ROGUE ONE | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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To this day, Rogue One is easily the best Star Wars movie Disney has ever made and the ending with Darth Vader was top notch.
I know it sounds stupid but I would make that kinda comment only after premiere time + video length.
Sure you usually watched the movie before you watched the reaction but that's not always the case. I had 1-2 Cassie reactions where I did not see the movie first and simply watched for watch along style and some laughs and such a comment would have impacted the experience big-time :D
Its my favourite one, but my son prefers Last Jedi as his all time favourite.
Spoiler alert though
@@DJLtravelvids Oh no...
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Rogue One was great because this was the first Star Wars movie that was actually plotted like a war movie. What’s more it showed a darker not so nice side of the Rebellion. They show that the Rebels are divided and are willing to resort to ethically questionable tactics.
Yep, this is the best star wars movie in terms of actually living up to the name "star wars". It's the best movie outside the original trilogy, no question.
yeah even in war in space, there's no black and white 'good vs bad' cuz of internal struggles we see. You're more likely to see internal struggles with the opposite side than the 'light' side.
I think we loved Mando for similar reasons.
It's only riffing off Final Fantasy 7 and Avalanche, and not even particularly well at that.
@@mnomadvfx how is it like Avalanche from FF7?
All to be ruined by Ep 7, 8, 9
My boyfriend knows K2-S0 is one of my favorite characters. And for Valentine's day , the year after this movie came out, he bought me a card with K2-S0 on it and inside it said "Roses are red, violets are blue, I'll be there for you, Cassian said I had to"
LOL. Brilliant.
omg, I need that card
Atay attack armored tactical transport
@@jasonk36050⁰
I saw Rogue one on opening night, and it was the first time ever that I experienced the entire audience go quiet when everyone died at the end. Literally a stunned silence.
Even though they all had the same death.
I always saw Star Wars movies at the midnight premiere, first possible showing. Every time. Then thanks to how lame I found The Force Awakens in retrospect, I decided to skip the premiere for this one. I also skipped the premiere for The Last Jedi, and didn't go to see The Rise of Palpatine at all. Out of all of these decisions, missing the premiere of Rogue One is my only regret, and damn do I regret it. The opening night of a Star Wars film used to be a magical experience, and Rogue One's magic is the ONLY one I missed. I hate that. Thanks to half the original actors dying, all other characters being killed off, and...well, Disney being Disney, Star Wars will never be the same again. Rogue One was the last chance for the magic before everything changed, and I blew it. :(
Was about 2/3 of the way thru the movie when I said to the GF "Holy shit, they're all gonna die."
We bought some drinks then went right back in for another viewing. Our bartender was funny when he noticed I was buying the second set of tickets. He said, "Y'all are hardcore."
Bro 10 months late but why does she hate me so much!
The entire audience was silent in my theater on opening night as well….
The Vader hallway scene is one of the five best scenes in the entire series, I think. Its magnificent. Because it shows how terrifying Vader is from the perspective of an "ordinary" rebel soldier. And it makes those soldiers, who are usually just background canon fodder, matter. Because they are the ones on whose' sacrifice everything ultimately depends. The build up and the scene itself are just brilliant.
yeah when I saw that scene at the cinema I Was gripping the seat in fear (even though I knew how it panned out) and the pure terror and desperation of the rebels trying to hand off the plans to each other as he cut through them was pure chaotic
totally. really banking on the obi-wan kenobi series on disney+ delivering scenes with a younger vader with their new filming technology.
It is very surprising how any of those twats found the vision to produce Vader in such badass form. That scene is actually the only one in all of Star Wars, the single one ever, where Vader acts like a proper Sith. Everywhere else, he is a wimp.
The next best scene that approaches this direction is the one with "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
Watch Charles Cornell's music analysis about that particular scene! It makes it even better (if that's possible lol).
m.th-cam.com/video/X3fvljQYhGE/w-d-xo.html
Also the lengths he was prepared to go to, just to create the fear in the rebel troopers. He basically turned off his life support at the beginning, so no lights were showing on his chest. Just the breathing and then the sabre.
From "I feel like we need a win. I feel like 'Rogue One' is going to be that win" to "I didn't know everybody that I came to like...was going to be killed". Expectations meet reality...all in one movie.
Its literally the star wars movie with the most loss of life and characters lol
It's so refreshing after all of the MCU/Superhero movies (I know Endgame happened). Was getting so fed up of deus ex machina's where the protagonists survived by the skin of their teeth
@@keef5 I yelled out "Ooooohhhhhh Noooooooo!"
@@meridianline4022 It's "Star Wars" meets "Game of Thrones".
I was ready to make the same comment. When she said that, it made me anxious to see how she lasted through to the end.
I love how this retroactively makes Leia's comment in A New Hope even more bold. Her ship was literally just at this battle over Scarrif, spotted by Vader's flagship receiving the transmission and jumping away, and when she's captured, she has the absolute gall, the enormous guts, to say with a straight face that they're a diplomatic ship. Beautiful.
It is more like a gigantic plothole
@@artificialfreedom Can it really be a plothole if it's prequel induced?
leia gaslighting Vader. brilliant politician.
@@artificialfreedomI will literally give you $100 if you can explain why that is in the slightest way a plot hole.
Its no plothole. The ship type is regularly used. Leia could have hidden among the crowd
They went to hyperspace. How did the empire track it? Likely because Vader had a hunch from the force.
The sheer terror shown by the crew on Leias ship when Vader was coming was excellent!
Vader being incompetent isn't excellent
@@andymiller6661 Vader wasn’t incompetent. What are you talking about?
@@williambryan3346 What was his objective?
