Rogue One was an example of what could be done with the Star Wars IP. It was well written, fitted canon, has a mixed cast, “strong female lead”… and it was good.
Its what Disney COULD HAVE DONE moving forward, but they decided to make total garbage after this... Agreed this is in My opinion top 3 Star wars movies, With Empire and New Hope..
Remember the crawl from IV. "Rebel forces striking from a hidden base have won their first victory against the Empire. Agents have stolen plans to the Empire's Ultimate weapon the Death Star". This is that story.
that was vaguest of vaguiness, because good ol' george didnt know with what source material he would want to go with, search legends and how many times the death star plans got stolen. ofc they massacared my boy Kyle Katarn. but somewhere out there, there is another universe where Kyle Katarn stole the Death Star plans and built up the new Jedi Order with Master Luke Skywalker. and the story didn't always need a planet-killer.
@@HellBrYnger Legends isn't source material; George Lucas is the source material, lmao, what are you talking about? And the crawl of Ep. IV literally existed before any legends material ever existed, and this should be utterly obvious. How could he 'know' what 'source material to go with in Legends' if it didn't even exist yet?
Tarkin was, in fact, effects over another actor to create the illusion that it actually was Peter Cushing. Cushing was 64 when A New Hope came out in 1977 and passed away in 1994. He would have been over 100 when Rogue One came out.
So interesting to see her reaction. I was so surprised when she didn't realise Tarkin was visual effects. Just goes to show uncanny valley can be about what you know, as well as what you see. I think it's actually a very good attempt at a CG human. There is something a little off, but it's very good.
Yes the actor they used looks quite similar to Cushing already which made the transition much easier. I think he might be the same actor they put in prosthetic makeup for that scene at the end of Revenge of the Sith but they filmed him from a distance in that scene so it worked.
@@MostViewedTop40 I think seeing the effect partially comes down to whether you know Tarkin is CG going into it (as you said) and partially from what kind/size of screen you're watching it on. I remember seeing it in theaters and the effect being really noticeable (though very well done, obvs) but then seeing it later on a TV at home and thinking it looked a lot better than I remembered. As always with these characters, it's the subtle mouth movements that give it away. As good as the lip sync is, there's some very subtle movement of muscle there that doesn't quite look natural and still feels animated. That and a little bit too much (or just not quite right) gloss on the eyeballs. I also saw a comparison video where they demonstrated that part of the reason it feels "wrong" is due to the lighting. In "New Hope," all the lighting was flat. In this one, he's much more in light and shadow and that makes his face look different than you remember. The effect that really doesn't hold up at all (imo) is Leia at the end. The tell on that one is the same one that makes so many video game characters look so wrong: There's no depth to the mouth. It looks like a projection onto a flat surface. Honestly, they would've been better off just doing a DeepFake for Leia because it would've been more believable (in fact, I saw a video a while ago where Corridor Crew or someone did that very thing and it def looked a lot better). Either way, I'm not complaining. We've come a loooooong way from the distracting stop-motion FX of Terminator and Robocop and I'm here for it.
@@chand911 Anakin’s arc may as well be comic book villain “dark”. Yes what he does is terrible but it happens and is largely moved past in minutes, and it’s so extreme it doesn’t come across the same. It’s still elevated fantasy good vs evil that could be just as at home in a DnD style setting with elves. Nothing wrong with that! But it’s not the same kind of grounded bleakness and overwhelming sense of nearly hopeless oppression Rogue One dips onto and Andor focuses on.
"Don't act so surprised, your Highness. You weren't on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were sent to this ship by rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you"
I really like the way Chirrut channels the force. He's not a jedi and can't use it like a jedi can, but he is clearly force sensitive. Instead of using it to flip around or throw a lightsaber or lift a starship, he instead lets if flow through him and creates literal miracles. He can fight despite being blind, he can shoot a TIE fighter out of the air, he can walk through a hail of gunfire and not get hit. Chirrut calmly walking through a war zone is one of the most awe inspiring uses of the force I've seen since Yoda lifted the X-Wing out of the swamp on Dagobah.
Less than a few hours. It literally goes right into Episode IV.. The Corvette called Tantive IV that Leia is on at the very end of this movie is the ship that Darth Vader's Star Destroyer is chasing at the very beginning of A New Hope.
@@dhavaram8064No, a few hours is very reasonable if not more. In the end of Rogue One they manage to escape being boarded and jump into lightspeed, but in the beginning of A New Hope they get chased down and boarded AGAIN because that time vader & stormtroopers made it onto the ship, in Rogue One they didnt make it on in time. It is highly unlikely that they escape, jump into lightspeed and then get chased down and boarded AGAIN with no time between. The movies look like they transition smoothly but unfortunately its just coincidentally similar scenes in the end and beginning. The empire also couldnt track through lightspeed back then so time must have passed in order for them to locate Leia’s ship and board for the second time
I love that little time background. For years, I was under the wrong assumption that Leia was on the run for days, weeks, maybe even months. But HOURS makes Episode 4 seem way more desperate and makes Leia seem way more brassy "I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan." What BALLS on her....just lying to Vader's face like that...20 minutes after he saw her ship jump to hyperspace. What a great addition to the Star Wars saga.
@vin9791 incorrect. They are immediately preparing the escape pods - even as they are escaping to Hyperspace - and Leia is wearing the exact same clothes as ANH. She is on her way to Obi-Wan. Her father dispatched her for this mission as he said earlier. And yes the empire CAN track through hyperspace. Rian Johnson completely screws this up in The Last Jedi. Do you even remember how the Empire found Yavin 4?!?!? They tracked the Falcon through Hyperspace! 🤦♂️
Best Disney era movie. Hope you like it. If you do, and like this early rebellion era, consider watching Andor. Prequel to Rogue One. Shows the beginning of the rebellion, and the best writing and story arcs. Some complain that’s it’s slow and boring. Yeah, it’s a slow burn but it might be the best Star Wars anything since Revenge of the Sith…
Leia: "Hey, it's a common luxury cruiser, it could have been any ship! This is harassment!" Tarkin: "Vader, put your knee on her neck, that always works." Vader: "...okay, I'm starting to have doubts on my choice of the Dark Side now..."
People say that the "be careful not to 'choke' on your aspirations, director" quote was corny and cheesy, but those people fail to realize that it fits Anakin's/Vader's snarky, sarcastic personality perfectly.
Rogue One was the best Disney Star Wars film imho. So many people forget that the first 3 Star Wars films were about THE REBELLION and the Insurgency to overthrow The Emperor in the absence of the Jedi. A lot of the soul of Star Wars gets lost with the fantastical elements of Force Users and light sabers... but there were so many heroes that gave everything for freedom from The Empire.
So Blue Squadron was supposed to make the attack on the Death Star in A New Hope but the blue messed up with their blue screens at the time so they changed it to Red Squadron and killed Blue Squadron here. You should also notice that Red 5 gets killed during the battle leaving a spot for Luke to take in A New Hope.
When Mon Mothma asks Bail Organa about the hidden jedi, it´s referring to Obi Wan Kenobi. And when he said "I would trust her with my life" he is talking about Princess Leia, his adoptive daughter. He arranged the plan to bring the plans to Obi Wan through Leia.
I remember watching this film in theaters on my birthday, which was sadly the day Carrie Fisher had passed away. When Princess Leia appeared at the end, it felt like a nice way to honor her memory. Both Tarkin and Leia were CGI de-aged characters.
In my theater, the CGI of Leia looked awful. Nothing like Grand Moff Tarkin, so it kind of ruined the ending and seemed disrespectful to her memory. On the smaller screen, it doesn't seem so bad now though.
Well, Tarkin's character wasn't de-aged, he was completely deep faked over another actor. A very well done deep fake, especially from 2016, considering even now they aren't always that great.
I went to see R-1 also, for second viewing, on the day that Erie F' died too (late Dec'2016). As I bought my ticket, the clerk said like he thought he was a total "Dude" -"hey did you hear that Carrie Fisher died",....I was shocked, I said no, but the way he told me, like his Team won the game, was not nice. I said that will cloud how I rewatch R-1, and asked him to not 'blurt out' this news, again -learning of a death, even a celebrity can be a shock, but not as much of a shock was family or friends. After the film, I went to a media-store, and got a Princess Leia Funko.
51:17 Princess Leia was played by Ingvild Deila IN MOTION CAPTURE only and Carrie Fisher's face was superimposed in post production using CGI. Her one single word she spoke , "Hope" was lifted directly from her line in "A New Hope." "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only HOPE."
Love how invested you got into Star Wars! Some of your reactions here make me well up as it just brings all the emotions I had watching Starwars as a kid from the 80's to a father of two to the present! Rogue one did an incredible job of bringing the nostalgia back.
Jeez Coby, I haven't hollered at the screen that much in a while! LOL I needed oxygen when you finally caught on to Ginns nickname being Stardust. Thank you for sharing your excitement with us. Watching movies with you is so much fun. 😊
And yes, Carrie Fisher was still alive when this was filmed but the character here was full CGI. Her final performance was in The Last Jedi. Carrie died 11 days after Rogue One was released.
