Watched it last Tuesday with Ceridwen, in the only cinema in the region showing it in 2D.
Liked it a lot -- more than "The Force Awakens", actually, which felt like, "everything you have seen so far was futile, we are back at the start of "A New Hope"." Endless recursions are fine when you are fighting a Time War and cannot ever get rid of the Daleks, but WTH is wrong with the Star Wars universe to get into exactly the same mess barely 30 years later? Couldn't it be a slightly different mess? Everything that movie did well was tainted by the basic futility of all that had happened before.
Not so with "Rogue One". ( Spoilers )
I also noticed that I did not have many opportunities to hear English spoken this year. It took me about five minutes before I could understand what everyone was saying.
Fred Clark of Slacktivist thinks about contract workers on the Death Star here without having seen the movie yet.
Something fun: Leaked photos from the Rogue One sequel (Mainly Speculation - Possible Spoilers)
Discussion on Making Light (Spoilers). It includes the mind-boggling line: "yet I hear people screaming to boycott the movie because suddenly it has an anti-Nazi bias.".
Liked it a lot -- more than "The Force Awakens", actually, which felt like, "everything you have seen so far was futile, we are back at the start of "A New Hope"." Endless recursions are fine when you are fighting a Time War and cannot ever get rid of the Daleks, but WTH is wrong with the Star Wars universe to get into exactly the same mess barely 30 years later? Couldn't it be a slightly different mess? Everything that movie did well was tainted by the basic futility of all that had happened before.
Not so with "Rogue One". ( Spoilers )
I also noticed that I did not have many opportunities to hear English spoken this year. It took me about five minutes before I could understand what everyone was saying.
Fred Clark of Slacktivist thinks about contract workers on the Death Star here without having seen the movie yet.
Something fun: Leaked photos from the Rogue One sequel (Mainly Speculation - Possible Spoilers)
Discussion on Making Light (Spoilers). It includes the mind-boggling line: "yet I hear people screaming to boycott the movie because suddenly it has an anti-Nazi bias.".