It's unfortunate that the best quip I have seen on this site in quite some tme will get buried in a not so popular thread. I came back in a second time just to read it again. Having a hard time typing...
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Yeah. I dunno, it just bugs me a bit. There's a death star, and Darth Vader, and Star Wars. We don't need "A Star Wars Story" to tell us that. Now we're going to have like twenty of these, all with the same stupid subtitle. "Han Solo: A Star Wars Story". When just calling it "Solo", or "The Millennium Falcon" would be way sweeter.
Ketchup bottles should be see through, not red at restaurants so I can see how much is left in it!!! !!
YOU HEAR ME CLOUDS?!?!/
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Although the Star Wars opening crawl is iconic, isn't it considered bad screen writing to open your film with a bunch of exposition the viewer is forced to read? I had no issue removing this from Rougue One.
Most people don't understand the stylistic parts of Star Wars like the crawl and screen wipes. George Lucas used them specifically because Star Wars was supposed to his version of old Flash Gordon serials. A lot of Star Wars is copied shot for shot from old science fiction movies, old swashbuckling adventure movies, old WWII dog fighting movies. It's not bad screenwriting. It's style. I really noticed the absence of the crawl and screen wipes and all the vintage cinema techniques in Rogue One.
But those old-fashioned elements are all things Lucas specifically copied because those were the movies of his childhood.
It's funny because people are always talking about people living too much in their childhood nostalgia but Star Wars was exactly a product of that in a different era. It was George Lucas remaking the movies of his childhood. Now we have directors like Gareth Roberts doing Rogue One because his childhood was Star Wars. In 1977, adults of George Lucas' age who read pulp comics, watched WWII dogfighting movies, watched pirates swinging on ropes and sword fighting, and who watched Flash Gordon would have recognized the crawl right away for what it is...sort of like how we today might see something in a Star Wars movie that reminds us of the original trilogy.
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So I had no idea about this but Ser Barristan Selmy, the finest fighter in the Seven Kingdoms, was in Rogue One.. as General Dodonna.
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So I had no idea about this but Ser Barristan Selmy, the finest fighter in the Seven Kingdoms, was in Rogue One.. as General Dodonna.
Great catch! But to be fair Ser Arthur Dayne was the best in the Seven Kingdoms.
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My kids and I have a date this Saturday to re-watch (will be my daughter's first viewing)
A couple of weeks ago I watched it again with my 7 and 4yo daughters, we were on a Disney Cruise and it was showing in the movie theatre on board. They both loved it, and the ending didn't bum them out.
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Well I was talking current time line and quoting Ned Stark, Ser Arthur Dayne has been dead for a while..
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I honestly do like Rogue one better, but its hard to judge TFA based on it being the first movie of the trilogy.
The think that I think makes Rogue one stand out is the villains the problem is that Rogue one allowed them to take key villains and then update them and basically make them better.
So we saw a full power Vader killing everything in an awesome way. We saw a reptilian ruthless Tarkin. If the villian would have merely been Krennic then we would have gone he's lame.
But Vader completely over shadowed Kylo Ren, and now we understand why maybe ren wants to be Vader. At the same time, Tarkin made Hux look like a emotional teenager.
I'm sitting here going, that first scene when Ren comes off of the shuttle is good and everything.
But maaaannnn
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If episode 8 takes a page out of R1's book then it'll be a great movie. The main arc characters are more well developed and the only real complaint was that R1's weren't. But everything else about it was great and improved on a lot of things TFA was lacking.
I mean, it's an opinion and I totally get why someone would prefer R1 over TFA, but I think one of the most universally accepted problems with Rogue One is that the main characters are bland and uninteresting, and the actors are not that great.
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I mean, it's an opinion and I totally get why someone would prefer R1 over TFA, but I think one of the most universally accepted problems with Rogue One is that the main characters are bland and uninteresting, and the actors are not that great.
Yeah. I said the main arc (episode VII, VIII..) characters were more developed. The one apparent weakness of Rogue One.
What the main arc could use more of now is the darker tone, ruthless villains and great action that was on the other hand featured prominently in Rogue.
