I also just saw this film and it insulted my intelligence. It felt like a George prequel.

Pointless characters, expository dialogue but no actual things to connect characters or build relationships on screen. Just here's a death, here's sad music, feel sad now pls.

Grand Moff Tarkin, Vader, Leia didn't need to be in here. I wanted to see the film that was hinted at in the story trailers, something that looked like a tense, espionage story. I watched the story trailers again just now and they contain what appears to be dialogue and scenes from a totally different film.

I wanted to stand up and boo at the Vader scene at the end.

Cynical wank.

Member vader? Member at-ats? Member Grand Moff Tarkin? Member Saving Private Ryan? Member squiddy guys in rebel officer ranks? Member Jedi mind tricks? Member Alderaan? Member rebel guy on lookout tower in Yavin? Member Star Wars.

Disney are going to fuck this even harder than George, its a miracle JJ Abrams got Episode VII out in the state he did given the fanservice wankathon I just saw.

Utter wank.

I think someone needs to watch Phantom Menace again to remind themselves how bad it is.

Rouj joins Team Taste.

Bollockoff wrote:

Rouj joins Team Taste.

New bae!?

Bet she's the fucking life and soul of a party, Jesus, what a nit picking vole.

bad_hair_day wrote:

Bet she's the fucking life and soul of a party, Jesus, what a nit picking vole.

Defensive much?!

In recent irl conversations my tone has become one much more of active dislike for rogue One, but I need to keep reminding myself it's just merely fine.

regmcfly wrote:

In recent irl conversations my tone has become one much more of active dislike for rogue One, but I need to keep reminding myself it's just merely fine.

You know the more I let Star Wars 7 fester around my brain the more it's like that for me too.

I really did have a good time at the cinema when I watched that.

regmcfly wrote:

The frustrating thing is there seems to be another version of that movie out there that IS A THING

Aye. The more I think about it, the more disappointed I am. I was expecting a sneaky, sneaky 70s style spy/espionage thing with great characters, a tight, tense script and a final act that gradually got more manic until the inevitable big bang conclusion. Dark, yes, but fun, as a SW movie should be. Something akin to the first Mission: Impossible, The Ipcress File or even The Bourne Identity, but with spaceships.

What I got was a very standard, MOR action flick with bad pacing, a poor script, borderline acceptable acting and NO FUN. It's slipped from a slightly above average 6.5 to a very 'meh' 5 in my head.

Gutted.

Best thing to take away from bae is "Loving something unconditionally doesn't mean you love it more, you just love it sadder."

In my imagination the pre-reshoots version of the film was all wonky and wrong and the real problem was that they kind of expected the tone of the film to come together in the editing after shooting a bunch of stuff, and the only way it could realistically have been better is if they had gone into it with a clearer vision of what they wanted. (This is literally just my baseless conjecture.)

For quite some time now, probably since Independence Day was in the cinema, I have expected everything I see in the cinema to be a letdown. That has helped a great deal and have consequently enjoyed more of what I have seen - even when my low level of expectation has been correct.

Trailers are a lie. Once you get that you'll be OK.

My test of a good film is seeing if I think about it the next day. It has been some time since that happened. Tinker Tailor last passed that test.

Rogue One was enjoyable, forgettable nonsense. Nothing wrong with that if that's what you think it will be. I've more or less given up on Hollywood. I doubt many here are of an age such that they are in the target audience.

Sideways. I enjoyed that. I went into it knowing nothing about it and consequently I thought it was very good as it came across as a proper grown-up film with a few laughs. I'd be wary of watching it again though.

Very late to the party, saw this new years eve. I thought it was good without being great (has many of the same flaws of the marvel films - bad guys put switch here. Why? Fuck knows, but if we hit it, galaxy is saved). But I have to admit to not being the biggest star wars fan. 

However, the vader bit was amazing. I dont take its unfair to say it redeemed so much of the prequel bollocks because to be fair, the original trilogy is relatively light on Vader being amazing for story reasons. The last few minutes in rogue one where excellent and really sold him as a killer that has to be feared. 

The uncanny valley showed up with the two characters but I think it still worked well. Yes, it looks cgi but so what. It's not horrible, scorpion king type cgi. It's like Arnie in Terminator:shit one.

Condolences.