What I love about this battle is it completely explains (retroactively) why the rebels had so few forces to send against the Death Star in A New Hope. They had just gotten into a major engagement at Skariff
@@dianamon2727there were more than 3 or 4 ships destroyed. During that one scene of Vader on the bridge, you can see that much of the Rebel fleet is still around Raddus’ flagship. It’s safe to say that all of those were destroyed. Additionally, the Rebel starfighter wing took heavy losses, and that’s the most relevant part to Yavin. They lost easily half of all the fighters sent, including the leader of the Rebel starfighter wing (Blue Leader, I can’t remember his name atm.)
@@dianamon2727a Corvette was already seen heavily damaged during the battle against 2 ISD's and starfighter units we're also lost many numbers vaders arrival decimated the profundity along with the other ships who were unable to jump to hyperspace
@@dianamon2727 The Death Star attack was all strike craft, and you can see them die by the dozen in this clip. AND they were coming from Yavin as well, so good luck getting replacements quickly, that was the main Rebel base.
@@dianamon2727you miss the part where a select few ship make the jump before Vader’s Star Destroyer arrives and decimates the majority of the fleet? Good effort though.
@fransesco9703 ramble alert I felt the same for a long time and it kind of is, but then I thought “what if it was just the weapon that was crippled permanently and the rest of the planet functioned as a mobile capitol planet for the First Order and that the Resistance was called the Republic instead with large amounts of fleets left over?” TFA at the very least set the characters up. TLJ sucked. TROS had some good character chemistry. I don’t like the sequels as a whole but they had SOME good ideas. They just weren’t used properly. “Sorry for the mess.”
Even if Lucas cared about the prequels this much too, instead doing his whole drama/politics BS, we could've had the best single action series run in movies
It was one of my favorite scenes. Everyone on the ground celebrating the arrival of "the cavalry" and the pilot smiling broadly knowing he arrived at the right time to make a difference, for those who didn't even expect help. A pump fist moment.
Agreed - they took OT dialogue and meshed it seamlessly into this wonderful set of scenes. Makes me want "Rogue Squadron" to be a real movie... no more Rey crap, please.
Guys They actually used footage from the original movie That's why they seem so close to the original It's because they ARE the originals (Red and Gold) Blue is the modern actorsm
I love how you can see at 6:43 the corvette is still lodged in the star destroyer as it crashes into the shield, trapped in death's embrace. They didn't know it but they saved the galaxy with that move
Many fans have analysed the scene and found that most of its escape pods had ejected. The most likely scenario is that they rigged the sub-light engines to run at full throttle and abandoned ship.
This was everything that I could've wanted in Star Wars in 8 minutes worth of screen time. All grit, no bs. A collective front instead of a collage of meaningless hero single shots. I damn near cry at the fact that this level of passion hasn't been replicated in the Disney Era since Rogue One's release. It's been 7 years.
I'd put Andor above this in terms of both writing and passion. I was born at the time of the prequels and my dad watched the OT as it came out in theaters; Andor captured both of us spectacularly, and certainly in no way anything else Disney has made with the exception of this movie. I'd even say Andor is better than the OT, heretical though it may be to say. Andor and Rogue One, being Star Wars that doesn't treat or expect it's audience to be a child, is what I and so many others have wanted for so long.
@@pwh1981 yup. Andor is def above Rogue One, but to be fair, it has the privilege of being a series rather than a 2 hour movie. If Rogue One was a TV series written like Andor, with this still being the final battle, it could surpass it. The only downside to that idea is that we wouldn't be able to see this in the big screen
Gosh the moment the death star reaches scarif brings tears to my eyes. This entire battle sequence shows how a modern star wars movie should be made. Only human beings fighting with all their strengths. No jokes, only brave people falling after completing a mission.
It's easily the ballsiest part of the whole film. Every character we meet in the film, dies at the end. It's sombering watching each character fall in sequence, including the ships.
Blue Squadron was meant to be in the OT but was change to Red due to the blue marking interfering with the Blue Screen. Loved how they show to an actual in canon reason as why Blue Squadron didn't participate. Probably the real MVP of this fight.
Now that we think about it, Red Squadron's existence is essentially created out of a sort of retcon. Then the Legends elitists lose their mind with Rogue One with its "retcons" with Galen and the exhaust port, this battle, etc.
@@Fedaykin24 "In my head canon the remnants of Blue Squadron who survived the battle of Skariff were then absorbed into Red Squadron." And this is exactly what happened in WWII on all sides in all theatres of conflict, which lends even more credence to the the idea of "Star Wars being WWII in space."
Not just that, it's the best since Empire Strikes Back, or Return of the Jedi depending how i'm feeling about it on a given day. comfortably a better film than all the prequels though. of which only ROTS is even close to being good.
Exactly what I was thinking, that moment when the U-Wing landed it was like you just captured a new point and reinforcements started spawning right beside you.
@@RogueJyn thats even better. You and your squad take a point from the enemy after a hard fought battle only to see vader walk around the corner and slaughter everyone and undo all your hard work.
You just see it slowly rising up above scariff, gives me goosebumps everytime. Even more so when you see & hear the superlaser fire and you see that mushroom cloud. A Phenomenal scene.
This movie meant everything to me It was the last star wars movie i saw in person with my dad I always asked him "what was seeing the iriginal like in theaters?" "That's what it was like" Your opinion may vary, but that meant the world to me Star Wars was our thing we shared. He is still around But we don't talk anymore. It was a good memory. Love ya dad
That feeling when Gold and Red Leader appeared on the screen when I watched Rogue One for the first time in cinema, just incredible! Thats how Star Wars should be @Sequels…
This battle actually maintained some semblance of military discipline. Squadrons fighting in formation, no stupid jokes or unnecessary fly boy maneuvers. The Empire actually looked dangerous, competent, and inflicted serious losses on the Rebel fleet.
@@justiceavenger275 And that was the COOL thing. Vader's ISD dropping out of hyperspace, shaking me to my core didn't diminish my heartstrings being tugged. If anything it was the cherry on top.
That hammerhead corvette scene and the descent of the destroyer on the shield gate felt almost religious and ethereal. the Force, I'll always love Rogue One.
You can see the Hammerhead still attched to the Star Destroyer as it crashes into the shield generator. They never got out, went out fighting to the bitter end.
I guess this scene is based on several real life episode of small Soviet ships ramming US destroyers and cruisers Like when small patrol boat hammered USS Caron in full speed to force it off Soviet coast, and succeeded, even seriously damaged ships weapons and caused a fire
The Hammerhead's impact on the Star Destroyer should have been barely noticeable by the Star Destroyer's personnel. A Star Destroyer is ~1600 meters long, a Hammerhead is ~120 meters long, so the Star Destroyer is ~13 times as long. Cubing this means the Star Destroyer is over two thousand times the mass of the Hammerhead. So if the Hammerhead was moving at ~2000 meters per second, the resulting impact will have the Star Destroyer moving at 1 meter/second. The scene should have been the Hammerhead impacting with the Star Destroyer crew hearing a thump and maybe a small jolt (gravity still worked, so inertial dampening likely still worked). But as the Hammerhead is in the notch with its engines at full, the bridge crew sees their ship approaching the other Star Destroyer and realize that something is wrong.
Barion Renner. He got hit once on the back of his bottom left laser cannon from one of the Tie. His aft deflector shield made a good job in protecting it.
literally that one move won the entire fight, since with the shields down they were able to disable the ISD and then subsequently fling it into the second one and eliminate the shields as a result
@@frantisekbabic9683 If you watch the scene where the Persecutor plows into the shield gate you can see that the Hammerhead is still stuck in that little nook it wedged itself into all the way until they collide.
