Rogue One A Star Wars Story

[GHook93]

Oh, and I think The Force Awakens was better too.

I didn't hate the force awakened, but I didn't think it was anything special either. It was basically a reboot of the original trilogy.

Rogue One was original material and superb.


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[GHook93]

I saw it last night and it was refreshing to see a stand alone movie that tied the events of the first series (the original 1977) together in time. Visually it was stunning. And unlike most American movies it had a far more realistic ending.

Great assessment


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[martybegan]

It lived up to the hype. Best Star Wars to date. Never thought one would beat the empire strikes back, but this did. Compelling characters, great story, the flow of the movie was perfect, great robot side kick, filled a gapping hole in The original Star Wars movie, showed the rebels (like all rebellions) are not the perfect angels as they are always displayed and there ending was poetically tragic.

Also the Storm Troopers were actually good shots and good soldiers. What I hated about the other movies is these soldiers trained from birth are horrible shots and even worse soldiers. They absolutely fixed that in this movie.

My only grip was not enough Vader.

I saw it in 3D and I don't think that is necessary. However they had some 1st person space ship scenes that might be awesome in IMAX!


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I can't watch in 3-D, my strong prescription leads to thick enough lenses, another layer makes it hard to watch movies.

It was gorgeous in regular mode.

 

[Darkwind]

Isn't this like, the 8th death star movie in the franchise history? I haven't seen it yet, but to be honest, a little originality in writing would be welcome.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Oh, and I think The Force Awakens was better too.

I didn't hate the force awakened, but I didn't think it was anything special either. It was basically a reboot of the original trilogy.

Rogue One was original material and superb.


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The lore is established in books and other media. This outing is not original in any aspect except that it was on the big screen. A movie worth seeing to be sure but that's where my opinion stops. The Force Awakens actually furthered the lore & story

 

[2aguy]

Isn't this like, the 8th death star movie in the franchise history? I haven't seen it yet, but to be honest, a little originality in writing would be welcome.

Yeah.......it would be nice to have a movie without the death star in it......adventures of a Jedi that we don't know about yet.......a whole new series of movies with original stories would be great........they are doing a Han Solo movie...but he leads us right back to the Death Star and the same characters we have seen before...

I do not want to see Jabba the hut........I didn't like the character in Return of the Jedi...and I don't want to see him over and over again in the Han Solo movies...

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Isn't this like, the 8th death star movie in the franchise history? I haven't seen it yet, but to be honest, a little originality in writing would be welcome.

Yeah.......it would be nice to have a movie without the death star in it......adventures of a Jedi that we don't know about yet.......a whole new series of movies with original stories would be great........they are doing a Han Solo movie...but he leads us right back to the Death Star and the same characters we have seen before...

I do not want to see Jabba the hut........I didn't like the character in Return of the Jedi...and I don't want to see him over and over again in the Han Solo movies...

I wish they had done Bobafet

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Han Solo is an established character with an iconic actor playing his role. Muddying up his established persona with a new actor is a mistake imo

 

[2aguy]

Han Solo is an established character with an iconic actor playing his role. Muddying up his established persona with a new actor is a mistake imo

Well...they have rotated new actors into the role of James Bond....and have had some good films from it......

 

[martybegan]

Oh, and I think The Force Awakens was better too.

I didn't hate the force awakened, but I didn't think it was anything special either. It was basically a reboot of the original trilogy.

Rogue One was original material and superb.


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The lore is established in books and other media. This outing is not original in any aspect except that it was on the big screen. A movie worth seeing to be sure but that's where my opinion stops. The Force Awakens actually furthered the lore & story

Right now canon is the 8 movies, and the Clone Wars and Rebels series.

Which is why so many people who are fans of the old expanded universe/now called legends material were pumped to see Grand Admiral Thrawn in Rebels.

 

[JoeB131]

I didn't hate the force awakened, but I didn't think it was anything special either. It was basically a reboot of the original trilogy.

I hated The Force Awakens because it actually diminished the original trilogy.

So at the end of Jedi, The Empire was defeated, Luke became a Jedi, and Leia and Han were together.

At the beginning of Force, thanks to all the cool stuff we didn't get to see...

Han and Leia split up after their kid turned to the Dark Side
The New Order became a slightly nastier version of the Empire that destroyed "the Republic", whatever that was.
Luke gave up on creating a new Jedi order and just went off to sulk and talk to Force Ghosts or somethings.. Because just giving up for decades and going into hiding is the Jedi way.