I saw this in cinema the day she died, literally walked out the cinema, opened my phone, and the first notification I had was an article reporting her death... it hit me so damned hard after that ending scene
I just love ur reactions to the movies I have loved since 1977. You actually give me the thrill of what it was like back in 1977 when I was 15. It was a revolution.
I find this such a worthy and unique member of the Star Wars family of films; the way they so quickly create characters we care about, have a story line with stakes and suspense, and tie it all into A New Hope.
Part of the reason this movie works so well is because of its placement in the larger story. The deaths, however necessary to the canon, are all the more poignant. But why they don't craft more Star Wars movies like this one, is beyond me. This is fantastic.
This was the first of the a Star Wars Story based movies and it did well in 2016 but when the fanbase collectively boycotted Solo: A Star Wars Story in 2018 as a direct response to how Disney was handling the Star Wars franchise after what they chose to do to Luke Skywalker in Episode VIII The Last Jedi in 2017, Disney said they were cancelling all future star wars story movies and other projects due to "oversaturation" or too much Star Wars content.. when it was really they weren't taking responsibility for extremely poor decisions in handling the Star Wars franchise.
@@TIMMAYY7 This isn't exactly true. They released a new SW movie every year from 2015-2019 and the major swing in what they were doing that changed everything was Disney+ launching and the pandemic creating a boom period for streaming. They turned Obi-Wan Kenobi, originally a movie, into a mini-series. They had movies in development with several filmmakers that didn't get off the ground (some of which due to the Pandemic). They are currently planning to release 2 Star Wars movies in 2026 (that likely won't stick but maybe it does), so clearly they didn't think 1 movie per year was too much. They just ran out of projects that were ready.
They don't know how to. Which they have clearly shown in everything not touched by Gilroy. This is his writing, as is the Andor series. And they are just not the same as the other stories Disney shat out. They actually add something of worth, like Legends used to. Everything else is either plagued by mediocrity (Filoni/Favreau) or actively mocks George's legacy (Headland/Harold).
@@TheRoyalFino Obi Wan's movie cancellation was decided just after/due to Solo's bombing. I specifically remember all the cancellations and disappointment. You are correct though regarding the subsequent influence of Disney+, and then the pandemic.
“Wouldn’t the actor who played Tarkin be much older now?”. Actually, much deader… Peter Cushing passed away decades before this film, so an actor of similar stature was used with Mr. Cushing’s face digitally pasted onto his. Similar tech has been used to ‘de-age’ actors for flashback scenes in other movies (like a flashback scene in ‘X-Men 3’ featuring younger versions of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen). Carrie Fisher was much older at the time of this film (but still alive at least) and looked much different than her younger self. No amount of traditional makeup would have worked to recreate her look from ‘A New Hope’. So again, another actor was used with Carrie Fishers face pasted on.
Fun fact about the pilots, some of them are actually from 1977. They had unused pilot footage that they used for this movie. So some of the actors you are seeing in a role that they played decades ago. For this movie. It’s bizarre.
23:27 I like how you voiced your request and immediately knew you wouldn’t get it. 25:27 lol love your fan girl moment 37:57 your instincts serve you well. 49:49 perfect reaction Great movie. Great reaction as usual.
I'm 53 and grew up on Star Wars. Like many, from seeing 'Empire' in the theatre, it was always the single greatest Star Wars movie... And then I saw this.
Ditto. My friends and I would spend the entire summer of 1977 watching Star Wars over and over in the theaters. We would pay for our $1.50 ticket and stay for 3 showings a few times per week. We had the dialog down cold by the time school started up again, including Greedo's lines at the cantina
This, and at least so far the first season of Andor, were huge surprise gifts. They take the setting and implications much more seriously than the films generally do, a lot more like some of the extended universe/legends novels I grew up on.
@@RocketSurgn_ Decent writing has become rare. The common denominator for Rogue One and Andor is called Tony Gilroy though. I bet he will leave after season 2, because that will be his story told. Why should he debase himself for another Disney project? And by then, they will have nobody left to tell a decent story. I mean, it should be obvious at this point that Filoni is not the one to do it. It can, in fact, get even worse for Disney.
Same friends. I loved this and Andor. So psyched for S2! But yeah, these are the only Disney SW projects that I consider canon. And for Disney writing staff: Jyn Urso is how you write a bad ass female hero. You know how she came by her skills, trained under Sol, but still requires help from comrades in arms… as all heroes do. Sadly we got Rey. We got Osha/Mae.
@@Sandlund93 Well, for good or bad I recently heard they locked in to just one more season to finish the Andor story. Supposedly a year jump every few episodes, and Tudyk and Mendelson are confirmed part of it.
I love how you always know the actors’ names when they pop up! People always tell me it’s weird that I have that level of recall, so glad to know it’s not just me.
@@ChurchNietzsche its funny how the haters say it's the worst SW scene ever made and it's just pure fan service. But most people acknowledge it as one of the best. Isn't that what a trilogy/franchise movie entry is supposed to be? Fan service. Never ceases to amaze how edgy these haters try to be. Goes to show how toxic and divided the fandom is.
@@JayzVeez ANAKIN SKYWALKER = Most Powerful Force Weilder In The Galaxy. ... DARTH VADER = SAME ... Just Evil. You see 'glimpses' of it ... ... ... Cloud City, with Han ... Tatooine, with Sand People ... But "The Hallway Scene" at the end of Rogue One ... ... is "Peak Vader" ... after 'Anakin lost Padme' ... ... before 'Vader met Luke' This is Darth Vader ... in his Pure Sith form. .. .. .. -THIS- is what all the legends were talking about!!
Commander Coby! Great reaction! The CGI that brought Tarkin back was indeed almost perfect and took technicians about 2 years to do it. Guy Henry was used to physically portray him and he studied original ANH mannerisms from Cushing and I say he nailed it. You weren't the only one who thought it was Peter Cushing for real, but he passed in 1994 I think. I love the Vader scenes and I saw this movie 4 times at the cinema! 👍
James Earl Jones was 85 when he recorded Vader's voice for this movie and you can definitely tell! His voice was pretty much shot. When Vader appeared in the Obi Wan Kenobi series recently (common knowledge so that's not a spoiler) his voice was stitched together from old recordings using AI.
I think an important thing to point out is that his voice was AI-generated WITH HIS PERMISSION. That's where the real danger/risk is, using it to recreate voices without consent.
"I've got a bad feeling about this" is a popular line that was used once in each of the first six episodes. It was nice to hear K2SO say it. Probably got a lot of cheers in theaters.
21:05 I've got a bad feeling about this has been said in all of the movies by various characters. Leia, Han, Obi-Wan, Anakin, 3PO. They cut off K2 to let the audience know this is not part of the Skywalker saga but a Star Wars story.
Yarp. "I've got a bad feeling about this" is also very frequently used in the "describe your sex life with a Star Wars quote" game. Personally, like to use "Did it go in?" "Negative. It just impacted on the surface." 😅
It was Carrie Fisher in a sense. They used Billie Lourd Who is Carrie Fisher's daughter to provide the body and a CGI Image of a young Carrie Fisher in place of Billie Lourd's face to create the image in the scene.
Coby - you forgot that Lando was in Solo as well as Han and Chewie. Grand Moff Tarkin was played by legendary British actor Peter Cushing, who died in 1994. But they found a head mold from prosthetics made for the film TOP SECRET! and were able to CGI him over a stand in. An actor with facial prosthetics played him briefly in Episode 3. Darth Maul surviving and the first appearance of Saw Guerra (Forrest Whitaker) were in the animated Clone Wars series. Great show. Not sure if you also noticed that Yavin IV (planet) was the Rebel Base in the original film (Episode 4). Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits), Princess Leia's foster father and Mon Mothma, the founder of the Rebellion from Episode 6 and 3 was the lady there. The lava planet where we see Vader is Mustafar, where Obi Wan fought Anakin and left him to die. The Rogue Squadron is the name of the X-wing group that is prominent in episodes 4-6. Cassian Andor has his own prequel series on D+. "I've got a bad feeling about this" is a line used in most Star Wars films as a running gag. They used cut dialogue from the X-wing pilots from Episode 4 in the battle in this film to help tie the two films together, as they are distinctly remembered voices. The plot of Rogue One is recapped in the opening crawl of the original film - Episode 4 - "It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet. Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy...."
Rogue Squadron was founded by Luke (and Wedge) only after Episode 4. The snowspeeder that finds Han and Luke named himself as Rogue 2 while calling for them. Not sure if they ever had callouts for Rogue Squadron at Endor in the film, though, but were surely there.
I always loved the visual metaphors with Jyn and Cassian with the two Death Star blasts. Both of them started off as dark characters - ruthless, criminal; not al all what we'd expect from Star Wars heroes. When they're escaping Jedha, it's the beginning of their mutual redemption, and they fly the ship out of the chaotic fire and darkness of the Jedha explosion - like they're escaping a literal hell. Finally, at the end, they both die in the light. Poetry.
