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Rogue One - A Star Wars spoiler thread

Brilliant brilliant brilliant!

Ending especially superb, too many goosebump moments but the finale, and Vaders "prepare a boarding squadron" was awesome. Good to see they went through with the final slaughter. I think everyone whispered Stardust when they were going through the filenames for a nice 'aren't I clever' tap in :D Mos Eisley "You'll be dead" guy, a load of the X wing pilots, and other bit part cameos from the OG trilogy were also well received (thought R2/3PO cameo was perhaps overstepping it :oops: ). Thought I saw Alec Guiness for a second (just after Donnie Yens first scene) :hmm:

Blind jedi-esque guy and the droid stole the show. Great ensemble cast in general really (admittedly, apart Mendelsohn). Love the bit part British daytime TV standard actors getting decent screen time (eg Charlie 'Lovejoys nemesis' in ANH and the guy from Law and Order UK as one of the x wings that made it through). Lots of good dog fights.

Slight gripes...
* CGI Cushing was like something from the shite Planet of the Apes film. A brave move but unnecessary.
* Ben Mendelsohn - one of my fave current actors but a little wasted here IMO
* Calling someone a "Director"? :D It's a military get up, not a marketing department
* Shithouse flying turtle spaceship... and the other foldy wingy thingy (the Rebel one) staying in permanent 'superman' position when it's arms should retract for landing (i.e. only in streamlined mode for aero gains when jumping to lightspeed)
* I've got to send back the black X wing I got my nephew for xmas back now as he'll now want a white one again (and rightly so!)
 
Oh look, another fight on a planet and above a planet and a shield that has to be deactivated...

It was alright, not great. Because of the set-up of New Hope I had rather been hoping for an espionage flick but we just got another war flick.

Most characters had their moments and potential but ultimately weren't worth investing in, especially when I knew they were going to die because, again, New Hope. Motivation was superficial and basically once again boiled down to "the bad guys are bad". You can know people are going to die and still care about why, but in this I didn't.

Vader should NOT be making fucking puns about his terrifying powers. I did enjoy it when he went all badass in the corridor though and carved through the greyhats. "Yes! Yes! Kill them all!!"

It was alright though.
 
Oh yeah, I did enjoy K2 (though as a podcast I listened to pointed out, it almost got to the point where you were always expecting a gag which undermined certain moments) and the darker side of the rebellion (again though, could have been explored much more to make for a more interesting film).
 
Lord Camomile said:
Oh yeah, I did enjoy K2 (though as a podcast I listened to pointed out, it almost got to the point where you were always expecting a gag which undermined certain moments) and the darker side of the rebellion (again though, could have been explored much more to make for a more interesting film).
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The gags reminded me of the last terminator which was shit because arnie kept making shit gags. maybe I just don't like robot's making gags.
 
What about it's budget of $200 million ? It's obscene, Gareth Edwards did a great job with his Monsters film with a budget of $500000.
 
DJWrongspeed said:
What about it's budget of $200 million ? It's obscene, Gareth Edwards did a great job with his Monsters film with a budget of $500000.
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But so many things are obscene - what a bunch of macho shitheads running round on a field kicking some leather get paid for example - that it's difficult to pick on this in particular.

It is amazing they spent so much and got so little creativity for their money, but Star Wars fans don't want creativity, they want more of the same. I suppose I also paid for it at the cinema on the basis it would be easy viewing, and I was right.
 
I don't see how the next two stand alones can top this. Only thing is, it's not entirely suitable for the younger kids. And CGI Cushing didn't quite work.
 
krtek a houby said:
I don't see how the next two stand alones can top this. Only thing is, it's not entirely suitable for the younger kids. And CGI Cushing didn't quite work.
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Given the standard of acting in the film I'm not sure why anyone would care if a character seems slightly 'unreal'. The main characters like Jyn (?) barely moved their faces at all, despite going through multiple traumas and stresses - to me that's a lot more unreal than a face of ever so slightly the wrong texture. I know I'm being a grump on this thread, but it's just a silly kids film (even if it is one of the 'darker' ones) that cost a lot of money. It seems increasingly weird to me to take it seriously in any way. Grump grump grump.
 
Just watched it this afternoon, and still processing what I have seen. The lack of an opening STAR WARS crawl is jarring, but even more so is the score (apparently put together in less than five weeks) which just isn't up to the job of supporting the visual imagery. To be fair, John Williams' score for 'The Force Awakens' was not particularly strong but it was significantly better than this.

The highlights? Vader's scenes at the end give a very real sense of just how bad he is - the image of the lightsabre was fantastic. The tone of the film is just so right, it is certainly different from other STAR WARS films, but it gives a real sense of weight to what the Rebellion is, and has to be, in order to survive. This complexity (beyond a simple bifurcation of good and bad) makes the ending all the more compelling - even in its bleakness.

It will be very interesting to see what the impact will be on future STAR WARS films, but I very much hope that it influences future films.
 
Beats & Pieces said:
Just watched it this afternoon, and still processing what I have seen. The lack of an opening STAR WARS crawl is jarring, but even more so is the score (apparently put together in less than five weeks) which just isn't up to the job of supporting the visual imagery. To be fair, John Williams' score for 'The Force Awakens' was not particularly strong but it was significantly better than this.

The highlights? Vader's scenes at the end give a very real sense of just how bad he is - the image of the lightsabre was fantastic. The tone of the film is just so right, it is certainly different from other STAR WARS films, but it gives a real sense of weight to what the Rebellion is, and has to be, in order to survive. This complexity (beyond a simple bifurcation of good and bad) makes the ending all the more compelling - even in its bleakness.

It will be very interesting to see what the impact will be on future STAR WARS films, but I very much hope that it influences future films.
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I agree about the score. I found it reakly off-putting. In fact i think it was the weakest part of the film for me. That and Vaders neck.
 
Santino said:
We know his back story. Who cares?

He meets Chewie, he wins the Millennium Falcon off Lando and he pisses off Jabba. I don't want to see those plot points laboriously spelled out over 2 hours.
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They've made quite a few films out of a few lines from the original trilogy so far, don't deny me the one we've all been waiting for, the han solo one
 
Due 25 May 2018. Starring the toothless cowboy from Hail Caesar! and directed by the same geezer as 21 Jump Street and The Lego Movie :oops: Can. Not. Wait.

 
Good film, but they could have got someone genuinely funny to write the robots wisecracks. A couple hit home, bit so many fell flat. A bit too clichéd to have a robot frequently calculating the probability of death/survival in moments of tension. Shame, as the general idea of a cynical robot, and the voice acting, was a good one.

Apart from that, it was ace.
 
d/l'd an atrocious cam job and watched 1 minute of it before deciding I was better than this. Have to be a new year or mid-season ciema visit.
 
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