ROGUE ONE - MOVIE REACTION - FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Before this movie came out, people would make jokes about how the Deathstar was stunningly easy to destroy. This movie turned that on its head by making it purposeful sabotage by the designer, on top of being such a wonderful movie that makes you feel like Star Wars is actually... a War. I've never gotten through the end of the battle scene without crying.
that's why this movie to me and probably a lot of other star wars fans is in their top 5 star wars movies . i knew a lot of people wanted this story to be told since the rouge 1 rebels where mentioned in A New Hope as a small band of rebels gave their lives to get the plans for the death star to the rebellion
@@antoineporche-rideaux4841 I thought this for a while but the scene you're thinking of is actually from Return of the Jedi and refers to the Death Star II
@@shavedata5436 And those rebels were specifically Bothans ("Many Bothas died, to bring us this information") , where Rogue One was a handful of humans, 1 Drabatan, and a droid.
Stunningly? It took lives of all rebel pilots and one Jedi to work.
@@user-xx6vy9ri8p It was a big operation by the rebel alliance to get in position for pilots to attack it, yes. What I meant was that people would joke that a couple shots, even into a reactor, blowing up the entire Deathstar was funny. It's like if you had a 1m x 1m exhaust port on the back of an aircraft carrier and one pistol bullet travelled all the way to its center, pinged off the furnace, and blew the whole ship up.
This movie is the best prequel ever made. It ties two segments so well, it adds to the lore and it was the first time we could see how scary Vader can be.
And just how much was sacrificed by so many to get those damn plans.
best prequel? yeah no, this film was garbage like all of Disneys reboots.
Best prequel is ROTS.
We saw how scary Vader can be in ESB already.
@@StinkyGreenBud I....dont think you know what a "reboot" means 🤨
The fact that this movie showed the sacrifices it actually takes to give hope and a future for the Rebellion is just wonderful to see. Probably the main reason why this movie did so good.
Yet it's still bad.
@@andymiller6661
Why?
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 Why, because the director and writers didn't fix mistakes. How, though:
They're all to aware in writing and pacing that we know generally how the movie ends. But instead of dealing with the forgone conclusion that they will steal and deliver the plans no matter what by slowing down and developing the characters, they're violently propelled from action to action with no real actual or natural progression in relationships. Jyn goes from yelling at Cassian to quoting him passionately and Cassian goes from cold blooded killer to organizing a suicide squad for her because he chose not to kill the one person he was specifically ordered to kill, which was her father. And he had good reasons for not killing him, I'm sure
Bor gullet was used, despite him making people go crazy, to learn the truth. Yet nothing comes of that truth gathering scene.
When the X-Wings attacked Jyn's fathers position, we're told that they can't be called off because they're already committed. Nonsense. No shots were fired yet, and there's apparently instantaneous two way interstellar communications in Star Wars and with that squadron, so there's plenty of time to call them off. Even if there wasn't, there's nothing to prevent one of the X-Wings from hovering over the pad for a few seconds and sweeping the pad clear of enemies while his squad mates covered him.
The end battle scenes went from "Cool visuals, I guess," to, "Seriously?" The inclusion of Red and Gold Leaders, obviously limited to what they could cull from cut angles meaning the almost the same exact lines from A New Hope was jarring.
Then there's the out of place Mos Eisley jerks somehow being on Jedha, being jerks on Jedha because they have to cram some random cameo in the movie, just for them to leave Jedha immediately after being jerks and going straight to Tattoine, without freaking out over almost being killed by the Death Star.
Pretty much everyone died in an explosion immediately after serving their one purpose in the movie, which was to flip a switch. And some of those switches were outside and exposed to the elements for no reason. And the antenna was out of alignment for no reason, and somehow transmitted to everyone yet just the rebel flagship, which had Leia's ship in it for some reason. And let's not forget that C-3PO and R2-D2 were in the Yavin hangar when everyone left yet on Leia's ship when it got boarded not much longer later.
Also, the battle scenes was ridiculous. The rebels had the element of surprise, yet they didn't immediately start shooting everything on sight upon exiting lightspeed. There was no general plan and at most minimal coordination. Orders were given sporadically, instead of rapid fire. There was no shooting between the capital ships and minimal firing from the capital ships. There was no bombing or bombardment of the Imperial structure surrounding the shield opening. There were no squadrons of fighters firing volleys of torpedoes, just random fighters almost casually flying about and shooting at the occasional target. There were a total of 3 star destroyers in orbit around Scarif and yet not one deployed any troops to reinforce the surface. Instead, they just let the surface fend for itself and eventually Tarkin destroyed the Empire's own base, despite only some rebels being on the surface and despite the rebels already getting the plans. And fuck the rest of the data stored there, right? That's not important anymore for some reason.
