I loved Rogue One. Felt more 'Star Warsy' than the sequels (7,8,9😁) for me. It felt like it had a heart and people who loved and cared for the universe which I didn't get from the further films. For a film that was supposed to be in so much trouble, it turned out to be one of my favourites.
Oh it totally did, the Scarif battle was like watching a hard core WW2 flick. It gave you a sense of really how out numbered and out gunned the Alliance really was
What I like about Rogue One is that it enhances A New Hope. If you watch them back to back, the stakes seem so much higher knowing how the plans got inside R2. The problem with the sequels is that they detract from or contradict the original trilogy
The death of the protagonists gave this movie the emotional impact that set it apart from any other Star Wars movie. The lack of a Jedi presence was also important.
The thing Iiked the most was that it showed a more real side of the REsistance: the one where they executed prisoners and informants like real guerrilas do. Very realistic instead of the super idealised versions of the REsistance we were previously shown.
I saw it in the theater, and when k and then chirrut died I had that "omg are they actually going to do this?" And yeah, much more impact, and very well done.
I've said this before on TH-cam comments, but Jyn's death especially was a gut punch for me. (But in a good way.) I think that she is a great character with such a good story arc. Her death affected me so much precisely because I feel that her story arc makes her seem so deserving of having her story continue. She has the tragic backstory - her mother murdered by the Empire (Krennic), her father taken from her to finish the Death Star, being raised as a child into the proto-rebellion, but getting fed up with that and trying to live a life outside of such things, but still also outside of the law because of how she needed to stay underground, and then finally transforming from being pressed into the Alliance because of her ability to connect to her father and going along with it in hopes of helping him, to actually believing in the Cause and being willing to die for it. I agree that in some ways, this is the best Star Wars movie of them all. (Star Wars and Empire themselves will always be #1 and #2 for their overall impact and having actually built the world, though.)
I thought Tarkin looked a little cartoony. Not terrible, but notably a little off. Leia, on the other hand, looked awful. It looked like someone spray-painted her face on a balloon. It's still a great movie. I just wish they'd had been able to make Leia look human.
@@wbfaulk Lucas, for better or for worse, liked to go back and make changes to the films. If he were still involved with Star Wars, then maybe later on down the line he'd choose to do something like replace the CG renders with deepfake, which can be much more lifelike and convincing than straight-up CGI can.
While I didn't know a lot of these, the inclusion of Red and Gold Leader stood out to anyone who's seen the original. I loved it, as it gave it a more direct tie to the first film. In an interview with Angus MacInnes (Gold Leader) he talks about re-recording his lines and how cool, yet somewhat unsettling it was seeing himself from nearly forty years earlier in a current film. I think we would have seen a lot more from Red Leader had Drew Henley not sadly passed away the year prior. There were some who wanted to see Porkins return, though that might have been overkill. Either way, I do like seeing the previously unheralded side characters get a lot more love in recent years. Heck, Angus MacInnes even has his own table at some conventions now, while sporting a "Gold Leader" hat, which has been popular with fans. :)
Mind blown 🤯. I love this film. Great vid. They had to die in the end. It was foretold. I see Erso as you said, Oppenheimer. I was worried that Felicity was “ too cute” with her bunny teeth. She did a get job and I couldn’t see anyone else in that roll.
I always felt that Rogue 1 was the Grunts movie. Like with Gundam with it's MS08th team, this was about the regular people, not the great and powerful Jedi heroes. I still like Return of the Jedi the best though, and I suppose that's another issue I have with the sequel series. It's like with Terminator, the ending of the 2nd movie was perfect but all the other films after subverts and contradicts it. I would have been happier with if they adapted Heir to the Empire rather than a Disney version of Dark Empire. The Palpatine story should have been done already, and Heir was the most celebrated story arc of the expanded universe and it was logical to believe that a polity as large as the Empire would fall to factions and warlords, like so many real world governments did after a brutal regime was toppled.
Great breakdown. I'm 50 years old and getting too old for this shit, but, Rogue One, and Cassian Andor are my absolute favorite Star Wars character and installment. Just subscribed.
I like that Rogue One turned out so well, despite a bit of production heck. I'm also glad that the main characters were killed off so it can remain untainted by sequels.
I never thought it could happen , but it did. My favourite Star Wars movie , ”Empire strikes back” , was dethroned. ”Rogue One” took the #1 spot. As a sidenote , I would love to see the scenes that were replaced.
My favourite will always be the original 1977 Star Wars,with Empire a close second…but Rogue One is something very,very special and the only movie since childhood I’ve gone multiple times to watch at the cinema. On first viewing,all the shoutouts and Easter Eggs were fantastic…but two stand out more than any of the others..in fact,they a head and shoulders above any others in any other movie…Red & Gold leaders.
