Hey everyone! We finished our last HISHE of 2016
and I've now seen Rogue One twice so i
thought it's another good time to do a HISHE Review.
So what do you say? You want to
talk to some Rogue One?
Let's get to it. Rogue One! They're building
the Death Star! but then comes Jyn Erso... to
snatch up them plans!.... all right.... Rogue One colon a
Star Wars story. Or to everyone else
Star Wars Episode 3.9 is an epic
adventure about a diverse team of rebel
types from all over the galaxy who
volunteer to go on a crazy mission to
steal the plans of the death star which
you probably already knew because we've
all been talking about this for a long time.
it's also a story that most people
probably could guess how it ends having
episode 4 part of our lives. But i think
it's still totally worth watching just the same.
It's an awesome star wars film! It's full
of nostalgic call backs to the original
trilogy as well as nods to the prequels
and it has some of the coolest fight
sequences we've ever had a Star Wars movie.
The movie does have a slow-burn.
I think that's credit to Gareth Edwards
directing this film, which is fine with me.
it moves kind of slow at the beginning
but it builds to an incredible finale so
to me the movie was fantastic
the tone is a little darker.
Sorry younglings. but I think that's important for this story.
this movie is after revenge of the sith
and before a new hope after all so i
thought the tone was very appropriate i
really enjoyed the movie so I would say
go check it out if you haven't yet so
now that I've kissed this movie's butt a
whole bunch
Let's talk spoilers.
I can't believe Galen Erso turned out
to be Luke Skywalker's real dad!
I'm kidding
that's uh.. that's at least i'm pretty sure
that's not true. We don't know! But still
spoilers ahead people! What do you think
about the cast? I like'd them...
Next question! Oh you want details okay.
I thought the cash was cool. I like that
they're not Jedi. They're just like you
and me. I really like Jyn Erso's
character i like the story about her
father
she's living her life thinking her
father join the Empire willingly so
she's got a seriously troubled past
I thought critic was an excellent
villain he's like everything you want
from the Empire. I love K2SO as the
sarcastic droid he has so many great
lines
he's like c-3po snarky brother that can
actually fight. He's great.
I didn't like Cassian and so much the
first time through but after my second
viewing I was like, "Dude. Cassian's kind of dope!
He and Jyn need to like hook up already.
seriously there's not much time I need to
hurry up!" Another character that didn't
work for me the first time was the pilot
Bodhi but again after the second viewing
I was like, "Bodhi. You're alright man! you
left the Empire! You defected! You got
the nuts!
You just had to put up with Forest
Whitaker's weird truth
Jabba the Hutt creature. Who was your
favorite? My favorite character is
hands-down Chirrut for obvious reasons
Everything he does is awesome and I
totally think we need a mini series of
him and Baze like walking around Jedah
having adventures like KungFu.
I thought everyone felt like they fit
into this universe very well. I would
have liked to have gotten know all of
them a little more but i don't think
that was ever the purpose of this movie
which I'll go into more later
What did you think about CG Tarkin?
I'm seeing a lot of hate on the CG Tarkin
I don't really understand i thought CG Tarkin
was really cool. I'm actually all
for this. So much so that I think we
should be making a CG Han Solo for this
younger Han Solo movie that's coming
down the line, but nobody else here
agrees with me, so I'm on my own with
that one. But whatever. Enjoy your guy
pretending to be harrison ford movie!
Anyway
although there's still something kind of
robotic about him
I just love how far digital effects have
come and that really excites me
CG Tarkin is not perfect he still feels a
little robotic you can really tell it
with the digital Leia later in the movie
but i still love that they are trying to
keep the characters true to the timeline
instead of replacing them with some
look-alikes. What about that Darth Vader Scene Doh!
I'm going to say something that I
think nobody will agree with and that is
I actually feel like Darth Vader wasn't
needed in this movie. Whaaaaat!? Darth Vader had
the best scene in the whole show!
You dumb! stop being dumb!
I didn't say his scene wasn't awesome it
was totally awesome at the second scene
is incredible the first scene I thought
was kind of weird and very out of place
he's just hanging out on musafar some
reason that's important but he's not in
the rest of the story but then he comes
out the very end like "ehemm I believe this saga is supposed to be about me!"
