Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
OK, some more points - the film it reminded me most of was Force Ten from Navarone, though I doubt if that was deliberate. I'd known Grand Moff Tarkin was back, baby, via the magic of CGI - but I hadn't realised there'd be so much of him. I thought it worked very well, all things considered.
And I was completely unprepared for Leia's cameo at the very end (I just went awwww, when I saw that one). I get what people are saying about how maybe this strikes a bum note with the scenes in ANH where Vader tells her off for lying about her ship's mission. But I don't think that one flies, because after all, we don't know if Leia knows that it was Vader who nearly caught her before her ship jumped to hyperspace and escaped from Scariff.
If diversity was an aim of the casting, they could have had some more people of African origin. But again, I don't think this detracts from the film overall. As for the heroine not having more agency, well that's the point - in wartime "the problems of a few little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world", to quote another war movie from long ago.
And that was the best thing about I thought - the fact that this one acknowledged that war is fucking awful, and that even the "good guys" end up doing some bloody awful things. That makes it unsuitable for the under-twelves, but it wasn't that kind of movie anyway.
Also, Felicity Jones was refreshingly free of luvvie-esque RADA-isms, unlike the lassie who played Rey in TFA.
And I was completely unprepared for Leia's cameo at the very end (I just went awwww, when I saw that one). I get what people are saying about how maybe this strikes a bum note with the scenes in ANH where Vader tells her off for lying about her ship's mission. But I don't think that one flies, because after all, we don't know if Leia knows that it was Vader who nearly caught her before her ship jumped to hyperspace and escaped from Scariff.
If diversity was an aim of the casting, they could have had some more people of African origin. But again, I don't think this detracts from the film overall. As for the heroine not having more agency, well that's the point - in wartime "the problems of a few little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world", to quote another war movie from long ago.
And that was the best thing about I thought - the fact that this one acknowledged that war is fucking awful, and that even the "good guys" end up doing some bloody awful things. That makes it unsuitable for the under-twelves, but it wasn't that kind of movie anyway.
Also, Felicity Jones was refreshingly free of luvvie-esque RADA-isms, unlike the lassie who played Rey in TFA.
