A pathetic review of Rogue One, the most miserable Star Wars movie of all time, created only to distract my brain from my own miserable existence. What am I doing with my life? Someone stop me. I can't stop complaining about Star Wars!
"I intentionally built a flaw into the death star, but I also intentionally made it almost absolutely impossible to exploit, to the point that no normal human could ever take advantage of it. Gosh I sure hope a Jedi shows up to take care of things, even though as far as I know the Jedi have been completely gone for like 30 years." -Jin's dad (whatever his name was)
And that's exactly what's wrong with Disney's Star Wars. They hate George, I mean outright hate his work because he was the only one that could rival that Disney money. Sadly he got old, his ideas got old but he knew nobody wanted his old ideas. Even sadder he sold it to Disney and they tried to replace his work ever since. Problem is they hire people like this director and the writers that like Star Wars and have no original idea to add. Instead they just cater to George's saga while smearing it (like a toddler eating milk chocolate and handling the tv remote and then handing it back to you like there isn't chocolate all over it) but blinded by fandom to realise the damage they do. Sorry that was long winded.
@@gamervet4760 precisely. people can hate the prequels all they want but they need to accept they're george's art. when he passes away everyones gonna come out of the woodwork to defend him
So... Plinkett is like Zorro? Or some super-hero? When one grows old, another picks up the mantle and continues the sacred mission. You, sir, are a her... I mean... Plinkett, we deserve.
You seem to think Mike has an obligation to make an hour long critique of every star wars film that's released. He doesn't. People seriously don't understand there's not going to be a plinkett review unless he cares enough about the film to make one. And no, the embarrassing rip off this hackfraudmedua guy puts out is not a good substitute. He's horrendous.
Benjamin m so Mike is as incapable as Georgen Lucas of consistency. He lost interest in Star Wars, but still made a Rogue One Plinkett video to back up his bitch made opinions while drunk. This guys reviews are better than the actual Plinkett videos. The latests 2 at least.
Re: the Death Star "plot hole". I'd say that a military base the size of a moon with an exhaust port only two meters wide is a pretty damn good defense.
Eh, the last plinkett review of Ghostbusters was pretty damn good. I just wish the star wars reviews would’ve been just as good so I wouldn’t have to watch this hack fraud copycat instead.
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I always took 'balance in the Force' to mean living in-tune with the Force, more-or-less like a daoist strives to live in-tune with the flow of the universe. The Dark Side and its users represent those who try to force the Force into shapes they want, ultimately bringing misery to everyone around them and physically and spiritually destroying themselves. The Jedi aren't so extreme, but the way they seem to attempt to separate themselves from their innate humanity is another, subtler way of disbalancing the Force. The Prequel Trilogy gets more explicit in elaborating on the stoicism of the Jedi, and implying it is a wrong-headed way of going about the Force. Luke in Return of the Jedi represents the culmination of what a "grey," or rather, balanced Force user should actually be. Luke doesn't deny his filial love or his loyalty to his friends. He doesn't attempt to amputate his anger from his character. He accepts that these feelings are a part of him, fundamental to his essential character - to his place in the Force - and he does not let them rule him, like a Sith would, or deny them and suffocate them like some Jedi did. This is best represented when resigns himself to death at Palpatine's hands, and it's heavily implied to be the "right answer" in that it's love that ultimately makes Vader reject the Dark Side of the Force. At the end of the film, I think we are to understand that Luke is an idealized student of the Force. Driven to learn, willing to accept what comes, ultimately a humble man. My two cents.
I mean, to me @The Man From Krypton, the sequel films are just badly written, and Luke's character is maimed to fit a mold he doesn't fit. I have no interest at this point in anything the sequels have to say about Star Wars, the Force, and especially the original cast.
I don’t think the issue was with the stoicism of the jedi or the ways in which the jedi went about interacting with the force, but rather that they had let their hubris overshadow the jedi’s role. The prequels hint at the fact that the jedi had kind of corrupted the way of the jedi, especially during the series of the clone wars. Ultimately it seems the jedi way is supposed to be the correct way to go about using the force, but the jedi order itself became egotistical and started to abuse their power.
The most hilarious thing for me is that once a character is no longer useful to the plot he doesn't just die; *HE EXPLODES.* Random Imperial defector finishes stablishing the uplink; Stormtrooper throws a grenade and he explodes (and somehow the ship blowing up doesn't sever the connection because reasons). Blind-Guy-Who-Isn't-Really-Blind finishes pulling a switch; A starfighter bombs his position and he explodes. Machinegun attached to a guy finishes mowing down all the Death Troopers; Last survivor throws a grenade and he explodes. Rebel Girl and Terrorist Dude finish uploading the plans to orbit; The Death Star fires and they explode. The only exception is the droid, who actually gets shot to death.
