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Saw Geurra looks too much like Clarence Williams III in Tales From The Hood for me to take seriously.
Link: https://horroraddicts.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/e_tales-from-the-hood_vlcsnap-125513.png


Poorly recorded version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyYe_ihrXTY

I get the parallels between Saw and Vader - but come on, this wasn't the way to go.


1)The violence is way too clean.
Take for example after the street ambush when the blind guy is sitting on a trooper and another starts to move and is shot in the head. That Stormtrooper's helmet is completely unscathed, it's missing even the level of the the 1977 Star Wars's violence.
Example of a few removed things from Star Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvbrVFP_f0w#t=1m37s

The violence in Rogue One on one on one fights is very very cartoonish. Vader bifurcates someone and there's no blood at all. People are blasted and there's no smoke, or evidence of being hit, or damage. Just people stop moving. Episode III had more realistic violence.

I'm not expecting Tarantino level of blood - but what we have in Rogue one may be too far in the other direction. On second viewing it detracted from the action.

2)Tarkin is good, Leia not so good.
Tarkin worked for me even the second time. Lei's smile looks bad - but it's so shot I don't care. It seems like happiness in full light is harder to create than brooding in shadows.

3)When blind dude (don't know his name) gets shot it's because there people shooting at him. But his boy can run out and cradle his head for 30 seconds - why didn't he get murked right then?

4)Why didn't K2-SO lock the door to the desk? Also even though he locked the door to the library why didn't he fuck it up in someway to make it harder to get into?

5)Who are the bothans??? They could have fixed that.

6)Cassian is on team Jyn way to early and for no discernible reason. I wish they'd have a little mroe time together to explain it.


Still a good movie with a very satisfying ending and it's nice being in that universe again.