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Jyn does blame the Alliance but also escaped the destruction of Jeddah by the Death Star and nearly died herself. That little girl she saves in the city she knows is also dead from the Death Star. She and her team have to go against the Alliance to go on her mission to steal the plans. She takes on Saw Guerrera's mantle.

 

Shouldn't those two cantina thugs from ANH have died when the Jeda city was destroyed?

 

if they were still there then they would have. But obviously they werent still in Jedha at that point.

 

Agree'd. Something I would really like to have seen is some more Wookies fighting with the rebels. I think it would be fine to reuse some of the existing aliens a little more than they have.

 

I can't believe people are still thinking this... didn't you see how much in world time passed, considering they ran into them before fighting the troopers, then getting captured by Saw's minions, then getting dragged halfway across the desert on foot to the temple?

PLENTY of time for many people to have come and gone from the planet.

 

They had hours to get off planet so no.

 

I just want to say I am happy for all of you who loved Rogue One. I can't wait to see it again myself and let the movie sink in more. I had some criticism of the film which I won't repeat but it is cool that we are getting new Star Wars that has been good so far in my opinion, great for others, ok for some, and dislikes as well. I am so happy that we are fortunate to see new Star Wars every year and talk about with all you.

 

What Edwards accomplished here was simply amazing. He crafted a wonderful bookend to A New Hope. He actually pushed the technology as George would have done and make an exciting adventure to go along with it.

There was a certain existential quality to the movie that we have have never seen in a SW film. Everything is struggle for Jyn and the rest of the team. She had a pretty lousy life and then made the ultimate sacrifice along with everyone else. Even K-2SO death was emotional!


There was also a wonderful irony when Krennic gets wasted by his own weapon.

I can go on and on.

 

I have only seen the film once so far but I really liked it and I will be seeing it at least a couple times more. Yes it has its problems. The CGI Tarkin and Leia is a bit jarring . The pacing is a bit off in the first part of the film and because there are so many new characters you don't really get to know some of them very well in such a limited time, I really like Jyn and Cassian and Donnie Yen character albeit his character wss reminscent of those in Daredevil and Marco Polo . I loved the droid his sarcasm was great but most of all this was my kind of Star Wars. It had the feel and tone of the original trilogy particularly A New Hope. I didnt expect that the film would have such an emotional impact on me. I was genuinely upset that they all died but accept thst it was necessary to fit in with the context of A New Hope . There are definitely a couple of inconsistencies with ANH but the space battle was great and I think the footage with Red and Gold leaders was well done. The scene with Vader annihilating most of the rebels was downright terrifying. I have to admit thst whilst this film had a darker tone than any other SW film I left the cinema feeling more hopeful about it than TFA. For the first time in over I watched a SW film on bluray (A New Hope). I have to admit that after seeing TFA four times and greatly disliking what was done to the character development of Luke Han and Leia I couldn't bear to watch Eps 1-6 thankfully Rogue 1 has changed that . I look to seeing the film again soon.

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I saw Rogue One for the second time this afternoon and enjoyed it again, even spotting a couple more of the easter eggs. Something that occurred to me whilst walking home was that Rogue One, whilst a spin-off film, has essentially become Act One of A New Hope. After seeing if the first time, I watched the beginning of ANH again and it's quite striking how much the events of Rogue One add to the opening scenes of ANH when Vader boards the Tantive IV and is clearly very pissed-off about the Death Star plans. I'm pretty certain that, once Rogue One has been released on DVD/Blu-ray, somebody is bound to splice Rogue One and ANH together so that they flow seamlessly into each other, almost like a mammoth four hours plus film. I think that could work quite well.

 

The guys at red letter media were very negative about this film. ***** them.

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Yep, there are at least 3 channels on youtube I enjoy watching who didn't like this film. All perfectly entitled to their opinion. RLM reasoning was really muddled in this review though, almost like they were counter-balancing their positive TFA review last year.

I think there is room in the Anthology stories to please everyone eventually, because they don't have to pander to a general audience. Though it is debatable whether R1 is a stand alone.

 

Perhaps even more importantly these are wanted men. They have death sentences on 12 systems. They were on the move. I can't imagine the Empire's increasing presence in the area sat too well with them. They sought somewhere a little further out of the Empire's reach. They knew just the place.

 

Someone on here said that it was like the movie, The Guns Of Navarone, I forget who said that but I totally agree! When I told my dad it was like TGON before we saw the film it did not dawn on him that all the good guys die in the end and when they all died it really saddened my dad and I totally agreed but because I new it was coming it didn't hit me like a ton of bricks but my parents and me loved the film if it was not just a tad dark.

 

Finally saw it and LOVED it!!! I enjoyed it a LOT more than I thought I would (just like TFA).

The one complaint I had was that the dialogue went too quickly and the fates of certain (ahem) character went too fast and too unnoticed by the PTB in the Alliance. I thought that the acting was excellent though. I really did feel for the characters. I think I especially liked Bodie-particularly near the end.

People complained about the first act and being too slow. I thought otherwise. I thought the first act was excellent and even may have gone too fast in terms of jumping from place to place.

I have to admit that just when things slowed down it moved on to something else AND stayed focus throughout the movie. That was a plus over TFA which started with one focus and went to another without us ever really knowing why they truly needed Luke. R1 stayed on task. I do wish they had a tribute t the R1 group near the end.

I loved that they had new settings like the beach. Erdu was hard to see because it was so dark but I loved Jedha.