@@frantisekbabic9683 Even if they did make it to the escape pods and even if another rebel ship picked them up immediately, they still most likely died when Vader's arrival destroyed most of what was left of the rebel fleet.
Fun fact: the Battle of Scarif is the reason that the main Rebel base could only field thirty one-man fighter craft against the Death Star at the subsequent Battle of Yavin.
Well, yes, but actually no. We never see it in the film, but the Alliance used a Lukrehulk battleship and several frigates as well as a dozen more fighters and bombers to repeatedly hit the death star's main weapon in an attempt to destroy it. They managed to knock it out of alignment enough that the Death star is forced to go around the gas Giant of Yavin before firing on the rebels.
@@symphony_in_152mm2 they should have mentioned that in the original movie tbh, like a passing comment or in the briefing room where they have already thrown the majority of their forces against it and failed, and that they are the last available squadrons and their only hope.
Glad that this movie filled the plot holes from the Episode IV: -Why the Death Star had such an obvious and big weak point (Galen put it to get his vengeance against the Empire) -Why the Rebel Alliance only sent 32 starfighters against the Death Star during the Battle of Yavin (they lost almost their entire fleet during the Battle of Scarif) -Why the Empire knew Leia had the Death Star plans (they saw her ship fleeing from Scarif with the plans in their soldiers hands)
Exactly, been saying this for ages. And people think the Death Star weakness didn’t need to be explained when it definitely needed to since by itself it’s one of the worst pieces of writing in the OT
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Boomer Five reporting in. I was boots on the ground in '77, I had NO idea where life was going to take me, but I knew it would involve Star Wars. It did. I met the person I married. Met my best friend. I became an entertainment writer. And we waited 39 YEARS for THIS movie and it was WORTH every minute that we lived to get there. I was sitting with my FAMILY that night in a theater that was on its feet screaming, yelling, crying and losing its mind -- just like we did in1977. To this day it was the FIRST time I was truly terrified of Vader, and it was ALL of us. (and there was much excellent Force Yeeting! going on -- look, I'm old, but I'm still 12, and you know I still show up in costume.) Thanks for cutting this. See if you can spot the Ghost in her first Live Action role.
I never got to see the originals or prequels in theaters, but I was able to watch Rogue One. Seeing Darth Vader, the rebels, the Death Star, even Tarkin, was a dream come true, and with my grandfather sitting right next to me who watched the original years before.
It appears to be homage to the “frigates” from Knights of the Old Republic (game / lore). Very similar shape and form. I also like the idea that possibly what was once considered the size of a frigate is (or could be) considered merely a corvette at a later time, much as in the modern world how what was long ago considered a cruiser (or light cruiser anyway) weighs about as much as a modern destroyer - as in ships have generally gotten much bigger over time.
You have to love Vader using the SSD to its fullest by being highly aggressive. Really does go to show if the two other SSDs had been less cautious and pressed the assault they could have won this.
This wasn’t the SSD, it was the Devastator which Vader had upgraded throughout the years to be more offensive based as opposed to the more outdated versions that inevitably fell during the battle.
We don't know the specific loadouts those ISDs were deployed with, could've been budget versions meant for patrol duty with reduced weaponry and garrison and also inexperienced crew overwhelmed by the sudden appeareance of the entire Rebel fleet.
@@Burstnoktrue I highly doubt anyone in the star destroyers or the shield apparatus would've expected a full out attack on a base full of mostly unimportant plans.
Actually when you think about it, you can consider the options of the Admiral in the ISD; 2 ISDs aggresively engage the Rebel fleet or have the Shield gate take the damage for you while awaiting reinforcements. Plus it being a planetary shield also means the rebels would take a long time to bring down the shield
I love The Battle Scarif. It's basically Space Vietnam. The uniforms for the Rebel SOG Rouge One are US Vietnam uniforms, some of the blasters are sci-fi-ed M16s and M4s and that one space fighter that has variable swept wings has a sci-fi-ed M60 for a door gun.
Yeah but not how you think - the rebels were inspired by the Vietcong and the Empire was based on Nixonian America (+the British/Roman Empires & Nazi Germany)
I really wish the main force of the Rebel alliance looked like this, it's so much more cool than the weird futuristic 80s space city farmers fatigues with penis helmets.
Ramble alert This whole movie is fan service and it’s AMAZING AT THAT! You can just tell this was made by fans with all the references to previous Star Wars media. There were quite a few Imperial Aces here. You can tell by the silver stripes on their helmets. “Widows Tears” is what they’re called. Badass name. The Empire is just sheer terror! The way all those fighters come out without a single crash! That’s what I call discipline! Red Leader and Gold Leader, holy cow are their voices awesome! The amount of chaos in this fight is just incredible!
Hammerhead corvettes are literally used as tugboats for capital ships. If they have enough engine power in that tiny frame to pull a capital ship (even in zero-g), they defo have enough engine power to push an ISD into another ISD. It also helps that the ISDs in question have been ion torpedo-ed.
@@firesturmgaming Yeah they would push a ship into another but they would never enough powerfull to destroy the secound ship like that. It would just make a little impact and than nothing because it would never push two ships.
Every time I come back to this, I am in awe of how the pilots from the Death Star battle in ANH were near-seamlessly added into these battle sequences. Insane attention to continuity there
ikr. I hope we get a couple in Ahsoka since Thrawn's back. Also, I really liked the chase scene in the last jedi. I hate the film but the space battle was quite cool. It was really illogical though. They had like 50 resurgents, use them for god-sake.
recently re-watched Revenge of the Sith and that opening battle is fantastic. I agree, the sequel trilogy had way too much cutting in the action sequences and it just was a giant visual mess, this had energy and felt real.
@@modernslice2238 You know why it felt real? NONE of the characters in this space battle were the main characters. Or even secondary characters. It felt like there was actually an universe that existed beyond the screen. The sequel space battles did not show a SINGLE character that wasn't related to the main characters. It did not show any ship piloted by characters we didn't know. This one showed several X-wings, the Hammerhead Corvette, the U-wing, the B-wings, and even the other people in the control room of the Profundity. The sequel battles all felt so small when they were supposed to be so big.
This is one of my favourite Star Wars space battles Having the strengths of both factions on display imperial capital ships strength and the superior rebel fighters and bombers and the way the 2 Star destroyers are taken out with the superiority of rebel x-wings and y-wings over their imperial counterparts to disable a star destroyer to open it up do a daring move from a hammerhead corvette was some absolutely inspired direction, writing and cinematography.
The arrival of the fleet at skarif , with the music , sound effects truly captures the nostalgia & feel of the original trilogy, so much first time I seen Rogue One it took me back to 1977 as a kid and first viewing A New Hope
I'm pretty sure the moment I fell in love with star wars was when I saw a ship jump in from hyperspace. It feels cathartic and fresh Im not sure how to even put it into words. every single time.
The rebel fleet coming out of hyper space and ambushing the imperial forces in space was shocking as the imperial officers froze in disbelief. Thanks to a couple good officers they had the presence to react. What a great scene.
Training is what the body obeys when the mind is still trying to adjust to the situation. You are the shield controller for Scarif and suddenly see Hostile forces? Closing the shield gate should be your default reaction. For the ISDs, it would have been a mix of getting the shields active ASAP and activating the jammers. Once your location's shields are up you can try to see if a neighbor's shields are not yet up and try to protect them (i.e. someone is doing preventative maintenance on a shield and it can't be brought up for another five minutes). The jammers will cause an attacker's fire to not be as accurate, so instead of their shots slamming into turret rings and disabling weapons those shots will slam into the armor next to the turrets.