@@andymiller6661 He was a failure, and being a failure doesn’t automatically make him incompetent. He didn’t fail due to incompetence, he failed because they were just a little bit faster.
@williambryan3346 He failed because he did everything but try to take the plans. He took his sweet time making a dramatic entrance just to scare the guys he was about to kill. He didn't use the Force to pull back the guy holding the plans. Hell, he could have easily used the Force to knock everyone to the floor or to the side and then gotten the plans. He could have done any number of things but just chose not to.
So he's either incompetent or he was helping the rebels while making it look like he wasn't.
The fact that everyone died in this film gives Vader's line "There'll be no one to stop us this time." in Episode IV a lot more weight.
One thing that makes this movie brilliant is that it makes Episode 4 a better movie. It adds more weight to many plot points, especially the MacGuffin that was the death star plans. It just makes the plans have more meaning, as you now know the sacrifice it took to get them.
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Ahhhh very true, good point
@@Merwanorit also goes to show rogue one saved the rebellion allowing it to save the galaxy
And for such a seemingly small victory, the Rebels lost so much on a single skirmish. .
Peter Cushing (Tarkin) had died before Rogue One was made. The recreation of Moff Tarkin through digital imaging was one of the most ambitious attempts at lifelike CGI undertaken. While Carrie Fisher was still alive for the filming of Rogue One she was obviously significantly older than she was in 1976. Fisher got to see herself in her cameo role and reportedly was quite happy with the result.
Interestingly while making the comedy Top Secret (1984) they made a mold of Peter Cushing's head for his role as the bookstore proprietor and it was that mold that the digital imaging was largely based on.
Amazingly enough, peter Cushing died before The Phantom Menace was made, to come back to film over 20 years after dying is really creepy but as long as the family is happy I'm happy
In the new Spiderman movie, Alfred Molina aka Doc Ock was de-aged digitally.
@@more-reasons6655 I don't think he had any family to BE happy. his wife died in the 70s, he never remarried, and they never had kids. He had a brother whose wife didn't approve of his profession, who is likely also dead. I've heard that the movie was signed off on by his former secretary and the manager of his estate.
@@lapelcelery42 He never got over the death of his wife and spent the remainder of his life wanting to be with her. He once ran up and down stairs trying to induce a heart attack. He always had her picture under his costumes when he was in movies.
"Yavin 4; is that supposed to mean something to me?" ... Every Star Wars fan soul got crushed on that line...
I kept hoping she'd recognize the ziggurats and the location lol.
@@Galiant2010 ziggurats are Sumerian. The structures on "Yavin 4" were Mayan pyramids.
Rogue One premiered a week before Carrie Fisher passed. It was said that at the premier that when Leia showed up at the end, that Carrie cheered.
Rogue One was a phenomenal Star Wars movie and that ending rolling right into A New Hope was just 10/10.
Also K-2SO is the best droid.
I agree. It is hard to believe this is a Disney production. Meaning Disney now, not in the past. The theater erupted as soon as the door opened and Tantive IV was away with the plans, even before the Princess turned around.
The force of vader's attack at the end is what we were missing in a new hope. You can feel his rage and anger.
@@nickma71 Nope, this movie was Kathleen Kennedy too.
@@matthewharris8819 She is a Disney employee. Seems like the head of Lucasfilm, as part of the sale from Lucas. Yes?
@@nickma71 Yes. She's the President of Lucasfilm. Shes an old business partner of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
"I'm having trouble deciding who's good and who's bad"
That was the point. This was shot like a war film and in war, both sides do horrible things. Like murdering an informant before the enemy gets to him and gets information out of him. Fun fact: during the final battle, the director had the cameramen running with the gear dressed up as rebels, so if you accidentally spotted one of the other cameramen in the frame, they'd use CGI to make the camera on their shoulders look like a bazooka (or the Star Wars equivalent lol). Now that is genius filmmaking
Ok that's really cool about the cameramen being edited in post to fit in the scenes. Like you said that's some genius filmmaking. Love this movie so much. Also really liked how they reference the "Hyperspace Tracking" when mentioning the different project codenames in the vault. Literally teased the main plot point of TLJ a year before it released. So slick.
Sometimes in war you have to do things that are ethically questionable to prevent even worse things. A famous WW2 example occurred when the British decrypted a German message indicating plans to bomb Coventry. They did not dare evacuate the city because it would have let the Germans know the British could crack their codes.
The only non-kids only movie in the whole franchise
Which side is bad? How about the side that repeatedly destroys planets in seconds? Going 'both sides are doing bad things' doesn't work at all.
"He was the one with the best smile!!" Love your reactions, they are so genuine!
thank you ❤️❤️
@@PopcornInBed I absolutely love how you judge the fighter pilot's value purely based on best smile as opposed to weapon proficiency or maneuvering prowess :D
One thing I love about Rogue One when you think about it. Beginning with The Empire Strikes Back they call the rebel fighter squadron Rogue Squadron. And this movie makes you realize it's named that to honor those who died getting the Death Star plans.
A subtle thing that is great about this movie is they stuck with the '70's aesthetic of the original Star Wars. I'm especially thinking about the Rebel council leader, she looked liked she was plucked from the original set. The Rebel general and Jimmy Smits' character were also great in this regard. The Death Star director in his white suite looked like it was pulled out of the 1970's wardrobe closet for Star Wars - instead of trying to oversell the costumes with newer versions.
They also asked the X-Wing Pilots to grow out big moustaches to further preserve that aesthetic too!
Jimmy Smits' character was Bail Organa who adopted Leia with his wife.
exactly my thoughts when I first saw this movie. The aestethics matched A new hope perfectly.
