Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

Yes it is! :) Heidi

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

i seee!!! that's ur personal ranking Heidi!?

it did! not overdoing drama, boring scenes where they only talk and argue.. but the action and the main objective was: sending those freaking plans!

was nice!

yeah haha! and thank youuu! can't wait for the upcoming one!

No worries! :) Heidi

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

I absolutely loved your reactions for this movie!! Thank you so much, my dear friends! And you are most welcome. :) Sincerely, Heidi

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

i can tell why, is quite special

wow! all the love from Heidi towards her favorite films ^_^ hope you loved our reaction! cuz we love ur passion for this movie! thank you for ur support!

glad you loved this one Heidi! sorry for late reply

Probably down at the bottom after The Last Jedi.

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

Where do you rank the Ewok movies and the Holiday Special?

You are very welcome, Louis! :) Sincerely, Heidi

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

I enjoyed watching you two trying to figure out where in the Star Wars timeline this movie happens. You probably have not watched all the movies as many times as some of us and memorized every detail, but you were very knowledgeable for new fans and when you realized it was right before Ep 4, I was laughing pretty hard. Great reaction guys.

Mr Jordan

Awesome movie and reaction! Thanks Heidi, for the recommendation.

The only Star Wars movie in the last decade that actually felt like Star Wars.

Ooh. I love this flick.

Philip Davetas

Mine too!! :) Heidi

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

If I were to rank all Star Wars movies from my favorites to my least favorites... First and foremost... I love all three movies within the original trilogy pretty much equally. I think they're all phenomenal, and such good stories! They are my favorites out of all elven Star Wars movies. And Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is also equal to the Originals as well. I absolutely love these four as my absolute favorites! :) However, if I were to rank them all... 1) Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi 2) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 3) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope 4) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 5) Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 6) Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 7) Solo: A Star Wars Story 8) Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens 9) Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones 10) Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker 11) Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi These last two movies within the sequel trilogy are entertaining for the most part, and I enjoy a few of the characters and their stories overall. However, I think they are definitely the worst among all eleven movies. Definitely still worth watching at least once. Should you decide to watch these final three Star Wars movies you haven't seen yet, and create reactions for them, I would definitely be happy to watch them with you. :) Thank you so much again, dear friends! Sincerely, Heidi

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

Also, if you would like to get to know Rebel Hero, Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna, a bit more than the man we get to know here within Rogue One: A Star Wars Story... There is a fairly new Star Wars show that's come out on Disney Plus, titled... Andor. A show that is dedicated to Cassian Andor. So far, only season one has been released, and there are a total of twelve episodes for this season. Season two will be coming out as well, with twelve more episodes, which will be released sometime next year. Andor has so far been a phenomenal show, that holds true to what we love about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and we get to know who Cassian Andor is, and who he was back before he ever joined the Rebellion. If you're interested in watching it, and if you ever can find time to add a new show to your other shows you are reacting to for us, I would absolutely love to see you come to react to this incredible show!! I highly recommend it! Andor for me, is by far the best out of all the Star Wars shows released on Disney Plus. I absolutely love it!! :) Heidi

