Rogue One The Rogue One title font and title music

So, what do you think of the font used for Rogue One title? And the title music?

Personally, I thought it looked and felt very uninspired and generic. The thing I don't get is how Edwards, or Kennedy or anyone else thought that this was good. I mean, they're sitting there watching a test release or screeners or whatever, and they're like "Oh yeah, that's wonderful!" Really? REALLY??

 

I liked the font. I loved the music.

 

There's already a music thread, which has also discussed the title font (which I also believe sucked.)

 

I liked both!

 

I love the music - it's the hope theme that Giacchino created for Rogue One and it shows up all over the movie. The font was okay. I do think that there are many people who have a problem with both, and it's not the font or the music themselves, but the fact that we aren't used to seeing a Star Wars movie do a main title after a cold open. So when it came up on the screen it was a bit jarring on the fist viewing of the movie.

 

Didn't like the font. Thought the music was just ok.

I don't think they succeeded in developing a distinctive brand for the "Star Wars Story" type of films.

They needed something like what Marvel does at the start of their movies with the flipping pages of the comic books.

They can change it up though and try to get it right with the Han Solo film

 

...or they can just treat the movies as true standalones and let the directors set their own styles for their own movies.
That's what I'm hoping for.

 

I would be ok with that

 

i don't like the font but I loved the movie

 

The font is atrocious...

 

I think the opening title is an example that Edwards is still a bit green. He made the Godzilla movie, and although I liked it overall, there were aspects of the movie that seemed to be lacking. For instance, he would switch away from the actions scenes too soon and too often. He also didn't get much out of some of his actors. Rogue One title seems to be another weakness of Edwards, with no one telling him "Uhhh, ok.". There's no way anyone will be humming that tune, like the Star Wars tune, or remembering it with any real fondness. The melody feels random. I know Giaccino is the composer, but Edwards is the director, so he says what goes. Not sure who was responsible for the boring font (what is it? Times new Roman?").

 

I thought the title font was fine, and the music was good.

 

I liked the music. And I like the title font. I just didn't like its placement how it cut from the Erso scene to outer space suddenly and the title. It was jarring. I think the title should have been right after "a long time ago..." or at the very end of the movie to start the credits.

 

Loved both. Very fresh and different, just what the franchise needed.

 

Would it have killed them to include "A Star Wars Story" as a footnote like the theatrical poster.

 

No it wouldn't. But everyone who went to see it knew it was a Star Wares story, so In my mind it was not needed. The title of the movie was Rogue One. And that's what was stated.

 

The font was bad. Why not just use the font/layout that was used on all the promotional material? It felt like they just ran through the fonts that come with Microsoft Word until they arrived on good enough.

It looked like an early era web page. It wasn't just the font itself, but even the presentation. Creativity: nil.

I haven't decided how I feel about the music. First viewing, it felt wrong. Mainly because it chose to almost completely run from some of the established themes. As the blockade runner is escaping Vader's capture, it starts to play the Vader theme, but then tacks on a different ending.

It was like they wanted to play a famous melody everybody knows like:
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

but instead they play
Twinkle Twinkle Little scat dat doodlie wit doh

It's jarring. It didn't feel creative. It felt like they had decided they could play 7 notes, but if they played 8 of the original, John Williams gets royalties and that just wasn't in the budget.

If they didn't run from just the two big themes (the Star Wars theme and the Vader theme, because Vader is in it), I could have then appreciated the other 95% of the musical score that created new themes for the new characters.

 

We all know the standalones are separate from the saga, but continuity with the movie titles for all anthologies would have been a nice touch. Wouldn't be shocked to see it on the DVD cover art.

 

I don't understand the problem with the font. What were they supposed to use, comic sans? I just find it funny that when anyone would point out the TFA crawl font being off everyone was like WHO CARES IT'S JUST A FONT, and now everyone's complaining about the font. The music was good too. As previously stated, it's the Hope theme from the movie, most prominent when Jyn grabs the plans. So I think it fits.

 

The cold opening and Font and Music all worked for me, reminds me of how the Star Wars Rebels Cartoon opens up!

 

I thought the whole title sequence was a bit corny. I would have preferred the "Rogue One" title superimposed silently at the beginning of a scene or a title card shown after the Tantive IV takes off, then cut to the credits.

 

Does it matter really?
The font, I'll leave that obsessing to the Graphic Designer graduates out there. It came and went and didn't bother me.

The music... I get that people wanted that initial blast of Classic Williams, and maybe that's what they should have done. A few seconds of Bahhh-Bahhh BuhBuhBuh Baahhh-Baahhh to satisfy that internal need to hear it, and then gone off on their own way.

Even if Williams wrote the score he would have written "Jyn's Theme", "Saw's Theme", "Krennic's Theme".
The familiar Luke, Leia, Vader themes would have had minimal play. It would have always been Different.

 

I liked both. The title itself seemed rather old school. It was a nice touch IMO.

 

I think it's fine without the subtitle. I look at "A Star Wars Story" as a marketing subtitle. It's similar to what Fox did with the second film in the X-Men series. It was marketed as X2: X-Men United, but the onscreen title was just X2.

 

It reminded me of the equally bland logo for TFA