Well are you? Do you really think Johnson is going to direct his film towards 5-10 year olds?
Well, in my mind, that’s what’s great about Rogue One – it’s changed the discussion. It’s changing fan expectations. All in extremely good ways.
Rogue One is a home run. It’s a spectacular film. A game changer. My only criticism is the music score. It was good but not great. Other than that, I could not have asked for a better Star Wars film. Third-best film in the franchise, easily.
It’s interesting. I listened to the score very closely because of things I’d heard and I found it to be okay. It was very Williams-esque, with lots of nice references, but it wasn’t heavy-handed about it and still sounded original.
However, it also didn’t really have any stand-out themes apart from ones we know.
But that could tie into this being a galaxy-building story film and not a character-driven “human interest” film.
I’ve listened a bit to the soundtrack and like it. Probably doesn’t place above any of the proper Williams scores. It does sound very much the style, which is cool and expected, if a bit unfortunate. Like the film itself I wish it had done more to distance itself from the classic Star Wars tone and be more like a classic war film.
There seems to be at least four new themes: a Rogue One (“Hope”) theme, a Jyn theme, an Imperial theme, and a Baze/Chirrut theme. I quite like them all but time will tell to what extent. The Rogue One theme is sort of a fun play on the main SW theme but in certain instances feels almost knock-off-ish. Jyn’s theme is nice and feels like almost like Rey’s theme oddly but still cool on its own terms. The imperial theme is solid. Wish they used the original one from SW more, but there are a couple references (and even the Death Star motif which I missed first time around). The Guardians of the Whills theme is pretty cool and seems kind of like has roots in the Force theme which is a nice touch.
Still wish the Rebel fanfare got more play.