Tarkin might not have been the most convincing CG character, but that reveal in the theater was something else... they show his reflection and you're totally ready for that to be a sort of cop-out, and then he turns around, full frame, full lighting, like here it is, here he is, judge it. It was SO F-ing BALLSY!
Rogue One is a wonderful Star Wars film. It fits in perfectly with the lore, and remains faithful to it throughout. It tells of a really dark time, the dread of the rising Empire, the awesome menace of the original Death Star, the various Rebel factions, and the sacrifice of the entire Rogue One commando team for the sake of a “new hope” for the ever darkening galaxy. It is brilliantly well-done.
The Vader in Rogue One is a powerhouse, but it made the Vader in A New Hope look like he was lacking something (energy). Plus Rogue One created a "plot hole" in A New Hope. There were no transmissions sent to Leia's ship as Vader said there were in A New Hope.
This movie was literally a retelling of what came before. It was the opening crawl of "A New Hope". That said, it was awesome and the best of both Disney Star Wars and Star Wars prequels.
I've often thought that Rogue One is a Shakespearean style tragedy, so having all of the main cast die was necessary. Andor, meanwhile, is a GREAT spinoff series, and I hope they can get a few more seasons from that. I would like Mon Mothma to be spun out into her own series as well, though.
Rogue One and Solo are among the best Star Wars films imo. It's a pity more people didn't give them as much of a shot, especially Solo. They'll never replace the original trilogy, but they were fantastic and better than the rest of the saga.
If they would have cast Anthony Gruber, I 100% would have given it a view. They cast that other goof simply because he knew someone at the top of the production team. That's how little Diznee cares about the Star Wars Legacy.
@@machupikachu1085 Ehrenreich was a great young solo. We can speculate until we're blue in the face on who else might have done better, but Solo was a great SW movie with a spot on cast.
@@knowah. Are you aware of who Anthony Gruber is? If so, I doubt you'd be saying the casting was 'spot on'. I'm not sure there is not much to speculate.
@@machupikachu1085 Anthony Ingruber? The voice actor/body double? He's obviously not star quality yet. He can look like Ford, but Ehrenreich looks more like Han
@@knowah. Agreed, he needs some acting coaching, but that's what they did anyway for weeks - up to and including giving Harrison Ford millions to come on set and teach that muppet who got the role how to act. They could have done that with Ingruber, who already looks and speaks just like Ford. Such a missed opportunity.
One Rogue is better than the prequel and sequels. The scene with Vader is one of the best Vader's scene ! So bad ass and so consistent with the character and with the franchise. If only the other movies were of this quality...
Two actors played Vader in Rogue One Running in universe nod to the Speeder series being released can be heard on the beach of Scarif as two troopers are talking openly about a new release as the Rebels sneak up on them, there is s scene in ANH Death Star when Obi-Wan is turning off the tractor beam This is the 1st time Royal Guards have been used in a Star Wars film since ROTS and their first appearance away from Palpatine. When Jyn and Cassian got to see Saul there is a hologram of Oola dancing (Twi'lek that is eaten by the Rancor in ROTJ) Dark Saber is mentioned by Jyn when trying to find Death Star Plans in the main frame Hyperspace Tracking was also mentioned, hence why the Empire tracked the Resistance Fleet in TLJ One of the Rebels as a black Scout Trooper helmet, they are special forces helmets Chopper, Hera and her ship Ghost is a nod to Star Wars Rebels show At the time of release Anthony Daniels (3P0) had appeared in all the canon Live Action films , and is now the only living actor to appear in all the films
They forgot the part where jedi can't get married. Or that is wrong info? He's the man for urgent cello music. Rogue 1 added to the story. And the last few mins totally worth it
Rogue One is the greatest movie ever made. I am a project manager, and thanks to Rogue One, my kids could have a project manager action figure. Sure, he got a blaster and not a Gantt chart, but still. At the Disney Store Erso was front and center and full price and Krennic was on the floor, in the corner, triple discounted, but still, project manager action figure.
And as far as them surviving they would have had to change the dialog in a new hope. The scene where they tell you a group of spies gave their lives to get the plans of the Death Star to the rebels
I always thought that there was also a very quiet, backdoor attempt to draw in fans of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series... One, Felicity Jones' look and styling is very much a Star Wars Buffy. Two, the lead being a strong, combat oriented woman Three, the heroine dies so a new hero can arise in her place Four... and this is the kicker: "One fighter with a sharp stick and nothing left to lose can take the day." -Jyn Erso quoting her mentor
Unlike some who take joy in bashing nearly all of the more recent Star Wars movies, I have recognized their flaws yet still have had fun watching them. I also love 'Rogue One" and agree it's among the best in the Star Wars franchise, yet to dismiss 'The Force Awakens' as a failed remake of 'A New Hope' is to ignore its huge popularity with movie fans, more than $2 billion in box office and a 93 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating. If that's a failure, I wonder what is a success.
