Truly amazing after all these years and all these prequels to finally have a great and watchable Star Wars movie again. Feels good. Makes anything possible.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (12/16/16) *SPOILERS*
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jye4ever
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I agree, that Phantom Menace 3D release was something very special.
mrdbios
Super Freak
RO makes me excited for Star Wars in a way that I was really hoping TPM would all those years ago. I can watch TPM, but I also can't forget that sense of "that's it?" I had leaving the theater after having seen it on opening night. Leaving RO on opening night I was already excited for a second viewing.
Centurion
Super Freak
Word. After 2005 who would have ever thought that we could ever get a new SW movie (and a prequel shot digitally no less!) like Rogue One. It does show that no matter how bad a series gets it can always turn around with the right players involved. The SE's were supposed to update the OT to give us those classic movies with modern visuals but they did more harm than good. Then the PT offered brand new SW, all with modern visuals, and they failed spectacularly. TFA finally gave us a good SW movie that visually can stand up to any modern blockbuster but they still left the door open for a movie like RO to surpass it. And now that that's happened I can just chill out with any future blockbuster in any franchise without fretting over any further "missed opportunities." It does indeed feel good.
It does take the pressure off the next one a bit. I feel more forgiving now. Which is good for Disney.
Interesting to see if the vibe of RO will be tried with other SW films. RO succeeds because of its post 9/11 "Nolan" tone (though that's the reason it only earned 1/2 what TFA did worldwide) but it's so, so close to ANH in time period, content and setting, it's like a story variant literally set "inside" the ANH film. Almost like the scenes in BTTF2 which are intermingled within scenes from BTTF1.
TFA got flak for mining too much of ANH in terms of storylines and concepts, but RO had the benefit of being able to "be" ANH because of when/where it's set.
My suspicion is that this formula may be tried again - doing a story that takes place in the weeks before ESB for example, or ESB shown from an Imperial perspective or something - maybe that's the bounty hunters movie. It's what older fans want - the darker and at times brutal tone of the best moments of the OT, and very deeply embedded within that same story timeline everyone is so familiar with.
TFA got flak for mining too much of ANH in terms of storylines and concepts, but RO had the benefit of being able to "be" ANH because of when/where it's set.
My suspicion is that this formula may be tried again - doing a story that takes place in the weeks before ESB for example, or ESB shown from an Imperial perspective or something - maybe that's the bounty hunters movie. It's what older fans want - the darker and at times brutal tone of the best moments of the OT, and very deeply embedded within that same story timeline everyone is so familiar with.
mrdbios
Super Freak
I think this would be an interesting approach to one of the stand along movies. A familiar story, or at least a story with familiar pieces, but told from the Imperial point of view. Maybe a group of recruits joining up to fight against the unlawfulness of the rebellion, or a story following a crack team who's desperately trying to locate the rebellion after they destroyed the Death Star.
I'm sure many, myself included, would rather they just left well enough alone at this point but I can't help but assume that what you describe is an inevitability. "Bothan One" and so on.
I'm still waiting on that Boba Fett movie
Teen Fett?
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jye4ever
Broke and happy
Fast Times at Mandalorian High
It could get a little whiplash in terms of the diversity casting though - we have a very culturally diverse RO Yavin war room that leads into the all-white ANH Yavin war room, then a very culturally diverse ESB-prequel Hoth base that leads into the all-white ESB Hoth base.
"Bothan One"
It will be a female Bothan whose parents have been taken/killed by the Empire as a child, who raised herself and wants to unleash the can of whup-*ss against the Empire... but has a heart of gold.
Her team must comprise "many" Bothans though.
I hear Daniel Logan is available.
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jye4ever
Broke and happy
Taibane is right though, very jarring going from one to the other.
Pablo just tweeted confirmation that the Rebellion has Affirmative Action on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and every other weekend. It does seem that the events of Rogue One occurred on the Wednesday, and ANH on the Thursday. Still waiting for confirmation on the days for the ESB Hoth invasion, but it's looking like most of it happened on one of the alternate weekends.
They could fit it in before ESB
jye4ever
Broke and happy
lulz lulz
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