Wasnt it that the Death Star was build in a Way that you either could output enough Energy to blow up the entire Planet, and also lower the Lasers Output enough that it only devastates the Surface, though this still means the Laser cracks open the Planets Surface and makes a giant Area around it uninhabitable
the death star has multiple power levels. When Jedda and Scariff were hit it was "single reactor ignition". When Alderaan was destroyed in the original, the death star was at full power.
The ending of this movie, with the rebels dying protecting the plans as they launched the Corvette that Leia was on made me full man cry in the theater. It was nostalgia in the best way, and reveals that “surprise, this was episode 3.99”
I honestly felt the same, It was so painful and upsetting to see her for just a moment. A moment in time, when all things came round to Star Wars again in 1977. That feeling that I dont think will ever come again.
5:54 yes, the actor died some time before the film released, and they got permission from his family to digitally recreate him, and got a sound alike to do the voice
The shots from the Death Star in this were “single reactor ignition” which is the order given both times. Tarkin says, “We need a statement, not a manifesto.” These are weaker shots which is why they didn’t immediately annihilate the entire planet.
This is my favorite film on an emotional scale. Seeing all the members of Rogue One fall one by one really hit me the first time I watched it. May the Force be with them.
this is my favorite Star Wars movie. I think the point is that we have all heard of the faceless rebels in those opening titles of the Star Wars films but we had no idea who they were or truly understood their sacrifice until this movie. they died so that others could survive. may the force be with them. also, this reminds me that I need to watch Andor still haha ❤
The screaming in the movie theater for those last few minutes was amazing. The most brilliant tie in to a next movie I have ever seen. I have no doubt that everyone went home that day and Immediately put Star Wars on.
A lot of the shots of the pilots in their ships at the end were extra shots they didn't use from the original trilogy, so you were 100% right thinking it looked like the old stuff.
I didn't grow up with Star Wars and never particularly liked the original movies or the prequels. But I watched this while in a Mads Mikkelsen binge and it will forever be one of my favorite movies of all time. The sheer power of the Rogue One crew's sacrifice was unbelievable, Luke would have never been able to destroy the Death Star without them. Also, Andor, the show, is a masterpiece in storytelling. You need to get on that.
Same. This was the first movie that felt like it conveyed the full brutality of living under a totalitarian dictatorship like the empire & fighting a war against it. The only other moment I can think of that was similar was the clones turning against the Jedi in the prequels, and that was just a montage.
Peter Cushing, who originally played Grand Moff Tarkin, died in 1994. The part was acted by Guy Henry and a full CGI map of Peter Cushing's face was made and overlayed on Guy Henry for the film.
This film made me cry both times I watched it at the cinema. I knew going in that a lot of the characters would probably die...but I wasn't prepared to love them all so much and see them all go so quickly! And I cannot explain the atmosphere in the cinema the moment Leia came on screen when I saw it the second time shortly after Carrie Fisher's death. I know for a fact I wasn't the only one who cried. This is hands down the BEST Star Wars movie!
All the shots from the death star were low yield, test shots. That's why the planets don't explode and the damage is relatively localized. They hadn't fired a full yield shot until a new hope when they destroyed alderaan
Fun fact, Seb! When K2 slapped Cassian, it was unscripted. If you look close enough, you can actually see Diego Luna sort of smiling through his hand as he covers his face. Absolutely love the repor between the two of them and they'll be sadly missed. If you want more though, I highly recommend checking out Andor. It's been phenomenal so far!
The deaths of the main cast of Rogue One came as expected for the continuity as we do not see these characters further down in the Star Wars timeline, for this film leads immediately into the events of A New Hope. At the same time, it creates much more of an emotional impact rewatching the original trilogy knowing the people that sacrificed themselves to save the galaxy. Rogue One was a beautiful film indeed
@@andymiller6661 You clearly don't understand a tragedy. That's the point. None of these people had to die. But they are normal people fighting an active war. They aren't special in any way, like Luke, Leia and Han are. So when the Force cannot protect them anymore than getting them to do what needs to be done to get the plans to the Rebellion, they are left vulnerable to the active war around them.
@justinalicea1590 No, I fully understand tragedy. And I get that people die in war. But it'd be tragic if the rebels used better tactics and actually tried to live, or at least tried to perform their objectives better but died anyway. Alas, they used suicidal tactics and subpar vehicles when better vehicles and tactics were available. They don't need anyone special to do that, just someone to think things through for more than half a second.
@@andymiller6661 And your proof of this is what? Every rebel either was fighting to survive the moment they activated the detonators to draw out the Stormtroopers that would otherwise be in the way of reaching the actual plans or was fighting to cover someone else who was completing an important objective. Like the rebels who made themselves a target so that the pilot could reach the ship. None of the planet level combat involved kamikazes from rebel ships, they either blast their targets or were shot down themselves. Above the planet was the same.