I think its obvious that Jyn Erso is loosely based on the character Jan Ors from the "Dark Forces" video games. Michael Giacchino wrote the score in only a month??? That score is fantastic! I appreciate Disney and Paramount working together to keep each other movies' safe. It indeed was mutually beneficial as each of the movies would have lost a lot of money to each other. Killing off Cassian and Jyn was incredibly sad and it is, indeed, a missed opportunity to have those characters to continue on in new stories AFTER "Rogue One", but they and their teams' sacrifice is very iconic. I think if they or the team had survived the movie's impact would have been dulled down.
I think Disney missed a huge trick here because Felicity Jones could have been perfectly cast in the sequels as Luke Skywalker's daughter and that would have made a whole better storyline than the convoluted crap we ended up with! As for Rogue One itself, well it was so good it deserves to be made part of the original trilogy (not entirely sure what a 4 movie set is called) and given the full Star Wars opening credits treatment, scrolling text and iconic music and all!
I think Rouge One was the movie Star Wars needed but didn't know it needed as much as I liked the originals and the sequels this was the only one that gave heart to the sacrifice required to defeat evil
What I loved about rogue one as a newer fan of Star Wars was that the plot didn't rely on a jedi to fix all the problems. Most star wars movies end in pretty unrealistic ways and a jedi being at the centre of all of it. Which is cool because it's a sci fi movie. But Rogue one was by far the most realistic in my opinion and it felt like the heroes were actually risking something, that being their lives and actually ending up losing that.
Another, not-included among things you didn't know about Star Wars: Rogue One: Jesse Hildreth, one of the artists that worked on the movie, included his old gaming league tag on an X-Wing during the final fight sequence. In Arubesh, LSF (for the Last StarFighter League) appears on a Blue Squadron X-Wing.
While the original trilogy remains far and above the two trilogies that were created afterwards, Rogue One truly deserves the honour of being mentioned next in line as Star Wars stories are concerned. My only criticism of it was that they spent a good deal of effort introducing some extremely interesting characters, only to kill them all off at the end. It was completely senseless! I can understand killing some of them off, but Donnie Yen's character begged to be used in future projects... it was written THAT well. Even if they wanted to kill off the character, he could have been used to introduce fans to others like him: force sensitive, but not a Jedi. Disney really screwed up in that respect.
The lack of the opening crawl and no John Williams told me everything I would ever need to know about the Future of Star Wars. Outside of that, it’s an extremely well done tale that fits the existing lore of the Star Wars universe. I still remember sitting in the theatre asking myself, “Where’s the Crawl?”. Since then, I’ve had nothing but questions about this alternate universe.
I think this movie was the best thing to come out of the Disney buy-out, though since I'm not getting Disney+ and haven't watched the TV shows, I don't know how I'd compare this to those.
The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett are definitely worth it. And the marvel stuff has been pretty great so far as well. I am the farthest thing from a Sequels fan, and I stand as one of their biggest critics. But Rogue One and anything Filoni and Favreau are a part of is quite wonderful.
The Clone Wars is awesome. The Mandalorian is great. Rebels is pretty good. Boba Fett is hit and miss and, IMO, more miss than hit. The best parts of the show he isn't even part of.
Rogue One is one of my favourite Star Wars movies right up there with the OT and I totally agree with GLs opinion on the ST, IMO Rogue One is the only real successful Star Wars movie Disney has done so far, in terms of story and production and the time taken to perfect the story with extensive reshoots, whereas the ST all seemed rushed, copied the OT and were literally just make to recoup a ton of money they spent acquiring Lucasfilm, sacrificing story and the love of the movies in the process, had they taken more time and made as much effort as they did with Rogue One, the ST May have turned out a lot better than the steaming pile of incoherent excrement they ended up presenting to the world.
I'm family friends with the writer (Chris Weitz) he's told me that originally the movie ended in a marriage! I think this is super interesting but I do like the new ending
I'm pretty sure the information put out on Rogue One origins related to the idea being pitched to George Lucas, and him saying no. It was then shelved and Disney said yes. That doesn't make it true. But it sounds like something Lucas would do. His view of Star Wars, and what came out in 77 and 80 are 2 different things.
Fyi, it's Michael "Giacchino (pronounced jya-keen-o). I listen to Preston and Steve, a radio show in Philly, and Giacchino has spoke with them often (a friend of the show) and they've also been out to his house for the recording of The Incredibles 2 soundtrack, and they say his name this way.
