(02-28-2018 01:08 AM)Doots4Dawgs Wrote:  

(02-27-2018 09:54 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(02-26-2018 10:59 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  Sadly enough the Rebels series on Disney XD has been more enjoyable than VII and VIII. Could probably even make that claim about the Clone Wars animation.

As time passes, Rogue One is increasingly becoming one of my favorite films of the franchise - I think mainly because while it was somewhat independent of the trilogies it still had to stay within the confines of what is Star Wars. Just because you have some Storm Troopers and a Jedi doesn't fundamentally make either of these last two trilogy movies much in line with what it should be. The near closing scene with Vader boarding the Rebel ship ranks up there as one of the great scenes in all of Star Wars IMO. Up there with some of the better light saber duels.

I agree Episode VIII made VII a worse movie. I really don't understand any of the rationale for completely obliterating what happened in VII with the story line of VIII. If Johnson wanted a stand alone move he should have just asked to do that. Episode IX is going to have to save the franchise or people might stop buying into this thing.

I liked a lot of things about Rogue, especially how it tied in seamlessly with the start of the original Star Wars. I thought the CGI of young Leia and Tarkin was very well done. My one criticism would have to be the character of Saw Gerrera. They could have designed a better look for that character. Forrest looked and sounded like a walking iron lung. Because of this, I didn't like the way Forrest Whitaker played the character. I would have cast Jim Brown, and made Saw less mechanical but heavily battle scarred. Strong and stoic. Quiet and brooding.

Not sure why they added the breathing issue outside of the Vader parallelism. I dont mind him being radical, or unhinged. It may just be the portrayal. Saw is decent enough in Rebels, where Whitaker also voices him.

I think it was meant to show that some Rebels are just as desperate/fringe in their fight as the Empire was (Vader becoming machine, etc). That said, I got the same thing from Poe Dameron...I mean Cassian Andor....shooting his own dude at the start of the film. So not sure we needed Saw in that state.

My least favorite thing about the film is the mind-reading squid. This doesn't match the tone of the rest of the movie AT ALL.

What is it with tentacles in this new Star Wars canon? The Force Awakens featured giant tentacled creatures, Rogue One had a psychic squid, and the Solo trailer features an octopus space storm. Somebody at Lucasfilm must have a serious fetish.