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Post by ritt on Apr 8, 2016 20:10:23 GMT -6
The odd title is almost as tortured as Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice (I mean, aren't they all "Star Wars Stories"? I guess they're just really trying to avoid the "P" word.). But that said, I'm really digging the WWII feel of this, the multi-colored stormtroopers, the North African look... and at the risk of sounding like a male chauvinist pigoid, the young lady who stars is absolutely stunning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwg
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Post by premmy on Apr 9, 2016 16:08:49 GMT -6
What is "the P word"?
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Post by Mushgnome on Apr 9, 2016 16:31:13 GMT -6
Awesome! I'm a big Mon Mothma fan. Good for Alan Tudyk, to get to be in a Star Wars movie. I wonder if Mads Mikkelson's "unnamed villain" is Grand Moff Tarkin? Will we see many Bothans? "P word" = "Prequel"
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Post by ritt on Apr 9, 2016 20:33:11 GMT -6
I wonder if Mads Mikkelson's "unnamed villain" is Grand Moff Tarkin? Will we see many Bothans? Mikkelson was stunning as Hannibal Lector and would make a fine Tarkin. I would LOVE to see him play Dracula (The role he was born for IMHO).
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Post by Mushgnome on Apr 9, 2016 22:23:35 GMT -6
I did a quick search of "Rogue One Tarkin casting" and read an article from last fall, speculating that Peter Cushing himself would be playing Tarkin, with the help of CGI and archival footage. My hope is that, they tested this concept, realized it looked ridiculous, and decided to re-cast Tarkin with a real human actor. But we'll see about that.
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Post by Malcadon on Apr 10, 2016 9:33:41 GMT -6
I did a quick search of "Rogue One Tarkin casting" and read an article from last fall, speculating that Peter Cushing himself would be playing Tarkin, with the help of CGI and archival footage. My hope is that, they tested this concept, realized it looked ridiculous, and decided to re-cast Tarkin with a real human actor. But we'll see about that. Yes, what could possibly go wrong with that?
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Post by Malcadon on Jul 17, 2016 0:14:16 GMT -6
There is a new Rogue One video showcasing the production and practical effects. If you cant tell, the director is going for a Saving Privet Ryan-styled cinematography.
And for Star Wars Rebel fans, there is a trailer for season three. If you had not seen the series yet, or you are behind on the season, do not watch as it is full of big spoilers! But for those who are caught-up, they introduced a great, criminally-overlooked character to the series; about time he gets his dues. The revelation made me yell at the monitor with great enthusiasm. They did not top themselves with the season two tease, but this is just as good! The also added some other fictional tidbits here and there. The show's producers really know what they are doing. I cant wait for both to come out! d**n this hype is sweet!!
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Post by ritt on Aug 22, 2016 18:10:36 GMT -6
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Post by geoffrey on Oct 15, 2016 10:56:34 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 11:11:00 GMT -6
Begins to look way better than the first few trailers seemed. As you might know, I hold the X-Wing novels very dear, and the first version of the trailers was a bit too Hunger-Games-ish, for my own taste. As of now, I am pretty stoked to see what they've come up with.
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Post by ritt on Dec 12, 2016 19:10:02 GMT -6
Personal confession: This film is now literally the only single d*mn thing I'm looking forward to in the future. Everything else is flying apart at the seams.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2016 15:19:12 GMT -6
Oh, goodness. First serious reviews are in, and the movie is getting destroyed.
I'm in my safe space right now, plotting my revenge, and listening to the old Stackpole X-Wing audiobooks.
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Post by 18 Spears on Dec 13, 2016 21:07:07 GMT -6
Oh, goodness. First serious reviews are in, and the movie is getting destroyed. I'm in my safe space right now, plotting my revenge, and listening to the old Stackpole X-Wing audiobooks. ive read 5 reviews today from different places, all positive ... yurs is the first bad one ive read.
