MalàStrana said:
I wonder what you will really think of it in a few years when the hype is down, when you’re older…
- The Empire Strikes Back
- STAR WARS
- The Force Awakens
- Rogue One
- Return of The Jedi
- Revenge of The Sith
- The Phantom Menace
- Attack of The Clones
I can’t believe I live in a world in which there are enough good Star Wars films that I can have ROTJ be 5TH on my list. That’s pretty mind blowing.
Swap ROTS with TPM and (maybe) SW with ESB and that’s my ranking and reaction exactly.
I saw a snippet of the whole “No, it’s because I’m so in love with you” scene and I’m starting to regret putting ROTS > TPM
darthrush said:
When it comes to comparing The Force Awakens and Rogue One, it comes down to the characters. Rogue One has superior action and a more original story but Force Awakens has such endearing characters. Rey, Finn, Poe, and Kylo Ren are just amazing characters who I fell in love with and learned a surprisingly amount about (Rey and Finn, specifically). In Rogue One, I found Cassian and K2SO to be the only characters who could even compete with what Force Awakens gave me. I know a lot of people disliked Cassian, but I really appreciated his arc. Overall, I am VERY satisfied with what Disney has done so far. I will be there opening night for episode 8 with much excitement 😃Nicely said man! I think they should have cut out Magic Stick Man and the other two lesser characters and just focused on Cassian, Jyn and K2S0. Not only would their dynamic be stronger it would also give these characters more time to be fleshed out. We could have walked away with a Jyn and Cassian that are as layered as Rey and Kylo. This is a sad turn of events because I want to like Rogue One a lot more than I do but I mostly watch Star Wars for the characters and that isn’t on point there is a threshold of enjoyment I can’t cross.
I thought Baze and Churrit were really compelling characters because of the implication of what they were. I think the grey areas of the Force are some of the most interesting aspects of the universe, so seeing guys who were basically non-Jedi Force-users was really cool.
I agree to a certain extent but I found them to be extremely one note and I found myself weary of them after only a short while. This could have been fixed however by giving them more distinguishable personality traits, motivations, inner strife etc. and we didn’t get that with these characters like we did with Jyn and Cassian.
But again, it was a Black Hawk Down and not a Saving Private Ryan type film, so character development wasn’t really the point of the exercise (as I said before, the main saga is about characters and how they effect the galaxy, whereas Rogue One is about the galaxy and how it affects the characters).
Just because it takes inspiration from these movies doesn’t mean it has to succumb to their weaknesses.
What they did do a fantastic job of was expanding the galaxy without shrinking it or doing anything over the top or stupid or badly. Everything they added felt like it had always been there, and that’s the true triumph of Rogue One as a cinematic addition to the Star Wars Galaxy in my mind.
I agree wholeheartedly. Best of all for me is that it renders the PT completely useless.