Rogue One

[Roger]

I saw Rogue One tonight, it was very good.

I still don't know what a Bothan looks like, though.

 

 

There was also a cameo appearance of

a very young Princess Leia...who was either played by an uncanny lookalike or a CG body double, it was very hard to tell. She looked that much like a young Carrie Fisher. The only other option I can think of is they shot extra footage for A New Hope and kept it under wraps all this time.

There were some nice callbacks to the original trilogy without it feeling like a reboot/retread like Force Awakens. I liked Force Awakens also but this one held its own. If the rest of the movies are of this caliber then Disney stands to make a ton of $$$ of the franchise.

 

 

[CaptBobo]

I don't know either, but I understand many of them died to get the Death Star plans to the Rebellion.

 

Want to go see Rogue One ASAP!

[Rodney]

I didn't even open this topic for fear it might set me up for expectations (one way or another) and I wanted to go into the movie with as little preconceptions as possible.

I did have a few preconceptions that were placed by some of the ramp up work and trailers... some of those seem to have been placed to misdirect the audience.

Interesting. I wonder if the DVD will have a few extended sequences that either explains their absence or weave them into the show.

 

A major part of this movie... other than simply answering the question of what happened to those rebel scum... er.... heroes that stole the Death Star plans... is to set up a long line of Star Wars related spin off movies and it accomplished that quite well.

 

I enjoyed the movie and there is certainly a lot to take in.

Plenty of enjoyable characters to like... dislike... quite well done.

It's not easy to have that many characters and have you make a solid connection with them.

I'll have to watch the film again (several times I'm sure) to get at the details I missed.

 

Added: I just saw a video of shots from the Rogue One trailers that weren't in the final film and... a whole lot were missing in the final film... and the video didn't even get them all.