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Post by Malcadon on Dec 14, 2016 0:35:42 GMT -6
I was raised to be cynical over movie reviews and film critics. My mom — a huge Star Wars fan-girl — told me when I was a child that when the original film came out in '77, critics and reviewers were panning it left and right and that a number of them end up resending their initial opinion once the film became hugely popular in order to avoid looking out-of-touch with movie-goers. And then when The Phantom Menace came out, initial reviewers and movie-goers alike were saying how great the film was, only to watch it and becoming greatly board and annoyed by the film. I'll still go see it the theaters with friends & family and hope that it is good. (Unfortunately, after the prequels, the bar for what is "good" is set ridiculously low. )
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 3:23:33 GMT -6
Not a snide on the movie, from my part! I'll, too, go see it! How not?! "Rogue Squadron" was my favorite part of all Star Wars! Baron Soontir Fel, FTW! But, let's face it, what's out on the movie so far doesn't look too good: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_One#receptionNot my message, I just deliver it. There were also some more positive reviews there, but from less respected sources. I sure hope, though, that this is just the usual nerdy snobbism that comes with serious reviewers not knowing how to handle "un-serious" movies.
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Post by ritt on Dec 14, 2016 6:34:24 GMT -6
I was raised to be cynical over movie reviews and film critics. My mom — a huge Star Wars fan-girl — told me when I was a child that when the original film came out in '77, critics and reviewers were panning it left and right [/font][/quote] Harlan Ellison's bizarrely vitriolic '77 review is a fascinating time capsule and one of the great moments in the history of old men yelling at clouds (despite Ellison only being in his early 40s at the time). To paraphrase (I can't find a copy online) "We don't need childish escapism in a world with serious problems...like Punk Rock!".
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Post by Finarvyn on Dec 15, 2016 5:35:59 GMT -6
I hardly ever trust the critics and film reviewers. Too many of them are looking for culture and/or classic literary elements, but I'm interested in having fun. Oil and water.
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Post by Malcadon on Dec 15, 2016 10:07:54 GMT -6
Harlan Ellison's bizarrely vitriolic '77 review is a fascinating time capsule and one of the great moments in the history of old men yelling at clouds (despite Ellison only being in his early 40s at the time). To paraphrase (I can't find a copy online) "We don't need childish escapism in a world with serious problems...like Punk Rock!". Wow! That guy was clueless! Him and the other critic John Simon. I was not old enough to remember the '70s, but I know enough about the '70s to know how important "childish escapism" was at the time. And the punk rock scene was fueled on the all-around pessimism that came from the time. Guys like them think that mindless, escapist fantasy rots the minds of children, and that more works of fiction should be more of a leaning experience than an exciting one. That is fine... to a point. Fantasies are great for exercising one imagination and looking beyond the limits of reality, and that is something that tends to get criminally overlook when it comes to people evaluating intelligence. Hell, Carl Sagan became the man he was form picking-up the Barsoom Saga, and that series was unabashedly juvenile (in all the right ways )! Guys like them just take everything too seriously. Plus, reality can sometimes be weirder than what is considered too "far-out" for fiction.
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Post by ritt on Dec 15, 2016 20:28:42 GMT -6
Everything eventually comes back to the Barsoom Saga. Everything. It's the Ur-Text for 90% of current pop "Geek culture".
God bless Edgar Rice Burroughs, the man who (along with Stan Lee) taught me how to read.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 1:46:52 GMT -6
I am not so sure about Barsoom - but, back to Rogue One, yeah, there seems a certain media bias against the movie, judging from the earliest reputable reviews. And while I understand that this is essentially "Hunger Games in Space", I don't fault Disney for making a movie that targets a young audience. Without trying to write a rebuke of all the crap I read online over the last few hours, if people's main argument against the movie is that it's not "The Dirty Dozen", or "Platoon", but some flashy, lightweight sci-fi flick, then I don't know what those reviewers really were expecting. This has happened a couple of times in recent years, from "Shrek" to "Dr Strange" - people are unhappy with the premise, but try to criticise the product.
