star Trek music. I'm not even kidding.

And the star field is moving towards the camera. Total Star Trek

[dimejinky99]

Re Tarkin

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Tarkin having the Death Star blow up the base on scariff is so brilliant. Plays into the character and how they've established him in Rebels and Catalyst so well. He's not only full knowing that he's about to kill the upstart Krennic. He's willing To wipe out thousands of his own people to prevent a rebel victory. As he says to Kanan 'I know what it takes to win a war. You don't'. Brilliant

[Coach]

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Cassian vs. Poe....I think Cassian seemed more authentic and less cheesy. I thought that the last 30 minutes or so was more thrilling than the TFA. Uploading the plans, all the deaths, passing the plans from rebel to rebel, and then Vader as we've never seen him act (in the suit). That's fun stuff!

[dimejinky99]

Awesome. They just released this. They're doing a masterful job of tying all these strands together.

Saw is in the second half of this season of Rebels:)

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He looks quite a bit younger in that poster.

[dimejinky99]

He looks quite a bit younger in that poster.

Good point. But two years in the trenches can do a lot to a man.

[dimejinky99]

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It's awesome but a part of me is kinda cringing at Vaders entrance when he meets Krennic. It's like a Michael Jackson entrance. (I love MJ) but i wish they'd gone the opposite and made it total darkness and have him emerge from that instead of smoke machine and backdrop lighting

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He looks quite a bit younger in that poster.

Good point. But two years in the trenches can do a lot to a man.

Not that much

[dimejinky99]

He looks quite a bit younger in that poster.

Good point. But two years in the trenches can do a lot to a man.

Not that much

Wouldn't be so sure

[bada]

My wife had

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no idea Tarkin wasn't a real. I wasn't sure that Leia would turn around at the end and show her face but I thought she looked good. I didn't expect it to lead right in to A New Hope. The whole movie had that WWII suicide mission feel. I figured everyone would die but Jyn so that was a surprise. I really liked Chirrut and Baze and the K-2SO. Cassian and the defector pilot were fine. I figured Saw was going to be part of the team. Effects and space battles were really good. Vader was fantastic. Liked it.

[dimejinky99]

My wife had

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no idea Tarkin wasn't a real. I wasn't sure that Leia would turn around at the end and show her face but I thought she looked good. I didn't expect it to lead right in to A New Hope. The whole movie had that WWII suicide mission feel. I figured everyone would die but Jyn so that was a surprise. I really liked Chirrut and Baze and the K-2SO. Cassian and the defector pilot were fine. I figured Saw was going to be part of the team. Effects and space battles were really good. Vader was fantastic. Liked it.

Sooooo many people are saying that about Tarkin. It's only Star Wars fans saying otherwise.


Hope you liked it. (It's no force awakens tho)

[Leatherhead]

I'm confident I will not be bored for one second of this movie.

[dimejinky99]

Can I just say?

This is the first growing pain. Star Wars is going in a new direction with this and follow on standalones.

We're gonna have to adapt. And enjoy as much as we can I guess.

There's next to no fan service nods of import they can put in a Han movie.