You know it’s the only thing.
Be warned. This page will be full of discussion and spoilers for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” Don’t read any further if you don’t want to know any details about the film.
Pointless question one: Is it a sequel or a prequel?
I thought it was surprising that Jyn was a boy the whole time.
Can we just talk about Vader here?
What is our safe word?
Now that I’ve seen it, I’m glad I resisted all but the first trailer.
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In the direct afterglow of the theater, I’d rate Rogue One on par with the original trilogy.
We did see it in IMAX 3D. Cool, but only worth it for the no-hassle, no-line reserved seating. Not necessary. I’d like to catch it again in a standard format theater.
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I really wasn’t keen on the music, it seemed a pale imitation of the original soundtrack.
With all the money they had they could have hired somebody to do a decent Peter Cushing imitation. Also Tarkin looked like he had slipped over from the animated tv series.
It ended the pretty much how it was expected to end.
The music was blandly functional.
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So who were all of the CGI characters from the old series? Tarkin and Leia, obviously. . . Red Leader, plus some of the other pilots?
Io9 done the legwork:
http://on.io9.com/vBMXzRT
http://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-how-rogue-one-got-its-hands-on-unseen-star-wars-f-1790250545
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And apparently, the Red Leader and Gold Leader pilots weren’t actually CGI toons, but that was real unused footage from the original ’77 film.
Interesting.
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One of my favorite parts of the film was the reminiscent music, so I felt differently than those of you who didn’t like it.
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The only thing that truly honestly bugged me was the evil-white-hair-guy’s meeting with Vader. In that scene, Vader was almost a caricature. He almost seemed to be in a good mood, like he was playfully toying with Imperial Bureaucrat Guy. Maybe that’s how Vader is played in Rebels (?), but to me, classic Vader is all about quiet power and intimidation. The only emotion he spared for his imperial underlings was intimidation.
(Also, sure he’s the Emperor’s Sith apprentice, but he’s still subordinate to Tarkin. That’s certainly not how white-hair treated him.)
This spoilerific article is quite good in my opinion.
Says a lot of the things I’d say.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/12/18/rogue-one-is-brutal-beautiful-and-better-than-the-force-awakens/#259de0da38ac
Yep, I have to agree with it, now that I’ve seen the movie and read the article.
Point of consideration: I’ve always felt that the entire series is best viewed in release order, but this movie might shake that up a bit.
Some would say the proper place to view it would be right before Episode IV – – for obvious reasons – – but I dunno. The original is pretty slow-paced, by today’s standards. It might feel a little sluggish after the ADD-fest of Rogue One.
I might recommend slotting this one in directly after Return of the Jedi, then going to Episode VII. Either way would work, I guess.
Finally made it to see Rouge One today
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Wow! I’ve been listening to the story on Audible and made it just to the point of the Rouge One shuttle getting through the planetary shield. The book adds greatly to the story on screen. Much more depth and thoughts of characters and other interstitial bits that don’t make it to the screen. The Prequel novel Catalyst also provides a lot of excellent backstory behind the relationship between Galen Erso and Orsin Kreneck and the efforts that went into developing the Death Star.
So, as for the movie itself – what a ride. I really appreciated all the bits of callbacks to the original as well as the Easter eggs from Rebels.
And, I’m going full on heretical here – after seeing this cast and the action of Rogue One, I think it’s time to give serious consideration to remaking the original trilogy. There, I’ve said it.
Dammit, I just realized I fat fingered Rogue into Rouge a couple of times. Bah!
Heretic!
As I said above, the originals are a bit dated in their pacing – – but I still think they work. It’s blasphemous to me to ever try to recreate them. . . although I suppose it’s inevitable.
Lucas has already basically remade them with his endless tinkering.
True, but I think they should leave well enough alone. Rogue One shows–just like the original Expanded Universe novels–that there is plenty of room to tell great stories without focusing on the Primary Family.
Oh, and I must confess, I was disappointed with the music. I had tried listening to the score earlier this week and found it….utterly unthematic. While I could appreciate not wanting to just paste John Williams all over it and trying to give it its own musical language…there simply was no musical language to this movie.
Michael Giacchino is capable of far better – his score for The Incredibles is a fantastic theme. This felt like random samples pulled from different things – like a temporary score that never got replaced with the real music.
Ed brings up the main thing I didn’t like: the music wasn’t very good. Other than that, I loved the movie.
Look up the page! Sheesh!
That doesn’t make what I said wrong. Yes, you said it too, but Ed said it better. Sheesh! 😉
http://sheeshrestaurant.co.uk/about-sheesh/
So I looked up the page “Sheesh!” and it appears to be a restaurant of some sort. Not sure how that relates to the music in SW.
The music at that restaurant isn’t very good.
It’s a musical restaurant? Sheesh!! 😉
Thanks for the secret santa gift. I’m now one step closer to controlling everything in my house with the power of my voice.
Good film.
The full screen Carrie Fisher at the end, telling us there was hope … that about made me loose it.
Strange to view that just after we lost her.