@justinalicea1590 They're all to aware in writing and pacing that we know generally how the movie ends. But instead of dealing with the forgone conclusion that they will steal and deliver the plans no matter what by slowing down and developing the characters, they're violently propelled from action to action with no real actual or natural progression in relationships. Jyn goes from yelling at Cassian to quoting him passionately and Cassian goes from cold blooded killer to organizing a suicide squad for her because he chose not to kill the one person he was specifically ordered to kill, which was her father. And he had good reasons for not killing him, I'm sure Bor gullet was used, despite him making people go crazy, to learn the truth. Yet nothing comes of that truth gathering scene. When the X-Wings attacked Jyn's fathers position, we're told that they can't be called off because they're already committed. Nonsense. No shots were fired yet, and there's apparently instantaneous two way interstellar communications in Star Wars and with that squadron, so there's plenty of time to call them off. Even if there wasn't, there's nothing to prevent one of the X-Wings from hovering over the pad for a few seconds and sweeping the pad clear of enemies while his squad mates covered him. The end battle scenes went from "Cool visuals, I guess," to, "Seriously?" The inclusion of Red and Gold Leaders, obviously limited to what they could cull from cut angles meaning the almost the same exact lines from A New Hope was jarring. Then there's the out of place Mos Eisley jerks somehow being on Jedha, being jerks on Jedha because they have to cram some random cameo in the movie, just for them to leave Jedha immediately after being jerks and going straight to Tattoine, without freaking out over almost being killed by the Death Star. Pretty much everyone died in an explosion immediately after serving their one purpose in the movie, which was to flip a switch. And some of those switches were outside and exposed to the elements for no reason. And the antenna was out of alignment for no reason, and somehow transmitted to everyone yet just the rebel flagship, which had Leia's ship in it for some reason. And let's not forget that C-3PO and R2-D2 were in the Yavin hangar when everyone left yet on Leia's ship when it got boarded not much longer later. Also, the battle scenes was ridiculous. The rebels had the element of surprise, yet they didn't immediately start shooting everything on sight upon exiting lightspeed. There was no general plan and at most minimal coordination. Orders were given sporadically, instead of rapid fire. There was no shooting between the capital ships and minimal firing from the capital ships. There was no bombing or bombardment of the Imperial structure surrounding the shield opening. There were no squadrons of fighters firing volleys of torpedoes, just random fighters almost casually flying about and shooting at the occasional target. There were a total of 3 star destroyers in orbit around Scarif and yet not one deployed any troops to reinforce the surface. Instead, they just let the surface fend for itself and eventually Tarkin destroyed the Empire's own base, despite only some rebels being on the surface and despite the rebels already getting the plans. And fuck the rest of the data stored there, right? That's not important anymore for some reason. Vader's scene at the end was supposed to be orgasmicilly amazing, yet it's a let down and shows him to be incompetent. He dramatically took his time and turned off his life support and almost casually walked down the hall killing fools, instead of being mister badass sith and using the Force to brush everyone to the side and at least trying to Force grab the plans or using the Force to at least try stopping Leia's ship. Then he's standing in the vacuum of space like his suit is rated for that. The opening crawl in A New Hope mentioned spies, yet there weren't really spies. Just some people sneaking into a base. Sure, that could constitute spying, but barely at that. Vader mentioned that the data was beamed to her ship; sure, the satellite dish transmitted the data, but not to her ship. If they're going to have Vader eage against the machine and her ship be attached to the flagship for some reason, have Vader mow down the rebel scum and get the plans, only to have Leias ship leave and the communication officer on the flagship transmit/beam the data to her. That can be arranged since the data was transmitted to the flagship and copied to the case but not necessarily deleted from the ships computer. The one of Leia's officers copies the data to the disc and then deleted the data from the her ships computer. Or better yet, have a spy team on the surface. Then Leia's ship arrives to take on supplies for a "mercy mission" (as vaguely mentioned in A New Hope). The spies bribe a bunch of people (Leia mentioning the price they paid), and beam the data up to her ship. Vader happens to be in the system, somehow catches on to that, then gives chase, leading to the beginning of A New Hope. The exhaust port doesn't need a flaw purposefully built into it; it just needs to exist. Closing an exhaust port at the wrong time can lead to bad things happening to complex machines.
One of my absolute favorites in the series. The darkness in this is just so choice. Merry Holidays errbody! What a treat! Edit: Seb, I think you feel a bit underwhelmed because you were connecting the dots, whereas if you remembered, Rogue One was the reason the rebels were able to win in Ep 4. due to the sacrifice of that team. I personally cried at the end, knowing they saved the galaxy 🥲
I love how this film makes leia even more of a boss by being caught and seen at the assault, and she looks Vader in the eye and says “wasn’t me, bruh. Get bent.”
i think this movie really does a good job at showing what the "normal" person was doing to try and defeat the empire. there were no jedi, just hope. which is why it's in my top 5 star wars movies. i'd recommend watching the new series 'andor'. it's about cassian and more of the same of what this movie was.
good eye, they did indeed reuse footage from A New Hope. in the original movie there were Blue and Red squadrons that take on the deathstar but they had problems with the greenscreen technology back then and couldnt use the Blue squadrons ships so they used them in this movie and had them sacrifice themselves by going inside the shield and dying with rogue one
The problem with the greenscreen technology back then was that it was _bluescreen_ instead. There's a particular film stock that does not react at all to blue light, so anything shot before a blue background will show up on an otherwise-transparent negative. Then you can cut a matte over these frames and use an editing machine to compose them into the print.
The final act of this film underwent pretty heavy rewrites and reshoots, which likely explains the weird cuts you mentioned. Originally Vader wasn't going to show up at the end the way he did, and the rebels were going to escape the tower and try to run back across the beach with the death star plans in hand. Footage of this can be seen in early trailers and featurettes promoting them film. One of the trailers even ends on this shot of Jyn facing off against a Tie Fighter on the top of the tower, which never happens in the final film. Also, it was a pretty big piece of early promo info about this film, but the entire plot of this movie is summed up in the opening two paragraphs of A New Hope's opening crawl. At the time, basically every fan of the franchise knew that was going to be the story of this film, and the vast majority of people assumed everyone would die during the mission, as these rebels effectively save the entire galaxy with their actions, but are never seen or mentioned after this movie. The one thing that caught most fans by surprise was how close to A New Hope this film exactly takes place. Most people assumed there would be some period of time in between this movie's ending, and the beginning of A New Hope. But in reality, A New Hope begins almost immediately after Rogue One ends. Watching them back to back as a double feature is almost seamless. It's a really great choice.
There area ton of scenes that they showed in ads and trailers that never made it into the final movie. (There is a youtube supercut if you are interested) Aparently they shot a normal ending, then got permission from above that they could kill everyone off, and reshot the entire end sequence around it
For at least new Star Wars movies, one of the people consulted to make the alien languages is Saara Forsberg, she has a UA-cam channel and TikTok. She made one of the first “what languages sound like to other people” videos back in like…jeez, 2013 or something. She’s a polyglot and even though she’s born and raised Finnish, she sounds completely American.
One of my favorite things about rogue one is how jyn and cassian are just trusting friends by the end of it. As seb points out directly, there're a lot of chances to make them a more traditional protagonist couple. I definitely think it would've felt forced if the story did decide to go that way and I really respect the writers for showing some restraint and not going that route.
He said in the video he's already seen them last year and posted them on the channel. He just doesn't remember the plots very well after all that time.
@@thenecrosanct4906 Yeah he did say that. Not surprised he doesn't remember the opening scene from the original trilogy. There's a fan edit of the Vader vs. Kenobi when he gets killed by Vader, and the fan edit is so much better than the original! Showing two powerful force users instead of a doddering old man trying to look impressive
@@ctakitimu Isn't that the point, though. Two old masters, one slowed by age and the other by his crippled body. They fight slowly, unsure of the others power or mystical abilities they may have mastered since their last duel. Vader looks almost hesitant to fight his old master, while Kenobi carefully dances around him for his final fight. Don't get me wrong, I love SC 38 Reimagined, but I like to think of it as a reinterpretation of that fight rather than an improvement.