Vader's scene at the end was supposed to be orgasmicilly amazing, yet it's a let down and shows him to be incompetent. He dramatically took his time and turned off his life support and almost casually walked down the hall killing fools, instead of being mister badass sith and using the Force to brush everyone to the side and at least trying to Force grab the plans or using the Force to at least try stopping Leia's ship. Then he's standing in the vacuum of space like his suit is rated for that.
@@andymiller6661
I understand why people hate Star Wars fans now.
I've got news for you, I think the original trilogy is a bunch of trash boring movies that aged terribly and have shit writing.
I'm glad Disney destroyed your franchise with that atrocity of a new trilogy.
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051 What does the original trilogy have to do with this? When did I say anything about the original trilogy? How is it my franchise? I never claimed anything as mine.
Why bring up all of that randomness instead of addressing what I actually said?
I’d like to have MORE Star Wars projects that are darker in tone like this one.
Watch star wars andor on Disney plus. Coming next month.
Me too.
@@kenmorgan316
Yes, I do follow the trailers.
That’s one. I want darker projects with lightsabers as well.
Gimme a propper R rated Bobba Fett. Think the punisher but with lasers. Yes please
@@kratosGOW The Acolyte will hopefully be like that but I don't have high hopes for it, I think probably the best we're gonna get was the conclusion of Mando S2
I remember seeing this movie in theaters with my friends. One of them had seen it before and told the rest of us “all the characters die”, but none of us took him seriously since it sounded so unbelievable. It wasn’t until the characters actually started dying that I realized he was serious
Are you referring to this scene?
ruclips.net/video/k_4_NNHRjb4/видео.html
If someone spoiled a movie directly before seeing it, that person would no longer be a friend.
Your friend spoiled it? Execute order 66 on him.
@@marcus_ohreallyus There was a study about so called spoilers:
"Writers use their artistry to make stories interesting, to engage
readers, and to surprise them, but we found that giving away
these surprises makes readers like stories better. This was true
whether the spoiler revealed a twist at the end (e.g., that the
condemned man’s daring escape is just a fantasy as the rope
snaps taut around his neck) or solved the crime (e.g., Poirot
discovers that the apparent target of attempted murder was in
fact the perpetrator). It was also true when the spoiler was
more poetic, as when frisky adolescents watching a couple
struggle with a baby are revealed to be previewing their own
futures, and the couple glimpsing their own pasts. In all these
types of stories, spoilers may allow readers to organize developments, anticipate the implications of events, and resolve
ambiguities that occur in the course of reading.
It is possible that spoilers enhance enjoyment by actually
increasing tension. Knowing the ending of Oedipus Rex may
heighten the pleasurable tension caused by the disparity in
knowledge between the omniscient reader and the character
marching to his doom. This notion is consistent with the assertion
that stories can be reread with no diminution of suspense
(Carroll, 1996). Although our results suggest that people
are wasting their time avoiding spoilers, our data do not
suggest that authors err by keeping things hidden. Stories
that open by revealing outcomes may lead readers to anticipate additional revelations at the end; in other words, readers
do not expect a story to provide complete premature knowledge
of its ending the way an external source might. Indeed, it
was only spoilers external to the stories that enhanced
readers’ delight; there was no benefit to our editing the stories
themselves.
Erroneous intuitions about the nature of spoilers may persist because individual readers are unable to compare spoiled
and unspoiled experiences of a novel story."
"Subjects significantly preferred
spoiled over unspoiled stories in the case of both the ironic twist stories (6.20 vs. 5.79), p = .013, Cohen’s d = 0.18, and
the mysteries (7.29 vs. 6.60), p = .001, d = 0.34. The evocative
stories were appreciated less overall, likely because of their
more expressly literary aims, but subjects again significantly
preferred spoiled over unspoiled versions (5.50 vs. 5.03), p = .019, d = 0.22. In all three story types, incorporating spoiler
texts into stories had no effect on how much they were liked,
ps > .4."
So it is more than likely that this remark actually increased their enjoyment of the movie.
funny story it was rewritten that way because the original plot was called too idealistic with at least some of the people surviving lol
At the start of the space battle you said "this feels so similar to the original" - well if you didn't realise, the "gold leader standing by" and "red leader" clips were actually cut from A New Hope.
