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What, Chirrut had a great death.
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The film should have ended with the heroes, all surviving, boarding the alliance ship, and all seems peaceful. Then, halfway through the end credits scroll, Vader literally RIPS through the screen with his lightsaber. He walks up to Chirrut and says "the force is IN YOU now" as he runs him through with his blade, before spinning into a decapitation of Bodhi, mocking him with "looks like our imperial traitor got a little aHEAD of himself." He crumples K2SO with a force fist, calling out "This is the droid I'm looking for," and then tosses his saber into the air, kicks Cassian and Baze to the ground on top of each other, and watches as the saber falls through both of them. "Let rebel dogs lie" quips Vader. Finally, he approaches Jyn, and says "I'll be your daddy now... just kidding" and blasts her out of the airlock. Fuck yeah, now that's an ending.
Man that hallway Vader scene just had me like:
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Man that hallway Vader scene just had me like:
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Man that hallway Vader scene just had me like:
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I love that people love the choke line as if they wouldn't have rolled their eyes hard if it were in the PT
Man that hallway Vader scene just had me like:
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It would have been one of the best written jokes in the PT.
The negotiations were short.No, it wouldn't. The guy you quoted is right, though.
You know, after sitting back and thinking on the film for a really damn long time, I have to realize one main thing.
Why in the fuck is Tarkin in this?
Here's the deal: Krennic is a wannabe villain. It's not that he's weak as in he's uncompelling (though you could argue that he is, but I think he's alright). This is in the same manner as Loki or Kylo Ren, where they are the archtype of Smug Snake, the kind of villain who can certainly be dangerous, but he vastly overstates the value of his power. Loki is ultimately a middleman that is only a threat because of Thanos backing him that virtually every avenger bitchslaps in some way at one point in the film, while Kylo Ren is indeed depicted as a discount, Vader wanna-be. Similarly, Krennic is introduced into the film that talking down and condescendingly to Galen, only for his wife to shoot him when he grew overconfident in the idea that she wouldn't pull the trigger. After that, he literally doesn't have any scene wherein he's not beaten and humiliated.
And it all comes down to the fact that Tarkin is in this movie. Other than the fact that he's clad in continuity armor (he has to be in charge of the death star as of The New Hope), his only purpose in the film seems to be to belittle Krennic. And while this is a narrative that could have certainly worked, it has no significant end point. The key difference is that Loki's character arc ends with him being knocked down from on high by the heroes he thought himself above, culminating in the scene where he tries to hold on to one last scrap of dignity only to be literally pounded into the ground by the big green rage machine. Similarly, Kylo Ren looks down on Finn and Rey, believing in the inherent superiority of the dark side, only for both Finn and Rey to take him down by fighting using the light side of the force. It's thematic, their arrogance and false sense of superiority are refuted by the protagonists of the film themselves. In both cases, the idea isn't that the villains aren't a threat...they totally are. Loki still has his alien army and scepter and Kylo Ren still has the force. But their threat is because of some kind of external force not inherent to them, and by tying their self esteem to those external forces, they are not empowered by their own strength, which the heroes, by contrast, are. The Avengers didn't win because of external forces backing them, but because they were the avengers. Rey only starts winning once she accepts her inherent connection to the force that has nothing to do with her wanting to be like Luke, while Kylo Ren identity is based around trying to recreate Vader's image in himself.
Using this archtype up against Tarkin makes very little sense, atleast the way they did it. Tarkin is antagonistic to Krennic from scene one and since Tarkin both outranks him and Krennic doesn't have any superior attributes (being smarter than him in how to manage the Death Star, just as a potential example) to him, Krennic just kind of has to take it. As a result, the narrative breaks away from the typical set up and Krennic doesn't have even the illusion of power provided by external forces. He's just outpowered, which makes his arrogance not simply wrong, but foolish. I mean, The Avengers kept that scene that Loki has with Thanos henchmen (who is a colleague of Loki, rather than superior) short for a reason, because running it too long would overemphasize how little power Loki actually has.
