I loved the movie, just loved it. One thing I might change is the dialogue between the director and Vader on Mustafar. I would simply cut vader’s line about chocking on one’s ambitions, (he’s a sith for Chrissakes! Ambition is all he knows.)
I hated that line because Darth Vader does not use one-liners. But I don’t understand your point about him being a Sith.
And I hate the idea of putting anything more from ROTS in.
Well “Apology accepted Captain Needa” is kind of a one-liner.
The whole scene is unnecessary honestly. Cut it.
The whole scene is unnecessary honestly. Cut it.
I think the scene is good but the Costume and the Voice need a bit of work…
I think it is a good scene as it establishes Vader as a type of Caged dangerous Animal fueled by Hatred. Palpatine’s / Tarkins pit bull.
But you can tell it did not have a on screen label like some of the other planets so it feels out of place in a way. Either Label them all or get rid of the Labels…
I would lean towards get rid of the Labels.
It also Establishes Vanee from Return of the Jedi.
Nah it’s pointless. Vader’s only importance to this story is at the end.
Tarkin is basically trying to claim that “He” is the mastermind behind the Death Star whilst it was not. Krennic has an outburst in front of all the Empiral War council about his achievements being stripped from him.
Krennic goes to Mustafa to visit Vader to assert his position as being the one “who made it happen” although Krennic relies on Galen.
Anyway Vader acknowledges Krennic’s situation but he sends him a strong warning to play ball with the chain of command otherwise he will be dead.
It is very important scene in establishing motive and chain of command and who are outsiders and who are in “the club” with the Emperor Krennic does not have that Luxury and is told to get back in line or his days are numbered.
Ultimately he and his advanced weapons research facility are vaporized in the mist of his failure. He got properly stitched up.
Nope. They could have done some interesting stuff with the Krennic character but groveling to Vader isn’t accomplishing much. I’d be much more interested to see the deleted scene where he speaks to Vader of the immeasurable power of the station.
Nah it’s pointless. Vader’s only importance to this story is at the end.
Vader’s first appearance being the at the end would make that ending even better.
I loved the movie, just loved it. One thing I might change is the dialogue between the director and Vader on Mustafar. I would simply cut vader’s line about chocking on one’s ambitions, (he’s a sith for Chrissakes! Ambition is all he knows.)
I hated that line because Darth Vader does not use one-liners. But I don’t understand your point about him being a Sith.
And I hate the idea of putting anything more from ROTS in.
Well “Apology accepted Captain Needa” is kind of a one-liner.
Ok, he doesn’t use bad one-liners.
Nope. They could have done some interesting stuff with the Krennic character but groveling to Vader isn’t accomplishing much. I’d be much more interested to see the deleted scene where he speaks to Vader of the immeasurable power of the station.
You make a good point and I wonder what the alternative was?
Was it simply Krennic Showing up to boast about the Death Star obviously Gareth Edwards referred to James Earl Jones saying “power” and it being one of his favorite moments…
Time will tell hopefully we get to know how the film was altered, and fill in the gaps.
I wonder if that Vader scene was an Insert and perhaps he actually just got pulled out the Tank when Tarkin summoned him?
I hope we get the full story or the various scripts it would be very interesting.
Vaders eyes all of a sudden become overly Red.
Yeah I noticed that. They’re red in SW but only just. They went quite a bit overboard with that.
They look fine until a certain point and then all of a sudden he just had these really red eyes pieces… That is why I call perhaps that was an insert.
Also CGI Raddus feels like an insert
Agree on “Prepare the escape pods” chop that out too they would always be ready.
Vader’s one-liner reminded me of his killing spree of the Separatist leaders in the ROTS novelization.
Vader’s one-liner reminded me of his killing spree of the Separatist leaders in the ROTS novelization.
Absolutely!
“Lord Sidious promised us a handsome reward!”
“I am your reward. You don’t find me handsome?”
How about this, I just read this somewhere else but thought it would / could be a good idea.
Leia escapes with the plans then the Death Star Fires on Scarif ending on Jyn & Cassian on the beach. White out.
^I would omit any visualisation of Leia in lieu of introducing her in ANH - but I like the idea of swapping them over.
I disliked a lot of the things people are talking about, but on a second viewing I’m fine with them. The only thing I might cut is Saw’s mind-reading alien, but it works somewhat thematically with his character and the idea of militancy.
What I really want to talk about is the possibility of my ideal saga lineup:
*Fanedit of Episode I that includes elements of Episode II to start the Clone Wars - Naboo is the first battle or instigates the conflict, maybe some other trickery is used to use the Geonosis battle sans Anakin and Obi Wan.