Also a nice subtlety was the pilot Red 5 dying in the space battle, who is replaced by... Luke Skywalker as Red 5 in a New Hope :)
It's the little things that they absolutely nailed in Rogue One unlike some of the other Star Wars spin offs.
Actually Gold Leader’s actor came back and reprised his role for this movie 40 years later, they just de-aged him. Red Leader’s actor was dead though so yeah they reused footage.
Because John Knoll who ran ILM thought of it. They all seem very smart and clever in interviews. And his brother created Photoshop.
@@thatperformer3879 You're joking, right? I've never heard that story before. It's all repurposed footage that was filmed for the original Star Wars.
@@M1cha3lP There is an interview of Gold Leader’s actor talking about reprising his role in Rogue One and shooting new footage for the film. Chill bruh.
@@thatperformer3879 He re-recorded dialogue to assist with restoring the original footage that had degraded over time. So he "reprised his role" in that sense, but no new footage was recorded and no de-ageing of that actor.
I saw A New Hope in the first weekend of its release in 1977. I had never left a theater with such a feeling of elation before. Rogue One was the first Star Wars movie since then that left me with the same feeling of elation.
I felt the same way, Kirk. I just turned 7 when I Star Wars for my birthday. This epic film left me with that same feeling of elation.
Same
I had plenty of goosebumps when I saw this at the premiere date here in denmark, with only 1 other person that early! I saw the prequels and TFA there too!only Han and Leia died in the sequels, so not many other characters to feel loss over in the other movies!
By far the best of the "new" Star Wars films and certainly the best outside of the original trilogy, even though the sad end is known from the get go, if one has seen the original Star Wars. Just very well told and well executed.
And Mads Mikkelsen is always a win!
Like you I love this movie; in fact I'm not ashamed to admit when I say in the cinema, Jyn's scenes with ehr father with the hologram thingy and later with him in person brought tears to my eyes (and still do). If yo think about it, she has a tragic life - her early life as a little kid is in secutirty, then she watches her mum killed in front of her and is sperated from her dad. She then has to grow up (through puberty no less) whilst "looked after" by Saul's guerillas. She's arrested and sentenced to a labour camp, see's her dad die in front of her; and then dies herself whiclst barely in her twenties. And yes she died knowing she had helped defeat the Empire (who killed her father and caused all this) but talk about a f*cked up childhood.
Gareth Edwards is a good director(Monsters, Godzilla, Rogue One) though I heard Tony Gilroy(Bourne Legacy) reshot a lot of the movie.
This actually comes in third of my fav films in the series. Maybe second even second on some days!
@@luxurybuzz3681 Yes, Gilroy did a lot, but Edwards was a good soldier and promoted the film with a smile.
Rogue One has become my favorite Star Wars movie. It just edges out Empire for the top spot. The reason for this was the feel of the movie, it really encapsulated the war part and I think we need more of that. Jedi and the big heroes are nice but seeing the war from the perspective of regular people is amazing.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
My favorite Star Wars movie. Dark, gritty, ruthless. Also it plays in the time of the original trilogy but made with modern technology. It never looked and sounded better! I hope we get more movies like this. Current hope is on the Andor show. 😊
My thoughts exactly, I really hope Andor is as good.
@@masteryoda7207 It turns out...Andor is even better than I could've expected and probably the best thing to come out of Star Wars.
While I cried ugly tears when everyone died one by one, I later thought about it and realised that it makes perfect sense. Of course they all had to die since none of these characters are in A New Hope. And given the line in that movie about how many died to deliver the plans. This became my all time favourite Star Wars movie. The list is endless with all the details they put in to make this such a seamless transition to A New Hope. Just pure perfection.
Just because they're not in a New Hope in itself doesn't mean that they had to die. There's any number of reasons why they wouldn't be there. and even dead people get mentioned, especially after something like that. Except no one who died got mentioned.
There will always be a special place in my heart for Rogue One 🙌
Rogue One was AWESOME !!! LOVED it !!!
Every time I watch that ending, it makes me wanna throw on a new Hope, because it’s literally the next scene!
You can cut from Tantive IV making the hyperspace jump straight into the iconic STAR WARS drop into the title crawl.
I was a bit surprised to see Grand Moff Tarkin since Peter Cushing had been dead for 20 years but I liked it. Princess Leia was a shock too. I read later that she saw the movie before she died and liked the CGI version of her a lot. She also gave her blessing to do it. This made me happy.
The CGI was so bad on him.. I wish they'd only shown his reflection in the window. Then waited for his full reveal in A New Hope.