That's probably because watching a person get shot would make the movie rated R or something. Cutaway explosions are a go-to PG death. Excessive violence against droids and faceless stormtroopers is a great way to slip fan service past the censors.
@@AvengerAtIlipa Darth Vader butchering a corridor full of terrified rebels didn't make the movie R-Rated and it's *WAY* more graphic and violent than the spark-filled blaster hits are.
@@AvengerAtIlipa It definetly shows Vader redirecting blaster fire to people's chests, or slicing the back of a telekinetically slammed navyman with his lightsaber. Additionally, the first 15 minutes of A New Hope didn't earn it an R-Rating and it showed lot's of people being shot to death and one getting his neck audibly crushed.
@@CteCrassus Idk what to tell you. Someone brought up the PH explosions and I explained why. The reason ANH was rated PG is because PG-13 didn't exist back then. It was either G, PG, or R (or X because pornos were still shown in theaters back then).
LOL, the BLUE MILK! That's exactly was my reaction to it. HEY EVERYBODY, ITS BLUE MILK! YOU KNOW, LIKE THE BLUE MILK WE SEE LUKE DRINKING WITH UNCLE OWEN AND AUNT BERU IN STAR WARS. BLUE MILK! I love the not-so-subtle way they inject fan service in this film. It was about as smooth as the back of Forrest Whitaker's neck.
Derek D ... it was literally just on the screen. Not even in the middle of the screen. It was as much a piece of continuity as fan service. « Not so subtle » is what TFA does when it has a discussion being interrupted by the falcon’s holo chess. I don’t actually know the name of that game, but you probably know what I’ll referring to, the game Chewbacca and C3-PO were playing in... epIV I think.
Lucas's idea of balance was like of an ecosystem and not a scale. The basic idea was that the force in its natural state was balanced and that the dark side is an unnatural cancer. The idea of a light side is entirely an EU idea. There's not "light side" in Lucas's films. The phrase never comes up once.
The dark side is perfectly natural though, the original films make this clear. It is all about balance. The prequels go to great length to show what happens if you fear giving into emotion from time to time. It bottles up until it explodes badly.
Mr Bubble natural? You mean, when Vader or the Emperor tempts Luke is a natural thing? Or like when It comes to kill someone to achieve your easier goal is natural? Goal meaning conquering the galaxy and sorts? Goal meaning killing millions of innocent? I'm sorry but the original movies never thought the Dark side as natural thing
Pretty much this. Originally, it was just Balance & Dark side. That analogy of cancer is exactly correct. To say that someone has an "imbalance" of healthy & sick & thus should inject themselves with some disease to achieve "balance" would make anyone confused. Similar here. The Dark side is the imbalance, just like a foreign disease is unnatural to the body's normal state. Getting rid of it completely is what makes balance.
This channel is really underrated I think. This is seriously impressive work. In terms of quality I would say they are at least close to on parr with RLM's Plinkett reviews. I do not know why you don't have more views or subscribers.
Bluehawk2008 Is RLM going to sue this guy and you are their lawer? This shit is better than the last 2 Plinkett videos. I am ok with Mike leaving the character yo someone else when he oost touch.
they had 15 minutes left at the end so they broke down Lucas's thematic understanding of the Force, pointed out the oversimplification vs existing Eastern Philosophy, proved he didn't understand his own creation all that well with the idea of 'balance' and then demonstrated that Disney is so artistically bankrupt and morally corrupt (a running theme throughout) that the very idea of an objective good terrifies their evil money grubbing hearts. The only reason Rogue One _might_ not go down as one of the biggest artistic failures and hands-down worst all-around movies released at its production budget is that Disney has dozens more SW movies to butcher.
@@aolson1111 yeah but grey Jedi were some edge lord stuff to begin with. I mean I liked Kotor 2 but let's not pretend that Kreia was particularly deep or interesting. The Jedi, as portrayed by Yoda in Empire were absolutely supposed to be a force for objective good.
Here's an idea: maybe instead of killing Galen, the Rebels should have wanted Galen to be captured by the Alliance. That way, they have a walking, talking Death Star schematic that they can lean on to make weapons for them. The Rebels just taking him out mafia-style makes them look like a bunch of terrorists.........they make the Empire look positively good by comparison.
You know how Plinkett did the whole 'discribe the character' between the OT and the prequels... well i dont even remember any of the names of the people in Rogue One.
Smart person: Capture Galen at any cost because he knows all the advance technology of the empire and is sympathetic to our cause. Disney: He a white man who create the Darth Star against his will: Kill him!