Also, if you've seen Rebels, you can HEAR the Ghost's guns going off after the TIEs at 5:04 as they make their attack run on the Profundity, followed by it peeling off from it's pursuit at the 5:08 mark. It's also visible from a side-on profile at 5:01 on the far side of the Profundity, on the left side of the screen. Very nice cameo.
@@drunksquirrel2051I think they are talking about that small ship gunning down a tie-fighter. That ship is called ghost, the flagship from starwars rebel series. Inside contains the main cast of the series. Ezra Bridget, Sabine Wren, Hera Syndulla etc.
This battle is so great and I love how in this battle, the rebels are smart. How Radus thought about pushing one Star destroyer into another so they destroy the shield was so great.
@@davecrupel2817 I watched Revenge of the Sith at a midnight screening the day it was released. It had a space battle but not as good as the one in Rogue one or Return of the Jedi. Throwing lots of items on the screen does not make for a good space battle.
@@Fedaykin24the Revenge of the Sith space battle wasn’t really presented as a space battle like it was in this film, it was a giant furball that Anakin and Obi Wan were hauling ass through to get to Palpatine
I'm so glad I saw this in theatre when it came out with my best friends at the time. I will always cherish that memory. As an Empire at War player since 2006, it was pure cinema gold watching the fighter formations as well as the Y-Wing bombing runs done right.
Disney should be taking notes! THIS is what STAR WARS is all about... Good vs Evil, David vs Goliath, heroism and sacrifice. Stop beating us over the head with DEI and THE MESSAGE (Critical Drinker voice reverb) and just give us a good STAR WARS story. It's not that hard
Rogue One had such superior attention to detail versus the Disney Sequels. The camera framing up only Jyn Erso's hand clutching her kyber crystal while they're waiting to hear if their shuttle codes clear or not for example is such a subtle artistic version of JJ's hamfisted 'uh Rey is going to do a Jedi Mind Trick for reasons.'
After not really getting a chance to witness them in action in Episode 4, seeing Vander/Gold Leader & those Y-Wing bombers get a moment to shine & do a bombing run of the Shield Gate as well as disabling a Star Destroyer on their own just fills me with such joy :)
I mean, I think they had exactly the mentality Disney did. "Make something that makes heavy use of a very very popular IP and lean on the nostalgia". They just did it more effectively than the sequel Trilogy did. Rogue One's basically an attempt to pack in as many references as they could in a 1970s fashion as possible. It's a great movie, but let's not kid ourselves about what it was. It was a cash grab as well.
@@Summersong2262 id say whoever wrote it definitely was cooking at the very least, its clear that the writing wasnt just looking to cram it with nostalgia bait and actually wanted to show how the rebels stole the DS plans
@@BitrateBilly I mean that's the whole thing, it WAS crammed with nostalgia bait, end to end. It wasn't very creative at all. Don't get me wrong, I loved the writing and story, the IMPLEMENTATION was skilled, but it was clearly what it was.
0:00 A Blue Squadron Pilot, Green 2 Torge Gommer, possibly Green(Former Gold) 10 Captain Broan Danurs and Red 8 Lieutenant Zal Dinnes(Or someone with her Helmet) 0:04 Green 2 Torge Gommer in the carrier(Holding his Helmet from before), a guy holding Red 8 Lieutenant Zal Dinnes's Helmet and possibly Gold 9 Wona Goban(The checkered Helmet in the back of the carrier) 0:05/0:06 Either Green 4 Lieutenant Attico Wred, Red 9 Lieutenant Nozzo Naytaan, or someone with their Helmet getting into his X-Wing 0:17 Blue 6 Vangos Grek(Or someone with his Helmet) in his X-Wing 0:39 Blue Leader: General Antoc Merrick Gold Leader: Captain Jon "Dutch" Vander Red Leader: Commander Garven "Dave" Dreis 1:00 Blue Leader General Antoc Merrick Blue 4 Barion Raner(Second-In-Command) Blue 8 Lieutenant Heff Tobber Blue 5 Farns Monsbee 1:13 Blue Leader General Antoc Merrick 1:251:27 Blue 6 Vangos Grek and Blue 4 Barion Raner 1:33 Blue 4 Barion Raner 1:51 Blue Leader General Antoc Merrick 2:152:22 Red 12 2:40 Corporal Bistan 2:562:58 Blue 4 Barion Raner 3:06 Gold Leader: Captain Jon "Dutch" Vander 3:26 Blue 3 Jaldine Gerams 3:38 Blue Leader General Antoc Merrick 3:44/3:453:47 Blue 11 Warrant Officer Laren Joma and Lieutenant Taslet Colb(Co-Pilot) 3:564:00 Red 12 and Blue 3 Jaldine Gerams 4:04 Red Leader Commander Garven "Dave" Dreis and Red 5: Cadet Pedrin Gaul 4:214:39 Blue Leader General Antoc Merrick 4:50 Blue 11 Warrant Officer Laren Joma, Lieutenant Taslet Colb and Corporal Bistan 5:21 Gold Leader: Captain Jon "Dutch" Vander and Gold 9 Wona Goban 5:47 Captain Kado Oquoné
The sequence starting at 0:26 with the camera following the X-wing and showing the fleet arriving with the hype music is my favorite in all of star wars
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Masterpiece of editing and story telling. The reason there was no blue squadron in Star Wars a new hope is they all died after slipping through the shield gate to defend the rouge one ground assault Masterful writing and film making. Rouge one is the only film outside of the original 3 worth watching. The way they used technology to re-edit in footage from 1977 is fantastic.
This movie did a fantastic job of reminding us that Star Wars is about a war and not just individual battles surrounding a few special characters. It also reminded me of when I was a kid and I felt immersed into the universe again. I wanted to join in and be an X-Wing Fighter Pilot. I completely forgot about a lot of the flaws
One of the best battles on all of star wars hands down. I still get a slight tear in my eye when I hear "Your father would be proud" start playing as the destroyer crashed into the shield gate
I don't know about you, but I got emotional seeing Red Leader and Gold Leader again. They were such an iconic part of my childhood, that seeing them again brought a tear to my eye. Seeing Red 5 destroyed was also an amazing moment, as it gives background to why the Red 5 call sign was available for Luke in Episode IV. This film did fan service so well--unobtrusive to the story, but emotionally impactful. Well done!!!!
It was the ending the movie _needed,_ but it's still amazing Disney let them do it. Sometimes you need real sacrifices, not a happy ending and this was one of them. Out of all of them, I think K-2SO's death hit me the hardest.
the way the battles were created was actually pretty strategic. The X-Wings going to the shield gate to clear the towers of turrets before the bombers did their run. Before the Y-wings come in to bomb the disabled star destroyer, there’s two squads of X-wings distracting the Tie fighters chasing them. After the destroyer loses power, the admiral says to “call up a hammerhead corvette”, meaning either there’s rebels have more ships waiting or in reserve, showing they’re still strong, or have enough healthy ships to have exactly what he needs. The X-wings formations are cohesive and tight, flying in cover for one another, as the Tie fighters are more spread and sporadic, the emphasis on possibly tie fighters having the advantage in numbers as the rebels dominate with pilots.
