Star Wars: Rogue One

[Mavric]

Pretty excited to see this. But, I gotta say, I hate the whole "A Star Wars Story" moniker attached to it. Rouge One would have sufficed.

Ya. I mean, did they think people wouldn't have figured it out without the title?

The generation that grew up with the original trilogy probably would have. The generation that was barely born when the prequels were released not so much.

To an extent maybe, but Star Wars is a pretty iconic piece of pop culture.

Yes. Star Wars is. "Rogue One" isn't. Thus, they included the part that is iconic to help sell it.

Yeah....that's quite clear. Marketing 101. And even if they leave the Star Wars tag off of it, do they honestly make less money?

It's the "story" part I take issue with, it sounds cheap and lame.

Gotcha. I agree that "Star Wars: Rogue One" would have been cleaner, imo.

I don't know that they really make less money. But for basically no additional cost, there's not reason not to include it.

 

[LouisianaHusker]

Just got back and it is AWESOME!!!!!

A little too over the top on some of the CGI

The music while setting it's own tone does play homage to John Williams.

There are tie-ins of characters before (from SW: Clone Wars and SW: Rebels)

and after this movie.

The Vader scenes are short but very powerful.

IMHO arguably the best one yet.

 

[ZRod]

To gauge the value of your opinion... What are you're thoughts on TFA?

 

[Landlord]

Man, this might honestly be my favorite Star Wars movie. It took the world, the spirit, the nostalgia, and the history of 40 years and 7 episodes of Star Wars and turned it into something that felt completely new. What a cool movie - Gareth Edwards knocked it out of the park.

Note: I'm not saying it's the greatest movie ever. I'm saying I don't think I've ever enjoyed a Star Wars movie more.

 

[LouisianaHusker]

To gauge the value of your opinion... What are you're thoughts on TFA?

Sorry but I don't have to validate my opinion so that it can be gauged to you nor anyone else.

 

[ZRod]

Ouch! That was kinda tongue in cheek. I am curious what you thought of it though. No judgment, just curious what type of movies you like.

 

[Mierin]

To gauge the value of your opinion... What are you're thoughts on TFA?

Sorry but I don't have to validate my opinion so that it can be gauged to you nor anyone else.

What is wrong with people?? How is this anyone's reaction to that question?

 

[zoogs]

I am quite interested in that, because I know there were people who were completely wowed by TFA (like myself!) and those who weren't especially impressed by it.

I'm not that interested in catching Rogue One in theaters by default, but it sounds good.

 

[LouisianaHusker]

Ouch! That was kinda tongue in cheek. I am curious what you thought of it though. No judgment, just curious what type of movies you like.

Okay, no problem.

One bad thing about internet forums is that tongue in cheek and sarcasm really doesn't come across very well.

Like I said above, I thought it was the best movie of the entire Star Wars franchise.

It was a perfect movie to describe the SW: ANH crawler and it closed the Death Star exhaust port loop hole.

I've read and watched several individual reviews that didn't like the fact that this movie didn't have a crawler but

I was fine with that since I believe that a lot of what would have been covered in the crawler has been and will be

part of the SW: Rebels cartoon series.

Another problems others seem to have was the CGI of certain characters which was necessary with the way

the film went but probably could have been done better using better voice talent.

Vader is reestablished as one bad a$$ Mo'Fo. His scenes are short but extremely powerful, especially his final scene,

even though IMHO this will create another loophole that happens in SW: ANH, i.e. the lightsaber duel between him and Kenobi.

K2-SO provides the majority of the humor for the film, think of him as a mix of R2-D2, C-3PO with a touch of Marvin from Hitchhikers.

Orson Krennic (Ben Mendehlsohn) a very good antagonist even though IMHO his character was overpowered by Tarkin and Vader.

Cameos: there are several by characters from before and after this movie takes place, the best one takes place on Jeddah and is followed

up in SW: ANH.

Music: see my post above.

Now as for SW: TFA, I liked the movie and yes it was basically a repeat of SW: ANH but it does play on the theme that history tends to repeat itself.

The big key will be how is the next movie going to continue the saga? I've read an article, don't have the link, that said that J.J. Abrams stated that

he wished that he could direct the next movie after reading the initial script.

Types of movies: based in action, science fiction, science drama, but if I like it I'll watch it and buy it. Good example of other movies:

Gran Torino, The King's Speech, Second Hand Lions, Soul Surfer, Paper Moon

 

[LouisianaHusker]

To gauge the value of your opinion... What are you're thoughts on TFA?

Sorry but I don't have to validate my opinion so that it can be gauged to you nor anyone else.

What is wrong with people?? How is this anyone's reaction to that question?

I'll put it in simple words that even you should understand, it was a GDF'N opinion and doesn't have to be gauged or validated.

 

[Mierin]

To gauge the value of your opinion... What are you're thoughts on TFA?

Sorry but I don't have to validate my opinion so that it can be gauged to you nor anyone else.

What is wrong with people?? How is this anyone's reaction to that question?

I'll put it in simple words that even you should understand, it was a GDF'N opinion and doesn't have to be gauged or validated.

Again you misunderstood someone's reply. Yikes.
It's likely everyone who saw your post was very excited to see it (e.g. me) and then you went crazy.

 

[LouisianaHusker]

To gauge the value of your opinion... What are you're thoughts on TFA?

Sorry but I don't have to validate my opinion so that it can be gauged to you nor anyone else.

What is wrong with people?? How is this anyone's reaction to that question?

I'll put it in simple words that even you should understand, it was a GDF'N opinion and doesn't have to be gauged or validated.

Again you misunderstood someone's reply. Yikes.
It's likely everyone who saw your post was very excited to see it (e.g. me) and then you went crazy.

And obviously you didn't read my reply ZRod's reply.

And I'll stand by my post in response to Moiraine.

What I posted was an opinion, it does not have to be gauged or validated.

If you have a problem with that than that is your problem.

 

[zoogs]

The internet is a funny place sometimes.

 

[Mierin]

To gauge the value of your opinion... What are you're thoughts on TFA?

Sorry but I don't have to validate my opinion so that it can be gauged to you nor anyone else.

What is wrong with people?? How is this anyone's reaction to that question?

I'll put it in simple words that even you should understand, it was a GDF'N opinion and doesn't have to be gauged or validated.

Again you misunderstood someone's reply. Yikes.
It's likely everyone who saw your post was very excited to see it (e.g. me) and then you went crazy.

And obviously you didn't read my reply ZRod's reply.
And I'll stand by my post in response to Moiraine.

What I posted was an opinion, it does not have to be gauged or validated.

If you have a problem with that than that is your problem.

lol.

No one says you have to validate your opinion. It's a message board. Reply or don't.

You're just acting like loon. You seem to think the question of whether you liked The Force Awakens is similar to being asked "Why did you have that abortion?"

The dude asked if you liked a movie.

lol.

 

[zoogs]

I can see how Z's comment came off as let's see if your opinion is even legitimate or not based on whether you liked TFA.

For my part, if you didn't like that movie you're dead to me

Kidding. Mostly.