It seems that people continue to misunderstand the flaw in the Death Star, and how it was used to bridge the two films. It wasn't the exhaust port that Galen Erso sabotaged, it was the reactor core. He made it purposefully unstable so that it could be easily overloaded to explode. That's all. He had no say in _how_ it could made to overload, only that it could. _Rogue One_ thus does not directly contradict the lines in _A New Hope_ about "hoping to find a weakness", and also clarifies how were able to locate the exhaust port vulnerability so quickly. They had a general idea of what to look for already - some way to create a power surge in the reactor - but they didn't know exactly how (or if) it could be done until they had the plans in hand. I would imagine that, in a station of such complexity, there were actually dozens of ways to do so, but almost all of them required being _inside_ the station at the time. They just got lucky and found one access path to the reactor that could be targeted from the outside, if they could just manage that single lucky shot. I think this was a rather clever plot device myself. It connects a few dots that were unclear before, but doesn't override that fact that in the end it was still Tarkin's overconfidence and Luke's trust in the Force that led to the Death Star's destruction. Now, as for my personal opinion of _Rogue One_ as a film, I didn't love it, but I did like it. I feel like it kept to the spirit of the originals much better than the other Disney productions. It held closer to the same kind of traditional mythopoetic story arcs as the others (in this case self-sacrifice for a greater good), and didn't just coast on Star Wars nostalgia like TFA, or try to deconstruct it like TLJ. That said, it was certainly far from perfect. I agree with pretty much all the criticisms given here. Forgettable characters, poor pacing, and a confusing script that was the obvious victim of executive meddling and script-by-committee. Still...overall I give R1 a solid 'B': Good but not great. Entertaining enough to forgive it it's flaws.
@@MrSwitchblade327 Everything else? Um how about no. I don't hate the OT, I don't hate strong female characters (Trinity is badass, etc) and I don't hate everything. I hate shit stories, badly written characters with no clear motivations, and exposition written like it's still in bullet point form. ESAD,M
Right, so I like this, I really like this, but well done acting from Felicity and Whitaker? I can't tell if that's supposed to be a joke Also, about the Kyber/EU stuff: I cannot express how livid it makes me that Disney would first make everything non-film related not cannon, only to then go steal those same ideas and put them into the films as their own new ideas without giving the original creators any credit. Man. Fuck Disney.
TitoSilvey ... Honestly not me. Well, not in principle. The EU was never entirely scrapped to begin with, it was reclassified as legend, meaning that theoretically anything could be resurrected from the start. What’s more, considering the mess the EU was, I wouldn’t have had any problem with Disney making everything a blank slate, if it was in order to take time to only take the cream of the crop from the eu, and adding its own stories in between and besides, which seemed like it was what they were going for.
The EU stuff about Kyber crystals was shite anyway (not their existence but what they were meant to do or be). I would interpret the crystals - if Lucas insisted that they are a thing used by jedi - as merely having a property necessary for making the most reliable lightsabers i.e. other crystals were used early on but they eroded too quickly rendering the lightsaber non-functional or had an atomic structure that produced a blade that was unstable and liable to fail at any time. I believe the films (specifically TPM and Attack of the Clones for different reasons) strongly suggests that the power and significance of the lightsaber is down to the jedi entirely rather than the kyber crystal i.e. whatever the crystal, the energy blade of a lightsaber is next to useless as a cutting tool because it has no substantial power source; the energy required to cut through anything would need a massive battery which would have to be connected by a cable to the hilt. With the tiny power source lightsabers have in the handle, the blade can only be sustained for a short time e.g. an hour and that is without using it. It would only be good for cutting enemies in a very limited way and no one uses swords any more. Thus, no one uses lightsabers - except the jedi who most people have never met and probably largely disbelieve. How do the films support this theory? Well, Attack of the Clones shows the use of lightsaber technology in the clone army ships that attack Count Dooku in the geonosian arena towards the end of the film, laser lances that sythe through anything BUT require a massive ship to power and which cannot be sustained for very long; and in TPM, Nute Gunray expresses wild astonishment at the fact that Qui-Gon is easily cutting through the blast doors with his lightsaber. Gunray expected that those doors would be inpenetrable to the jedi *despite knowing that they had lightsabers* . So he must have had reason to think that they couldn't cut through those doors. Clearly in the hands of a jedi there is some other power source, an apparently supernatural one, powering the lightsaber; and we all know what it is.
@@KeldorDAntrell I've always found the explanation of lightsabers as requiring crystals at all to be a bit silly in the context of Star wars. Their lasers have long since been established to actually be plasma (tibanna gas) and the lighstabers look and behave basically the same. Even the sound they make when they turn on and off is like a loud hissing/screeching, which is incredibly similar to the noise a plasma torch makes. To me it always made the most sense to conceive of them as some sort of plasma torch blade, the magnetic field around it being responsible for deflecting other sources of plasma.
