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baimun

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*** Let's PLEASE try to keep this SPOILER FREE until at least Monday. Thank you. ***

Saw the Thursday night 7:embarrassed:0 showing and.... wow... they have really been underselling this movie.

It's difficult to explain to non Star Wars people that it's a prequel to the original trilogy, but after the prequel trilogy... kind of an inbetweequal. I've also heard it described as Episode 3.5 as it sits just before episode 4, the original Star Wars: A New Hope

Excellent acting all the way around and the story focuses on "Non Heroes". This movie is more visceral and embedded in the Mythos almost more than Episode VII.

It helps that I went in with very little knowledge of this movie. I had seen two trailers and that's it. PLEASE DO NOT RUIN THIS MOVIE FOR OTHER PEOPLE.

Gareth Edwards is a very good ground level director. Monsters was an amazing indy film, and I was impressed with what he did with his Godzilla movie, but he will get a big attention bump from this one.

Anyone else see it yet?

Favorite characters: Jyn (the main character), Chirrut (blind guy with the staff), and K-2S0 (reprogrammed Imperial Droid).

Also minor spoiler (unless you've seen the trailers)
Darth Vader's parts in the movie were amazing.
 
Watched the first hour today. Then one of the kids started using my head as a bongo drum so we had to leave. What I saw was decent, but the breaks between real and CGI shots were sometimes jarring.
 
Going to see it in a few. Rottentomatoes has it rated at 84% right now. Usually a good indicator that it will be at least a decent film :embarrassed:
 
I saw it. It's much better than last years SW movie. And I thought that one was 'ok'.

I love the movies, and the first two Dark Forces video games (were there any more than two?). But other than that I've never seen the SW cartoons or read any of the novels, other than one book many years ago…maybe around the late '80s? So anyways, I didn't go into the theater knowing any back-story behind it, if there was any. You must pay close attention to the first part of the movie, [no spoilers, really] it skips around to a couple of different locations/characters. All that gets tied together a bit later, but if you didn't pay attention to what locations etc you might be scratching your head as in 'Wait, why are they going there/doing that, again?' kind of thing.

My biggest disappointment was there was no Pink 5 in it :grin:
 
Flamencology said:
Metacritic has it at 65. Which isn't a bad score.
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I don't trust Metacritic. You do know they have album reviews on there, don't you? And in the metal section there are albums I wouldn't give the time of day that are rated in the 70-80's messedup0
 
Jbird said:
I don't trust Metacritic. You do know they have album reviews on there, don't you? And in the metal section there are albums I wouldn't give the time of day that are rated in the 70-80's messedup0
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Well, of course metal critics wouldn't have good judgment.

Metacritic polls the exact same critics as RT; it's just a far more accurate picture of the consensus.

With RT, if 19 critics out of 20 give a movie 3 out of 5 stars, and the other critic gave a more negative review, then RT would give it a score of 95%, wheras Metacritic would score it somewhere between 55%-59%.
 
sunvalleylaw said:
PS, never tell me the odds. Or the percentage of critics that like it or don't. I don't care. :wink:
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Pretty much. Aggregate sites are useful for telling you if a movie is utter shit, if it's watchable, or if it's got buzz. But there's no room for subtlety. It's more useful to find a handful of critics with either a similar sense of aesthetics, or who are helpful or educational.
 
I knew I had seen the male lead (Cassian) somewhere before. It was bugging me all night so I finally looked it up on imdb.

He was Button in the western Open Range.
 
We saw it Friday. Very worth seeing if your a Star Wars fan. Not particularly accessible if you are not familiar with Episode 4 at least I'd say.

And like many of the Star Wars movies, I think the droid stole the show.
 
My son and I loved it. It was nice to have a Star Wars movie without all of the cute merchandising written in. Definitely not a movie my 8 year old daughter would enjoy. Perhaps my favorite of all eight movies.


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baimun said:
*** Let's PLEASE try to keep this SPOILER FREE until at least Monday. Thank you. ***



Favorite characters: Jyn (the main character), Chirrut (blind guy with the staff), and K-2S0 (reprogrammed Imperial Droid).
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I also really liked Chirrut's buddy with the big gun who pretended he did not believe in his friend and his friend's connection with the force. Small character, but to me, one that touched.
 
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