I noticed their hairstyle align with the 70s trend
Yeah, the white suit could indeed have been pulled from the original wardrobe. That or an ABBA music video.
"I'm having a hard time deciding who's good and who's bad." I think that's one of the points of this movie, that even dark deeds can be committed in the name of a good cause. When facing an evil as powerful as the Empire, you have to get nasty up to and including terrorism. At least that's the point I get from it.
And its a wonderful point to make. We don't see it often enough.
There's an old saying, not sure where I first heard it: "One man's terrorist, is another man's freedom fighter."
Honestly that's been the point since A New Hope. Luke Skywalker is a terrorist radicalized by oppressive state sanctioned violence.
And he's a hero. That's the point. Luke is the hero. Because in the face of fascism... Sometimes horrible things are needed to restore something good.
Best estimates put about half a million people on the death star. I dare anyone to tell me blowing it up was the wrong move.
why is the empire evil and terrorism good?
@@lyrebirb83 yeah, that's true in a way, but the original trilogy never dared to show any action Luke and the rebellion as morally reprehensible, even the worst things, like the destruction of the death Star with literal millions of soldiers, is never questioned, not like in rouge one
The best Disney Star Wars movie by a long shot. It expanded on established canon rather that straight up ruining it. Great writing, great characters, great dialogue, great cinematography and it fit perfectly in between the movies.
Yet still bad and imperfect
This movie was really a homage (Besides being a Prologue) to the orginal star wars movie. That is what made it good. I mean they even made the actors look like they were in the 70's. Got as many familliar faces as they could and not one Jedi needed. But these were the good people who died to get the plans that eventually destroyed the Death Star.
The robot was hillarious though.
"We have a problem on the horizon..there is no horizon"
Was the blind guy not a jedi? Force sensitive at least.
No i don't think so. He was just extremely well aware of his surroundings through Hearing. But he had great respect for the force. And technically everybody is part of the force so. But i do not think anymore then the regular human.
This film was one of the most exhausting emotional roller-coaster rides I’ve ever experienced. I have no problem with them all perishing at the end. I’m very glad they didn’t sugarcoat the sacrifices that must be made in order for good to triumph over a powerful force of evil.
Rogue One had the most immersive battle from the saga. The filming and the directing was top notch. The ending with Vador then Leia was geniusly done. The circle is complete.
Nah
Vador?
Vador LMAO
@@Jutrzen oui, Dark Vador, it's the weird side of the French.
I love dirk vadur
It's like you stepped out of fairy tale land and came into this messed up world. Never seen a reactor so wholesome and genuine... unreal.
I saw this movie just aftet Carrie Fisher passed. Seeing her on-screen again, looking rxactly the way she did back in '77...it hit me square in the feels. I openly wept in the theater, and I was far from the only one.
Cassie, I still cry watching, "Rogue One" and I've seen it about 20 times. Self-sacrifice for a cause greater then yourself always gets me. Rouge One is so well written, with subtle and big tie ins to Episode 4. I love it
This is my favourite of the new generation of Star Wars films.
The storyline, characters and everything is just Fantastic.
It even has Alan Tudyk.!!!!
> "This is my favourite of the new generation of Star Wars films"
Same here. And it was the story I always wanted to know since I saw "Episode IV" back in the day...
@@Mr59Kenzo he’s K2.
@@Mr59Kenzo
He's K-2SO the robot
Me too.
@@01HondaS2kXD thanks, decided to google cast no wonder I didn't see him lol
Part of the reason why the attack run on the shield felt so much like the attack run on the Death Star is because they actually took some footage from A New Hope and did some editing magic to make those scenes.
As an artist I really appreciate how good the CGI was in this film. The way they use light and atmospheric perspective is amazing. It all felt so real..
This movie deserves so much credit for applying an emotional payoff to the death star weakness. IMO it's perhaps the most impressive retcon in recent cinematic history.
It’s barely even a retcon, because there is no contradictions. Which is the brilliance of this movie.
Dude, they took the one phrase "many died for this information" and made a full flushed great movie out of it, Rogue One is the best
@@chiyo-chanholocaust8143 that's from episode 6, regarding the plans of Death Star II. Pretty sure there wasn't even any explanation for the plans of the first one, so basically they had full creative freedom here.
@@Graystripe02 It is based on the opening scroll of A New Hope:
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....
@@calvinjohnson6242 The only retcon is that they cut out the Bothans who died for this information.
Cassie: Who knew Star Wars could make you cry.
K2da_G replies Cassie you're crying and you're not even at the sad part yet.
@@gaguy1967 that's okay so do I
who's kevin?
Who's Kevin?
Kevin who?
Well... The last movie made me cry a lot.
I've watched you go from 'I've never seen Star Wars' to a full-blown Star Wars nerd, and I've loved every minute of it.
Thank you.
Right now its happening for star trek too, rope in doctor who and she'll be the Avatar of sci-fi reactions
Just a fun fact from one Firefly fan to another, the actor who voices K-250 in this movie is Alan Tudyk, Wash from Firefly! He's also pretty awesome in the newer show "Resident Alien"
In ep IV when they are reviewing “the plans” Leia says “a lot of people died to get us those plans”. Rogue One is their story.
You sure you're not thinking of Episode VI where Mothma says "Many Bothans died to bring us this information"? Because they are not a part of this.
@@Frelzor Exactly. "Many Bothans died to bring us this information" There were NO bothans in rogue one. " It's a pretty good movie but sadly, it's another example of them missing a point that is canon star wars lore.
@@WhiteTiger950 You're the one missing points in Star Wars, mate. That quote is from ROTJ and before they attack the second Death Star - and are not related to these plans or this movie.