@@brockbaby for the time it was pretty good, but the whole deep fakes technology was only just coming in then.
Like if you compare Luke Skywalker in Mandalorian S2 ending to Book of Boba Fett, it's crazy how much they improved his look - and both these came out way after Rogue One.
It can always be said that CGI should only be used if it fits the story. Leia needed to be there at the end to make sure people understood that was the ship from the beginning of A New Hope. They could have just shown the white robed figure from the back, but even with the not quite so good face I think this was better. Tarkin might have been shown too much, but it was a pretty cool addition to the lore how he usurped control of the death star project from Krenick. Everyone always extoll the vertices of practical effects in movies like the Thing, but Tarkin, to me, looks more like Peter Cushing than the dog monster looked like a real creature. It's all about your ability to let go and just enjoy the movie.
If you like K2SO (the droid), he was voiced by Alan Tudyk. He also played the pilot Hoban Washburne in Firefly, and Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball. He was also brilliant in the British version of Death at a Funeral. All of them are well worth watching for him, and other reasons.
You forgot A Knight's Tale.
And now he plays an alien in Resident Alien. And he is hilarious. That series is pure gold. Alan is such an amazing actor.
Peter Cushing who played Tarkin in "A New Hope" in 1977, died in 1994. So yes, they had to make a CGI version of him.
One of the most iconic Darth Vader scene was here , cinematic at the finest with smoke and red light from Saber...love it ...
Vader went full juggernaut mode
He also went full incompetent mode.
@@andymiller6661
@broken record
@@richardrobbins387 Good for you.
It neatly explains why Vader's so pissed off in ANH. He literally just watched this ship fly away and Leia's all like "We're on a diplomatic mission for Alderaan." Like hell you are young lady!
There's no wind in space, so Vader was making his cloak flap using the force. #extra.
My head canon is that there's an invisible force field holding the air in there and the air currents from the vents pumping in more air to make up for the volume the ship was displacing while docked.
Yep - either that or its backwash from the ship's engines
Vader: "Careful that you don't 'choke' on your aspirations, director," If that isn't a dad joke, then I'm Mickey Mouse.
Director, not doctor
@@barniem3148-my bad
He wrote director
This is simply the best of the later movie to come out since the original trilogy. The writing was fantastic, it relied upon the story rather than flashy CGI, although they used that to some great new standards. Vader’s rage at the end was absolutely brilliant and masterful! So glad you enjoyed this one!
Yet still bad
Good things Disney SW gave us:
1) showing a more active Vader
2) This movie.
I will always remember the first time I saw this movie in the theater. Three days after Carrie Fisher died. There was NOT a dry eye in the house. This is a great movie. Thank you.
Great reaction. That last scene with Darth Vader fighting in the hallway gives me chills every time.
Great reaction Addie. My older child was 10 when we watched this and he had never seen a movie with an ending like that before. He looked up at me with tears in his eyes and he said I don’t like that daddy. I said I know it sucked everybody died. Still one of my favorites of all the films.
This movie was released 11 days before Carrie Fisher’s death.
She saw it and liked the CGI version of herself a lot. She had also given her blessing before it was done. This makes me happy.
@@mckrackin5324 I like the story, real or not, of her thinking it was a restored clip she made in 77, until they told her it was entirely cgi
The perfect example of how they can make a compelling movie without any of the original characters - and no Jedi to save everyone.
I'd argue that this is the best Star Wars movie because the stakes were understood by everyone - it was a suicide mission to save the galaxy- and everyone stepped up to get it done.
Yet still bad.
@@andymiller6661 stop repeating your shit everywhere
What I love about this movie is it REALLY drives home just how much was sacrificed and how massively heroic the people who ensured those plans got out were because they came at an extremely heavy cost.
As a longtime Star Wars fan, seeing this in theaters was....emotional. I have to say it's become my favorite Star Wars film of the entire franchise.
Ah, perfect timing to be watching this film since the premiere of Andor is near. And you are correct. Tarkin's was CG to make it look like Peter Cushing was back from the dead, so to speak. Same for Leia at the end, only this came out before her death on December 26th of that year (and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, died the next day). For Tarkin, Guy Henry provided the voice, and Leia saying "hope" at the end was archived audio of Carrie Fisher in the Original Trilogy. And yes, again, that was James Earl Jones, but Hayden wasn't in the suit for this film. They had two different people for the two scenes he was in. Edit: Well, next up in the films is Solo, and then you have the Sequel Trilogy, plus you have Clone Wars, Rebels, The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and of course, Andor, and there's also gonna be Acolytes (possibly, if we get any trailers or news about that) and Ahsoka. Who's Ahsoka, you ask? The Clone Wars will tell you, but make sure you watch the episodes in chronological order, starting with episode 216.
