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Then afterwards watched RO and ANH. I have to say RO is a film that I liked on my first viewing, and a film that I love now. Good story, well written characters that we genuinely care about by the end of the film and who doesn't like seeing
As a standalone movie it did everything I could ask for, neatly tying it to ANH.
As for to TLJ, I think I need to see it a few more times but RO was definitely from my first watch I walked out of the cinema with no doubt it was better.
I did feel like I was watching a Star Wars film and the final battle was fantastic. Warmed over New Hope is peoples preference and they are welcome to it but I fancy something with a bit more originality and balls.
For me both RO & TLJ delivered in those departments.
I think that's the key to understanding why some of us love RO while others don't. RO is tied to THE CLONE WARS TV series, STAR WARS REBELS, ROTS and ANH; it delivers the goods for the fans, the geeks (like myself) and even those looking for new stuff; but all of it operates outside the Skywalker canon of 'episodes'. It fills in some blanks, but it doesn't propagate the story of the new resistance, the new order, the Jedi, ... If you're looking to move on with the episodes, then you're probably less interested in what happened right before ANH.
As a geek, I'm looking for anything Star Wars, anything I haven't seen before, whether it's filling gaps or moving on. And since RO was also executed to my taste, there's nothing about the film that doesn't thrill me.
I think the very first scene does very well to set up the the main character motivation and how bad the bad guy is etc,
@DarthDimi I know nothing of the TV series or the books etc etc, I just like well make films with a cohesive story. RO just works in a way that TLJ doesn't IMHO and I think people are appreciating it more and more. Especially in light of TLJ
I dont think there is one scene in TLJ that comes anywhere near this it terms of pure exciting action. The way the music stops and you just hear Darth breathing and then the passage is bathed in the red light from his sabre. And Darth just walks relentlessly through. It's so well shot and not over clever. The sound effects (alarm) and music work very well to increase the drama. And of course, we all knew the outcome so there actually was no tension but it's there anyway (if that makes sense)
True! That one scene made me scream in the theatre. I hadn't seen it coming; I had no idea I was going to get that. So when I did, I nearly lost my goods.
In many ways, RO "fixed" things. The 'Episodes' have always told us what a bad-ass Vader is, but we have rarely seen him be the bad-ass. RO finally delivered. We have always wondered about the structural weakness in the Death Star and now we know for certain that it was deliberately put there. We have always known that somehow Leia had gotten her hands on the Death Star plans and now we know how exactly she got them. Things that were always told, have now been shown to us, and I like that. A lot!
This was a near-blind watch for me. Didn't watch any trailers. I read the full plot summary out of curiosity but barely remembered any of it. I haven't even seen the previous film, only the original trilogy and parts of the prequels. It's good to watch films that way.
There's a lot of strong flak being thrown at it. A lot of it I understand, but some of it I don't.
It does a lot of things very well and I didn't hate it. But unfortunately, so much of the story obviously rides on Luke and Johnson gets him so wrong that a lot of the good stuff is being viewed through negative-tinted glasses, and I don't really blame people for it.
I humbly disagree. It has more of a Star Wars feel than any of the films released since 1999 for me, and they managed to do it without any Jedi being the focus of the story.
Ideas that did not make the film
However in hindsight, give me the original trilogy over this one any day. They are making a valiant/enjoyable attempt at the new films but they are not as fresh and great as the originals.
This shocked me and perhaps sums up the attitude of certain movie fans. It's not about the story. It's about how big and loud the explosions are. He loved the movie and all of the faults I pointed out had gone straight over his head. Thank goodness (as RTs shows) I am not on my own and there are still movie fans out there who appreciate the craft of story writing.
Watching Operation Crossbow this morning, it struck me that perhaps the series should be looking to more of the classic war movies for inspiration?
@patb what's odd is many people on YouTube are back peddling with there initial negative reviews and making excuses now why TLJ is good. It's funny many channels dispute RT though the majority of people in comments section don't like the film anyway.
I talked about it with my friend and we both thought it's like from a whole different movie and had that Disney stink.
Had Admiral Holdo just stated what her intentions were from the start, Less Rebels would have died. And I would have preferred if Luke was actually on the Salt Planet. I was fine with his end but I think it would have been more impactful if Luke was actually there. I also wish he would have toppled over the AT-AT's like domino's for an extra badass moment.
There were rumors about Luke having some kind of new power and I have to admit that I was pretty disappointed when it turned out to be the Force projection. I don't know, perhaps toppling over the walkers would've been a step too far, but they definitely should've come up with something better for him. And now that he's gone it's such a wasted opportunity.
I don't think it would have been too far at all because in the Graphic Novel "Dark Empire," He brings one AT-AT down with the force alone. It would have been a nice crushing blow to the First Order while giving adding some extra stakes to Luke being their.