tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post1408575854495225145..comments2023-10-31T00:31:59.277-07:00Comments on The United Federation of Charles: Star Wars: Rogue One reviewCTPhippshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04226189019351004118noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post-74343067376331135322017-04-22T11:59:56.524-07:002017-04-22T11:59:56.524-07:00My theory on Chirrut is that he's as close to ...My theory on Chirrut is that he's as close to force sensitive as a person can be without having the natural "gift" for it. Not everyone can be Luke Skywalker, but everyone can be Chirrut in theory.Matthew Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06887788945033210212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post-25634472595347553022016-12-19T05:27:16.466-08:002016-12-19T05:27:16.466-08:00I quite like this film for the way it ties into ne...I quite like this film for the way it ties into new hope and serves as a bridge between the prequels and the original films. <br /><br />I also liked this film for doing more of it's own stuff and not afraid to divert from the usual star wars stuff of using john's music, the opening crawls etc. While I love them I don't feel the need to see them in every star war visual work. <br /><br />As Force Awakens for me copied new hope too much and felt lazy at times in how it just took stuff from the expanded universe (like Revan's costume for Ren and basically jacen solo's character and fall). <br /><br />Same with overreliance on John's score for the other films, I love John's work but to just rely on it for every star works work for dilutes it. <br /><br />Same with Vader being in a big role, one of the big flaws I found with the legends continuity and other star wars work was overuse of Vader, it diluted the threat he posed and it led to him losing much of what made him a great character in the first place. <br /><br />This film used him in a way that fitted him perfectly without having him overshadow the plot. <br /><br />On the tarkin cgi stuff, yeah that creeped me out as well and felt uncanny. Though I will give props to the actor who got tarkin down well and matched Peter's take on him. <br /><br />Personally I liked that Tarkin basically took credit and control away from the new character and his actions here make his death in new hope much more fitting and ironic when his actions here caused them. <br /><br />Plus it's very believable for people like Tarkin to basically nick the credit for other people's work. It happens all the time in real life.<br /><br />The plot here was more interesting for the greyness of the alliance, no side ever has clean hands in war, change etc and it was time that Star Wars applied that to them. The black and white morality of star wars has longed held it back in many places. <br /><br />Overall Disney seems to be being more balanced in the idealism in places, more of reality ensues trope useage in many places. Though legends universe had that as well. <br /><br />Overall Rgoue One had it's flaws like some wooden acting, too quick pacing in the first third and not making use of Saw more considering his stuff from the clone wars animated series (would have liked to seen a bit between him and vader). <br /><br />But rebels hopefully will explore him and some of rogue one characters more. <br /><br />All in all I felt this film did justice to star wars and left me feeling more for it than Force Awakens did this time last year. <br /><br />oliver simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00153675796879872038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post-30830708032224047592016-12-17T21:38:27.987-08:002016-12-17T21:38:27.987-08:00The last ten minutes of this movie were some of th...The last ten minutes of this movie were some of the best in any Star Wars film.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05463833800135212268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post-87734278729479091292016-12-16T16:03:08.517-08:002016-12-16T16:03:08.517-08:00Even real life good revolutions had their seedy na...Even real life good revolutions had their seedy nasty parts. There is good reason why most High School history books skip over what happened in the Carolinas and Georgia during the Revolution. It was nasty fighting filled with guerillas, non-uniformed militias, and locals hiring themselves out as mercenaries.<br /><br />Probably not something for the Star Wars universe unless you remove it far from the movies like TOR.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11726420485855554703noreply@blogger.com