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what's the date?I don't kill myself because of math. My death is worth a lot more money after a specified date.
what's the date?I don't kill myself because of math. My death is worth a lot more money after a specified date.
The Animatrix had some good short films, one or two bad ones. Flight of Osiris was good.Prequels suffer from a lessened feeling of suspense because you already have a general idea of how things are going to turn out. That problem is far worse when you try to shoehorn something between two movies. The general irrelevance of Rebels to the overall Star Wars stories is how it actually remains interesting. The show is basically just a collection of cameos and references to the movies woven together into an engaging story.
Rogue One would have been better as a 15 minute short in the vein of Final Flight of the Osiris. Turning this tiny bit of Star Wars story into a standalone movie is like stretching the Hobbit into three separate movies.
--The characters are mostly great. Jyn, Cassian, Donnie Yen, Old Hawaiian Gunner, Forest Whitaker, even Director Krennic I thought were all good as far as characterization, motivations, and actions. I never had a problem with Krennic as the villain, he works in the context of this story, and I found him to be reasonably threatening to our heroes.
The character development was the film's crippling weakness. Didn't give a fuck about Jyn or her relationship with her father, especially given the fact that Felicity Jones had the range of a muskrat. Saw Guerrera was totally inconsequential as a mentor and as a martyr to the cause. He rescues her and is later revealed to be an eccentric, tortured soul (his performance was ridiculous by the way) before just giving up and dying as the laser obliterates the city. Then they tease a burgeoning romance between Jyn and the Mexican guy when it was never earned. And the sheer number of characters introduced magnifies this flaw considerably.
So where's the disconnect between these guys and the people in this thread that liked the movie?
So where's the disconnect between these guys and the people in this thread that liked the movie?
"The strongest stars have hearts of kyber."
Probably only achievable by nucleosynthesis at the end of a chain of very unstable reactions whose half lives are miniscule.
the people in here praising it have an unhealthy emotional attachment to anything "Star Wars" that prevents them from objectively looking at the movie.So where's the disconnect between these guys and the people in this thread that liked the movie?
This is completely and absolutely true.the people in here praising it have an unhealthy emotional attachment to anything "Star Wars" that prevents them from objectively looking at the movie.
How about 'never'also what is the date that you kill yourself?
nah that's just china man acting all china man, kyber crystals are rare crystals growing in scary ass caves.
it'll be interesting to watch R1 and ANH back to back in a few months at home and see if it flows together better. Unfortunately I think the slow and meandering first half will not really do any good]
Good post btw, a fun read.Better than TFA on initial viewing, and I suspect it will be the opposite of that movie, in that TFA falls apart more and more as time goes on, and I suspect this will be viewed as better as time goes on and you watch it multiple times.