Yet here, Krennic has more scenes with Tarkin and Vader knocking him down than he does being successful at...anything. You could argue that he throws his power around with Galen, who is tricking him with the death star plans. Only problem is that Galen isn't the protagonist. Which circles back around to my complaint that Jyn only exists as a surrogate for Galen, but in just simple terms, usually a significant point of catharsis of the movie is that the villains false sense of confidence is shattered by the protagonist, rather than the side character. So when you get it set up the way it is, it's got too many barriers of separation here to be truly satisfying. Jyn gets to tell Krennic on behalf of her father that there is a flaw in the death star that he will only be able to imagine will be exploited in the next movie which Tarkin and the rest of the empire suffer for because he is going to die there on the orders of a superior that he hated for being superior to him. When you look at the film, Krennic's motivations and goals seem to revolve around appeasing his superiors than the enemy he is actually fighting.
And this could basically be solved by removing Tarkin. Make it so the challenge to his power and authority come from the protagonist, not a secondary antagonist. The most significant relationship Krennic ought to have is with Jyn, not Tarkin or even Galen. It's Jyn that should be pulling the rug from underneath his feet as he tries to maintain his dignity. There is actual uncertainty to whether Jyn can successfully undermine him because of the backing he has and her being the protagonist and having backstory intertwined with him personally, undermining him has some actual significance. Like, in comparison, I doubt that Tarkin and Vader even remember Krennic's name by the time ANH starts. I would only include Vader as is because I do think that, the same way Jyn is just a rando who shouldn't be remembered, Vader can be there to remind the audience that Krennic is fundamentally an Imperial Redshirt. But that's fine because Vader has one scene with Krennic in a tangential plot point. It's significant to giving Krennic's place in the broad scheme, but as a film that's about the small and intimate relationships, his relationship with Jyn should be the forefront of his character. Instead, Krennic literally does know who Jyn is until the very last second of the film, while Jyn's attacks and interactions with the empire have no regard for Krennic being there.
It's highly unsatisfying because false arrogance has nowhere to go when the people who challenge it are explicitly his superiors. It's the perceived inferiors, like a random girl on the other side fighting with no resources to her name in enemy territory, that'd make breaking his illusion of superiority cathartic.
Vader fumbles a lot during A New Hope. Like seriously, the degree of Imperial incompetence during that movie is spectacular compared to Rogue One.
Am I the only one that thought the movie was "Meh"?
Am I the only one that thought the movie was "Meh"?
Am I the only one that thought the movie was "Meh"?
Original Vadar never says anything as corny as "don't choke on your ambition" from what I remember.
I was impressed the ugly dude and his baboon friemd who Obi-wan kills in a new hopes canteena got off the planet within a couple of hours from their cameo, then to Tatooine in like a week.
I enjoyed my second viewing more.
Mads en Riz did excellent with what little they were given.
solid 7/10.
I think it replaces ROTJ for me as the 4th best SW movie.
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Original Vadar never says anything as corny as "don't choke on your ambition" from what I remember.
Him trash talking his colleagues seem to be what he does normally.
Original Vadar never says anything as corny as "don't choke on your ambition" from what I remember.
I was impressed the ugly dude and his baboon friemd who Obi-wan kills in a new hopes canteena got off the planet within a couple of hours from their cameo, then to Tatooine in like a week.
Is Empire Strikes Back the only movie to not feature Tatooine or a "definitely not Tatooine" desert planet?
Gareth Edwards is not good at main characters. Jyn and the male lead are just nonexistant meat sacks that say lines that move the story forward, they are the worst part of the movie. As for the rest of it:
- Giacchinno is The One. If anyone has to take Williams' place, it has to be him. As soon as the title card came out, and he did that thing with starting with the Star Wars theme but effortlessly transitioning into the Rogue One theme was majestic. He even had the singsong quality that Williams gives to his scores, with small character movements on screen getting a small instrumental flourish in the soundtrack. There weren't as many themes in the movie as usual (only two or three), but imagine what he could do if he had more than a few weeks....
To be fair Gareth Edwards doesn't really write his scripts, and he strikes more as a visual director anyway. Also maybe they didn't want to give the characters too much development, considering what happens to them at the end of the film.
Also just to correct you a bit, but Giacchino's score has four new themes to be exact, in addition to the preexisting ones. It's a fairly good score overall, though.
"He is as clumsy as he is stupid."
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
Vader is full of corny one liners and sass in the OT.
"He is as clumsy as he is stupid."
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
Vader is full of corny one liners and sass in the OT.
- Darth Vader's costume was terrible. They got his helmet placed incorrectly, the bottom of it is supposed to go under the cape, not over it. Anytime he moved, his helmet came loose, and looked like Halloween costume. Can't believe they let that stay in the movie.
The film should have ended with the heroes, all surviving, boarding the alliance ship, and all seems peaceful. Then, halfway through the end credits scroll, Vader literally RIPS through the screen with his lightsaber. He walks up to Chirrut and says "the force is IN YOU now" as he runs him through with his blade, before spinning into a decapitation of Bodhi, mocking him with "looks like our imperial traitor got a little aHEAD of himself." He crumples K2SO with a force fist, calling out "This is the droid I'm looking for," and then tosses his saber into the air, kicks Cassian and Baze to the ground on top of each other, and watches as the saber falls through both of them. "Let rebel dogs lie" quips Vader. Finally, he approaches Jyn, and says "I'll be your daddy now... just kidding" and blasts her out of the airlock. Fuck yeah, now that's an ending.
Am I the only one that thought the movie was "Meh"?
You need to rewatch the OT jesus christ.Remember when Darth Vader was AFI's best villian in all of cinema? Now he makes dad jokes...
Best part of this movie was Dunkirk.
Totally fits with the attitude of new canon Vader.
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The film should have ended with the heroes, all surviving, boarding the alliance ship, and all seems peaceful. Then, halfway through the end credits scroll, Vader literally RIPS through the screen with his lightsaber. He walks up to Chirrut and says "the force is IN YOU now" as he runs him through with his blade, before spinning into a decapitation of Bodhi, mocking him with "looks like our imperial traitor got a little aHEAD of himself." He crumples K2SO with a force fist, calling out "This is the droid I'm looking for," and then tosses his saber into the air, kicks Cassian and Baze to the ground on top of each other, and watches as the saber falls through both of them. "Let rebel dogs lie" quips Vader. Finally, he approaches Jyn, and says "I'll be your daddy now... just kidding" and blasts her out of the airlock. Fuck yeah, now that's an ending.
I saw this a few days ago but didn't have time to write anything up.
Aside from that wobbly introduction of Jyn, though, I had no trouble recognizing and rooting for everyone elses' cause. Nobody really got much screen time and no, none of them were individually that deep, but that's really not the point and I'm confused as to why so many people feel like it should be. For one thing, Star Wars has always leaned on charmingly presented archetypes rather than rich character development. Secondly, this was very much an ensemble movie, where the group dynamic is the focus rather than any individual. Sure, this leads to slightly flat characters if examined one by one, but that feels a bit like missing the forest for the trees in a film like this. In Ocean's 11, for example, we never really get much insight into Rusty outside of "he worked with Danny before" "he's good at counting cards" and "he likes snack food" - vague as hell traits by themselves, but the point is to watch him bounce off of all of the other vaguely defined broad personalities, not drill down into his personal feelings. Rogue One is full of overlapping, basic, small character arcs: political apathy turned to activism! Extremist firebrand has crisis of faith but realizes what he's really fighting for! Asshole robot is mean at first but is loyal when the chips are down! Nervous pilot musters the courage to make the ultimate sacrifice!
Totally fits with the attitude of new canon Vader.
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