@@Frelzor Ah, if it is then I may stand corrected. Perhaps the bothans were involved in getting information on the second death star, not the first. I didn't remember specifically which movie that quote was from, merely that the quote existed.
When i was 13 and saw EP IV in cinema i imagine in my head about these "Many bothans died", what happens to get these construction plans, who was Lukes father (your father was killed by Darth Vader) and what happens in these "Clone Wars" Lukes father was fighting isn...
Lots of possibillitys and storys in a head of a child.
Love this movie. I like how an entire movie was made from basically one line of text from the beginning of Ep 4. Also, everyone used to make fun of the fact of how this technologically advanced weapon could have such a fatal weakness, and this movie explains the reasoning brilliantly.
@@yomomma5086 there are thermal exhaust ports across the _entire_ Deathstar trench. Only _one_ would explode in such a way that would destroy the entire Station.
It was a design _choice._
Absolutely a security risk.
Rogue One was necessary.
If not, the Rebellion would die with Yavin 4.
Everyone believed it was an impossible shot, except for the people in the higher echelons of Rebel and Imperial intelligence.
They knew there were Jedi sympathetic to the Rebel cause, a Jedi _could_ make that shot.
@@yomomma5086 No, it was an impossible shot FOR a computer; it needed talent and ability not 1s and 0s.
@@yomomma5086 I’m not talking about it in terms of the _movie._ I’m talking about it in terms of the Extended Universe and the *STORY*
Yes, in the movie, things go bang when they need to go bang because plot.
But in the deeper context of probably one of the greatest Sci-Fi stories ever written, Rogue One wasn’t an arbitrary addition. When George Lucas wrote ANH, he put in the Deathstar plans in for a reason, he had a reason to put so much importance on getting the plans to the Rebels. If it was as simple as “just shoot it and it’ll blow up” then the _entirety_ of ANH would be useless!
If it wasn’t for the plans, the audience wouldn’t see Leia and Darth Vader on board the Blockade Runner and establish the dynamic of the Galactic Empire against a rebellion.
If it wasn’t for the plans, Luke wouldn’t take the Droids to Obi Wan.
If it wasn’t for the plans, The Empire wouldn’t torch Owen and Beru in the homestead, forcing Luke to go with Obi Wan.
It’s exactly how SW works.
It’s exactly how good storytelling works!
@@realburglazofficial2613 calm down, Rogue One is a Disney revisionist's take on Episode IV. In the OT, specially in A New Hope and in Return Of The Jedi, and in the LucasArts video games it is explained clearly the Empire and the Emperor were overconfident, arrogants, and love to build quickly and in massive quantities. An example were the Tie Fighters built with zero defences except maneuverability and with the sole purpose of swarming the enemy. Both Death Stars were built in similar fashion like the Tie Fighters, quick construction, defects, and security concerns, but the Empire and the Emperor's aim was on fast deployment and explosive offensive. This explanation is old like hell and it was Disney who came to make a revision on it as if it were an engineered design sabotage to be exploited later, a bad take since this revision nullifies the errors of the Empire's top ranks and the Emperor himself as the cause of the Death Stars weaknesses.
@@yomomma5086 Agreed. The whole "Guess what, everyone -- the Death Star's exhaust port was *always* an intended target for the Rebels!" plot point is by far the worst aspect of this movie for me, as it somewhat undercuts Luke's achievement in ANH. Then again, Di$ney has done nothing but undercut the first 6 movies since taking over the IP. While this is still the best movie they've released so far, I still have no desire to ever see it again, either.
Cassie- " The end of episode 3 broke me and crushed my heart. I feel like we need a win, I feel like rouge 1 is going to be that win..."
(the entire audience) "Ya.. about that.."
There's no movie called Rouge One.
This movie delivered a win.
"Anakin did this" 4:55 ... lol best line ever XD
My teen son had the same rection seeing everyone die. Being a combat veteran, I told him that was the best Star Wars movie he could have seen: in the garb of sci fiction, a realistic portrayal of a high costs mission, people sacrifice and die, war sucks. It is better than the typical: "most of the good guys live and are not even scarred" rubbish we usually see. Make more like these of the sacrifice involved in a cause.
I wonder if they were channelling just a lil bit of Gundam into it.
Wish there was a movie or even short series about "many bothans died...to bring us this message"
@@junkka83 ..which, apparently, the Emperor intended for you to have anyway. But it had to seem like legit intel..so...sorry, Bothans. Harsh.
No, the best Star Wars movie he could have seen is The Empire Strikes Back, which is universally acknowledged as the best movie in the whole series. The Battle of Hoth that opens the movie is one of the best war scenes in movie history!
Then again, there are no good or bad guys in real wars. There are just 2 opposite sides with equally good and bad guys. War sucks for sure, waste of human life.
Nice detail: In Episode V, when the Rebels are on the snow planet Hoth, the Rogue team consists of a Rogue Leader, a Rogue Two, a Rogue Three, and so on. But no Rogue One. Because there can never be another one after what they sacrificed.
I just always figured the leader is basically "one". It's not like they imagined this movie back when they made that one. But it would be a good detail if that's why this writing team picked it.
they also did something like that with the xwing and ywing squadrons.
Yeah, the Leaders are "One". That's why you never heard of Green One, Red One, or Gold One
Fun fact: The Death Star has an exhaust vent at the northern pole of the station, this vent is connected directly to the reactor of the station, and is required to "blow of some steam" after every firing I suppose. Anyways, surrounding this vent, there are 12 secondary exhaust vents at the end of 12 trench runs, surrounding the northern pole of the station. Now, all of these vents are also connected directly to the reactor, so you might think, "well that's 13 weak points waiting to be exploited." But here's the kicker, all of them are ray-shielded... All except for ONE! THAT is Galen Erso's intentional design flaw! THAT is the end of the fuse! The plans containing this design flaw is what this movie is all about! All the sacrifices, all that incredible effort, all of it done so that the Rebels has that ONE chance against the Empire's ultimate weapon.