@@cinemagoose "Two old masters, one slowed by age and the other by his crippled body." Interesting idea, but definitely retconning, wherever it originated. Time/budget/wardrobe constraints made that scene what it was. No time to hire athletic stunt double sword fighters for the pair, one 6' 6", no time/budget to build a Vader costume that would allow for "swashbuckling." It was fine as-is, though. A swordfight had never been done like this, future success of the movie was a *huge* question mark, and Lucas (wisely) trusted Dykstra/ILM to sell it. To steal from Christopher Walken's line in _Catch Me If You Can,_ "The audience couldn't keep their eyes off the light sabers." 😀
@@rollomaughfling380 yeah. I have read a couple fact books of star wars from before the Disney buyout (before Darth Vader became OP) that seem to support my argument. Over the past decade, Vader has appeared so often as an extremely powerful force user that I feel like the original scene has become outdated, now that my old explanation no longer works. SC 38 reimagined was kind of necessary to address the new canon now that Vader has been shown to easily overcome his cyborg implants. In a way, that original recon has now become retconned again, even if only unofficially
The Death Star doesn't just blow up planets. It was explained in the film that Grand Moff Tarkin didn't want to destroy the entire planet of Jedha, but just wanted to use a single reactor ignition to just blow up the city.
If you liked Rogue One, I really recommend checking out Andor, the new Star Wars show. It's one of the better examples of story telling in Star Wars, and has been solid all the way through it's 12 episode season. If you were to do a reaction series on those, you could pair up three episodes at a time, as 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12 pretty much equate to 4 connected standalone movies.
my favorite star wars film, and yes I include the originals in that. They need to do more stories like this, Get away from the galaxy spanning conflicts, tell the stories of individuals and small groups, tie them into a larger setting, but keep it personal.
Rogue One is more of a war movie than a Star wars film, it shows the major sacrifice it took to just get ahold of the weakness of the deathstar which the whole plot of A New Hope revolved around. It's my favourite SWs movie for sure, I think it's better than all the other ones. Plus, that Vader scene at the end was the most epic thing. I watched it in the cinema and my god, I had chills everytime I thought of it.
A little pawn in the game? It was the biggest piece of intel that helped them blow up the Death Star lol. This mission was HUGELY important to the rebellion
Honestly, I've been a Star Wars geek since I was a teenager. To the point I got an Empire sigil tattooed on my elbow about 10 years ago (under shady circumstances) like a prison tattoo. This is seriously my second favorite SW movie behind Empire Strikes Back. Also, if you liked Chirrut (Donnie Yen, the blind guy), check out more of his movies. He's going to be in the next John Wick. Dude is literally one of the most badass martial artists since Bruce Lee.
If you listen in the movie, the reason the Death Star didn’t instantly blow up the planet is because they only used one reactor. Typically because they didn’t want to blow up the entire planet.
When I read the novel based on the first movie way back in 1977 it hinted at the cost paid to obtain the plans. I remember imagining a movie that would depict that. And here all these decades later they finally made it.
14:38 Chirrut shoots down Tie Fighter. "How did he...? This dude is hacking." Yeah bro, it's the Force. 😂 And later seeing Vader w/out the suit: "Does he take it off...? Yeah you don't sleep in the suit, are you..." Bless your heart. 😂 Always love your reactions Seb.
After watching this, and with the prequel to this, Andor, having dropped its finale yesterday I would say you should immediately binge that whole incredible season. It is the best written, acted, directed and produced Star Wars in many years.
He says he never has seen a good Stormtrooper. Well, he needs to watch the Finale of Andor, and he'll see them being the killing machines that they were designed to be.
When I first watched it I didn't like it but I thought the start was quite slow, the second time I watched it I loved it. I loved all the characters even though I knew their fate because they weren't in the originals, all the characters are so good.
Seb honest to God, my eyes were twitching from, 'Damn - I can't quit but think it's a bit underwhelming' right up to, '-it didn't quite have the payoff', and the whole time I was internally screaming - "JUST GIVE IT A SECOND SEB!" 😂😂😂
I'm not the biggest Star Wars nerd out there, so I don't know if there's any actual lore that would explain it, but I think "the Hoth thing" was only necessary against the walkers at Hoth because the snowspeeders flown by the rebellion weren't meant to be dedicated attack craft and probably had smaller weaponry compared to the X-wing "fighter". The fact that the speeders were even equipped with tow cables at all suggests to me that they were really more of a lightly armed utility vehicle.
G'day it's Steven from Down Under again A brilliant film that ties up a few loose ends and clarifies long asked questions, and certainly honours the Skywalker saga, the end scene with Darth Vader is cool and goosebump inducing, though I must admit James Earl Jones' iconic powerful Darth Vader voice did sound a little on the weak side to me considering his advanced years but thoroughly enjoyable none the less. Love your honest reactions and keep up the great work young man.
This was the first Star Wars movie where I actually felt they were outgunned and fighting the odds, and what you think is the ending, to then see a really cool ending. I really enjoyed it.
Of all the Star Wars films that Disney made, Rogue One was the best they produced and Darth Vader fighting in the end, was perfect. They showed respect to Vader in this film, show him to be someone that you could not easily defeat even in large groups. To me, Vader a fallen and later redeem hero, was and still in my eyes an ultimate villain.
Look up the actor that plays K2SO, Alan Tudyk. he's in an absurd amount of movies - don't often see him as himself.. he does a lot of voice work, but it's worth checking him out just to marvel at the range that he has. half the time you have no idea it's him, even after you know it's him. his voice range is just nuts, but he's actually an awesome actor too when you DO actually see him. I went into this one with the expectation that most, if not all of them, were going to die since I knew it led right into A New Hope. So I went in with fairly low expectations. but this is still one of my favorite SW movies for sure.
My favorite fact about this movie is that the writer wanted to kill all the characters in the end, but thought Disney wouldn’t let him get away with it so the first draft had Jyn and Cassian find a ship and escape. Disney read it and came back with “We love it, but shouldn’t Jyn and Cassian die in the end?” And he just goes “You got it boss!”
it was at half power, that shot at Jedha, they didn't want to demonstrate its full destructive power just at that moment, enough to destroy lose ends, but not enough to make people wonder what happened
This is the first film in which I experienced Vader as a properly menacing villain. None of the others did it for me but this representation at the end, with Vader almost from the perspective of regular rebels as a kind of force of nature worked really well. I know a lot of people disliked the CGI Peter Cushing , and I can understand the ethical objections to reconstructing the dead for film potentially endlessly but I was, personally, very impressed by it on a very immediate sensory level when I watched this in the cinema. It would have taken me a scene or two to notice if I hadn't already known. It is more obvious off the big screen but still a remarkable achievement for both the artists and the voice actor.