What I love about this movie it goes to explain why Vader was so angry at the start of episode 4, he saw the ship the princess was on escape before his very eyes, it was at one point at arms length from him and when he catches up with them and asks about the plans Leia straight up to his face is like "Na mate, not got a clue" 🤣
I don’t care what anybody says, Tarkin is the big baddie of this film. Dude even destroyed one of his own side’s installations with who knows how much “collateral damage.”
Thanks so much for the great review! Lots of people I know can’t stomach so many rebels dying & don’t like that one- but the story & film production are amazing. See you at the next one!
I really like Felicity Jones (Jyn Erso) She starred in a movie i love called “Like Crazy”and she also starred opposite Eddie Redmayne when he played Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything”
I saw her well b4 both of those movies. She was in the Daniel Craig vehicle "Flashbacks of a Fool". I knew from watching that how great she was & if any1 deserved stardom it was her.
Most reviewers are in their 20's & early 30's. So these movies are so far before them that it's not surprising that they never got into them on their own.
Movie is an absolute masterpiece. So many great things all came together. The CGI of Tarkin and Leia! The recycling the Gold\Red leader Xwing footage from a new hope when they report in and give orders. Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa for a brief moment… The ending itself is spectacular!
If I recall my lore correctly, Rogue Two is the designated Squadron Leader of Rogue Squadron, because the Call Sign Rogue One is forever retired out of respect for the team in this chapter of the saga.
Rogue One hands down is my favorite of the modern movies, and on somedays, the entire series. Glad you got this far. You capture everything we all felt in the theater when it came out :D
There are lots of Easter Eggs here if you have seen the movies and animated series. Yavin 4 is where the Rebels launch their attacks on the Death Star from, in New Hope. Mon Mothma was a Senator of the Loyalist Committee, in Episode 3, and appears in Episode 4 and 6. While on Yavin 4, when you see R2D2 and C3PO, there is a loudspeaker announcement for a General Syndulla, a call for the character Hera Syndulla of Rebels animated series. You also see the Ghost, the ship she pilots in Rebels, as well as Chopper, her Droid. Many familiar faces like Red and Gold Leader from New Hope. And you have Saw from the Clone Wars and Rebels. You definitely want to watch this again, and the original trilogy, and Clone Wars and Rebels.
I saw this in IMAX when it was released and it was extraordinary, especially the battle for Skariff. The ending was particularly poignant because Carrie Fisher had recently passed away, so seeing her again in Leia form was a real choker.
Yeah, that was a really stupid thing that was instituted (I assume by Kathleen Kennedy, but I don’t know for sure). The opening crawl is a great easy and efficient way to give out vital information to the audience and make them more aware of what is happening. Imagine watching Rogue One for the first time, without knowing anything about SW. You could have missed A New Hope and the crawl of Empire would at least bring you up to speed on the current situation of the new movie. The same could be said for Return of the Jedi. An opening crawl could only have enhanced Rogue One. But they were trying something “different”. Nevermind that other great sci-fi movies like Blade Runner and Terminator had a few words at the beginning to explain a few ideas. They had to be “different”. 😂
I think it's interesting that Forest Whitaker plays Saw Guerrera who was a character created for the animated tv series The Clone Wars. It's rare that an original cartoon character becomes a live action character and succeeds so well. Harley Quinn would be another example.
Not gonna lie, one of my "OH SH1T" moments in the theater opening night was when they pulled out Red and Gold Leader; that they used cut/alt footage from the OG Star Wars and brought it into this movie? Freaking awesome way to tie the films together.
It's a delight to watch Coby watching these movies. It's like watching the joy of a child. The wonder and joy she takes in all aspects of the movies as well as the background to them is wonderful and enlivening.
I think it would at least be a week. R2 & 3PO weren't on the blockade runner. Leia'd picked them up 1st because they were left behind when the fleet went to Scarif.
Great reaction video by Coby once again, thanks! 🙂I loved Rogue One and also fell instantly in love with Felicity Jones, she became my favorite actress ☺
If you are planning on branching out into the tv shows (didn’t think you would since everything on this channel has been movies), might I suggest a bit of Clone Wars animated series? Lucas was still involved at that point. It takes some time to really get going, but some of the stories are the best modern Star Wars…and it gives a lot of needs info for more recent shows and movies. It fills the gap between episodes 2 and 3. Some of the critical storylines are Ahsoka Tano, Darth Maul (end of Solo…alive and running a crime syndicate), Mandalore (home of Mandalorians (as in the TV show…you can watch the first season of that show without the backstory…but season 2 will make little sense), evolution of Anakin’s drift to the dark side, Clones all have individual personalities and backstories. Finally, the 4 episode finale is one of the best Star Wars stories ever told. Disney released a list of 20 episodes that it suggested watching before the final season and I think that list hits most of the critical plot points (and are some of the best shows of the series). Each episode is under 30 minutes, so 20 episodes isn’t that bad (and it’s mostly geared for adults, despite be a Cartoon Network animated series). Here’s the list if you are interested: 1x01: Ambush 1x05: Rookies 2x05: Landing at Point Rain 2x06: Weapons Factory 2x07: Legacy of Terror 2x08: Brain Invaders 2x12: The Mandalore Plot 2x13: Voyage of Temptation 3x02: Arc Troopers 4x21: Brothers 4x22: Revenge 5x06: The Gathering 5x01: Revival 5x14: Eminence 5x15: Shades of Reason 5x16: The Lawless 5x17: Sabotage 5x18: The Jedi Who Knew Too Much 5x19: To Catch a Jedi 5x20: The Wrong Jedi …and season 7 episodes 9-12.
yeah at the very least The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels are pretty much required viewing to keep up with the live action shows and movies these days since they have intergrated so much of them.
Love watching these films again with you Coby. Your reactions are so great. You're perfect for this. Brilliant series. I'm off to watch A New Hope again now too!
The lines "May the Force be with you" and "I have a bad feeling about this" have been said in every Star Wars movie. Carrie Fisher saw the premiere of Rouge One a week before she passed.
My favorite parts from a special on the making of this film was they brought in a gal to do the final retouching of CGI Peter Cushing and she said, "Why are they being so picky on this poor old actor?" She didn't realize she was retouching a CGI. Leia was also CGI, and when Carrie saw the last scene she remarked, "I don't remember filming that last shot." I liked also that they used Blue Squadron all getting killed, so there's no Blue Squadron in Star Wars when they attack the death star, and Red 5 is killed here, thus Luke takes the empty Red 5 spot.
No disrespect meant to anyone, but I find that surprising. I immediately spotted the CGI faces when I saw them, especially Carrie Fischer's, which I thought looked quite bad in the movie. Cushing's face was relatively better, but again, I very quickly recognized it was CGI. Maybe it was just me, though.
One of the best things about this film is how it ties in so beautifully with New Hope. Turns out Vader had pretty good reason to be pissed with Leia. She literally tries to gaslight him.
I think this is possibly my favourite out of all of the Star Wars films. Quite dark, gritty, and actually not bad for a Disney Star Wars film. I really hope you enjoy it.
Agree, with Andor being one of the best TV shows too. I think of the main movies, Empire Strikes back is my fav, but Rogue One is my most favourite StarWars movie of all of them.
@lovesandservesjesuschrist6752 Its production was still delayed for reshoots because the studio thought it was too dark. Curious to see what the director's version would have been.
I saw this in a theater on a Saturday in Columbia, SC. Afterwards, I was in the men’s bathroom crying my eyes out because I loved it that much. Everything about it felt like it was part of the original trilogy and especially Episode 4. I loved how they used the clip from Episode 4 of the X-Wing pilots reporting in before the attack on the Death Star for the attack on Jetta. It was soo good. But the scene with Vader at the end was beyond words. It was like watching Jason Voorhees at work. That final shot with him warching the Rebels escape with the start of the Imperial March gave me goosebumps. A couple of years ago, REELZ did a show about Star Wars where they talked about that scene. After Star Wars took off, Vader became very marketable and was used in commercials and what not. The thought was that he was no longer that scary individual he had been. In order to make it true to his initial character, the writers realized they needed a scene were he was that terrifying villain he had been especially since it was just before Episode 4. They did just that.
This was the movie those of us who saw the originals when they came out have been waiting for, at least 30 years. This, is, Star Wars. Great reaction! Yes, immediately watch Episode IV: A New Hope to see the continuation of that final scene.
Great reaction Coby like always. This was such a great movie, hands down one of my favorites to watch. I get tears every time near the end. The thing I love about the name "Rogue One" as a retcon, is that after Luke and Wedge etc blow up the Death Star the remains of their squadron are renamed to "Rogue Squadron", you see in Empire Strikes Back that their callsigns are "Rogue Two" and "Rogue Leader". So retroactively, it's like the squad that took down the Death Star were named in honour of the squad that died to get them the plans that made it possible. That Vader hallway scene is iconic in two ways. One being, that up until this moment. The sheer ferocity of Darth Vader was only whispered about. How ferocious he was in battle. But those fifteen minutes did everything we wanted. He took the Rebels apart. And the look of terror in their eyes said it all. This is Darth Vader. Dark Lord of the Sith. Love Alan Tudyk as K2S0. Anthony Daniels was so uncomfortable in the C-3PO costume & jokingly cursed Alan. After Rogue One's premiere. Tudyk later said that a "Fu*k you" from Daniels was one of the highest compliments he had ever received. There are some fun-facts, This movie had a pretty extensive amount of reshoots and while the film is amazing there were a few things cut out that I think would have made the film even better! One of the things that I wish hadn’t been cut out was Moroff’s (The tall white furry creature that is from gigoran species that we see when they are taking the pilot to see Saw Gerrera) from presence on Scarif. Moroff is one of Saw Gerrera’s Partisans and a behind-the-scenes photo seems to show the character on Scarif. It would have been so cool to see him and possibly other Partisans fighting alongside the Rebellion. Keep up the good work.
