Rogue One

[Call_me_jorge]

Has anyone seen this? 

I have and I thought it was brilliant beyond all means. I loved the battle scene especially when the rebel ship ran a star destroyer into the other star destroyer. The only part I really disliked was the end with 

 

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Leia. I just found the digitalized face and the ending dialouge to be an embarrassment.

 

[BroadwayNYC2]

Was never a Star Wars fan but I enjoyed it. Opening scene was great, middle dragged, but I loved the last 25 minutes. Felt like 2 different films at some points (the tone of the re-shoots is clear) 

[Taryn]

Loved it.  Absolutely loved it.

[dented146]

I thought it was awful, absolutely awful. I'm glad others enjoyed it but I don't know why they would. There is no chemistry between any of the characters. There is nothing clever and very little humor.

The movie is very dark and, I'm sure for many, the story quite confusing. I thought the acting was wooden and the dialog inane.  I found myself laughing as our blind monk shot aircraft from the sky.

Except for Felicity Jones, I felt this film was terribly cast. And unless Adam Sandler has the chance to recreate the role of Atticus Finch, Forest Whitaker should be a cinch to win the Razzie.

[madbrian]

I completely loved this movie, with the notable exception where I would agree with the prior poster's comment about Whitaker.  It will certainly make future viewings of A New Hope unusually bittersweet.

[dramamama611]

I liked it, a lot.  Just shy of loving it, I think.  Why?...Likely because:  

 

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I knew that getting attached to the characters was pointless....as you knew they all had to die.  Having to keep them at an arm's distance took away from the film.

This weekend there has been a star wars marathon on tv.   We watched A New Hope, and madbrian is right -- your realization of what happened to get them to that point is bittersweet.

[Mister Matt]

Just saw this yesterday and was extremely underwhelmed.  To me, the whole thing looked and felt like the made-for-cable special movie event.  I thought the idea and concept for the film was brilliant in how it took basically one line of dialogue from A New Hope and created a back story to serve as a bridge between the first two trilogies.  But the execution was sorely lacking.  

 

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The CGI Cushing and Fisher were tacky and unforgivable.  The appearance of the first took me out of the film completely and was indicative of how severely the film was misconceived.  If they truly felt there was no other way to tell the story, then they simply should not have told it.  A colossal lack of creativity.  The beginning was a speed-through test of exposition: here's a bunch of characters and planets...try to keep up as we reference them throughout the film!  The cloying shoe-horning of original Star Wars references got to be distracting and annoying at times.  Some WTF moments that didn't seem to have much relevance to anything, such as the pseudo-Jabba lie-detector tentacled blob.  And did anyone else notice that the Death Star had an entirely different effect on destroying planets than it did in A New Hope (perhaps this has been discussed to death, but I have avoided reading about the film prior to seeing it)?  In Rogue One, the planets break apart in a dramatically slow fashion that allows people to escape.  In A New Hope, it was instantaneous.  Was Alderaan a teensy-tiny planet in comparison to these others?  Did the Death Star learn from its mistake and upgrade its weapons tremendously between Rogue One and A New Hope?  Oh, and what was with that imagery of the Scarif Imperial Base?!?!  It was like a mashup of the Bahamas and Abu Dhabi.  Was it supposed to be the new Imperial Atlantis Resort we can expect to see soon at Disney World?  My husband and I were literally laughing out loud at that one.  

I did enjoy the last 15 minutes or so as it rushed to a frantic pace to the opening scene of A New Hope...until that awful final moment.  That just put a period on the lazy approach to this film.  I put this one on par with the Ep I-III trilogy.  It simply tried way too hard.  I'm glad I only paid $6 to see it.

[Taryn]

 

 

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And did anyone else notice that the Death Star had an entirely different effect on destroying planets than it did in A New Hope (perhaps this has been discussed to death, but I have avoided reading about the film prior to seeing it)?  In Rogue One, the planets break apart in a dramatically slow fashion that allows people to escape.  In A New Hope, it was instantaneous.  Was Alderaan a teensy-tiny planet in comparison to these others?  Did the Death Star learn from its mistake and upgrade its weapons tremendously between Rogue One and A New Hope? 

 

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In A New Hope, the Death Star is targeting Alderaan to destroy the whole planet. In Rogue One, it's targeting 1) a city and 2) a base. The Death Star's weaponry has more than one setting, basically, which isn't so weird.

 

[Mister Matt]

Thanks Taryn.  Someone else mentioned it to me on Facebook as well.  There must have been a blip of dialogue I missed, which isn't surprising since a) I'm getting old and b) I had trouble focusing on anything in the film that happened around CGI people.  Either way, my bad.