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Post by EdOWar on Dec 16, 2016 16:17:09 GMT -6
I've just seen Rogue One and I feel it is an exceptional contribution to the Star Wars universe. But if you're looking for another epic space opera installment, you will likely be disappointed. This is about the grunts on the ground doing their best to end the Empire. It's a movie about the anonymous sacrifices made by the little guy so that Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, and Chewie could get the credit for taking down the Empire. The characters are perhaps not as well developed as some of the other films, but when you watch it you should realize why that is the case.
Rogue One is the Star Wars movie I've been wanting to see for a long time, and I hope they make more showing other aspects of the SW universe. There's more to Star Wars than just Jedi, Sith and the Skywalkers.
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Post by geoffrey on Dec 16, 2016 17:51:59 GMT -6
Everything eventually comes back to the Barsoom Saga. Everything. It's the Ur-Text for 90% of current pop "Geek culture". God bless Edgar Rice Burroughs, the man who (along with Stan Lee) taught me how to read. Barsoom has Jed and Sith.
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Post by ritt on Dec 16, 2016 18:02:19 GMT -6
Wil Wheaton wrote a really evocative review where he claims that this is his favorite SW movie since 1977 and the first film in the series to really capture the evil and banality of Fascism and the tragedy of war.
I CANNOT F***ING WAIT TO SEE THIS. I was supposed to catch it last night, then again tonight, but the Polar Vortex had other plans for my patch of the mutant-haunted Forsaken Warp-Wastes of Illinois.
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Post by geoffrey on Dec 16, 2016 18:51:01 GMT -6
Wil Wheaton wrote a really evocative review where he claims that this is his favorite SW movie since 1977 and the first film in the series to really capture the evil and banality of Fascism and the tragedy of war. Link?
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Post by ritt on Dec 16, 2016 19:11:10 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2016 5:54:23 GMT -6
Everything eventually comes back to the Barsoom Saga. Everything. It's the Ur-Text for 90% of current pop "Geek culture". God bless Edgar Rice Burroughs, the man who (along with Stan Lee) taught me how to read. Barsoom has Jed and Sith. Sidetrack: I know I read about this somewhere, already - there are two or three pretty good books about the original design of the OT - but does anyone of you happen to know whether the elements borrowed from the Barsoom series are really King George's idea, or whether they come from another source? (I'd suppose, maybe Alan Dean Foster, or perhaps Lawrence Kasdan?) Not a representative source, but I read the graphic novel that was supposedly based on the first script for "The Star Wars", a while back, and that one was Flash Gordon meeting Dune, but no Barsoom, at least not as I read it. Meesa, big Barsoom fan, BTW. I even own a plush whoola!
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Post by ritt on Dec 17, 2016 22:25:33 GMT -6
Loved it!
It has an odd sluggish patch in the middle (It was directed by Gareth edwards, the man who once somehow managed to make Godzilla boring) but when it's good it's really good. The last hour has a lot of the old Spirit of '77, and the last five minutes gave me goosebumps.
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Post by geoffrey on Dec 17, 2016 23:51:12 GMT -6
Loved it! It has an odd sluggish patch in the middle (It was directed by Gareth edwards, the man who once somehow managed to make Godzilla boring) but when it's good it's really good. The last hour has a lot of the old Spirit of '77, and the last five minutes gave me goosebumps. As for me and my house, we consider the 2014 Godzilla film underrated.
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Post by Chainsaw on Dec 18, 2016 15:37:09 GMT -6
Saw Rogue One this morning and thought it was great - two chainsaws up! In my opinion, it fit way better with Episodes IV/V (my favorites) in feel and look than anything yet*, blending almost seamlessly. I really have no serious story, script, acting, set or score complaints at all. I thought Edwards did a very good job featuring all the cool stuff and I hope he gets to do more. A bounty hunter movie telling the stories of the folks standing before Vader in Empire and then culminating with that scene would be would be cool.
* Not a fan of Episodes I-III or VII.
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Post by coffee on Dec 18, 2016 22:22:11 GMT -6
I saw it on Friday night and I quite liked it.
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