Damn, dude. Please tell me you don’t really think that’s what Haseo is saying, right?
That’s exactly what he said. How should I take it any differently?
And just like that I’m sad. Thanks for that.
TFA wasn’t perfect but neither is RO. I’d argue the problems with RO are more glaring than TFA. And some, like this, you have to think about a little more.
That type of thinking can enable me to poke a million hopes in the OT as it suffers from that type of writing too. Even if those films didn’t have shit like that in them you’re overthinking it. It’s a chaotic encounter in a narrow, dark hallway. Vader was probably fixated on blast deflection and just trying to kill everyone instead of devoting useful mental resources to think about one Rebel.
So…he was just trying to kill everyone? Not get the plans? And that’s why he stares at the Tantive IV as it takes off? Because he didn’t get to kill more people?
Riiiiiiight.
And just like that I’m sad. Thanks for that.
TFA wasn’t perfect but neither is RO. I’d argue the problems with RO are more glaring than TFA. And some, like this, you have to think about a little more.
And, btw, I know EVERYONE is loving the Vader scene (as did I) but I’ll be the guy to throw a huge monkey wrench in the Vader-orgy going on:
With one force pull, he grabbed 5-6 blasters. Couldn’t he have done the exact same thing with the plans that the soldier was holding? One force pull and he’s got them. Done.Continue…
It’s unclear if he even realizes that guy has the plans.
Riiiiiihgt. So the dark lord of the Sith needs someone to point an arrow at them and say “these are the plans you’re looking for?” He could use the force, read their minds and find the trooper that’s the MOST frantic. Or, hell, the one who’s thinking “I’m holding the plans in my hand.” He’s the one with the plans. Done.
I don’t want to derail this but taste is subjective. To me, TFA is an incredibly well done movie but an incredibly soulless one. It’s the marketing director’s sweet dream come true. Repeated viewings have made it worse each time. Whenever people say they couldn’t connect to ROs characters but praise TFA, I can’t help but roll my eyes. If the TFA characters weren’t connected to the original cast, I am pretty certain things wouldn’t have been the same. And I give them that they acted well enough.
This statement is as inane and simplistic as it gets. That’s like saying "if it weren’t Star Wars, you wouldn’t care at all.
Well, duh. No shit.
If it were Star Trek, I would barely care. If it were The Walking Dead, I wouldn’t care at all. But, in the end, it’s Star Wars and that’s the primary reason why ANY of us care.
And, btw, I know EVERYONE is loving the Vader scene (as did I) but I’ll be the guy to throw a huge monkey wrench in the Vader-orgy going on:
With one force pull, he grabbed 5-6 blasters. Couldn’t he have done the exact same thing with the plans that the soldier was holding? One force pull and he’s got them. Done.
Continue…
Give me the heart of Eps 4-7 on the regular and I’ll be very, very happy.
What the hell does “heart” even mean, anyway? Post a vague, eye-of-the-beholder rationale for liking or disliking a movie?
If you don’t know, I can’t help you understand.
Watching TFA last year and RO this year have made the PT even more irrelevant in my mind because they’ve hammered home how poorly executed the PT is.
RO also renders TFA irrelevant. The reality for the fan base hasn’t fully burned in yet, but RO has grabbed the reins of the SW franchise and jammed it back on track. It’s a coup. In the end, Disney is going to have to rethink the direction of episodes 8 and 9 based on the sensational execution of RO.
Yeah ok. Good luck with that. RO will make a percentage of what TFA did, which was all because of repeat business and the OT actors. If the movie sucked people wouldn’t have come back to it. And, btw, reviews for TFA are better than RO. There’s MUCH more “heart” in TFA than there is in RO and you care a helluva lot more about the characters.
That’s not a slam against RO, which I loved, but my excitement about it has been tempered by subsequent viewings.Personally what I take away from it is that Episode eight will be aimed at 5 - 10 year olds and the Anthologies hopefully will be aiming at higher age ranges teens to adults.
I don’t feel the sequel trilogy is really aimed at adults or at least that is my current perception unless they make the sequel trilogy more mature.
Personally, the whole reason why I got into Star Wars is because of its tremendous heart and soul, which the OT had in abundance. Even Empire, which is the darkest of them all, has an over-abundance of it.
RO is great for a stand-alone but several of these and I’d no longer be a Star Wars fan. Give me the heart of Eps 4-7 on the regular and I’ll be very, very happy.
Watching TFA last year and RO this year have made the PT even more irrelevant in my mind because they’ve hammered home how poorly executed the PT is.
