After seeing it for the third time yesterday i can say that there was no diminishment whatsoever in my pleasure. This was a great Star Wars film.

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It absoultely is Gosric. And can I just say your Gunboat is an amazing model!

Good call, I have a hard time keeping up with the different WMDs!

Won't be a problem if Trump has his way.

I don't follow. Obama has a 1 trillion nuclear modernization plan right now. Trump just said we need to be nuke strong until the world smartens up and gives them up. Trump isn't even in office yet but is already the best president in 30+ years.

Urgh, let's leave real-world politics at home shall we? I watch Star Wars to escape from this sort of conversation.

I'm sad they didn't CG in Porkins.

I'm happy to see the Ghost still flying. Also, pretty sure that Chopper had just stolen something.

I found Rogue One to be about as hollow of a Star Wars experience as the special editions were. To each their own, I guess.

Those hollows man. They come up when you least expect them.

We can be friends now.

Just a heads up friend, I watched Rouge One with an old time buddy of mine and we laughed and giggled our way through the references, quips, and deadpan droid humor, so we may have to agree to disagree on the new movie.

But as for the old ones...

My girlfriend enjoyed it too. Not liking the same things doesn't mean we can't get along. Now, if only Funko made more Dark Souls themed Pops. I'd even settle for Mild Mannered Pate...

Tarkin looks like a dam-vampire... and Leia has Han's chin.

"WHY IS MY CHIN SO BIG IN ROGUE ONE?"

They did okay with the CGI... but yeah it took me out too in a few moments.

... but not as much as gaddam ewoks!!!

I've narrowed it down to the cheeks that bug me. Leia's are too fuzzy, Tarkins are too sharply defined at all times. His hairline is also too perfect like he shaves his head up to that hairline or something.

Yeah I see that too. They look good but I rather of had half of good ole Tark being done by Vader, with Tark looking out the window or some such thing.

Still these are important peeps so I get why they felt they had to make it happen.

Chin, Cheeks, Nose, skin tone, and a little to much eye shadow.

My wife decided to try and spoil my fanboy love with plot holes. She wanted to know how the 2 guys with death sentences on 12 systems ended up in Mos Eisley after bumping into Jyn 10 mins before the city was obliterated. Clearly they had their own U-wing and skipped town!

Do not lose hope.

FIRST of all it was not ten minutes before the city was obliterated, it was at least a good several hours. Remember at the beginning how far away the temple is from the city and the fact that they walk there? It would have taken a few hours to get out of an imperial occupied city, down the mountain side, and across the desert. Then they were in that cell about an hour maybe half an hour.

Jedha's holy city could have been obliterated a good half a day if not nearly a day after Jyn ran into Dr Evazan and Ponda Baba.

That's not a plot hole whatsoever

I also got the impression from the way Ponda stopped Evazan they were in a hurry and he didn't want them to get sidetracked. On their way to their ship perhaps?

Good to see I can put 3 Evazans into a slaver

Went to see it again today. Decided it is my #1 SW film, finally topping ESB. The final space battle is just glorious.

Nor should they. Just pop the fellow on Ignore and move on with your life.

But surely that kills any valid discussion? I mean, yeah, don't feed the trolls, but putting someone on ignore because they dislike Rogue One is a bit harsh.

I dunno, I've had him on ignore for ages, probably because all he does is troll threads without attempting to engage in reasonable conversation.

I can only assume that in this context "reasonable" equates to likemindedness. Woe be unto those of us who are brave enough to go against the grain.

Also: I'm tickled, as ever, by the irony. Reasonable indeed.

Try "going against the grain", as you put it, with some actual content and not tired cliches; and you might get a more engaged response.

Try "going against the grain", as you put it, with some actual content and not tired cliches; and you might get a more engaged response.

See, that's the thing. I wasn't seeking a response. If you wanted something more substantive you should have asked. Instead you just made a complete ass of yourself for no apparent reason.

I tried to engage an actual discussion. With nothing coming the other way there's no point continuing.

I "know" I'm a bit of a fanboy and make no apologies for it but I'm always willing to discuss and criticise. I dont think i give everything Star award or even everything OT blanket love. It's not like everyone is a rabid "burn the heretic" nutjob. There are a few but they deserve to be ignored every bit as much as anyone just wanting to poke the ants nest (if that's not the whole intention).