The hallway scene is probably the most genuinely intimidating we will ever see Vader on screen, it was impressive. I don’t think any other force use scene has felt so tangibly powerful and deserving of the terror/horror those trapped soldiers show.
This is 19 years after Revenge of the Sith. The beginning is 6 years after. The black armored troopers are specially trained ones called Death Troopers. They also received surgical enhancements Cassian shot his contact because he wasn’t gonna be able to escape with his messed up arm. He would’ve been captured and likely tortured for information. You can’t stay clean in a war. Wait, so were you thinking Leia was gonna be a major part of the movie? I suppose that’s an understandable assumption Saw Gerrera is actually a Clone Wars character. He was quite younger. Been fighting for a while. Chirrut is more attuned to the Force than most but not enough to be classified as force sensitive. He can’t use it like a jedi, no mind tricks, no telekinesis, etc. He mastered a martial art that allegedly allowed its users to alter their heart rate and oxygen intake, giving them almost supernatural abilities. The Tarkin actor is new, but they recreated Peter Cushing’s face over his with motion capture CGI. AI effects have barely started being used in movies recently, and hopefully they stop being used, or at least in a way that still allows work for real people. On top of not having much of himself left, Saw also probably would’ve slowed them down, and he wouldn’t want to do that. And he recognizes that he’s kind of become a monster. Indeed James Earl Jones returned to voice Vader again, which is always great. He sounds different due to age. The name Rogue One was in Legends material as an alternate call sign for Rogue Leader of Rogue Squadron, but I don’t recall it being said in the original trilogy. Retroactively in Canon, Rogue Squadron/Group from the original trilogy was named after the crew, and Luke ordered that the designation of Rogue One be retired in their honor. Thus they used Rogue Leader instead. A reference to 3PO? Wait, have you never clocked that someone always says “I have a bad feeling about this”? • -I don’t think 3PO has ever said it in the films- 3PO does say it in Return of the Jedi but it’s not an iconic line specific to him The “mustardy” 😂 colored troopers are new. They’re called shore troopers, or coastal defender stormtroopers Gold Leader’s appearance was actually upscaled unused footage from New Hope They also CGId Leia’s face. It wasn’t Carrie herself. Though she was shown the scene prior to her passing, and she liked it
Sigh... Rogue One was NOT made for this film. And Rogue Squadron was definitely not retroactively named for anything in this. The pilot who finds Han and Luke on Hoth has the call-sign Rogue Two. Although it was never said, Luke was, in fact, Rogue Leader, a.k.a. Rogue One. This movie used it as a memberberry for easy-to-please fans.
Rogue One was an example of what could be done with the Star Wars IP. It was well written, fitted canon, has a mixed cast, “strong female lead”… and it was good.
Ya, they don't all have to be copies of each other, but you know what she never said? I am a woman, I can do this or something lol
Its what Disney COULD HAVE DONE moving forward, but they decided to make total garbage after this... Agreed this is in My opinion top 3 Star wars movies, With Empire and New Hope..
Andor is brilliant. I really hope they don't stuff up season 2..
That was not a "strong female lead'". Just an ordinary female lead. Charismatic, brave, but ordinary and realistic.
@ indeed, that’s why I put it in quotes!
There's an empty chair in A New Hope where Tarkin and Vader are meeting with officers. That empty chair was for Krennic.
Really?
Wouldn't Tarkin have just taken Krennic's seat? Why does every chair have to be filled?
@@andymiller6661 Tarkin would only take Tarkin's seat. He thinks everyone but the Emperor is beneath him.
@@starcrafter13terran Cool
that level of detail would be awesome
Remember the crawl from IV. "Rebel forces striking from a hidden base have won their first victory against the Empire. Agents have stolen plans to the Empire's Ultimate weapon the Death Star". This is that story.
that was vaguest of vaguiness, because good ol' george didnt know with what source material he would want to go with, search legends and how many times the death star plans got stolen.
ofc they massacared my boy Kyle Katarn.
but somewhere out there, there is another universe where Kyle Katarn stole the Death Star plans and built up the new Jedi Order with Master Luke Skywalker.
and the story didn't always need a planet-killer.
This flick is about the grunts who got the Death star plans.
@@HellBrYnger Legends isn't source material; George Lucas is the source material, lmao, what are you talking about? And the crawl of Ep. IV literally existed before any legends material ever existed, and this should be utterly obvious. How could he 'know' what 'source material to go with in Legends' if it didn't even exist yet?
Tarkin was, in fact, effects over another actor to create the illusion that it actually was Peter Cushing. Cushing was 64 when A New Hope came out in 1977 and passed away in 1994. He would have been over 100 when Rogue One came out.
So interesting to see her reaction. I was so surprised when she didn't realise Tarkin was visual effects. Just goes to show uncanny valley can be about what you know, as well as what you see. I think it's actually a very good attempt at a CG human. There is something a little off, but it's very good.
Yes the actor they used looks quite similar to Cushing already which made the transition much easier. I think he might be the same actor they put in prosthetic makeup for that scene at the end of Revenge of the Sith but they filmed him from a distance in that scene so it worked.
@@MostViewedTop40 I think seeing the effect partially comes down to whether you know Tarkin is CG going into it (as you said) and partially from what kind/size of screen you're watching it on. I remember seeing it in theaters and the effect being really noticeable (though very well done, obvs) but then seeing it later on a TV at home and thinking it looked a lot better than I remembered.
As always with these characters, it's the subtle mouth movements that give it away. As good as the lip sync is, there's some very subtle movement of muscle there that doesn't quite look natural and still feels animated. That and a little bit too much (or just not quite right) gloss on the eyeballs. I also saw a comparison video where they demonstrated that part of the reason it feels "wrong" is due to the lighting. In "New Hope," all the lighting was flat. In this one, he's much more in light and shadow and that makes his face look different than you remember.
The effect that really doesn't hold up at all (imo) is Leia at the end. The tell on that one is the same one that makes so many video game characters look so wrong: There's no depth to the mouth. It looks like a projection onto a flat surface. Honestly, they would've been better off just doing a DeepFake for Leia because it would've been more believable (in fact, I saw a video a while ago where Corridor Crew or someone did that very thing and it def looked a lot better).
Either way, I'm not complaining. We've come a loooooong way from the distracting stop-motion FX of Terminator and Robocop and I'm here for it.
@@WinstonSmith19847 It was Guy Henry they used for this one and Wayne Pigrim for Sith.
Rogue One would have been Peter Cushing's 132nd film.... starting with The Man in the Iron Mask in 1939.
"Just a little friendly chokie choke" 😂
just a widdle squeezie weezie lol
This needs to be on a t-shirt!!
The safeword is "banana" 😜😈
between friends
right like who gives out friendly chokie choke's?? ... no seriously, who gives out friendly chokie chokes!?!?!?!
This is a lot darker than the normal SW films and i liked it.
lol Anakin killed children in two Star Wars films. How is this darker?
@@chand911 Maybe grittier is a better word for Rogue One
@@chand911 They never really show him killing them just as they never showed him killing the sand people.
@@chand911 Anakin’s arc may as well be comic book villain “dark”. Yes what he does is terrible but it happens and is largely moved past in minutes, and it’s so extreme it doesn’t come across the same. It’s still elevated fantasy good vs evil that could be just as at home in a DnD style setting with elves. Nothing wrong with that! But it’s not the same kind of grounded bleakness and overwhelming sense of nearly hopeless oppression Rogue One dips onto and Andor focuses on.
@@chand911 They die off screen. This movie, everyone dies on screen, often looking almost right into the audiences eyes
"Don't act so surprised, your Highness. You weren't on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions were sent to this ship by rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you"
"I don't know what you're talking about. I am a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan."
You are part of the Rebel Alliance, and a traitor!
Take her away!@@zaqmackraken673
"You are wrong Darth Vader. There were no transmissions. The plans were delivered in a 5 1/4 Floppy Disk"
@@zaqmackraken673 "You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor. Take her away! "
@richardb6260 "Holding her is dangerous. If word of this gets out, it could generate sympathy for the Rebellion in the Senate."
Rogue One is by far the best Star Wars product of the Disney SW era. And it's not even close.
I really like the way Chirrut channels the force. He's not a jedi and can't use it like a jedi can, but he is clearly force sensitive. Instead of using it to flip around or throw a lightsaber or lift a starship, he instead lets if flow through him and creates literal miracles. He can fight despite being blind, he can shoot a TIE fighter out of the air, he can walk through a hail of gunfire and not get hit.
