Just saw Rogue One last night. I work at a theater, if you're wondering how I've seen it. We do quality checks every week to ensure that new releases are ready for their opening weekend.
Anyways. Just curious if people are excited about it. I know some people are put off at the idea of doing spin off films. More so, some Star Wars fans are upset about the retconning of the story of the rebels stealing the death star plans. I agree, -blam!- you Disney for throwing out 30 years of expanded universe material. Would have been great if it had been made canon.
Sorry I'm beginning to rant. Won't do it. I will say this, Rogue One was damn good! Admittedly one of the better films in the saga to be honest. It's got some good easter eggs that refer to A New Hope for those die hard fans that are gonna see them and be like "oh shit" ANH reference!
I could only really find two faults with it that really bugged me. The first being that the film planet hops too much. This pertains more to the start of the film than anything. It got irritating because a scene would get a good pacing going only to abruptly change locations to show viewers something new. The second being that out of all the Rogue One members, only Jyn and Cassian get any real character development. Which is disappointing because all of the characters have enough personality to be interesting and make you wanna know more about them, but nothing gets explored. Sure people will know a little about Saw Gererra because he was previously established in the Clone Wars cartoon and mentioned in the Rebels cartoon. But I really wanted to know more about Chirrut and Baze. They have great chemistry in the movie.
Overall, I give the film a 8/10. Tell me what y'all think.
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Han Solo dies
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Edited by Nea: 12/18/2016 6:35:45 AMHopefully this doesn't get me crucified I have never watched nor have any intention to see a Star Wars movie
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Edited by BlackMormon: 12/17/2016 11:19:18 PMBet 50 bucks the Han Solo movie has a moment where he gets into trouble some "strong, independent woman" saves him.
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I'm one with the force. [spoiler]and the force is with me.[/spoiler]
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The references to the original were cringeworthy
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Yeah, the pacing was off in the beginning. I wrote it off due to Gareth Edwards autism. Also,[spoiler]Forrest Whitaker's character dying and that brain slug thing was really out of place. Also Tarkin's gross cgi. [/spoiler]
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I really wanted to be excited for it but then I heard an interview from the screenwriters who described the Empire as white supremacists and the rebels as being strong independent women... If I hear the film was good I'll be sure to illegally download it.
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Jan Ors and Kyle Katarn had a better story Though the new expanded universe has a few interesting things, the old EU will always be far better.
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Looks amazing imo, kinda leery about how Disney is pushing feminist agenda with Star Wars tho. Ah well, classic Disney.
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Everyone dies
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Great film, 8/10, would watch again
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I really want to know what the Darth Vader scene is about, I heard there's a pretty awesome scene, should I just wait to see it instead of getting spoiled?
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No. Jar Jar is alive somewhere. That makes it a 0/10.
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It was already spoiled for me by some asshole on these forums, so less excited now.
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Edited by Clever Name: 12/16/2016 3:03:21 AMAbsolutely loved it. I agree that the beginning was slow, but the ending made up for it. [spoiler]And props for making Darth Vader even more of a badass than he already was. Jesus Christ.[/spoiler]
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I loved it! I just wish the actor for Jyn Erso didn't seem to bored 90% of the time. Not of a fan of extremely intense, yet somehow emotional characters, it's just lazy writing if you ask me.
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Idk the last time they did prequels...
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