Same thing with Red and Gold leaders
@@karlsmith2570 Actually, they used archived footage from A New Hope for Red and Gold Leaders, but their respective actors did record new dialogue during the Battle of Scarif. For Drewe Henley (who played Red Leader), sadly, this was a posthumous appearance, as he died 10 months before the movie came out.
....if only Disney, knew what they were buying and payed attention to the franchise! Ah, the memories.....
@@dreci3001 Addie will watch the Sequels with her own judgement. If she likes one or two of them, then that's good. Same goes for Solo.
@@EntertainmentFan11 I'm not judging, but I do believe Rouge One was better than some of the sequels as a stand alone. 🙂
One word to describe Rogue One: Masterpiece
You clearly haven't seen a masterpiece in your life, mate!
Fun fact, when K2 slaps Cassian, it was improvised by Alan who played K2. You can see Diego Luna struggling to keep a straight face behind his hansd
The third best Star Wars movie ever, behind Empire Strikes Back and Revenge Of The Sith.
Fax
hmmm.... I certainly liked this one. It is a good movie, but my personal opinion I wouldn't rank it 3rd or even 4th. The movie was a little slow until everything started happening at the end of the movie. But still a good movie.
I completely agree! My top three 1. Empire, 2. Revenge and 3. Rouge
oh how i wish every starwars project had this director
*Star Wars
10:07 The scene where K2 slaps Cassian was improvised by Alan Tudyk. Immediately after this happened, you can see Diego Luna holding up his hand to cover his face. He did this to obscure a huge smile so that the scene didn't have to be redone.
Probably my favorite bit of trivia from this movie.
This is by far one of my favorite movies in the entire Star Wars series. Such an awesome movie!
Out of all the movies I've seen in a theater, the beginning of this movie delivered the most stunned uncomfortable silence when the iconic scrolling text skipped right into the movie. All you could hear were murmurs of "oh" "wtf" "Ahhhh!" "nope, don't like that" etc.
Addie, you continue to impress. I've been unsubscribing from a lot of reactors lately for their inability to comprehend (or even pay attention to) what is directly presented to them in the films they watch. You are both astute and passionate. Keep up the great work!
when Leia turned around I just lost it in the theater crying. Fisher had only recently died.
When I first saw this, was really getting into it like like the reacters I see now. Wondering, these characters are pretty awesome I wonder why we never hear from them again, til half way thru when it started clicking they weren't gonna make it. K2SO was my favorite in this one for sure, a droid with just the right amount of sass..
Been waiting for this one. Such an amazing movie. The best SW film outside of 4, 5, 6, & 3.
IYO
@@scottperry8354 in many peoples' opinion.
789 is the SW anti-trilogy. Disney got it right with this one. Andor looks promising.
I rate it second best after EpV.
Still the best SW media out of Disney, I remember in the theater on day 1 that scene where Jyn and Cassian board the shuttle and she says "may the force be with us" caused the theater to erupt in applause, great movie.
Yet still bad.
This is easily my favorite Star Wars film to come from Disney. If you have the chance, there's a documentary about the making of the film that is really interesting.
Addie, I saw this film in theater two weeks after Carrie Fisher passed away. I cried.
I saw Star Wars in the theater in 1977. I was 7 years old, and I've been a fan of it ever since. This movie really ties into the first movie which makes it even more iconic.😮
24:34: Yeah. We've seen, throughout Star Wars, bases built on lava worlds, ice worlds, jungle worlds, desert worlds, mountain worlds, swamp worlds, ocean worlds, and so on. Finally, someone said "You know what? Let's build our base on the TROPICAL BEACH PLANET."
Peter Cushing (the actor who played Grand Moff Tarkin) died in 1994.
He was not available for shooting this movie.
😂
5:19 And that droid is played by (voice and motion capture) Alan Tudyk (Wash from "Firefly" & "Serenity")
The moment in Episode 5 when its said "many bothans died to bring us this information", hits hard after this movie
That was said in Empire Strikes Back?
That was in Episode 6 Return of the Jedi, and it was with regards to the second Death Star not this one.
@@stuartwesthall Aw, should have let him answer.
Krennic seeing the Death Star light up and it reflect in his eyes before he dies? Perfect.
"Be careful not to choke on your ambitions." Force Pun activated.
My favorite SW movie ever!