Chirrut calmly walking through a war zone is one of the most awe inspiring uses of the force I've seen since Yoda lifted the X-Wing out of the swamp on Dagobah.
Sorry for the random-ass comment, but Dagobah is such a sick name for a planet.
(I don't have good memories of the OT)
Rogue One doesn't end a week or two before the beginning of A New Hope. It ends within just a couple of hours of where A New Hope starts.
Less than a few hours. It literally goes right into Episode IV.. The Corvette called Tantive IV that Leia is on at the very end of this movie is the ship that Darth Vader's Star Destroyer is chasing at the very beginning of A New Hope.
@@dhavaram8064No, a few hours is very reasonable if not more. In the end of Rogue One they manage to escape being boarded and jump into lightspeed, but in the beginning of A New Hope they get chased down and boarded AGAIN because that time vader & stormtroopers made it onto the ship, in Rogue One they didnt make it on in time. It is highly unlikely that they escape, jump into lightspeed and then get chased down and boarded AGAIN with no time between. The movies look like they transition smoothly but unfortunately its just coincidentally similar scenes in the end and beginning.
The empire also couldnt track through lightspeed back then so time must have passed in order for them to locate Leia’s ship and board for the second time
@@vin9791 also hyperspace is not teleportation it takes time to get places
I love that little time background. For years, I was under the wrong assumption that Leia was on the run for days, weeks, maybe even months. But HOURS makes Episode 4 seem way more desperate and makes Leia seem way more brassy "I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan." What BALLS on her....just lying to Vader's face like that...20 minutes after he saw her ship jump to hyperspace. What a great addition to the Star Wars saga.
@vin9791 incorrect. They are immediately preparing the escape pods - even as they are escaping to Hyperspace - and Leia is wearing the exact same clothes as ANH.
She is on her way to Obi-Wan. Her father dispatched her for this mission as he said earlier.
And yes the empire CAN track through hyperspace. Rian Johnson completely screws this up in The Last Jedi. Do you even remember how the Empire found Yavin 4?!?!? They tracked the Falcon through Hyperspace!
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Best Disney era movie. Hope you like it. If you do, and like this early rebellion era, consider watching Andor. Prequel to Rogue One. Shows the beginning of the rebellion, and the best writing and story arcs. Some complain that’s it’s slow and boring. Yeah, it’s a slow burn but it might be the best Star Wars anything since Revenge of the Sith…
100% chance Coby will watch Obi Wan Kenobi this fall and both seasons of Andor next year.
It's on her list. No worries.
@@popcornroulettereactions so excited for the Kenobi reaction 🙌 one of my favourite Star Wars creations.
@@raymondmarier8340 that’s one low bar
@@popcornroulettereactions Oof, Obi Wan is impressively bad and that's about it.
And that’s why Vader was so furious in ANH.
“I will not be gaslit like this. I literally saw this ship leave the battle!”
Leia: "Hey, it's a common luxury cruiser, it could have been any ship! This is harassment!"
Tarkin: "Vader, put your knee on her neck, that always works."
Vader: "...okay, I'm starting to have doubts on my choice of the Dark Side now..."
People say that the "be careful not to 'choke' on your aspirations, director" quote was corny and cheesy, but those people fail to realize that it fits Anakin's/Vader's snarky, sarcastic personality perfectly.
Those who nitpick Gilroy's writing should absolutely despise everything else Disney made. Or they are hypocrites.
@@Sandlund93 I do so far
Apologies accepted Captain Needa.
Snarky funny Darth Vader IS Star Wars.
The emperor is not as forgiving as I am, etc etc. Totally fits Vader
very true
Rogue One was the best Disney Star Wars film imho. So many people forget that the first 3 Star Wars films were about THE REBELLION and the Insurgency to overthrow The Emperor in the absence of the Jedi. A lot of the soul of Star Wars gets lost with the fantastical elements of Force Users and light sabers... but there were so many heroes that gave everything for freedom from The Empire.
There's no movie called Rouge One
^Chirrut in real
So Blue Squadron was supposed to make the attack on the Death Star in A New Hope but the blue messed up with their blue screens at the time so they changed it to Red Squadron and killed Blue Squadron here. You should also notice that Red 5 gets killed during the battle leaving a spot for Luke to take in A New Hope.
#rememberred5
Blue screens of death?
Blue Squadron does make the attack on the death star in the novel of a new hope. Luke is blue 5 in that lol
My favorite SW movie after ESB.
They brought the "War" into "Star Wars" and completely nailed it.
When Mon Mothma asks Bail Organa about the hidden jedi, it´s referring to Obi Wan Kenobi. And when he said "I would trust her with my life" he is talking about Princess Leia, his adoptive daughter. He arranged the plan to bring the plans to Obi Wan through Leia.
I remember watching this film in theaters on my birthday, which was sadly the day Carrie Fisher had passed away. When Princess Leia appeared at the end, it felt like a nice way to honor her memory. Both Tarkin and Leia were CGI de-aged characters.
In my theater, the CGI of Leia looked awful. Nothing like Grand Moff Tarkin, so it kind of ruined the ending and seemed disrespectful to her memory. On the smaller screen, it doesn't seem so bad now though.
@@marks9233 agreed. I actually wonder if they did something to the video before it was released.
Well, Tarkin's character wasn't de-aged, he was completely deep faked over another actor. A very well done deep fake, especially from 2016, considering even now they aren't always that great.
@@tauron1 for 2016, that was some damn good CGI for Tarkin.
I went to see R-1 also, for second viewing, on the day that Erie F' died too (late Dec'2016). As I bought my ticket, the clerk said like he thought he was a total "Dude" -"hey did you hear that Carrie Fisher died",....I was shocked, I said no, but the way he told me, like his Team won the game, was not nice. I said that will cloud how I rewatch R-1, and asked him to not 'blurt out' this news, again -learning of a death, even a celebrity can be a shock, but not as much of a shock was family or friends. After the film, I went to a media-store, and got a Princess Leia Funko.
51:17 Princess Leia was played by Ingvild Deila IN MOTION CAPTURE only and Carrie Fisher's face was superimposed in post production using CGI. Her one single word she spoke , "Hope" was lifted directly from her line in "A New Hope." "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only HOPE."
Do you think Ingvild said the line with so much passion in her voice during her "reading" thinking they'd actually use it? 😂
Love how invested you got into Star Wars! Some of your reactions here make me well up as it just brings all the emotions I had watching Starwars as a kid from the 80's to a father of two to the present! Rogue one did an incredible job of bringing the nostalgia back.
Rogue One is an amazing movie! I'm glad you enjoyed it🔥
I've always loved Alan Tudyk as K-2SO in this film. I smile at his every line.
This is my favourite of all the newer movies so I've been waiting for this lol
Jeez Coby, I haven't hollered at the screen that much in a while! LOL I needed oxygen when you finally caught on to Ginns nickname being Stardust. Thank you for sharing your excitement with us. Watching movies with you is so much fun. 😊
Everyone needs to find them a lady that looks at them like Coby looks at Vadar lol.
I don't know if you see these Coby, but I like your movie reactions more than anybody else on youtube.
And yes, Carrie Fisher was still alive when this was filmed but the character here was full CGI. Her final performance was in The Last Jedi. Carrie died 11 days after Rogue One was released.
Did you ever see what CF charged for an autograph? Criminal.
@@angusmcculloch6653Nice job crapping on Fisher's memory. What an absolutely irrelevant and sad thing to add to OP's comment. Please go away.
I saw this in cinema the day she died, literally walked out the cinema, opened my phone, and the first notification I had was an article reporting her death... it hit me so damned hard after that ending scene
@@angusmcculloch6653you wanting an autograph like a mentally deranged stalker is the crime.
@@charleshartley9597 LOL. I'm not the one who charged that much money for scribbling my name on some trinkets. Weird that you'd get mad at me.
I just love ur reactions to the movies I have loved since 1977. You actually give me the thrill of what it was like back in 1977 when I was 15. It was a revolution.
I find this such a worthy and unique member of the Star Wars family of films; the way they so quickly create characters we care about, have a story line with stakes and suspense, and tie it all into A New Hope.
Indeed. And no shoehorned Hollywood Politics and forced quotas.
Part of the reason this movie works so well is because of its placement in the larger story. The deaths, however necessary to the canon, are all the more poignant. But why they don't craft more Star Wars movies like this one, is beyond me. This is fantastic.
This was the first of the a Star Wars Story based movies and it did well in 2016 but when the fanbase collectively boycotted Solo: A Star Wars Story in 2018 as a direct response to how Disney was handling the Star Wars franchise after what they chose to do to Luke Skywalker in Episode VIII The Last Jedi in 2017, Disney said they were cancelling all future star wars story movies and other projects due to "oversaturation" or too much Star Wars content.. when it was really they weren't taking responsibility for extremely poor decisions in handling the Star Wars franchise.