Btw the reason the entire doesn’t completely explode is because Tarkin makes them fire with only a single core. In A New Hope they blow up Alderaan using full cores
At about the 12 minute mark, you are wondering why the Death Star shot is slowly destroying the planet; you missed the detail that it only shot at like 10 percent power as the Empire only wished to destroy the city. THAT is why they could get away and why the horizon was "slowly" being destroyed.
You should really watch some of the star wars shows like Andor and Kenobi, or even the clone wars if you're looking for a long-time show to binge They're some of the best star wars material (yeah kenobi was flawed cuz of reva and whatnot but imo it's enjoyable enough)
you called it depressing but i found it quiet beautiful tbh. The Galaxy has been under the power of this empire for decades and they’re so desperate for freedom that they united for this cause to free everyone, even if that means that they have to sacrifice themselves for it. Andor has his own series where the build up to this rebellion is showcased even better. It’s definitely the best star wars movie in my opinion
I love this movie. Cannot recommend the prequel series "Andor" enough. The finale of the first season just aired and it is top tier quality from beginning to end.
This is probably my favourite Star Wars movie tbh, especially with the cameos and easters from the animated show Rebels, which I grew up watching. Seeing ships and character cameos and names being called over the comms was so thrilling, and the main cast was amazing. With the addition of Andor, the end hits harder as well
I don’t remember this film doing too well when it was released, but it seems to get better and better! Now one of my favorite Star Wats films. Now, I have to go back and watch your full length Revenge of the Sith.
Jyn Erso is a terribly sad character. - She lives in hiding with her parents, her mum is killed (in front of her!), she is taken away by a stranger at a young age, lives with rebels, is abandoned at 16(!), becomes a Juvenile criminal, sees her dad die front of her and then is herself killed at a young age. "If it wasn't that actor, I don't think anyone would care". WRONG, But perhaps some peeps were more emotionally involved than you.. 😒 Also re. Saw Gererra - "You could have just gone". Nope, no he couldn't; for two reasons. 1. He's physically knackered; he can hardly walk. Can you see him runnng to the ship where K2 is? No, well.... Even if he wanted to, he can't physically escape. Which brings me onto - 2.Saw has spent his entire life from his teens/twenties onwards fighting (SW Clone Wars tv show onwards). Look at the toll it's taken on him physically and mentally. he doesn't trust anyone, he's in hiding etc. He's tired. H'e seen so many people die, made so many compromises etc. "They have strange cuts in this movie". Err no they don't. No one has suggested this other than you. 🙄 I cired at various points when I saw this in the cinema; primarily when Jyn gets the message from her dad and then when he tries to talk to her whilst dying. No other SW movie has ever done this. Andor is also brilliant Good reaction. Look forward to the next ones! how about "Pan's Labyrinth" and either/both Speilburg's forgotten movie "Empire of the Sun" or John Borman's'" "Hope and Glory" - the later doesnt's have a reaction on UA-cam (as far as I know)
Aside from The Vader Scene, the best part of this film is seeing the guerilla-style warfare of the Rebellion. Really made it seem like a war, rather than a few major battles.
The ending of this film lends new weight to the opening of Ep 4. Vader is clearly pissed AF and Leia, straight up lying to his face about being on a diplomatic mission from Alderaan. Vader is just "I literally just saw you launching from another ship in the middle of a giant fucking space battle, are you fucking kidding me???"
this is the best one. such a good movie. yes its dark, but its really well done and the set up at the end where she gets teh plans that are used in the original movie is great. theres a show now thats a prequel to this with his character on disney plus.
There is more than one version of the Wilhelm scream recording, plus sound engineers will sometimes take the one everybody knows well and mix it with another sound to make it less obvious.
To this day, Rogue One is easily the best Star Wars movie Disney has ever made and the ending with Dark Vader was top notch.
*Darth Vader
Big SW theme: Don't eff with a Skywalker in a hallway!
But it’s because of that ending that it makes it not Cannon otherwise, it would fuck up everything else.
@@MamadNobari Cap it’s Darth.
It’s 100% darth
"Yeah the ending is anticlimactic"
Vader: And I took that personally
In this movie, the Death Star only operated at a VERY SMALL fraction of its full power
Tested over the power AND THEN BECAME DEADDD DDDDD BY THE END OF STAR WARS 4!
single reactor ignition to be specific
Still surprised by the number of people that seem to miss that part. They aren't blowing up these planets, just making a mess of them.
Wasnt it that the Death Star was build in a Way that you either could output enough Energy to blow up the entire Planet, and also lower the Lasers Output enough that it only devastates the Surface, though this still means the Laser cracks open the Planets Surface and makes a giant Area around it uninhabitable
@@Sheppart92 It probably does
This has been greatly enhanced by Andor. The two go together so well.
well no shit 😅😂
But the ending is terrible. It breaks the cannon that the original Star Wars movie established.
@@imaginarycorgi7312 What did it break? Everything tied into A New Hope perfectly (or do you mean the tiny continuity error with C-3PO and R2?)
@@imaginarycorgi7312 of Andor or Rogueone?
@@imaginarycorgi7312 cause you r wrong ya ja!
the death star has multiple power levels. When Jedda and Scariff were hit it was "single reactor ignition". When Alderaan was destroyed in the original, the death star was at full power.
The ending of this movie, with the rebels dying protecting the plans as they launched the Corvette that Leia was on made me full man cry in the theater. It was nostalgia in the best way, and reveals that “surprise, this was episode 3.99”
I cired everytime Jyn was with her father. No shame in crying!
If you don't cry at _every_ Star Wars you're not paying attention.
@@SwiftJustice Yep. I even cried when I watched the Sequel Trilogy because of how godawful they were
I honestly felt the same, It was so painful and upsetting to see her for just a moment. A moment in time, when all things came round to Star Wars again in 1977. That feeling that I dont think will ever come again.
“Help me Obi-Wan, you’re my only hope.” 🥺🥺🥹
That last 5 mins with Vader....first time seeing him show why he was feared for 20 years .
He's feared because of his violent incompetence.
5:54 yes, the actor died some time before the film released, and they got permission from his family to digitally recreate him, and got a sound alike to do the voice
Legend of an actor too
He died in 1994 .. which is technically "some time before the film released" but .. :D
@@EiriUesugiKun lol I wasn't sure when and forgot to google it to amend this comment. I thought it was more recent than '94. Wow
The shots from the Death Star in this were “single reactor ignition” which is the order given both times. Tarkin says, “We need a statement, not a manifesto.” These are weaker shots which is why they didn’t immediately annihilate the entire planet.
This is my favorite film on an emotional scale. Seeing all the members of Rogue One fall one by one really hit me the first time I watched it. May the Force be with them.
