Rogue One Rogue One Reviews/Reactions thread

When you are in orbit of a planet, you are not in zero gravity. There is gravity, and it is considerable.

For example:

• Earth's surface: gravity (at the sea level) is 9.81 m/s2
• Low Earth orbit: gravity (LEO) is 9 m/s2

Unless you are on a lagrange point, meaning where the gravities of two objects cancel out each other, you are always going to be influenced by gravity. (and there still other gravitational effects in place from nearby galaxies, but they are too small to consider when applied to this time scale).

The only way an object can "stay still" (referenced to the surface of a planet) is if it is in the correct orbit at the correct velocity, to compensate for the gravity pull.

Sooo, this all means that Star Wars is best without real-world science to spoil our fun.

 

Gigoran Monk
Either that, or find another hard sci-fi franchise to follow, because this isn't it.

I love Star Wars. There isn't anything quite like loading up EAW and taking on the galaxy with a fleet of Star Destroyers. My expectations were based on what I've known to be Star Wars: the selfless work of moders who love Star Wars as much if not more than I do.

SW can be as realistic as you want it to. Granted not everyone who officially creates a SW story is going to use 100% realistic physics. But if you have the means and the know-how, you can go as diehard as you want.

While I was watching the space battle in the theater I enjoyed most of it for what I was worth. It was just those two moments of the Ion Bombs and the Hammerhead scene that felt incredibly unbelievable.

 

Fair enough sir, point well made!

And to clarify, I had no issue with the Hammerhead Corvette doing what it did.

 

Unfan of ion bombs, hammerhead corvette maneuver and materials treatment of Star Destroyers. Rest is ok.

 

Someone on the IMDb FAQ page posed the question: "Why are there no Bothans in this film?"

There's a "Many Bothans died...." joke in there somewhere, but I'm sure somebody's already made it.

 

Why do you hate fun?

 

I give the U-wing design 5 stars out of 5. So great! Fresh, yet classic. Fits right in there with the rest of the bunch - and actually adds something worthwhile.

That goes for the movie as a whole, too

 

Uhmmmm. THEY DID ram into each other. Why did the officers fall down on 1 of them?

So an ISD flaw in my review. R1 ISDs have a weak structure all of the sudden.

 

I think in ESB the officers are bracing themselves against the wall in case they hit, but if you look at the three ships from below as the falcon flies away you can see there is space between them -- they didn't actually hit each other.

 

Either bracing for a potential impact or bracing against the very rapid movement the SD was making to avoid a collision.

 

Only moments of entertainment I got from Rogue One were strictly superficial (I enjoyed some of the xwing stuff but not much else). Characters were a complete flatline and the story was very dull. Lots of exposition done in a flat/boring way. Looking back (only saw it twice) my favorite thing about the movie was the Blue Leader character and his mini arc. Highly doubt I'll ever watch it again. Not as bad as the prequels, but almost a completely different beast.

 

To coin a phrase from Snooker commentary, perhaps there was a very slight 'kiss' between the two SDs in the ESB MF escape from Hoth scene? We certainly know they come dangerously close to one another as they pursue the Falcon.
I think the view we get immediately after, as the MF suddenly dips and spins to avoid the chasing TIEs clearly shows the Destroyers narrowly avoiding a major impact.

 

I got the impression that the filmmakers wanted the ESB SD's to collide, but the FX or budget wouldn't allow them to do it justice, so they settled for showing us something that might be a near-miss or a slight fender bender of a collision.

 

FX or budget restrictions may have been to blame IF the original intention was to have the Destroyers heavily collide.
I've no doubt such a scenario was briefly discussed, but the SFX at that time just couldn't allow for such a scene.
So the SD's had a graze

 

And I think they were still trying to get it right 3 years later when they showed Executor colliding with DS2. If they're going to insist on messing with classic movie scenes, they ought to make that one more impressive. It's not all that great compared to what it could have been, they just barely touch and then Executor is gone in a flash of light. R1 showed us what that collision should have looked like.

 

100%. The Executor collision was terribly realised, in retrospect. But at the time, it was the best they could do *shrug*
I'll always love the Original Trilogy. Sometimes I do wish ILM would completely recreate and modernise the space scenes. In ANH and ESB especially..

 

Not even joking, the Executor destruction is my most disliked scene of the OT. In fact, I wished there was a Special Edition where that scene was completely re-written and re-shot.
Seriously, what a lame scene for such a gorgeous ship. The Executor didn't deserve it.

 

To be fair I think most of that scene looks great, the shot just after the fighter has collided with the multiple explosions coming out of different points is a real "how the hell did they do that back then?" moment for me and the ship tilting downwards looks great as well.

A lot of what makes that impact less effective to me is actually that the light from the fire clearly shows up the DS's surface as a model. If they redid it I think they should have the ship crashing in a similar kind of fashion(maybe not directly downwards) but have a much smaller explosion at the front of the ship as it impacts that then triggers a bigger secondary explosion that destroys the main hull.

 

Just curious: Outside Star Wars, what are some of your favorite films?

 

Man there's a lot....not going to List Tarantino, Scorsese, David Lynch, Kubrick, or F.F Coppola films because for the most part I enjoy all of their bodies of work.

Off the top of my head in no specific order

Jaws
Terminator
Gremlins
E.T.
Alien
Aliens
Rosemary's Baby
The Thing
Enemy
Back to the Future
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ghostbusters (1984)
Robocop
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
Tombstone
The Road Warrior
Ex Machina
Whiplash
Die Hard
Predator
Jurassic Park
Evil Dead 2
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original)
Nightmare on Elm street series (big horror fan in general)

I could go on and on, but there's just too many. Empire Strikes Back is my favorite film of all time though.

 

An excerpt from a review of Rogue One? Nope:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/star-wars--the-empire-strikes-back/review/

And Jaws also got "harpooned" back in the day. My favorite quote from the L.A. Times:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-jaws-original-review-20150619-story.html

It will be interesting to see how its critics will view this film in the future. I really think it will be considered one of the greats.


Meanwhile, the film just received a Nebula nomination (Dramatic Presentation category). The Nebulas are handed out every year by the Science Fiction Writers Association of America to honor excellence in the SF field.

 

You'd also think that a ship that size would have secondary control rooms to prevent it losing control the way it did when the bridge was destroyed.

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It's crystal clear to me that critically-speaking, this film will fare exceedingly well in the long term. It has a depth and an artistry that can make it a real classic, and a uniqueness and wackiness that can make it a cult classic (Saw, Raddus, etc).

 

This is a great post - completely agree.