Can we take a moment to appreciate how awesome it is when Chirrut shoots down the Tie Fighter and it crashes into the turbolaser control room? He killed two birds with one stone. How badass is that?
He follows the will of the force. He stay and just wait for the force to tell him what to do. He doesn’t know what it will hit, but he know that’s what the force want.
A real shame he was the last of the Guardians of the Whills, because if they were active like in the High Republic Era, they would've absolutely wiped the floor with those Imperials.
A cool thing about the Chirrut scene is that when he is about to shoot, I first thought he was turning his face away to avoid the blast. Looking back, he was turning his ear toward the tiefighter like how a seeing person would bring his rife toward his eye to aim
Honestly this is one of my favorite scenes from the film. Everything about it is perfect from the music to the way it was shot. I especially adore the beginning of the sequence and how dramatic it was, from the shocking realization of the Rebels back on Yavin that they are about to strike some of their own in the upcoming attack, and then the Rebel X-wing fighters swooping in like the badasses they are just seconds later. But I especially loved the music... And it wasn't even John Williams! Lol. Great scene!!
Totally agree... it was one of the best action sequences of any of the Star Wars films. I especially like how they never put you in the cockpit of any of the Rebel fighters, so that you don't identify with any of these pilots. They are simply this terrifying force that come screaming out of nowhere to attack you. It gave the Alliance a 'coldness' that, (to me), made them feel more like a fighting force in a war.
@@superspecialsushi8296 there both present. I love X-Wings, but I'm talking about it being nice to see Y-Wings getting to be bombers and getting to be effective
SuperSpecialSushi The Y-Wings are harder to see, but if you play the part where the platform gets bombed, you can see the bomb came from a Y-Wing (the lowest one). You can see about three more Y-Wings in the scene where the TIEs take off
@@superspecialsushi8296 if you look at the engine lights of the star fighters through the video you can see a mix of 4 lights and 2 lights meshing both x and y wings were present, though there are way more x wings because this eat meant more likely as an assault and the y wings probably weren't as good since they're show and don't maneuver as well in the rocks
The Rebel Alliance sent more ships to strike an outpost than the Resistance sent to destroy a planet. Lack of common sense like this take me straight out of the new films in the main series.
which just got blown up. the allience had the vast wealth of people like bail organa supporting it. not to mention a larger army. the resistance just lost that.
How is it that blowing up one planet when there are millions of inhabited planets (the Empire itself ruled more than a million) would somehow destroy the entire republic army and fleet, not to mention the rest of the galaxies will to do anything or to build anything or to resist the first order, to create a new government. The new main films are WTF stupid. The rest of the galaxy man.. the writers just forgot all about that.
Say what you will about Rogue One as a movie but I think has the best Starfighter scenes of the whole franchise. A New Hope and Return of the Jedi are classics that can't be replaced. But this movie manages to make their fights riveting.
And they actually used a realistic number of ships to take out realistic targets, not “lets take out an entire planet with 8 X-Wings, or in the last Jedi, lEtS tAkE oUt A dReAdNoUgHt wItH oNe X-wInG”
Planeboy 2520 Well, to be fair they set 2 groups of X-Wings (Red and Green Squadrons, Green wasn’t seen onscreen as they attacked the super laser directly. I don’t think they are canon anymore) and one group of Y-Wings (Gold, of course) to destroy the Death Star
This is really the only time we've actually seen an Imperial Hangar during an attack. I love the chaos of the pilots running to their TIEs and flight staff trying to work.
CaptainMarcin SERIOUSLY?!? The set pieces in this disappointment of a film were FAR too short for what was supposedly advertised as a “war film”, and I hardly gave a flying f*** about most of the one-dimensional EXCUSES for characters (unlike in The Last Jedi)!
Though not confirmed I think Chirrut can perceive Shatterpoints like Mace Windu and Darth Krayt in the old EU where he can see the faultlines and knows when something critical is about to happen so he seizes the moment, I could be reading too much into it but it does seem likely.