In New Hope they literally said that the target they were going for was ray shielded so they had to use torpedoes. The weakness was that the explosion from the torpedo would start a chain reaction.
The weakness introduced in Rogue One is that the reactor will experience a positive feedback loop, instead of just suffering a power failure, should it ever be hit.
The thermal exhaust port was a emergency vent in case the main port failed to reject the thermal load. Sort of a safety fuse meant to blow should the normal breakers get overwhelmed. As such, the thermal exhaust port lead directly to the reactor instead of routing through some auxiliary systems.
Michael Giacchino’s music is what makes the ending, starting with slicing through the planet shield. The heroic sacrifice. Vader’s slice and dice was just the cherry on top.
The final scene is so intense with them trying to get the plans out with Vader getting close it's perfect
Like I said to my boys when I first saw this "FINALLY a Star Wars movie, that is actually a war movie."
I love how emotionally involved you get into the movies you watch. Your reactions are so honest and fun. :)
I saw this in theaters and a dozen times since. Never once got teary eyed watching it. But watching her reactions i got tears this time.
Seeing that you're also getting into Firefly, it might interest you to know that K-2SO is voiced by Alan Tudyk, who played Wash in the Firefly series.
Came here to mention this too. :)
I knew I would find this comment in here.
I was going to say it, but I had a feeling someone else would.
Yes you do recognise Bail Organa, he’s the senator of Alderaan who helped Yoda escape at the end of Episode 3 and he’s the one who adopted baby Leia.
The actor who played him was Jimmy Smit, who was one of the leading men in the television series "L A Law", and then appeared in many films afterwards.
@@Seele2015au SMITS ~
When I first saw this movie in theaters I was in tears at the end!!! The way they connected everything at the end made me so happy
What was connected?
@@andymiller6661 they connected this move straight into a new hope at the end.
@@nathanjamesDewey Doesn't seem like it connected to everything, then. And it was pretty obvious where this horrible movie was headed.
@@andymiller6661 I enjoyed it
@@nathanjamesDewey Good for you.
32:24 I cried in the theater to how well this was done. He was sooo filled with rage you can feel it
He was also filled with incompetence
*Cassie sees Darth Vader: "I hate him so much now"
All of us: Gooooooood. Gooooooood. Let the hate flow through you.
😂
Okay, that was funny....lol
That actually got me 😂
buwahahahaha! You win the internet today.
LOL right?
11:59 Grand Moff Tarkin was entirely CGI for this movie (his head) so he would look like he did in A New Hope
25:23 Red Leader and Gold leader were the same actors that did the attack on the Death Star in A New Hope. They actually found 30 years old original archival footage and used it for continuity.
Well, at least this time, they could put actual boots on the actor ^^
It looks like scenes from the final cut of the movie, just re-inserted. I'm not complaining, mind you. The re-use of stock footage made many a Star Trek film possible..
@@n.w.1803 From what I remember in some BTS videos, they did find archival footage at Skywalker Ranch
One of the best lines was,”Make 10 men feel like 100.” 💯
The beauty of Rogue One is that it sheds new light on the rebellion. In previous movies or series when rebels fight the empire, you know that good guys will win; stormtroopers will miss their shots, a force wielder will save the day and some lucky coincidence like ewok will turn the tide. In Rogue One you see that rebellion didn't win due to only plot armor; they had to make their hands dirty, had internal struggles and made sacrifices. You see some pilots get killed or her mentions of many bothans dying to bring a crucial message, but in Rogue One you see protagonists getting killed one by one in desperate hour but still managing to pull through and achieve their goal. Rebellions are built upon hope and you see great characters making sacrifice to keep that hope alive
One thing that took me a while to catch: In the scene where the soldiers are trying to escape with the plans but couldn’t get the door open; the door didn’t jam. Vader was using the Force to keep it shut. And ironically or not, the score that’s playing has Vader is mowing down everyone is called “Hope”
This.
Woah. I thought it jammed until this very comment!
I used to think that too but that doesn't make sense. Why leave it cracked when you can close it all the way?
@@movieswithmatticus5469 Hope. He’s giving them the smallest sliver of hope. Makes the fear taste better.
@@cardiac19 lol, what like IT?
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Fun fact,
This slap wasn’t planned. It was improvised by the actor who played K2 on the spot. And the reason Cassian is covering his mouth after it is because the actor was laughing! You can kinda see he’s smiling in his eyes at that moment!
It was so perfectly improvised they kept it in!
Alan Tudyk rocks.
@@marthapackard8649 Agreed.
Fun Fact: Governor Tarkin actor (Peter Cushing) died in 1994. One of his first movies was a minor character in a Laurel & Hardy movie “A Chump at Oxford,” in 1940. His biggest part was to be thrown out of a window & fall into a pond by Stan Laurel. Almost makes him immortal!!!! 🤗🤗
The ending might be too much fanservice, but Vader, the rebel blockade runner, Leia.. goosebumps like never before.
Vader being incompetent gave you goosebumps?
In a slightly sadistic way, I love all of these "first time watching Rogue One" videos. All of the reviewers start out so happy and cheerful and optimistic...and then everybody dies...EVERYBODY.
You don't expect to see shock and awe tactics in a Star Wars film. Shock at the mounting casualty list, awe at Vader going ham. It's a one-two punch
Even the bloody Droid dies !!
I read this great review of the movie saying that almost everyone is hurrying to get to the right place in time to pull a lever or push a button, and then be blown away. Pretty much sums it up.
