Star Wars: Rogue One

Yeah, Ep7 did lots of things wrong, but ditching how hyperspace works for lazy Deus Exit Machinae (twice) was by far the worst in my opinion. Because of those stupid, stupid cop-outs, the entire flight model of the entire franchise has been invalidated.
No need for ships actually flying, let alone leaving atmosphere. No need to manoeuvre to get to the space station or deactivate shields, just drop a giant drone-piloted missile in the heart of your target and blow it up. No need to build Death Stars, just drop a giant drone-piloted missile in the middle of the enemy Parliament in full session.
It was basically the interstellar teleporter from Star Trek Into Darkness all over again.

I was disappointed they reused a minor version here.

Yes, that very same act, I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree :slight_smile: I’m glad that you and it seems many others were able to enjoy it, though. I’d go into greater details, but I figure ought to keep this thread spoiler free. If you’re curious you can PM me.

Oh boy indeed :slight_smile:

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Quite simply, I enjoyed Rogue One. :smile:

It felt like the story of a real insurgency that expanded into an enjoyable spectacle! And the way it tied into Ep.4 seemed satisfying. One or two trips to uncanny valley but most of the film I had a big smile on my face!

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And that is all that matters.

It seems to me they are making movies that remind me of games… better then Uwe Boll ones…
yet for some reason always choose to be inspired by the simplest ones. :frowning:

Why not go with The old republic?
Kotor 1 a 2 had some interesting stories and characters… i really wonder what are they waiting for ?
Even if it was spot on copy.

It seems like we have plenty of artist and directors …yet we lack really good scriptwriters and story-writers.

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The best movie I have seen these years since 2012.

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Hmm, go watch Gravity!

I feel obliged to add a dissenting opinion because there are 2 sides to every avocado.

Don’t watch Gravity if you care about a semblance of realism in movies. I know this is a star wars thread but it’s still a galaxy far far away that wasn’t trying to hit that note.

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Also check out the Martian for a bit more realism than Gravity (which had some major flaws – The Martian only has one or two big ones which the author has even acknowledged).

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Finally made it to the theater to see Rogue One. Honestly I didn’t much care for it. The first half was really boring and the whole thing had too many cliche’s and tropes. That being said the last ~20% of the movie wasn’t bad and I liked the ending.

I’m also one of those ppl who didn’t like The Force Awakens. I think it suffered many of the same problems that Rogue One did and when the girl magically developed Jedi master powers in a day it really ruined the movie for me.

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Saw it too and I pretty much share Keith’s opinion. I liked the darker mood and places of the movie which reminded me of the original trilogy, and the ending ( and overall the space battles ) was pretty fun.

What doesn’t do it for me is the script. There are so many loopholes or coherency problems that it makes me cringe. Could have been written by a 12 years old.

Spoiler exampleHow the rebels have to toggle a switch to contact the admiral in the space fleet, to tell him to destroy the shields so that the death star plans can be communicated.. hello ? if you can communicate with the admiral in the first place, why can't you transfer the death star plans through the same channel ? why go the trouble to align a gigantic antenna to the same target ? that makes absolutely no sense to me
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They mentioned the plans were very large and therefore needed a large bandwidth to transmit all of it quickly enough. The idea being to create a complication for the heroes to overcome. I know it’s simplistic but there isn’t really much science behind Star Wars in the first place :stuck_out_tongue:

Nonetheless, @INovaeFlavien do have a point.

There are quite a few misunderstandings and plotholes if you stick to the film script. This could be partially the cause of “novelization” of the film: the scenarists (or producer or whoever) were lazy enough to consider explanations left for a book instead of including them inside the film, like the good old days.

Laziness, or greed, as they know they’ll make more profit for selling a book that cost them little to no effort.

Still, at least the story was paced somewhat more slowly and you can follow more easly than what’s been made for the episode 7, and there are less plotholes. Far from perfect, but at least it’s going in the right direction. Probably :slight_smile: