Frankly, this is a film that the world should enjoy. There is little he has not done and very little that surprises him.
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It’s an emotional time of the year for the Force experiencers because “Rogue One” is unarguably the best “Star Wars” movie ever.
That led to Trump supporter Jack Posobiec tweeting out a a completely unfounded and unproven statement about the film last week, saying: ‘Star Wars writers rewrote and reshot Rogue One to add in Anti Trump scenes calling him a racist.
“Finally, I got on the phone with Gareth [Edwards, director of Rogue One]”, he continued.
Then there’s the movie’s last act, which takes the movie’s pros and cons up to that point, rolls them up in a little ball, and fires them out into space. Eagle-eyed fans will remember senators Mon Mothma and Bail Organa from previous films, but apart from them it’s a whole new cast led by British actress Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso. Yen, star of the “Iron Monkey” and “Ip Man” series, pulls off deft martial arts moves but lacks Alec Guinness’ charisma.
The film really is a monumental mish-mash where clumsy direction, bad editing and hollow characters are offset by enough brilliantly mounted, mega-scale battle sequences and nods to the original Star Wars film to get it over the line as a franchise entry that, while not entirely good, is good enough.
Disney promised a Star Wars movie every year when it purchased Lucasfilm in 2012, and so far the company is staying right on schedule.
That intensity-thunderous orchestral swells and dips-lets you know you’re firmly in the Star Wars zone. I was like – ‘OK, wait a minute!
“I keep aware of social-justice issues that are even more pressing outside of the richest countries”, he says. This dwarf-planet-size orb of gray metallic death has been destroyed twice in the Star Wars movies-three times if you count The Force Awakens’ Starkiller Base, which is just like the Death Star, only much bigger and more boring.
Like Rogue One, sticking to Han Solo’s backstory – how he came to meet Chewbacca, his early dealings with Lando Calrissian – is pretty safe territory; the question is where Disney goes next, with even Boba Fett’s character possessing far less embedded connections to the main saga. “I understand totally now,”he said, laughing”. As both a prequel and first Star Wars standalone movie, the anticipation was high. “Because my son [has] been playing Lego”. Eventually, they are joined by the Imperial defector Bodhi (Riz Ahmed), the blind monk Chirrut (Donnie Yen), his heavily armed and armored buddy Baze (Jiang Wen), and, later, by a squad of grizzled Rebel soldiers. He doesn’t have Force abilities but believes in it. Those who only know “Star Wars” from the movies, though, might wonder why an actor as formidable as Whitaker was cast in such a relatively minor role. “I imagine sometimes it inspires real people to action, or at least to vigilance, so these stories are always relevant and universal”, he says. “And the thought is that when they start paying attention to the campaign later in the year, and Obama and the Democrats keep talking about Bain, not Bain Capital, but Bain, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie”.
‘I have no reaction to [this] story at all. And then I had these contact lenses, which were not comfortable. “They started out with sub-$100 million debuts but went on to become the two biggest box office hits worldwide of all time”. “My vision was kind of blurry and I found I wasn’t able to function at my fullest”. “It’s called something completely different”, Giacchino explains.
These two are the best newcomers in the film, although the reason they are there is more to do with the rise of the Chinese market than any desire to return to the Asian mysticism that Lucas wove into his original plans. I’ve witnessed transitions and the revolutions of filmmaking.
The Force = a magic power that lives through every living thing.
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“We’re looking forward to welcoming fans through the doors on Thursday”.
