heywood on 8/2/2018 at 17:03
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Rogue One was quite crap, I dont know what standard of movie you are judging this by
Compared to the never-ending series of Marvel and DC comic-based crap and Michael Bay flicks and similar CGI action fests that come out every year, Rogue One was good entertainment. Not as a Star Wars story, just as an action/war movie.
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Rogue One was awesome. I like that they thought: hey guys, why don't we actually make the WARS bit in "Star Wars" actually mean something. So it's an honest to goodness war movie, and they didn't shirk away from letting their protagonists suffer the real consequences of war.
Not worried at all about the future. The sky is the limit. You can set anything in the Star Wars universe. Slapstick comedy? Noir detective mystery? Erotic thriller? Why not.
Although I've watched all the movies and liked almost all of them to some extent, I've never been a major Star Wars fan, so I don't really care what they do to milk the franchise. They're not going to ruin anything for me. But a new Star Wars movie used to be a must-watch, and that's no longer so. I don't think I'll even rent the Blu-Ray of this one.
Pyrian on 8/2/2018 at 20:01
Heh. You know the bar was raised pretty high when someone can unironically and in complete seriousness say they weren't a major fan of the franchise, but every movie was a must-watch. Cripes, I think I'm a pretty major Marvel Cinematic Universe fanboi yet there's two of them I've never seen.
SubJeff on 8/2/2018 at 21:52
Solo looks bad.
Casting choice killed it.
Music okay in trailer but ripped of Zimmerman's Man of Steel title track.
heywood on 8/2/2018 at 22:37
Quote Posted by Pyrian
Heh. You know the bar was raised pretty high when someone can unironically and in complete seriousness say they weren't a major fan of the franchise, but every movie was a must-watch. Cripes, I think I'm a pretty major Marvel Cinematic Universe fanboi yet there's two of them I've never seen.
Touché
I guess there are multiple levels of Star Wars fans. There are those of us who watched all the movies and generally liked them, enough to keep coming back every time there was a new one out. And I had a few Star Wars figures when I was a kid, although I don't remember ever playing with them. My brother and friend stole them one by one and I let it go. But I did covet my friend's X-wing fighter model. I'll call that level 1. Next are the fans that watched all the movies and collected a lot of the toys and put up posters and bought into some of the philosophy, quoting Yoda like a guru among friendly company. I've had a couple friends in that category. In the third tier are fans that dove into the expanded universe of books and games. I've had a couple friends in that category too. Above that are the fans who were into the movies and dove into the expanded universe, and who actually care about
what is canon and what is not. The fifth level is reserved for people who spend hours and hours making YouTube videos where they dissect and criticize every detail in all the movies that followed ESB,
Renault on 8/2/2018 at 22:44
I think LF thought a movie where Han Solo was the primary focus would pretty much sell itself. Not so much I guess.
Starker on 8/2/2018 at 22:45
We didn't get all the merchandising, but Star Wars was very popular here, comparable to the Rambo and Alien and Terminator movies. So that was probably level 0.5 of fandom. Still, Phantom Menace was such a letdown and I didn't even bother going to the cinema to watch the third prequel. So I guess that's where my fandom ended, if there ever was some.
icemann on 9/2/2018 at 08:40
Let down sure, but it has its good points as well.
The second one though - Completely forgettable.
heywood on 9/2/2018 at 12:40
I don't know where you're from Starker, but where I grew up, it's hard to imagine putting Rambo and Alien and Terminator in the same category as Star Wars.
My Dad took me to see Star Wars for my birthday when I turned 6, several months after the movie was first released to theaters. We had to get there early and wait outside in the cold in a line that spread around the theater. There were a few sci-fi TV shows we watched before Star Wars, Space 1999 and The Tomorrow People were two that I remember. But Star Wars just blew us away.
icemann on 9/2/2018 at 14:40
I wasn't much of a rambo fan as a kid, but Aliens (and at the time not Alien) and Terminator were right up there with Star Wars. Tom Baker era Doctor Who also (as that era was really dark). I was obsessed with anything Dalek or Cyberman related. Used to draw them on paper, fighting each other. Wrote short stories.
Anything Arnie related (as he was on a damn good run in the 80s - mid 90s) I was all over. Robocop also. Had a fascination with Nightmare on Elm and Friday the 13th as those were the forbidden movies.
Ah primary school days.
My dad took me to the movies to see Terminator 2 when that came out. Great experience.
Renault on 9/2/2018 at 15:34
I'm with Heywood, all that other stuff was super popular and everyone loved it, but none of it was on par with the Star Wars movies. I still remember the crazyness when Empire came out, and how you had to buy your tickets in advance, which wasn't really done back then.