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I loved Rogue One. Other than Empire, I think it's the best SW film.
I'm not a modern SW hater, I felt VII was ok, I really enjoyed Rogue One...but god, did I despise Ep VIII...what a train wreck.
I loved Rogue One. Other than Empire, I think it's the best SW film.
I thought Rogue One was a chunk of shit. Predictable as fuck from beginning to end, with wafer-thin, one-dimensional characters, none of whom have any kind of arc whatsoever. The main character goes through a change from not wanting to be involved at all to suddenly giving rousing speeches, but without any kind of explanation for the flip. Not the worst Star Wars movie unfortunately, but not good, never mind great.
I thought Rogue One was a chunk of shit. Predictable as fuck from beginning to end, with wafer-thin, one-dimensional characters, none of whom have any kind of arc whatsoever. The main character goes through a change from not wanting to be involved at all to suddenly giving rousing speeches, but without any kind of explanation for the flip. Not the worst Star Wars movie unfortunately, but not good, never mind great.
I loved Rogue One. Other than Empire, I think it's the best SW film.
I'm not a modern SW hater, I felt VII was ok, I really enjoyed Rogue One...but god, did I despise Ep VIII...what a train wreck.
I felt VII was ok, too, didn't like Rogue One, as it was the least SW, liked The Last Jedi. The latter has flaws (odd slapstick, apparent book burning, half-assed child labor censure etc.), but all-in-all, it made everything better, than Ep VII. Boyega rose up to be a good Poitier imitation, Dern was that classy liberal bitch and above all was Mark Hamill and the island of Skellig Michael.
All the little touches like the old Yoda puppet cameo including Oz, Luke's meet with ArToo, the Infinity Mirror at Dark Side's, the Matrix-style Light Saber dodge -- I consider even great. I also enjoyed the Salar de Uyuni showdown. 152 minutes were a bit much, and I'll certainly have to see this one again, but the fact that I want to, is already a good sign. Yeah, tastes differ, but a train wreck? Hmmm...
What I liked about Rogue one was that it was *meant* as a stand alone. No, there weren't huge 3 movie spanning stories, or crazy reveals in part two. It was made about the other guys. It was made as a quick 'this is what happened in the last 24 hours' story.
It's like the Bothans, if you will. They were thrown into a shit situation, and knew they weren't going to survive, and they didn't. But what they accomplished turned the tide in the war. The rebellion went from a small resistance terrorist cell to a full on coup, eventually.
Take the star wars elements out of it, and it's still a fun gritty war movie.
You can still be jaded by the terrible pre/sequels, and enjoy Rogue one for what it was.
Take nearly every single plot point in VII and it is completely abandoned or warped in VIII. Pushing aside the absurd social justice shit, there's really little in the film besides the director intentionally giving old SW fans the finger.
Basically from the second Luke unceremoniously chucks the light saber off the cliff, the entire film feels like Rian Johnson telling old SW fans. "fuck off, you're not needed anymore". He shits on nearly every plot setup JJ gave him in VII, as well as nearly anything that was the original SW films including characters, themes, and even the way things mechanically work in that universe. He's made it publicly known his disdain for most SW fans...the guy is just an asshole and VIII reflects it.
There is little character development in the film, little overall plot and tons of pointless flash-bang. He did his best to make everyone, no one. His killing Snoke/Luke, making Rey no-one and adding nothing to other characters has left this giant shell of a plot. At this point, I have no clue where IX would even go.
What I liked about Rogue one was that it was *meant* as a stand alone. No, there weren't huge 3 movie spanning stories, or crazy reveals in part two. It was made about the other guys. It was made as a quick 'this is what happened in the last 24 hours' story.
Because as we know, nobody ever changes as they get old.The Luke / Rei story A) is completely contrary to who Luke is,
Rogue One was retarded and anyone who self-proclaims themselves as Star Wars fans in 2018 is fucking retarded, end of story
Had a good movie in 77 and a cool final battle in ROTJ and that's about it
Steer clear of anyone who says "I love Star Wars" because they are normie as fuck
The movie equivalent of wearing crocs, i guess? fuck them all to hell regardless
Because as we know, nobody ever changes as they get old.
Because as we know, nobody ever changes as they get old.
The Meg - The little kid was completely awful in every scene she was in. 99% of her lines were ridiculous and had zero semblance of anything an 8-year-old would actually say, and her acting didn't help. Li Bingbing was also terrible (she's hot, sure, but a bad actress) and casting her made it clear just how much the movie wanted to pander to China.
Statham is still charismatic and fun to watch, and most of the actual stuff with the shark was fun, but the movie should have been better than it was.
Explorers 1985
I saw this as a kid, and loved it. It made me want to tear apart stuff I had to attempt to build a space ship. I hadn't watched it in probably 20 years or so. I just recently watched this and... what in the fuck was that all about?
The first half of the movie still kinda holds up with the kids discovering the McGuffin to go into space. Its got that real Goonies-ish feel of exploration, adventure and finding out what this crazy dream is all about. Then they get into space and the movie turns into a god damned Looney Tunes (the shit years) quote-along. It was completely awful. As a kid I dont remember the aliens being all that annoying, but in fairness, that part of the film was probably written for kids at the time. I didn't remember the ending quite correctly, seeing as they got another message from the stars, and then the girl that the main kid likes is included with the group.. Then again, this was the 'extended' edition I found, so maybe the version I saw as a kid didn't end like that. No idea.
First half of the movie is great, especially seeing River Phoenix as the nerd of the group. 2nd half is balls.
it's like if they showed E.T reaching home to his planet just for the viewers to find out that his home planet was sesame street the whole time.
I watched this again on Friday, and yeah it was enjoyable. Fassypants is always fun to watch.Alien Covenant
Second watching since release
I liked it even more than the first time around and I loved it back then.
It just ticks si many boxes for me.
Outside of Alien lore, as a standalone film.