Rogue One SPOILERS thread!!!

[jwyblejr]

Saw it tonight on Vudu thanks to the $5 off that Roku gave me. Like most it was good,not great. I think the build up was too slow. Gotta get to Jedha,then get to Yavin,then got to find Galen Erso,then back to Yavin,then got to get the Death Star plans. The little nods and winks didn't bother me because they weren't over the top. It's pretty much "blink and you miss it" which is fine by me. Tarkin didn't bother me because he didn't seemed to be overused. Leia shows up at the end so I'm not sure why that's causing a stink. I have to admit,having the lenses in Vader's helmet from ANH was a nice touch.

[Spyweb007]

I just saw it over the weekend, liked it a lot, but I think I actually miss George Lucas a little, he had a way of "bringing the viewer along for the ride" in the original trilogy. You did not have multiple character introductions, planet/city introductions and so on to set up the plot that were all pulled together in those, instead your followed the important characters from the beginning of the film to the end as they met each new character and travelled to each destination. I think that's why the pacing in Rogue One feels off for the first half of the film, it jumps around to establish all the players, which a lot of movies do, but not so much the previous Star Wars movies.

[phil]

I spoke to a couple and their son after seeing it the other day. The boy loved it and his parents were amazed when I told them Tarkin wasn't real. They had no idea.

[ODBJBG]

Mr. Plinkett's stuff on the prequels was brilliant, well put together and funny in a twisted way. Those "movies" were better than the movies he was reviewing. But at this point, he's just going back to the well to complain about good movies.

As for Tarkin, watched it with a bunch of people who aren't Star Wars fans... None of them knew he wasn't real. And only one asked about Leia, simply saying "was that really her?" You only know it's fake, if you know.

[palitoy]

First video I've watched of that fellow and I couldn't get through it. It's like he is trying to be like the comic book guy from the Simpsons. We finally have good Star Wars movies and I think some people are just trying to be negative just for the sake of it. I don't mean to be a downer for people that enjoy his videos. Just not for me.

It's an acquired taste but one I like even when I don't agree, mostly because they back their opinion up with a solid argument.

I didn't like their take on Civil War and I am surprised they hated this so much, I get where they are coming from but don't agree.

[huedell]

Unfortunately it appears that Plinkett is wasting his time shooting at fish in the nerd barrel... I'm kinda spent bagging on the baggers... I think it can be summed up by saying that Plinkett et al come across as not being satisfied with a movie they can't just say is "good" rather (as opposed to what they were able to previously with the easily bashed hard to swallow prequels and the generally hard to criticize TFA).

RO might not have been a homerun (or even a triple maybe), but it was (at the least) okay... and HITB/Plinkett just can't let it lie. That's how I see it anyway.

[Werewolf]

First video I've watched of that fellow and I couldn't get through it. It's like he is trying to be like the comic book guy from the Simpsons. We finally have good Star Wars movies and I think some people are just trying to be negative just for the sake of it. I don't mean to be a downer for people that enjoy his videos. Just not for me.

[palitoy]

I just want to point out that Plinkett is fighting the Internet and kind of winning?
I don't totally agree with the disdain thrown at the film but I see his points.

[starsky]

just saw it with my boy and we both loved it. going to watch a new hope right now. lol!

[palitoy]

I'm the last guy in the world to see it. I enjoyed it, mostly because it kind of felt like one of those early Roy Thomas Star Wars comics and that it lacked all the "Cutesy Ootsy" qualities that have followed the brand since ROTJ.

Not sure I loved that Leia was that close at the end, seems to make her "diplomatic mission" spiel seem lame.

I wanted more sideburns on the Imperials and the CGI Tarkin will forever be in my nightmares. Enjoyed that the Jyn character wasn't a superwoman and that the droid was a jerk. The fan service wasn't as distracting as it was in "Force Awakens" to me.

Off to watch the Plinkett take finally.....

[phil]

As I said in an earlier post...that Tarkinn CGI is very close, not quite there yet... but coming pretty damn close putting live actors outta of a job...

Mark Hamil once joked that if George Lucas could find a way to make movies with out actors he'd do it. I know Lucas wasn't responsible for CGI Tarkin but I was reminded of Hamil's comment.

[Hector]

As I said in an earlier post...that Tarkinn CGI is very close, not quite there yet... but coming pretty damn close putting live actors outta of a job...

[Goblin19]

I thought the CGI for Tarkin was pretty amazing. Not perfect, but it's getting pretty darn close.

[Nostalgiabuff]

you know, I went and saw it again today and liked it even more. what's more, I went with a buddy who is a big fan and he asked me afterwards who they got to play Tarkin as he looked exactly the same as he did 40 years ago,. he had no idea it was CGI

[huedell]

The Half-In-The-bag guys review reveals a jadedness I wouldn't have expected from them. A lot of their criticisms were taken to the extreme, and it took being a SW-nerd from being realistically self-depreciating to cruel self-hate IMHO.

ROGUE ONE is far from perfect and lacks a good bit of the vintage SW-vibe... but, reasonably so IMHO.

And the Tarkin CGI criticisms (like anyone elses) are needlessly over the top (regarding their "realism")... those RO effects are fine enough.

I had a friend of mine whose wife had no idea Tarkin was CGI.... why? Because despite her having memories of Tarkin from the original, she had no idea who Cushing "the actor" was, and, as such, why he'd be being tributed in an animation model. Guess what? That's how most casual SW fans would look at that. That's the bottom line.

And, yet those HITB hyenas couldn't stop referring back to it, kinda threatening the legitimacy of their take IMHO. I expect that attitude from less educated movie reviewers who would fall back on SW-nostalgia-bias to make that mistake... but not them. Oh well.