Agreed and for me Andor has made Rogue One even better.
this is my favorite Star Wars movie. I think the point is that we have all heard of the faceless rebels in those opening titles of the Star Wars films but we had no idea who they were or truly understood their sacrifice until this movie. they died so that others could survive. may the force be with them.
also, this reminds me that I need to watch Andor still haha ❤
You do inded NEED to watch Andor - it's well, really good!
The screaming in the movie theater for those last few minutes was amazing. The most brilliant tie in to a next movie I have ever seen. I have no doubt that everyone went home that day and Immediately put Star Wars on.
Yet still a bad movie.
I most definitely didn't put Star Wars on.
A lot of the shots of the pilots in their ships at the end were extra shots they didn't use from the original trilogy, so you were 100% right thinking it looked like the old stuff.
I didn't grow up with Star Wars and never particularly liked the original movies or the prequels. But I watched this while in a Mads Mikkelsen binge and it will forever be one of my favorite movies of all time. The sheer power of the Rogue One crew's sacrifice was unbelievable, Luke would have never been able to destroy the Death Star without them.
Also, Andor, the show, is a masterpiece in storytelling. You need to get on that.
Same. This was the first movie that felt like it conveyed the full brutality of living under a totalitarian dictatorship like the empire & fighting a war against it. The only other moment I can think of that was similar was the clones turning against the Jedi in the prequels, and that was just a montage.
And Clone Wars
@@lukescrew1981 Why not?
you have no say in anything star wars if you only like rogue one cause mads is in it lmfaoo
Peter Cushing, who originally played Grand Moff Tarkin, died in 1994. The part was acted by Guy Henry and a full CGI map of Peter Cushing's face was made and overlayed on Guy Henry for the film.
This film made me cry both times I watched it at the cinema. I knew going in that a lot of the characters would probably die...but I wasn't prepared to love them all so much and see them all go so quickly! And I cannot explain the atmosphere in the cinema the moment Leia came on screen when I saw it the second time shortly after Carrie Fisher's death. I know for a fact I wasn't the only one who cried. This is hands down the BEST Star Wars movie!
Michael Giacchino did such a good job with the musical score.
It FEELS Star Wars but at the same time, it feels like something else.
All the shots from the death star were low yield, test shots. That's why the planets don't explode and the damage is relatively localized. They hadn't fired a full yield shot until a new hope when they destroyed alderaan
Fun fact, Seb! When K2 slapped Cassian, it was unscripted. If you look close enough, you can actually see Diego Luna sort of smiling through his hand as he covers his face. Absolutely love the repor between the two of them and they'll be sadly missed. If you want more though, I highly recommend checking out Andor. It's been phenomenal so far!
I was wondering when someone was gonna mention that
The deaths of the main cast of Rogue One came as expected for the continuity as we do not see these characters further down in the Star Wars timeline, for this film leads immediately into the events of A New Hope. At the same time, it creates much more of an emotional impact rewatching the original trilogy knowing the people that sacrificed themselves to save the galaxy. Rogue One was a beautiful film indeed
Just because they aren't seen later in itself doesn't mean that they had to die.
Yeah, beautifully bad.
@@andymiller6661 You clearly don't understand a tragedy.
That's the point. None of these people had to die. But they are normal people fighting an active war. They aren't special in any way, like Luke, Leia and Han are. So when the Force cannot protect them anymore than getting them to do what needs to be done to get the plans to the Rebellion, they are left vulnerable to the active war around them.
@justinalicea1590 No, I fully understand tragedy. And I get that people die in war. But it'd be tragic if the rebels used better tactics and actually tried to live, or at least tried to perform their objectives better but died anyway.
Alas, they used suicidal tactics and subpar vehicles when better vehicles and tactics were available. They don't need anyone special to do that, just someone to think things through for more than half a second.
@@andymiller6661 And your proof of this is what? Every rebel either was fighting to survive the moment they activated the detonators to draw out the Stormtroopers that would otherwise be in the way of reaching the actual plans or was fighting to cover someone else who was completing an important objective. Like the rebels who made themselves a target so that the pilot could reach the ship.
None of the planet level combat involved kamikazes from rebel ships, they either blast their targets or were shot down themselves. Above the planet was the same.
@justinalicea1590 They're all to aware in writing and pacing that we know generally how the movie ends. But instead of dealing with the forgone conclusion that they will steal and deliver the plans no matter what by slowing down and developing the characters, they're violently propelled from action to action with no real actual or natural progression in relationships. Jyn goes from yelling at Cassian to quoting him passionately and Cassian goes from cold blooded killer to organizing a suicide squad for her because he chose not to kill the one person he was specifically ordered to kill, which was her father. And he had good reasons for not killing him, I'm sure
Bor gullet was used, despite him making people go crazy, to learn the truth. Yet nothing comes of that truth gathering scene.
When the X-Wings attacked Jyn's fathers position, we're told that they can't be called off because they're already committed. Nonsense. No shots were fired yet, and there's apparently instantaneous two way interstellar communications in Star Wars and with that squadron, so there's plenty of time to call them off. Even if there wasn't, there's nothing to prevent one of the X-Wings from hovering over the pad for a few seconds and sweeping the pad clear of enemies while his squad mates covered him.
The end battle scenes went from "Cool visuals, I guess," to, "Seriously?" The inclusion of Red and Gold Leaders, obviously limited to what they could cull from cut angles meaning the almost the same exact lines from A New Hope was jarring.
Then there's the out of place Mos Eisley jerks somehow being on Jedha, being jerks on Jedha because they have to cram some random cameo in the movie, just for them to leave Jedha immediately after being jerks and going straight to Tattoine, without freaking out over almost being killed by the Death Star.
Pretty much everyone died in an explosion immediately after serving their one purpose in the movie, which was to flip a switch. And some of those switches were outside and exposed to the elements for no reason. And the antenna was out of alignment for no reason, and somehow transmitted to everyone yet just the rebel flagship, which had Leia's ship in it for some reason. And let's not forget that C-3PO and R2-D2 were in the Yavin hangar when everyone left yet on Leia's ship when it got boarded not much longer later.
Also, the battle scenes was ridiculous. The rebels had the element of surprise, yet they didn't immediately start shooting everything on sight upon exiting lightspeed. There was no general plan and at most minimal coordination. Orders were given sporadically, instead of rapid fire. There was no shooting between the capital ships and minimal firing from the capital ships. There was no bombing or bombardment of the Imperial structure surrounding the shield opening. There were no squadrons of fighters firing volleys of torpedoes, just random fighters almost casually flying about and shooting at the occasional target. There were a total of 3 star destroyers in orbit around Scarif and yet not one deployed any troops to reinforce the surface. Instead, they just let the surface fend for itself and eventually Tarkin destroyed the Empire's own base, despite only some rebels being on the surface and despite the rebels already getting the plans. And fuck the rest of the data stored there, right? That's not important anymore for some reason.