Did you know that Luke is in the movie but he's in the mountain rocks as rogue one takes off into the air for the first time, you have to look closely but you also have to tilt your screen because he's in the rocks of the mountain, as a Jedi would say you have to open your mind 😮😮😮
Read "Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel" by James Luceno, it's the prequel for Rogue One. It came out just before Rogue One opened, so glad I read it before watching Rogue One.
The best thing about rogue one is that everyone dies at the end... And that's because they probably would have.. And they had the balls to go there. Sometimes it takes a lot of spilled blood to inspire hope
People love Rogue One because it sticks the landing. We have reshoots to thank for that. The third act is great and so the film improves as it goes along… but that also blinds a lot of people to how iffy the first and second acts are. The characterizations are initially a mess. Everything with Saw is terrible. Etc. Rogue One benefits from having some things it has to commit to by film’s end. Compared to JJ Abrams’ black box approach to storytelling, which didn’t build the world or stakes, and then Disney’s fear to commit to Johnson and Trevorrow’s direction with 8 and 9, thus bringing Abrams back to retcon everything… We can see that it’s important to know where you’re going. And despite its flaws, at least the Duel of Fates movie would have honored previous sequels and trilogies instead of shitting all over them.
I loved Rogue One. Felt more 'Star Warsy' than the sequels (7,8,9😁) for me. It felt like it had a heart and people who loved and cared for the universe which I didn't get from the further films. For a film that was supposed to be in so much trouble, it turned out to be one of my favourites.
Easily tied for second best in the franchise, only to #1 Empire Strikes Back
The choice to have a 1970s era feel, back ground actors was +. It made the movie more in line with 1977, ANH. Excellent choice.
I also Loved Rogue One! As someone said: "it put the WAR back in Star Wars.
Oh it totally did, the Scarif battle was like watching a hard core WW2 flick. It gave you a sense of really how out numbered and out gunned the Alliance really was
@@jasonmckee2379 It definitely reminded me of old footage of D-Day. (10/25/2022)
What I like about Rogue One is that it enhances A New Hope. If you watch them back to back, the stakes seem so much higher knowing how the plans got inside R2. The problem with the sequels is that they detract from or contradict the original trilogy
One thing I really enjoyed was it explaining why Vader was so pissed with the bs line Leia gives him about a mission of mercy. Lol
The death of the protagonists gave this movie the emotional impact that set it apart from any other Star Wars movie. The lack of a Jedi presence was also important.
Except some deaths seemed pointless and even stupid
The thing Iiked the most was that it showed a more real side of the REsistance: the one where they executed prisoners and informants like real guerrilas do. Very realistic instead of the super idealised versions of the REsistance we were previously shown.
Effing Jedi poodoo.....glad they weren't mentioned
I saw it in the theater, and when k and then chirrut died I had that "omg are they actually going to do this?" And yeah, much more impact, and very well done.
I've said this before on TH-cam comments, but Jyn's death especially was a gut punch for me. (But in a good way.) I think that she is a great character with such a good story arc. Her death affected me so much precisely because I feel that her story arc makes her seem so deserving of having her story continue. She has the tragic backstory - her mother murdered by the Empire (Krennic), her father taken from her to finish the Death Star, being raised as a child into the proto-rebellion, but getting fed up with that and trying to live a life outside of such things, but still also outside of the law because of how she needed to stay underground, and then finally transforming from being pressed into the Alliance because of her ability to connect to her father and going along with it in hopes of helping him, to actually believing in the Cause and being willing to die for it.
I agree that in some ways, this is the best Star Wars movie of them all. (Star Wars and Empire themselves will always be #1 and #2 for their overall impact and having actually built the world, though.)
I had no problem with Cushing returning as CGI. I loved the fact we got to see more of him.
Agreed!
I think some people just want to complain about something.
I saw R1 in 2 formats, the 2nd a high end digital theater. AMC screen. The scenes looked impressive on digital screens.
I thought Tarkin looked a little cartoony. Not terrible, but notably a little off.
Leia, on the other hand, looked awful. It looked like someone spray-painted her face on a balloon.
It's still a great movie. I just wish they'd had been able to make Leia look human.
@@wbfaulk Lucas, for better or for worse, liked to go back and make changes to the films. If he were still involved with Star Wars, then maybe later on down the line he'd choose to do something like replace the CG renders with deepfake, which can be much more lifelike and convincing than straight-up CGI can.