Haha!
Not even just the main characters. Just everyone good and bad dies.
Fun fact: Donnie Yen was actually the one to suggest that Chirrut, his character be blind.
They loved the idea so much that it was put into the movie. You can even see it as the production of the film went on before the release date. The first teaser trailer that showed him hitting a stormtrooper, you can see his character is not blind. But when the official story trailer was released much later, his character was then made to be blind.
10:56 Even better and funnier because he also improvised the "Are you kidding me? I'm blind!" scene.
His character's Star Wars Daredevil in a way.
Now all we need is an Ip Man reaction.
Donnie was also a bit a wisecracker in his Hong Kong Police film characters. I was expecting he’d complain about that bag over his head in the moment it was about to go on.
"Are you kidding me? I'm blind!" Best line in the whole movie!
I love this so much. Jyn Erso is my absolute hero. As heart wrenching the end is, the new hope that it brought means everything to the galaxy.
It goes to show rogue one saved the rebellion allowing it to saved the galaxy through there sacrifice
Im not even a star wars fan as such but the ending of Rogue One was utterly brilliant and had me in tears. The way the plans got to layer and you realise you are heading into ep IV in that instant was poetry
Yet still bad
I have watched Rogue One so many times, still makes me cry. I love it. I love how you let yourself get taken away with what you're watching, you have *wonderful* reactions to these stories.
Wow, they suckered you. I laughed at the end.
"After Episode III, which crushed my heart, I feel like we need a win and I think Rogue One is going to be it!"
Oh no Cass, you poor baby....🥺
Never thought the heroic death of a droid would make me tear up in a movie theater. And it's still difficult to hear him say goodbye to Cassian .
And K-2SO was voiced by Alan Tudyk, who played Wash in Firefly.
Leia says in her message to Obi-Wan that it is "our most desperate hour", this movie shows how desperate the situation really was for the Rebellion at this point. The Vader hallway scene was just top notch stuff, just shows how Vader is basically a boogeyman for the Rebellion since no one survives when he shows up.
The hallway scene is not top notch.
Definitely one of the best Star Wars movies. Great actors, amazing visuals and it really fills in important gaps. Rogue One and Solo are much better than the last trilogy.
Opinions are great, aren’t they?
@@specktator7045 he said one of the best. He didn't best. And Solo and Rogue One are better than the sequel trilogy. Even though it is an opinion I don't see where it does not deserve to be a fact.
Even though I cry, I love this because none of their deaths were in vain. This is one of my favourite movies, not just my third favourite Star Wars movie. Rogue One is just so well balanced in everything. Drama, moral philosophy, a little well done comedy. A great action movie, a great SF movie, a great war movie.
The way the ending arcs between the first 3 and the original 3, this is one of my favs
It doesn't make much sense that Vader immediately goes from being an unstoppable 'Force Crushing Ogre' to fighting Obi-Wan in an extremely reserved manner, but... I guess the 'fan service' with him going all 'Super Saiyan' was enough to jettison logic into the escape pod which the 2 droids also escaped on. 😊
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Don't ask questions, just consume product until next product comes along.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat It is a plot hole but also back in the day Alec Guinness was 70 yrs old and they didn't want to hurt him.
someone being very old doesn't strike me as a plot hole. (Unless it's yoda:)
@@highstimulation2497 what I'm saying was a plot hole was how bad ass Vader is in Rogue One but moved like a sloth in battle with obi- one in New Hope.
Finally a Star Wars film made for adults. It had very little of the cutesiness that all of the other films had. I love how everyone was willing to sacrifice for a greater cause, to the last person. It was beautiful.
And the little Easter egg nestled in this was that the gang from StarWars: Rebels was in this , one of the PA announcements at the Yavin base was calling for “Captain Syndulla” ie Hera Syndulla and the Ghost was clearly seen zipping around during the space battle.
I love Rogue One. It's a Star Wars 'men on a mission' type movie such as the great WW2 films like Dirty Dozen, Guns of Navarone and my personal favourite, Where Eagles Dare. They took the best elements of those classics and gave it a sci-fi twist.
"Men" on a mission...with a female lead.
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ FFS, Star Wars is *fantasy* not sci-fi.
@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy both and space-opera, but yeah sci-fi is 'The Expanse' for example
@@WalintHUN Sci-fi = a hypothetical look into the future of our own civilization.
Fantasy = a timeless look into a completely fictitious world (barring 'modern fantasy' like Harry Potter, which incorporates fantastical elements into our own world).
Given that SW was the first fantasy IP to incorporate sci-fi elements into it, I suppose it could be seen as the main instigator into blurring the lines between the 2 genres.
The Force Awakens was released before Rogue One, actually. But honestly, between you & me, Rogue One is my personal favorite. It had that Saving Private Ryan vibe to the Star Wars galaxy which was what the audience needed. Loved the reaction video!
Landing at Point Rain in live action.
The Dirty Dozen in space.
It did. Even Lucas had extra motivation that he didn't need after ESB and him and Kurtz parted ways.
This is exactly how I reacted. I was so upset all the good guys died but I realised that they had to, they sacrificed themselves and that last scene with Vadar was terrifying!
The best SW film outside of the original trilogy.
Terrifyingly incompetent.
1:42 I was heart broken when I didn't see the opening crawl as well...but since I am a hobby video editor, I CREATED a crawl for it and when I burned it to a back up DVD, I also combined it with Episode IV so the two films make ONE EPIC movie
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I think that’s arguably the most underrated point in the movie. A robot who calculates risks and whatnot gets bamboozled by human logic in such a way.