It’s crazy how important this movie is to the main story of Star Wars, and it reinforces the credibility of the original movie A New Hope. You never really understood how they got the plans for the Death Star in the first place, and didn’t understand why they would build such a vulnerable weak spot. This movie explained that in a way that didn’t feel forced or added in after the fact to fill in a plot hole, even though it’s exactly what it did. In my opinion, Rogue One was one of the best Star Wars movies ever made. And it’s a stand alone movie with basically almost no characters we ever see again. It’s a story of true sacrifice and bravery for the rebellion and the fight against the Empire and tyranny. It did such a good job of explaining so many things, and it’s actually insane how perfectly and seamlessly it leads right into the start of Episode 4. So much so that if you didn’t know a single thing about Star Wars, including when the original even came out, and you decided to watch it in story order, so 1,2,3,rogue one,4,5,6,7,8,9 and you watched the version someone put out editing rogue one and episode 4 together into one movie where they cut the end credits scene off of rogue one, and the intro scene of a new hope so that it went from the last scene of rogue one to the first scene of ANH, it would transition so flawlessly the only thing you’d think was “wait, why does this movie suddenly now look like it’s much older?” Like you wouldn’t even realize it was a different movie. The only tell is that you’re going from the quality of a movie released in 2016, to the quality of a movie released in 1977. If all Star Wars movies had the same quality, you’d never even notice the transition to a totally different movie.
And that’s the only thing I hate about when I rewatch the movies in chronological order. You go from pretty decent quality and CGI with episodes 1-3, to much better quality and CGI in Rogue One, then way back to not so great quality and basically no CGI or pretty sub par CGI in 4-6, to back to really good quality and CGI with 7-9. It also throws you off too because the lightsaber duels in 4-6 are very “boring” in their complexity and in how the characters move and fight vs how they are in 1-3 and 7-9. Vader and Obi Wan it can kinda make sense because they’re much older now so they aren’t as agile and nimble and strong as before in 4-6, but seeing Luke fight in a similar way just a LITTLE more agile still looks odd. Sure you could also explain that with him not really having had proper training, but it’s just odd to go from Jedi and Sith having these great choreographed skillful light saber duels in 1-3, then Vader showing still great skill in rogue one, to the lackluster duels in 4-6. To the more choreographed duels again in 7-9. Even though the duels in 7-9 weren’t that great either, I mean even Phin and Rey who were both untrained with a lightsaber were able to wield it and look like they could move around with it better than anyone in episodes 4-6. And the reason for that was because of how they had to create the lightsabers in 4-6. They were extremely fragile sticks with reflective tape on them so they could be tracked and have effects put on them in post so the super fast movements would have made it very difficult to do so. In fact there’s still frames where you can see they weren’t able to catch it and they aren’t lit up right. So imagine if they had better faster duels they would’ve missed a lot more. But it’s just odd to see the difference and it suddenly looks like no one knows how to use a light saber properly in 4-6 and then in 7 Rey and Phin suddenly look just as controlled as Luke did if not more so at some points. I mean Rey is kinda understandable because she used a stick already and was skilled with swinging that around, but Phin didn’t have any of that and while yeah he didn’t look great, just the speed he was swinging it around at was suddenly much faster than it was being swung around by Vader, Obiwan, and even Luke in 4-6 which is just funny.
The arrival of the Rebel fleet above Scarif still gives me chills. It's so well done.
Everyone dying is why this movie works. Real cost and consequences. Tragedy and heroics in the face of death.
This is one of my favorites. I cried too at the theater when I saw it the first time. Glad to see you reacting and watching Star Wars, the best franchise ever.
Two fun small details: at the end, Director Krennic, on top of the tower, is clipped by the Death Star beam. Darth Vader is holding the hallway door shut with the Force.
Large parts of Scariff Base were filmed in the Canary Wharf's London Underground station. It's very obvious in one of the early trailers.
The Interval between Rogue One and Episode for is anywhere between 2 hours and two weeks.
They not only CGIed Carrie Fisher but also the commander of the Death Star, the leader of the rebels who you pointed out smiled, and they used shots from episode IV's battle scene which were filmed and not used back in 1977. The lady you pointed out who smiled has a speech before they attack and destroy the Death Star where she says many people died to get the plans to them.
Are you referring to this scene?
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I got to see this with friends at the Hollywood premiere. It was so fun seeing fans, celebrities, and the cast cheering!
The thing I love about this movie is that blowing up the base would have killed everyone anyways. But they gave each main character a meaningful death, and made you feel their loss individually. Even Director Krennic, who was the first person on the base killed by the Death Star, when it cut through the top of the tower.
