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LOL. It certainly looked like Mordor.
Seriously the absolute first thing I thought. They stole a scene from Peter Jackson.
LOL. It certainly looked like Mordor.
Trust me: it's worth the watch.
Did anyone else notice that it had the same ending as TFA? Someone walks up behind someone in robes to offer them an important object and a child of Darth Vader turns around...
Here's a bunch of Easter Eggs that were in this movie:
• Chopper, the beloved astromech droid from Star Wars Rebels, makes a very brief appearance on Yavin 4.
• The Ghost, the flagship of the crew from Rebels makes an appearance during the Battle over Scarf. "General Syndulla" also is heard, which was I found out was in fact Hera Syndulla, one of the main characters in Rebels.
• Saw Guerra was originally from the Clone Wars TV Show, and I believe is th first character to go from TV to the big screen in Star Wars.
• Mustufar, when Anakin and Obi-Wan had their epic duel, is in this movie, and it is where Vader's Castle is located (apparently built right off the ledge Obi-Wan left Anakin to die).
• C-3PO and R2D2 appear at Yavin 4.
• The tank Jyn Erso was being imprisoned inside was one of the old Repubic tanks from the Clone Wars.
• Chirrut Imwe was a guardian of the Whills, which is a reference to the Journal of the Whills, which was a early development of Star Wars (I believe).
• Bail Organa and ROTS Mon Mothma appear in this movie.
• The two scumbags who attacked Luke in the Mos Eisley Cantina bump into Jyn in this movie. Apparently they made it off Jedha before it went nuclear.
• God Leader and Red Leader from 1977 make an appearance in this movie. Apparently it was extra footage way back from when they were filming Episode IV.
If anybody has any more to find, that would be great!
Vader's 'choking' joke didn't fit well with the character either. He was always incredibly serious before.
Just got done seeing it and I thought it was pretty solid. Better than any of the prequel trilogy, definitely more original than The Force Awakens.
I thought it was a little odd that parts of it contradicted portions of the original trilogy. I also found the CGI on Leia and Tarkin to be firmly in uncanny valley territory. Vader's 'choking' joke didn't fit well with the character either. He was always incredibly serious before.
On the plus side, getting to see vader cut loose for a bit there at the end was fun. And the action scenes were well done. And I absolutely loved K-2SO. He was my favorite droid character from all the star wars movies.
Nah. That was totally in-character for Vader.
Here's some examples of his sarcasm in the originals:
"We'd be honored if you could join us."
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
"Perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them."
"Apology accepted, Captain Needa."
Those were great lines.
Don't get choked on your own ambition is well really campy.
It didn't fit.
I thought Darth Vader was awesome and perfect in Rogue One. I would have liked to see more of him, but more of him might have ruined his awesomeness.
Those were great lines.
Don't get choked on your own ambition is well really campy.
It didn't fit.
I thought Darth Vader was awesome and perfect in Rogue One. I would have liked to see more of him, but more of him might have ruined his awesomeness.
I may go to a movie once a year. This Christmas my wife, my youngest son and I went to see Rogue One.
They liked it but I found it boring.
I found myself wondering how many white stormtrooper suits they had for the movie. You know the same stormtrooper must have been killed a dozen times.
Another funny thing was that the blind rebel who was awesome at fighting opponents and knowing exactly where someone was coming at him towards the end of the movie is seen frantically searching his hands over a table for the master switch. I would have thought his hand would have went right at it.
But am glad the others in my party enjoyed it.
True Story: You can drive a friend of mine almost to tears by waiting for an appropriately somber moment and then working in that line.
I could see that. K2 still goes out, but at least it's expected, and the audience is warned.
But seriously, the ability of Alan Tudyk to inject heartfelt humor and comic relief without coming off as silly in the middle of otherwise serious sci fi projects is being way underutilized by the Community. More Alan Tudyk in Everything, please.
I LOL'ed when Saw Guerra's rebels put a bag over Îmwe's (the blind guy) head, and he was like, "Are you kidding me, I'm blind!"
Saw it Christmas Day because I brought home a lovely cold from work, and everyone else caught it one by one. By the 25th we finally were all not stuffy and headache'd so we went.
It's Star Wars so I'm not sure what I think yet. It's difficult to be objective and critical, because OMG STAR WARS.
My initial impression is that this was very very weird if still somewhat plausible but I'm annoyed at how they've not only retconned everything past Jedi they're changing things before Hope and I guess they spent $4B they're gonna do what they want...
I find myself profoundly disinterested in relearning the new expanded universe or memorizing fine details of the new movies given the retconning. So on that hand, negative subjectivity.
And on the other hand, as RLM put it during Half in the Bag, so much Star Wars fan service that it was essentially porn. So on that hand, positive subjectivity.
Difficult to be objective.
Some things worked, others didn't. It was kinda good but the script / new characters were lacking to me; feels like they had a bunch of pointless moments and bizarre decisions in the service of a stilted narrative.
On the other hand, Darth Vader, **** yeah. :shrug:
I'm torn. I'd have to see it again, but I think one thing is telling in terms of my overall opinion: this is a Star Wars movie, albeit a side story, anthology movie, but nonetheless, I won't be going back to see it again in theater.