NSL black Not really no. Sure, light is the usual foil to dark, but you don’t need anything to be light to have a dark side. Literally anything can have a dark side as long as the normal side isn’t dark too (yeah, I know, kinda obvious -_-). And there is no necessity to have what we commonly mean by « light » side (that is to say « another half » of the force) simply because the dark side exists. In other words, sure, a « dark » side implies a « light » side, but it doesn’t imply that the dark side « complete » the light side in any way, or that the dark side is anything else than a corrupted version of the force. In other words, you just have the normal force, and the dark side. You can call the normal force the « light » side if you want... but it’s still just the normal force.
Fan Theory: HackFraudMedia is being groomed by RLM to replace Mike; who cant keep hiding his early onset dementia, Rich Evans is actually Snoke, and Jay is the Love child of Plinkett and a very intoxicated late 1970's Carrie Fisher. . .
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." The good guys giving up and staying home doesn't make the bad guys stop doing bad shit. Don't worry about "balance", do as much good as you can and it will probably be barely enough to overcome the evil.
Hackfraudmedia is Mike Stoklasa. This is not an impersonator, this is Stoklasa. The extreme high quality, the deep research, the editing, the writing, the cadence, the style, the obsessive details, it's all too perfectly spot on to the Plinkett reviews. This is Mike Stoklasa's secret You Tube channel
The thing that stuck out to me so much in the movie was how effective K2SO was. He fought off multiple stormstroopers while defending a control console thing, and yes, he was eventually defeated, but he was incredibly competent in combat. And he's just a reprogrammed security droid. Why do the empire even need troopers? A handful of human captains could lead squads of these deathmachines and actually get shit done. Why don't the rebellion reprogram more of these guys? Seems like getting more empire security droids should be a top priority, given how well K2SO fights. He's a pretty big step up from 'Roger, Roger' and the Bionicle Balls.
In the recent book of bobba Fett episode about the mandalorian returning there was a flashback where the empire bombed mandalore and used those droids and probes to attack the planet. Make sense, but yeah it also would have made sense to use them elsewhere tko
That idea of Vader taking a bath is so stupid. I always thought that being trapped in metal armor was a part of his character - feeling pain of his burned body, constantly reminding him of his fucked up life etc all that never let him get away from the dark side. But now he can chill and relax in a ""Bacta tank™"" Why just not use a damn meditation chamber from ESB?!
Wtf, that shit is in the movie?? So glad I skipped Rogue One. I think learning about this has officially put it in the same category as Suicide Squad, Fifty Shades and Shitbusters for me; movies that I will _never_ watch.
To be honest I like that they actually put something new in, that tried to show us something we didn't know about an original character. If they just did the meditation chamber again then we'd all roll our eyes and yell "MAKE SOMETHING NEW!"
OT: Bear with me, it popped into my head while reading the reply about Vader. Why couldn't Kanan from Rebels get healed in a bacta tank, or cloned eyes or cybernetic ones? The rebellion was still strapped for supplies in ESB but Luke still was able to get a cybernetic hand to replace his own hand.
@@geneparmesan8748 if the wheel works, then you don't need to reinvent the wheel. Darth Vader just show in meditation chamber wouldn't have been deal breaker. But the bath leave vader completely valuable to an outside attack, having to remove his arm and legs to take a bath. So wouldn't Vader fortress be a secret from everyone expect the emperor from unexpected visitors while he was busy?
@@NexusKin wait really? Didn’t Hermione- I mean Emma Watson, accidentally overwrite the part of Hermione being supposedly comely but instead pretty cute and then hot when she got older? I probably shouldn’t say this as fucking 19 year old but I thought all this when I was much younger.
Apparently the idea of "balance" in the prequels was that the Jedi should be able to kill off the Sith completely, not that the Sith should be considered a balance to the Jedi.
Exactly! So many "fans" don't understand basic things about force in Star Wars. George Lucas said himself that balance in the Force means Jedi defeating Sith. NOT equal number of Jedi and Sith. "That's not how the Force works!".
The Jedi are calm, defensive, passive. Balanced. The Sith are passionate, ambitious, aggressive. Unbalanced. Therefore to create balance they have to get rid of the unbalanced part. There's no such thing as "grey" Jedi because there's no balance between being balanced and unbalanced.
Are you sure you're not the real Plinket? ^^ This review is too good. A couple of things I wanted to point out: 1. The reason why Tarkin and Lela are such bad paint-overs is that the frame rate for the CGI is slower than the live action so it doesn't synch up very well. 2. The scene were Vader killed the Rebel soldiers is actually lifted from the Clone Wars cartoon series; there's a scene where Anakin (not Vader) is killing those stupid Trade Federation robots in precisely the same manner as you see it in Rogue One. Yep, they ripped off a cartoon series about Star Wars. Are we having fun yet?
Wait when was that? Are you talking about the scene where the battle droids are comically afraid before Anakin enters to face Cad Bane? That hardly seemed lifted from the show, especially since the scene in the movie was not comedic in the slightest.