RO also renders TFA irrelevant. The reality for the fan base hasn’t fully burned in yet, but RO has grabbed the reins of the SW franchise and jammed it back on track. It’s a coup. In the end, Disney is going to have to rethink the direction of episodes 8 and 9 based on the sensational execution of RO.
Yeah ok. Good luck with that. RO will make a percentage of what TFA did, which was all because of repeat business and the OT actors. If the movie sucked people wouldn’t have come back to it. And, btw, reviews for TFA are better than RO. There’s MUCH more “heart” in TFA than there is in RO and you care a helluva lot more about the characters.
That’s not a slam against RO, which I loved, but my excitement about it has been tempered by subsequent viewings.
I actually think this should have been two films. I think all the exposition they tried to cram in to get you backstory in the first 45 minutes should have been in a separate film, allowing us to jump off with the rescue mission of Erso and the trip to Jedha. Jyn’s childhood just didn’t fit in the film and I think it made it seem like they couldn’t find a better way to tell you how the Erso’s got to this point.
Gee…I wonder how they could have gotten that exposition done. What would have been a better way to tell you the backstory you needed to know before a Star Wars movie started? 😃
I dunno how it looks in motion, but Leia looks alright here…
And it’s so quick, I don’t see how anyone can criticize it all that much. She says one word “Hope” and that’s it.
Is this the first Star Wars soundtrack without the Star Wars theme on it??? Jeez… 😦
Ok, just pointing out one handed Vader has a precedent. 😉
Amazing some footage has leaked. I would have thought people going into the premiere were body searched for cell phones. Of course, some one at a theater could have already run the DCP just for calibration purposes.
There are subtitles. Not sure what language but something asian. So it didn’t happen in the states.
Here’s a list of clips that weren’t in the movie.
Granted, that’s just one list. I’m SURE there are more.
The guy from TCW is credited on IMDB.
Then maybe it is him? I dunno. I never watched it.
Really? I thought they had a good Cushing sound alike when Tarkin appeared on TCW. I don’t know who’s voicing him on Rebels.
I would assume they used whatever actor whose face was replaced as the voice here. He rolls the R’s correctly but he just doesn’t sound right. However, it’s not distracting. It’s just not perfect. I’d say the score and the lack of crawl are far bigger issues.
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De-aged Anthony Hopkins was more than passable on Westworld, and they did that with a fraction of Rogue One’s budget. My guess is that the real problem is that they overuse Tarkin. The tech is definitely there to pull off this kind of thing in brief segments.
He’s in several scenes. And, IMHO, it looks great. However, it’s certainly not perfect. I had more of a problem with the voice work than the CGI. It doesn’t totally sound like him.
On the other hand, I’m now very intrigued as to who this other cgi character is.
I would assume he means Leia.
I haven’t seen it yet. Just reminded of how Lucas has said some of his colleagues thought the first quarter of Star Wars was too Sci-Fi weird, (like THX 1138 was) and needed more human stuff to balance it out. Hence the Luke and Biggs scenes, which all got cut anyway. 😉
Well, most people haven’t seen it yet. 😉
I’d say it’s just shifting a lot between different planets and different characters, all of whom are completely unfamiliar to the audience. That’s very different from how every other Star Wars movie started, aside from ANH and TFA, I guess.
That could easily describe the first section of the original before the droids meet Luke. 😉
There was action in those first 20 minutes. There really isn’t much of any for RO. That’s the difference. This one doesn’t start off with a bang. Quite the opposite. The biggest weakness is the score and the fact that there’s no crawl.
The first 15-20 minutes are generic sci-fi and “weird.”
Those seem to be in opposition, but I’ll trust you for now.
TBH, i’m not a big sci-fi fan. I never really considered SW to be true sci-fi. It was too human, for me.
Saw it last night and the Coming Soon review almost completely sums up what I thought of it.
The first 15-20 minutes are generic sci-fi and “weird.” But, after that, I was thoroughly entertained. Absolutely loved it. And I also loved TFA.
No. I can just capture Vudu films 😉
You’d have to find a source that will play Vudu at 24fps. Most devices only play 60fps. It took a lot of searching, for me. Finally found a blu-ray player that will do it. I capture with the Hauppauge.
you can update TFA because ALL deleted scenes are now on the 3D edition. Nothing is digital-only.
So still no full release of this yet huh?
Yes there was but it’s no biggie. So no one created a new thread about it or bumped this one over the last 3 years. You totally missed it.
