Rogue One * Spoilers * Thread — Page 140

It’s entirely possible that using video posters uses less resources than it takes to manufacture and ship a poster from scratch.

Mocata said:

SilverWook said:

Makes me think of this shot in AOTC.

This link is showing up as a blocked virus threat, is it just me

me too

TV’s Frink said:

I see it fine.

me too

SilverWook said:

Ok, that’s weird. Let me replace it.

JEDIT:Better now?

All good now mate 😃

some cool Rogue One art and concept designs in here…

‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story "Designing the U-wing"’:-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGyOenuNmIw - a 4 minute video by Doug Chiang, on the IAMAG youtube channel

(apologies if posted before)

I never posted my thoughts on Rogue One after seeing it, so I’ll do that that now because I feel like it.

★★

I was entertained by the extreme amount of fanservice that most of the film was drenched in; though, I was annoyed by some of it at times, when it went too far, and after the initial state of watching the film wore off, most of it just annoyed me because it didn’t make sense. The plot and the execution of the plot in the film were not to my liking, and it sometimes also just didn’t make sense. The first third of the film was rather boring (with small stretches of boring throughout), and the characters were boring and forgetable.

Gin Erso was not even remotely interesting to me. Once getting past the opening exposition, she was just kind of there, doing whatever the plot needed her to do. She didn’t feel like a “strong female lead” character because there was no character to be found.

The Cass man was almost equally uninteresting, though he was just enough more interesting for me to actually want a little more out of him. I didn’t get any of that.

The guy who called their team “Rogue One” was probably the third most interesting character, but he was immediately forgetable because they didn’t develope him either.

The Forceman was definitely the most interesting character. Like, he was the only legitimately interesting character in the film. I thought it was great when he fought the storm troopers with his bowstaff skills. It reminded me of how I thought the Jedi should have fought in the prequels after seeing Essence of the Force.

The Forceman’s dudebro was pretty cool, though I thought it was dumb when he was pretty much just aimbotting everyone.

The cheap-humor droid was a little bit entertaining, but again, he was just cheap humor; kind of like C-3PO, only C-3PO actually had a developed character and therefore a reason and an excuse to be the silly voice of comic relief; C-3PO was also more funny because of what his character acted like, rather than just spouting sarcastic remarks for no reason everytime he was on screen.

CG Tarkin looked bad, but not as bad as I would have expected; but he shouldn’t have been CG faced anyway because the guy who played him in the film already looks so much like Peter Cushing that it would only take some makeup and maybe small prostetics to get him looking the same. And CG Leia was really bad, and showing her at all was also unnecessary.

Now, the plot/story and the execution of said plot/story.

The whole thing felt rather weak. Or should I say, weakly written and developed. I don’t like the idea that the weak point on the Death Star was built in by a sabatour. When I thought about how the rebels stole the plans, I thought that they would have found out through some sort of intelligence that it had finished construction. So, they realize that to destroy it and stop the threat, they need to find the build plans and exploit whatever they can find (as was alluded to by the smart Imperial man in the round table scene of SW).

Really, it should have just been a fun heist movie like Ocean’s Eleven. No huge battle spectacle was needed at the climax.

And the last scene… I hated it so much. The Vader massacre was almost comically over the top, and the way the plans were brought to the Tantive IV isn’t even what they said happened in SW. “Several transmitions were beamed…” is not the same as “I watched a dude pass a floppy disk through a door after one transmission was beamed to a different ship.” The Tantive IV shouldn’t have even been at the big space battle. The ship that recieved the plans should have beamed several transmitions to them in another location after temporarily escaping.

I think RLM’s videos did a great job analyzing the film, and I have to say that I agree with most of what they thought.

I’m not “angling” for anything. I typed what came into my head.

Dek Rollins said:

I’m not “angling” for anything. I typed what came into my head.

Have you anything positive to add to your thoughts on the film? Was there anything you liked or enjoyed? Or that intrigued you?

As I stated in my original post, I was entertained by the fanservice at various points while watching, and I liked the Forceman. There really wasn’t anything else in it that I liked whatsoever. IMO it isn’t a very well made film. It was poorly concieved, written, and executed in almost every way. As Jay Bauman said in the Half in the Bag review, the first thing it has to accomplish is getting past the element of “who cares how they stole the plans?” and I don’t think it accomplished that very well.

So this was available for digital rental on this TV thing like Foxtel that my family just got, so I gave it another watch.

Sadly, I didn’t feel it was as good as I remembered, nor as good as I hoped it would be. Yes, the space battles are exhilarating, the cinematography is terrific, the directing is on point, and the music and acting are generally good. However, I was bored by the characters, except for K-2SO and Chirrut Imwe. I felt that they didn’t have enough personality to hold a movie, and that the six of them didn’t equal one Han Solo or Ben Kenobi. I feel that it is the kind of film that gets less fun and more tedious the more you watch it, like Attack of the Clones or Return of the Jedi, because this time, while I was entertained, I sort of just longed for the end battle, and even that I found myself zoning out of sometimes. The characters are the most crucial point of a movie, and without interesting ones, this movie kind of crumbles into a dumb, fun action movie. I also think the ending ruins the beginning of A New Hope and also doesn’t match up. Why do the rebels look so calm at the start of that film when in this one several of their number had been decimated by The Force Unleashed style Darth Vader? Why does Vader bother questioning Leia if she was just at a rebel battle? Why does Leia think she can lie to Vader? So many inconsistencies.

At this point I’d give it a generous six out of ten.

TV’s Frink said:

Why do people keep referencing YouTube reviews? Who cares?

Must be some Millennial thing.

I mentioned agreeing with the RLM crew on most aspects of the film in my original post. I thought they did a good job discussing the film and used something Jay said in my response because it was well said. Why do people reference reviews period? That’s all they are. Did I say I think anybody cares what it is that I’m making reference to? It wasn’t a joke reference or anything, it was a well said comment that I remembered from their discussion so I mentioned it.

TV’s Frink said:

Dek Rollins said:

I’m not “angling” for anything. I typed what came into my head.

Come on, you hang out in off topic. You know what the Lurker Thread is. Think it through. Or even easier, go check out the Lurker Thread.

I never said that I didn’t know what the Luker Thread is. I know what he was referring to, and I responded accordingly. When I was typing goofy names for all the characters, I wasn’t doing it to get recognition in the Lurker Thread. I typed what came into my head because I felt like it. And yes, I know Gin Erso was posted in the Lurker Thread.

DominicCobb said:

TV’s Frink said:

Why do people keep referencing YouTube reviews? Who cares?

Must be some Millennial thing.

More like Gen Z (which I’ve heard referred to as “Post-Millenial”…yeah…)

I’m Gen Y (millenial). Born in 1999.