Rogue One

[mueron]

Admittedly stole this from a comment on Reddit but thought it was too funny:

When I saw this (Vaders Castle), it was added to my long list of things the empire does to make life miserable for structural engineers, architects, and contractors.

"Lets build a skyscraper on the edge of a constantly changing lava plain, and there needs to be a river of lava going through the foundation with a big lava fall off the face of the building"


or "Lets built this huge, ostentatious, above ground data vault on this tropical planet. We'll make the whole thing an easy to scan computer system, but to retrieve the data tapes you need a manually controlled robot. Also, in order to adjust the dish you have to go out on this narrow gantry that sticks off the side of the tower, the gantry will have railings that do not meet code."

Or all the walkways over any drop off, with no railings at all, just to cause the most amount of possible workplace accidents.

[mu03eng]

Admittedly stole this from a comment on Reddit but thought it was too funny:

When I saw this (Vaders Castle), it was added to my long list of things the empire does to make life miserable for structural engineers, architects, and contractors.

"Lets build a skyscraper on the edge of a constantly changing lava plain, and there needs to be a river of lava going through the foundation with a big lava fall off the face of the building"


or "Lets built this huge, ostentatious, above ground data vault on this tropical planet. We'll make the whole thing an easy to scan computer system, but to retrieve the data tapes you need a manually controlled robot. Also, in order to adjust the dish you have to go out on this narrow gantry that sticks off the side of the tower, the gantry will have railings that do not meet code."

Or all the walkways over any drop off, with no railings at all, just to cause the most amount of possible workplace accidents.

To be fair OSHA caused the first Star War which caused the organization to be banned and workplace safety to be regarded as evil. Additionally, if we don't have exposed gantries how the hell are we going to have people falling off of them dramatically??

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Okay, finally says it. Very, very good about a quarter of the way through the movie I thought to myself everyone in this movie is going to die aren't they?

I really don't understand the criticism about the CGI, that was one of my favorite parts of the film with Tarkin and Leia, and I'm only 23 and have pretty much grown up with CGI movies. Thought it was extremely well done and it took me the whole first Tarkin scene to actually realize it was CGI, didn't throw the movie off at all for me.

Definitely better than the prequels, definitely better that TFA. Gonna have to watch the original trilogy again to see where it stacks up.

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

Finally saw it last Sunday.  Thought it was good, not great.  My initial response at the end was "Oh, so that is the battle where Leia came from.  Nice tie into the original."

Didn't realize Tarkin and Leia were CGI until I asked my friend that I went with (his second viewing).  Didn't ruin the movie for me at all.

I really liked the discord within the second half of the movie, both in the empire and the rebels.  A little tension on both sides lead to a little suspense.

The final battle scene was awesome but I new the rebels would succeed in stealing the plans.  So that had a kinda prequelish feel.

Just before Vader used his saber, I thought to myself we were going to have a light saber free SW.  Then, whew, Vader goes to work.  No duel but it would not have fit the story, so ok with that.  And Vader felt like the supervillan he is.

Comedy was really well done. Good writing and timing.

I will say, I was a little disappointed with the first half of the movie. A lot of it felt like filler.  Saw Guerra was a total throw away.

The Force religion tie didn't bother me.  Han Solo even called the Force as much in the original.  "A hokey religion and ancient weapons are no match for a blaster at your side."

Overall, easily ahead of the prequels.  On par with TWA, just behind RTOJ but still well behind SW and ESB.