*The rest of Episode II is blast into oblivion where it belongs.
*Alter the crawl of a Fanedit of Episode III (pick your favorite, mine is Dark Force Rising) to make it Episode II.
*Rogue One becomes Episode III with added crawl.
My Rogue One fan edit list:
Basically the trailer is more than enough.
(edit to Silverwook: not talking about this post, which was an obvious joke. Talking about the next post I’ve made).
All I’d do is move the title card to the very beginning, and then remove planet location subtitles.
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I don’t understand the problem people have with titles for planets.
It’s the same with GOTG, it helps us know where we are, why not let it in?
I am very much in agreement that Rogue One is the new Episode III
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If only there were worthy episodes I and II as well 😛
- Add an opening crawl, but also release a version of the edit without it. It seems like people are disagreeing on if the crawl should be included or not, so you may as well let both groups be happy.
- Re-edit the title card that says ROGUE ONE. To me it seems a bit out of place, and it drags on for a few seconds too long. Also the font that it’s written in also seems a bit out of place. I think that it would look better in the font that’s used for the promotional material for the OT. And keep in mind this is all just my opinion.
- Do something to change the pacing of the first act. Everything seems to go by too quickly and it’s a bit awkward. I would think that it could be possible to edit this section of the film to help it flow better.
- Re-edit some of Tarkin’s scenes. I will admit the CGI on him is great, but he still looks a bit off, especially in a scene where he is with real actors. It would be nice to see his scenes re-edited, at least so that he isn’t seen with an actor directly next to him. Also would also look better if there weren’t as many close-ups of his face. Cut to other actor’s faces instead to fix this problem. To me it seems like he looks better towards the end of the film, so it might just be his first few scenes that could use some touching up. Or maybe it’s just me… I don’t know.
- Remove R2 and C-3PO’s cameo in the Rebel hangar. I looks like it was put in kinda at the last minute, and it doesn’t really match with the rest of the scene. I think it would be better if they were instead seen on Princess Leia’s ship in the background or something. Their cameo is a bit awkward, given the situation, it would look better if they were just in the background, and shown in a more appropriate environment. I don’t know how well this could be done given the fact that this is a fan edit, but maybe some footage from ANH could be used.
That’s really all I can think of, which actually shows how much I liked this movie. These are the only things that I thought could have been done better. Also keep in mind that this is all my opinion, some of this stuff could be done differently depending on who ends up doing the edit.
No one mentioning removing the mind reading monster with questionably CGI tentacles? That’d be one of my only cuts, unless someone can convince me to replace the entire prologue and first few scenes with a crawl.
Rathtar 2: the Rathening.
I don’t understand the problem people have with titles for planets.
It’s the same with GOTG, it helps us know where we are, why not let it in?
I am very much in agreement that Rogue One is the new Episode III
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If only there were worthy episodes I and II as well 😛
I’d have to check with another viewing but it seemed for most they verbally state where we are planet wise, rendering the text unnesecary.
I have a clear edit that I’d like to make when the blu ray is released. It involves the last shot of Cassian and Jyn, as the explosion reaches them in their last moments. Cassians eyes open just a couple MOMENTS before it goes all white. This has bugged me ever since and I cannot unsee it. I think some creative music editing and cross fading of the video can solve this issue. But I will make sure to add this to my list of wanted edits.
No one mentioning removing the mind reading monster with questionably CGI tentacles? That’d be one of my only cuts, unless someone can convince me to replace the entire prologue and first few scenes with a crawl.
In one of the trailers there was a scene where Jyn meets K2-SO and the droid says “The Captain say’s you are a friend, I will not Kill you.”
So it would appear that Cassian first met Jyn on Jedha in the original version. Most of the changes evolved around Bodhi Rook character being further developed as the messenger.
If you also remember Mon Mothma stating “we have intercepted a coded imperial transmission” so that would in effect render Bodhi’s role useless in the opening of the film and sans tenticle mind probe.
Basically most of the changes evolved around Bodhi Rook although this caused Saw Gerrera and his partisans to be diminished also no doubt.
This went on Further in the final act where he was the missing link to getting the link established with the fleet rather than running with the plans to the dish.
So Blame Bodhi Rook!!!
She evidently get’s hurt also explaining the limp on that run to the radar tower and change of clothes?
Some ideas:
-The music for the title card for ROGUE ONE felt odd. I like to change it into some JW type of music.
-The planets names should be removed.
-Maybe try to extend the ending of R1 (Maybe see Leia walking on the Tantive with 3PO and R2 and cuts to the planet Tatooine seen from a pilot’s window) since the ending was sudden.