OT: Star Wars Rogue One spoilers
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SolarisTheOne — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 03:33 PM)
The final 30 minutes are good. But the rest of the movie is kindathere.
I dont think this movie was neccesary tbh, but money talks.
The cgi characters and scenes took me out of it sometimes. Some of it is pretty good though.
Characters are try hard ( hey look at me, Im not your typical character) and they lack substance save for that Gin chick.
Vader at the end was the best part. Should have used him more imo
Overall, fun in parts, but mostly just meh. Yeah yeah, we get it, terrorism is happening in our world too, but I go to movies to escape that sh!t.
Force Awakens is better. By a lot.
6/10
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daintyhobo — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 03:54 PM)
I liked it better than Ep 7
I guess my expectations were lower but still
TFA is 6/10 for me
Rouge One is 7/10, maybe a bit more
I agree the CG faces were distracting, but still less than TFA.
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Kamina85 — 9 years ago(December 19, 2016 05:21 AM)
No, keeping Vader's presence at a minimum was smart. This SW movie was by far the most war-like out of all of them with lots of tactics, strategy, and guerilla warfare at play. Keeping the mystical element of it to a minimum (like having Chirrut be Force-sensitive but not a Jedi) kept the war-like feeling of the film intact. Once the movie's climax had occurred then seeing afterwards Vader go all Force-crazy is acceptable.
Also, I will never understand the "not necessary" argument. Technically no film is necessary, they're not oxygen, water, etc. If you mean necessary to the overall mythology then I consider that way too subjective a stance one way or the other that having a discussion on it seems really pointless IMHO. Probably why Screen Junkies chose to have that topic as a Drunk Movie Fight as they knew even sober that there's no way one would be likely to convince the other.
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FireInBabylon — 9 years ago(December 19, 2016 06:14 AM)
8/10. A fun story in the SW universe that shows another side to the conflict. Unknown heroes who get dirty and fight tough. A wide range of characters with unique personalities. Great sets and backgrounds. It added depth and flavor to the overall story.
New standings:- Empire
- Jedi
- ANH
- Rogue One
- TFA
- Sith
- Menace
- Clones
Menace and Clone is always a toss up. It depends on my mood. Menace drags on but has a decent ending. Clones has all that Hayden sht acting.
These violent delights have violent ends.
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FireInBabylon — 9 years ago(December 19, 2016 06:21 AM)
My list is never really consistent. It has gone down but I still give it a 7/10 or 8/10.
I have had it at 3, or 4. I do think R1 is a better overall movie though.
I've also had ANH at 2 and Jedi at 3. The only constant is Empire at 1.
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theinfernobucket — 9 years ago(December 19, 2016 06:29 AM)
One forgets that baby Anakin was
the
Anakin people hated there for a while, Hayden instantly took the spot. Less practical effects than Menace, terribly executed love story, but it's still better. Dooku was the best villain of the prequels and I like Obi-Wan being a detective.
I remember going out of the cinema after seeing Menace thinking "emergency landing on Tatooine, Force sensitive kid there, mentor dies, space battle to destroy a giant ball (with a ring around it this time), hmm".
Lucas certainly said it best back then with "it's like poetry, it rhymes", weird nobody picked up on it until Another Another New Hope, I suppose that's why I wasn't bothered by it; it was a premise Star Wars had run with for a while.
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Jeorj Euler — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 08:31 AM)
Clones is horrible.
I kinda like Phantom Menace.
Well, the computer-generated (motion capture?) Clone troopers are an eyesore and a mistake indeed. Both
Clones
and
Sith
were shot on 2K digital cameras, whereas
Menace
was shot on 35mm anamorphic, plus the the first prequel had a much lower CG-to-practical
radio
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FireInBabylon — 9 years ago(December 19, 2016 06:32 AM)
When I rank Clones and Menace I have to weight the pros and cons of each.
Sure, Menace has Jar Jar and Jake Lloyd - who are both just awful. But, they aren't the real focus of the story. So, looking past those two, you get an ok story, and Lucas's dialogue isn't as noticeable as it is in Clones and Sith. You also get a fun Podrace and a cool finale, plus Darth Maul.
Now Clones, you get Hayden and Portman's hamfists shtfest of dialogue shoved into every orifice. The "I don't like sand" line alone is worse than anything Jar Jar has ever done. Plus nothing really cool happens. The arena fight is kinda forced, Fett does nothing, and then Yoda pinballs around Tyranus for too long. meh. Balls of meh.
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theinfernobucket — 9 years ago(December 19, 2016 06:36 AM)
I will say that Clones is probably my least rewatched one, but we did get to see Kamino which was pretty cool, the tension between Deckard, ahem, Obi-Wan and Jango as they both are onto each other right after the former seeing the clones, an actual fist fight in the rain, those cool sonic bomb things, Anakin searching, finding and avenging his mother, Obi-Wans interrogation aaaand Uh, well that's about it. Still though!
Oh and some shots of the clones battling droids were cool.
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FireInBabylon — 9 years ago(December 19, 2016 06:37 AM)
Anakin searching, finding and avenging his mother
This is a negative. I think another actor may have been able to pull this off, maybe. But this scene was horrible.
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