“A series of vaguely related fetch quest does not a good story make.” That’s funny because the script leaks for TROS is said to have several fetch quests happen.
I just rewatched this video, and your take on the "balance to the Force" issue (1:11:15 to 1:23:09) is probably the best explanation and condemnation on the entire internet. This might be the worst, and yet least understood problem of the new movies (prequels and sequels). They're trying to have their cake and eat it too. They want balance in the Force, and yet they still want Good to win. It's like you say, a total contradiction.
actually Jedis would/should seek balance, while Siths are tempted by extreams. They want to be come the best, strongest, most powerful, e.g. (Onley A Sith deals in absolutes) ;^) But the new regime at Lucas Film has its own plans with this franchise.
Lucas says the prophecy was fulfilled when Anakin killed the Emperor. The imbalance is caused by the Sith. It is Disney that doesn't understand the concept and is using it as meaning there should be half light and half dark.
“Balance” as far as the force was concerned was always akin to peace and harmony. The sith caused an imbalance in the force and threw it into disarray. It was the role of the jedi to keep peace and thereby maintain balance in the force throughout the galaxy. If you are familiar with the stories pre 2012 then that was pretty self evident. The only people that would think balance means equal amounts of good and evil are people unfamiliar with the universe and lore
Fantastic video man, very obvious you put a ton of effort into this and I enjoy your videos as much, if not more than RLM's! The meta elements are hilarious and well done too. I'm more excited for your Last Jedi review than the film itself unsurprisingly, lol
Lol, isn't it amazing that someone would devote so much of their time to something they didn't like?! If he spends an hour and a half on this I couldn't imagine how much time he'd waste talking about something he liked ha ha.
I liked R1. At least it looked and felt like SW and had believable characters, with story arcs and relationships that grew. The Empire were menacing and competent, Crennick was a little weak (I have zero idea why Ben Mendelsohn is popular). K2SO was brilliant, Forest Whitaker was bad (for such a good actor). Ms. Jones correctly plays a damaged, mistrusting, withdrawn character. Nobody likes or trusts anybody to begin with. The relationships they form are credible. Did it have some problems - yes, but compared to TFA and TLJ it's a masterpiece. I've seen episodes of the Animaniacs with more impact.
@@JayMaverick yeah, Cassian, Galen Erso , bodi and saw garrera. Not the blind guy or his sidekick. I have watched it a few times though and would not have remembered all those on first view. Compare R1 to TFA & TLJ. The characters are open, trusting, perfect, you can join the resistance just by saying it, and when you do - they'll trust you with information and missions after just 2 minutes and take you to their secret base, nobody guards information or tries to avoid detection. It's like it was written by an 8 year old that doesn't understand the world. "I'm a scavenger that cares about highly valued and sought after droids and shames other scavengers who attempt to profit from their bounty." "I'm a 900 year old alien, that has decided the best use of my considerable life experience is to supply alcohol to the public and when an old friend (trying to avoid detection by the 1st Order) comes into my establishment - I'll announce it at the top of my voice across a crowded room." "Here kid, we've known each other for 90 seconds have Luke's light sabre" "I've lived on a desert planet since I was 4, but I can swim!" "My teeth, hair and skin are perfect and I look and sound like I was raised in Kensington despite having to trade scrap metal for food all my life." "I've known you for 25 minutes, but I'm going to cry at your death and being an abandoned child, scratching out a hard and brutal existence on a harsh planet hasn't made me even slightly emotionally withdrawn." The list is endless. These films are idiotic.
RiP. I made that mistake as well. Going to boycott 9 like I did Solo and read the plot on Wiki since I'm actually curious what JJ does to try and fix the hot mess he started. Rogue One is the only good Star Wars film from the Disney Era,
My biggest issue with the movie is the break in continuity with Vader's line, "Several transmissions were beamed to this ship..." I recognized that problem immediately upon seeing the movie, and it has been pretty frustrating that so few people point that out.
Reminder that it was Kyle Katarn that actually stole the Death Star plans, commissioned by Mon Mothma herself. Oh yeah, and I'm pretty sure the Geonossians had initially designed it as well.
Luckily for Poggle the Lesser, Tyranus prevented the Death Star's design from falling into Republic hands when he safely delivered them to Darth Sidious on Coruscant, keeping the Geonosian dream alive.