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story- Thank you so much for such a fabulous reaction to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Marian and Joy! Thank you very much for watching it for me! I really love this movie, and I consider it to be one of my absolute favorites of all the Star Wars movies, tied with the Original Trilogy movies that are set in time immediately after Rogue One is set. I am so happy that you have both now come to really love this movie so much too, as well as its characters! I absolutely love this movie's overall theme of hope, and I love, love, love just how brilliantly and beautifully this movie connects to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and love that this movie is set directly before the events of A New Hope. And if you remember back to... or watch the Star Wars scroll at the beginning of A New Hope, the scroll explains that a small band of rebels fights against the Empire to get the Death Star plans for the Rebel Alliance so they can destroy the Death Star. These words from this scroll, is where the whole overarching idea for this movie came from. This is the story that Rogue One's director... Gareth Edwards, and its writer... Tony Gilroy, wanted to tell. And it is absolutely phenomenal! Because without this small band of rebels going against the Alliance Council's orders... Without their sacrifices... Not only would the original trilogy be unable to exist, but the Rebellion would have failed and the entire Rebellion would have all likely been killed, or the Rebellion would have disbanded and would have given up their fight against the Empire. And the Empire tragically would have won. Each member of Rogue One are heroes by their own merits because they bring hope back to the Rebellion, and fight and die to make sure that the Alliance do not give up their fight against the Empire like they want to out of fear of the Empire's strength and power. They sacrifice everything, including their very lives. These rebels most certainly deserve to have a movie that honors them. I love that this movie has been created so that we can see just how it is Leia comes to have the plans for the Death Star, like we see that she does in the very beginning of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. And I love that this movie introduces us to a new group of Rebels within the Alliance who are all striving to find any information about the Empire that will help them to prevent the Empire's deadly plans to take over the Universe. And in so doing, one of the Intelligence officers discovers that the Empire has built the Death Star, known only to them at the time as a "planet killer", and that unfortunately, the Empire has completed it. Now... They need to find someone they received word had helped to build the Death Star. I absolutely love this movie's overall story arcs for each of its characters and the movie's overall plot. Especially in regards to the rebels and how they enlist Jyn Erso to help them find her father, the lead designer and builder of the Death Star, forced to do so against his will. I really love that Galen Erso creates a trap within the Death Star, allowing for the Alliance to destroy it like we see Luke succeed in doing in A New Hope. Most of all, I love how this small group of rebels within the Alliance go against word of the Council when they refuse to rise against the Empire out of fear, as this band that comes to be known as Rogue One, invades the Imperial base where the plans for the Death Star are hidden. Unfortunately and tragically, each member of Rogue One dies, including each of our main characters who sacrifice everything for the Alliance so they could cripple the Empire. And they succeed. I absolutely love it! I know that there are a lot of Star Wars fans out there who have said they can't connect much, or if at all, with these characters because they are only in this one movie, and because they are unknown to us before this movie was created. However, I do. I can absolutely connect with each of them. Especially Cassian and Jyn. I love each of them, because I admire their bravery for fighting against the Empire against all odds, as well as their own side to do what's right. As for the new and main characters... I enjoy Jyn, Chirrut, Baze, Bodhi, and Saw Guerra very much. And I enjoy a number of all the other new characters created for this movie, as well as love seeing a number of old beloved characters from the original and prequel trilogies such as Darth Vader, Bail Organa (Leia's adopted father who was introduced to us back in Episode II: The Attack of the Clones and mostly in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith), Princess Leia, Governor Tarkin (first introduced to us back in Episode IV: A New Hope), R2-D2 and C3-PO, and Mon Mothma (first introduced to us back in Episode VI: Return of the Jedi). However, my overall favorite of the new characters are absolutely Cassian Andor, the intelligence officer who brings the Alliance news of the "planet killer" and who fights alongside Jyn and K-2S0 to steal the plans, as well as K-2S0. I love what little we learn about why Cassian is a fighter within the Alliance, as he reveals to Jyn he has been with the Rebels in this fight since he was six years old, after he lost everything. I wish we learned more about him, and how he came to work with K-2S0. And I love Mexican actor... Diego Luna, who plays Cassian Andor as well. I have seen him in a number of movies and he's an absolutely fantastic, brilliant actor in a number of movies I've seen him in! And now he even has his own show where he has taken up the