Rogue One - A Star Wars spoiler thread
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The film had been set out from its conception to be a war film and about the Rebels' struggle, so the absence of the Force is to be expected. Also the timeline would make it tricky to explain, as at the time the only two Jedi left, Yoda and Obi Wan, were in hiding.
I loved the fact that the film focused on different aspects of the SW universe. I wouldn't mimd another spin-off with the Empire being the main focus, actually. Perhaps following a Stormtrooper unit as the terrorise the galaxy.
oneflewover
Following "The Tigers"
Maybe to find out why they are so easily beat by inferior numbers.
ska invita
back on the other side
Finally watched
Got a strong ww2 vibe from it...some of the moustaches, costumes and accents gave it a real anglo/french vive la resistance feel
Thats kind of what original SW was - ww2 in space - but this took it there further with the stylisitics
Got a strong ww2 vibe from it...some of the moustaches, costumes and accents gave it a real anglo/french vive la resistance feel
Thats kind of what original SW was - ww2 in space - but this took it there further with the stylisitics
your post may be three months old, but since no one one picked you up on - is there anything you do on these boards that doesnt involve perving on teenage girls?
Cid
Proper break this time
Cid
Proper break this time
I came across this while browsing samurai armour yesterday (as you do).
120 hours of work, yours for only £4,500 (ex VAT). Arashi Nio-Dō Yoroi armour, nothing to do with star wars IP of course. Nope. Definitely not. Dunno why I'm posting it on this thread really.
120 hours of work, yours for only £4,500 (ex VAT). Arashi Nio-Dō Yoroi armour, nothing to do with star wars IP of course. Nope. Definitely not. Dunno why I'm posting it on this thread really.
ska invita
back on the other side
I watched it last night too...i agree with Mike from Half in the Bag: the best fan fiction film ever... but not the best Star Wars film
T & P
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I wouldn't necessarily put it at the very top of my list (Empire does it for me), but I'd certainly rate it top three with Empire and A New Hope. Can't wait to watch it again.
Incidentally (and those who haven't seen the film should obviously avoid this link), Gareth Edwards has just told the background story to *that* Vader scene. Very enjoyable watch:
The Director of ‘Rogue One’ Reveals the Secrets of That Crazy Vader Scene
There is some discussion at the moment about the next film - it appears that Tatooine, Endor and Mustafa may feature. This would surely suggest (if true) that Vader's story still looms large within the arc of this particular trilogy. As long as I don't have to watch a bloody Ewok again I will be happy.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
What if the Ewok has just been shot or cleaved in two with a light sabre or something?
Supine
Newt Member
Watched it this week. Think I'm in the minority's because I wasn't impressed.
The series hasn't moved on much since 77 or whenever I saw the first film for my birthday. Death Star - check, Walkers - check, Flying between stuff - check.
Robot was good. Nice to see a beach in the series. Very formulaic though. 6/10.
Last 20 seconds was good but can't work how they filmed it...
The series hasn't moved on much since 77 or whenever I saw the first film for my birthday. Death Star - check, Walkers - check, Flying between stuff - check.
Robot was good. Nice to see a beach in the series. Very formulaic though. 6/10.
Last 20 seconds was good but can't work how they filmed it...
T & P
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Well, given that it was conceived as a spin-off tale solely devoted to telling the story of the rebel forces who stole the Desth Star's plans, it should be hardly surprising that the Death Star features heavily and that the film has the same feel and look as A New Hope
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
I liked it at the time but have no desire to watch it again. Left me a bit cold tbh.
Kanda
Diving wanker
Pretty sure Walkers (AT-AT) made their first appearance in Empire. The revamped New Hope had some AT-ST put in but they weren't in the original.
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
Finally got to see this over the weekend, (mistakenly with a bottle of wine so it went a bit fuzzy towards the end - didn't get the Stardust reasoning).
My biggest gripe - The beginning of IV when the ship carrying the plans with Leia is captured, Vader says to Leia that she's part of the rebellion and they know the plans were 'intercepted'. Leia lies saying, oh no I'm not I'm on a diplomatic mission, etc, etc.
But their ship blatantly escaped out of the rebel mothership and Vader nearly got in, how could she expect to deny that. SW fan at work says they got away into light speed and so the capture seen at the beginning of IV, Vader wouldn't know if it was the same vessel. Like they don't have digital signatures or something to know what ship is what...
That's like me jumping a red light with a cop-car behind that doesn't come after me immediately but 5 miles down the road he catches up and pulls me over and says
'oi, you jumped a red light back there'
'me officer, don't know what you're talking about, I'm on a diplomatic mission'
'you're nicked me old mucker!'
Also the plans weren't 'intercepted' they weren't sent wirelessly, they were passed through the door on a nicked hard drive.
And yes something was off with Vader, might just be because it was a different guy in the suit, he moved too easily and the dialogue was out of character, but his head-neck area didn't seem right...even in my wine-infused state I kept focusing on his neck to work out what was wrong.
But apart from that it was good - it kept faith with the originals, all good.
Turtle style ships were rubbish, Superman-type ship was bril.
My biggest gripe - The beginning of IV when the ship carrying the plans with Leia is captured, Vader says to Leia that she's part of the rebellion and they know the plans were 'intercepted'. Leia lies saying, oh no I'm not I'm on a diplomatic mission, etc, etc.
