I hope it changes Rogue One because as it stands now, I already like it and I'm looking forward to see it again with a fresh gaze
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Might be different but it still won't be good.
No I found it to be a complete waste of time. Spend 2 hours watching a bunch of characters that the movie makes no effort to make us care about die, to reach a conclusion that we all knew was coming. It's very telling that they have to dangle Vader in front of the audience for some cheap thrills.
Phantom Menace wasn't a waste of time, podracing is sick and it gave us the Duel of the Fates
Phantom Menace suuuuuucks
Well that's just like, your opinion, man
Maybe you just suck at empathizing?
Maybe you just need to watch better movies for comparison.
I hope it changes Rogue One because as it stands now, it's garbage.
I won't go so far as to say it's garbage, but it's by far the most overrated Star Wars movie or TV out there. It's a nice enough sci-fi war movie, if one with poor pacing, very thin characterizations, and a "main character" who just sort of gets carried along by events. Still, you throw a coat of Star Wars paint on top and add enough fan service to start a brothel, and suddenly it's all "DAE the best ever?!?!?!?"
I like the climactic space battle quite a bit, really.
Solo felt more like the original Star Wars movies than Rogue One to me. Rogue One felt like a generic pre-war/spy movie with sci-fi and a fictional setting than a star wars movie.
I mean technically the original Star Wars is just a generic heroes journey with sci-fi and a fiction setting.
Yeah the fact that it took a serious tone for some reason makes people revere it... Even though it does basically nothing with that serious tone other than say "hey guys remember that Star Wars exists?"
If that's your bag and you haven't yet watched The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare yet, you should!
It's actually really good and the true story is even wilder than the movie:
Trailer:
Two books on it:
https://academic.macmillan.com/academictrade/9781250119032/churchillsministryofungentlemanlywarfare
Here's where it gets wild... The missions covered in the film, in real life, had zero casualties. Obviously Guy Ritchie/Jerry Bruckheimer wouldn't let that stand. :)
The other wild part... one of the British staff people involved in organizing all this was Ian Fleming.
Yes... THAT Ian Fleming!