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Rogue One was garbage wtf?
Yeah Vader had that one scene that I guess was cool, but I had heard the hype for so long before watching it that even that scene was a letdown. The rest of the movie was typical modem day cringe.
I think most people know how much I absolutely hate modern movies, but I still kinda like Rogue One. It felt like it was made by people who loved Star Wars. It wasn't perfect, and a few characters felt weird and/or useless, but I thought the story was relatively decent (although I've heard hardcore Star Wars fans say the movie's retcon of the Death Star's weakness didn't make sense). The droid was hilarious, it showed the necessary brutality of running a resistance campaign, and how it can take a toll on the people, and the female protagonist wasn't overtly girl boss or annoying. It was even wholesome when she saw the recording of her father, which turned her bitterness into motivation, because she missed and loved her father. It's extremely rare to see that in any modern media (the good father thing, and a child's love for their father).
It kind of felt like a last exhale of a decent movie before globohomo woke rules were enforced all over media, a movie made by people who still loved the Star Wars franchise, even if a bit misplaced in parts.
I welcome any criticism of the movie, by the way. Fire away.
Well said.
I’m not a big enough Star Wars fan to understand exactly what the critique you alluded to is, but what I’ll bring up is this:
In A New Hope, when Leia and Vader first meet face to face on the Tantive IV right after the Empire captures the ship, she says that they’re on a diplomatic mission and Vader had no right or reason to attack them. He counters that they received a transmission from rebel spies containing the Death Star plans. Essentially, Leia’s ship was the pickup for the info, but it did have a cover story of being on a legitimate mission.
The ending of Rogue One shows Leia’s ship engaged in a giant space battle and only breaking away to flee at the last second. It doesn’t really work with the understanding of what’s happening that the characters demonstrate in the start of the other film—MAYBE Leia would be ballsy and desperate enough to try such a weird, obvious lie, but even if we accept that how come Vader doesn’t point out that he obviously followed her from the scene of a terrorist attack on an Imperial research facility? Secondarily, this sequence of events also carries the implication that they somehow jumped to hyperspace to get to Tattooine, exited hyperspace for unclear reasons, and that Vader’s ship made the same jump to catch them there. I’m willing to say that maybe that makes sense with the way the galactic map is laid out and how technology works, and I just don’t know it, but it doesn’t seem right. Amusingly, the implications of that would be yet another issue for TLJ’s consistency, where they make the reveal of previously impossible hyperspace tracking into the basis for the entire plot. Looks like Vader already tracked people through hyperspace decades ago!
Yeah I found a video of the big Vader scene, enjoyed it, and didn't bother with the movie starring yet another Kathleen Kennedy self insert.
She wasn't useless or a lame lesbian, so I'm not sure if she's a Kennedy self insert.
For those who want to enjoy it again:
https://cdn.videy.co/v8sQo2Yq.mp4