While I didn't know a lot of these, the inclusion of Red and Gold Leader stood out to anyone who's seen the original. I loved it, as it gave it a more direct tie to the first film. In an interview with Angus MacInnes (Gold Leader) he talks about re-recording his lines and how cool, yet somewhat unsettling it was seeing himself from nearly forty years earlier in a current film. I think we would have seen a lot more from Red Leader had Drew Henley not sadly passed away the year prior. There were some who wanted to see Porkins return, though that might have been overkill. Either way, I do like seeing the previously unheralded side characters get a lot more love in recent years. Heck, Angus MacInnes even has his own table at some conventions now, while sporting a "Gold Leader" hat, which has been popular with fans. :)
Yes absolutely and the other little easter egg, where they also showed the original Red 5 getting killed which then left a spot open for Luke in ANH
Rogue One: when you didn’t know you needed ‘Saving Private Ryan’ in your Star Wars…. But you’re not mad about it 🤔
It’s more of like a band of brothers
@@GabeFrag It's more like neither.
I need to rewatch this so bad, it truly is a great film
I'm not a huge Star Wars Fan, but this movie, I can watch it over and over again. To me this is the best movie of the franchise
Mind blown 🤯. I love this film. Great vid. They had to die in the end. It was foretold.
I see Erso as you said, Oppenheimer.
I was worried that Felicity was “ too cute” with her bunny teeth. She did a get job and I couldn’t see anyone else in that roll.
0:19 "..one of the better produce one than... ".... for me, I would say better than the sequels. I like Rogue One. It is a pretty good movie.
By far my favorite starwars movie . The threat was real and it showed on many fronts. From the deathstar, rebels, spies, the empire, and vader
Thanks for the great video. Rogue one is definitely my favorite Disney Star Wars movie
This is my 2nd favorite movie of the lot. Thanks for the video
legit my 2nd fave SW movie after ROTJ, and easily by far my fave that Disney has made. great to hear more BTS stuff
This video was really well done, I'm so disappointed with so many other random videos on TH-cam.
Rogue One did have a wilhelm scream on the planet where Bodhi deflected from. Jyn pulls him down off the cliff.
I always felt that Rogue 1 was the Grunts movie. Like with Gundam with it's MS08th team, this was about the regular people, not the great and powerful Jedi heroes.
I still like Return of the Jedi the best though, and I suppose that's another issue I have with the sequel series. It's like with Terminator, the ending of the 2nd movie was perfect but all the other films after subverts and contradicts it. I would have been happier with if they adapted Heir to the Empire rather than a Disney version of Dark Empire. The Palpatine story should have been done already, and Heir was the most celebrated story arc of the expanded universe and it was logical to believe that a polity as large as the Empire would fall to factions and warlords, like so many real world governments did after a brutal regime was toppled.
Rogue One is easily my favorite Star Wars movie followed by Empire.
Rogue One is right up there with Empire for me. Plenty of great scenes but the ending with Vader being an unstoppable force is quite Epic!
I'm def with you Jules in the fact that i think i might love Rogue 1 the most as well
Great breakdown. I'm 50 years old and getting too old for this shit, but, Rogue One, and Cassian Andor are my absolute favorite Star Wars character and installment. Just subscribed.
Great video about one of my favourite Star Wars films. Now do one on The Holiday Special.
I like that Rogue One turned out so well, despite a bit of production heck. I'm also glad that the main characters were killed off so it can remain untainted by sequels.
This is a fantastic video. Made me late back to work but worth it.
They were willing to (and did) die for the cause was HUGE!!!
Like Wall-E sacrificing himself for everyone else.
That's humanity!
That's emotion!!
Best outtro I've ever heard thank you! I honestly think Rogue One is the best star wars film
I did noticed that Jyn’s mother was dressed in a sort-of Jedi outfit.
Plus the whole kyber crystal necklace...
Scarif is also a place in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland.
I never thought it could happen , but it did. My favourite Star Wars movie , ”Empire strikes back” , was dethroned. ”Rogue One” took the #1 spot. As a sidenote , I would love to see the scenes that were replaced.
“Jesse we need to blow up the Death Star”
My favourite will always be the original 1977 Star Wars,with Empire a close second…but Rogue One is something very,very special and the only movie since childhood I’ve gone multiple times to watch at the cinema.
On first viewing,all the shoutouts and Easter Eggs were fantastic…but two stand out more than any of the others..in fact,they a head and shoulders above any others in any other movie…Red & Gold leaders.
Great information on my favorite out of the prequel/sequels!
Tarkin might not have been the most convincing CG character, but that reveal in the theater was something else... they show his reflection and you're totally ready for that to be a sort of cop-out, and then he turns around, full frame, full lighting, like here it is, here he is, judge it. It was SO F-ing BALLSY!
So was anyone gonna tell me cassian was getting his own spin-off show or was I just supposed to find that out on my own
I don't know if you've heard it, but Cassian is going to get his own spin-off show!
