(Xpost) my takeaway: There was a lot of unscripted stuff (improv?) going on in Edwards' shoot and they got stuck with a ton of footage to wade through. Lucasfilm didn't want any waste so they called in Gilroy to try and make it all slot in. Or something.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 10 December 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/uhyisxycrq0b3lp7n29q.gif
yikes
― mh 😏, Saturday, 10 December 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
Tight
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 10 December 2016 01:40 (seven years ago) link
fart joke
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 December 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/11/strong-non-spoiler-first-reactions-rogue-one-star-wars-story
― Number None, Sunday, 11 December 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
Got tix for late Wednesday showing. Can't wait.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 11 December 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
some complained about an abundance of fan service, with numerous in-jokes and references for die-hard fans
Oh nooooo
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 December 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
Please don't throw me in the briar patch, whatever you do
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 December 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
yeah that sucks, if true.
― "Stop researching my life" (Ste), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
well fuck there goes my plan to keep my expectations deliberately low
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
Ste are you familiar with the story of the tar baby
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
lol
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
or br'er rabbit even ;)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
this gives me the same reaction a lot of people feel towards undecided voters
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 11 December 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/GermainLussier/status/807868306694602752
all of the little team-building cuts in the trailers were extra clips, maybe?
there were a couple lines that sounded like voiceovers just for the trailers
― mh 😏, Sunday, 11 December 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I was expecting one of the characters in the movie to say "in theaters Friday!" but apparently that line is not in the movie :(
― Fiddle Catstro (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 December 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
disappointing
― mh 😏, Sunday, 11 December 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
reviews are in. The more negative takes sound sadly plausible
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rogue_one_a_star_wars_story/reviews/?sort=rotten
― Number None, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
although Richard Brody does rather undermine his credibility with this:
There’s none of the Shakespearean space politics, enticingly florid dialogue, or experiential thrills of the best of George Lucas’s “Star Wars” entries (“Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith”).
― Number None, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, he wrote a piece on that last year in the wave of prequel revisionism:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-the-seven-star-wars-films-reveal-about-george-lucas
― jmm, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah I remember that now. That was a weird little interlude
― Number None, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/review/rogue-one-adventure-star-wars-dark-side-247345
Liked it.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
That reminds me to remove bookmark
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/review/rogue-one-adventure-star-wars-dark-side-247345Liked it.
"B."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:40 (seven years ago) link
the [redacted OT character] stuff sounds awful
― Number None, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
"the journey is about as exciting as a long drive down the Florida Turnpike."
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/movies-news-reviews/article120594658.html
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
Bilge Ebiri has successfully moderated my expectations. I think I'm good to go.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
do they blow up the death star in this one
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
you're really ruining this for everyone
― nashwan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
is the last line in the film
― nashwan, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
I have a bad feeling about this
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link
please tell me there is no pandering or nostalgia or callbacks in this. /s
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
And the reaction:
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-the-fuck-high-was-this-new-yorker-guy-when-he-wrote-1790058128
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link
"half-baked and overcooked"
― jmm, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
Brody hated it!? That's it. Gonna give my ticket away to Best Costume On Line.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link
I love how Brody reviews every mainstream movie, when they're thrown his way, like it's the first time he's ever seen a mainstream movie. "Star Wars," Hou Hsiao-hsien, same dif. Rosenbaum would do that kind of stuff, too, the type of guy who would reference Indiana Jones and then state as an aside that Crystal Skull was far and away the best in the series for its self-referential deconstructions of Cold War tropes, recast as a contemporary fantasy undermining the fiction of 1950's male hyper-potency or something.
I hope this movie ends with them making an emergency landing on the crawl that starts New Hope.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 00:33 (seven years ago) link
The crawl is revealed to have actually emanated from the Death Star, sculpted from its inner command chamber by a tearful Jar Jar.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 00:42 (seven years ago) link
I read one not-reall-spoiler spoiler and am pleased that the movie ends how it should
btw everyone dies
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 04:22 (seven years ago) link
It's one gigantic shaggy dog story being narrated by Alan Tudyk's droid
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 04:35 (seven years ago) link
A shaggy droid story, even
my theory after reading too much was that Tarkin kills everyone, which may be true
except Vader, he does not kill Vader
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
like I am guessing that at some point someone is like "uhhh rebels" and just kills all the characters introduced for this film with a lightsaber or Death Star turbolaser after they transmit the vulnerability
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 04:43 (seven years ago) link
after they transmit the vulnerability.
This is Star Wars, remember; no wireless, everything is air-gapped, as Tombot pointed out months ago.
That shot in the trailer where Jyn in running on the beach with a blaster in her hand? She has to be carrying the Maltese Falcon in her other.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 04:57 (seven years ago) link
I am going to see this on Sunday morning :D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 05:02 (seven years ago) link
Def enjoying the revisionism the machine-tooled, deliberately impersonal product-making force this latest cycle has wrought, backing them (us) into a corner of giving the Lucas prequels credit for at least still retaining the threadbare shoddiness of the entire universe he built.
― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 05:04 (seven years ago) link
seeing this tomorrow night in glorious three-dee cuz they were the only tickets left
my prediction: tudyk's robot will be the best character, diego luna will be immensely charming and die unexpectedly, wen jiang and donnie yen will be criminally under-used, and the question of whether or not darth vader has a dick will be definitively answered. rating: b+
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 10:05 (seven years ago) link
also: i think the rebels will succeed in stealing the plans for the death star
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 10:06 (seven years ago) link
bold prediction
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
I made it through 2016 without once getting in a flame war over Trump. One day and I'm doing it over this crap. Truly, Star Wars fan service is my Trumpland.
― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
I saw some facebook shenanigans regarding reviews. It's getting heated?
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link