Rogue One (Star Wars) Trailer Released

[Rhekimos]

As a device for extracting cash out of people going into the movies, Star Wars Force Awakens was a resounding success. Good for you Disney.
As a movie to stand on its own, it was not great. All the old and new, women leads and the black guy in the white man's army aside.

This new one might be more interesting though. Maybe a little more grit, and less space for a terrible plot in what looks more like a military movie type affair. I'm cautiously expectant.

The directors track record isn't overwhelmingly promising, but maybe he won't mangle scifi as badly as Abrams.

[IR_Kuoin]

[Overdriven]

Hate what they are doing with this. It looks like Hunger Games Mockingjay 2.0.

I don't mind a female lead. But they all end up exactly the same these days. Everything about this trailer looks like a copy and paste from the Hunger Games. All they need is a crowd chanting a song and they've got it.

[darmaster]

0:57 the beating on the dog starts, fucking savage and disgusting

[Jona]

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I've ceased to be amazed at the internet, but it always puzzles me when a film that was well reviewed and then enjoyed by everyone I've spoken to IRL (whether they were star wars fans or not) is so conclusively stated as a 'bad film' online as if this is a forgone conclusion.

The film was successful. I know this doesn't mean it was good, but this also doesn't mean it was bad. All of my friends, family and work colleagues enjoyed it and so did i (and I'm a massive star wars nerd). People who hate star wars but were dragged there by their other half enjoyed it.

I think Abrams knocked The Force Awakens out of the ballpark. Other than angry nerd rant style youtube videos, I've only heard a lot of negativity about the film on this forum and you know what people here are like.

As for this trailer, Disney have recently become adept at keeping the best parts of the movie out of their early trailers (or even showing scenes that are actually cut by the time the film comes out). The 1st Force Awakens trailer looked like the whole film would just be a jolly Star Wars jape, the 2nd hinted that events after Return of the Jedi weren't as idyllic as anticipated, and then the film starts with a cool village massacre scene. Also, none of the early Force Awakens trailers showed Rey with a lightsaber, only the bit where Fin holds it so that was deliberately misleading. There's a good chance that this film will be nothing like the trailer has indicated, for better or worse.



And if you're really THAT sensitive about the gender of one of the protagonists in a film, at least we're basically guaranteed a Boba Fett or young Han Solo spin-off film in the future. I personally don't necessarily look for 'grit' when i look for sci fi, i spent most of Battlestar Galactica laughing at how edgy and 'dirty' everything was trying to look. But it'd be an interesting tactic to try and go for a different 'feel' in the spin off movies to try and appeal to different audiences, i enjoyed The Force Awakens so maybe this spinoff film will be deliberately targeted at people who want something different in a Star Wars film.

I think they've gone on record saying that this spin off would be darker and grittier, a little more "realistic" since it  wouldn't include jedi and sith running around everywhere. Instead it focuses on the "common" soldier, and some are saying it is more like a modern military action/thriller movie than it is a classic Star Wars, in both tone and plot. Some people are noticeably stoked to see what they can do with this, cuz dark and gritty is that peeps want nowadays after watching them Nolan Batman flicks. God forbid a movie be a little more lighthearted and simply fun to watch nowadays!

[Jacko]

Looks fine. Wasn't too impressed by Force Awakens, and though this looks slightly more interesting (supposedly grittier etc), I very much doubt it's going to veer too far off from the beaten star wars path Disney have laid out.

[Xant]

The Force Awakens is on the same level as Disney cartoons. Childish all around and very light-hearted. That's why a lot of people didn't like TFA: when they watched the other Star Wars movies, they were a lot younger, and so they loved those. But now that they're grown up, things are different. People who loved the Lion King as kids would most likely dislike a remake that was as cartoony, too.

So I thought TFA was shit, but that's because I like darker/more mature sci-fi. It was a good "Star Wars" movie, I guess. And sci-fi doesn't have to be serious to not be childish; look at Firefly for example, an extremely funny series and then a movie, but not childish at all.

Good thing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261227/ this is coming, going to be the best thing to ever grace TV.

[Asheram]

Is Donnie Yen a Jedi or a Sith Lord?

[Renay]

Is Donnie Yen a Jedi or a Sith Lord?

Would fit better as a Jedi. I hope Forest Whitaker is a Sith 

[Xant]

Forest Whitaker's mere presence ruins movies.

[Leshma]

Is Donnie Yen a Jedi or a Sith Lord?

They should be no Jedis in this movie afaik.

[Renay]

They should be no Jedis in this movie afaik.

Might be true as well, but tell me Donnie Yen wouldn't make a kick ass Jedi Master 

And I think there is gonna be at least one Jedi in the movie, since they are the most iconic thing about Star Wars and Disney knows that.

[Asheram]

Would fit better as a Jedi. I hope Forest Whitaker is a Sith 

So after watching the trailer again he is beating up stormtroopers so he must be on the good side. And listening to Forests dialogue it seems he is too.

[Leshma]

Edwards has described the film as a grounded, war-based movie, one in which normal people have to come together to fight the Empire as opposed to relying on the Jedi or the Force.

Rebels but not Jedis. Unless Edwards changed his mind after Disney used force persuasion on him. Hope that's not the case, this is supposed to be "indie" SW spin-off not your typical blockbuster SW episode.

[Westwood]

The NEW BIGGER PLANET-SIZED DEATH STAR was very original and creative, I especially liked that the one thing that was different about it from the other TWO (aside from size) was that it sucked up actual stars to make it's super laser thing.

Force Awakens was more a caricature of A New Hope than anything else. Like a campy fan tribute. The Thrawn Trilogy + Expanded Universe in general was a much better spiritual successor to the originals imo tbh fam.