Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Not only that, but you still want it to maintain the look and feel of Star Wars. In this particular case it's set right before Episode IV, so I would expect it to have a retro look and not deviate too much. Going forward, if they were to do something set in the Old Republic, then yeah, change the look and make it less nostalgic.

It comes out tomorrow for me, I'm right outside of DC. I will be seeing it tomorrow.

Are you seeing it in regular viewing or in 3D?

Probably 3D, it just depends on how many people are there.

Depends. I'm not saying that there is nothing for the kids to like, and for reasons of childhood nostalgia they probably won't care or notice much difference. This will be their Star Wars, kinda like how some younger (or not so young now) Trekkies first grew up with Next Generation onwards. But I just feel that they're being a little short changed by having something that partially exists to cater for their parents and grandparents as much, of not more, than them. Those of us born in the 70s and who grew up in the 80s had so much more in terms of benchmark content. Star Wars, early Spielberg, the first ever non-campy take on superheroes and so on. I just wish there was more of that today for the kids, rather than so much recycled stuff.

It's just a bit of a grumble I have about the general state of cinema today that I often make when discussing SW and other movies, just as we have touched on this sometimes in the Trek reboot threads. As much as I overall liked TFA and will probably like this, it's just been a personal frustration of mine that even SW is not immune from the ever increasing shift towards production line cinema, especially since Disney is now one of the biggest offenders of production line cinema with it's endless slate of Star Wars, Marvel and live action remakes. Contrast that to the 1980s when we were kids, when Disney was all about original content. They literally didn't realise one sequel or remake for the entirety of the 80s.

I see the T. Rex jumping, but I don't see the shark.

Yep, seeing it tonight in 3D. 7.30pm, which will be 2.30pm EST.

Got 3D tickets for 7pm EST. tonight.

I wasn't able to get tickets for the whole family before Saturday.

Well, just saw it. On my way home and typing on my phone so can’t go into too much details. Its good though, first half maybe a bit slow, but the last hour is all out action and its real good. Oh, and it’s dark. Probably darker than empire. At no point did it give me the tingles like force awakens, but thats probably as there isn’t the same nostalgia.
The scenes are all beautiful and the CGI of the old characters, really good. Certainly a good addition to the story. Could i watch it over and over? Doubt it, but i you could easily watch it back to back with Ep4 and not skip a beat. In fact as much as it might pain Lucas, this could set the new beginning of the story if you are tempted to forget about the prequels. Probably need to spoiler the rest now.

I’ll think about it more overnight and update in morning, need my bed. Anyway, what you need to know is its good!

There's a leaked Darth Vader scene floating around the internet - I saw it on Reddit - and it looks fucking awesome.

If you're into that sort of thing.

All vaders scenes are awesome, but theres one particularly awesome one near the end

For @Dayton3

One of the best performances in ‘Rogue One’ is by an actor who died in 1994

That's the one - I can't wait to see this tonight.

Yep, and he wasn't the only actor brought back. Remember, this is set right before A new hope. There are plenty bit part characters in both.

Yep, Vader does really 'lose his shit' and go 'medievil' in that scene!

10 minutes to go!

My wife and I are seeing it Sunday. Couldn't get tickets (or make the time) Friday night.

Saw it tonight.

Technical bits: score FTW, lighting FTL - it was too dark. No opening crawl (and this is pretty okay, actually). Location cards - didn't like them, but with no opening crawl and less exposition than a typical Star Wars movie, probably necessary. Costumes are a bit off, like it's high-budget fanfic, but where the fans didn't actually care what things were in the OT. Like a couple characters having Imperial Navy rank cylinders who have never been the in the Imperial Navy. CGI...

Story: about what we expected from the trailers. Pacing was fine in the 2nd half of the movie, but dragged a bit in the first half.
Characters: characters are fine, if a little two-dimensional, but...
Script: this is the movie's biggest problem, IMO. All the comic relief is in the new droid, K2SO, played ably by Alan Tudyk. That's fine. What's not fine is that he has 95% of the banter too (entirely unreciprocated), the other 5% split between Krennic and the guy in the above spoiler. Like, I would have killed for Jyn to have a conversation with Captain whatshisface as good as Luke and Han in the Falcon before the first jump to hyperspace. Yeah, it's a dark movie, but so was ESB, and that didn't stop there being good banter between Han and Leia. Also

It's so good. So good.

Probably my favorite since ESB. So many thoughts, unable to describe right now.

It's so good.

Your favorite since Empire?
That's a VERY bold statement. Will be checking it put myself soon

Yeah I think so, I'm going for a rewatch but that last 20 or so minutes of the movie might be the best Star Wars ever put down on film.

I think at that point the shield had been taken down so it wasn't just the transmission of the Death Star plans at that point, the schematics of everything ever built by the Empire and who knows what other information was stored on Scarif was now potentially available for Rebels to steal.

So, cue the Death Star.

Echo what most have said. Not great in the way ESB was, but very good. The last twenty minutes or so were awesome, I liked all the little nods, Tarkin was very well done, and it fills out the SW universe in some welcome ways even undoing some of the damage that the prequels did. But I didn't much care for most of the main characters or how they were written. Probably could have done with a little more banter (as someone said) or maybe some romance.

I was actually happy there was no romance, it was just a "let's get shit done" kind of movie.

I loved this movie.

So, I didn't want to say this for fear of ridicule, but I pre-gamed too much last night and passed out after the first five minutes. So I need to go again to see it.

"Pre-gamed"?

Translation: he couldn't hold his booze.