moviefreakedmind said:
Just for the record, I wasn’t being sarcastic with my comment on it being about sacrifice, I genuinely didn’t get any of that from the movie. I thought it’s message was about “learning to work together” and “doing the right thing” or something like that.Yep. It’s funny that someone who doesn’t even like the film seems to understand it better than some of the people who worked on it. 😉
In his defense, saying it’s about “sacrifice” is a lot more exciting-sounding than saying it’s about “doing the right thing.” As for the rough cut and Edwards’ direction, I just don’t feel judging a product that I haven’t seen and still know nothing about. Like you said, Edwards is a good director (which is what I credit the visual beauty of Rogue One to) so I don’t like the idea of taking some guy’s word that his movie was so bad.
Again, he’s not “some guy,” he’s a director himself (and one I’d probably personally consider more talented than Edwards). Even good directors can make bad movies, and being a good visual director doesn’t not necessarily mean being a good story director. And again, if the movie was bad, it wasn’t entirely Edwards fault. And again, Edwards continued working on the film during the reshoots.
I don’t understand why it’s so hard to believe that maybe if they drastically retooled a movie after it was almost finished that maybe that movie wasn’t turning out to be very good. Occam’s Razor and all that.