There used to be a video called "a new rogue " that showed the transition from rogue one ending and the beginning of a new hope and suddenly disappeared. Great video non the lass
Rogue one is the best modern star wars movie released. The perfect hybrid of modern visual effects but staying true to the source. Masterpiece
It's the best Star Wars movie released period.
@@teteradelabestia 6:24 the best moment of star wars period, in my opinion.
It did not deserve the hate it revived. This film was better than the last Skywalker saga films
@@enriqueplata2026recibió odio? No me lo imagine con lo perfecta que es
If only the others were like this.
What I love about this battle is it completely explains (retroactively) why the rebels had so few forces to send against the Death Star in A New Hope. They had just gotten into a major engagement at Skariff
Ah that's why just 3 or 4 ships got destroyed and the others could escape... dude this comment ist more than stupid.
@@dianamon2727there were more than 3 or 4 ships destroyed. During that one scene of Vader on the bridge, you can see that much of the Rebel fleet is still around Raddus’ flagship. It’s safe to say that all of those were destroyed. Additionally, the Rebel starfighter wing took heavy losses, and that’s the most relevant part to Yavin. They lost easily half of all the fighters sent, including the leader of the Rebel starfighter wing (Blue Leader, I can’t remember his name atm.)
@@dianamon2727a Corvette was already seen heavily damaged during the battle against 2 ISD's and starfighter units we're also lost many numbers vaders arrival decimated the profundity along with the other ships who were unable to jump to hyperspace
@@dianamon2727 The Death Star attack was all strike craft, and you can see them die by the dozen in this clip. AND they were coming from Yavin as well, so good luck getting replacements quickly, that was the main Rebel base.
@@dianamon2727you miss the part where a select few ship make the jump before Vader’s Star Destroyer arrives and decimates the majority of the fleet? Good effort though.
Imagine if we’d of got this level of care and passion put into the sequel movies
The Resistance/New Republic should’ve been much much bigger and should’ve deployed to Starkiller Base.
Don’t remind us 😔
@@ramblinnernd5905 Starkiller base should never have existed, just lazy storytelling
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I felt the same for a long time and it kind of is, but then I thought “what if it was just the weapon that was crippled permanently and the rest of the planet functioned as a mobile capitol planet for the First Order and that the Resistance was called the Republic instead with large amounts of fleets left over?”
TFA at the very least set the characters up.
TLJ sucked.
TROS had some good character chemistry.
I don’t like the sequels as a whole but they had SOME good ideas. They just weren’t used properly.
“Sorry for the mess.”
Even if Lucas cared about the prequels this much too, instead doing his whole drama/politics BS, we could've had the best single action series run in movies
The X-Wing coming out of hyperdrive with the Star Wars theme playing is just so perfect
Yeah. Really aww by it myself.
It looked so good in the cinema
goosebumps. that Interstellar type GO PRO locked off shot mounted to the wing is also super sick. The action in this film is amazing.
It´s like X-Wing Pc Games series. In fact, sound the same music when rebels arrives at battlefield.
And the Vaders Star destroyer coming out of hyperspace as the rebels are fleeing
RIP Angus MacInnes (Gold Leader) Not many people get a chance to reprise a role decades after the first appearance. 0:42
I believe both he and Red leader were portrayed with unused footage from A New Hope, which I think shows an insane amount of care from the studio.
He's not gone, He's standing by
@@DarthHadeous God, I love that, good one
Wish we got to see Jek Porkins in this battle. "He can hold it"
@@song6771
I think they also used some new dialog recorded by the actor in London for scenes where they show his Y Wing flying around.
1:56 I can’t imagine how much of a morale booster that sight most be, seeing 6 x wings and a troop transport
Seeing them _after_ they take out the AT-AT that was about to obliterate you, no less.
@@FrozenxDeath well AT-ACT, it has significantly less armor then a at at
12 X-Wings actually apparently
They probably weren't even expecting to get reinforcements. The Rebellion hauled ASS when they heard about the battle on Scariff.
It was one of my favorite scenes. Everyone on the ground celebrating the arrival of "the cavalry" and the pilot smiling broadly knowing he arrived at the right time to make a difference, for those who didn't even expect help. A pump fist moment.
I love how all of the pilots retain the same old-timey radio cadence from the OT, very subtle but great attention to detail.
Agreed - they took OT dialogue and meshed it seamlessly into this wonderful set of scenes. Makes me want "Rogue Squadron" to be a real movie... no more Rey crap, please.
yeh i appreciated that they tried to stick close to the original visuals as much as they could
Guys
They actually used footage from the original movie
That's why they seem so close to the original
It's because they ARE the originals
(Red and Gold)
Blue is the modern actorsm
The cheer that went up in the cinema when Red and Gold Leaders checked in!
@@kp-legacy-5477 Gold Leader's actor came back to record new dialogue as well.
I love how you can see at 6:43 the corvette is still lodged in the star destroyer as it crashes into the shield, trapped in death's embrace. They didn't know it but they saved the galaxy with that move
I think in the book that came with the movie it was said that most of the crew escaped in pods after the impact
Many fans have analysed the scene and found that most of its escape pods had ejected. The most likely scenario is that they rigged the sub-light engines to run at full throttle and abandoned ship.
@@jamesmacfarlane3196I dont even think they survived cuz of the death star
@@marcusjuliangarcia7693yeah they still died. Rip light maker.
@@marcusjuliangarcia7693there is a good chance they were out of range of the blast, so, there’s that
This was everything that I could've wanted in Star Wars in 8 minutes worth of screen time.
All grit, no bs. A collective front instead of a collage of meaningless hero single shots.
I damn near cry at the fact that this level of passion hasn't been replicated in the Disney Era since Rogue One's release. It's been 7 years.
Nah that’s not true, what Andor, CW S7 and first 2 seasons of mandalorian?
I'd put Andor above this in terms of both writing and passion. I was born at the time of the prequels and my dad watched the OT as it came out in theaters; Andor captured both of us spectacularly, and certainly in no way anything else Disney has made with the exception of this movie. I'd even say Andor is better than the OT, heretical though it may be to say. Andor and Rogue One, being Star Wars that doesn't treat or expect it's audience to be a child, is what I and so many others have wanted for so long.
@@pwh1981 yup. Andor is def above Rogue One, but to be fair, it has the privilege of being a series rather than a 2 hour movie. If Rogue One was a TV series written like Andor, with this still being the final battle, it could surpass it. The only downside to that idea is that we wouldn't be able to see this in the big screen
Gosh the moment the death star reaches scarif brings tears to my eyes. This entire battle sequence shows how a modern star wars movie should be made. Only human beings fighting with all their strengths. No jokes, only brave people falling after completing a mission.
It's easily the ballsiest part of the whole film. Every character we meet in the film, dies at the end. It's sombering watching each character fall in sequence, including the ships.
Blue Squadron was meant to be in the OT but was change to Red due to the blue marking interfering with the Blue Screen. Loved how they show to an actual in canon reason as why Blue Squadron didn't participate. Probably the real MVP of this fight.
Now that we think about it, Red Squadron's existence is essentially created out of a sort of retcon.
Then the Legends elitists lose their mind with Rogue One with its "retcons" with Galen and the exhaust port, this battle, etc.
In my head canon the remnants of Blue Squadron who survived the battle of Skariff were then absorbed into Red Squadron.
@@Fedaykin24 "In my head canon the remnants of Blue Squadron who survived the battle of Skariff were then absorbed into Red Squadron." And this is exactly what happened in WWII on all sides in all theatres of conflict, which lends even more credence to the the idea of "Star Wars being WWII in space."
