Is Jaw Gerrera supposed to be some kind of Che Guevara ref― Οὖτις
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 25 December 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
Miguel Herrera iirc
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 December 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
We went and saw this again today and I liked it a lot better on second viewing. I didn't even notice the first time but along with no opening crawl this avoids a lot of other SW formalist gestures like the wipes between scenes; Edwards just uses straight cuts and establishing shots.
I really like the cleverness of the opening shot -- the pan up through the star field is standard stuff, then you get an encroaching triangular shape that looks momentarily familiar but turns out to be the partly-shadowed rings of a planet.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Monday, 26 December 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
AT-ATs and their pilots on winter recess vaca in Miami and vicinity
― calstars, Monday, 26 December 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
Thought this was way better than the last one. Albeit filled w plenty of lol / wtf / eyeroll moments
The scene where she's trying to send the plans by climbing to the top felt like I was watching someone play a video game
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 26 December 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
Like, why is there an opening-closing hatch she has to jump through? What possible purpose did that thing serve. Lol
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 26 December 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
dryer vent? didn't see any lint stuck in it though
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Monday, 26 December 2016 01:49 (seven years ago) link
Fairly certain the irising portal hatch she leaves the data tape room thru is a straight copy of the one atop the Falcon.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Monday, 26 December 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
Kinda references luke hanging on to the weather vane at the bottom of cloud city tbh
― 龜, Monday, 26 December 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
Agree master switch was stupid but they needed that to set up donnie yen's heroic death
― 龜, Monday, 26 December 2016 02:14 (seven years ago) link
s riptwriters were ruthless as soon as riz was was finished for purposes of advancing the plot they had a stormtrooper throw a thermal detonator inside the shuttle like bye
― 龜, Monday, 26 December 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
That too, but I meant that the hatch was physically identical
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Monday, 26 December 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, December 25, 2016 8:31 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i thought her whole ending sequence, climbing up the tower, going to the first switch, then the second switch, was super video game-like, like there should've been little Objective Completed texts showng up in the corner of the screen
i was fine with the ridiculous elements, and like what ledge said above -- Re: the ludicrous technology design, really this is a feature of the SW universe -- let us never forget this entire series basically started as alternate universe flash gordon fanfic
― qualx, Monday, 26 December 2016 04:41 (seven years ago) link
also digitarkin was so bad, horrible idea that people would've loved to hold against lucas 15 years ago
is grand moff tarkin really such an important character that he needed to be included in such a capacity? when i was a kid watching ANH i remembered him as the nerd who got choked, who cares
would've probably been better if they cut the vader castle scene and just had the tear-thru-hallway scene be his first appearance
anyway yeah i liked this more than the last one, lower stakes i guess
― qualx, Monday, 26 December 2016 04:44 (seven years ago) link
also can a mod mass edit all of shakey's 8 million posts across all the SW threads and add "you cucks" at the end
― qualx, Monday, 26 December 2016 04:45 (seven years ago) link
I approve
― mh 😏, Monday, 26 December 2016 05:44 (seven years ago) link
Another thing was yeah in a new hope I just sort of assumed it was more subtle skullduggery leading to the plans leaking from the empire via leia not a full on space battle and two destroyed cities. Also forest whittaker's relationship w the lead was super underdeveloped and there were no stakes when he randomly decided he was going to let himself die for no reason
That said I think that the good guys were all gonna die freed this from being a new hope redux / five favorite ingredients in a new order like the last one
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 26 December 2016 07:37 (seven years ago) link
Tarkin is the military commander of the Death Star, and doesn't get choked by some jumped-up goth monk.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 26 December 2016 08:17 (seven years ago) link
well goes to show how significant a role he played in ANH
the entire subplot over who owns the death star IP could've been removed and the movie would've lost nothing
― qualx, Monday, 26 December 2016 09:15 (seven years ago) link
Cranic kinda reminded me of an evil Steve Coogan
― 龜, Monday, 26 December 2016 13:50 (seven years ago) link
Having read nothing about this before going in, I was fairly certain after a few minutes trying to place the voice that the robot was Dinklage pretty much doing his Imp turn.
― Noel Emits, Monday, 26 December 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
yeah why did they have an american fake a british accent (unconvincingly) for a fukkin robot?
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 26 December 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
There are no British people in long time ago outer space. It's all just a strange coincidence.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 December 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
The fake British accent is a telltale sign an imperial droid has been reprogrammed by the rebellion.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Monday, 26 December 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
imo fake british accent is very empire/senate, that's uh totally what carrier fisher was going for when confronting vader
― mh 😏, Monday, 26 December 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
*sighs*
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 26 December 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
Dick Van Droid
― Noel Emits, Monday, 26 December 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
don't get me wrong, it's a RP thing, but there's no indication that it's a senate matters thing. So either Lucas didn't coach it, or he did completely randomly
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 01:05 (seven years ago) link
I think she took that on from shooting all those early scenes with David Prowse and Peter Cushing? Then spent the rest of the time with Americans, which changed that up.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-hc-rogue-one-donnie-yen-20161217-story.html
― 龜, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
Carrie Fisher died this morning.
http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
Oh fuck
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
RIP Carrie.
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
<3 ;_; heartbroken now
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
I heard about this five minutes after seeing CGI Leia on screen
― joygoat, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
yeah what a creepy confluence tbh. rip.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link
you prefer another target? a military target?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
D Trump would be fine thanks
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
RIP. Now really looking forward to rewatching 'A New Hope' (almost started it at after midnight after getting home from 'Rogue One').
Also:final shitpost: i hate that x-wingsand TIE fighters are the only starfighters they really bring back from the first movies.
I don't think the other fighters had been deployed at that point "historically." Tie Bombers appeared in ESB and the rest in ROTJ.
and now I'm going to be that guy:ion torpedos weren't in any of the space sim games!
There were some kind of ion projectiles, I think in 'X-Wing: Alliance'
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
Worth a watch if you've never seen it - less a roast than a gleeful slice & dice
http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/carrie-fisher-roasted-george-lucas.html
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 23:22 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kRsJpql.jpg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
As a kid I noticed how that gun was exclusive to Leia and that action figure; it was never seen again.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, December 27, 2016 5:55 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark
ion pulses
― 龜, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 01:14 (seven years ago) link
finally saw this; had no idea about the carrie fisher 'cameo' at the end so found that a bit touching actually; you only see the face for maybe 4 seconds. I liked the movie on the whole but agree that the last 10 minutes were the best, once vader started spinning the lightsaber and cutting the fuck out of people. it would be excellent, I think, to get a full vader spin off film; but JEJ is sounding too old to do a full film, and I don't know if he could be convincingly recast. I'm curious about the reshoots as well; I think the plot resolution here was quite good and enjoyed that they killed everyone. But the indications seem to be that the original had them all surviving or at least running on the beach with the plans. who knows.
― akm, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 06:56 (seven years ago) link
I enjoyed this a lot.
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 07:07 (seven years ago) link
I think I enjoyed TFA more. Movie felt a little disjointed to me (major LOLs though at Leia's "diplomatic mission" in light on the end). Imperial Droid was great.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
http://www.blindltd.com/rogue-one
― 龜, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link
How many posts are there on the Internet about how they use arabic numerals even though the alphabet(s) are all invented
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
It's funny that Lucas never "fixed" the Death Star plans in the OG Star Wars along with all the other stuff he "fixed," necessitating Rogue One using those plans that show the dish/laser on the equator, even though he stuck this into Revenge of the Sith:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/e/e0/The_Ultimate_Weapon.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091007163903
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
Compared to:
http://jeffbeaty.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/death-star-plans-on-screen.jpg