I thought the CGI for Tarkin and Leia were INCREDIBLE. The facial features on Tarkin were exceptional. The only problem I had were the head motions and mouth motions. Whoever they got needed to stay still more and was WAY too tall. I actually thought that Vader looked more awkward than Tarkin or Leia. I suspect they will be doing some clean up work in that department and utilize more CGI for Episdoes 8 and/or 9 with Luke and Ben Solo and possibly even with Leia and Han. They laid the groundwork with Leia and could do an older (30 something) looking Leia.

I thought the music was great. It was no worse than TFA and even better in spots.

What do I rate it? I'd say about an 8 out of 10. Where do I rank it? Not so sure because it's like a completely different movie. Maybe if I had to place it in terms of overall quality,

IV (always a special place in my heart)
V (classic)
VII (brought back the spirit from 1977)
R1 ( this is probably where I'd put it)
III (moody and emotional but there's still that scripting and acting issue that falls behind R1)
VI (tremendous suspense with the Emperor's demise but the Endor stuff dragged on forever)
II (certainly the right intention and I really do think that the plot was great-just not so well executed)
I (fun, but, well, let's just leave it be)

 

Took my girlfriend last night who has never seen any Star Wars movie before. Her reaction was WTF is going on? Truth be told, there is just too much junk going on in the movie and almost none of it is important. So yeah I think her assessment was pretty spot on.

The film starts with about ten different scene changes, and for some reason all of them need superimposed titles. That’s the first indication one gets that the script sucks. I don’t remember any superimposed titles in the OT, do you? When did “Dagobah” or “Yavin” or “Alderaan” or “Tatooine” or “Bespin” ever flash on screen? Well the answer is never, because the stories were told in a way that the viewer was never confused and never needed to read the movie like it’s some kind of travel brochure. All of these scenes are just expository **** thrown against the wall because the script sucks bad.

Once that awful beginning was out of the way, I guess I did find myself trying to discern more between the good aspects of the film and the bad. Throwbacks like Mon Mothma and Bail Organa were perfectly appropriate, well cast, and made the film better. Others like CGI Tarkin and the droids reminded me of the RLM joke that Lucas nearly threw in baby Han at the end of the PT just for the **** of it. Do we really need another droid ripping off Empire dialogue, or chess board holograms lifted out of ANH?
Anyway, as the story progresses, we get to know our protagonist, Jyn Erso. Honestly I don’t mind this character. She’s derivative and not terribly interesting, but she’s pretty much the only likeable person in the movie, so I can get behind her. The real problem is that I don’t give a damn about any of her sidekicks. The old black mentor type guy, who cares about that dude? He’s like the general grievous of Rogue One. The Alliance good/bad guy she dies with, what was his story? He’s just some scruffy nerfherder that kills people on orders and then doesn’t kill someone else on orders because the plot got in the way? At least the Imperials were cast better in Rogue One than TFA (General Hux, I’m looking at you) but these guys are still cartoon characters and nothing like the nuanced stage acting we used to get from people like Kenneth Colley.

Oh well, back to the plot. There was actually one invaluable novelty contained within Rogue One, and it was the idea that someone intentionally designed a flaw into the Death Star in order to aid the alliance. What a concept! That single idea could have made this entire movie, and by made the entire movie, I mean it could have been the unifying force that tied together every other scene and character and motivation the same way Vader’s confession did in Empire Strikes Back. Literally the entire rest of the script should have been designed in order to build to THAT revelation, and undoubtedly, THAT revelation, and Jyn meeting her father, should all have come at the climax of the story.

But that doesn’t happen. None of that was fleshed out.

In fact, in the middle of my first viewing, having not read any spoilers, I immediately noted to myself that the movie was already over at that point. Sure, I could tell the filmmakers were setting up some kind of contrived, nonsensical space battle, just for ****s and giggles, but the movie was already over. If I hadn’t been with my girlfriend, I would have walked out. They buried the climax in the middle of the second act!!!

The whole last act was just derivative spectacle to fill screen time. Was that Jyn and her paramour climbing some records thing, or Luke and Leia swinging from a grappling hook? I mean, I don’t even want to get into denigrating the Chinese guy and his friend, that’s too easy. At least Vader’s last scene was really great, but everything else with him and CGI Tarkin looked like it was made by amateurs filming their own Youtube videos.

Well, I’m probably being too harsh here. I will say that Rogue One does not offend me. It’s the first Star Wars movie since 1983 that I don’t despise with a burning and seething passion. I just find it to be a poorly made and boring movie.
Boring…yes, I’d say that’s the final verdict.

 

Some random who just happens to be some random's daughter, who has just sent a random defector to prey tell of a random weakness in a rebellion threatening weapon and who has randomly been sought by the rebellion for years, you mean?

 

I'm going to say This film was really made for the Fanboys. If Casual fans don't get whats going on that is to bad for them I got It and I am sure most fanboys got it, My parents who are casual fans who just so happened to see A New Hope back in the theater in 1977 they loved it as well. I saw a kid about 7 years old walk out of the theater with a grin from ear to ear and he proclaimed walking out of the theater, "THAT WAS THE BEST STAR WARS MOVIE I EVER SAW!" that really says it all to me!

 

Though I would hesitate to call that a true honest opinion. Their site thrives when they are negative towards Star Wars. Notice how all 3 guys in the video all have the exact same opinion of the film. That site represents THE WORST in geekdom.

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Disagree , tfa had much better music and impact


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Spot on about the 'lewd theater' remarks though. LOL

 

Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes 90% after 53,000 ratings
4.3/5

Compare to TFA - Audience score 89%
4.3/5

For all the various 'factions' of the Star Wars fanbase disagree, the Disney era has hit 2 home runs with the general audience.

 

Rogue One Director Discusses Film's Ending - IGN
https://apple.news/ADBiEp4FNNl-71Ewk7zI0ng
This was a question in a conversation yesterday about the ending.

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