@@jimheimerl1637nah,thats the sequels,the firts order have the dame colores that nazi are representes un pop culture
No doubt about it. They were the MVP. Blue squadron, may the force be with you
Out of ALL the Star Wars movies that were made by Disney, this 1 is by far the best
without a doubt
Honestly of all the Star Wars films made this the best full stop
Not just that, it's the best since Empire Strikes Back, or Return of the Jedi depending how i'm feeling about it on a given day.
comfortably a better film than all the prequels though. of which only ROTS is even close to being good.
@@glynrh8892 Nah, Empire still has it beaten imo.
while this is an amazing movie, "Best of Disney Star Wars" if you don't include Rogue One is not much of a challenge
This whole battle felt like battlefront with no heroes it was awesome
So very awesome 👌
Exactly what I was thinking, that moment when the U-Wing landed it was like you just captured a new point and reinforcements started spawning right beside you.
That's so true
Other than Vader at the end lol
@@RogueJyn thats even better. You and your squad take a point from the enemy after a hard fought battle only to see vader walk around the corner and slaughter everyone and undo all your hard work.
That shot of the Death Star on the horizon is one of the best in Star Wars. So gorgeous.
You just see it slowly rising up above scariff, gives me goosebumps everytime. Even more so when you see & hear the superlaser fire and you see that mushroom cloud.
A Phenomenal scene.
This movie meant everything to me
It was the last star wars movie i saw in person with my dad
I always asked him "what was seeing the iriginal like in theaters?"
"That's what it was like"
Your opinion may vary, but that meant the world to me
Star Wars was our thing we shared.
He is still around
But we don't talk anymore. It was a good memory.
Love ya dad
this WAS the last star wars movie
Why you don't talk anymore?
That feeling when Gold and Red Leader appeared on the screen when I watched Rogue One for the first time in cinema, just incredible!
Thats how Star Wars should be @Sequels…
Speaking of Red and Gold Leader, my 4K Despecialized Battle of Yavin video has been restored 😉
I nearly sh*t myself from excitement when Red and Gold leader called in.
So you want the sequels to just be fan service and homages to the OT?
yes@@TheSkizz89
@@TheSkizz89The sequals are already fan service
Seriously some of the best flight coreography in cinema. Everything feels so _kinetic_ and fast as hell, yet it's crystal-clear and easy to follow.
They did it so much justice
Thats the reason of why it feels so good to watch this scenes
I saw this in 3D and it was awesome
This battle actually maintained some semblance of military discipline. Squadrons fighting in formation, no stupid jokes or unnecessary fly boy maneuvers.
The Empire actually looked dangerous, competent, and inflicted serious losses on the Rebel fleet.
Cut to Red 5 running away and getting clapped lol
@@PsychSoldier756 Had to give Luke that call sign one way or another 😂
Are you saying this was better than Poe's prank call against the leader of the enemy? /sarcasm
Did Anybody see the Ghost from Star Wars Rebels taking out a Tie fighter at 5:08 !!!!!!!?????
@@walterbezerra753that’s a cool add in thanks for the call out!
The last 30 minutes of this film are a masterpiece, watching this in a theater was something else.
05:09 You can see the "Ghost" rip a tie out of the sky.
7:38 "Rogue One: May the Force be with you!"
That tugs your heart!
And then Vader's ship came...
@@justiceavenger275 And that was the COOL thing. Vader's ISD dropping out of hyperspace, shaking me to my core didn't diminish my heartstrings being tugged. If anything it was the cherry on top.
Did the death star shot destroy the planet or just the area the rebels were fighting on?
@@funveeableI just watched the movie with my family, and they just used the same power that was used to destroy Jedda
That hammerhead corvette scene and the descent of the destroyer on the shield gate felt almost religious and ethereal. the Force, I'll always love Rogue One.
The director knew when to slow things down. The Death Star firing on Jedha and Scariff also had a slow-motion feel.
You can see the Hammerhead still attched to the Star Destroyer as it crashes into the shield generator. They never got out, went out fighting to the bitter end.
I guess this scene is based on several real life episode of small Soviet ships ramming US destroyers and cruisers
Like when small patrol boat hammered USS Caron in full speed to force it off Soviet coast, and succeeded, even seriously damaged ships weapons and caused a fire
The Hammerhead's impact on the Star Destroyer should have been barely noticeable by the Star Destroyer's personnel. A Star Destroyer is ~1600 meters long, a Hammerhead is ~120 meters long, so the Star Destroyer is ~13 times as long. Cubing this means the Star Destroyer is over two thousand times the mass of the Hammerhead. So if the Hammerhead was moving at ~2000 meters per second, the resulting impact will have the Star Destroyer moving at 1 meter/second.
The scene should have been the Hammerhead impacting with the Star Destroyer crew hearing a thump and maybe a small jolt (gravity still worked, so inertial dampening likely still worked). But as the Hammerhead is in the notch with its engines at full, the bridge crew sees their ship approaching the other Star Destroyer and realize that something is wrong.
@@toddkes5890I disagree. Nowadays there are these small tugboats that can tow cruise ships far heavier.
0:27 that entrance will forever be fucking amazing
...
It literally makes my eyes water it’s so cool. Chills
Probably the last time star wars gave me goosebumps
2:15
“We’re going in”
Instant goosebumps. The music the sounds. Took me back to when I was a kid watching Star Wars for the first time.
Shout out to my boy from blue squadron 2:57 who singlehandletly disabled that ISD's shields while being chased by multiple Tie Fighters. Epic!
Barion Renner. He got hit once on the back of his bottom left laser cannon from one of the Tie.
His aft deflector shield made a good job in protecting it.
Was just noticing this part. This guy’s a beast
literally that one move won the entire fight, since with the shields down they were able to disable the ISD and then subsequently fling it into the second one and eliminate the shields as a result
WOW! What an edit!
Rogue One and Andor are pretty much the only salvageable things from Disney Star Wars. These sequences are simply magnificent!
What about the Mandalorian show?
@@luishernandezsoto Right, I'll say seasons 1 and 2 were actually good. 3 was crap.
Andor kicks so much ass it's unreal
@@BoeBins I also enjoy The Bad Batch.
Ashoka and the Mandolorian were both good shows
This scene is so heroically done it almost brings me to tears
Almost?
Wtf you saying I'm crying 😭
It ALMOST got me
Don't lie, you're crying
1:17
"Close the field aperture now! Close it!"
"I'm sorry but WHO put you in charge?"
"THE BLOODY EMPEROR NOW CLOSE THE FRIGGING SHIELD!!!"
Maxim 2: A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
That huge grin on Blue Leaders face alone was better than anything the rest of Disney Wars did in their movies.
One of the best star wars films made. You can tell its made with love. Actual love for the story. Star Wars.
The hammerhead captain had a better story and backstory then those other Star Wars movies made by the mouse
It was a beautiful arc, literally.
RIP hammerhead captain and his crew, they did pretty big sacrifice just to open that shield
@@itoyokocho.mp4 they didnt die no ?
@@frantisekbabic9683 If you watch the scene where the Persecutor plows into the shield gate you can see that the Hammerhead is still stuck in that little nook it wedged itself into all the way until they collide.
@@frantisekbabic9683 Even if they did make it to the escape pods and even if another rebel ship picked them up immediately, they still most likely died when Vader's arrival destroyed most of what was left of the rebel fleet.
The scene with the "hammerhead" corvette ramming and bow thrusting the star destroyer is awesome!
