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[Aiii]

12AM just got home so only some quick fire thoughts. Loved the movie. Loved the grimness of it all, perfectly illustrated the overwhelming power of The Empire and how it oppresses everyone. Loved all the Vader scenes, especially the one where he gets out if his pod, and of course that final scene. CGI Tarkin was just awkward, didn't work for me. CGI Leia looked better, I guess because she has smoother skin and it is easier to work with in CGI.

But mostly I loved how bleak the ending on the planet and on the flagship itself was.

Another thing I appreciated was how the score simultaneously sounded like SW and sounded completely different. Very well done for the first non-Williams score.

There are some downsides, but mostly everything worked really well for me, enjoyed it a lot.

 

[Seiryoden]

Going to see this tomorrow morning. First time in a cinema in a long time. Hyped.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

I'll write my thoughts in more detail tomorrow, but overall it was a great film with deep flaws.

 

[Jimothy]

Love that Ben Mendelsohn is finally getting some mainstream love. Dude is great.

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

SOMEONE PM ME THE GIFS

There's a Star Wars Leaks subreddit.

 

[ClosingADoor]

Just got back. Fun movie, but I had hoped for something more, I don't know, desperate and grittier maybe. Could have done with a bit less flying all over the place also, giving some more breathing room.

But Jyn and K2(?) stole the show.

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Too bad we won't see them anymore, but that comes with the story of course.

Edit: Tarkin was CGI? Now that I know I kind of could see it I guess. But didn't notice it at all when just watching the movie.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Yes. Wedge has a cameo.

I don't think he does. I didn't see or hear him.

 

[Aiii]

I don't think he does. I didn't see or hear him.

He is namedropped but not shown. Someone goes "Captain Antilles, we have a mission for you" In passing.

 

[graffix13]

He is namedropped but not shown. Someone goes "Captain Antilles, we have a mission for you" In passing.

That is a different Antilles.

 

[evi]

I don't think he does. I didn't see or hear him.

My eyes may have deceived me. Thought I saw him in the background in the scene where Bail and Mothma are talking about Obi-Wan. He was acknowledged though.

Edit: My bad, different Antilles apparently.

 

[evi]

DP

 

[graffix13]

Seeing it tomorrow and so happy about the Vader scenes (albeit short).

Also happy to hear The Empire is a real force in this movie, instead of the paper tiger they are portrayed in Rebels.

 

[Cheebo]

Captain Antilles isn't Wedge. That's a different character, Captain Antillies is:

He appeared in ROTS and A New Hope

 

[Aiii]

That is a different Antilles.

Ah, I see.

 

[Into the Light]

So I too cracked and saw the GIF. Jeebus man. I have no words.

 

[64bitbros]

Just got home from seeing the movie. Its a great film. Pretty well made. Is it a story that needed to be told? Debatable. But it was good, if a bit grim in the end.

Oh and by god the 3D was bad. So many flat backgrounds and structures.

 

[Boogalogist]

I recall seeing a cameo for Biggs though.

Did they hire new actors to play them or are they CGI recreations?

Reused the old footage and I think they altered the footage slightly to match the things they say.

 

[nicoga3000]

These positive impressions. <3

Going to ignore any and all posts related to this movie starting now. Not even opening reddit or Facebook just in case some shit goes down and I get spoiled.

 

[Lifejumper]

Bodhi Rooks death was pretty shocking. No fanfare nothing.

 

[LucidMomentum]

It's so hard to not spoil myself on that Vader scene.

I DON'T NEED IT.

 

[Cross-Section]

Where are the soundtrack leaks

wherrrrrre

 

[Lifejumper]

It's so hard to not spoil myself on that Vader scene.

I DON'T NEED IT.

Thinking about.... and the Darth Vader scene might be one of the best scenes in the whole series.

 

[The Giant]

Just watched it. Enjoyed it.

Man, the cgi must be expensive as hell for the cgi faces of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher.

This is the 3rd time this year they used this tech. RDJ in Civil War and Anthony Hopkins in Westworld.

 

[Lifejumper]

What was the motivation of the mon calamari general to split from the rest of the rebellion fleet? I missed his reasoning.

 

[Peter Ian Staker]

What was the motivation of the mon calamari general to split from the rest of the rebellion fleet? I missed his reasoning.

He was one of the hardliners pushing for a full scale assault.
As soon as he heard that rebels had attacked he didn't need much reasoning to join in.