Vader's scene at the end was supposed to be orgasmicilly amazing, yet it's a let down and shows him to be incompetent. He dramatically took his time and turned off his life support and almost casually walked down the hall killing fools, instead of being mister badass sith and using the Force to brush everyone to the side and at least trying to Force grab the plans or using the Force to at least try stopping Leia's ship. Then he's standing in the vacuum of space like his suit is rated for that.
The opening crawl in A New Hope mentioned spies, yet there weren't really spies. Just some people sneaking into a base. Sure, that could constitute spying, but barely at that. Vader mentioned that the data was beamed to her ship; sure, the satellite dish transmitted the data, but not to her ship. If they're going to have Vader eage against the machine and her ship be attached to the flagship for some reason, have Vader mow down the rebel scum and get the plans, only to have Leias ship leave and the communication officer on the flagship transmit/beam the data to her. That can be arranged since the data was transmitted to the flagship and copied to the case but not necessarily deleted from the ships computer. The one of Leia's officers copies the data to the disc and then deleted the data from the her ships computer.
Or better yet, have a spy team on the surface. Then Leia's ship arrives to take on supplies for a "mercy mission" (as vaguely mentioned in A New Hope). The spies bribe a bunch of people (Leia mentioning the price they paid), and beam the data up to her ship. Vader happens to be in the system, somehow catches on to that, then gives chase, leading to the beginning of A New Hope. The exhaust port doesn't need a flaw purposefully built into it; it just needs to exist. Closing an exhaust port at the wrong time can lead to bad things happening to complex machines.
This movie is top tier. Also highly recommend the show Andor!
Yet still bad.
@@andymiller6661 Never share your opinions again❗❗
@@ColonizeMARS-hb7qy Why?
@@andymiller6661 Your opinions are trash🔥
@@andymiller6661Because they're shit...
One of my absolute favorites in the series. The darkness in this is just so choice. Merry Holidays errbody! What a treat!
Edit: Seb, I think you feel a bit underwhelmed because you were connecting the dots, whereas if you remembered, Rogue One was the reason the rebels were able to win in Ep 4. due to the sacrifice of that team. I personally cried at the end, knowing they saved the galaxy 🥲
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Kinda cool that the ending takes place like 1 hour before A New Hope.
Actually the ending is right before new hope
I love how this film makes leia even more of a boss by being caught and seen at the assault, and she looks Vader in the eye and says “wasn’t me, bruh. Get bent.”
i think this movie really does a good job at showing what the "normal" person was doing to try and defeat the empire. there were no jedi, just hope. which is why it's in my top 5 star wars movies. i'd recommend watching the new series 'andor'. it's about cassian and more of the same of what this movie was.
Andor is a great SW series with him as the main protagonist! Definitely give it a go
This movie portrays actual war in Star Wars so well
good eye, they did indeed reuse footage from A New Hope. in the original movie there were Blue and Red squadrons that take on the deathstar but they had problems with the greenscreen technology back then and couldnt use the Blue squadrons ships so they used them in this movie and had them sacrifice themselves by going inside the shield and dying with rogue one
The problem with the greenscreen technology back then was that it was _bluescreen_ instead. There's a particular film stock that does not react at all to blue light, so anything shot before a blue background will show up on an otherwise-transparent negative. Then you can cut a matte over these frames and use an editing machine to compose them into the print.
They actually did use old footage for some of the rebel pilots. Nice catch!
Oh no. Now you have to watch Andor. I'm very curious what someone with your experience would think of it.
The final act of this film underwent pretty heavy rewrites and reshoots, which likely explains the weird cuts you mentioned.
Originally Vader wasn't going to show up at the end the way he did, and the rebels were going to escape the tower and try to run back across the beach with the death star plans in hand. Footage of this can be seen in early trailers and featurettes promoting them film. One of the trailers even ends on this shot of Jyn facing off against a Tie Fighter on the top of the tower, which never happens in the final film.
Also, it was a pretty big piece of early promo info about this film, but the entire plot of this movie is summed up in the opening two paragraphs of A New Hope's opening crawl. At the time, basically every fan of the franchise knew that was going to be the story of this film, and the vast majority of people assumed everyone would die during the mission, as these rebels effectively save the entire galaxy with their actions, but are never seen or mentioned after this movie. The one thing that caught most fans by surprise was how close to A New Hope this film exactly takes place. Most people assumed there would be some period of time in between this movie's ending, and the beginning of A New Hope. But in reality, A New Hope begins almost immediately after Rogue One ends. Watching them back to back as a double feature is almost seamless. It's a really great choice.
Even with all that, it's still a bad movie
There area ton of scenes that they showed in ads and trailers that never made it into the final movie. (There is a youtube supercut if you are interested) Aparently they shot a normal ending, then got permission from above that they could kill everyone off, and reshot the entire end sequence around it
Hey, I'd like to see that supercut.
For at least new Star Wars movies, one of the people consulted to make the alien languages is Saara Forsberg, she has a UA-cam channel and TikTok. She made one of the first “what languages sound like to other people” videos back in like…jeez, 2013 or something. She’s a polyglot and even though she’s born and raised Finnish, she sounds completely American.
One of my favorite things about rogue one is how jyn and cassian are just trusting friends by the end of it. As seb points out directly, there're a lot of chances to make them a more traditional protagonist couple. I definitely think it would've felt forced if the story did decide to go that way and I really respect the writers for showing some restraint and not going that route.
You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this, OMG! If you're interested, PLEASE watch the animated shows. They are SO worth it!
If you want to continue the story just watch A New Hope. They lead directly into each other.
He said in the video he's already seen them last year and posted them on the channel. He just doesn't remember the plots very well after all that time.
@@thenecrosanct4906 Yeah he did say that. Not surprised he doesn't remember the opening scene from the original trilogy. There's a fan edit of the Vader vs. Kenobi when he gets killed by Vader, and the fan edit is so much better than the original! Showing two powerful force users instead of a doddering old man trying to look impressive
@@ctakitimu Isn't that the point, though. Two old masters, one slowed by age and the other by his crippled body. They fight slowly, unsure of the others power or mystical abilities they may have mastered since their last duel. Vader looks almost hesitant to fight his old master, while Kenobi carefully dances around him for his final fight. Don't get me wrong, I love SC 38 Reimagined, but I like to think of it as a reinterpretation of that fight rather than an improvement.
