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

The hallway scene was the first time we saw a truly bad arse suited Darth Vader doing serious damage to an enemy force on screen. It was indeed a scene I've been wanting to see for 40 years!

 

When I first heard about it, I thought what's the big deal? It's just random rebels.

In the theatre, jaw drop.

 

I'm pleased that I had no idea it was going to be in the film and to be honest the whole ending was probably the best of any Star Wars film.

 

Yup. And those "random Rebels" are now memorialized in a way that no other "random Rebels" are. It was a demonstration of pure heroism. They all knew they were going to die. And we'll never forget those faces as a result.

 

to quote Freddie Mercury, the scene 'Sent shiver down my spine'

 

I still get chills from how they go from "help us!" to "take it!".

 

First time I saw the hallway scene, I thought... my childhood is now complete a decade plus later.

 

My very first time seeing it in theater:
- Oh boy oh boy oh boy here he comes
- Holy **** he slammed him into the ceiling and sliced him in half so casually
- Badass shot of Vader looking at that ship

 

I like how it matches up with the angry Vader choking Antilles in ANH.

 

Yep he definitely seemed to mellow since.

 

For 39 years, I thought Antilles drew the short straw, boy was I wrong.

 

i had been pretty unwell and in hospital for a while but got out the night the movie came out so my mum took me to the drive in and i was just totally amazed my jaw hit the ground and beaming ear to ear and jumping around in the car even though i wasn't allowed to weight bare on my foot. my mum totally didn't get why i was so excited but did tear up for the jyn/kassian death

 

The movie is REALLY good ... But the entire end is AWSOME ...
Loved Vader entry !!!

 

People don't seem to ever bring up how great the acting was from the guys who were playing the Rebel Fleet Troopers during the Vader rampage scene. They did a phenomenal job of emoting anxiety and stress during all of that intense mayhem. Truly splendid performances from all of them.

 

Totally agreed, but it's been mentioned in this and other threads in here before. These guys even have a collective character arc: they go from understandable concern for themselves when the door gets jammed ("help us!") to accepting their fate and just wanting to get the plans out of there so someone after them can do something with them ("take it!"). That line still gives me chills.

 

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(except I didn't jump, squeal and wave around in a full movie theatre, my arms'd been broken, but you get the point)

 

If you think that, then you clearly didn't bother to read the entire thread.

 

Personally, I loved it. It was well done and portrayed Vader much closer to how he is in Empire than had been seen in years. It also works for two other reasons. First, it gave the film a lightsaber scene, as Vader is the only character in the film that is a force user(although Chirrut is force sensitive) and second, the fridge brilliance was only one of these Rebel officers had to survive.

 

It's a harrowing scene and I'm glad I saw Rogue One a couple of months after the hype went down. Supposedly, people were cheering, applauding and generally going nuts during the scene, which is entirely inappropriate. It's supposed to be scary, not "badass", and, in that sense, it was very effective. Also, there were some reviewers such as Jenny Nicholson and Red Letter Media who were using the fact that people were cheering during the slaughter as evidence that the film wasn't good. This is unfair. You can't hold it against the film that people cheer during inappropriate times.

 

RO Vader is so good because he's treated as both theatrical and scary. That's when he's at his best.

 

It was needed. Now we have a proper reference to what a fully trained Force user can do with trained regular soldiers.

 

He was a boss during that scene. Never seen him so violent and unbound before like that.