Nailed it man. Especially the nature of the Force. From what captured my imagination as a child to what they've turned it into by committee. Can't wait for the next one! :D
Rogue one was 100 times better than episode 7. A thousand times better than episode 8. Episode 8 was worse than the phantom menace. You have to remember that even though the phantom menace is terribly flawed, most people applauded the film after seeing it. It wasn't until certain arm chair critics that people started rethinking the phantom menace. I like rogue one, the main thing is they didn't tick the character box. Coming out of the movie I didn't remember the names of any of the characters. They weren't memorable at all. The ending cutscene doesn't make sense cause they're suddenly on the beach. It leaves you wondering if they could have gotten off the planet, they just didn't try. They should have been vaporized like thirty seconds after the plans were sent. There were some boring parts, some parts that were like "why, this isn't doing anything for the movie" and the dumb AT-AT's on the planet that held the deathstar plans were... Dumb. They shouldn't have been in the movie. If anything, the empire should have let it's guard down on the planet or something, and that should have been a good contribution to them getting into the room with the plans. I didn't even remember Jin's name. Even though it's related to a kind of alcoholic drink. It's just a weird name. And it's not that you can't use weird names, jus' gotta do it right. Conclusion: Rogue one, not perfect, sometimes too much stuff (ex. spaceships), characters sucked. But the story was a pretty decent story, and it was cool seeing the moments before a new hope. 51:00 ish. I have to respond to how darthvader did things. While I mostly agree with what was said, after episode 3 it was darthvader's lifegoal to destroy all the remaining jedi. So yes, that scene should have had storm troopers or something, but I think it made sense for vader to being wrecking things. Vader was a lot different than tarken for instance, who probably never got his hands dirty. Vader probably consistently assisted his troops in the front lines. Although, probably never really cared about his troops in any meaningful manner. 53:10 so it would make more sense, if the main characters (stillll don't know their names) didn't die on the planet, but escaped, and darth vader's troops captured them, and then darth vader killed them both. Then you would have darth vader acting in a consistent manner to the other movies and have a reason to show him off.
Isn't it ridiculous how a Star Destroyer can park in the air without visible effort, but can't accelerate beyond sone 5 miles per hour? It has perfect anti-grav, but at the same time has gigantic inertia? This isn't SciFi but bollocks.
KK: "I saw this delightful movie yesterday. Inglorious Basterds. Why don't you... Why don't you make Jyn more like Shoshanna." Writer: "What!? No! We already started shooting. Do you have any idea what it'd cost to--!" KK: *You're Fired!*
They went back to their greatest inspiration Ralph Mcquarie for the Vader castle and then did the opposite. His drawings were of a castle surrounded by snow and clear skies, not a fucking Volcano.
After watching Godzilla 2014 for the first time, I no longer think Edwards was brewing up some masterpiece before the Rat intervened. Spectacle is all the man knows, which is why that movie disintegrates after Bryan Cranston is killed off. It also shows that he won't stand up to bad writing.
I like how you mentioned E:r just before you up your clip game with stuff that imitates his. And the way you use Half in the bag clips. It's nice touch on the whole being a clone of one character and adapting others while throwing salutes to the source. I'm sure eventually you'll find your own voice too (though these Star wars reviews really need a plinkett or a fake one), and your scripts are solid. Next review soon, hopefully!
This movie is completely flawed on so many levels. The worst flaw is the ending which does not sync up with A New Hope. It is another example of writers and a director who had no attention to details.
In the beginning of A New Hope, Darth Vader says that there were data transmissions sent to Princess Leia's ship. Later the movie has the argument between a officer (the choke scene) where he says "data tapes" In the end of Rogue One, you have a disc being sent down the hallway, which Darth is attempting to recover. They get it out to the smaller ship. The flaw is that they got the data out to Princess Leia's ship via a disc, which Vader knew about and was attempting to recover. The transmission was from the planet to the larger ship. Later in A New Hope, he says the "transmission" line. This is not possible. The ship for Leia was smaller and in the bay of the larger ship. It did not receive the transmission, but it did receive the disc. Stupid writers and directors.
The point about the Stormtroopers might be a result of the filmmakers being too influenced by fans' perception of character like them. The masses' consensus is "Stormtroopers and their armor are sooo useless" and the film takes that to heart with scenes that go "yeah we know". And the masses go "yep that's right". Or at least their brains do. It could also be that the masses and current filmmakers were brought up on a different type of media than the generation that made the classics they love. The people who made the "groundbreaking, against-the-norm, controversial, etc" films were under the tutelage of the generation before them, the generation that they now satirized (if that was the type of movies they grew up to make) or otherwise defied by being different. The generation after them grew up on the "different", the "irreverent" without knowing or understanding what the original material or culture was.
I'm not. I'm saying that making political jokes in a video is not at all the same as "being vocally political". I can make any political jokes I want in a video without betraying anything at all of my political views. So if anything, E;R drives people away for not liking his humor, not by being "vocally political". Semantics, I guess.
Please activate the subtitles, so I can translate them into Spanish and enjoy the video in my language or any other language if someone else needs it. It would be very helpful, thank you.