None of the characters had a meaningful death.
I giggled like a little schoolgirl when I heard the respirator watching this for the first time. When you hear the breathing, you know the door isn't stuck. Vader is holding it with the Force.
This movie made the Death Star SUPER terrifying. Even on its weakest possible setting, that superlaser is still a planetary extinction event.
Agreed! Bail Organa is a great, very nostalgic character
I don't think there has been any moment in any movie that made me happier the first time I saw it, than the moment the Rebel fleet arrives over Scarif. That and the whole battle following it are.. almost everything I've wanted in a Star Wars movie, or any movie, my whole life, and nothing before or since has done it as well.
Excellent movie! It's basically a Star Wars meets The Dirty Dozen type of story about a suicide mission. Can't wait for the new Andor Series this Fall.
26:32 they have actual old footage of red squadron that was not used in the old movie, restorated and reused here. there is after all merely hours between the end of Rogue one and the beginning of A new Hope. 20 minutes if I'm not entirely mistaken.
OK so I finished the video. Glad you enjoyed it. Yes Tarkin and Leia were both CGI over another actors face, and Carrie Fisher died just a month after the film was released and it was still in theatres.
Also Michael Giaccino did an amazing job with the music on this movie, and "your father would be proud" will forever be one of my favourite pieces of theatrical music
And he scored it in a week. Which is just crazy
8:26 - "The strongest stars have hearts of Kyber"
Sums up the whole movie and it's protagonists.
29:40 remember that quote : “i’m one with the force, the force is with me” :)
It makes me wonder if the Force isn't always the reason stormtroopers keep missing the heroes.
@@kirkdarling4120 yeah i mean, then maybe R2 and C3PO are force sensitive at that point :D
@@pianoman1857 The implication Cirrut presents is that the Force has its own will and intention.
Ahsoka Tano could still save Jyn and Casian if she goes to the world between worlds. I hope one day we could see that happening.
35:24 there's a scene in episode 4 when they're reviewing the plans for the Death Star where someone says something like A lot of people lost their lives to get us these plans. This is what they were referring to.
The line was, "Many bothans died bringing us this information."
Where are the bothans? Who said that line?
The best thing about this movie is a standalone movie. If you're not into the Star Wars universe you understand what they're doing. But you know the Star Wars universe and you understand all the complications and the connections to episode 4. I love this movie it's such a good one.
Yet still bad.
Not only a great Star Wars film, but up there with some of the best war films. Seeing this in the theater, it struck me that I was watching a very well done war movie that just happened to be set in space. The gritty, raw nature of the production was the perfect choice, the characters were almost flawlessly designed and executed, and the connection into lore & elsewhere was done in a very meaningful way. I couldn’t help but feel more for EP 4, and how well it fit into the puzzle.
The Force is with me, and I am with the Force.
I just came to see the end of the reaction. Very moved by you Addie! Cheers from Paris!
I love how stressful this film is, it was so different and yet so original Star Wars at the same time. Every obstacle they have to overcome, finding the plans, getting the plans, finding the master switch, communicating with the fleet, taking down the shield, even having to reset the antenna, going to the end of walkway, then krennic turns up, each step so simple and yet so difficult to achieve. So by the time that voice finally says ‘transmitting….transmitting’ you’re so relieved even though you already knew that it was going to work out after seeing a new hope.
Even then you can’t rest because then we have Vader mowing down rebels as the disc gets passed down from one person to another down the corridors.
It’s just so frenetic, and stressful and fast paced the first time you watch it that it feels like you feel the same stress the characters do.
Yet so bad.
@@andymiller6661 90% of people disagree but if that’s what you think of the film that’s your opinion
@@obiwankenobi687 Good for them. That in itself doesn't mean that I'm wrong.
I teared up just watching the cut-down version of the movie, this movie gets me every time. It gives all new meaning to that opening crawl in Episode IV. Fun fact, the initial idea for this movie came from Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt to make a movie about the battle mentioned in that crawl. Apparently there was originally an ending where some main characters survived but the filmmakers thought it would have more emotional weight if everyone died. They didn't think LucasFilm would sign off on that, but they did.
If you ever watch through Clone Wars and Rebels, you will get some of the backstory of Saw Gerrera. He was the first animated character to make the jump to live action. The new Disney+ show "Andor" starts next month and will be a kind of backstory of this movie, following Cassian Andor in the earlier days of the Rebellion. Based on this movie and the trailers I've seen so far, it's definitely my most anticipated Star Wars project in a long time.
