Hey Youtubers, it's Charlie.
This is going to be my Star Wars Rogue one non-spoilery review make sure you go see the
movie.
It ended up being so much better than I expected it to be.
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So right off the bat Mads Mikkelsen is just so amazing in this movie Felicity Jones did
a great job but I feel like mas Mikkelsen, no matter what his role is he's always going
to do something interesting, regardless of how he's written, but Donnie Yen what of bad
ass.
I was so happy when I heard he was going to be in this movie you always get hype when
you know Donnie Yen is in a movie.
And you know he gets to fight a ton of people and then Ben Mendelson just what an amazing
antagonist the way they play with the Jon Williams music the way they open the film
to differentiated from other Star Wars films.
There's so many things that are similar yet very different about this that made it so
much better than I ever thought it could be there so many things that we can say about
this film also.
You know total success off the bat doing a film that does not rely on the skywalkers
at least in a major way or on the idea of Jedi with light sabers.
It does is amazing job of broadening the mythology of the force in a really interesting way.
And just proves that you can tell a really interesting story from start to finish with
a single film you don't need an entire trilogy to tell an amazing story.
So if this proves anything, it's that they can totally do just one off films in different
corners the Star Wars galaxy.
They effectively visited more different new planets that we've never seen before in like
the first 20 to 30 minutes of the movie that we saw in the entirety of Star Wars episode
seven, so the other big achievement is that it also enriches the other movies even though
it exists by itself with a different group of characters is just like the Col. of a story
that we had before we knew the rebels had stolen the death Star plans they took that
and turned it into a movie and it totally worked in now when you go see a new hope episode
for after you see this movie.
You'll have so much more context the moments like Darth Vader at the beginning of episode
four where he's talking to the Imperial Council about the new death Star being completed will
mean so much more in that's even just like a little part of it.
We don't even need a sequel to this movie and I think that's kind of the idea is that
you know they'll take like little pieces of stories from the previous Star Wars films
and then turn that into something like Rogue one only just in a vastly different part of
the galaxy during a different time.
In a different context that will enrich the other saga films without necessarily being
beholden to the Skywalker family.
The other amazing thing about this is that it also broadens the Empire in the rebellion
as characters themselves like you have the characters you fall around in the film, but
then you have the idea of the empire, it's self as this living organism which is a lot
of people working for it.
Just because it's evil doesn't mean that everybody that works for the Empire all the officers
agree with each other is this big group of diverse people and you what's the big thing
that we knew about the Empire in the previous films there bad the rebels are good.
But this film puts the war back in Star Wars it is a really good job of being stored like
a war documentary mixed with this real down and dirty Heise movie.
So the rebels even though we know they're on the right side of this have to do really
bad things to accomplish their goals though it's much grayer it's not just like really
good guys against really bad guys there or so credit character is arguably like the big
antagonists of the film, but in no way does he feel like an Emperor or a Darth Vader type
character somebody who you know is doing really evil things like it took a long time to figure
out that Darth Vader had something underneath that mast that was just this terrible really
raspy breathing person that crushed everyone's throats, when they displeased him see you
get a much more well-rounded character and in developing the or so credit character you
learn a lot about the power structure of the Empire.
Not everybody loves everybody else inside the Empire, especially, just as they're making
giant super weapons, so it's really funny how they mythologized the death Star and this
too because it's kind of like this white elephant pie-in-the-sky project that these weirdos
are working on in the rest of the Empire, just completely does not care about it until
it's finished and we get to episode for with this counsel scene, with like the other Imperial
Council members and the general just really excited about it.
Not everybody in the Empire up at the top shared those feelings when they first got
started, so re-shoots I know a lot of you are asking about the Riches like what did
they change about the film.
They did a whole bunch of stuff to change just big portions.
So if you look at the trailers, most of these scenes did not make it into the final version
of the film, which is kind of weird, but a lot of times that happens like the market
the film really early on, but then later the find better ideas the make subtle changes
in scenes that completely change the context, so they just have to cut out like whole big
swaths of the film as weird as it sounds the film is great.
So all the stuff that they changed was for the better.
What happened is they said they initially shot most of the film in a really handheld
documentary war film type way.
So when they got to the edit.
They realize that there was just like a little connective tissue missing between scenes and
they turned it into more of what you would think of is a traditional Star Wars film.
So that being said, if you been asking for a more mature Star Wars film like a Star Wars
film.
This made not no not so much for like really little kids but for adults Rogue one is it
just in the way it treats some of the themes of war in the galaxy in the stuff that it's
dealing with.
So even though all the characters are really funny, the comedy is great is actually a pretty
serious Star Wars film the you have all these rebels that are coming together all over the
galaxy like this is still towards the beginning of the rebellion, it's between episode three
and episode four in the timeline, but you have this Empire that's trying to steal all
the resources from all these different planets the people that lived there saying this is
bull crap are going to come together and stop you from doing this.
