Star Wars : Rogue One

Fucking awesome movie, 9/10. Not perfect, but they nearly nailed it. If you cut the movie into 3 acts, the first is the weakest, the second gets better, and the final third is some of the best Star Wars that has ever been put on screen.

The way this movie supplemented the existing Star Wars movies and story was great. It expanded the universe, the rebels, the empire, and all the millions of people caught in the middle. This movie felt the most real, whereas the other movies were heavy handed on the space opera fantasy. The reality and stakes of a planet killing machine are on full display here. It is awesome.

Just sayin'


Not that it was a huge stretch

More likely Kylie Katarn amirite?!

24 hours after my viewing and my stance is lightening. I think I'll have to go again later in the week. Going to watch IV again then see if my nit picks were justified.

Damn good movie. The droid was definitely the standout character, although Blind Dude also had his moments.


Whoever the CGI guy was on this movie deserves a fucking cookie. Both Tarkin and , both interacting with actual humans, and not looking horribly out of place? Well done.

And that last scene with Vader was fucking baller. Nuff said. (Although I did get a laugh out of the fact that Vader apparently just took over Sauron's tower in Mordor for his HQ; a tad on the nose.)

Big Phoenix said:

Star Wars does not allow positive white male roles now. Expect Luke to go evil or be killed off in EP8

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Says the guy with the grinning Faulty Armor who knows white like the hole in his ass


Faulty Armor

Then go cross the Bering Strait and hang yourself on a glacier, traitor.

faille said:

https://www.inverse.com/article/25246-rogue-one-trailer-scenes-missing-from-final-film-star-wars

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I think it's safe to say at this point that Tony Gilroy's reshoots significantly restructured the ending of the film. That they focused on the third act was one of the myriad of rumors swirling around about them. But just looking at the sheer amount of shots from the trailers that were never included and seeing how they differed from what we got confirms that.

There were several chase scenes with Jyn, Cassian, and K-2SO with them clearly in possession of the data tape (meaning K was not originally overwhelmed and gunned down at the archives). If you look closely at some of the cut scenes you can also see that the satellite transmission dish was not on the same building as the archives but on a separate tower, which they were running towards on the beach in the AT-ACT firing into the camera shot. And the shot of Krennic walking through the water towards the smoking battlefield with lots of dead stormtroopers, surveying the battle's aftermath, shows he wasn't seriously injured at his headquarters before Tarkin's payback shot from the Death Star.

Then there is the fact that Felicity Jones was the only actor among those playing central characters who has an option for a second film in her contract that the studio can exercise which may indicate that at some point they were at least entertaining the notion of Jyn making it out alive at the end.

But all of this does raise an interesting point, about reshoots in general and these in particular. The third act of the movie is what has been getting some of the widest approval. After all of the initial worry about them, how much of a factor were the reshoots in that? Were the concerns justified or should we as fans be glad that they were willing to devote the additional time and resources to making sure they put the best possible version of the movie out there, and did we get that? We may never fully know the answer to that but at the moment it sure feels like we did, as far as the final act goes.

Short review: Too much brown ...

Just saw it, thought it was cool. Better than commando, but not as good as predator or top gun.

Thoughts:

Vader must be the inspiration behind Oscar Pistorious as the original nub killing machine.

The Senate is even more useless than ours. "There will be no one to stop us this time." Was there ever anyone? Apparently not

Storm Troopers are such white males that they've gone 30 years without killing anyone but unarmed families and jawas on a bus. Finally, we witness a storm trooper aim at an armed target and hit it.

What were those TIE quesadillas?

Rod-138 said:

What were those TIE quesadillas?

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The TIE Striker.

Rogue One only made $155 million for its opening weekend. That Trump boycott was a killer...