General star wars talk/discussion/complaining

[Older Beholder]

I didn't agree with the mess part - just that it was messy like what they were trying to do. This conveys the idea of a ragtag group that shouldn't succeed pulling it out in the end better than in A New Hope, IMO. The Darth Vader scene was truly a horror movie in a capsule, especially when you realize that the door wasn't stuck- Vader was holding it closed while he slaughtered the rebels. And I will say it's the only film that out-bleaks The Empire Strikes back, and is my favorite Star Wars movie outside of that one because it takes promise of hope, turn that on its head with a horrific ending, but still even in that low point bring forward a message that hope is eternal in spite of circumstances.

It's been a while since I've seen it, but from memory there is a lot of jumping between planets and characters at the start, that for me was hard to follow. Apart from the scene with Mikkelsen and Mendelsohn which is fantastic. As I said, it does come together eventually, it just took a while to get me in.

 

[Gradine]

I honestly struggled with Rogue One through its first half, but I still left the theatre with a huge grin on my face because (a) the third act was phenomenal, and (b) it's hard to make me not like Star Wars

 

[MarkB]

There's another great messages in the film: 'That's how we're going to win. Not by fighting what we hate. But saving what we love' A point I think may have been missed by the Youtube grifters who made 4 hour long videos of all the things they didn't understand in the film.

Would've worked better if it hadn't been preceded a few minutes earlier by another person saving the ones they loved by doing basically exactly what Finn's trying to do here, and followed a few minutes later by someone else buying time for them at the cost of his own life. How were Finn's actions different than Hondo's or Luke's except that he's a main character who's not allowed to die?

 

[Older Beholder]

Would've worked better if it hadn't been preceded a few minutes earlier by another person saving the ones they loved by doing basically exactly what Finn's trying to do here, and followed a few minutes later by someone else buying time for them at the cost of his own life. How were Finn's actions different than Hondo's or Luke's except that he's a main character who's not allowed to die?

For me, Holdo and Luke were not acting out of hate, in both cases they were saving the things they loved. Compare that to Finn who was just acting out of fear/anger, driving head first into a laser cannon, throwing his life away for nothing.

I feel it ties into the film’s themes of questioning myth and blind hero worship.
Rose > Finn > Rey > Luke* (> = looks up to)

Finn wants to be like Holdo and Luke, maybe that’s part of the point being made. But he hasn’t learn’t what it really means to be a hero yet.

 

[Older Beholder]

The strangest bit of Star Wars merch I own is this shirt I got from an op shop.
I looked up the label and looks like it was in a t-shirt design comp…

I like Chewie and Han on the back.

 

[trappedslider]

As of right now, those who use Roku with their TVs can locate an app called Cinema Box. And on it, users will find the 1977, theatrical version of Star Wars. No use calling this version of the movie "A New Hope," because this streaming version doesn't have that subtitle in the opening credits. This means the version uploaded to Cinema Box predates 1981, which is the year that George Lucas retroactively added "Episode IV, A New Hope" to the opening title crawl.

 

[Bedrockgames]

As of right now, those who use Roku with their TVs can locate an app called Cinema Box. And on it, users will find the 1977, theatrical version of Star Wars. No use calling this version of the movie "A New Hope," because this streaming version doesn't have that subtitle in the opening credits. This means the version uploaded to Cinema Box predates 1981, which is the year that George Lucas retroactively added "Episode IV, A New Hope" to the opening title crawl.

Did you watch it ?

 

[trappedslider]

Did you watch it ?

i do not have roku nor do i have any interesting in watching that version.

Sorry everyone but For a Brief Moment, the Original Version of Star Wars Was Actually Streaming Online

 

[Deset Gled]

i do not have roku nor do i have any interesting in watching that version.

Sorry everyone but For a Brief Moment, the Original Version of Star Wars Was Actually Streaming Online

That 2006 DVD version is pan and scan. So, still not the original theatrical release.

 

[MoonSong]

First poster for the 20th anniversary of ‘REVENGE OF THE SITH’The film will be re-released in theaters on April 25.

Confirmed. It will play on theaters in my country. Now to step two, convince my brother to take me.