Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| They rebel - SPOILERS
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That is a better way to look at it. I still think this make's the beginning of ANH unintentionally hilarious.
"We are on a diplomatic mis-"
"Bitch, I just saw you!"
BronsonLee
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ryutaro's mama
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I love you.
phazedplasma
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Also sucks they didnt use Biggs + Porkins
BronsonLee
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'I may not have any fucking limbs, but my eyes still work, you dope!'
I want this to be the meme we get out of Rogue One, just endless captioning of the opening of ANH.
SuperStiltzkin
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Didn't they ambush the imperials in a crowded civilian square? Jyn had to rescue that crying child caught in the crossfire. The Rebel Spy branch might be shady, but the worst they do is preemptively strike targets who have yet to prove they are threats. (The informant on the trade station and Galen Erso.)
Exactly. lol
OriginofHysteria
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Damn it, I literally laughed out loud at work.
Speaking as someone who isn't a big Star Wars fan, and probably can't appreciate all the story tie-ups etc...
...it was OK/good. Enjoyable enough. I felt the final scenes stretched out a lot. There was cool Star Wars hardware and battle porn, some good humour in parts. I found the characters not to be that likable overall though. The speech to the rebel council from Jin (sic?) was excruciating for example. Deep uncanny valley territory with the Peter Cushing CG. I understand why they had to do it though.
So yeah. A lot better than the prequels (of course). Not as memorable as The Force Awakens though. This is the first in a parallel series? The others are going to be other standalone history-fillers also?
...it was OK/good. Enjoyable enough. I felt the final scenes stretched out a lot. There was cool Star Wars hardware and battle porn, some good humour in parts. I found the characters not to be that likable overall though. The speech to the rebel council from Jin (sic?) was excruciating for example. Deep uncanny valley territory with the Peter Cushing CG. I understand why they had to do it though.
So yeah. A lot better than the prequels (of course). Not as memorable as The Force Awakens though. This is the first in a parallel series? The others are going to be other standalone history-fillers also?
Dash_Riprock
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/dead.
molnizzle
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Yeah. Next year is Episode VIII, the year after that is another standalone about young Han Solo.
Anton Sugar
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Yeah, that line kinda deflated that scene for me.
Vader wrecking shop at the end was terrifying, though.
They know she has the plans and she's acting dumb. They did after all seize the ship by force and killed those on board.
We are getting "A Star Wars Story" films every other year between saga films. 7 in 15, Rogue One in 16, 8 in 17, Han Solo in 18, 9 in 19...etc
2018 Han Solo film with Alden Ehrenreich as Han and Donald Glover as Lando.
It's a great score, for a different movie. Composed beautifully, cued horribly.
NekoFever
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I think it's funny in a good way. She's fucking with him. He's angry because they both know she's full of shit.
ryutaro's mama
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Yeah it was great. I needed it to be a few minutes longer. Just shredding the rebels.
Oh we know, even before this film came out. It's just that mental visual is hilarious.
PeskyToaster
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X-Wings are military vehicles while Snowspeeders are converted civilian craft used for industrial cargo hauling (which is why they have a cable gun or whatever) with the armaments attached by Rebel engineers. Maybe their blasters are just weaker, that's my own internal explanation.
Dhruv_hanom
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Gonna watch ANH now. It fits so well
Well we don't really know what's happening after IX. I wouldn't be surprised if they retired the saga films for another decade or so, and spent the interim on A Star Wars Story spin-offs.
I hope that's what happens. One of these days we're going to finally get that KOTOR film.
pls
Inferno313
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I think that's likely, and I expect that some of the "A Star Wars Stories" could grow into their own series. Rogue One is obviously not an example, but if that young Han Solo flick is great and does well, I could see them doing a sequel or two to that.
So I really enjoyed Rouge One. It was better than I was expecting, and I am incredibly surprised they killed off the entire cast, was pretty sure one or two would survive for extended universe stuff, but I respect this decision immensely.
My only problems was the pacing, which seemed to be jumping all over the place way too quickly, the uncanny valley whenever Tarkin and Leia got on screen and the music felt very lackluster.
But asides from those, way better than what I expected.
My only problems was the pacing, which seemed to be jumping all over the place way too quickly, the uncanny valley whenever Tarkin and Leia got on screen and the music felt very lackluster.
But asides from those, way better than what I expected.
Dhruv_hanom
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A kotor saga next perhaps ?
Dash_Riprock
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Hopefully they reboot after 10 years. I want see GOOD prequels.
Anton Sugar
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Yeah, that was great. Similar reaction in my theatre. Just enough screentime to freak out but not pick apart the CG, like Tarkin.
I found some of the fan service a little obnoxious, though I don't know if it was any better or worse than TFA. We really didn't need to see C3P0 and R2D2, did we?