Personally, I feel like this movie would've worked better if Krennic was played as something of a tragic villain and had more to do with the project than simply organizing it-suppose he was originally a weapons tech who was promoted due to an aptitude for leadership. Then let's say he has a more solid moral code than others in the Empire, which he could show in the openning scene: Galan concedes that he will work on the project (it wouldn't be called the Death Star yet, for reasons we'll get to later) as long as they let Jyn go. One of Krennic's guards/lackeys protests, suggesting that taking Jyn hostage would guarantee Galan's cooperation indefinitely, but Krennic would wave his hand and say "I know Galan. He will keep his word," and even order that some of his shuttle's supplies be left at the house for Jyn to use. Krennic could also have more deluded motivations for designing the space station, particularly that he lost his own wife and child not long beforehand and began to think of the project as his own child. At this stage in design, the station would've had different specs-the main superlaser would have been far less powerful, designed for dealing with star ships. It would later be revealed that the planet-killer weapon was designed by someone else and that Tarkin was always intended to take command, as they needed Krennic's skills for the design but also knew he would never agree to build (let alone use) a weapon capable of destroying entire planets. This would drive Krennic to the brink and he would begin his own betrayal of the Empire, pulling the strings in secret to position himself and Galan could be captured by the Rebellion, at this point hoping that Galan (who he knew to be disloyal to the Empire) had engineered some fault in the station to sabotage it. Jyn, in this version, would be a character who's a little more reminiscent of what Rey ended-up as in Force Awakens-a hopeful girl who joined the Rebellion hoping she'd one day save her father from the Empire. Jyn's conflict with the Rebel leaders makes no sense for the story and is wholly unnecessary for her character. Rather, she'd be a top-performer among Rebel forces, thanks to her strong motivations. While participating in a raid on an Imperial research base, she would unexpectedly capture both Krennic and Galan, partly thanks to Krennic's betrayal. Krennic would be the one to confirm the weapon's existence to the Rebels, and his presence would provide some actual, very legitimate reasons for turmoil-Krennic is an Imperial officer (?) after all, and just because he's helping them doesn't make that all hunky-dory. Some might even think it's a trap. Where the movie goes from here would be up to it. It could give Krennic the plans when he lets himself be captured and simply spend the rest of the movie sorting-out internal conflicts, skirmishing with the Empire, running blockades, and making sacrifices all to get the plans to the base on Yavin IV, effectively making the rest of the film a massive chase sequence. Alternatively, Krennic might only have his original plans for the station, which would not contain Tarkin's revisions and might not have Galan's built-in weakness, forcing them to make a daring raid on an Imperial base similar to what we have in the movie, only, with Krennic's aid, the infiltration could be done much more plausibly. Altogether, this would make the movie far more personal, present a greater variety of internal conflict, and ultimately would allow for more meaningful conflicts and drivers for its characters. It wouldn't fix everything with the plot of Rogue One, but combined with some trimming and tuning from someone with even a minimal amount of artistic talent, it would turn it into a serviceable film. As it was originally, Rogue One felt exactly like what it was: a corporate contrivance masquerading as a movie in a popular franchise. It never felt like it was trying to do anything artistic or meaningful, or indeed anything at all besides bolster ticket sales with obvious fanbait and occasional spectacle.
And I will further agree with the point at the end of the review-that Rogue One steals value from Episode IV instead of adding to it. Further, I think the idea that it was known that the Death Star had a weakness depletes the achievements of the Rebels who stole the plan. It's a story that you just don't tell because whatever the audience imagines happened based on A New Hope is better than anything anyone could create. Moreover, the idea that these rebels stole the plans and ran them, transmission to transmission, most of them sacrificing everything to get the plans to Yavin so the Alliance could analyze them to _find_ a weakness it might not even have is far more heroic than what this movie presents. Further, again, the idea that this is a plothole is so monumentally stupid that I don't actually have words to explain it. You can't make an invincible superweapon-it's just not possible to armor everything against every threat. Essentially, the fact that there is a weak spot isn't the problem, the problem is that the attack squadron made it there to begin with-after all, a weak spot is only a problem if it can be hit. If the Empire had actually fought like they meant it, the Rebels wouldn't have had a chance-but hubris isn't a plot hole. Altogether, the idea that the Death Star was intentionally sabotaged is not only unnecessary, but it creates a plot hole that wasn't there before: if Galan was trying to sabotage the design, why not build-in something far more sure-fire? Engineers and weapons designs often have catastrophic malfunctions appear in testing; it's hardly a rare thing even when the designers _aren't_ trying to sabotage their work. So, if you skimp the cooling systems to "save space," it'd probably make it into the final build and could cause the station to blow itself up during testing. Boom. Gone. Just like that. No trench run required.
Thank you for that segment about the exhaust port. I've probably written a small novel's worth of words trying to explain to people why this is such a disrespectful treatment of the first film. There was no plot hole, and the people who claim it is are dealing with a perception warped by repeated misinformation. This retcon just completely cheapens the accomplishments of A New Hope.