Fun fact: the Battle of Scarif is the reason that the main Rebel base could only field thirty one-man fighter craft against the Death Star at the subsequent Battle of Yavin.
All the Rebel Alliance needed was 1 strong user of the Force ...
@@swampwiz problem is that they kept losing their Force users until Luke turned up
Well, yes, but actually no.
We never see it in the film, but the Alliance used a Lukrehulk battleship and several frigates as well as a dozen more fighters and bombers to repeatedly hit the death star's main weapon in an attempt to destroy it.
They managed to knock it out of alignment enough that the Death star is forced to go around the gas Giant of Yavin before firing on the rebels.
@@swampwiz - H-h-he's strong!
@@symphony_in_152mm2 they should have mentioned that in the original movie tbh, like a passing comment or in the briefing room where they have already thrown the majority of their forces against it and failed, and that they are the last available squadrons and their only hope.
Glad that this movie filled the plot holes from the Episode IV:
-Why the Death Star had such an obvious and big weak point (Galen put it to get his vengeance against the Empire)
-Why the Rebel Alliance only sent 32 starfighters against the Death Star during the Battle of Yavin (they lost almost their entire fleet during the Battle of Scarif)
-Why the Empire knew Leia had the Death Star plans (they saw her ship fleeing from Scarif with the plans in their soldiers hands)
Exactly, been saying this for ages. And people think the Death Star weakness didn’t need to be explained when it definitely needed to since by itself it’s one of the worst pieces of writing in the OT
2:42 "Anyone who runs is an Imperial! Anyone who stands still is a well-trained Imperial!"
lmao
GET SOME! BABY!
About time to see this back up on RUclips. I remember back in 2017 this supercut was available, then Disney had it pulled for YEARS. Thank you for posting this.
Welcome and thank you for sharing your experience, and I appreciate your understanding. Dealing with copyright claims from Disney was indeed a headache. It reached a breaking point for me in 2018, and I had to step back from posting content. However, I'm grateful for viewers like you who remember and enjoy the videos. I'm glad to have the supercut back up and running, and your support means a lot. Thank you for sticking around!
You did such a fantastic job with this supercut. All the fun space battles in such a good movie.@@PrometheusOfVideos
Boomer Five reporting in. I was boots on the ground in '77, I had NO idea where life was going to take me, but I knew it would involve Star Wars. It did. I met the person I married. Met my best friend. I became an entertainment writer. And we waited 39 YEARS for THIS movie and it was WORTH every minute that we lived to get there. I was sitting with my FAMILY that night in a theater that was on its feet screaming, yelling, crying and losing its mind -- just like we did in1977. To this day it was the FIRST time I was truly terrified of Vader, and it was ALL of us. (and there was much excellent Force Yeeting! going on -- look, I'm old, but I'm still 12, and you know I still show up in costume.) Thanks for cutting this. See if you can spot the Ghost in her first Live Action role.
We need more fans like you sir
I remember watching this with my da who was five when anh came out; he was so excited for this it was actually quite funny
Spot on about Vadar. That corridor scene gives me chills.
i always love each time the announcer would lastly say "may the force be with you"
gotta give the rebels a good boost of morale
Imagining if this was broadcasted over some underground news network across the galaxy wouldve been extra tough.
Fun fact: That’s the voice of David Ankrum, the same guy who voiced Wedge Antilles in A New Hope.
1:30 Rebel ships crashing into the shield, like the part lots of people think they remember seeing in ROTJ but actually didn't.
It's so action packed and actually makes sense. As the u-wong crashes you can see like 2-3 stormtroopers go flying.
shout out to the monkey gunner :( he was a real one
RIP monkee gunner 😔
Monkee Gunner was out there putting belt to ass.😢
Monkee gunner was my brother! I loved him :(
Monkee gunner was there for my 5th birthday. Sad to see someone you know gone.
"that armor's too thick for blasters!" But not for monkey gunner and that heavy repeater.
THIS IS GOLD LEADER STANDING BY!
THIS IS BLUE LEADRR STANDING BY!
THIS IS RED LEADER STANDING BY!
THIS IS GREEN LEADER, STANDING BY!
@@JeroldBoy0407wrong movie 💀
@@thiccchungo1041 Still felt like saying it lmao
I never got to see the originals or prequels in theaters, but I was able to watch Rogue One. Seeing Darth Vader, the rebels, the Death Star, even Tarkin, was a dream come true, and with my grandfather sitting right next to me who watched the original years before.
If I may ask, how did your grandfather feel during and after the movie? It must have been a huge nostalgia trip for him.
I still remember the Episode III trailer scaring the crap out of kids in theaters, shit me too 😂
I'm not full versed with the Star Wars lore, but a Hammerhead Corvette in Rogue One was pretty flippin' cool!
It appears to be homage to the “frigates” from Knights of the Old Republic (game / lore). Very similar shape and form.
I also like the idea that possibly what was once considered the size of a frigate is (or could be) considered merely a corvette at a later time, much as in the modern world how what was long ago considered a cruiser (or light cruiser anyway) weighs about as much as a modern destroyer - as in ships have generally gotten much bigger over time.
I love, love, LOVE the shot from 02:14. It feels like playing with my Star Wars toys again in 1978.
You have to love Vader using the SSD to its fullest by being highly aggressive. Really does go to show if the two other SSDs had been less cautious and pressed the assault they could have won this.
Plotarmor and plotaim.....
This wasn’t the SSD, it was the Devastator which Vader had upgraded throughout the years to be more offensive based as opposed to the more outdated versions that inevitably fell during the battle.
We don't know the specific loadouts those ISDs were deployed with, could've been budget versions meant for patrol duty with reduced weaponry and garrison and also inexperienced crew overwhelmed by the sudden appeareance of the entire Rebel fleet.
@@Burstnoktrue I highly doubt anyone in the star destroyers or the shield apparatus would've expected a full out attack on a base full of mostly unimportant plans.
Actually when you think about it, you can consider the options of the Admiral in the ISD; 2 ISDs aggresively engage the Rebel fleet or have the Shield gate take the damage for you while awaiting reinforcements. Plus it being a planetary shield also means the rebels would take a long time to bring down the shield
I love The Battle Scarif. It's basically Space Vietnam. The uniforms for the Rebel SOG Rouge One are US Vietnam uniforms, some of the blasters are sci-fi-ed M16s and M4s and that one space fighter that has variable swept wings has a sci-fi-ed M60 for a door gun.
Wellllll I'll say my vietnamese grandfather would see it another just saying lol
Yeah but not how you think - the rebels were inspired by the Vietcong and the Empire was based on Nixonian America (+the British/Roman Empires & Nazi Germany)
@@joh2434the rebels are a mix of Vietcong and US soldiers really.
I really wish the main force of the Rebel alliance looked like this, it's so much more cool than the weird futuristic 80s space city farmers fatigues with penis helmets.
Honestly I would say that Endor was Vietnam
That moment when the Rebel fleet appears right on top of the Imperial Fleet always gives me the chills in a good way.
Simply flawless, how hard is this replicate, all the yeeeeeehaaa that makes starwars, all the emotion. This is why people loved star wars
Ramble alert
This whole movie is fan service and it’s AMAZING AT THAT! You can just tell this was made by fans with all the references to previous Star Wars media.
There were quite a few Imperial Aces here. You can tell by the silver stripes on their helmets. “Widows Tears” is what they’re called. Badass name.
The Empire is just sheer terror! The way all those fighters come out without a single crash! That’s what I call discipline!
Red Leader and Gold Leader, holy cow are their voices awesome!