I really appreciate whoever is editing your videos. They're doing an excellent job including the best story beats, balancing audio, and capturing your emotional journey. Most other reaction channels always seem to fail at one of these three aspects.
I second that emotion. You are so right...kudos to your film editor Cassie.
Whomever does it knows films. Cassie makes some statement or question and then they make sure to get in the film part answer. The film catch phrases and her using them. The zoom ins and slow mos are also unique from most reaction channels. I hope it's her husband so this can be more of a bonding time for them. I feel bad that he's not watching the films with her as she'd be fun to watch with.
I never see this sentiment about male reactors and their wives. She's allowed to do stuff by herself.
@@joelwillems4081 Her editor is a British chap. He is fantastic.
@@catherinelw9365 Thanks for the reply. I'm not a Patreon but even in some of her reactions she mentions things like 'that's one for the editor'. I didn't watch her whole Q&A but it's probably in there too. No one is jumping to conclusions, Jenny.
Again thanks, for being comfortable sharing your thoughts while experiences these productions. It's quite wonderful experiencing these again through your eyes. Watching you is like watching our daughter -- I took her to The Lion King in the theatre and she was actually just a little too young for it, but she would stand in her seat and scream at the screen, "you're a bad lion", and then she cried. She was always exhausted after a movie like that. Keep it up -- thanks.
Anakin Skywalker is dead (FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW - how Obi Wan said), he loved Padme and wouldn't hurt her, now it's Darth Vader and formally he was choke her. Palpatine used her life force to make Vader survive. But Palpatine was wrong (as was Vader himself) about that Anakin died, but he returned to his breathing and meditation capsule and constantly blamed himself for what had happened, he hated himself and did not know how to break this vicious circle, he was trapped,but as soon as he put on the mask it was already Darth Vader. In a sense, it is something of a split personality, light and darkness. And only Luke was able to finally bring him back to the light. Don't get mad at Anakin, he was destined to be the one who would restore the balance of power. His story is the tragedy of the entire galaxy. The Clone Wars series tells about this in more detail.
This movie added so much legitimacy to the cannon. For me it gave the real reason why Vader absolutely needed to know where the hidden bases were in the original three. The rebels were strategical, scalpels which had devestating effect on the empire. Nothing like the androids we saw on Naboo. Much more weight and reality. This one movie gave more credibility to Lucas's childlike trope than any other.
I loved your reaction as always.
Where were the Bothan spies though!
this was the prequel everyone deserved.
@@DavetheNord The line, "Many Bothans died to bring us this information.", is spoken by Mon Mothma in, Return of The Jedi, and the information was the location of the *second* Death Star.
@@DavetheNord honestly same, the bothans lost their entire chance of having that canon lore in the future movies... maybe they didnt want to animated the bothans fur when their emotions shifted, idk i just want bothans
@@DavetheNord Wrong movie ;)
This was honesty one of my favorite Star Wars films. Great actors, great writing and production.
We need more films that show courageous self sacrifice for the greater good like this. I know it's sad, but we should remember this kind of courage, and not shy away from it.
Rogue one sacrifice saved the rebellion allowing the galaxy to be saved
It's very rare that studios allow writers to do this. A lot of the time they get pressured by the test audience to change the endings. I've heard so many stories of endings getting changed because it didn't test well with the test audience.
They did such an amazing job of the characterisation in this movie, from K-2SO being a snarky but lovable Imperial droid, to the moraly grey Cassian, and including some of the video capture of the Episode IV pilots to blend it into the story of the first released movie, it's honestly one of the best of the modern Star Wars movies.
Nope.
Bless you Cassie, looks like you're a true Star Wars fan now, picking up on all the details! You're not the only one who teared up at the ending either, I've seen it half a dozen times now and it still gets to me.
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The force is strong with this one
This movie completely embodies the feeling I had when there was only the first trilogy and we where playing the D6 roleplaying game from West End, back in the day. The Mandalorian have that feel to it to.
I loved that game!
@@adzthesaint we were nerds, but it was good times.
indeed Mando is good!sadly Darth Kennedy is still the head of Lucasfilm!
@@bernhardtsen74 So you blame Kennedy for the SW you don't like but you can't praise her for the SW you do like.
@@MeanMrMustard1 u don´t?
33:03 How they did that was the same way that they were able to do Tarkin earlier in the movie. They took scans of stills from Episodes 4-6 of Carrie Fisher, and isolated her face. They then had a body double do the actual action of Leia, including saying her line "Hope," and then, processing the facial scans from all angles through a deep learning network, found points on the body double's face to superimpose Carrie Fisher's face from the scans. That is about 95% of it, and the last 5% were artists going in and touching up each frame so that the blend was as seamless as possible. On the internet, this is known as deepfake, but the VFX companies have programs and workstations far more powerful than what the average home PC user has.
I just binged your Star Wars reacts in one night... it's now after 11am and I haven't been to bed. But it was worth it. From the first one and you being so confused about everything to ending with saying "I am one with the Force, the Force is with me." Aww
Empire and R1 are the best of the entire franchise without question. I feel like R1 was what long time (us old folks) fans of the franchise would have made if given a 100 million dollar budget.
Heck yeah! I always say it’s the best Star Wars movie since Empire. Fantastic.
Ahh, Cassie. What makes Rogue One be one of the top of the Star Wars stories, are the tragic deaths and moments of self-sacrifice by so many characters. It just breaks my heart at the deepest levels and reignited my love of the Star Wars saga.
The only movie that is really more about common people, simple pilots and rebels, not the big heroes and villains. If they focused more on these types of people, the new trilogy may have been far more interesting, maybe even redeeming the storm troopers
Bodhi Rooks death gets me every time.... He seems like a kid who just loved to fly spaceships, and probably was befriended by Jyns dad at the research facilities cantina, for the sole purpose of getting information out.