People who say that the Death Star having a glaring weakness in it's reactor is a plot hole don't know what a plot hole is. A plot hole is a contradiction in the story, nothing in cannon contradicts that the Death Star would have a weakness therefore it is not a plot hole. The worst you could call it is a contrivance, and Rogue One makes it even more contrived. Because now the presence of a weakness was intentionally placed there by the designer to exact revenge. He also made it pretty much impossible to exploit for anybody but a Jedi even though they're extinct (though disney cannon continues to stretch the definition of the word extinct).
@@williamcronshaw5262 It contradicts the notion of the Empire being really competent, which I guess is up to debate whether they were supposed to be smart or arrogant; however the way they don't bother to analyze the plans themselves (unless they had no copy?) to see whether there might be a potential weakness, despite taking the task of getting it back from the rebels very seriously, is kind of a contradiction.
@@username45739Like I said It's a contrivance, not a plot hole. I'm not sure why there's a debate between incompetence and arrogance when lines in A New Hope clearly point to arrogance. Remember during the battle of Yavin 4 when an officer tells Tarkin that they've analyzed the Rebel's attack patterns and determined that there is cause for concern? He then asks Tarkin if he should prepare an escape ship and Tarkin responds "during our finest hour? You greatly overestimate their chances." That's a pretty clear cut example of arrogance to me. And yes, that's a great example of how Rogue One takes a minor contrivance and makes it feel even more contrived.
@@williamcronshaw5262 I was only talking about ANH (since R1 contradicts it in more than 1 place). The way they wait until the very end with this, and don't analyze the plans while also chasing the rebel spies, contradicts the way they've behaved until then; in isolation, sure, Tarkin's being arrogant there - however even then, it's unclear whether he's wrong or not, cause the difficulty/impossibility of hitting that target was established in contradictory ways as well.
Thank you! Finally someone who gets it! The exhaust port is not a plot hole. It’s a result of the empire’s arrogance. They were so stubborn to the point that they believed that nothing could stand up to the Death Star. They didn’t see the open exhaust port as a problem. That’s why Tarkin reacted the way he did when the officer told him that the rebel’s attack patterns could cause a danger. And of course, as mentioned in the video the tension is high because it’s a 1 in a million shot instead of exploiting a sabotaged weakness.
Completely agree with the point about the music cue when they're climbing in the data vault .. I'm a composer for film and I was beside myself that such an awful piece of crap was written in a star wars film!
This movie, more than any other Star Wars movie that Disney released, seems to have been embraced by the fandom. I personally have never understood why. This movie fell flat for me on _many_ levels, and I find that I have indeed forgotten most of it over the months since I watched it. Thank you for shining some strong critical light on this thing. You're one of the few RU-vidrs I've found who's done so.
I like to think Mickey's locked up in a cage and treated poorly like the rest of Disney's franchise since I don't see this new Disney as the real Disney. Like every other popular franchise, he used to be good. Great review mate.
Really lucky that Guy McAccent got away with being the only member of the entire Imperial military to have facial hair without anyone noticing and asking why he wasn't following what are obviously the dress regulations.
Actually, the Jedi is supposed to be a religion. They weren't just random Samurai running around with no Daimyo; they were a religious order from the start. They weren't fucking ronin, otherwise the Empire would have no reason to hunt them. Tarkin even told Vader "You, my friend, are all that's left of their religion." Not to mention that the whole concept of Chi and Yin/Yang has no evil sides; the dark and the light are just two sides of a balanced person. Yin and Yang were meant to work together, whereas the Dark and Light Sides of the Force constantly clash. If that was the case, then there'd be no difference between Vader and Kenobi aside from costumes and robot arms; they'd both be just taking their powers from one side of the Yin/Yang dichotomy or the other, and neither of them would be good or evil. The Jedi uniform Kenobi was wearing was a mix of Franciscan and Buddhist attire, with the Franciscan robe over the robes of a Zen Samurai. Them giving up their attachments to work for the greater good was something many Christian mendicant orders did, and Luke's whole campaign to absolve his father of his sins is a blatantly Christian theme; a Buddhist would have no problem decapitating Vader and wouldn't give two shits that there was some good in him; they'd have killed him and be done with it for all the evil he did. It was only the Christian ideology that preached forgiveness of such evil people because there was something inherently good in them.
26:41 _"Weapon confirmed"_ 27:12 _"We have no idea what he's building for the Empire."_ I agree. This writing is idiotic. Do the Rebels know what Krennic is building or NOT? If the Rebels DON'T know what Krennic is building for the Empire, then why are they trying to KILL him? And if they DO know what Krennic is building, then why aren't they trying to capture Krennick alive for interrogation?
