Star Wars Rogue One MASSIVE SPOILERS BY BERKUT

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Valmy

#75
December 20, 2016, 09:10:25 AM
QuoteUndead Tarkin was a mistake, though, I just hope they're not going to try to do the same to Alec Guinness going forward.

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DontSayBanana

#76
December 20, 2016, 10:01:38 AM
Quote from: Legbiter on December 20, 2016, 09:08:51 AM
Yeah that's a good descriptor. Overall a better effort than the Force Awakened. Undead Tarkin was a mistake, though, I just hope they're not going to try to do the same to Alec Guinness going forward.

Actually, the grittier vibe was something I'd been looking forward to since Michael Stackpole wrote the first Rogue Squadron book.  It felt like such an homage to that vein of the Star Wars Legacy books that when Bail mentioned dropped the line about [spoiler]"I trust her with my life,"[/spoiler] I was hoping for a little while that they would find a way to get Winter into the new canon with all of her eidetic-memory badassery.

Regarding Tarkin, I thought his scenes were well-executed and just added to the cutthroat vibe we got from Peter Cushing in A New Hope.  What I found more jarring was [spoiler]Leia's cameo at the end.  They didn't use mocap from Carrie Fisher for obvious reasons, but I suspect that the makeup was supplemented with a animated composite of Carrie Fisher's face that wasn't quite flawless- for a second, it seemed to stretch really broad and also suffered from a bit of "waxy face syndrome," though both were still far superior to other attempts to do the same[/spoiler].
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derspiess

#77
December 20, 2016, 10:08:58 AM
Wish I had had a chance to catch all the details you guys caught.  I was too busy telling my kids to be quiet & stop fighting with each other, getting them food, taking my daughter to the bathroom three times, etc.  YEAH LETS DO THAT AGAIN
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The Larch

#78
December 20, 2016, 07:19:41 PM Last Edit: December 20, 2016, 07:36:37 PM by The Larch
Just watched it, really liked it. The end was totally Saving Private Ryan...in space!!

Re: The Vietnam war movie comparisons, there's a scene near the end in which one of the rebel soldiers had three cartridge thingies on one side of his helmet that totally looked like cigarettes. It was only missing having "Born to kill" written on its side.

celedhring

#79
December 20, 2016, 07:28:59 PM
Taking my mom to it tomorrow. I NEED to watch that ending again. :blush:

I also got an offer for a third viewing, but that'd probably be too much. Will wait for the home release.

Sophie Scholl

#80
December 20, 2016, 09:21:42 PM
I have yet to see it and haven't read through this thread yet, but... here's something that seems to be getting a lot of love on a firend's Facebook wall I figured I would share.  Enjoy?
https://vimeo.com/196357074
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#81
December 20, 2016, 09:26:50 PM
Quote from: celedhring on December 20, 2016, 07:28:59 PM
Taking my mom to it tomorrow. I NEED to watch that ending again. :blush:

I also got an offer for a third viewing, but that'd probably be too much. Will wait for the home release.

Oh my.
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#83
December 22, 2016, 06:02:59 AM
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Syt

#84
December 22, 2016, 06:03:00 AM
 :D
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celedhring

#85
December 22, 2016, 06:12:53 PM
Also, this bugged me in my second viewing of Rogue One. How come none of the possibly hundreds of prisoners they take when they capture the rebel fleet gives up the location of the Yavin base? Since Tarkin is still looking for it in ANH.  :hmm:

Berkut

#86
December 22, 2016, 06:23:08 PM
Presumably the location of the base is highly classified, and those prisoners would not need to know where it was....

They just, you know, fly away from some unknown to them planet....

Or maybe the moved it, perhaps regularly.
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Habbaku

#87
December 22, 2016, 06:26:31 PM
The Rebel base is, indeed, moved with some frequency. 
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celedhring

#88
December 22, 2016, 06:44:01 PM Last Edit: December 22, 2016, 06:46:02 PM by celedhring
In Rogue One the base is already in Yavin. And the fleet honchos are seen at Yavin during the "rebellions are built on hope!" scene. We, however, don't know where the rebel fleet itself is exactly stationed at, that is true.

The rebel ground forces are seen departing from Yavin, but those are conveniently exterminated by Tarkin using the Death Star.  :hmm:

Liep

#89
December 22, 2016, 06:52:15 PM
Is a 2nd viewing worth it? I'm thinking yes and might go after Christmas but if disappointing I'll save it for later. :P
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