Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

[TigerClaw]

Just saw it, This is the best Star Wars movie since episode 4.

[TigerClaw]

This is the 1st Star Wars movie

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in which all the heroes died at the end.

and it made sense for this movie.

[Dust]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

Just saw it, This is the best Star Wars movie since episode 4.

Empire is better than the original, just saying

[Shark_Blade]

I too prefer A New Hope than Empire tbh.

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Lol yeah all their members died instead of just one guy tbh.

[TigerClaw]

The space battle in this was 10x better then the one in Return Of The Jedi.

[TigerClaw]

The movie has made $71 million at the box office as of Friday.
http://variety.com/2016/film/box-off...ay-1201944768/

[CyberCubed]

Do you think this movie will get a sequel? Might be hard given the placement, but maybe they can make it take place between Episodes 4 and 5.

[Shark_Blade]

A New Hope is the sequel...

[snake]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Do you think this movie will get a sequel? Might be hard given the placement, but maybe they can make it take place between Episodes 4 and 5.

The sequel is a book called Twilight Company. Go read that.

[Shark_Blade]

Aren't the books non-canon now? Like about Chewie's death and all.

[NinjaPug]

The books released since Fall 2014 are canon.

[CyberCubed]

A lot of people don't read the books/comics, or even the cartoons. For some people if it isn't a movie, it doesn't exist.

[Cure]

I wish you didn't exist.

[Andrew NDB]

Are we still sure Jyn isn't Rey's mother?

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Cure

I wish you didn't exist.

I can see his point. I don't particularly give two monkeys about Clone Wars or Rebels myself.

I've only ever read a handful of EU books and comics. Mostly the Zhan books, Dark Empire, Truce at Bakura, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Shadows of the Empire etc. Stopped caring when they killed off Chewie and Mara.

[Mayhem]

So back from the cinema now, I picked a decent time, the cinema was barely a quarter full and practically no kids screaming or making noise. My brother's fiancee was ready to strangle some guy near us who kept rustling his bag of sweets throughout heh.

Thoughts... probably will take another viewing mind you.

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+ Darker than Empire because none of the heroes get out alive. I thought Bodhi might make it given he was the pilot and in the ship, but sadly not. You could hear a collective sigh of sadness in the audience when K2SO died.

+ On that note, Alan Tudyk gave a terrific performance as the robot.

- Thought Forrest Whittaker as Saw was a good cast, based on the character from Clone Wars. Why the negative? I was hoping he was going to go with them in the assault on the data storage facility. He didn't get enough to do, although he was on screen more than I expected.

+ Somewhere canon on film now finally explains to people that the Death Star is indeed like a giant lightsaber.

- The starting 1/3 of the film could have been linked together better, it jumps around a bit too much. And they don't explain how they know where Jyn is in order to rescue her.

- CGI Leia just didn't do it for me.

+ On the other hand, CGI Tarkin did work for me. Maybe it's easier to make old guys look realistic with computers?

- However, I suspect there was more Tarkin (and Vader) because Krennic's character arc and development got sacrificed a bit as a result in the reshoots. You don't really get to find out much about what makes him tick during the film.

- Missing bits from the trailer, especially Jyn vs TIE Fighter, I wanted that still in!

+ Blue Squadron finally on film, pity Blue Leader bought it, but there was a bit of a homage to ANH there re Red Leader as he hit the ground.

+ Vader at the end. Nuff said.

Originally Posted by Krutch

Re: Mayhem's questions...

Having now seen the film, I'd say they've cribbed sound clips from ANH, and possibly gotten new dialogue from the actors. More likely very good soundalikes. I did internally squee a bit actually seeing computer enhanced grabs of both Gold and Red Leader in new cockpit sequences though! I've had the pleasure of meeting both Drewe and Angus in the past, and both were really nice people, it's a pity Mr Henley didn't live to see himself back up on screen again.

[TigerClaw]

The movie has made 155 million dollars at the box office, and is closing in on making 300 million worldwide.
https://www.comicbookmovie.com/scifi...losing-a147582

[Zak The Neutrino]

If anyone else is wondering why Saw Gerrera name sounds familiar go back and watch Clone Wars season 5 episode 2. It was an ah ha moment for me.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Zak The Neutrino

If anyone else is wondering why Saw Gerrera name sounds familiar go back and watch Clone Wars season 5 episode 2. It was an ah ha moment for me.

Saw Gerrera is gonna be appearing on an episode of Star Wars Rebels pretty soon.

[ProactiveMan]

I liked it. I agree with a lot of people that it was kind’a saggy in the middle.

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The tone was a bit odd, and some of the performances were a little uneven – good at times and not so good otherwise. I caught a couple of actors trying to squeeze out tears without quite making it happen – and what the hell was Forest Whitaker going for? What accent was that, and why was he huffing gas like Denis Hopper in Blue Velvet? I think that may grow on me though, so I’m not going to say he was bad.

The last act was great – really exciting and well-staged. I thought the effects were awesome; I don’t know if the Star Destroyers were CGI or not, but they made them look like chunks of styrene just like the original trilogy, and that’s the best. I like the references to EU, I like that they didn’t throw out the prequels, and I want to see it again.

Something that has been bothering me: In the scene at Vader’s castle where he is in the Bacta tank, and he is suspended there with just his head and stumpy, naked torso, implies that his arms and legs are 100% removable. That’s a little weird isn’t it? I always thought they were more or less grafted onto him, but they treat them like a pair of pants in this movie. “Ben Mendelsohn’s here to see me, better put on my good pair of arms”.