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Rogue One: Your yearly dose of Star Wars
commandercool:
It's real good.
Rogue One is the best Dungeon and Dragons movie ever made. A bunch of colorful adventurers band together to sneak into the evil wizard's dungeon so they can steal the magic scroll and save the kingdom. Also there's a funny robot played by Alan Tudyk.
Spoiler: I don't mind admitting I teared up at the end even though, you know, obviously everyone was gonna die. I was keeping it together, but then this little girl behind me started bawling, and... Yeah, no stopping then.
Also, Darth Vader's obsidian space castle is now canon. Score!
MatsuriSakuragi:
I thought it was pretty good. The lack of a title crawl to set the exposition kind of bothered me, because I spent the first 30 minutes confused and frankly very bored (I actually dozed off for a moment a couple of times). But once it picked up, it REALLY picked up. Definitely did the series justice and set the stage for Episode 4 really, really well.
Oldmansour:
Did they mention Garvin Dreis or Wedge Antilles?
Spotty Len:
--- Quote from: Matsuri on December 18, 2016, 05:38:01 AM ---I thought it was pretty good. The lack of a title crawl to set the exposition kind of bothered me, because I spent the first 30 minutes confused and frankly very bored (I actually dozed off for a moment a couple of times). But once it picked up, it REALLY picked up. Definitely did the series justice and set the stage for Episode 4 really, really well.
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Same thoughts. A little slow start, but very good once it went into the meat of things.
I wouldn't mind other spin-offs like this one, I liked it better than Episode 7.
Also, when I saw Spoiler: Tarkin and Leia as CG, it made me think of the potential they had there, with Spoiler: maybe other returning characters? It looked mostly natural, though you could notice it was CG, but it was very impressive to see Tarkin like that.
Reddyne:
I'm certain that the movie seriously messes with some EU novel that came out some 25-30 years ago and that the movie screws with it a bit too much for some but there's a lot to like here. Enjoyable heroes, tough but human bad guy, memorable scenes, different places, cool battles, solid directing, a number of nice nods to the continuity, and just gritty enough because it's a war with people blasting each other and teddy bears bonking guys with rocks to win the day was probably a bit too saccharine for some. Spoiler: Not to mention HOLY HELL is Darth Vader a goddamn terror! Every moment with him carries so much weight!
Some of it's dumb but eh. Solid watch and I stand a chance of being dragged into seeing it again and don't mind. Solid movie lots of fun 8/10.
I'd also be OK with more side stories like this but I'd prefer it didn't stray too far from the main narrative I guess? I think this filled an important gap in just how some top-secret super-weapon plans fell into the hands of some ragtag bunch of rebel scum.