Thats how he seized it with the master switch, so idc what anyone says, but he was force sensitive or had an abnormally strong connection to the force like the Chiss 'skywalkers' that had a strong connection.
Some great characters were developed in Rogue One. I liked this movie more than The Last Jedi. if I come out of a movie wanting to know more about someone. They did it right.
One of the best battle scenes in STAR WARS, but there is only one thing: I know TIE Fighters don't have shields, but they have some armour, that should have protected them from a blind man with a blaster rifle.
That depends. TIE's, like Stormtrooper armor, were cheaply produced as the empire believed in numbers rather than quality. Meaning they are not that strong. As for the blaster fire, the strength of the blaster (since it is not a normal run-of-the-mill blaster) plus a direct hit to a vital system is all that it takes to bring it down because that is how cheap the TIEs are. .
No, he hit the right side of the TIE's body, and he might have damaged the fuel line. When the TIE Fighter crashes into the turbolaser battery, it's clearly visible that the canopy is intact.
That's not a typical blaster rifle he is using. It is a "lightbow" and it has comparable firepower to a heavy blaster rifle like a T-21. Granted, these weapons are nowhere near on the scale of actual laser cannons carried by starfighters themselves.
@@thelonious2213 fuel lines for the TIE run from beneath the cockpit to the engines at the back. There are however power cables running from the solar arrays to power the electrical equipment. What he struck was the solar array strut which isn't armored and is a vulnerability of the TIE. The shot probably didnt do much damage but air resistance helped tear itself apart.
You know what hillarious about this, none of the X-wings did NOT shoot down that transport ship! I mean that is massive! I also liked how none of the X-Wings didn't bother try to shoot the hanger to delay the TIE launch!
Awesome as it looks, that's one bad raid! The base still stand, a good number of people survived on that platform and even the shuttle was left intact. Mission not accomplished, yet they leave.
Call it a tactical retreat. I wouldn't consider that a full on assault, it's more of a strike. And they probably got the Empire's attention after that strike and a few nearby star destroyers are being redirected to Eadu.
It happened long long ago in a galaxy far far away and SAMs weren't invented yet. They had no surveillance satellites and no radar systems to warn them of an incoming attack, heck they didn't even have motion detectors around the site to detect trespassers. And that was supposed to be a high security military research installation or something, in a time of war. The Empire's total neglect of security measures was only surpassed by the attacking fighter squadron's utter failure in destroying anything important, including hangar entrances to prevent tie fighters from launching (should have been a priority) and the imperial shuttle just sitting there on the landing pad. Even taking out the control tower needed help from a blind man and a tie fighter to kamikaze into it. It's all so ridiculous that somebody in charge should find himself on the wrong side of an airlock after that.
All of which makes sense--But I feel that broken canyony' terrain would make SAM guidance rather problematical. It's probably why it only has point defense weapons-to make an attack you have to fly right into the gun turret's line of fire; But then again The Last Jedi had SAMs, and it sure made that movie better, didn't it?
@@ThreshmanEntertainment but still. In Legends, we had guided ballistics. Concussion Missile tubes were a big thing in space combat. Even in canon, the Vulture droids had homing missiles.
@@sirboomsalot4902 I don't know actually. Gold squadron was the only rebel fighter squad that was known to have y-wings, but then again we've never seen blue squadron until rogue one. For all I know they're gold but there's a small chance they might be blue.
DANG IT, GARETH EDWARDS! I know the Battle of Scarif was yet to come, but we have our first Rebels vs. Empire face off on the big screen since Return of the Jedi, and you make it not even 2 minutes?!? This should’ve been 3 or 4 times longer, so we get time to see BOTH sides shine! #garethedwardsisoverrated
Lol. This was the perfect face off, the fuck you on about? The Rebels pulled hit and runs at this time, not prolonged battles, because in the latter they got slaughtered due to their lack of capital ship support.
