Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

it's a pile of ass and the cgi carrie fisher is a sin against nature

My wife and I both loved it. This was basically the kind of movie I've been waiting for since I was reading the West End Games RPG books 30 years ago. It felt like something written by and for hardcore fans.

CGI Tarkin got more unsettling the longer he went on, though. I felt like I was watching a video game cut scene. His movement was just off.

For all the attention being paid to him, including getting one of the rare Disney metal figures, I think he was on screen for about half a second.

I feel like Thanos should have gotten a scene in GotG like Vader had at the end of Rogue One.

I was actually falling asleep during it. It picked up once they got to scarif, but everything before? That was not good.

I have to say, I'm getting a kick out of Diego Luna's weird obsession with Jabba the Hutt.

Also, Disney has its exclusive line, but I don't think they got the face quite right.

I haven't loved the human figures in that die-cast line. I've just gotten Vader and all of the droids, though I did buy Rey, since she came with BB-8.

That said, there's no Disney Store in town, so I'm pretty limited picking the stuff up at all.

A solid B/B+ kinda movie. Just about everything of the final 45 odd minutes on Scarif I thought was really excellent, great sense of scale and desperation in those battle sequences both on planet and in the space and that kind of war atmosphere is precisely the sort of thing I signed up for, and visually it was great all around, but the film had some fits and starts throughout. As tends to happen with these kinds of universe-trotting adventures, the impetus to keep moving from location to location doesn't let individual moments and elements breathe and be developed as they might otherwise. I definitely enjoyed it on whole, but it's got its issues.

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For example, I liked the idea of the sleuthy spy stuff early in the movie and the there were lots of very good elements to the urban insurgency segments in the mid-section, but I would have like them to have stayed put there for a while longer for example, letting the viewer breathe in the feeling of a city under siege and occupation, before it later blowing up figuratively and literally, but we're kinda rushed from one area to the next. Characters were all functional, Donnie Yen and friend were fun and Imperial bot as well, who wasn't just the murdery HK47 ripoff I was fearing, but as with most things they all could have used more writing. Mads whole character felt weirdly superfluous to the movie.

I also actually wished they had pushed the romantic/sexual tension angle between our two primaries sooner and harder (uh no pun intended), I liked their interactions together when they started getting more pally but their romance is developed way too late into the movie to give it the 'doomed/tragic' heft that could have added something to the story, I mean come on modern action blockbusters let your leads kiss! Krennic is a bit of nonetity villain wise, I like the angle of this dickish careerist officer but could have used a bit more threat to him, but I liked how they staged his death. And on that, appreciated that they stuck to their guns with the ending survival count. Some of the more explicit "remember this/him/it!" etc. callbacks were unnecessary but expected.

That may be why I have a problem with them - not having a store in town, I have to order them, or see the last ones left while I'm traveling. You're picking out all the good ones, you monster.

Hey, let me know what you're looking for. I should be in a Disney Store sometime in the next week. I can take a look and see if there are any great looking ones.

Bummer. The one I have without the mask looks great. It is actually my best looking of all the figures.

ComradePig I do recall thinking as the film progressed that it didn't have a great villain - an odd thing to think his for a movie which as not just Vader but TARKIN, a favourite antagonist since childhood (I used to give arguments to myself as to why given what Tarkin knows refusing to leave the Death Star was not an act of hubris but rather the logical course of action) but Krennic's the third wheel clearly there to give us an antagonist with some personal connection to the heroes, he's a filler bad guy.

And yet Star Wars has had filler bad guys before who brought the house down - the taciturn duelist Darth Maul, for example, who still feels like one of the most iconic things the prequels did. Krennic's just an Imperial bureaucrat having a very bad week, and Mendelsohn - who can be captivating with the right material (really the saving grace of Netflix's Bloodline) is just sort of There.