I loved seeing Red and Gold leaders, though. That's the kind of stuff that ties the universe together without pulling you out of the narrative for the sake of a *wink wink* moment.
Yeah, I can imagine a Han Solo sequel or two. Or just a separate sub-series of spin-offs that connect to each other.
NekoFever
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I'd like that more than turning the numbered saga into a soap opera with no endgame in sight.
I'd kill for a saga covering the Mandalorian wars.
My biggest problem with the fan service is that the time could have been better spent developing the characters the movie was actually about
The whole Saw sequence was pointless (the movie would have worked just as fine if the pilot went straight to the alliance and they just needed jyn to verify the authenticity of his message) and Forrest, wtf was he emoting?
The lava planet sequence was equally pointless and cutting it would have taken away nothing from his badass later scene
Thats a good 30 minutes of the movie that should have been used to let us get to know the protagonists better so that when people started dying I actually would have had a reason to care.
The whole Saw sequence was pointless (the movie would have worked just as fine if the pilot went straight to the alliance and they just needed jyn to verify the authenticity of his message) and Forrest, wtf was he emoting?
The lava planet sequence was equally pointless and cutting it would have taken away nothing from his badass later scene
Thats a good 30 minutes of the movie that should have been used to let us get to know the protagonists better so that when people started dying I actually would have had a reason to care.
superNESjoe
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My favorite fan service moment was the two thugs from A New Hope's Cantina showing up.
SuperStiltzkin
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We're gonna get a spin off movie about how they escaped Jedha.
That last Vader scene of him choking dudes in a hallway to get to the Death Star plans... My God!
That should have been the entirety of Episode III.. extended out to 3 hours.
3 hours of Vader straight up murdering people and making Dad Jokes.
(No one really answered this question last time I asked... Did Vader really build a Fortress of DOOM over the hill where he was burnt to a crisp? Really?)
That should have been the entirety of Episode III.. extended out to 3 hours.
3 hours of Vader straight up murdering people and making Dad Jokes.
(No one really answered this question last time I asked... Did Vader really build a Fortress of DOOM over the hill where he was burnt to a crisp? Really?)
Inferno313
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Yeah who knew they were dead in that cantina scene? Not me!
BFIB
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Look at it this way too, Vader knowing Leia is playing dumb, this is why he doesn't fuck around on torturing her. Because he knows the importance on these plans being found.
Duane Cunningham
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I wasn't sure about this either. Was that actually Mustafar? Or just some other lava planet? If it's really Mustafar, why would he want to hang out there of all places?
Mustafar, not Mustafar... You'd think the guy would have a general aversion to planets COVERED IN FUCKING LAVA!
100%
That was my biggest gripe with TFA, that every planet in it was literally just a retread of planets we saw in the Original Trilogy.
Oh look its the
-Sand planet (Tatooine = Jakku)
-The Forrest planet (Yavin/Endor = Takodana)
-The Snow planet (Hoth = Starkiller Base)
It was incredibly boring from a visual viewpoint because the locations were things we've already seen before.
Theory: It's a place where he experienced a great deal of trauma and negative emotion, meditating on that hate and anger focuses him and strengthens his ties to the Dark Side of the Force.
Dark and tortured people do dark and tortured things would be my guess. It very much looked like Mustafar.
Did anyone get a prequel set piece vibe when he was talking to Krennic on that platform? It looked like something that would be in Revenge of the Sith, in a not so great way. I didn't hate it but it reminded me of the kind of green screen in those movies when I look back on it. Not complaining, just wondering if I'm remembering it right
Anton Sugar
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Yeah, I don't think Saw really served any purpose other than to connect/show off Jedha.
A microcosm of the waste of those scenes is Bodhi's mind reading torture scene. So, the alien can read minds (which means Bodhi should have been cleared as a good guy) but can also make you lose your mind? But, despite the alien reading his mind and presumably knowing he told the truth, Bodhi is still locked up and has kinda lost his mind...until a stranger says his name and occupation?
For all the negative impression I read about the characters, I found myself enjoying them. Certainly more than any character in Godzilla, which was my metric to compare them to. They didn't reach the development of TFA or anything, but they each felt distinct enough to be likeable while giving the majority of the work to Jin and Cassian. I think Felicity Jones did a great job with what she had. Her character doesn't have much of an arc (or, if she did, it would be a rushed "from criminal to hero" arc) but she wasn't stiff/cold as many thought she would be and hit the scenes with Mads/Galen out of the park. The hologram and his death were enough to round out her character and show emotion underneath a hardened life.
Yeah, that is basically the threshold of acceptability for me, but at least it wasn't them bumping into a CG Han and Chewie.
Ffffuuuuck, I just want to rewatch that scene. The entire last 30 minutes were god damned amazing.
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