@@TIMMAYY7 This isn't exactly true. They released a new SW movie every year from 2015-2019 and the major swing in what they were doing that changed everything was Disney+ launching and the pandemic creating a boom period for streaming. They turned Obi-Wan Kenobi, originally a movie, into a mini-series. They had movies in development with several filmmakers that didn't get off the ground (some of which due to the Pandemic). They are currently planning to release 2 Star Wars movies in 2026 (that likely won't stick but maybe it does), so clearly they didn't think 1 movie per year was too much. They just ran out of projects that were ready.
They don't know how to. Which they have clearly shown in everything not touched by Gilroy. This is his writing, as is the Andor series. And they are just not the same as the other stories Disney shat out. They actually add something of worth, like Legends used to. Everything else is either plagued by mediocrity (Filoni/Favreau) or actively mocks George's legacy (Headland/Harold).
@@TheRoyalFino Obi Wan's movie cancellation was decided just after/due to Solo's bombing. I specifically remember all the cancellations and disappointment. You are correct though regarding the subsequent influence of Disney+, and then the pandemic.
The newer SW films are too busy being goofy with messages.
If they’d just watched Spaceballs they would have known they could get through the planetary shield with the code 12345😂
Wait- that's the combination for my briefcase..
Amazing! I have the same combination on my luggage!
@@MegaForrestgump That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Skynet will never guess this code.
"That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life!"
“Wouldn’t the actor who played Tarkin be much older now?”. Actually, much deader…
Peter Cushing passed away decades before this film, so an actor of similar stature was used with Mr. Cushing’s face digitally pasted onto his.
Similar tech has been used to ‘de-age’ actors for flashback scenes in other movies (like a flashback scene in ‘X-Men 3’ featuring younger versions of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen).
Carrie Fisher was much older at the time of this film (but still alive at least) and looked much different than her younger self. No amount of traditional makeup would have worked to recreate her look from ‘A New Hope’. So again, another actor was used with Carrie Fishers face pasted on.
Fun fact about the pilots, some of them are actually from 1977. They had unused pilot footage that they used for this movie. So some of the actors you are seeing in a role that they played decades ago. For this movie. It’s bizarre.
Some of em even came back to record new dialogue for the comms
And Red5 gets shot down, so there is a gap in the squadron.
Red & Gold Leaders
Is it just me, or does Gold leader always come off as such a complete nerd.
23:27 I like how you voiced your request and immediately knew you wouldn’t get it.
25:27 lol love your fan girl moment
37:57 your instincts serve you well.
49:49 perfect reaction
Great movie. Great reaction as usual.
I'm 53 and grew up on Star Wars. Like many, from seeing 'Empire' in the theatre, it was always the single greatest Star Wars movie... And then I saw this.
Ditto. My friends and I would spend the entire summer of 1977 watching Star Wars over and over in the theaters. We would pay for our $1.50 ticket and stay for 3 showings a few times per week. We had the dialog down cold by the time school started up again, including Greedo's lines at the cantina
This, and at least so far the first season of Andor, were huge surprise gifts. They take the setting and implications much more seriously than the films generally do, a lot more like some of the extended universe/legends novels I grew up on.
@@RocketSurgn_ Decent writing has become rare. The common denominator for Rogue One and Andor is called Tony Gilroy though. I bet he will leave after season 2, because that will be his story told. Why should he debase himself for another Disney project?
And by then, they will have nobody left to tell a decent story. I mean, it should be obvious at this point that Filoni is not the one to do it. It can, in fact, get even worse for Disney.
Same friends. I loved this and Andor. So psyched for S2!
But yeah, these are the only Disney SW projects that I consider canon.
And for Disney writing staff: Jyn Urso is how you write a bad ass female hero. You know how she came by her skills, trained under Sol, but still requires help from comrades in arms… as all heroes do.
Sadly we got Rey. We got Osha/Mae.
@@Sandlund93 Well, for good or bad I recently heard they locked in to just one more season to finish the Andor story. Supposedly a year jump every few episodes, and Tudyk and Mendelson are confirmed part of it.
I love how you always know the actors’ names when they pop up!
People always tell me it’s weird that I have that level of recall, so glad to know it’s not just me.
Of all the badass Vader scenes, this is the best yet!
I've been watching Star Wars for 40 years. ... ... this is the Vader I've ALWAYS wanted to see!!
"The Hallway Scene"
@@ChurchNietzsche its funny how the haters say it's the worst SW scene ever made and it's just pure fan service. But most people acknowledge it as one of the best. Isn't that what a trilogy/franchise movie entry is supposed to be? Fan service. Never ceases to amaze how edgy these haters try to be. Goes to show how toxic and divided the fandom is.
@@JayzVeez ANAKIN SKYWALKER = Most Powerful Force Weilder In The Galaxy. ...
DARTH VADER = SAME ... Just Evil.
You see 'glimpses' of it ... ... ... Cloud City, with Han ... Tatooine, with Sand People ...
But "The Hallway Scene" at the end of Rogue One ... ... is "Peak Vader" ... after 'Anakin lost Padme' ... ... before 'Vader met Luke'
This is Darth Vader ... in his Pure Sith form. .. .. .. -THIS- is what all the legends were talking about!!
I've been waiting to see that scene since I was like 8 lol. It's the best part of the movie.
Commander Coby! Great reaction! The CGI that brought Tarkin back was indeed almost perfect and took technicians about 2 years to do it. Guy Henry was used to physically portray him and he studied original ANH mannerisms from Cushing and I say he nailed it. You weren't the only one who thought it was Peter Cushing for real, but he passed in 1994 I think. I love the Vader scenes and I saw this movie 4 times at the cinema! 👍
This and the Andor series are my favorite Star Wars entries since the original trilogy.
Same
Same & it’s not particularly close.
The second half of the final season of Clone Wars was pretty erpic but I agree, these are way above anything else in the Disney Era.
Andor is incredible television. I'll accept all the mediocre Star Wars we got since it gave us Andor too
It seems like Tony Gilroy is the only decent writer left. I mean, we are getting more proof of that, the more shitshows they make.
James Earl Jones was 85 when he recorded Vader's voice for this movie and you can definitely tell! His voice was pretty much shot. When Vader appeared in the Obi Wan Kenobi series recently (common knowledge so that's not a spoiler) his voice was stitched together from old recordings using AI.
I was floored by his AI voice in Kenobi.
I think an important thing to point out is that his voice was AI-generated WITH HIS PERMISSION. That's where the real danger/risk is, using it to recreate voices without consent.
@@Bad_Wolf_Media it’s nice when it happens, but once you’re dead they don’t care. They can have you for a price.
@@psychedelicpucho... They don't care but their families might.
I have some bad news... 😢
"I've got a bad feeling about this" is said in pretty all the SW movies.
There are some that have taken the end of rogue 1 and spliced it with the first 10 minutes of a new hope
Every Star Wars film has started with a ship in space and has the line "I have a bad feeling about this".
Maybe they started the tradition because it was said twice in A New Hope.
"Just a little friendly chokey-choke"
Hahaaaaaa....I'm dying
There was a Rogue 2 in Empire that was out searching for Han and Luke on Hoth.
Part of Rogue Squadron.
Yea, but that guy had food all over his face. "I found 'em. Repeat. I found 'em."
"I've got a bad feeling about this" is a popular line that was used once in each of the first six episodes. It was nice to hear K2SO say it. Probably got a lot of cheers in theaters.
Love the “That m…f… is NOT real” moment 😂
I do find it sad that many people were so distracted by the Tarkin CGI that they missed parts of the movie.
After the first three SWs movies, Rogue One was the best sequel.
I put Rogue One ahead of Jedi because Rogue One is the first great Star Wars movie since the Ewoks made an appearance.
21:05 I've got a bad feeling about this has been said in all of the movies by various characters. Leia, Han, Obi-Wan, Anakin, 3PO. They cut off K2 to let the audience know this is not part of the Skywalker saga but a Star Wars story.
Yarp. "I've got a bad feeling about this" is also very frequently used in the "describe your sex life with a Star Wars quote" game.
Personally, like to use "Did it go in?" "Negative. It just impacted on the surface." 😅
@@inspectre27 my go-to is "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought." ;)
@@inspectre27 lol. Crazy.
It was Carrie Fisher in a sense. They used Billie Lourd Who is Carrie Fisher's daughter to provide the body and a CGI Image of a young Carrie Fisher in place of Billie Lourd's face to create the image in the scene.
Glad you're sticking with it Coby
As a big star wars fan it’s fun to watch people see these films for first time. May the force be with you.
Coby - you forgot that Lando was in Solo as well as Han and Chewie.
Grand Moff Tarkin was played by legendary British actor Peter Cushing, who died in 1994. But they found a head mold from prosthetics made for the film TOP SECRET! and were able to CGI him over a stand in. An actor with facial prosthetics played him briefly in Episode 3.
Darth Maul surviving and the first appearance of Saw Guerra (Forrest Whitaker) were in the animated Clone Wars series. Great show.
Not sure if you also noticed that Yavin IV (planet) was the Rebel Base in the original film (Episode 4). Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits), Princess Leia's foster father and Mon Mothma, the founder of the Rebellion from Episode 6 and 3 was the lady there.
The lava planet where we see Vader is Mustafar, where Obi Wan fought Anakin and left him to die.
