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Star Wars: Rogue One - * Non Spoiler Discussion Thread * — Page 10

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I am so jazzed for this. Those troopers look amazing.

Imperial Commandos, anyone? Tasked by Vader or Tarkin to find the Rebel band that stole the Death Star plans? Badass elite supertroopers who do the Empire’s wetwork?

Ugh. So awesome.

Keep Circulating the Tapes.

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(It hasn’t happened yet)

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I think I’ll get up slightly earlier than usual tomorrow and take the time (for once) to make myself a decent breakfast, probably during one of the commercial breaks. Hopefully they’ll get around to showing the trailer by 8, as that’s when I have to leave in order to get to work by 9.

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I happen to like his weird Godzilla flick, so I guess I might like this one. Let’s just hope it’s not gonna be “dark and gritty” trend…

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Just saw it. AT-AT’s! Mon Mothma! Old school Star Destroyers! So many chills-inducing visuals in 90 seconds or whatever it was. I’m in.

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Hum… not convinced. At all. But could be fun. The main storytelling seems shitty as usual (“this is a rebellion. I rebel”, oh this is embarrassing…) but visually I can enjoy a few action sequences.

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joefavs said:

Just saw it. AT-AT’s! Mon Mothma! Old school Star Destroyers! So many chills-inducing visuals in 90 seconds or whatever it was. I’m in.

You mean: so many things you have already seen more than 30 years ago ? Ok… cinema nostalgia has killed for good creativity. This is truly terrible.

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looked awesome, but I have my doubts on having yet another hardass-y self-sufficient i-dont-want-your-help type female character as the lead. Not that I have anything wrong with that, mind you. It’s just that they just did that exact same thing with Rey in VII.

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It’s a bit jarring to get used to the completely different style of cinematography, but it definitely evokes a “less movie, more realism” type of look.

And damn, does that Death Star look good! It almost looks like the original practical model.

This is going to be a VERY DIFFERENT movie, and I’m excited to check it out.

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Decent trailer but damn am I disappointed that there was no Vader 😦

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I’m glad to see that Mon Mothma wasn’t a CG recreation of Caroline Blakiston and was instead played by a new actor. Hopefully we’ll get something similar with Tarkin.
(I was also surprised by the inclusion of a Grand Admiral. Wasn’t that whole white uniform thing invented by Timothy Zahn in the Thrawn trilogy?)

All in all though, I’m actually intrigued by this film for the first time.
(Some of the dialogue seemed a tad corny, but this is teaser trailer, so I won’t really put to much though into that for now.)

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I consider myself teased.

Very much looking forward to seeing it 😃

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I have a good feeling about this.

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MalàStrana said:

joefavs said:

Just saw it. AT-AT’s! Mon Mothma! Old school Star Destroyers! So many chills-inducing visuals in 90 seconds or whatever it was. I’m in.

You mean: so many things you have already seen more than 30 years ago ? Ok… cinema nostalgia has killed for good creativity. This is truly terrible.

this is like complaining about U-boats and P-51 Mustangs in a WWII movie. It’s set the same year as ANH, should they have completely redesigned everything and avoided tying it in with any recognizable characters whatsoever? Or do you think they should be setting these new movies so far away in the timeline that they would bear no connection with the original stories beyond the words “Star Wars” in the title? Honestly, these hypothetical “original” and “creative” films everyone claims to want sound completely joyless to me.

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This is the teaser I was looking for.

“It’s a lot of fun… it’s a lot of fun to watch Star Wars.” – Bill Moyers

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Seemed much more like a full trailer than a teaser. Definitely looks promising so far.

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The Divergent Series: Rogue one

(People get what they deserve: shitty SW movies for young adults wrapped with nostalgia. This is getting worse every year. Ep VII looks like a masterpiece now in comparaison)

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Once again some of the images in that trailer look rather like some of the mock-ups for fan-edits that do or used to appear on this site 😄
The Death Star shot looked rather like Ady’s to these eyes.
All the AT-ATs have Cylon windows now.

I think this could turn into the real Episode 3. It looks incredible… Mustn’t get too optimistic 😄
I am reminded of Archie Goodwin’s film adaptations and newspaper strips in that everything we have seen before is very closely reconstructed but there is a lot of new and interesting stuff thrown in there too. It feels like the same universe but seen from another set of characters point of view which is exactly what the PT should have been.

The guy in the white water resistant cape looks like 1970s Ian McKellen.

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MalàStrana said:

The Divergent Series: Rogue one

(People get what they deserve: shitty SW movies for young adults wrapped with nostalgia. This is getting worse every year. Ep VII looks like a masterpiece now in comparaison)

People who preemptively decide they want to dislike something/everything get what they deserve: nothing enjoyable.

But we already know how you feel about the idea of female leads, so your comments here are hardly surprising.