I break down every time Jyn sees her fathers hologram.
"That sounds like Darth Vader"
That's intended. There are extremists on both sides, and they used being supported by machines as the connecting bridge.
Good news. Rogue One is playing at IMAX theaters for the next several days. This is your chance to see a SW movie on the big screen. Also, they're gonna show a sneak preview of the upcoming Andor series.
21:00 That really drives home that if you remove Vader's armor and prosthetic limbs, he's a quadruple amputee with 4th-degree burns on a respirator.
Best Star Wars movie as far as I am concerned. Perfect connected tissue between 1-3 and 4-6. I love how it you watch movies in release order from 4-6 and 1-3, then comes Rogue One and it seemlessly leads back into watching 4-6. Perfect Circle.
Saw Guerera is an interesting character. he shows up in clone wars and then much later in this. In RO he's basically the rebellion's version of darth vader. So blown to pieces he's just a mass cybernetics. Whereas, being a sith, Vader draws strength from the pain and hatred of his condition, Saw seems completely worn down and just finished. He's paranoid and exhausted and ready to die.
My Favorite Star Wars Trilogy, Rogue One, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back. So awesome!
Who said The Empire has no taste clearly hasn't seen their training planet of Scariff. That's my kinda vacation spot and where I'd love to do my training too.
One last look at beauty before getting stationed on dimly lit ship lol.
Palm trees, blue water and sandy beaches. Anakin won't bother me there.
just got to watching this reaction and I was curious if you watched the Andor Disney+ series, and was surprised you hadn't (at least did not react to it on your channel) but you REALLY should
12:10 “are we going to see Vader?” *grins gleefully*
K2 best droid. Also, that hammerhead corvetter ramming one ISD into another, amazing scene. I'm sorry I missed this movie in theaters.
This movie, as well as all the seasons of the Mandalorian so far, have been the best Star Wars I've seen since the prequels. Nothing else tops.
Yet still bad.
Ever notice how similar the sound effects is of lightsabers and the main weapon of the Death Star?
They're the same technology on different scales.
Its amazing how they took the first couple sentences of the text crawl 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."
And make this amazing movie.
We all cry too. This is one of the best Star Wars movies.
Great reaction! 😊
This is one of my top 5 "Star Wars" movies.
Fun, But Sad Fact that I forgot to mention on Patreon: This movie was released 11 days before Carrie Fisher passed away in December of 2016.
Looking forward to your next reaction. 😊
Chirrut Imwe is played by the legendary martial arts master Donnie Yen :D
That lava planet was Mustafar, that's where Vader built his fortress.
This film ends hours before Ep. 4 starts :P It's a great tie-in to the original trilogy. Sadly, there is no Blue Squadron in Ep. 4, because they were all shot down on Scarif :(
Addie, those two thugs that Cassian and Jyn bump into on Jedha were the same two that harrassed Luke in the cantina in A New Hope.
The only good Star Wars movie made by Disney
@TaeTen Min Dude everyone says TFA was only ruined when Rian Johnson made TLJ, but TFA is such an objectively terrible film. The first thing Disney should have done when writing a continuation to a beloved saga, is to immediately show how the galaxy evolved after the Original Trilogy, show Luke, Han, and Leia rebuilding the New Republic. Have the politics of this new galaxy, and show Luke’s new Jedi order. Instead JJ Abrams immediately erased every single accomplishment of the first six movies in just the opening crawl. He made a complete carbon copy of ANH because he has no creativity. I can never forgive him for just killing Luke’s Jedi order offscreen and just recreating the empire but even worse. Then you got Finn who acts like a minstrel show even though he supposedly has PTSD and was trained at birth to be a brainwashed killer. And then JJ called everyone who doesn’t like Rey “sexists”.
Addie, the prequel series leading to this film, “Andor”, follows Cassian five years before this. It starts streaming on Disney Plus on Sept. 21st.
This movie was 10x better than all 3 prequels and all 3 sequels (AND all 6 Obi-Wan episodes) combined. Loved it.
The voice of the tall droid is Alan Tudyk. He's a Julliard-trained actor who voiced the chicken in Moana and the rolly-polly in Raya, along others, but most importantly Wash in Firefly.
Rogue One is hands down the best Disney Star Wars movie.
And that was why Red Squadron was renamed "Rogue Squadron".
Yes, Governor Tarkin is a CGI face on another actor. The actor who played Tarkin, the legendary Peter Cushing, unfortunately had long since passed away by the time this film was being made.