The Rogue Squadron is the name of the X-wing group that is prominent in episodes 4-6.
Cassian Andor has his own prequel series on D+.
"I've got a bad feeling about this" is a line used in most Star Wars films as a running gag.
They used cut dialogue from the X-wing pilots from Episode 4 in the battle in this film to help tie the two films together, as they are distinctly remembered voices.
The plot of Rogue One is recapped in the opening crawl of the original film - Episode 4 -
"It is a period of civil war.
Rebel spaceships, striking
from a hidden base, have won
their first victory against
the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, Rebel
spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire's
ultimate weapon, the DEATH
STAR, an armored space
station with enough power to
destroy an entire planet.
Pursued by the Empire's
sinister agents, Princess
Leia races home aboard her
starship, custodian of the
stolen plans that can save
her people and restore
freedom to the galaxy...."
Rogue Squadron was founded by Luke (and Wedge) only after Episode 4. The snowspeeder that finds Han and Luke named himself as Rogue 2 while calling for them. Not sure if they ever had callouts for Rogue Squadron at Endor in the film, though, but were surely there.
Coby, I've always loved your videos, but this one is, by far, my favorite! Your reactions and emotions are priceless. Rogue One is so epic!
After the original three, this is my favorite Star Wars movie.
I always loved the visual metaphors with Jyn and Cassian with the two Death Star blasts. Both of them started off as dark characters - ruthless, criminal; not al all what we'd expect from Star Wars heroes. When they're escaping Jedha, it's the beginning of their mutual redemption, and they fly the ship out of the chaotic fire and darkness of the Jedha explosion - like they're escaping a literal hell. Finally, at the end, they both die in the light. Poetry.
This movie... This one's all about sacrifice.
And it's about hope. There is a lot of hope.
What I love about this movie it goes to explain why Vader was so angry at the start of episode 4, he saw the ship the princess was on escape before his very eyes, it was at one point at arms length from him and when he catches up with them and asks about the plans Leia straight up to his face is like "Na mate, not got a clue" 🤣
I was hoping throughout the whole movie that Coby would recognize Donnie yen who plays the blind master Chirrut Imwe as Caine from John Wick 4.
This movie actually goes immediately into a new hope!
I don’t care what anybody says, Tarkin is the big baddie of this film. Dude even destroyed one of his own side’s installations with who knows how much “collateral damage.”
Thanks so much for the great review! Lots of people I know can’t stomach so many rebels dying & don’t like that one- but the story & film production are amazing. See you at the next one!
I really like Felicity Jones (Jyn Erso) She starred in a movie i love called “Like Crazy”and she also starred opposite Eddie Redmayne when he played Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything”
imo, Absolute without doubt hands down I'll fight you best looking actress in the entire Star Wars ouvre.😊
I saw her well b4 both of those movies. She was in the Daniel Craig vehicle "Flashbacks of a Fool". I knew from watching that how great she was & if any1 deserved stardom it was her.
@19:37 "But he'd be way too old."
- Cut to Mos Eisley Cantina -
"He'd be *dead* "
Are you kidding me? Im blind!
My favourite line in all of Star Wars
All of the actors were speaking I their natural speaking voices. No one was “doin accents” 🙂
Coby is becoming my favorite. Sometimes it is hard to believe reviewers haven't seen the movies. IDK. But Coby has smart and fun reactions. Thanks!
Lol they’re actors. 🤔
Coby is awesome!
Most reviewers are in their 20's & early 30's. So these movies are so far before them that it's not surprising that they never got into them on their own.
@@thebkg Coby is 40.
@@joegreene7619 "Most"
Movie is an absolute masterpiece. So many great things all came together. The CGI of Tarkin and Leia! The recycling the Gold\Red leader Xwing footage from a new hope when they report in and give orders. Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa for a brief moment… The ending itself is spectacular!
Rogue Two is the pilot who found Luke and Han on Hoth the next morning when they got locked out of the base overnight.
If I recall my lore correctly, Rogue Two is the designated Squadron Leader of Rogue Squadron, because the Call Sign Rogue One is forever retired out of respect for the team in this chapter of the saga.
Rogue One hands down is my favorite of the modern movies, and on somedays, the entire series. Glad you got this far. You capture everything we all felt in the theater when it came out :D
There are lots of Easter Eggs here if you have seen the movies and animated series. Yavin 4 is where the Rebels launch their attacks on the Death Star from, in New Hope. Mon Mothma was a Senator of the Loyalist Committee, in Episode 3, and appears in Episode 4 and 6. While on Yavin 4, when you see R2D2 and C3PO, there is a loudspeaker announcement for a General Syndulla, a call for the character Hera Syndulla of Rebels animated series. You also see the Ghost, the ship she pilots in Rebels, as well as Chopper, her Droid. Many familiar faces like Red and Gold Leader from New Hope. And you have Saw from the Clone Wars and Rebels.
You definitely want to watch this again, and the original trilogy, and Clone Wars and Rebels.
Mon Mothma did not appear in A New Hope. Just Return of the Jedi.
yeah the animated series are better than a LOT of the live action Star Wars stuff imo, so it was nice to see them acknowledged here.
I saw this in IMAX when it was released and it was extraordinary, especially the battle for Skariff. The ending was particularly poignant because Carrie Fisher had recently passed away, so seeing her again in Leia form was a real choker.
@popcornroulettereactions Coby, Interesting Fact, Star Wars Crawls are only for Episode Films.
They refer to them as the Skywalker Saga films.
Yeah, that was a really stupid thing that was instituted (I assume by Kathleen Kennedy, but I don’t know for sure). The opening crawl is a great easy and efficient way to give out vital information to the audience and make them more aware of what is happening. Imagine watching Rogue One for the first time, without knowing anything about SW. You could have missed A New Hope and the crawl of Empire would at least bring you up to speed on the current situation of the new movie. The same could be said for Return of the Jedi. An opening crawl could only have enhanced Rogue One. But they were trying something “different”. Nevermind that other great sci-fi movies like Blade Runner and Terminator had a few words at the beginning to explain a few ideas. They had to be “different”. 😂
I actually felt like I watched this with you. I enjoyed it very much. You don't miss details which makes it fun to watch.
I think it's interesting that Forest Whitaker plays Saw Guerrera who was a character created for the animated tv series The Clone Wars. It's rare that an original cartoon character becomes a live action character and succeeds so well. Harley Quinn would be another example.
I mean Ahsoka Tano and lots of The Clone Wars and SW Rebels characters have also made the same transition to live action successfully imo.
Not gonna lie, one of my "OH SH1T" moments in the theater opening night was when they pulled out Red and Gold Leader; that they used cut/alt footage from the OG Star Wars and brought it into this movie? Freaking awesome way to tie the films together.
This is the best Disney Star Wars product. It's become one of my favorites.
Yet still bad.
@@andymiller6661 🙄
@@thebkg Want an explanation as to how?
@@andymiller6661 Nope.
It's a delight to watch Coby watching these movies. It's like watching the joy of a child. The wonder and joy she takes in all aspects of the movies as well as the background to them is wonderful and enlivening.
A week before a new hope..more like 10 minutes coby 😂
I think it would at least be a week. R2 & 3PO weren't on the blockade runner. Leia'd picked them up 1st because they were left behind when the fleet went to Scarif.
Great reaction video by Coby once again, thanks! 🙂I loved Rogue One and also fell instantly in love with Felicity Jones, she became my favorite actress ☺
A lot of the X-Wing footage is actually remastered unused footage from the original 1977 film they found
Well not a lot, just several shots with the old pilots. But yeah, it's cool!
LOL None of it. Only a three interior shots of red and gold leader. That's it
"Be careful not to choke on your aspirations, director" is one of the greatest puns in all Star Wars. Anakin is such a goofball.
If you are planning on branching out into the tv shows (didn’t think you would since everything on this channel has been movies), might I suggest a bit of Clone Wars animated series? Lucas was still involved at that point. It takes some time to really get going, but some of the stories are the best modern Star Wars…and it gives a lot of needs info for more recent shows and movies. It fills the gap between episodes 2 and 3. Some of the critical storylines are Ahsoka Tano, Darth Maul (end of Solo…alive and running a crime syndicate), Mandalore (home of Mandalorians (as in the TV show…you can watch the first season of that show without the backstory…but season 2 will make little sense), evolution of Anakin’s drift to the dark side, Clones all have individual personalities and backstories. Finally, the 4 episode finale is one of the best Star Wars stories ever told. Disney released a list of 20 episodes that it suggested watching before the final season and I think that list hits most of the critical plot points (and are some of the best shows of the series). Each episode is under 30 minutes, so 20 episodes isn’t that bad (and it’s mostly geared for adults, despite be a Cartoon Network animated series). Here’s the list if you are interested:
1x01: Ambush
1x05: Rookies
2x05: Landing at Point Rain
2x06: Weapons Factory
2x07: Legacy of Terror
2x08: Brain Invaders
2x12: The Mandalore Plot
2x13: Voyage of Temptation
3x02: Arc Troopers
4x21: Brothers
4x22: Revenge
5x06: The Gathering
5x01: Revival
5x14: Eminence
5x15: Shades of Reason
5x16: The Lawless
5x17: Sabotage
5x18: The Jedi Who Knew Too Much
5x19: To Catch a Jedi
5x20: The Wrong Jedi
…and season 7 episodes 9-12.
yeah at the very least The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels are pretty much required viewing to keep up with the live action shows and movies these days since they have intergrated so much of them.