And then he just whoops everyone but and it's
incredible and everybody's like Yeeeeaaah!
it was so awesome and probably most
people's favorite part of the movie
I just wish his presence was more
crucial to the Empire story of rogue one
as the trailers led me to believe might
happen. Which is my other beef with this movie.
There are a lot of shots in the trailers or in the
web featurettes that they released that
did not happen in the final movie which
means they changed a lot of stuff or
they faked some of these trailers shots
like what was that whole 'What will you become?"
why does that even matter i thought this
film was gonna go in a completely
different direction just from that sound
bite alone i thought the rebels were
going to have to sneak on the actual
death star and somehow get the plans out
of there without being captured except
that they are captured you know from
like darth vader and then maybe he liked
brainwashes them or turn them into like
winter soldiers that turn into something
later down the line like I don't know
the Knights of Ren! We kind of went off
the rails on the predictions with this
one I think. Jyn Erso's gonna be Rey's mom I know it!
meanwhile Rogue One's just like "Nope!"
We're changing all that. Jyn walking to the
TIE fighter on the catwalk didn't happen
Krennic talking to Vader on the Death Star
Jyn running on the beach with Death Star plans
Jyns epic turn the camera and the
stormtrooper suit didn't happen
I rebel. Didn't happen. Krennic walking in
the burning beach didn't happen the
darth vader reflection on the Death Star
didn't happen
what was the original cut of this movie?
something led to the beach, because Jyn
and Cassian somehow make their way
down there at the end so there's some
pieces missing here either way thanks a
lot trailers
I've been thinking really hard
about what is it that I appreciated most
about Rogue One and and i believe it's this.
When I watched the film the first time
I thought this movie was just really
slow with an awesome great giant star wars
nostalgia pack mega battle at the end
Which I was ok with but I didn't
like that I couldn't see the subtext
right away. When i watch the film a
second time i think i saw what that
subject is. Trust and also maybe
sacrifice but more trust i think. Most of
the characters in this movie have
an issue with trust or have serious
doubts about the other. Jyn feels
abandoned
Cassian doesn't believe Jyn's father can
be trusted he's even told to assassinate
Galan. K2SO is constantly thinking
they're all gonna die and giving the
odds of how this is never gonna work
Forrest Whitaker thinks the pilot is
lying with Galan Erso's message the
Rebel Alliance can't seem to agree about
anything. Even Krennic can't trust his
own Empire. Everyone is on their own
in a sense, in the galaxy that is going to
hell, and nobody is willing to take that
leap of faith. But two things stood out to
me about Jyn's story in regards to what
was the point. At the beginning when Jyn
is a child her mother gives her the
crystal and says "Trust the Force" and later in an
unrelated seen Cassian is upset with Jyn
when he finds out that she has a weapon
he saying give it here
he doesn't trust her and she says
"Trust goes both ways." I feel like this is the
center of the entire story because the
one character that echoes these two
ideas is Churrit.
Churrit completely trusts
in the force as well as his friend Baze.
he even says I fear nothing for all is
as the force wills it. When these two
ideas are finally applied to the rest of
the cast in the movie the mission
finally begins to succeed and the
rebellion solidifies. When Jyn says
May the force be with us
that's when it all clicks which creates
the new hope they all need to carry on
in the end the mission costs in their
lives but the cause they're dying for was
much greater. I think that is really cool
and very Universal. You could bicker and
argue or live in fear or you can just
give up and not care about anything
"Never look up" as Jyn says. Or you
can come together trust one another and
be a part of something that has meaning
that's really awesome and something I
never really expected this movie to pull
out of that tiny little space between
episode 3 and 4. That final battle is incredible.
And we could have all these awesome memories
of all the old pilots and we could see
how Red 5 dies. But without that story
about trust you don't get to see where
a new hope actually begins
and that's what I appreciate most about Rogue One.
Okay! Those are my thoughts on Rogue One.
I hope you enjoyed it and I hope that you
also enjoyed Rogue One. Please let me know
what you thought of the movie in the
comments below and how much that you
totally wanted cg Han Solo movie!
no just me? ok fine! I know we will get
working on a Rogue One HISHE pretty soon
we've got some other titles that we're
going to focus on first so just add that
to the list of episodes to look forward
to
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