Rogue One Share the most emotional moments for you

Yes, at this point you can... thanks.

 

Surprisingly, I was personally hit harder in the feels in Rogue One than TFA, or the other Episodes. I think there's a reason, specific with the direction of Rogue One:

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I'll list them 1st, then share what I think tied them together.

1. Galen: "I have so much to tell you": I can't recall the exact words, but I remember the sentiment. Galen tried to be noble, tried to send a pilot to warn the Rebellion, tried to protect his engineers, tried to beat the Empire from within. Of course, he paved the road to A New Hope, but at the moment of his death, he faced his daughter who was his entire motivation and thinking, "Oh man, there's so much left to do. I kinda screwed up!" On the outside, we saw his sacrifice and his eventual success. On the inside, I think he saw only his self-perceived screw-ups. And that was his tragedy: to die, not knowing that his work was done.

2. K2: "Goodbye." *K2 SMASH!!!*: K2 was generally very precise in everything. Here is someone who catches a grenade in mid-air and tosses it over his shoulder to very accurately kill some Storm Troopers. Never misses a shot while looking up a database with a zillion files. Yet, his last act to protect Cassian and Jyn wasn't to slice the terminal or anything that needs finesse, he resorted to brute force and just destroyed the console. As a strategist droid that calculates precise percentage chance of mission success, he MUST have already calculated his own survival chance: 0%, then further measured the time of his own demise down to miliseconds, and he thought "this is what I can achieve in my remaining time-frame BOOM!" And again, with him, he knew there were so many random factors for mission success, he died knowing precisely how hard it could still fail.

3. Chirrut Imwe: *now where is that darn lever*. Despite being blind, he could fight Storm Troopers like a pro. Was he really Force-sensitive? Hard to say, because Storm Troopers were ultimately pretty predictable. Noisy footfalls due to their clunky armour, they're all around the same height and shape ("aren't you a little short..."), so he knew pretty consistently where to strike. Even firing his bowcaster, he just had to point it towards the loudest thing in front of him. But having to find his way around a panel for the switch he was supposed to pull...hoo boy, that's HARD (even if he was Force-sensitive, machines weren't connected to the Force). What moved me wasn't when he died, but the clumsy hand movements beforehand.

4. Unnamed Character: "Take the disc!" *gets Vader'd*

What I think these moments share is that the characters didn't just face their mortality, but their limitations. They were all very aware of how little they could do, but hoping it was just enough to give someone else down the line a whisper of a chance of hope. Sometimes (perhaps oftentimes) the greatest heroes are unsung.

 

I felt exactly the same way.

 

Brilliant. It was these subtleties that really moved me about this film. Honestly, compared to all other SW films, this one had the most layered character work.

 

Yes, very well said! I think the theme of this movie was that every person has the ability to be a hero, in the small way in which any individual is able to affect the world around them. Each character who sacrifices themselves is passing the torch to the next, and the next, ultimately culminating in the single moment of hope when Leia takes the tape. Each person's actions are small and tragic, but when taken together, they add up to something large and heroic.

 

Yep, I think this was the first time on Star Wars movies that I felt like I wanted to cry, well I felt emotional at the end of ROTS but this hit me harder:

-When Jyn screams to his father I was like: yaaaaaas finally they got to see each other and it was kinda sad that he died so fast.

-Chirrut's dead was so sad it was an amazing character so charismatic and I felt like a cared about him, it was so sad because his friend was so moved too, both deaths of them were shocking.

-I felt kinda bad for K-2 but he was kinda annoying.

 

I think I got the most choked up seeing Jyn cry while her father's hologram played. All the deaths really moved me because the characters were so great but damn Chirrut's was especially sad. "I'm with the Force... and you can find me there."

 

you know that K-2SO can easily come back as another version since he's manufactured by the Empire so ain't that bad that he's dead. While your human characters are dead forever, they are now part of the force.

you can call me a racist towards droids since I could not care less about their mistreatment or their deaths. Never flinched as a kid while watching ANH for the 1st time when R2 "died", even though I loved him in ANH. Since he's just a robot. I valued human and aliens more. If I didn't care about R2 dying as a kid you can bet a fortune I won't care about K-2SO, who was one of the characters I was looking forward to the most for the movie getting destroyed.

well he died like he lived a traitor.

 

Vader at the end. His most badass scene since The Empire Strikes Back. It gave me the chills.

 

I know! My mouth just dropped open and I was just like damn!!! He's so strong.

 

Jyn watching Galen's hologram had me in tears. So glad I read Catalyst.