But their ship blatantly escaped out of the rebel mothership and Vader nearly got in, how could she expect to deny that. SW fan at work says they got away into light speed and so the capture seen at the beginning of IV, Vader wouldn't know if it was the same vessel. Like they don't have digital signatures or something to know what ship is what...
That's like me jumping a red light with a cop-car behind that doesn't come after me immediately but 5 miles down the road he catches up and pulls me over and says'oi, you jumped a red light back there'
'me officer, don't know what you're talking about, I'm on a diplomatic mission'
'you're nicked me old mucker!'
Also the plans weren't 'intercepted' they weren't sent wirelessly, they were passed through the door on a nicked hard drive.
And yes something was off with Vader, might just be because it was a different guy in the suit, he moved too easily and the dialogue was out of character, but his head-neck area didn't seem right...even in my wine-infused state I kept focusing on his neck to work out what was wrong.
But apart from that it was good - it kept faith with the originals, all good.
Turtle style ships were rubbish, Superman-type ship was bril.
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emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Agree I don't know why they did it like that. It could have worked just as well with someone rushing to transmit the plans and them cut to Leia receiving them. And it would have matched up better.Finally got to see this over the weekend, (mistakenly with a bottle of wine so it went a bit fuzzy towards the end - didn't get the Stardust reasoning).
My biggest gripe - The beginning of IV when the ship carrying the plans with Leia is captured, Vader says to Leia that she's part of the rebellion and they know the plans were 'intercepted'. Leia lies saying, oh no I'm not I'm on a diplomatic mission, etc, etc.
But their ship blatantly escaped out of the rebel mothership and Vader nearly got in, how could she expect to deny that. SW fan at work says they got away into light speed and so the capture seen at the beginning of IV, Vader wouldn't know if it was the same vessel. Like they don't have digital signatures or something to know what ship is what...
'oi, you jumped a red light back there'
'me officer, don't know what you're talking about, I'm on a diplomatic mission'
'you're nicked me old mucker!'
Also the plans weren't 'intercepted' they weren't sent wirelessly, they were passed through the door on a nicked hard drive.
And yes something was off with Vader, might just be because it was a different guy in the suit, he moved too easily and the dialogue was out of character, but his head-neck area didn't seem right...even in my wine-infused state I kept focusing on his neck to work out what was wrong.
But apart from that it was good - it kept faith with the originals, all good.
Turtle style ships were rubbish, Superman-type ship was bril.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Oh I knew all along it was going to be light on the force-usage but had hoped for at least one lightsabre duel- invent another jedi-in-hiding. Or a grey force user. A rival sith faction, it could have happened.
although one good thing it showed was how fucked you are up against a sith lord and have no force user allies, he went through them like he was grinding up suasage meat.
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IIRC, in A New Hope the plans were described by Vader as both being 'intercepted' and 'beamed' at various times. I read the other day an interview with one of Rogue One's crew in which he explained the mention of both terms in A New Hope put them in a bit of a pickle when writing the script.
ETA: they were also described by the Imperial officer Vader nearly chokes to death in that boardroom meeting as 'stolen data tapes'. Which I guess is why they had to come up with the idea of downloading the data onto a tape, and then running to the comms tower to beam them up
ETA: they were also described by the Imperial officer Vader nearly chokes to death in that boardroom meeting as 'stolen data tapes'. Which I guess is why they had to come up with the idea of downloading the data onto a tape, and then running to the comms tower to beam them up
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
with todays ideas of tech you could say that the mandalorians hacked the empires files, and palpatine calls it all fake news
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Watched this again last night and I enjoyed it more. The only thing that really lets it down is the mystifyingly crap acting and accents from the otherwise talented and capable Forest Whittaker and Felicity Jones. I can only assume the director specifically told Jones to deliver every line in the style of a bad American actor pretending to be British.
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For someone who is aware of SW's expanded universe but have never consumed any of it, the Vader scene in Rogue One felt pivotal and the fulfilling of of a long-awaited character trait that had until now been absent from the films.
We all know of Vader's ruthlessness and fear-inspiring reputation. Yet we hadn't seen that much evilness from him in the films. Other than choking a few rebels and a couple of his own troops, he had until now lived on reputation. Yet in the comics and other expanded universe he murders people as frequently and gruesomely as you would expect a feared archvillain to do.
So it was just fantastic to finally see him on the silver screen being the feared demon everyone thought of him as. His levitating of a rebel soldier against the ceiling and cutting him in half as he walks underneath him has to be the greatest Vader moment yet seen. Regardless of any debate regarding the manner of the delivery of the Death Star plans to Leia, that Vader scene is what the the SW film saga had been missing all along, and finally got.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I've got some amazing Vader comics from 2016, a run of three comics per story thing on .CBR file so if you want them pm yer mail to me. You really really get that vader in em. Can't say more without spoilers on that, but well worth an idle 40 mins
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
Thinking about it, as he's that good/bad* ( *- delete as appropriate) maybe the Empire don't really need a Deathstar, just drop in Vader, and someone to clean his boots and he can rip through any rebel base.
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
Vader seems a lot better with the lightsaber and using The Force in R1 than he is in ANH, ESB and RoTJ.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
But arguably not as good as he is in Star Wars Rebels
T & P
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He's years older in ESB and RoTJ and his body is more wrecked than most, Bacta tanks or not, so pehaps he was getting on a bit.
ANH takes place 10 minutes after R1 ends, so not so much of an excuse there
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