 

[Boogalogist]

He's the main proponent that voted to attack at the council. He's probably bored at the council's inaction. He saw an opportunity in Scariff.

He want fight, he gets fight!

 

[Lifejumper]

Aaah thanks guys. Need to see it again.

 

[Bombless]

Saw it tonight in a full theatre which is surprising given it's the artsy/independent films cinema. They're also the only cinema that passes movies in their original language.

I LOVED it. Blew past all my wildest expectations for this movie. Non stop action, great set pieces, space battles (I had the greatest smile on my face during the battle) and the Darth Vader scenes were effing awesome.

I thought Tarkin's CGI face was impressive despite being somewhat noticeable.

Stuckman complains in his review that there wasn't enough Vader in the movie but I disagree. It's fucking Darth Vader, the last scene shows very well what would had happened if he got involved first hand.

K2-SO was great and I'm happy to have picked up his Lego figure to compliment my Griveous.

Can't wait to see it again!

 

[Fliesen]

Absolutely loved the movie. But i guess i'm super biased. Star Wars kinda means the world to me, so unless it's a rather heartless fuck-up like the prequels were, but rather a competently made movie in a Fantasy / Sci-Fi universe i feel at home, it's gonna rank highly for me.

Did i miss any "cameos" / "callbacks" beyond:

Spoiler

The cantina thugs from Mos Eisley bumping into Jyn.
Gold One
Red One - i loved how they added both of them.

Was there a Rebels cameo?

the fact that Whittaker's character played such a short and rather minor role was a true surprise. The trailers didn't give all that much away, really.

The ending gave me huge Serenity vibes. Important transmission, government official, a last stand.

 

[Lifejumper]

Absolutely loved the movie. But i guess i'm super biased. Star Wars kinda means the world to me, so unless it's a rather heartless fuck-up like the prequels were, but rather a competently made movie in a Fantasy / Sci-Fi universe i feel at home, it's gonna rank highly for me.

Did i miss any "cameos" / "callbacks" beyond:

Spoiler

The cantina thugs from Mos Eisley bumping into Jyn.
Gold One
Red One - i loved how they added both of them.

Was there a Rebels cameo?

General Syndulla shout out at Yavin base.

Chopper at Yavin base supposedly

The ghost at the battle of Scarif.

 

[Fliesen]

General Syndulla shout out at Yavin base.

Chopper at Yavin base supposedly

The ghost at the battle of Scarif.

i was expecting to see the ghost or Chopper, but sadly i didn't spot them.

oh, also THANK GOD they

Spoiler

(Jyn and Cassian) didn't kiss

in the end. Would've felt totally forced.

 

[Future Foundation]

Okay, just saw this clip (the one w/ sound, yes?)

This isn't all of it. There's a bit of setup right before this that builds just the right amount of mood, and the ending is cut off.

It's so good. It's so so good.

It's "slaughtered them like animals" Vader.

 

[Turrican2]

Saw it tonight in a full theatre which is surprising given it's the artsy/independent films cinema. They're also the only cinema that passes movies in their original language.

I LOVED it. Blew past all my wildest expectations for this movie. Non stop action, great set pieces, space battles (I had the greatest smile on my face during the battle) and the Darth Vader scenes were effing awesome.

I thought Tarkin's CGI face was impressive despite being somewhat noticeable.

Stuckman complains in his review that there wasn't enough Vader in the movie but I disagree. It's fucking Darth Vader, the last scene shows very well what would had happened if he got involved first hand.

K2-SO was great and I'm happy to have picked up his Lego figure to compliment my Griveous.

Can't wait to see it again!

Just saw it too, couldn't describe it better as you did.
My first impressions right after seeing the movie - I loved it!

 

[The Bookerman]

Reading about Rogue One: I get a sudden urge to play this again:

 

[antonz]

Reading about Rogue One: I get a sudden urge to play this again:

I still have about 15,000 of those cards

 

[Spieler Eins]

What a weird movie. Tonally all over the place, going from strange pseudo middle-east war imagery back to slap stick and then to the bad kind of fan service (compared to the somewhat decent one in TFA). The Vader scene had no purporse, the

Spoiler

CGI actors are technically great feats

but simply not convincing still. Bits and pieces are cool, but I guess particularly the characters didn't hold it together for me. Whitacker could have been cool, if he didn't

Spoiler

die so quickly.

I liked that in the end

Spoiler

they all died though.