 

Oddly, the two Star Destroyers colliding and taking out the shield was kinda emotional. Can't put my finger on why, but it was. The soothing, calm, sadly smiling music really helped. You'd expect the music to be big and load and crashing but they went the other way with it and it was great.

 

This ^^^^

But I did have some emotional moments: Seeing Bail Organa, super awesome nod to the prequels. Gold Leader!!! Cheered out loud, and didn't apologize for it. I thought Tarkin was great, better than director krennic or Vader. Overall, seeing classic Star Wars ships fighting was great.

 

There were so many emotional moments that Galen's death, Cassian & Jyn's death, Leia's appearance and the Mon Cal Admiral's tribute to R1 don't even crack the top 3.

1. K-2SO's death. I loved him, he went out like a boss. I cried.

2. Jyn watching her father's holo message. I'm not crying, I have space dust in my eye.

3. Chirrut's walk & Baze's reaction.

Bonus moment - Vader's rampage. Never has mofo's being mown down been so joyous.

 

Honestly the Turbo Tank and the Mustafar scene made me fanboy the most. I have a lot of nostalgia for the Turbo Tank and ep 3 in general so that really got to me. I also loved the moment when that one rebel tries to wake up his dead buddy and gets shot himself and has to run. It was like the Ewok scene in ROTJ but this time it was not random and was ya know NOT acted out by teddy bears. Cassian's face when he is talking about all the terrible things he has done is great.

 

Man, I felt nothing during this movie except aggravation at bad writing. Surprised people were into the Galen hologram. I guess you fell for the editing trick of juxtaposing someone crying with another person talking and read emotional weight into that, even though the scene is actually a big long exposition info dump. I found that so jarring: trying to reach for an emotional moment in the middle of a character essentially explaining the entire backstory of the movie, in rushed fashion.

 

Some of the most emotional (and also amazing) scenes for me:
- Jyn and Cassian hugging each other before the "nuclear cloud" disintegrated them (reminds me of that ending scene from "Knowing").
- When K-2SO sacrificed himself to ensure Jyn and Cassian got the DS1 data plans - he definitely went out like a badass, I must say!
- Baze looking at his dead buddy Chirrut before getting blown up himself - finally believing in The Force and seemingly telling his friend "I'm joining you too".
- Seeing icons like Tarkin and Leia finally return to the big screen, in all their 1977 glory!
- The Death Star doing its business of destroying planets but with amazing detail - seeing things go BOOM on the doomed planets' surface is just WOW!
- Darth Vader in his prime, taking down the Rebel soldiers with his iconic red lightsaber like nobody's business!

 

Yes, we know he's a non-biological droid, but as a character, he still died. People get attached to droid characters in SW... R2-D2, BB-8, and now K-2SO. But you already know that, so your reply above was probably just supposed to make you seem cool or something.

 

what? why would my post make me look cool? I don't think any person's opinion makes them seem cool or not, it's a point of view.

you can say that me not caring about the fate of droids is more cruel than anything.

I'm not attached to any droid, sure I like 3PO and R2 and I like that they appear in all the movies but if they were to die, than I'm perfectly fine with it. They are just droids/robots. nor am I a big fan of BB-8. I actually think in all of science fiction I've never been a huge fan of droids or robot character nor do I care much about their fate. I prefer and care more about humans and aliens.

 

Philosophers have long questioned the distinction between an "artificial" mind and a human mind. Consciousness can take all variety of shapes, but as long as the mind functions as a mind, then there's no reason for privileging one type of consciousness over another.

 

That's fine, and of course everyone is entitled to their opinions. What struck me most was the dismissive, "well, but you know.." tone of a post that served just to reply to what other people had just said was an emotional moment for them.

 

- Seeing Vader's castle finally on the big screen
- Vader in the tank
- Vader putting Krennic in his place and reminding he is just a imperial stooge
- Vader showing up at the last moment when you think for a millisecond that they are going to salvage parts of the fighting force they sent but don't (who really survived honestly)
- Vader's boarding where it was something out of a horror movie
- Vader using rebel scum like they were his practice dummies
- Vader hanging off the edge of a ship watching his daughter's ship ironically enough fly off the stolen plans (I will suspend reality for a moment and say he can somehow survive it and if anything, I wish he would sent some stormtroopers twirling into space just because he could)

What else? Oh did I mention Vader.

 

I feel like there's a trend there.

 

That is interesting. I guess you like this Vader-guy, huh?

Did I mention that when Vader lights up his saber, it is the most badass lightsaber-lightup scene of all time?

Another thing that moved me a lot, is when the rebel soldier notices that there is no escape and handles the disk to his friends on the other side of the door.