Love watching these films again with you Coby. Your reactions are so great. You're perfect for this. Brilliant series. I'm off to watch A New Hope again now too!
Go ahead and watch the last 3 episodes but it'll lead you on a path of suffering and incredible pain.
Why was I reading your comment with Yoda's voice in my head? 😂
The lines "May the Force be with you" and "I have a bad feeling about this" have been said in every Star Wars movie. Carrie Fisher saw the premiere of Rouge One a week before she passed.
My favorite parts from a special on the making of this film was they brought in a gal to do the final retouching of CGI Peter Cushing and she said, "Why are they being so picky on this poor old actor?" She didn't realize she was retouching a CGI. Leia was also CGI, and when Carrie saw the last scene she remarked, "I don't remember filming that last shot." I liked also that they used Blue Squadron all getting killed, so there's no Blue Squadron in Star Wars when they attack the death star, and Red 5 is killed here, thus Luke takes the empty Red 5 spot.
No disrespect meant to anyone, but I find that surprising. I immediately spotted the CGI faces when I saw them, especially Carrie Fischer's, which I thought looked quite bad in the movie. Cushing's face was relatively better, but again, I very quickly recognized it was CGI. Maybe it was just me, though.
Now you need Watch Andor!! It is a prequal to Rogue One and it is amazing
Help us Coby-wan, your our only hope
It's you're.
I see her more like The Princess "
One of the best things about this film is how it ties in so beautifully with New Hope.
Turns out Vader had pretty good reason to be pissed with Leia. She literally tries to gaslight him.
This is by far the best of the Disney star wars movies
Yet still bad
@andymiller6661 I disagree...I actually liked R1 and Solo...the rey movies on the other hand...total garbage
@ThePsyko420 Liking them doesn't mean that they're objectively good, just mean that you like it's
@andymiller6661 not liking them doesn't mean they were objectively bad either. The quality of a film is an entirely subjective thing
@@ThePsyko420 When did I say I dislike it?
I think this is possibly my favourite out of all of the Star Wars films. Quite dark, gritty, and actually not bad for a Disney Star Wars film. I really hope you enjoy it.
Its story and concept is non-Disney, but it was financed by Disney.
To me, it's the ONLY Disney SW Film...
Andor is like a 8 hour version of this, but ever better.
Agree, with Andor being one of the best TV shows too. I think of the main movies, Empire Strikes back is my fav, but Rogue One is my most favourite StarWars movie of all of them.
@lovesandservesjesuschrist6752 Its production was still delayed for reshoots because the studio thought it was too dark. Curious to see what the director's version would have been.
I saw this in a theater on a Saturday in Columbia, SC. Afterwards, I was in the men’s bathroom crying my eyes out because I loved it that much. Everything about it felt like it was part of the original trilogy and especially Episode 4. I loved how they used the clip from Episode 4 of the X-Wing pilots reporting in before the attack on the Death Star for the attack on Jetta. It was soo good. But the scene with Vader at the end was beyond words. It was like watching Jason Voorhees at work. That final shot with him warching the Rebels escape with the start of the Imperial March gave me goosebumps.
A couple of years ago, REELZ did a show about Star Wars where they talked about that scene. After Star Wars took off, Vader became very marketable and was used in commercials and what not. The thought was that he was no longer that scary individual he had been. In order to make it true to his initial character, the writers realized they needed a scene were he was that terrifying villain he had been especially since it was just before Episode 4. They did just that.
It’s amazing how, even with his helmet and mask, you could feel how pissed off Vader was that they escaped.
It was a great 6 weeks after we saw Leia. then Carrie passed away after Christmas, her mother Debbie shortly after that.
Debbie Reynolds died the very next day.
This was the movie those of us who saw the originals when they came out have been waiting for, at least 30 years. This, is, Star Wars. Great reaction! Yes, immediately watch Episode IV: A New Hope to see the continuation of that final scene.
Coby is the only one I watch on this channel. Smart and caring but would definitely be a friend I’d want to go watch these movies with.
It's her channel....who else would you be watching?
@@jeffburnham6611 It's a couple of different people.
I love the sincerity and expressiveness of your reactions.
Great reaction Coby like always. This was such a great movie, hands down one of my favorites to watch. I get tears every time near the end. The thing I love about the name "Rogue One" as a retcon, is that after Luke and Wedge etc blow up the Death Star the remains of their squadron are renamed to "Rogue Squadron", you see in Empire Strikes Back that their callsigns are "Rogue Two" and "Rogue Leader". So retroactively, it's like the squad that took down the Death Star were named in honour of the squad that died to get them the plans that made it possible.
That Vader hallway scene is iconic in two ways. One being, that up until this moment. The sheer ferocity of Darth Vader was only whispered about. How ferocious he was in battle. But those fifteen minutes did everything we wanted. He took the Rebels apart. And the look of terror in their eyes said it all. This is Darth Vader. Dark Lord of the Sith.
Love Alan Tudyk as K2S0. Anthony Daniels was so uncomfortable in the C-3PO costume & jokingly cursed Alan. After Rogue One's premiere. Tudyk later said that a "Fu*k you" from Daniels was one of the highest compliments he had ever received.
There are some fun-facts, This movie had a pretty extensive amount of reshoots and while the film is amazing there were a few things cut out that I think would have made the film even better! One of the things that I wish hadn’t been cut out was Moroff’s (The tall white furry creature that is from gigoran species that we see when they are taking the pilot to see Saw Gerrera) from presence on Scarif. Moroff is one of Saw Gerrera’s Partisans and a behind-the-scenes photo seems to show the character on Scarif. It would have been so cool to see him and possibly other Partisans fighting alongside the Rebellion. Keep up the good work.
I loved the Rogue One comics
The hallway scene is probably the most genuinely intimidating we will ever see Vader on screen, it was impressive. I don’t think any other force use scene has felt so tangibly powerful and deserving of the terror/horror those trapped soldiers show.
Carrie Fisher was still alive when they made this movie but only a CGI version of her appeared but Carrie was shown this and she loved it.
This is 19 years after Revenge of the Sith. The beginning is 6 years after.
The black armored troopers are specially trained ones called Death Troopers. They also received surgical enhancements
Cassian shot his contact because he wasn’t gonna be able to escape with his messed up arm. He would’ve been captured and likely tortured for information. You can’t stay clean in a war.
Wait, so were you thinking Leia was gonna be a major part of the movie? I suppose that’s an understandable assumption
Saw Gerrera is actually a Clone Wars character. He was quite younger. Been fighting for a while.
Chirrut is more attuned to the Force than most but not enough to be classified as force sensitive. He can’t use it like a jedi, no mind tricks, no telekinesis, etc. He mastered a martial art that allegedly allowed its users to alter their heart rate and oxygen intake, giving them almost supernatural abilities.
The Tarkin actor is new, but they recreated Peter Cushing’s face over his with motion capture CGI. AI effects have barely started being used in movies recently, and hopefully they stop being used, or at least in a way that still allows work for real people.
On top of not having much of himself left, Saw also probably would’ve slowed them down, and he wouldn’t want to do that. And he recognizes that he’s kind of become a monster.
Indeed James Earl Jones returned to voice Vader again, which is always great. He sounds different due to age.
The name Rogue One was in Legends material as an alternate call sign for Rogue Leader of Rogue Squadron, but I don’t recall it being said in the original trilogy. Retroactively in Canon, Rogue Squadron/Group from the original trilogy was named after the crew, and Luke ordered that the designation of Rogue One be retired in their honor. Thus they used Rogue Leader instead.
A reference to 3PO? Wait, have you never clocked that someone always says “I have a bad feeling about this”?
• -I don’t think 3PO has ever said it in the films- 3PO does say it in Return of the Jedi but it’s not an iconic line specific to him
The “mustardy” 😂 colored troopers are new. They’re called shore troopers, or coastal defender stormtroopers
Gold Leader’s appearance was actually upscaled unused footage from New Hope
They also CGId Leia’s face. It wasn’t Carrie herself. Though she was shown the scene prior to her passing, and she liked it
3PO says "I have a bad feeling about this" in the original films. If I recall, he famously said it when entering Jabba's Palace in ROTJ.
@@OgreProgrammer you’re right!
@@OgreProgrammerI’m pretty sure you’re right. Like 99% sure.
Sigh... Rogue One was NOT made for this film. And Rogue Squadron was definitely not retroactively named for anything in this.
The pilot who finds Han and Luke on Hoth has the call-sign Rogue Two. Although it was never said, Luke was, in fact, Rogue Leader, a.k.a. Rogue One.
This movie used it as a memberberry for easy-to-please fans.
@@AregPone you’re right, Rogue One didn’t originate from this. My mistake. Corrected