Rogue One Review (Spoilers)

[Kramodlog]

Well that film was boring. Not terrible, but not good either. The motivational speeches were a real drag though. No one would be talking about this film if it weren't for the Star Wars logo.

The troubling part is that these kinds of war films really promote suicide missions. ISIS will show that film even if it has two gay characters.

 

[MoonSong]

I loved it, I loved it so much. I cannot stop crying... How can you not care about them? (And maybe I come from a less visual culture, because I didn't even notice the CGI people, perhaps ignorance is bliss?)

As much as the prequel trilogy gets slammed, I find lots of kids who love them. Have to remember the target of audience of children. I don't hate the prequels, but the originals are still the best. VII was way to fast for me (again loved it).

I showed my students the originals (digitally remastered on VHS, Han shoots Greedo with no return fire!) they said they were boring and took to long ... wanted to draw my own lightsaber and go Anakin on them!

Of course age plays a huge role in this. My actual introduction to Star Wars was Episode I, back when it was first in theaters, it and Attack of the Clones sparked my interest into what was otherwise an old franchise with dated effects that had been spoiled to death. (My first Star Wars movie before that was The Eewoks) I also notice that for children born after the prequels all six movies are a coherent whole without distinction between old and new, and they love Star Wars all the same.

As a contrast with [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION] my list of Star Wars movies goes like this

V
III
R1
VI
I
VII
Eewoks
II
IV
Battle for Endor (Super bleak)

 

[vpuigdoller]

I loved it, I loved it so much. I cannot stop crying... How can you not care about them? (And maybe I come from a less visual culture, because I didn't even notice the CGI people, perhaps ignorance is bliss?)



Of course age plays a huge role in this. My actual introduction to Star Wars was Episode I, back when it was first in theaters, it and Attack of the Clones sparked my interest into what was otherwise an old franchise with dated effects that had been spoiled to death. (My first Star Wars movie before that was The Eewoks) I also notice that for children born after the prequels all six movies are a coherent whole without distinction between old and new, and they love Star Wars all the same.

As a contrast with [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION] my list of Star Wars movies goes like this

V
III
R1
VI
I
VII
Eewoks
II
IV
Battle for Endor (Super bleak)

I went with my gf to see it. She didn't noticed the cgi either.

 

[Imaculata]

I loved it, I loved it so much. I cannot stop crying... How can you not care about them?

Because they made no effort to set up any of the characters. The only character that gets a bare bones introduction is Jyn. And even then I cared nothing for her character. She was very flat to me as a character, and there was no heart to any of it. It did not draw me in or make me care. The rest of the characters are just kind of thrown in, and bluntly named. "This is so-and-so, and he does this!". That is very poor writing. I don't even remember the names of most of the characters, and I just saw the movie.

Without looking it up, how many of the names do any of YOU remember?

 

[Darkness]

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[fjw70]

Because they made no effort to set up any of the characters. The only character that gets a bare bones introduction is Jyn. And even then I cared nothing for her character. She was very flat to me as a character, and there was no heart to any of it. It did not draw me in or make me care. The rest of the characters are just kind of thrown in, and bluntly named. "This is so-and-so, and he does this!". That is very poor writing. I don't even remember the names of most of the characters, and I just saw the movie.

Without looking it up, how many of the names do any of YOU remember?

Jyn Erso
Cassian Andor
Ch--- Imwe (don't know the spelling of the first name)
Baze Malbus
Bohdi Rook
K2SO
Director Orson Krennic
Saw G (don't know how to spell the last name)

Off the top of my head.

 

[Morrus]

Jyn Erso
Galen Erso
Orson Krennick
K2SO
Cassian Andor
Blaze Malnus
Saw Gerrera
Bodi Rook

OK, I don't recall Donnie Yen's character's name. Imwe something?

So, in answer to the question, must of them.

 

[wicked cool]

I'm watching the OA right now and honestly I care more for the characters in that then I did in rogue 1. Nobody in this film will get a sniff for best actor or supporting actor and it only has slightly to do with scifi (we know based on GOT that a an actor can win for scifi/fantasy). Riz ahmed (Bodhi) is an upcoming great actor and this might go down as one of his lesser roles

I'm going to compare this again to the band of brothers in predator as most of them die and yet the acting/directing is far superior for what is a horror/scifi movie that was what I expected from Rogue one-

Arnold -dutch
Carl weathers-Dillon
Eliidia Carillo-Anna
Bill duke-mac
Jesse Ventura-Blain
Sonny Landham-billy
Richard Chaves-Poncho

Back to Rogue 1-The only time the audiences cheered was when they saw some cameos while Force Awakens the ending got a standing applause.

 

[Imaculata]

Jyn Erso
Galen Erso
Orson Krennick
K2SO
Cassian Andor
Blaze Malnus
Saw Gerrera
Bodi Rook

OK, I don't recall Donnie Yen's character's name. Imwe something?

So, in answer to the question, must of them.

That's a nice list....
...But were any of their last names even mentioned in the movie?

Further more, was Krennick called Orson Krennick in the movie? I don't remember that at all.

 

[MarkB]

That's a nice list....
...But were any of their last names even mentioned in the movie?

Yes.

Weren't you the one who complained in your initial review that all the characters got name-dropped shortly after they were introduced? Can't have it both ways.