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Why do some of you claim Rogue One to be a good flick?
It is a paint by numbers, lifeless bore fest. Say what you will about Lucas being a pathetic director of human beings, and he is, the bloke knew how to tell a story and understood what a trilogy was. The 3 movies made by Disney have been feminist, agenda driven trash and im surprised those of you claiming to be ultra starwars geeks are applauding them.
 
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Why do some of you claim Rogue One to be a good flick?
It is a paint by numbers, lifeless bore fest. Say what you will about Lucas being a pathetic director of human beings, and he is, the bloke knew how to tell a story and understood what a trilogy was. The 3 movies made by Disney have been feminist, agenda driven trash and im surprised those of you claiming to be ultra starwars geeks are applauding them.
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He seemed to get the best out of his actors in the Indiana Jones movies , just my opinion
 
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Is anyone looking forward to the Han Solo spinoff?

As a big star wars film, no.
Harrison Ford is Han Solo, no one else. I doubt I'll be able to get past that.
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No way Hose! Han Solo is Harrison Ford. What we have seen is "Han shot first" to "Han had to wait too see some smoke in a mexican standoff….".
We will see a good "Han Solo" we will see Chewbacca be a wookee king or nobleman or something. At least the latest 7 and 8 get that there is some grey between black and white.... but it won't be compariable to Ford's original performance or doing him justice. I would not be surprised if Ben Athleck, Hugh Jackman or Shia Lebouff have been cast to play Han.

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Why do some of you claim Rogue One to be a good flick?
It is a paint by numbers, lifeless bore fest. Say what you will about Lucas being a pathetic director of human beings, and he is, the bloke knew how to tell a story and understood what a trilogy was. The 3 movies made by Disney have been feminist, agenda driven trash and im surprised those of you claiming to be ultra starwars geeks are applauding them.

He seemed to get the best out of his actors in the Indiana Jones movies , just my opinion
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I think if Lucas were to combine his universe with say the action direction of JJ Abrams then you would get a good movie.

His 1/2/3 were horrible movies. Number 2 Lucas tried to set the series back on the right course and still failed. He basically tried re-creating a blurred vision of these movies from his teenage ideal and totally failed to remember that these were action movies (not a kids story, then a love story then a tragedy! That's not how trilogies work).

It's kind of funny how Jar Jar Binks aka "the dark Jedi" morphed into a life of it's own now. Ok if you can't do Anakin going to the dark side…. Do Jar Jar!

Had Lucas written the plot to Number 7 and 8, both movies would raise a little. As usual Hollywood will take our money to give us WAY too much of what we want.
 
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Rogue One is far better than either of the Disney canon movies, and better than the prequels IMO.

In fact, I'd go as far to say that I'd probably say it's my third favourite behind Empire and A New Hope.

Any Star Wars fan knew the ending before they watched the movie but they still made it exciting to watch. Vader, despite his limited time in the movie, was phenomenal especially when he goes nuts on the Rebel troops at the end. It also tied in nicely to kick off Ep IV. For a movie where you knew few of the characters they made them believable.

Laura Dern's character in TLJ was useless in the great scheme of things. **They should have had Admiral Ackbar run Snokes ship so he could be written out with a bit of honour.**
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1000% - would have been a fantastic send off.

I would have geeked out even more if someone in the First Order's ship had shouted "It's a TRAP!" at the last second before Ackbar sliced through…

A subtle change for sure, but would have meant the world to the hardcore Star Wars fans.

Some interesting choices through this film to say the least, - Mark Hamill seemed to take a borderline "Woody Allen" role in this film, and his wink to C3P0 (which was pretty much a wink at the audience, lets be honest here) was a bees penis away from him stopping the film and narrating directly to the audience...

There were some nice touches though were good - the young fella in the stables subtly doing a force grab on the broom to sweep up, I actually loved the lightsaber over the shoulder bit, and the realization that Luke wasn't actually there during the duel with Rylo Ken (which my 11 yr old son picked up on WAY before I did by leaning over and saying to me - "But dad, wasn't Lukes' lightsaber broken?") were all parts I genuinely loved. I also liked Benicio Del Toro's role - and hope he comes good in episode 9, And of course that Rey hadn't met Po yet - that blew me away too...
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Judging by what most of you have said, it sounds like I might be easily impressed, but I went into it with Star Wars goggles on, not "Oscar winning Masterpiece" goggles, and I was thoroughly entertained.
 
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Rogue One is far better than either of the Disney canon movies, and better than the prequels IMO.

In fact, I'd go as far to say that I'd probably say it's my third favourite behind Empire and A New Hope.

Any Star Wars fan knew the ending before they watched the movie but they still made it exciting to watch. Vader, despite his limited time in the movie, was phenomenal especially when he goes nuts on the Rebel troops at the end. It also tied in nicely to kick off Ep IV. For a movie where you knew few of the characters they made them believable.

Laura Dern's character in TLJ was useless in the great scheme of things. **They should have had Admiral Ackbar run Snokes ship so he could be written out with a bit of honour.**

1000% - would have been a fantastic send off.

I would have geeked out even more if someone in the First Order's ship had shouted "It's a TRAP!" at the last second before Ackbar sliced through…

A subtle change for sure, but would have meant the world to the hardcore Star Wars fans.

Some interesting choices through this film to say the least, - Mark Hamill seemed to take a borderline "Woody Allen" role in this film, and his wink to C3P0 (which was pretty much a wink at the audience, lets be honest here) was a bees penis away from him stopping the film and narrating directly to the audience...

