FlashbladeGAF
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Vader going Gray Fox on the rebels was the highlight for me.
This is always an odd metric to judge a movie by, I don't remember a ton of names from movies that I love.I left the theater disliking it immediately unfortunately.
I couldn't tell you the names of any of the characters without looking them up if you offered me $100 bucks right now.
That's the WRONG GODDAMN DEATH STAR, you FAKE GEEK GUY.Disney at it again with whitewashing history to make a buck. The main cast is entirely human. Do people realized how many Bothans died to bring us the Death Star plans?
I really liked it, though Forest was criminally underused. That will always bother me, I think.
.First off I thought the entire concept was completely unnecessary from the start. Telling a story that did not need telling and we already knew the outcome and yes it is different than telling the prequels.
It's not though, and saying it doesn't make that statement any less wrong.
Found the whole thing boring tbh. The final act with the battle was good, but apart from that the film had nothing going on.
Fair enough, that's a valid opinion.
protagonists were terrible and unlikable apart from leias dad and the guy with the big fking gun. Torkin is always excellent to see but they probably should have used a new voice actor for vader. Jones sounds terrible now.
I liked the characters, and I especially loved K2. JEJ definitely sounds older, a bit weaker, but I think he still did good and he sounds great in Rebels.
I like donny but I feel his character was a stereotypical Chinese dude giving out words of wisdom. Instead of chinese proverbs he just babbles about the force and dodging shit because he's blind (force sensitive right guys?). Couldn't he have been a normal character instead of some stereotype.
I'll give you this one. I still liked him though, one of the best characters for sure.
So much filler and stuff that messes with the continuity of ANH. This is brushed off by pretending the city wasn't destroyed but an accident. Why they need to test it on a city? I'm sure they already have weapons that can vaporise a city but can't blow up a planet because in ANH you see it being tested on a planet for real..
What exactly do you think messed with the continuity of ANH? The thing that is affected the most is Leia's claim that they are on a diplomatic mission. It's made extremely weak by the fact that Vader personally saw them flee the battle of Scarif but she may not realize that.
And the weapon is tested on a city because it's the first real test. Why risk some sort of reactor meltdown by firing at full power the first time, and they can't exactly go around blowing up planets just for fun, Krennic doesn't have that kind of pull. Tarkin on the other hand is a Grand Moff and the list of people that can say no to him is incredibly short.
The whole plot line of the MC dad being the architect for the death star even though we see in episode 2 duku receiving the plans, making RnD redundant, which they establish in the film they would have built it without him anyway.
The idea for the Death Star was conceived by Tarkin, he's a huge proponent of ruling by fear. The actual design was made by the Geonosians, and Galen Erso is responsible for getting the weapon to work. That was the most difficult part and the reason it took so long to complete.
Some positives ithe final battle was good and it was a gritty for a star wars film, everyone died lol.
First hand Disney milking their new ip. So many stories they could have told; instead some ridiculous story of how they got some tech spec of the space station.
Lucasfilm calls the shots on Star Wars, and it was a cool story to tell. All we knew before was that the Rebels somehow got the plans. The old EU had several versions of the story and people loved it then, it made sense to retell it.
You already hated the film before it began so you were going to find reasons to dislike it no matter whatFirst off I thought the entire concept was completely unnecessary from the start. Telling a story that did not need telling and we already knew the outcome and yes it is different than telling the prequels.
Found the whole thing boring tbh. The final act with the battle was good, but apart from that the film had nothing going on.
protagonists were terrible and unlikable apart from leias dad and the guy with the big fking gun. Torkin is always excellent to see but they probably should have used a new voice actor for vader. Jones sounds terrible now.
I like donny but I feel his character was a stereotypical Chinese dude giving out words of wisdom. Instead of chinese proverbs he just babbles about the force and dodging shit because he's blind (force sensitive right guys?). Couldn't he have been a normal character instead of some stereotype.
So much filler and stuff that messes with the continuity of ANH. This is brushed off by pretending the city wasn't destroyed but an accident. Why they need to test it on a city? I'm sure they already have weapons that can vaporise a city but can't blow up a planet because in ANH you see it being tested on a planet for real..
The whole plot line of the MC dad being the architect for the death star even though we see in episode 2 duku receiving the plans, making RnD redundant, which they establish in the film they would have built it without him anyway.
Some positives ithe final battle was good and it was a gritty for a star wars film, everyone died lol.
First hand Disney milking their new ip. So many stories they could have told; instead some ridiculous story of how they got some tech spec of the space station.
The Vader scene was the only part of the movie I enjoyed. The rest was meh.That last Vader scene is amazing and I watch it several times a week on Netflix.
I enjoyed the movie as whole. But dat Vader scene.
Hi. There's no such thing as an unnecessary piece of filmmaking. There's also very few films that could argued to have been "necessary" and I'd argue most of them are documentaries. Things like CitizenFour. There's also more to a story than finding out what happens at the end. If your argument is that it's a bad film from the get-go because we know what will happen, then doesn't that also apply to every historical film ever? Every adapted film ever?
"Boring" has also gotta be one of the laziest criticisms around. It's so subjective, that it's hard to take seriously. Why did you find yourself bored by it? Like, plenty of folks think Terence Malick films are boring. I don't, when I think of boring movies, I think of shit like Despicable Me and Transformers. Other people find those movies wildly entertaining. It's kind of a useless criticism.
Most of your further criticisms seem to revolve around continuity and how it fits into the franchise as a whole, rather than on it's success as a piece of story-telling. To that I say:
Continuity is usually a pretty important part of storytelling
Continuity is usually a pretty important part of storytelling
Most "continuity" criticisms on the internet are nerdy neck-beardy nit-picky bullshit of the highest degree.
Comments like these sure make me want to take your opinions seriously
Then you're not seeing the forest for the trees.
Kinda like people who get hung-up on continuity.
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Rogue One feels like a very easily misunderstood movie.
I read the film as a war movie that just happens to take place in the Star Wars universe. Unlike the more character focused mainline movies, Rogue One is far more focused on the overall warfare going on. Kind of like a historical drama.
Feels like some people expect the film to be just like the main Star Wars films in terms of character and story, which isn't really what they're going for.
That said, it's not like I think the movie is perfect. But �� that last battle sequence though. Makes it at least on par with Return of the Jedi for me. Flawed, but worth watching for its standout moments.
if this was a WW2 movie it would be about one soldier, alongside their band of misfit mates, creating the enigma machine and deciphering all the codes while holding off the Nazis in Russia
First off I thought the entire concept was completely unnecessary from the start. Telling a story that did not need telling and we already knew the outcome and yes it is different than telling the prequels.
I'll never understand how people can say Rogue One is the worst Star Wars movie when Attack of the Clones still exists