And that's where you get to the rebellion.
So the film does a really good job of showing you that process like how they come to that
conclusion and what it is that makes the Empire.
So terrible.
Even though not everybody that works for the Empire are terrible people, so what's the
other really big thing about Star Wars films.
All the creatures all the costumes.
They had some of the most diverse group of aliens in the film that you've ever seen in
Star Wars now like George Lucas always made a really big deal about trying to make the
newer films like the prequel's.
Even the clone wars look as different as possible from previous Star Wars films.
But like I said the first 20 to 30 minutes of the film you visit so many different planets
and as you go to all those different places everywhere looks very different in terms of
the people the aliens creatures.
The sheer quantity of creature work in this film is just amazing and the cosplay is going
to be on fire next year at comic con like the shore troopers look amazing, the deaths
troopers even from the Empire standpoint that just forget about the rebels for second.
But all the new Empire stuff they show up so the design language floes a lot from episode
four because this is kind of a prequel to episode four.
So like all the star destroyers the death Star itself looks familiar.
But they found little ways to just include a bunch of new things with in that design
scheme select the shore troopers are new the death troopers anew, but the interesting thing
is is they said they also change Darth Vader's costume.
So like even minor details like that or even when they were on the sets filming the scenes
like in the background you know they have a lot of playback on the screen like when
you're on a star destroyer Ben Mendelson the actor said that it totally took him back to
his childhood because he was standing in front of all the screens you doing his lines and
they were on this playback loop and just looking at them.
They look like they were straight out of 1977.
They were so perfect they did such a good job earlier this year.
Marketing the film showing up behind the scenes stuff like if you're a big geek for the way
they make Star Wars films, then he will go crazy when you see Rogue one.
So the film does a really good job of like being in this very Star Wars episode four,
five and six universe just because the design language in the time period that falls in
without being completely beholden all the Skywalker stuff and just slavishly setting
up other movies like episode seven does not that I think that Star Wars episode seven
was a bad movie I just feel like Rogue one does a much better job of what it set out
to do like a really small self-contained story about a really big event in the history of
the galaxy while at the same time enriching the other films Star Wars episode seven had
like the Herculean task of being the first Star Wars movie in such a long time.
There was no way that it was good to live up to everyone's expectations.
So with that in mind here's my new ranking of all the Star Wars movies from favorite
two slightly less favorite.
There are no Star Wars films that I actively hate.
Even the prequel's.
I don't hate the prequel's.
Some of them.
I just don't like is much as the others, so favorite film Empire than a new hope return
of the Jedi then Rogue one which I like a little bit better than episode seven and then
attack of the clones, so let me know what your favorite Star Wars films from most favorite
to least favorite just rank them all in the comments.
Just because I feel like Rogue one is good enough that a lot of people will feel like
it's even better than Star Wars episode seven.
That's the real surprise of the year.
I'm so blown away that they were able to do that now.
It might not make quite as much money is episode seven because you have like a lot of people
that normally wouldn't go see a Star Wars film were so excited at the idea of a new
Star Wars film that last year they just got up off their asses and went to the movie theater,
whereas like this or the like okay you know, I saw stores last year.
I don't need to see it again all this I'll wait for episode eight.
If I want to go back.
So, I still think it's going to make an ungodly sum of money and it's going to show Lucasfilm
that they can do small one-off films about other parts of the galaxy other groups of
characters that we haven't met before as long as it enriches the other films, so next big
elephant in the room.
What does that say about the Obi-Wan Kenobi film the everyone's been clamoring for.
That means they can still do stuff like that but they shouldn't be afraid to try brand-new
things which is really where were headed after episode nine like the idea that we might not
have films about the Skywalker saga anymore they just move on to something else.
So I will be doing a Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi video really soon and all explained like what's
going on with him in the Star Wars universe.
They do have a plan for him.
There's a reason why they haven't announced a Star Wars Obi Wan film, because money is
not concerned they would make $1 billion on Obi Wan film issue that they have a very specific
plan for that character within the scope of the new saga films, so rest assured Star Wars
episode eight in episode nine have a plan for the Obi Wan character in I'll explain
what I think that is in my next Star Wars video.
So what's going to happen is I'll do my spoiler Easter egg video later this weekend I'll do
the Obi Wan video before that later tonight I have some new Spider-Man homecoming that
I'm going to post and then I'm going see Rogue one again, so if you've already seen, try
to go see it twice because there a lot of Easter eggs some of them are actually pretty
easy to spot in one of them is a planet name so just that you know there's a planet that
is named, it's an anagram for one of the biggest Star Wars characters of all time.
So look out for that when you go see the movie.
I am so happy that this ended up being good while you guys wait for that to post you can
click here to rewatch the Spider-Man homecoming trailer and you can click here to rewatch
that Rogue one behind the scenes video thank you so much watching everybody let's high
five I'll see you guys tonight!