The amount of chaos in this fight is just incredible!
This whole movie is fanservice done right and at the same time expands the story.
@@animeman8203 YES! It adds so much to the background and shows why Vader is so peeved at the beginning of ANH!
Ohh never noticed those helmet markings, really cool
Yeah. Super slick looking.
Am I the only one who noticed the Ghost (Of Star Wars: Rebels, fame) showed up to this battle?
Man, I love the howl of the U-Wing whenever it flies by. Hearing it in the mix when Blue Squadron flies over Baze is just, mmm *chef's kiss*.
Now this is a battle. Everything about it is absolutely epic. Especially considering the rebels lost a lot of numbers
No.. not everything is epic. look at the hammerhead scene. this whole scene makes no sence in a scientific way or a star wars way.
@@dianamon2727 you wouldn't know epic if it bitch slapped you in the face.
How does it not make scientific sense when there's the existence of tugboats?
Hammerhead corvettes are literally used as tugboats for capital ships. If they have enough engine power in that tiny frame to pull a capital ship (even in zero-g), they defo have enough engine power to push an ISD into another ISD. It also helps that the ISDs in question have been ion torpedo-ed.
@@firesturmgaming Yeah they would push a ship into another but they would never enough powerfull to destroy the secound ship like that. It would just make a little impact and than nothing because it would never push two ships.
Best of the Disney Star Wars films and the best space battle scene since the Battle Of Endor.
I hope for an equally good film on the Battle Of Jakku.
God that would be amazing to watch. Needs to happen as a story film, shame Disney is too scared to do them after Solo
Every time I come back to this, I am in awe of how the pilots from the Death Star battle in ANH were near-seamlessly added into these battle sequences. Insane attention to continuity there
"Rogue One" - The one post-Lucas "Star Wars" project with an ACTUAL space battle.
Are you forgetting the really cool slow motion pointless space chase?
ikr. I hope we get a couple in Ahsoka since Thrawn's back.
Also, I really liked the chase scene in the last jedi. I hate the film but the space battle was quite cool. It was really illogical though. They had like 50 resurgents, use them for god-sake.
recently re-watched Revenge of the Sith and that opening battle is fantastic. I agree, the sequel trilogy had way too much cutting in the action sequences and it just was a giant visual mess, this had energy and felt real.
@@anubhavdassarma7230 hindsite revealed that we got a crap series with hardly any action. just an idiot admiral and another sacrifice made redundant.
@@modernslice2238 You know why it felt real?
NONE of the characters in this space battle were the main characters.
Or even secondary characters.
It felt like there was actually an universe that existed beyond the screen.
The sequel space battles did not show a SINGLE character that wasn't related to the main characters.
It did not show any ship piloted by characters we didn't know. This one showed several X-wings, the Hammerhead Corvette, the U-wing, the B-wings, and even the other people in the control room of the Profundity.
The sequel battles all felt so small when they were supposed to be so big.
This is one of my favourite Star Wars space battles
Having the strengths of both factions on display imperial capital ships strength and the superior rebel fighters and bombers and the way the 2 Star destroyers are taken out with the superiority of rebel x-wings and y-wings over their imperial counterparts to disable a star destroyer to open it up do a daring move from a hammerhead corvette was some absolutely inspired direction, writing and cinematography.
The arrival of the fleet at skarif , with the music , sound effects truly captures the nostalgia & feel of the original trilogy, so much first time I seen Rogue One it took me back to 1977 as a kid and first viewing A New Hope
5:54 That Hammerhead Corvette changed the course of the entire battle and the galaxy. Such legends :)
The exiting of hyperspace into the battle field... goose bumps hell ya, this was amazing on the big screen in the cinema and so unexpected
I'm pretty sure the moment I fell in love with star wars was when I saw a ship jump in from hyperspace. It feels cathartic and fresh Im not sure how to even put it into words. every single time.
The rebel fleet coming out of hyper space and ambushing the imperial forces in space was shocking as the imperial officers froze in disbelief. Thanks to a couple good officers they had the presence to react. What a great scene.
Training is what the body obeys when the mind is still trying to adjust to the situation.
You are the shield controller for Scarif and suddenly see Hostile forces? Closing the shield gate should be your default reaction.
For the ISDs, it would have been a mix of getting the shields active ASAP and activating the jammers. Once your location's shields are up you can try to see if a neighbor's shields are not yet up and try to protect them (i.e. someone is doing preventative maintenance on a shield and it can't be brought up for another five minutes). The jammers will cause an attacker's fire to not be as accurate, so instead of their shots slamming into turret rings and disabling weapons those shots will slam into the armor next to the turrets.
You can see the ghost flying around at 5:08 from the bridge.
OH SH¡T!!!! 😂❤ Didnt notice that before!!! That's awesome.
This is how you make an Easter egg
Also, if you've seen Rebels, you can HEAR the Ghost's guns going off after the TIEs at 5:04 as they make their attack run on the Profundity, followed by it peeling off from it's pursuit at the 5:08 mark. It's also visible from a side-on profile at 5:01 on the far side of the Profundity, on the left side of the screen. Very nice cameo.
Wtf are you talking about?
@@drunksquirrel2051I think they are talking about that small ship gunning down a tie-fighter. That ship is called ghost, the flagship from starwars rebel series. Inside contains the main cast of the series. Ezra Bridget, Sabine Wren, Hera Syndulla etc.
This battle is so great and I love how in this battle, the rebels are smart. How Radus thought about pushing one Star destroyer into another so they destroy the shield was so great.
God bless whoever made this cut.
Thanks a bunch! I'm the one who actually put it together back in 2017, when Star Wars still had that magic touch... Glad you enjoyed the cut
The battles were impressive but the dialogue and attention to detail were great. Rogue One was the Star Wars we needed
The best space battle in Star Wars since Return of the Jedi!
Somebody's never seen revenge of the sith.
@@davecrupel2817 I watched Revenge of the Sith at a midnight screening the day it was released. It had a space battle but not as good as the one in Rogue one or Return of the Jedi. Throwing lots of items on the screen does not make for a good space battle.
@@Fedaykin24the Revenge of the Sith space battle wasn’t really presented as a space battle like it was in this film, it was a giant furball that Anakin and Obi Wan were hauling ass through to get to Palpatine
Yessir
@@davecrupel2817hell no this battle was way better than the revenge of the sith one
The scene at the end with hope still gets me emotional
I'm so glad I saw this in theatre when it came out with my best friends at the time. I will always cherish that memory. As an Empire at War player since 2006, it was pure cinema gold watching the fighter formations as well as the Y-Wing bombing runs done right.
This is it, the last Star Wars movie made. It was a pleasure gentlemen
Star wars fan or not,you can agree this is a cinematic masterpiece
Disney should be taking notes! THIS is what STAR WARS is all about... Good vs Evil, David vs Goliath, heroism and sacrifice. Stop beating us over the head with DEI and THE MESSAGE (Critical Drinker voice reverb) and just give us a good STAR WARS story. It's not that hard
I can agree
One of the best battles in star wars fs. Right behind starkiller base and hoth
One thing i love about Rogue One is with how much respect they treated Darth Vader
Rogue One had such superior attention to detail versus the Disney Sequels. The camera framing up only Jyn Erso's hand clutching her kyber crystal while they're waiting to hear if their shuttle codes clear or not for example is such a subtle artistic version of JJ's hamfisted 'uh Rey is going to do a Jedi Mind Trick for reasons.'