@@badhareday7509 wait really?? Thanks for letting me know
Not just my favorite Star Wars movie, it is one of my favorite movies overall.
Rogue One is a wonderful Star Wars film. It fits in perfectly with the lore, and remains faithful to it throughout. It tells of a really dark time, the dread of the rising Empire, the awesome menace of the original Death Star, the various Rebel factions, and the sacrifice of the entire Rogue One commando team for the sake of a “new hope” for the ever darkening galaxy. It is brilliantly well-done.
Unpopular opinion: Rogue One does better justice to the original trilogy than the sequel trilogy
Popular opinion:
Fixed it for you 😁
@@coasterdaydreams7150 I noticed that typo too. lol you're first grammar Nazi whos not being a dick.
Awesome video, v detailed and I won't lie your little message at the end got me to subscribe😂 you have a good day too man, great work
The Vader in Rogue One is a powerhouse, but it made the Vader in A New Hope look like he was lacking something (energy). Plus Rogue One created a "plot hole" in A New Hope. There were no transmissions sent to Leia's ship as Vader said there were in A New Hope.
For me the plot hole is when Mon Mothma says the death Star plans were provided by the bothan spies. Like wtf
@@Cestariarts That was in Jedi, not A New Hope!
This movie was literally a retelling of what came before. It was the opening crawl of "A New Hope". That said, it was awesome and the best of both Disney Star Wars and Star Wars prequels.
I've often thought that Rogue One is a Shakespearean style tragedy, so having all of the main cast die was necessary. Andor, meanwhile, is a GREAT spinoff series, and I hope they can get a few more seasons from that. I would like Mon Mothma to be spun out into her own series as well, though.
Rogue One and Solo are among the best Star Wars films imo. It's a pity more people didn't give them as much of a shot, especially Solo. They'll never replace the original trilogy, but they were fantastic and better than the rest of the saga.
If they would have cast Anthony Gruber, I 100% would have given it a view. They cast that other goof simply because he knew someone at the top of the production team. That's how little Diznee cares about the Star Wars Legacy.
@@machupikachu1085 Ehrenreich was a great young solo. We can speculate until we're blue in the face on who else might have done better, but Solo was a great SW movie with a spot on cast.
@@knowah. Are you aware of who Anthony Gruber is? If so, I doubt you'd be saying the casting was 'spot on'. I'm not sure there is not much to speculate.
@@machupikachu1085 Anthony Ingruber? The voice actor/body double? He's obviously not star quality yet. He can look like Ford, but Ehrenreich looks more like Han
@@knowah. Agreed, he needs some acting coaching, but that's what they did anyway for weeks - up to and including giving Harrison Ford millions to come on set and teach that muppet who got the role how to act.
They could have done that with Ingruber, who already looks and speaks just like Ford. Such a missed opportunity.
I like how at the end, the death Star weapon actually hits the tower where krennic was lying at the satellite tower.
One Rogue is better than the prequel and sequels.
The scene with Vader is one of the best Vader's scene ! So bad ass and so consistent with the character and with the franchise.
If only the other movies were of this quality...
Beautiful film...and beautifully commentary my young aprentice..now to unleash the full and destructice cababilities of our new battle station>
Two actors played Vader in Rogue One
Running in universe nod to the Speeder series being released can be heard on the beach of Scarif as two troopers are talking openly about a new release as the Rebels sneak up on them, there is s scene in ANH Death Star when Obi-Wan is turning off the tractor beam
This is the 1st time Royal Guards have been used in a Star Wars film since ROTS and their first appearance away from Palpatine.
When Jyn and Cassian got to see Saul there is a hologram of Oola dancing (Twi'lek that is eaten by the Rancor in ROTJ)
Dark Saber is mentioned by Jyn when trying to find Death Star Plans in the main frame
Hyperspace Tracking was also mentioned, hence why the Empire tracked the Resistance Fleet in TLJ
One of the Rebels as a black Scout Trooper helmet, they are special forces helmets
Chopper, Hera and her ship Ghost is a nod to Star Wars Rebels show
At the time of release Anthony Daniels (3P0) had appeared in all the canon Live Action films , and is now the only living actor to appear in all the films
Also, when Jyn is searching the mainframe, along with Dark Saber she also mentions Omega from The Bad Batch
Looking forward to watching Andor!
They forgot the part where jedi can't get married. Or that is wrong info? He's the man for urgent cello music. Rogue 1 added to the story. And the last few mins totally worth it
Lyra Erso _is_ kind of wearing a Jedi tunic style outfit now that you mention it.
Great casting all round
Rogue One is the greatest movie ever made. I am a project manager, and thanks to Rogue One, my kids could have a project manager action figure. Sure, he got a blaster and not a Gantt chart, but still. At the Disney Store Erso was front and center and full price and Krennic was on the floor, in the corner, triple discounted, but still, project manager action figure.
