Posted on 12/19/2016 6:05:55 AM PST by C19fan
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” soared to the top of the weekend box office as expected, scoring the second-best December opening ever with $155 million in estimated ticket sales.
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too bad Disney’s ESPN is killing their profits.
Leftism, homosexuals, PC, evaporates profits.
If I’m pressed this might the best Star Wars “movie”. I have to rank it behind A New Hope and Empire only because this move would not exist without either of them and that is what helps make it so great. Still it is a great movie on its own and the most well made of all of them. It feels at times like Blade Runner meets Star Wars. This gives the Rebellion the back story that was so lacking in the original movies.
In all fairness, both Vader and Palpatine were from “flyby planets” as well (Tatooine and Naboo, respectively).
And Jyn was specifically stated to be from Coruscant.
Anyways, may see it Christmas Day, especially when the whole SJW thing may have been overhyped (and besides, I can probably stomach Jyn more than Rey, anyways, at least Jyn was implied to have underwent actual training beforehand as a former TIE pilot as justification for some of her moves, and she does accept help from men as well, getting saved a lot. And after hearing [spoiler]Vader giving it to the Rebels big time[/spoiler] nearing the end of the film, do you really think I’d miss out on that?! Seeing the Rebels getting outright slaughtered while in terror especially after learning they were meant by George Lucas to invoke the Vietcong as early as 1973 is the closest I’ll ever get to see those Charlie monsters get a taste of their own medicine. What goes around, comes around I say.).
Palpatine was from the capital planet. Much like UN abasadors are from NYC.
Vader was just Anakin gone native in the corruption of the big city. like politicians and the DC life.
I thought it was a HUGE scale movie. It wasn’t?
The prequels are indeed terrible (well, the third was almost decent, maybe) but I wouldn’t blame Hayden Christensen. Is there an actor alive who could have done good work with the horrible script and direction that Lucas gave him (and Portman)?
it did not feeeel big. It really was about one raid mission. That’s it. It was a “McGuffin finding” movie. The plans are the McGuffin.
Don’t want to spoil.
Lucas just kept trying to recycle and rip off Joseph Campel and Edgar Rice Burrows.
Familiar but still entertaining.
The computer graphics re-creation of Peter Cushing was very believable.
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That wouldn’t take much. It committed the worst sin a movie can make: being utterly boring.
Don’t read too much into it in that direction, either. The writers have made it clear they despise Trump (and us). It could be a case of liberals not even knowing they’re putting out a conservative message (see also: Joss Whedon).
If this movie was better than those, that's something.
Sequels are usually disappointing, but if this movie was better than the crummy Star Wars prequel series that came out around the turn of the century, that's also something.
I saw it and it was dull. It opened with an execution....
Dark with the characters all dirty and wearing too many clothes, they were accessorizing.
I did not care about any of the characters.
If they were all shot dead by the stormtroppers it would have not mattered. Dull. For some reason a guy who I think was named Pilot kept wearing goggles on his forehead but never actually used them. The droid drollness and walk was patterned after the robot named Marvin in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.
The CGI of Peter Cushing was spot on. He has been dead for 22 years. Still working!
I won’t say ‘how’ I saw it other then I was elsewhere far far away from a theater. Some guy walked across the view heading for popcorn.
No one was playing gay in this movie, some loser types may try to take a comrade in arms moment and make it something else. It is worth seeing, though as has been mentioned, it is dark. I loved the droid.
No where near as bad as the last movie.
Spoiler alert: Darth Vader wanted to go over to the rebel side but the Emperor said he would lose his vacation days and sick days.
Darth remembered how much he needed those sick days so he stayed in the Emperors employ.
He became very angry about this which played into the Emperors plans.
No, Palpatine hailed from Naboo. That much is made clear (what do you think his being senator of Naboo meant? He hailed from that planet, meaning he can’t list something like Coruscant as his home planet.).
And Vader did ultimately originate from Tatooine, no more, no less.
90% of the progressive reviews are, like most of the fake news they generate, pure crap.
Cast is diverse, but then it was always diverse (only the Libs get their panties in a twist by claiming that there wasn't enough diversity).
Actually, it had a very conservative bend in the message.
Fight tyranny. Don't give up hope, even in the face of seemingly impossible odds. Key character betrays the Dark Side from the inside and spills their secrets (sound familiar?). Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. A small force of highly skilled killers can overcome a superior force.
Sorry, there are no lesbians that I can recall (took my youngest to the bathroom so I missed a few minutes), and definitely no non-binary gender-fluid bronykins crying in their safe spaces in this movie. Those who see this as a "liberal" flick are delusional.
Was it a good movie? Heck yeah, it was a good movie! Very interesting cast of characters, the ending was sharply different from most other Star Wars movies (which was a surprise), solid acting, interesting plot, seamless special effects. My baby girl teared up at the end, which she called more depressing than a season finale of The Walking Dead due to the body count.
Would definitely see it again.
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