After not really getting a chance to witness them in action in Episode 4, seeing Vander/Gold Leader & those Y-Wing bombers get a moment to shine & do a bombing run of the Shield Gate as well as disabling a Star Destroyer on their own just fills me with such joy :)
absolute masterpiece. thank you to the star wars rogue one team if any of you ever come across this comment. you are legends
Whoever made these scenes definitely didn't have the Disney mentality.
They had a "STAR WARS" mentality.
I mean, I think they had exactly the mentality Disney did. "Make something that makes heavy use of a very very popular IP and lean on the nostalgia". They just did it more effectively than the sequel Trilogy did. Rogue One's basically an attempt to pack in as many references as they could in a 1970s fashion as possible.
It's a great movie, but let's not kid ourselves about what it was. It was a cash grab as well.
@@Summersong2262 id say whoever wrote it definitely was cooking at the very least, its clear that the writing wasnt just looking to cram it with nostalgia bait and actually wanted to show how the rebels stole the DS plans
Well they put women and minorities into this battle. So this movie was still called "woke" by chuds 🤷♂️
@@BitrateBilly I mean that's the whole thing, it WAS crammed with nostalgia bait, end to end. It wasn't very creative at all. Don't get me wrong, I loved the writing and story, the IMPLEMENTATION was skilled, but it was clearly what it was.
Watching this battle in a theater is one I will never forget.
Could have been better if they had bothered to include an opening text crawl.
0:00 A Blue Squadron Pilot, Green 2 Torge Gommer, possibly Green(Former Gold) 10 Captain Broan Danurs and Red 8 Lieutenant Zal Dinnes(Or someone with her Helmet)
0:04 Green 2 Torge Gommer in the carrier(Holding his Helmet from before), a guy holding Red 8 Lieutenant Zal Dinnes's Helmet and possibly Gold 9 Wona Goban(The checkered Helmet in the back of the carrier)
0:05/0:06 Either Green 4 Lieutenant Attico Wred, Red 9 Lieutenant Nozzo Naytaan, or someone with their Helmet getting into his X-Wing
0:17 Blue 6 Vangos Grek(Or someone with his Helmet) in his X-Wing
0:39
Blue Leader: General Antoc Merrick
Gold Leader: Captain Jon "Dutch" Vander
Red Leader: Commander Garven "Dave" Dreis
1:00
Blue Leader General Antoc Merrick
Blue 4 Barion Raner(Second-In-Command)
Blue 8 Lieutenant Heff Tobber
Blue 5 Farns Monsbee
1:13 Blue Leader General Antoc Merrick
1:25 1:27 Blue 6 Vangos Grek and Blue 4 Barion Raner
1:33 Blue 4 Barion Raner
1:51 Blue Leader General Antoc Merrick
2:15 2:22 Red 12
2:40 Corporal Bistan
2:56 2:58 Blue 4 Barion Raner
3:06 Gold Leader: Captain Jon "Dutch" Vander
3:26 Blue 3 Jaldine Gerams
3:38 Blue Leader General Antoc Merrick
3:44/3:45 3:47 Blue 11 Warrant Officer Laren Joma and Lieutenant Taslet Colb(Co-Pilot)
3:56 4:00 Red 12 and Blue 3 Jaldine Gerams
4:04 Red Leader Commander Garven "Dave" Dreis and Red 5: Cadet Pedrin Gaul
4:21 4:39 Blue Leader General Antoc Merrick
4:50 Blue 11 Warrant Officer Laren Joma, Lieutenant Taslet Colb and Corporal Bistan
5:21 Gold Leader: Captain Jon "Dutch" Vander and Gold 9 Wona Goban
5:47 Captain Kado Oquoné
You're the best kind of psychotic
The sequence starting at 0:26 with the camera following the X-wing and showing the fleet arriving with the hype music is my favorite in all of star wars
4:45 I would’ve ejected if I were the one flying that X-Wing.
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The feels when Admiral Radish says "Rogue One may the force be with you".
"This is Admiral Raddus of the Rebel Alliance!😄"
Random Pilot: "Oh thank God he identified himself I was worried he was with the Empire!
Masterpiece of editing and story telling. The reason there was no blue squadron in Star Wars a new hope is they all died after slipping through the shield gate to defend the rouge one ground assault
Masterful writing and film making.
Rouge one is the only film outside of the original 3 worth watching.
The way they used technology to re-edit in footage from 1977 is fantastic.
This movie did a fantastic job of reminding us that Star Wars is about a war and not just individual battles surrounding a few special characters. It also reminded me of when I was a kid and I felt immersed into the universe again. I wanted to join in and be an X-Wing Fighter Pilot. I completely forgot about a lot of the flaws
Xwing pilots had like no chance of survival unless you were just built different 😂
One of the best battles on all of star wars hands down. I still get a slight tear in my eye when I hear "Your father would be proud" start playing as the destroyer crashed into the shield gate
😍I'm glad that this is back on RUclips. 5:08 - Ghost takes out a TIE-Fighter.
Ah yes, glad to know Hera is using Ghost’s plot armor to the very fullest
This is what happens when you hire someone to direct Star Wars movies...who actually has watched and loves Star Wars movies.
0:26 this never gets old
Thinking back to Andor - Luthen was certain he was condemned to toil in self-sacrificial obscurity. Well, THIS was the fruit of his labor.
this was a massive sacrifice from the rebellion with no guarantee to pay off
This is among the little amounts battle scenes in movies that actually give me goosebumps.
This film gave me the same feeling i had when i watched the original trilogy ....absolute masterpiece. Great Job Mr Edwards 😊
I don't know about you, but I got emotional seeing Red Leader and Gold Leader again. They were such an iconic part of my childhood, that seeing them again brought a tear to my eye. Seeing Red 5 destroyed was also an amazing moment, as it gives background to why the Red 5 call sign was available for Luke in Episode IV. This film did fan service so well--unobtrusive to the story, but emotionally impactful. Well done!!!!
What made this film authentic was that the stakes were high and even good guys died. No plot armor here.
That's exactly what my daughter said. I watched it with her recently, and she found the end as unexpected as satisfying.
It was a sad ending and while I wished some would d have survived, it's more memorable and realistic that they did perish.
It was the ending the movie _needed,_ but it's still amazing Disney let them do it. Sometimes you need real sacrifices, not a happy ending and this was one of them. Out of all of them, I think K-2SO's death hit me the hardest.
Thats why i loved it the good guys actually died. I want a saving private ryan like starwars movie
Wooo! Great to see ya managed to get this back up, good job man!
The Battle of Scarif is the greatest battle with lots of deaths in the history of Star Wars, IMO. So much courage in defiance of gigantic empire.
8:24 Even in CG, it's good to see our princess again :D
Why couldn't every recent Star Wars movie be this good?!
the way the battles were created was actually pretty strategic. The X-Wings going to the shield gate to clear the towers of turrets before the bombers did their run.
Before the Y-wings come in to bomb the disabled star destroyer, there’s two squads of X-wings distracting the Tie fighters chasing them.
After the destroyer loses power, the admiral says to “call up a hammerhead corvette”, meaning either there’s rebels have more ships waiting or in reserve, showing they’re still strong, or have enough healthy ships to have exactly what he needs.
The X-wings formations are cohesive and tight, flying in cover for one another, as the Tie fighters are more spread and sporadic, the emphasis on possibly tie fighters having the advantage in numbers as the rebels dominate with pilots.
There used to be a video called "a new rogue " that showed the transition from rogue one ending and the beginning of a new hope and suddenly disappeared. Great video non the lass