I enjoyed Rogue One. Think it's the best Disney film
Before Rogue One, I didn't know the Death Star's weakness was large enough to drive a feature length film through.
I've always liked Dermot Mulroney but after learning of his secret cameo I have a new found respect for him
Rogue one is my favorite of all the films. Empire strikes back was my favorite until this movie. I love the darker stories of the films
And as far as them surviving they would have had to change the dialog in a new hope. The scene where they tell you a group of spies gave their lives to get the plans of the Death Star to the rebels
I always thought that there was also a very quiet, backdoor attempt to draw in fans of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series...
One, Felicity Jones' look and styling is very much a Star Wars Buffy.
Two, the lead being a strong, combat oriented woman
Three, the heroine dies so a new hero can arise in her place
Four... and this is the kicker:
"One fighter with a sharp stick and nothing left to lose can take the day."
-Jyn Erso quoting her mentor
I think that another reason that the decision was made for forgoing the opening crawl was because Rogue One was basically A New Hope’s opening crawl.
Unlike some who take joy in bashing nearly all of the more recent Star Wars movies, I have recognized their flaws yet still have had fun watching them.
I also love 'Rogue One" and agree it's among the best in the Star Wars franchise, yet to dismiss 'The Force Awakens' as a failed remake of 'A New Hope' is to ignore its huge popularity with movie fans, more than $2 billion in box office and a 93 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating. If that's a failure, I wonder what is a success.
I've been a star wars fan since I was 8 years old and rogue one and madilorian are my favorite
I think its obvious that Jyn Erso is loosely based on the character Jan Ors from the "Dark Forces" video games.
Michael Giacchino wrote the score in only a month??? That score is fantastic!
I appreciate Disney and Paramount working together to keep each other movies' safe. It indeed was mutually beneficial as each of the movies would have lost a lot of money to each other.
Killing off Cassian and Jyn was incredibly sad and it is, indeed, a missed opportunity to have those characters to continue on in new stories AFTER "Rogue One", but they and their teams' sacrifice is very iconic. I think if they or the team had survived the movie's impact would have been dulled down.
I think Disney missed a huge trick here because Felicity Jones could have been perfectly cast in the sequels as Luke Skywalker's daughter and that would have made a whole better storyline than the convoluted crap we ended up with! As for Rogue One itself, well it was so good it deserves to be made part of the original trilogy (not entirely sure what a 4 movie set is called) and given the full Star Wars opening credits treatment, scrolling text and iconic music and all!
I watched it in the cinema and it was epic. Easily my favourite Star Wars movie. The new Mandalorian storyline is the only thing better.
I think Rouge One was the movie Star Wars needed but didn't know it needed as much as I liked the originals and the sequels this was the only one that gave heart to the sacrifice required to defeat evil
Wait, there's an Andor series coming out? WHEN?!
What I loved about rogue one as a newer fan of Star Wars was that the plot didn't rely on a jedi to fix all the problems. Most star wars movies end in pretty unrealistic ways and a jedi being at the centre of all of it. Which is cool because it's a sci fi movie. But Rogue one was by far the most realistic in my opinion and it felt like the heroes were actually risking something, that being their lives and actually ending up losing that.
Another, not-included among things you didn't know about Star Wars: Rogue One: Jesse Hildreth, one of the artists that worked on the movie, included his old gaming league tag on an X-Wing during the final fight sequence. In Arubesh, LSF (for the Last StarFighter League) appears on a Blue Squadron X-Wing.
While the original trilogy remains far and above the two trilogies that were created afterwards, Rogue One truly deserves the honour of being mentioned next in line as Star Wars stories are concerned.
My only criticism of it was that they spent a good deal of effort introducing some extremely interesting characters, only to kill them all off at the end. It was completely senseless! I can understand killing some of them off, but Donnie Yen's character begged to be used in future projects... it was written THAT well. Even if they wanted to kill off the character, he could have been used to introduce fans to others like him: force sensitive, but not a Jedi.
Disney really screwed up in that respect.
The lack of the opening crawl and no John Williams told me everything I would ever need to know about the Future of Star Wars. Outside of that, it’s an extremely well done tale that fits the existing lore of the Star Wars universe.
I still remember sitting in the theatre asking myself, “Where’s the Crawl?”. Since then, I’ve had nothing but questions about this alternate universe.
Rogue One is the best and faithful installment of the Star Wars saga right beside episodes 4, 5, and 6.
The Darth Vader scene at the end was awesome
What's awesome about him failing an easy task?
Rogue One is my favorite for sure.