So why get all emotionally involved in the Original Trilogy if it could all be undone that easily. It seem that the universe was worse off for the Empire being toppled.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Isn't this like, the 8th death star movie in the franchise history? I haven't seen it yet, but to be honest, a little originality in writing would be welcome.

Yeah.......it would be nice to have a movie without the death star in it......adventures of a Jedi that we don't know about yet.......a whole new series of movies with original stories would be great........they are doing a Han Solo movie...but he leads us right back to the Death Star and the same characters we have seen before...

I do not want to see Jabba the hut........I didn't like the character in Return of the Jedi...and I don't want to see him over and over again in the Han Solo movies...

I wish they had done Bobafet

A bounty hunter movie is in the works

 

[JoeB131]

A bounty hunter movie is in the works

Bounty Hunters, we don't need their scum!

 

[GHook93]

Pardon my ignorance...is A New Hope the original Star Wars?

Yes it was the first one made but fits into the timeline as the 4th story in the series.

That would be 5th

1. Phantom Menace - aka shit on a stick
2.Attack of the Clones - not as bad as it has been given credit for. The Yoda fight scene was classic
3. Return of the Sith - I actually really liked this one
4. Rogue One
5. New Hope
6. Empire Strikes Back
7. Return of the Jedi


There was also the cartoon movie (that sucked ass) between 2 and 3 called the Clone Wars.


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There was only one Star Wars movie.....the rest were silly. Now with Rogue One we have two movies based in the Star Wars universe.

Only 1?!?!? You are tough one to please.

My great category:
Empire Strikes Back, Rogue One, New Hope, Return of the Jedi and Return of the Sith (l loved the full circle).

Overrated:
Force awakening

Not as bad as panned:
Attack of the Clones

Garbage:
Phantom Menace
Clone Wars


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[2aguy]

I didn't hate the force awakened, but I didn't think it was anything special either. It was basically a reboot of the original trilogy.

I hated The Force Awakens because it actually diminished the original trilogy.

So at the end of Jedi, The Empire was defeated, Luke became a Jedi, and Leia and Han were together.

At the beginning of Force, thanks to all the cool stuff we didn't get to see...

Han and Leia split up after their kid turned to the Dark Side
The New Order became a slightly nastier version of the Empire that destroyed "the Republic", whatever that was.
Luke gave up on creating a new Jedi order and just went off to sulk and talk to Force Ghosts or somethings.. Because just giving up for decades and going into hiding is the Jedi way.

So why get all emotionally involved in the Original Trilogy if it could all be undone that easily. It seem that the universe was worse off for the Empire being toppled.

Joe...I agree with your post....A Christmas miracle....

 

[Darkwind]

Well, finally watched Rogue One.

I have to say, I'm pretty disappointed in it.

 

[GHook93]

Well, finally watched Rogue One.

I have to say, I'm pretty disappointed in it.

What didn't you like?


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[iamwhatiseem]

I saw it Saturday...visually outstanding...special effects and graphics.
Story line was a little broke up and didn't gel well I thought.
Compared to the other modern Star Wars...yes...better...Lucas can stay gone

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Absolutely amazing. Unlike any other Star Wars movie. The ultimate prequel.

Just saw it a couple hours ago and it was beautiful. Not a word you can use to describe any of the other Star Wars movies.

A friend of mine called me tonight and described it as Star Wars porn lol.

I mean it basically is. The entire movie is a tribute to the desperate group of rebels that do whatever it takes to get the plans to destroy the Death Star. Old faces appear in epic fashion, and new faces appear that it turns out you owe everything to even though you had no idea. It's fucking beautiful. The people who made the movie should be proud.

I just saw it this weekend and it's arguable the best "Star Wars" episodes ever.

It's the STORY!!!! Not the special effects! The people and the STORY!!!

Fucking titanic movie that had me cheering and wiping tears away at the end.

Loved the Zaitoichi character.

The 2 writers Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy knocked it out of the park!

Director Gareth Edwards wasn't even born when the first Star Wars was in the theater

Can't even remember the last piece of crap remake before this one.

 

[JoeB131]

I just saw it this weekend and it's arguable the best "Star Wars" episodes ever.

It's the STORY!!!! Not the special effects! The people and the STORY!!!

But here's the problem with that. The only reason why the story matters at all is because of what the characters who aren't there do in another movie.

If you had never, ever seen another Star Wars movie, ever, would you care what was going on here?