If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor
Pretty good flick probably the heaviest SW to date. The cast was great esp Donnie Yen and Forest Whitaker. Darth Vader killed it at the end tho that kill spree was epic lol.
It absolutely had the "look" of a Star Wars movie, but sadly did not have anything close to the "feel" of a Star Wars movie.
It is the "feel" that makes the seven canonical SW movies so special. Even if JJ mimicked much of the original trilogy, he captured the "feel" perfectly.
I didn't dislike Rogue One, but it did confirm my belief that Disney wouldn't be able to keep the same feel in their SW movies moving forward.
I think infinite warfare is probably closest to a halo everyman grunt game you can get. I love military science fiction. And I love stories told from everyday soldiers. Super soldiers and Jedi are cool and everything, but stories from normal soldiers can be really engrossing. Reminds me of that star wars game that was from the clone troopers perspective.
Saw this finally this afternoon. What a ride. A vast, vast improvement over the highly mediocre (but still enjoyable) Force Awakens.
I loved Jyn Erso. She's a tough nut, and came across as a little wooden at first. But once you realize she's been abandoned by TWO fathers for their precious causes, it's easy to see why she behaves the way she does. When she finally comes face to face with her dad and realizes everything he did was about trying to protect people, in her name no less, we see her finally awaken to the spirit of the Rebellion in a meaningful way.
I also loved that the film showed off the darker side of the Rebellion. This is a group of people that has had to do some very nasty things to some people who probably didn't deserve it. In the name of their cause. Not all rebels are heroes, and I applaud them for acknowledging just how dangerous causes can be. It's not just WHY you're fighting, but how you do it that needs to matter.
Some daring choices here. Making the villain middle management, who just wants his recognition was an interesting decision. I think it works. Krennic isn't evil because he's a sadist, or a power hungry maniac, like the Emperor or Tarkin. He's evil because the system he operates within is evil, and he's willing to do whatever he needs to in order to advance in that system. He's the Empire in all it's truly horrifying, twisted evil. Hell, one gets the impression that Krennic genuinely liked and respected Galen Erso, and the hurt on his face when confronted with Erso's treason was brilliantly played. Part disappointment, part frustrated supervisor.
Thematically, we see in microcosm, the underlying, ultimate story of the original trilogy. Of family, and children as both legacy to parents and as redeemers of their choices. Jyn finds her father redeemed in her eyes, and completes his great work of exposing the Death Star's fatal flaw. The echoes with Vader and his children is clear. The movie even ties it off by giving us Leia in opposition to Vader. This was just so much richer an experience than the ultra-safe Force Awakens. And while this also contained a ton of callbacks and references, not all of which were organic and seamless, it felt less like pandering, for whatever reason. And it really does help that the character arcs close out here in this film, instead of being designed to carry on into a new trilogy (the greatest weakness of Force Awakens, which doesn't stand on it's own nearly as well as it wants you to think it does).