Oh well.

Anyway back to the film, I've seen A few criticisms of the opening act pacing and the 'gather the team's stuff and while it's not affected my enjoyment I do think it could have been helped by having "the team" ready to go from the start. The Rebellion would be used to throwing a strike team at a target of opportunity with little notice so would make sense.

The one advantage of the approach was Chirrut and Baze on Jeddah and it helped explain. The chaotic left hand doesn't know what the right is doing attack on Scariff. Ie the shield isnt closed until the fleet arrives. A more surgical planned Infiltration and assault to cover the extraction would have made more strategic sense but the ad-hoc approach was in line with the story they chose.

It's a public forum. The whole dynamic of the interaction is that one posts a comment and others respond.

You may not have been seeking one; but given the forum in which you're posting you should have expected one. So perhaps you should have kept that in mind in regards to the content of your posts.

Is being rude to someone for sharing a contrary opinion also part of the 'forum dynamic'? If so then at least one of us is living up to expectations, it seems. Oh wait, this is the part where you get to dictate what is and isn't an opinion, and then throw around the word cliche a few more times.

Did you really just come back from wherever you were just to be abrasive for the sake of it?

How many more pages do you want to carry on this wounded pride routine? Everyone else seems to have managed to see the jest in the post except you.

Did you really just come back from wherever you were just to be abrasive for the sake of it?

I think you need to go back a few pages and remind yourself how all this started.

How many more pages do you want to carry on this wounded pride routine? Everyone else seems to have managed to see the jest in the post except you.

We all moved on; you brought it up again. Seriously, how bruised is your ego that I besmirched your new favorite movie? You'd think I said something distasteful about your mother the way you keep focusing on me. It's getting downright childish at this point, kiddo.

Guys, seriously.

When the hell did WonderWAAAGH drop off my ignore list?!

They did okay with the CGI... but yeah it took me out too in a few moments.

... but not as much as gaddam ewoks!!!

They don't look good at all.

I was perfectly fine with the CGI. OK, so it wasn't 100% perfect, so what? The actors characters were instantly recognisable, their presence added to the story being told and fit in the context of the film.

I particularly liked Tarkin and Krennic's battle for control - and Tarkin's ruthless and ironic solution.

My recommendation? Just go with it.

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I just saw it yesterday finally. (tiptoeing across the internet successfully i might add)

It was an amazing star wars story. It felt like a great opening to A New Hope and definitely very entertaining and filled with awesome moments for the star wars fan in me. The space combat was great, though I really wish the Y-wings had actually fired their main weapons/turrets a couple of times.

As a stand alone Movie? probably a B, it did jump around and took for granted people's familiarity with the universe.

Having read Catalyst that also really helped with my understanding of Krennic and Galen's relationship. I can see why people are complaining that certain characters weren't fleshed out enough if they hadn't invested them selves in the new canon universe (I have also seen clone wars so I have a passing knowledge of Saw).

as for the CGI Leia and Tarkin. I noticed it, but I almost always notice that kind of thing. That said, there were times when Tarkin was done so well it legitimately looked like Peter Cushing. I have NEVER seen CGI done that well, and I think it deserves applause for that.

K2-S0 of course stole the show as my favorite character (just like everyone else). But Donnie Yen's Cherrut was a close second. The "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! I'M BLIND!" line was possibly one of the funniest moments in star wars.

I think that the Empire got a lot of bonus points in the film. Definitely better than the slouches we are used to.

As for the rebellion itself, it was shown I think perfectly. They aren't some super altruistic perfect army of good. I always understood that as a kid, as I was already studying the history of warfare enough to know that there are dark marks on both sides of any conflict. But I think a lot of people disliked the rebellion in the community because they are all goody goody etc. This showed that they got their hands dirty. It also illustrated that this was not a united force at this point and that they had their fair share of in-fighting and issues.

Last but not least; Vader. I think the vader at his castle was done meh. But Vader in the final act was EXACTLY what I wanted to see. He was always kinda scary as a kid, but never terrifying. He showed in the corridor why he is the most feared agent in the Empire.