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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6981883" data-attributes="member: 37579">Saw. Quite liked it. Enjoyed it as a first attempt to tell a movie in the Star Wars universe that wasn't the standard tale. The first steps towards different types of Star Wars movie. It was still safe: familiar characters and era, lots of callbacks, lots of action, and the standard space battle. But it's the test. Dipping the toe into the universe.I liked the war movie aspect. And loved the fate of the characters. How not everyone survived despite the odds, to ensue sequels. The amount of callbacks and plot hole filling was a bit much. I don't think we needed a reason why the Death Star has a weakness (design flaws happen). Or why Red Squadron had &quot;Red Five&quot; free for Luke. Bumping into Mr. &quot;Death Sentance x12&quot; is the kind of silly Easter Egg that was annoying in the prequels. The standard &quot;this movie is set before!!!!!&quot; moment that just causes eye rolling. It just makes the Star Wars universe, which is supposedly to be vast, seem small. Now the nerdy compliant. Saw Gerrera was in Clone Wars 20 years before ANH. And he looked like a teenager. 25 at most. So in this movie he must be around 45. Maybe 60. He has aged terribly...That the idea the plans were to big to easily transmit is a nice plot point, as you do wonder why they're not sent from Leia's ship at the beginning of ANH or the Falcon.Having seen it yesterday, mere hours after the news of Carrie Fischer, that last seen was a punch to the gut. She looked fine. Tarkin was more off. Too obviously CG. They should have had the camera a little farther back and had fewer close ups. Or had one of the scenes be a hologram (and thus lower Rez) so they could spend more time on the later appearances.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6981883, member: 37579"] Saw. Quite liked it. Enjoyed it as a first attempt to tell a movie in the Star Wars universe that wasn't the standard tale. The first steps towards different types of Star Wars movie. It was still safe: familiar characters and era, lots of callbacks, lots of action, and the standard space battle. But it's the test. Dipping the toe into the universe. I liked the war movie aspect. And loved the fate of the characters. How not everyone survived despite the odds, to ensue sequels. The amount of callbacks and plot hole filling was a bit much. I don't think we needed a reason why the Death Star has a weakness (design flaws happen). Or why Red Squadron had "Red Five" free for Luke. Bumping into Mr. "Death Sentance x12" is the kind of silly Easter Egg that was annoying in the prequels. The standard "this movie is set before!!!!!" moment that just causes eye rolling. It just makes the Star Wars universe, which is supposedly to be vast, seem small. Now the nerdy compliant. Saw Gerrera was in Clone Wars 20 years before ANH. And he looked like a teenager. 25 at most. So in this movie he must be around 45. Maybe 60. He has aged terribly... That the idea the plans were to big to easily transmit is a nice plot point, as you do wonder why they're not sent from Leia's ship at the beginning of ANH or the Falcon. Having seen it yesterday, mere hours after the news of Carrie Fischer, that last seen was a punch to the gut. She looked fine. Tarkin was more off. Too obviously CG. They should have had the camera a little farther back and had fewer close ups. Or had one of the scenes be a hologram (and thus lower Rez) so they could spend more time on the later appearances. [/QUOTE]

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