 

[mrkgoo]

What a weird movie. Tonally all over the place, going from strange pseudo middle-east war imagery back to slap stick and then to the bad kind of fan service (compared to the somewhat decent one in TFA). The Vader scene had no purporse, the

Spoiler

CGI actors are technically great feats

but simply not convincing still. Bits and pieces are cool, but I guess particularly the characters didn't hold it together for me. Whitacker could have been cool, if he didn't

Spoiler

die so quickly.

I liked that in the end

Spoiler

they all died though.

The vader scene had a prulpose - TO BE FRIGGING AWESOME.

When he boarded, I was basically crossing my fingers hoping he was going to wreck things. And he did. he was so menacing, did the OT proud. The fear and desperation of the rebel soldiers caught in a dead-end.... it was terrifying. That one scene did miles more for showing the villain i grew up loving than the whiny Anakin from Revenge of the Sith.

 

[sphagnum]

Vader's quick and vicious mannerisms in that scene really sell me on the idea that Anakin is in that suit.

 

[nowarning]

Just got back now, awesome flick. Alan Tudyk was so good.

 

[SargerusBR]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT TAHT VADER SCENE OMG I AM HARD RIGHT NOW

 

[Oidisco]

One of the things that stood out to me was Vader's voice. There were moments in the scene where he sounded exactly like he did in the OT, but for the most part he sounded a little off. Not too surprising given that James Earl Jones is much older now and he still sounded great, just threw me off a bit.

 

[Kuraudo]

Fucking weird film. Felt like watching a Dark Horse comic brought to life. Really pretty and Jones and Mikkelsen were great. But it was this crazy blend of nostalgia and bad genre tropes.

 

[bobs...onGaf]

Anyone know much about what the rewrites where? Having watched it and despite having enjoyed it greatly I am still curious. The original trailer has a lot of different stuff going on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frdj1zb9sMY

It does feel like they injected more 'fun' into it but I dont know how I feel about that

 

[Gravidee]

One of the things that stood out to me was Vader's voice. There were moments in the scene where he sounded exactly like he did in the OT, but for the most part he sounded a little off. Not too surprising given that James Earl Jones is much older now and he still sounded great, just threw me off a bit.

This was pretty evident in the scenes where he spoke in Rebels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiHXZl3pqj8

 

[Kuraudo]

Also, Vader delivering cheesey one-liners. So surreal.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Felt like watching a Dark Horse comic brought to life.

Now there are two of us

 

[Jibbed]

Just got back... wow.

It's not perfect (too long and convoluted in parts IMO) but that third act.. holy fuck. The 12 year old in me had an absolute blast.

Jyn is a little wooden throughout but the rest of the cast were great.

I think this has retroactively improved IV for me, kudos to Edwards and the rest involved.

 

[Brandon F]

Just came out of a screening.

Clunky as fuck. Dialogue felt forced, motivations and the formation of Rogue One was poorly planned(effect of reshoots? redrafts?).

Was hoping to love and root for this band of kamikaze heroes, and instead I kind of disliked most of them outside of the droid. The planning for how they form together just again, felt clunky and lacked a real connective tissue. This was no band of brothers and it was difficult to ever really get behind their motivations or quirks.

The villain was never really menacing, but yet another loud and obnoxious fuckup. A real shame given how incredible he appeared in the initial trailer(which was all cut footage).

Finale was indeed amazing and had me choking up with pure glee, but 90% of the movie left me either annoyed or a bit bored. Lots of action, lots of explosions, didn't really find myself caring much through the clutter. I had higher hopes...

 

[Carl2291]

Oh my god Vader.

 

[DrKelpo]

Okay... Just came back from seeing the movie, some thoughts...

It actually took me 30-45 minutes to really get into the movie. Especially the beginning was all over the place. I didn't like how the

Spoiler

imperial pilot and the bombshell information he had

were introduced.
Forest Whitakers character had so little screen time, you wonder why he was even there and his

Spoiler

mind reading alien thingy was kinda stupid

I just didn't like the way the character was used.

A general problem of the movie in my opinion: Most of the characters remained flat. It's not like you couldn't get what every character was going through, but there wasn't much development or explanation either. Especially with Cassian.
K2SO stole the show.

The Rogue One title screen and theme sucked.

That being said.... It's a great and fun movie.. Go see it.
When you accept that it is in fact a Star Wars story, an action centered spin off, you will have fun.
The fan service and all the tie ins and prequel moments were great, the landscapes and images beautiful and the action scenes kicked ass.