did anyone see Rogue 1?

I did.

I didn’t care about it very much. Lots of action sequences, of course, but you can see what’s coming next all the way through. The big plot thrust was a mission that had no organization or plan, but they manage to pull off. Eyeroll stuff.

Short on character development, so in the end, just didn’t care about it very much. There were some interesting characters – just not enough development to get attached to any of them, or care if/when they died.

Like the prequel trilogy, I just thought story and character was subordinated to the deaths of silly numbers of stormtroopers, etc.

zn wrote:

I didn’t. Don’t know if I will. Maybe if I had a push. I would like hearing about it though.

I’ve seen it twice. I liked it a lot. I suppose how much you enjoy it depends on how much of a Star Wars fan you are.

zn wrote:

nittany ram wrote:

I suppose how much you enjoy it depends on how much of a Star Wars fan you are.

I actually saw the first Star Wars in Hollywood the first week of its release, and went in totally with no expectations and so on. I liked it then, but it never stuck the way other things have. So I enjoyed the movies (first 3 anyway) but would not count myself among the dedicated believers.

When I see them I just keep noticing stuff that keeps me at a distance. Like, for example, why do storm troopers wear armor if does them no good whatsoever. It’s like the empire didn’t want wounded storm troopers, so they just said, okay we’ll put them in this plastic “armor” which amplifies any hit they take anywhere on their bodies so they are automatically killed no matter what.

One thing over time that did stick with me as good was Carrie Fisher as Leia, who refuses to be a damsel in distress type.

I like Carrie Fisher’s quotes about that.

“It’s hard to date once you’re a big Star Wars star, because you don’t want to give people the ability to say, I had sex with Princess Leia’.”

“The father who flipped out about it, ‘What am I going to tell my kid about why she’s in that outfit?’ Tell them that a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit, and then I killed him because I didn’t like it. And then I took it off. Backstage.”

“This’ll impress you – I’m actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I’m a PEZ dispenser and I’m in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can’t have it all?”

I was a big fan of the first two movies. The third was ok but it got a little too cartoonish and cutesy with the Ewok stuff. I didn’t really care for the “prequels” to the original movie – The Phantom Menace, The Clone Wars, etc. But I really enjoyed The Force Awakens and Rogue One so now I have a renewed interest in the franchise.

I know what you mean about the stuff that doesn’t make sense like the Storm Troopers’ armor, but I am able to look past it because it looks really cool and has become sort of iconic, so if a future Star Wars film ever lacked it I would be upset. I always tell myself that maybe it isn’t armor per se but it serves some other purpose like protection from radiation or something. It also doesn’t make sense how the Storm Troopers can never hit anything with their blasters, which is a theme that carries over into the newest two films as well.

What makes the original films so good is the characters and the way they interact with one another – Leia, Hans Solo, Luke, etc. The “prequels” got away from that. I really like the new characters in TFA and R1. They have some depth and are likeable again. Because of that I have hope for the future of the franchise and I’m looking forward to the next movie.

That Darth Vader scene you’re referring to is one of the coolest scenes in film history. Badass is right. I almost wish that was the only time we see him in the film…would have made it even cooler.

Lol!

Well–it loses a little of the impact with Legos but still pretty cool.

I wonder how long that took to make.