And all it took for me was The Last Jedi to kill my love for Star Wars.
@@JonathanMandrake Preach on brother. Preach on. Could not have said it better myself.
@@gr1mrea9er82 Bodhi shows so many in the galaxy had to work for the Empire to get jobs and keep a roof over their heads. They are the common people just trying to get by one day at a time.
Cassian will have own series later this year. It takes place five years before Rogue One. To add to the good news, this show has already been given the green light to produce a second season.
2 years later, I still love this reaction video.
This is the closest to having rebel grunts and imperial grunts battle eachother without just focusing on just the main characters we have ever got and i wish we get more stuff like this, seeing a battlescene were rebels and imperial battle eachother with both sides having more or less equal deaths it makes how the the war between the rebels and the empire should look like. All ground battles weren't just main characters battling armies of imperials alone
This movie did one thing exceptionally well:
We all knew how it was going to end. They'd get the plans. That much was clear from the beginning.
So they had to make this HOW of them getting the plans and everything around it as dramatic and constantly dancing on a knife's edge as possible. You almost forget that you know about them succeeding and you root for them so much, their deaths are heartbreaking! This really is the best of the newer Star Wars films...
...that is what they FUCKED UP THE MOST.
It is CLEARLY STATED in EP4 that the plans are TRANSMITTED...not fucking handed to them. There was DOUBT that they had the plans.
@@thomasjones4570 uhm ... they were transmitted... 🤷♂️
@@thomasjones4570 Your use of caps lock is so melodramatic.
@@thomasjones4570 …We ALL saw that third act dedicated to setting up a way to transmit Death Star plans to a rebel ship, right? We’re all still talking about the same movie, aren’t we? Because you seem to be talking about something else…
@28:42 There’s some damn good acting all through this movie. That being said, when Baze is calling out for Chirrut to come back, you can hear his genuine heartfelt concern for his best friend and brother-in-arms.
Your endings are so freakin good with that music. Very impressive work, and great reaction.
Probably my favorite "new" Star Wars film. Very excited to see how you find it
Rogue One really puts the “war” in Star Wars. And gives us the first truly terrifying display of Darth Vader, in his life support armor. It’s also the first Star Wars movie to present the Rebellion in grey shading, rather than as the endlessly idealistic dreamers that they are in the original trilogy.
For wars to be fought choices must be made that in better world ought not. When Cassian killed the informer, he did so because he knew he couldn’t get them both out, due to the man’s lame arm.
Moreover, the depiction of Saw Guerrera as a terrorist terrorizing the terror that was the Galactic Empire, rings true. As did the wrong but seemingly reasonable decision to assassinate Galen Urso, the Death Star’s maker.
Oh and of course the instances of defying orders.
You did well my Canadian friend. You did well in your reaction.
Rogue One is in my top three list for best Star Wars films!
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Revenge Of The Sith
3. Rogue One
Yeah no it doesnt. It should have though. The first half of the movie should have been left out and it should have started with them going behind enemy lines, getting in and out of situations to allow them to actually form a bond.
This was basically Saving Private Ryan if half of it was about Ryan before the war doing chores on the farm and then without the intense battles, or characters you can form a bond with.
Having just watched the FIREFLY series I thought you might like to know that the voice of the smart ass robot K-2SO is non other than Alan Tudyk, aka Wash (R.I.P.). You did seem to recognize Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa, Leia's adopted dad. It's his ship that we keep seeing in the movies. The one pulled inside the Star Destroyer in the beginning of ep.4 A New Hope.
Also, the parts of Governor Tarkin and Princess Leia were obviously played by other actors and their faces were digitally replaced. Darth Vader was also played by different actors, but his voice remains the same, that of James Earl Jones, who played Admiral Greer in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.
Oh I forgot to say, Cassie, that I hoped you noticed the edited/not previously used X-wing battle scenes from A New Hope (1977) that were included to bulk out the scene as a whole. I read an interview, at the time R1 was released, with the Daughter (now easily in her fifties) of the “Red Leader” pilot actor a-la “LOCK S-FOILS IN ATTACK POSITION!” Drewe Henley, from Worcestershire, England. He passed away sometime in 2016. They asked the family for permission to include his unused scenes along with some others you’ll notice in R1 forty years after they’d been filmed. She of course agreed. I think this is a wonderful tribute in itself! X
Mads Mikelson is an INCREDIBLY brilliant actor!
It's Mads Mikkelsen, but I definitely agree.
@@Yggdrasil42 fucking spell check
So, Chirrut Imwe isn't a Jedi per se. He's more of a monk-like figure who taps into the force and allows it to guide him, which is why he can do things so precisely despite being blind. But he isn't a precise follower of the Jedi religion. He's a bit more of a believer in the force being for everyone, as I understand it.
I like your take on him. I always described him as a "partial" Jedi. In that he could sense the force, but he could not control it.
Chirrut Imwe is a Guardian of the Whills. The Whills can best be described as historians, they are ascetics that revere the Force but are not part of the Jedi Order and cannot use the Force.
@@jeffburnham6611 he was using something.
@@user-ty5di3ku6o My headcanon is that Chirrut was able to feel the Force, but not use it. It augments his senses, but he wouldn’t be able to lift rocks or X-Wings.
@@BrianTimmonsTX that’s not really head canon since you’re right, he’s force sensitive just not trained to use force abilities like lifting objects
Carrie Fisher did pass away 11 days after the premiere but she was shown that last scene of herself before the full release and really liked it.
Love this movie so much. They answered so many questions I didn't know I had. And they did it very well. Second favorite Star Wars movie for me.