There were some nice touches though were good - the young fella in the stables subtly doing a force grab on the broom to sweep up, I actually loved the lightsaber over the shoulder bit, and the realization that Luke wasn't actually there during the duel with Rylo Ken (which my 11 yr old son picked up on WAY before I did by leaning over and saying to me - "But dad, wasn't Lukes' lightsaber broken?") were all parts I genuinely loved. I also liked Benicio Del Toro's role - and hope he comes good in episode 9, And of course that Rey hadn't met Po yet - that blew me away too...
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Judging by what most of you have said, it sounds like I might be easily impressed, but I went into it with Star Wars goggles on, not "Oscar winning Masterpiece" goggles, and I was thoroughly entertained.
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I love your 'its a trap" suggestion. That would have been great. I agree with your whole post. .
 
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Why do some of you claim Rogue One to be a good flick?
It is a paint by numbers, lifeless bore fest. Say what you will about Lucas being a pathetic director of human beings, and he is, the bloke knew how to tell a story and understood what a trilogy was. The 3 movies made by Disney have been feminist, agenda driven trash and im surprised those of you claiming to be ultra starwars geeks are applauding them.
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It's called an opinion. Why do you get worked up about the opinions of others on a bunch of movies you claim to care little about?
 
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Why do some of you claim Rogue One to be a good flick?
It is a paint by numbers, lifeless bore fest. Say what you will about Lucas being a pathetic director of human beings, and he is, the bloke knew how to tell a story and understood what a trilogy was. The 3 movies made by Disney have been feminist, agenda driven trash and im surprised those of you claiming to be ultra starwars geeks are applauding them.

He seemed to get the best out of his actors in the Indiana Jones movies , just my opinion
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The acting is the worst part of those movies. If they werent so adventure driven with special set pieces, theyd be b grade movies. Starwars is very similar.
 
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Why do some of you claim Rogue One to be a good flick?
It is a paint by numbers, lifeless bore fest. Say what you will about Lucas being a pathetic director of human beings, and he is, the bloke knew how to tell a story and understood what a trilogy was. The 3 movies made by Disney have been feminist, agenda driven trash and im surprised those of you claiming to be ultra starwars geeks are applauding them.

It's called an opinion. Why do you get worked up about the opinions of others on a bunch of movies you claim to care little about?
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Im not too worked up. I just appreciate good cinema and its releases are very thin these days thanks to those superhero movies and these efforts. They are clogging up the cinemas and preventing worthy stories from airing.
 
Now over 1.5billion at the box office…boooooring..

Rogue One was fantastic..the last 2 minutes were the best ever sequence on the big screen...
 
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Now over 1.5billion at the box office…boooooring..

Rogue One was fantastic..the last 2 minutes were the best ever sequence on the big screen...
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Hahaaaaa.
Thats great.
 
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Why do some of you claim Rogue One to be a good flick?
It is a paint by numbers, lifeless bore fest. Say what you will about Lucas being a pathetic director of human beings, and he is, the bloke knew how to tell a story and understood what a trilogy was. The 3 movies made by Disney have been feminist, agenda driven trash and im surprised those of you claiming to be ultra starwars geeks are applauding them.

It's called an opinion. Why do you get worked up about the opinions of others on a bunch of movies you claim to care little about?

Im not too worked up. I just appreciate good cinema and its releases are very thin these days thanks to those superhero movies and these efforts. They are clogging up the cinemas and preventing worthy stories from airing.
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Why do you go then? Surely you know what your gonna get.
 
Well I went to number 7 to see if anything improved under new management.
I went to Rogue One to see if a spin off could be better.
I went to 8 under extreme reluctance due to a christmas present backfire.

It didnt, it wasnt and it was as bad as I thought. You are correct I wont be doing it ever again.
 
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Why do some of you claim Rogue One to be a good flick?
It is a paint by numbers, lifeless bore fest. Say what you will about Lucas being a pathetic director of human beings, and he is, the bloke knew how to tell a story and understood what a trilogy was. The 3 movies made by Disney have been feminist, agenda driven trash and im surprised those of you claiming to be ultra starwars geeks are applauding them.

He seemed to get the best out of his actors in the Indiana Jones movies , just my opinion

The acting is the worst part of those movies. If they werent so adventure driven with special set pieces, theyd be b grade movies. Starwars is very similar.
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You can't go wrong with Harrison Ford ,Sean Connery etc

Superstars imo
 
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Now over 1.5billion at the box office…boooooring..

Rogue One was fantastic..the last 2 minutes were the best ever sequence on the big screen...
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Couldn't agree more.
 
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Well I went to number 7 to see if anything improved under new management.
I went to Rogue One to see if a spin off could be better.
I went to 8 under extreme reluctance due to a christmas present backfire.

It didnt, it wasnt and it was as bad as I thought. You are correct I wont be doing it ever again.
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Not going to argue about 7, they tried to reboot a franchise that didn’t need rebooting. The writing and acting were terrible even by the main stars and JJ to me destroyed any chance the ST trilogy had of being any good ( box office numbers say I’m wrong )

If you didn’t like Rogue One then maybe you don’t understand the series that well, R1 added so much depth to the series especially A New Hope and is probably the best SW movie since TESB.

TLJ was entertaining but one big walking plot hole and some of the decisions RJ made were poor considering what TFA left us with. As a stand alone movie its a 6 out of 10 but as the 8th instalment of the Skywalker saga its a 3\. Just my opinion.
 
I watched Rogue 1

Only took 4 goes as well , kept it on HD , might be handy with my bouts of imsomnia

Liked the saying "rebellions start with hope "
 
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