role of Cassian Andor once more. Once again, he is phenomenal!! :) Jyn Erso of course is also amazing, as the daughter of Galen Erso and the newest rebel after the death of her father. I love her determination to avenge her father and mother, and to complete the mission her father had set out to do, for him. In regards to Cassian's and Jyn's relationship... They never were romantically involved, mostly because they never had the chance to grow that much closer than they had before they are both tragically killed in the ending of this movie, by the Death Star itself. However, Cassian and Jyn most definitely come to feel a very deep respect for one another, and they grow close in such a short amount of time. I would have loved to see them survive, if only just so we could have had the chance to see their relationship/friendship, and possible romance evolve. But with this being said... Their deaths are heartbreaking and beautiful. I love their final moments when Cassian comes back to save Jyn in spite of having been severely injured a short time earlier, when he shoots Director Krennic before he can kill her. I love the brief moments between them in the ending as they look into each other's eyes, and I love how Cassian reaches out to take Jyn's hand as the blast from the Death Star is approaching them, as Cassian tells Jyn that her father would be proud of her. Such a beautiful and heartbreaking moment, as they finally embrace one another and are killed by the blast from the Death Star. So heartbreaking, and yet so beautiful and heartfelt. As for the appearances from the characters we've loved since the original Star Wars movies... I was pleasantly surprised that we saw so many. And sadly, a number of the actors who played some of them have passed away since the original movies. Princess Leia makes a very brief appearance in the very end as Carrie Fisher offers her voice for a single line and word... "Hope". Sadly, Carrie Fisher died the very year this movie was released in theaters, the night after Christmas. However, I love that through CGI, we are able to see Leia just as she was back in 1977. Another character from A New Hope we see here in Rogue One, whose actor also passed away long ago, is Governor Tarkin played by Peter Cushing. Tarkin worked alongside Darth Vader in A New hope and was directly under the Emperor's command, in charge of finishing the work on the Death Star. His character was very essential to the building of the Death Star, so it makes sense that this movie's creators would find a way to make Tarkin a part of this movie. Tarkin was later killed when the Death Star was destroyed in A New Hope. As for bringing Governor Tarkin back to life again despite his original actor having passed on... He too was all done through CGI and voiced by a different actor who was able to mimic Peter Cushing's voice, given that Cushing had died not long after the original Star Wars back in 1977. His CG-I isn't the greatest, but I still really love his overall character and seeing him brought back for this movie. We also get to see a brief cameo appearance from both R2-D2 and C3-P0, which I love. And I absolutely love that Mon Mothma, the Alliance Council's leader and Senator wearing all white from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (played by a different actress back then) is brought back, as well as Leia's adopted father, Senator Bail Organa from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, as he too is a member of the Alliance Council. In Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Mon Mothma is played by actress, Genevieve O'Reilly, and in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, she is played by Caroline Blakiston. And another moment I love... I really love the brief scene between Bail Organa and Mon Mothma, as they talk about enlisting Obi Wan Kenobi for their battle ahead, and knowing the one person he absolutely trusts to seek Obi Wan out is his own daughter, Leia. Bail also talks to Mon Mothma about needing to return home so he can warn his people of the threat of the Empire. And if you remember... Bail was known to be from Alderaan, which we know to be later tragically obliterated completely by the Death Star in A New Hope, when it blows up his and Leia's home planet. So yes... Shortly after his moments here in Rogue One, he too is among those killed when his world is destroyed. And last but not least... We have Darth Vader himself. I absolutely love seeing him brought back for this movie! And wow!!!! I especially love the moment when he steps onto the Alliance ship during the major space battle in the end, then completely wipes out the soldiers in order to try to get back the plans before the Alliance can use them to destroy all of the Empire's hard work. This scene is absolutely amazing and so dark. I love it! even though my stomach twists in knots as Vader kills all of these good men. It's tragic, and just an amazing scene. I also love getting to see the lava planet where Vader resides on, shown in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith... Mustafar. Overall... I absolutely love this movie and its incredible characters!! And once again, I am so happy that you really love this movie as well. And I am so grateful to you for your reaction for it. So, thank you once again, my dear friends! Sincerely, Heidi

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum

Outside of the original trilogy, this is my personal favorite Star Wars movie.

Ellie Miller

One of the very best star wars movies ever made... Can't wait for your zodiac reaction...a fantastic true fact based mystery

Dave Meehan