ROGUE ONE - Full Length Reaction!
Added 2022-08-05 16:01:05 +0000 UTCHere's the full length reaction to Rogue One! To everyone who said I would love this movie... YOU WERE RIGHT! Enjoy!
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I'm four months late to the comment thread. Great reaction, Addie. Rogue One really does set up Star Wars (1977) very well, since it's storyline revolved around the Death Star plans. And yes, the ending was tragic yet hopeful at the same time. I even saw this movie in IMAX 3D on Christmas Day 2016 with my dad. There was also an IMAX exclusive sneak preview of the Christopher Nolan movie Dunkirk (2017), hopefully you'll react to that movie soon.
Alex Tan
2022-12-07 22:58:30 +0000 UTCI'll at least give this one credit for actually giving us new items (i.e. the Shock Troopers and U-Wings) - as Lucas made a point of doing in each new installment - instead of merely giving us more of various OT elements with a mere new coat of paint, and I'll admit the Battle of Scarif is the closest this new regime has come to actually feeling like Eps. I-VI... but it still has many of the same issues as all the other Disney projects: bland new characters, a sometimes overly convoluted plot, the often more contemporary/MCU-esque dialogue and humor, painfully self-aware winks to the OT, and, well, the whole idea of the Death Star's exhaust port being a deliberate design flaw/deliberate target for the Rebels frankly kind of undercuts Luke's achievement of being able to destroy it in ANH, if you ask me. As it is, I feel this is merely the *least flawed* Disney Star Wars project to date.
Byrd N. Hand
2022-08-08 16:48:36 +0000 UTCIt's my second favorite, which hurts to say because my favorite is "The Empire Strikes Back", and that means the original "Star Wars" is now in third place - when that is the movie I originally fell in love with when I was 6 and saw it in 1977
Sean Novack
2022-08-06 05:57:07 +0000 UTCAfter seeing this film at the midnight showing opening night I went home and watched "A New Hope" again, and my God did Edwards succeed at tying this in. The opening crawl of "Star Wars: A New Hope" "It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, and space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet. Pursued by the Empire’s sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy…."
Sean Novack
2022-08-06 05:55:02 +0000 UTCSince you enjoyed the movie so much, you should read the novelization, too. It goes much further in depth (not too surprisingly) of the relationship between Jyn and her father, and the hate-filled relationship between Krennic and Tarkin.
Danny Miller
2022-08-06 01:59:42 +0000 UTCThis is my favorite Star Wars movie of the new Disney batch. It really showed the potential that Star Wars can be more than just the Jedi and the name of Skywalker, which they don't really realize again until The Mandalorian. As for the ending, the ending got reworked a LOT into what we see in the final film. If you watch some of the trailers for this movie you'll see a lot of scenes that never made the final cut. The ending they were originally going to go with is that everyone made it out of the mission alive (well, our heroes anyway...). But the production team went to Disney and said they were wanting to angle towards those old war movies where not everyone makes it back; and to their surprise, Disney told them to go for it.
Tony Sanson
2022-08-05 20:32:46 +0000 UTCThe scene you're thinking of in Episode VI when Mon Mothma said "many Bothans died to bring us this information" was about the second Death Star, not this mission. This movie does what the best prequel stories do, they cause us to look at the original story in a new light. They took one of the silliest plot points of Episode IV, the Death Star's fatal flaw, and turned it from a case of engineering stupidity to a deliberate act of sabotage. I guarantee, you'll never be able to watch Episode IV again without thinking of this movie. :)
Patrick Egan
2022-08-05 19:41:22 +0000 UTCThat was in fact James Earl Jones, and I remember going home after seeing it and immediately watching Star Wars (I'm old enough that that is what "Episode IV" is called!) and marveling how perfectly they pieced this story in. After seeing this film and then "The Mandalorian", my takeaway? Never piss off a Skywalker in a corridor!
Sean Novack
2022-08-05 17:09:05 +0000 UTCHappy Friday, Addie! 😊 I love this movie! It's actually good that you're watching this movie now with the new "Andor" Disney+ show that's coming out next month. I think this first season takes place 5 years before the events of this movie. This movie was the perfect lead up to "Star Wars: A New Hope". We met some great new characters, and got some great cameos from characters that we already know. I can't remember if James Earl Jones does the voice for Darth Vader for this this movie, or if it was someone else. I'm always on the edge of my seat during that last half of the movie. That last moment with Jyn and Cassian on the beach always makes me a little misty eyed knowing what's coming. And that last scene with Vader has got to be one of my all-time favorite Star Wars moments.
Randee Carreno
2022-08-05 16:44:30 +0000 UTCMy fav of all the Star Wars films.
LightsCameraJake
2022-08-05 16:24:20 +0000 UTC
