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Rogue One Reviews & Impressions (Spoiler Tags Required)
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bonesmccoy
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Cross-Section
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Freeza Under The Shower
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Messa One: a Jar Jar story.
It's a great poster photoshop though.
It's a great poster photoshop though.
Curious that Yen steals the film, less so with K2SO who has been great in the marketing, Chirrut has been kind of stale one note "Insert blind man who is inexplicably good at martial arts" in the marketing. Yens a great actor and hearing he has other sides to him in the film other than token action hero is great news.
wesleyshark
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And tickets have been reserved for 645pm and 10pm on Friday. Back to back, baby.
They are like 99.9% positive.
Yeah...and i thought it was great. So...what's your point?
I loved the film, I was responding to someone before hwo said TFA had a lot of negative reactions straight away, which I did not see at the time.
His happy little "The Force did protect me!" in that one commercial put me immediately in his corner.
I cant remember seeing that one, remember what it was titled?
Oh ok. You are right. impressions were very good.
Im going into this with very little hype, despite being a big fan.
Fancyarcher
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Reactions seem great, which is nice. Still very much hyped!
ProtomanNeo
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Initially I was against the idea of this film, but now I must admit I'm excited to see it. i do wonder if it's received extremely well could it have a negative effect on the saga films. With those films only being one in.
Astral Dog
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Vader is a whiny littlr bitch where is Sheev
mariachi507
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This made me laugh harder than it should.
Aizen.S.Kennedy
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nah he said he enjoys bvs not that its incredible. Plus the majority of the crew disliked it. Christian saying everything is gahhbge sure sounds like they always, always err on the optimistic side to me too /s. Are you sure you actually listen when your listening everyday ?
Schneep isn't overly positive at all on a lot of things either.
Dennis dislikes a lot of stuff.
Are you getting campea and Ellis confused for the whole cast?
Cross-Section
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Wil Wheaton has a non-spoilery blog post up talking about his experience seeing the movie.
Two choice quotes:
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Wonder how the Academy might react to something so supposedly-revolutionary and
Two choice quotes:
What could he possibly be referring to?
This isn't the first place that I've seen this particular sentiment, and I have to guess it refers to the
face tech used for Tarkin and possibly Leia
Wonder how the Academy might react to something so supposedly-revolutionary and
something so potentially damaging to the craft, as other critics have postulated.
Whoa, was not expecting such an overwhelmingly positive response. My hype levels for this were very low, despite really enjoying TFA; this movie just seemed unnecessary. I wasn't overly impressed with the trailers and it certainly didn't help that Godzilla, the director's previous film, was such a boring turd. So when all the stories about reshoots started cropping up, I was honestly ready for the worst.
It seems I was wrong, and couldn't be happier about it.
It seems I was wrong, and couldn't be happier about it.
I distinctly remember a handful of tweets that directly criticized the film. Haven't seen that happen with R1 yet.
mariachi507
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I just made the connection for what all of the actor "doom and gloom" may be thanks to this post, I'm curious to see what they do now.
I also just got really hyped for the film today, I was going to see it regardless but it's looking very good.
obin_gam
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They took note of the success of Suicide Squad lol
BossDarkseid
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Not quite.
some CGI manifestation of his face is superimposed on an actor whose name escapes me but looks like a young Tarkin
It doesn't mean much, it's way less cost effective than hiring an actual actor.
This is true for most geeky movies anyway.
show me your skeleton
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it's the beginning of a situation where actors' contracts include rights to 'likeness' or image and allows them to be used by the studios far beyond old age or death.
What is this fuckery
For all geeky medias in general, people overhyping their shit is something common, just take a look at FFXV thread....
I used to watch a lot of Collider but have really stopped these last couple months. I like the crew but everyone outside of Schnepp is so easily excitable. Every trailer is "amazing" and every single performance has "gravitas" and on and on. Very rarely do I feel like I'm getting level headed impressions when it comes to anything franchise based with them. I love the enthusiasm but it has a point of diminishing returns.
Already Torn
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The only Darth that could possibly be talking about is a certain secret amphibious lord of the sith
Do you have a link? I'd love to hear their thoughts!
Perfect Blue
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FFXV was underhyped, if anything. The game turned out better than the negativity surrounding it.
Haloid1177
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Completely different from TFA tonally.
ratcliffja
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Darth Yousa.
Campea describe the shows intention best when he said its like a sports show for people who love sports, he openly said on his podcast its not a super serious show, its meant to be fun, not that they lie, I dont believe they lie, but I believe they veer on the side of optimism moreso than not and you can tell by there mere presentation that they are, to some extent, acting, ive seen behind the scenes and none of them are nearly as jubilent as their onscreen presence.
I still love the show, because I enjoy that in a world of cynicism, but its not where I go to hear views that would echo mine.
Just came out of a german showing and can't get into specifics until embargo drops, but it seems like half the audience thought it was great & better than 7, half thought it was merely OK and disappointing. I'm part of the second camp. Absolutely mindblowing action in the last 40 minutes, quite boring and confused until then - biggest problem are without a doubt the really weak characters.
Vampirolol
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What's your opinion on Ep7?
I loved it, mainly because of Finn, Rey and Kylo Ren. Could have done without so much backtracking, but the new characters and their interactions with Solo made it for me.
Haloid1177
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Hm that's interesting, characters were the agreed upon initial praise.
It begins. Time to temper my expectations. Is it paced well?
Cross-Section
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I wonder if it may be a question of these characters "clicking" for certain people in that first 2/3rds of the movie (aka the half of the theater that liked it over TFA + the people who saw it at the premiere) while for other people like SilentRob, it just doesn't happen and instead whatever character building does occur comes off as confused and subpar.
Might be a personal preference thing, might be a "this movie is bad and the other people are consumed by hype" thing. We'll see tomorrow!
This is pretty much everything I can tell you until Embargo drops, sorry.
Don't let my opinion discourage you, there were a loooot of people who loved it! I have a feeling this will be a really big hit with people who are huge fans of the original trilogy.
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