@@cinemagoose "Two old masters, one slowed by age and the other by his crippled body." Interesting idea, but definitely retconning, wherever it originated. Time/budget/wardrobe constraints made that scene what it was. No time to hire athletic stunt double sword fighters for the pair, one 6' 6", no time/budget to build a Vader costume that would allow for "swashbuckling." It was fine as-is, though. A swordfight had never been done like this, future success of the movie was a *huge* question mark, and Lucas (wisely) trusted Dykstra/ILM to sell it. To steal from Christopher Walken's line in _Catch Me If You Can,_ "The audience couldn't keep their eyes off the light sabers." 😀
@@rollomaughfling380 yeah. I have read a couple fact books of star wars from before the Disney buyout (before Darth Vader became OP) that seem to support my argument. Over the past decade, Vader has appeared so often as an extremely powerful force user that I feel like the original scene has become outdated, now that my old explanation no longer works. SC 38 reimagined was kind of necessary to address the new canon now that Vader has been shown to easily overcome his cyborg implants. In a way, that original recon has now become retconned again, even if only unofficially
I cared about every character no matter how little time we had with them. Helps when you’ve seen every single show and film and have that context
Kind of want to see Seb’s reaction to Prometheus and Alien Covenant.
I second that!
Third
The Death Star doesn't just blow up planets. It was explained in the film that Grand Moff Tarkin didn't want to destroy the entire planet of Jedha, but just wanted to use a single reactor ignition to just blow up the city.
I just finished the 1st season of Andor and about to rewatch Rogue One. Unbelievable show and great movie.
Not Seb saying the end was anti-climatic RIGHT BEFORE Vader enters beast mode! 😆
If you liked Rogue One, I really recommend checking out Andor, the new Star Wars show. It's one of the better examples of story telling in Star Wars, and has been solid all the way through it's 12 episode season. If you were to do a reaction series on those, you could pair up three episodes at a time, as 1-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12 pretty much equate to 4 connected standalone movies.
SEBSCREEN: “I feel like this movie didn’t have a payoff at the end.”
VADER & LEIA: “Hold our blue milk.”
Watching Andor S1 and S2 and then Rogue One again will be a real treat... Damn what an amazing series, I loved every second of it
Rogue One is my favorite Star Wars movie. Gets me in my feels every time.
28:54 the fact that Vader was holding his breath during the entire scene is either badass or terrifying
I love how Seb was talking about how anticlimactic the ending felt right before THE scene xD
Easily the best Disney Star Wars movie!
Yet still bad.
Pog ty for reacting to this, this was fun :)
my favorite star wars film, and yes I include the originals in that. They need to do more stories like this, Get away from the galaxy spanning conflicts, tell the stories of individuals and small groups, tie them into a larger setting, but keep it personal.
Rogue One is more of a war movie than a Star wars film, it shows the major sacrifice it took to just get ahold of the weakness of the deathstar which the whole plot of A New Hope revolved around. It's my favourite SWs movie for sure, I think it's better than all the other ones.
Plus, that Vader scene at the end was the most epic thing. I watched it in the cinema and my god, I had chills everytime I thought of it.
*death star
How is Vader being incompetent epic?
A little pawn in the game? It was the biggest piece of intel that helped them blow up the Death Star lol. This mission was HUGELY important to the rebellion
Honestly, I've been a Star Wars geek since I was a teenager. To the point I got an Empire sigil tattooed on my elbow about 10 years ago (under shady circumstances) like a prison tattoo. This is seriously my second favorite SW movie behind Empire Strikes Back. Also, if you liked Chirrut (Donnie Yen, the blind guy), check out more of his movies. He's going to be in the next John Wick. Dude is literally one of the most badass martial artists since Bruce Lee.
If you listen in the movie, the reason the Death Star didn’t instantly blow up the planet is because they only used one reactor. Typically because they didn’t want to blow up the entire planet.
When I read the novel based on the first movie way back in 1977 it hinted at the cost paid to obtain the plans. I remember imagining a movie that would depict that. And here all these decades later they finally made it.
What was said to hint the cost?
Your reactions to this movie are so great. I like watching you trying to put star wars together.
14:38 Chirrut shoots down Tie Fighter. "How did he...? This dude is hacking." Yeah bro, it's the Force. 😂 And later seeing Vader w/out the suit: "Does he take it off...? Yeah you don't sleep in the suit, are you..." Bless your heart. 😂 Always love your reactions Seb.
After watching this, and with the prequel to this, Andor, having dropped its finale yesterday I would say you should immediately binge that whole incredible season. It is the best written, acted, directed and produced Star Wars in many years.
"This footage looks like the old films"
Well, little did he know... 😄
He says he never has seen a good Stormtrooper. Well, he needs to watch the Finale of Andor, and he'll see them being the killing machines that they were designed to be.
I love how the at the begging Crinic and his death troopers just land like 20feet away to have dramatic walk and entrance
9:12 That smack was improvised! Diego Luna (Cassian) covered his mouth afterwards to hide a laugh!
I prefer this over the rest of the films, Andor has only enhanced it.
When I first watched it I didn't like it but I thought the start was quite slow, the second time I watched it I loved it. I loved all the characters even though I knew their fate because they weren't in the originals, all the characters are so good.
Seb honest to God, my eyes were twitching from, 'Damn - I can't quit but think it's a bit underwhelming' right up to, '-it didn't quite have the payoff', and the whole time I was internally screaming - "JUST GIVE IT A SECOND SEB!" 😂😂😂
I'm not the biggest Star Wars nerd out there, so I don't know if there's any actual lore that would explain it, but I think "the Hoth thing" was only necessary against the walkers at Hoth because the snowspeeders flown by the rebellion weren't meant to be dedicated attack craft and probably had smaller weaponry compared to the X-wing "fighter". The fact that the speeders were even equipped with tow cables at all suggests to me that they were really more of a lightly armed utility vehicle.
Seb: "Yeah the ending really falls off at the end-"
Vader: *breathes*
Seb: "Forgive me."
FINALLY! I've been waiting for this!
G'day it's Steven from Down Under again
A brilliant film that ties up a few loose ends and clarifies long asked questions, and certainly honours the Skywalker saga, the end scene with Darth Vader is cool and goosebump inducing, though I must admit James Earl Jones' iconic powerful Darth Vader voice did sound a little on the weak side to me considering his advanced years but thoroughly enjoyable none the less.
Love your honest reactions and keep up the great work young man.
They got Vader’s voice perfect for Obi Wan Kenobi, but it was awful.
This was the first Star Wars movie where I actually felt they were outgunned and fighting the odds, and what you think is the ending, to then see a really cool ending.
I really enjoyed it.