I think this movie was the best thing to come out of the Disney buy-out, though since I'm not getting Disney+ and haven't watched the TV shows, I don't know how I'd compare this to those.
The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett are definitely worth it. And the marvel stuff has been pretty great so far as well.
I am the farthest thing from a Sequels fan, and I stand as one of their biggest critics. But Rogue One and anything Filoni and Favreau are a part of is quite wonderful.
The Mandalorian is better. Seriously the best Star Wars since the original trilogy in my opinion.
Laughs in The Last Jedi
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The Clone Wars is awesome. The Mandalorian is great. Rebels is pretty good. Boba Fett is hit and miss and, IMO, more miss than hit. The best parts of the show he isn't even part of.
Love this film sooooo muuuch
I also love Rouge one especially when they remade Vader's entrance on the princess's ship (from a new hope)
There's no movie called Rouge One.
Why do you love Vader being incompetent?
Rogue One is one of my favourite Star Wars movies right up there with the OT and I totally agree with GLs opinion on the ST, IMO Rogue One is the only real successful Star Wars movie Disney has done so far, in terms of story and production and the time taken to perfect the story with extensive reshoots, whereas the ST all seemed rushed, copied the OT and were literally just make to recoup a ton of money they spent acquiring Lucasfilm, sacrificing story and the love of the movies in the process, had they taken more time and made as much effort as they did with Rogue One, the ST May have turned out a lot better than the steaming pile of incoherent excrement they ended up presenting to the world.
Is that Alex from I Hate Everything (IHE) talking in this video? He sounds nearly identical!
I wonder if the "George scream" happened when Jyn pulled the stormtrooper off the platform in Eradu...
What George scream?
Well put together info!
I applaud it for being different. IT BROKE NEW GROUND!
I'm family friends with the writer (Chris Weitz) he's told me that originally the movie ended in a marriage! I think this is super interesting but I do like the new ending
Rouge 1 will be a classic!
I'm pretty sure the information put out on Rogue One origins related to the idea being pitched to George Lucas, and him saying no. It was then shelved and Disney said yes. That doesn't make it true. But it sounds like something Lucas would do. His view of Star Wars, and what came out in 77 and 80 are 2 different things.
Rogue One is my second favorite after A New Hope.
21) The makers didn’t care that the script was garbage. As long as the effects were good and it had copious amounts of references. 👍
The Rebel Fleet would come out of Hyperspace right on top of you. Gotta respect that.
Fyi, it's Michael "Giacchino (pronounced jya-keen-o). I listen to Preston and Steve, a radio show in Philly, and Giacchino has spoke with them often (a friend of the show) and they've also been out to his house for the recording of The Incredibles 2 soundtrack, and they say his name this way.
Lost soundtrack is also great.
Rogue 1 is my favourite, too, as it happens.
Rogue One - My favourite Star Wars by a large margin
My favorite will always be Rogue One as it showed the ugly side of the rebellion
The beating up fully armored stormtroopers with sticks was pretty dumb but otherwise it was the best Disney installment.
Did you know that Luke is in the movie but he's in the mountain rocks as rogue one takes off into the air for the first time, you have to look closely but you also have to tilt your screen because he's in the rocks of the mountain, as a Jedi would say you have to open your mind 😮😮😮
Read "Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel" by James Luceno, it's the prequel for Rogue One. It came out just before Rogue One opened, so glad I read it before watching Rogue One.
Really? I think I might just do that.
@@proto-geek248 amazing back story of Jyn's parents and their relationship with Orson Krennic.
I always thought Jin’s Mum was a Jedi! I still prefer that option.
The best thing about rogue one is that everyone dies at the end... And that's because they probably would have.. And they had the balls to go there. Sometimes it takes a lot of spilled blood to inspire hope
Why does the vader in the thumbnail seem so happy even though I know his suit is the same😂
I place this movie behind revenge of the sith in my liston favorites.
I love seeing the empire actually be successful in star wars. If the heros are barely effected by a platoon of storm troopers I'm easily bored.
Best Scene EVA: Bail Organa's appearance in the movie.
People love Rogue One because it sticks the landing. We have reshoots to thank for that. The third act is great and so the film improves as it goes along… but that also blinds a lot of people to how iffy the first and second acts are. The characterizations are initially a mess. Everything with Saw is terrible. Etc.
Rogue One benefits from having some things it has to commit to by film’s end. Compared to JJ Abrams’ black box approach to storytelling, which didn’t build the world or stakes, and then Disney’s fear to commit to Johnson and Trevorrow’s direction with 8 and 9, thus bringing Abrams back to retcon everything… We can see that it’s important to know where you’re going.
And despite its flaws, at least the Duel of Fates movie would have honored previous sequels and trilogies instead of shitting all over them.