Star Wars Anthology shit talk (Rogue One, Young Solo, TBD)

apparently no Star Wars main theme either?

i don't get it. movies are 2 1/2 hours nowadays anyways, a crawl is like a 2-minute freebie.

It's an artistic choice, I think, to reinforce the spin off movies being tangential to the main narrative.

it's all a spin-off. the "main narrative" has been changing with every additional movie.

otherwise the first film's crawl would've been all about Anakin Skywalker and the fall of the Jedi

Can you not see how they'd want to differentiate stylistically between the more mythical main sequence and the (presumably) more idiosyncratic secondary films?

I'm not trying to be a Disney Corp stan, just explaining how the decision makes perfect sense to me.

oh yeah it makes sense from a branding perspective.

imo it would make more sense if this was about Darth Vimo on planet Uowa looking for the lost Crystal of Blimba. this is a movie about the Death Star w Darth Vader, they aren't fooling anybody that this is some "side story". they just want to keep remaking A New Hope, not that there's anything wrong w that.

like the point of the crawl was "Hey look, it's like Flash Gordon!" not "This is canonical tales from the uber important Skywalker mythology"

I would be amazed if there was more than 5 minutes of Vader in this, just because it's not a movie about him and he obviously takes up all the air.

would be more than in Attack of the Clones and he was plastered all over coke cans for that one

er, Revenge of the Sith

hopefully his cameo is someone asks a question and he walks in and says "Noooo!"

"Do you like sand?"

Actually the lack of crawl is because this is an in-universe film, made about 10 or 12 ABY in the New Republic, based on the true story of the brave men and woman of Rogue One.

Executive producer has ties to the Solos and all that

imo the question is whether there is any Tarkin content or if Vader has been put in this film as a stand-in

For some reason I'm very excited for Mon Mothma in this

tmi

As it seems unlikely Vader gets to do anything exciting in this they could've just gone with only showing him via hologram - paralleling the first glimpses of the Emperor in the later films.

Vader strictly uses hologram to speak to his superior, all other transactions are done as in-person threats

Guessing that following an early terrorist action in the film, Vader is called in to make sure everyone is in line

seriously when do the damn tickets go on sale

better line up now or they might run out

On sale Sunday night/early Monday morning.

we'll see if the robots at fandango agree with you Ned

xxxxxp mh how quickly we forget the tiny Vader sitting on the walker's dashboard as they approached the Hoth base.

they're leaving the crawl out of rogue one so that they can perfect the technology to somehow make the crawl go even slower on the next one

I have never acknowledged tiny Vader and will not be starting at this point

I'd like to take this opportunity to say how great marvel's current darth vader comic book is

kthxbye

Was.

I have never acknowledged tiny Vader and will not be starting at this point

love darth vader comic, want more comics with the original characters introduced in it

Good news for you then - Gillen-penned Doctor Aphra is coming next month.

I think I knew that but keep forcing myself to forget as to recreate the joy of learning it anew

There's also Vader consulting with his three Star Destroyer commanders by hologram in Empire, during which one of them is destroyed by an asteroid, implying necessarily that he's appearing as a hologram at the other end.

inserted for movie continuity, totally not canon

fight me

I just rewatched that, lols @ dead guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nZx5BFwPCI

For real though I think Vader is only in this to make it clear that Mendelsohn's guy is a genuinely scary MF. You can't really have a villain between ROTS and ANH without calibrating them against Vader one way or another.

I mentioned that I read the pre-Rogue One book, right? It's by the author who wrote the Tarkin novel in the new continuity so Tarkin plays a part, but it's part of a triangulation with Mendelsohn's character and the emperor's new order. I'd be mildly surprised if Tarkin isn't at least mentioned, but I could understand him being absent due to a need to avoid weird casting problems.

But yes, he is a ruthless social climber who sees the Imperial cause as his path to glory and doesn't give a shit about people, even the energy specialist he knew in his youth.

If the new in-canon extended universe has given us anything, it is that the Emperor is a total motherfucker who encouraged his underlings in their constant fraternal conflicts in the sith tradition to both harden their abilities and winnow out the weaker ones. Krennic (Mendelsohn's character) did not come up with the huge space weapon design but by the time this film rolls around he's forgotten that, and it's his project despite others wanting to co-opt it. Obviously it's not his after this movie!

Netflix heads-up: they're still streaming at least the first two "Ip Man" films, starring Donnie Yen

On sale, and all.

lol fandango's email service is useless

Waiting in Alamo's virtual line. We'll see.

Got mine. I don't think even Douglas Adams would have imagined a virtual queue being such an effective Turing test.

Hahah a fine comparison. Got mine as well -- was hoping for opening weekend but my preferred times weren't open for purchase so afternoon of the 22nd will have to do. (Already have the day off work to start my Christmas break so hey.)

Donnie Yen is my number one reason for wanting to see this. saying that, they totally wasted the guys from The Raid in force awakens

Also,

http://www.avclub.com/article/rogue-one-presales-nearly-take-down-fandango-246517

I got Friday night at 7:30pm at one of the better theaters nearby (a Cinemark). I tried to get Thursday night but it was sold out within about 3 minutes.

People can't wait for twenty minutes in their climate-controlled homes for the Internet to sell them a ticket, but they'll stand outside in December for an hour to get a seat.