Of all the Star Wars films that Disney made, Rogue One was the best they produced and Darth Vader fighting in the end, was perfect. They showed respect to Vader in this film, show him to be someone that you could not easily defeat even in large groups. To me, Vader a fallen and later redeem hero, was and still in my eyes an ultimate villain.
Yet still bad. Vaser wasn't perfect, he was incompetence
Look up the actor that plays K2SO, Alan Tudyk. he's in an absurd amount of movies - don't often see him as himself.. he does a lot of voice work, but it's worth checking him out just to marvel at the range that he has. half the time you have no idea it's him, even after you know it's him. his voice range is just nuts, but he's actually an awesome actor too when you DO actually see him.
I went into this one with the expectation that most, if not all of them, were going to die since I knew it led right into A New Hope. So I went in with fairly low expectations. but this is still one of my favorite SW movies for sure.
My favorite fact about this movie is that the writer wanted to kill all the characters in the end, but thought Disney wouldn’t let him get away with it so the first draft had Jyn and Cassian find a ship and escape. Disney read it and came back with “We love it, but shouldn’t Jyn and Cassian die in the end?” And he just goes “You got it boss!”
it was at half power, that shot at Jedha, they didn't want to demonstrate its full destructive power just at that moment, enough to destroy lose ends, but not enough to make people wonder what happened
They literally explained it in the movie. Why do so many people miss this?
Seeing Vader pull up from the shadows on their ship and his saber lights. The dark rose from there and him killing the rebels was defiant. Epic scene
This is the first film in which I experienced Vader as a properly menacing villain. None of the others did it for me but this representation at the end, with Vader almost from the perspective of regular rebels as a kind of force of nature worked really well.
I know a lot of people disliked the CGI Peter Cushing , and I can understand the ethical objections to reconstructing the dead for film potentially endlessly but I was, personally, very impressed by it on a very immediate sensory level when I watched this in the cinema. It would have taken me a scene or two to notice if I hadn't already known. It is more obvious off the big screen but still a remarkable achievement for both the artists and the voice actor.
What did he do that convinced you of that?
Btw the reason the entire doesn’t completely explode is because Tarkin makes them fire with only a single core. In A New Hope they blow up Alderaan using full cores
At about the 12 minute mark, you are wondering why the Death Star shot is slowly destroying the planet; you missed the detail that it only shot at like 10 percent power as the Empire only wished to destroy the city. THAT is why they could get away and why the horizon was "slowly" being destroyed.
"How?, this guy is hacking"
That made me laugh.
"Was that the climax? It felt a little low..." *Hallway scene enters the building*
You should really watch some of the star wars shows like Andor and Kenobi, or even the clone wars if you're looking for a long-time show to binge
They're some of the best star wars material (yeah kenobi was flawed cuz of reva and whatnot but imo it's enjoyable enough)
Great reaction Seb!
you called it depressing but i found it quiet beautiful tbh. The Galaxy has been under the power of this empire for decades and they’re so desperate for freedom that they united for this cause to free everyone, even if that means that they have to sacrifice themselves for it. Andor has his own series where the build up to this rebellion is showcased even better. It’s definitely the best star wars movie in my opinion
I love this movie. Cannot recommend the prequel series "Andor" enough. The finale of the first season just aired and it is top tier quality from beginning to end.
“It’s sad for her. It’s really not sad for us. We haven’t seen enough of him to care” -Seb
Savage
Best of all star wars movies. No romantic distractions or past actor story lines. It's absolutely perfect.
Yet still bad. Absolutely not perfect
This is probably my favourite Star Wars movie tbh, especially with the cameos and easters from the animated show Rebels, which I grew up watching. Seeing ships and character cameos and names being called over the comms was so thrilling, and the main cast was amazing. With the addition of Andor, the end hits harder as well
The small cameos were awesome and K2 was a delight haha
I don’t remember this film doing too well when it was released, but it seems to get better and better! Now one of my favorite Star Wats films.
Now, I have to go back and watch your full length Revenge of the Sith.
Jyn Erso is a terribly sad character. - She lives in hiding with her parents, her mum is killed (in front of her!), she is taken away by a stranger at a young age, lives with rebels, is abandoned at 16(!), becomes a Juvenile criminal, sees her dad die front of her and then is herself killed at a young age.
"If it wasn't that actor, I don't think anyone would care". WRONG, But perhaps some peeps were more emotionally involved than you.. 😒
Also re. Saw Gererra - "You could have just gone". Nope, no he couldn't; for two reasons.
1. He's physically knackered; he can hardly walk. Can you see him runnng to the ship where K2 is? No, well.... Even if he wanted to, he can't physically escape. Which brings me onto -
2.Saw has spent his entire life from his teens/twenties onwards fighting (SW Clone Wars tv show onwards). Look at the toll it's taken on him physically and mentally. he doesn't trust anyone, he's in hiding etc. He's tired. H'e seen so many people die, made so many compromises etc.
"They have strange cuts in this movie". Err no they don't. No one has suggested this other than you. 🙄
I cired at various points when I saw this in the cinema; primarily when Jyn gets the message from her dad and then when he tries to talk to her whilst dying. No other SW movie has ever done this.
Andor is also brilliant
Good reaction. Look forward to the next ones! how about "Pan's Labyrinth" and either/both Speilburg's forgotten movie "Empire of the Sun" or John Borman's'" "Hope and Glory" - the later doesnt's have a reaction on UA-cam (as far as I know)
Aside from The Vader Scene, the best part of this film is seeing the guerilla-style warfare of the Rebellion. Really made it seem like a war, rather than a few major battles.
How is Vader being incompetent the best?
"how did he? This guy's hacking"
Always loved playing against those kind when I was a PC gamer.
"This guy's hacking."
Thats basically his whole thing 😂
Cold Vader at the end was maaad chilling🥶🥶🥶
The ending of this film lends new weight to the opening of Ep 4. Vader is clearly pissed AF and Leia, straight up lying to his face about being on a diplomatic mission from Alderaan.
Vader is just "I literally just saw you launching from another ship in the middle of a giant fucking space battle, are you fucking kidding me???"
Amazing video! Keep it up
this is the best one. such a good movie. yes its dark, but its really well done and the set up at the end where she gets teh plans that are used in the original movie is great. theres a show now thats a prequel to this with his character on disney plus.
Yet still bad
That Four Lions reference though 👌
I know the ending is really sad but Rogue One is my favourite Star Wars movie, I have probably watched this movie the most out of all of them
There is more than one version of the Wilhelm scream recording, plus sound engineers will sometimes take the one everybody knows well and mix it with another sound to make it less obvious.