Star Wars Franchise

Ian McDiarmid is good in the prequels. A masterclass in hamming it up with a shit script.

Return of the Jedi was weak but it still had characters with motivation and a personality. So did TFA frankly.

I genuinely can't think of any of Rogue One's characters names of the top of my head. Good fan service though and way less frustrating than the rest of the sequel trilogy.

I guess you may have a debatable point technically but I'm really not happy with the direct comparison between Empire and Rogue One and I respectfully insist you reconsider your position immediately.

There are only two scenes everybody remembers from a movie: the beginning and the ending. Rogue One had an awesome ending scene, so it gets a lot of love. That's smart directing, when you think about it.

But frankly I struggle to remember any of the other scenes. And like Psiloc said, I can't even remember the names of most of the characters.

Remember that bit in Predator when a silhouetted Dutch got off the helicopter at the army base then the predator blew himself up and Dutch flew away on another helicopter. Great film.

That fight redo on the previous page is the most awesome thing I saw this year. And it was a long year.

Yeah I've watched it a few times. It's good. But I'm under no illusion that it's a great film, take the fan service out and its pretty boring. Or alternatively take some of the more embarrassing fan service out and you could probably improve it a bit that way

The problem is that the, admittedly awesome, end scene of Rogue One isn't remotely connected to Rogue One.
(The other problem is that the actual very ending of the cool Vader scene is the bit where everyone goes 'what the hell have they done to Leia's face???!!!' )

I thought Rogue One was great. It would indeed be the best SW film since RotJ, if TLJ hadn't pipped it at the post.

I didn't mind Eawn McGregor, but I guess it helped that he had less puke-worthy lines than Hayden Christensen in the first place.

Donnie motherfucking YEN.

Honestly with the prequels I don't judge any of the actors too harshly. I mean look at Samuel L. Jackson, you'd think he'd never acted before. I'd blame the writing, directing and the fact they're mostly having to act with a green wall before pointing the finger at the actors themselves.

In fact, with Ewen McGregor in particular I think he did a pretty good job considering what he was working with. With Clones for example most of his scenes are him alone pretending to have conversations with a green screen.

SLJ you can tell his attitude was "if you all don't give a fuck then I won't either".

The funny thing is if you watch some of the "making ofs" the producers go on about this process like it's wonderful that their actors don't need to act alongside other actors any more.

EDIT: That's it, I remember them throwing sticky green balls against the green screen, then saying to the actors "that's your co-star, act with that".

They also land about 10 miles away from their destination so they can walk menacingly towards it

The Empire comes and kills her family and she has to hide.

Rogue One has loads of cool characters. It's just that most of them have unpronounceable names.
Bodhi Rook, Chirrut Îmwe, Baze Malbus??? Jeez.

But... Riz Ahmed, Donnie motherfucking YEN, Donnie Yen's mate with tbe big gun. Batshit crazy Forest Whitaker. Good scary imperial Bad Guy whose name I've also forgotten, but looks like a younger Moff Tarkin.
Alan motherfucking Tudyk as HK-48-ish.

Yeah, Ben Mendelsohn was great, but he pretty much always is.

They wasted Mads Mikkelsen mind.