Star Wars : Rogue One

Has there been anything better than BSG for space battles? Or will this be the first to surpass?

Malakriss said:

Has there been anything better than BSG for space battles? Or will this be the first to surpass?

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Return of the Jedi?

Somehow he has a nerd following from his table top gaming show. And he is a twitter freak of near Trump proportions. Outside of those two things I have no idea.

However his take on the Star Wars universe is similar to mine to this point so I may have to take his word for it on Rogue One.

If I like it half as much as he is saying he does it will be better than I expected. Anymore than that and it will be awesome.

Miguex said:

breaking my self imposed time out from reading SW threads to post this. Incredibly glowing, and completely spoiler free, review from Wil Wheaton from Star Trek fame, with a big quote from Chris Hardwick's review in the middle.
The last time I loved a Star Wars movie as much as I loved Rogue One, it was 1977. |

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Most reviews from the premier event are going to be overwhelmingly positive. Most of those invited either have some formal relationship with Disney/Lucasfilm or are media types who, out of the understandable desire to be invited to future premiers or have some access with the studio they want to protect, tend to hold back on any real criticism. The occasional individual who does brave potential blowback to offer up some less-than-glowing appraisal are the ones that I tend to give a little more weight to at this point. Or those whose ideas about what constitutes a good movie I know overlap considerably with my own.

That being said there really hasn't been much to suggest it's going to be anything less than a fairly good watch for the rest of us come this weekend. Things will start to get a little more in focus though when the media embargo lifts tomorrow.

Hoss said:

R2D2 is the reigning galactic champion secret keeper. That's all. Got a fucking secret to keep? Lock it up in that little droid. To fix a famous saying, 3 people may keep a secret only if all 3 are R2D2.

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An interesting aside to this ...



In George Lucas's original plan for the saga, the history of the Starkiller family (the precursor to the Skywalker name) was recorded in the Journal of the Whills (a name for the Force that shows up in Rogue One) from information relayed by R2-D2. This was part of his plan to have a trilogy of trilogies by the end of which all of the central characters would have passed away or have been killed except for the two droids (R2 and C-3PO) and the movies would have been the tale as told through their eyes. This is why, in canon, R2's memory has never been wiped.

Regime said:

I'd rather drink bleach than read anything by that douche.

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Is there some sort of overriding problem with Whil Wheaton that I'm not aware of that has conferred him with douche status? I'm not trying to be sarcastic...I just know him from Stand By Me, Star Trek and The Big Bang Theory and I've read a couple of his blog posts including this one that seemed reasonable enough.

So far this looks like a decent sci-fi/space-battle movie. I'll wait for reviews from you bros on whether or not it's a good Star Wars movie. Only then will I go see it in theatres.

A barrage of 12 second TV spots came out today, most of them showing things we've already seen many times over. This one had a bit of new stuff in it though.

Genuinely spoiler free:

"sorry was running late, lets get to the movie shall we?"

Polygon review is pretty glowing

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story review: Brings the heavy canon

Seeing pretty consistently that this movie closes out like a beast. Just when you think you've seen the third act's defining moment, something else comes along and blows you away yet again.