Rogue One What was your reaction the first time seeing the Vader hallway scene?

My Dad says his voice gets deeper and his helmet shinier with each movie.

 

It was fan service. And TBH, it's not that impressive to see a plot-armored Sith take down a bunch of non-Force users (who are unlikely to be battle hardened soldiers given that they spend their time guarding a consular ship from a peaceful world) in a narrow corridor where the lasers only come from one direction. In the end, it just makes it look like the filmmakers didn't have enough faith in their main characters to carry the ending.

 

That's if you look it from purely the "Vader is awesome perspective." If you focus on the horrified and incredibly brave Rebel soldiers who are unswerving in their commitment to transmitting the plans, despite almost certain death, the connection between this scene and the heroic sacrifice of the film's main characters becomes crystal clear. I thought it was a highly unorthodox ending for a blockbuster, and in a very good way. It was a coda done right. Highly consistent with the themes of the film, while also being a reminder of how uncertain the Rebellion's victory was.

 

Fair enough but it's pretty hard to believe the "Vader is awesome perspective" isn't what the viewers were expected to react to when they added that scene.

 

I think the filmmakers knew that would be one reaction. But I don’t think they would have emphasized each of the Rebel soldiers so much (including the relay race of death), and then ended with Leia’s hope note, if Vader badassery was all they were going for.

 

Jaw dropping. I was mostly unspoilt on account of expecting it to be *****, so I was genuinely surprised for a change... I remember feeling on such as high, watching the Tantive IV pull away ..

 

I ran and tried to shut the door.

 

I had a lump in my throat as I realized what we were about to see, this real sense of foreboding with the alarm sound, the darkness and the curiosity then fear we see on the faces of the troopers. Then the red gets lit and all hell breaks loose. It's a very good scene and one of the best directed in the film (it also shows remarkable restraint in its portrayal of Vader, who I often find is made into a super version of himself, I totally buy this is the OT Vader). It does a fantastic job of reminding you of Vader the villain as well.

My favourite part is probably just the background shot of Vader hacking away as the disc gets handed over and the doors close.

 

I held my breath.

 

This was the Vader I had been waiting 40 years to see. He never truly scared me--even as a kid--until that Hallway scene in Rogue One. My god, the pacing, the body language (sorry, Prowse, you kind of lumbered around too much) and the lighting set the stage for a truly terrifying confrontation. I remember my heart racing during that scene knowing he was going to slaughter just about everyone in that hallway.

It was amazing. This is the Vader I wish we would have had the first time around!

 

The choral music was very reminiscent of that when Vader hacks away at the Nimodians on Mustafar ....

 

Shock, awe, horror and a new appreciation for the brave men and women of the Rebel Alliance.

 

In fairness though, what I think that scene now does is complement the original trilogy by showing you what Vader is capable of. So when you see him in the original trilogy you see that he is exercising a sinister level of restraint. You know now what he might have done to any rebels he came across as he made his way through Echo Base in TESB, and that he effectively toys with Luke. Not only is he seen to be scheming and manipulative, but he is extremely dangerous physically. The glimpse of that in Rogue One enhances his character I would say.

 

That's the power of Rogue One. It significantly enhances the entire original trilogy.

 

Hey, any chance we get to see Vader whipping everything in his way - I'm in. That was the best scene in the movie and in fact, for me, of all the new movies. More. Of. That. Please. It is great to see and for once I wasn't saying to myself, 'okay, you can make him look as weak and foolish as you like, but your heroes can't kill him! Ha!" because it would seem this group of film makers realized that only by making Darth Vader look as fierce as written, could their heroes actually come across as heroic.

 

Well no generic militant thug, soldier or battle droid is a match for a Sith Lord , let alone a Jedi Knight even as we've seen before in all SW media.

it was a good scene, the reality of it was that they did a good job grounding Vader in his current state and did not get too crazy, so his psychical and Force abilities are pretty much what we seen of him in the OT or even Battlefront. He fought freighted Rebel fleet troopers and remembering back to the OT, those same soldiers were easily killed by Stormtroopers in ANH. Vader mainly deflects their own blaster fire and later disarms the rest and kills them. I think he took too long cutting through the soldiers and his lack of speed and agility costed him and the Empire there as it was not a success but a failure. A,t one point he also took too long to kill a rebel soldier that was in his Force hold held up in the ceiling. The Rebel soldiers despite mostly being scared and semi-panicking at the sight of the Sith, did manage to successfully stall and get the plans to the escape shuttle and Leia to safety.

 

I gasped, and was filled with shock and excitement for what was possible coming. It delivered 100%!

And it still does!!

 

Well, that scene rather had reminded me of one of the TFU II's trailers when Marek kills cell guard Stormtroopers.

 

It’s a slice of pure cinema. Perfect in every way - visually, narratively, and otherwise.

 

If I'm being honest, I was disappointed the first time. Someone had described it to me as being like a prolonged sequence from Aliens, several minutes long, Vader striking from the dark. Definitely wasn't what we got. However, it's still a pretty sweet sequence and I love it each time I see it now.

 

It was awesomeness mainly because vader hadn't struck fear in me for the longest time and it was absolutely terrifying. Even though I knew the plans would get away, it was very edge-of-your-seat.

If I remember correctly, I was part smiling and nervously moving around in my seat.

 

I felt very grateful and privileged to behold such a scene during it's release, it will go down in my mind as being as legendary in Star Wars film just as much as other awesome moments such as Leia strangling Jabba or Palpatine getting flung down the shaft.
Both of which I saw on the big screen as a kid and were marked indelibly into my young mind when ROTJ came out, and this was up there.
To put it another way, I used to draw those two mentioned scenes with crayons for years after and I could imagine my younger self doing the same with the Vader scene had he seen it.

 

It brought a tear to my eye...

 

I really thought Vader was going to show up on Scariff and wreck shop on the ground, being responsible for Chirrut and Baze's deaths directly or something, thus fulfilling Order 66 even more by taking out the Guardians of the Temple of the Whills or whatever they were. So I was surprised they waited till the hallway on the Tantive to introduce him, but it was well shot and looked amazing nonetheless.