So it's been awhile. The film has been released, many people have seen it. 85% of the Critics upvoted it, and 88% percent of the audience enjoyed it. The film grossed $1,055,155,555 dollars worldwide. It got a 29.2% return.
But why is no one talking about it anymore?
First, a little rundown. Rogue One: A Star wars Story was directed by Gareth Edwards and starred Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, and Ben Mendelsohn. The movie, as will all future anthology films, was designed to tell a contained story set inbetween Star wars movies. It'd tell a tale of a gap or glossed over event.
Despite being massively successful, the majority of critics and audiences agreed that it had a few shortcomings.
Let's compare this to the Force Awakens.
Star wars: The Force Awakens was directed by J.J Abrams and starred Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Harrison Ford. The film grossed over $2,068,223,624 dollars worldwide, with 92% of the critics upvoting it and 89% percent of audiences enjoying it. It got a 26.5% return.
It could be argued that the Force Awakens had the advantage of being the first Star wars film in nearly thirty years to universally please. This could and probably is true, but even now it is still being visited in theaters, bought on Bluray DVD, and is still being talked about.
Rogue One on the other hand grossed far less, with a minor but considerable less appeal to audiences and critics alike.
I now want to share with you my opinion of Rogue One and how it compares to the Force Awakens.
Characters vs Action
A huge part of the movie going experience is the payoff to the inevitable hype. People all over the internet and in real life will talk about what the film will be like, what they think it should be like, and so forth. Over hyping a movie can be extremely dangerous to the film and your experience with it. Our expectations can lie to us and make us think things that will happen but sometimes don't.
When we leave a theater, we tend to discuss it with whomever we went to see it with. Or, we go home and talk about it on the internet. With large titan films like Star wars, this is almost inevitable. What tends to be the number one thing that people talk or remember? Well, I'd think it is the characters.
The Original Trilogy is famous for it's well defined, likable and memorable characters. When the Prequels were released, this was primarily the reason the majority disliked them. They didn't have good characters. Nobody remembered the characters present in the film, at least, not the majority.
Now onto the Force Awakens. What many enjoyed about the film was the extremely well defined and relateable characters. Many walked out the theater remembering the names, definitions, and moments of characters such as Rey, Finn, and Kyllo Ren.
However, with Rogue One, very unfortunately, I couldn't recall " Bodhi '''s name to my brother. I couldn't remember " Cassian Andor " or " Baze Malbus ". He had to tell me the names. If I had to throw my biggest issue with Rogue One, it's exactly that.
Now, I could end my opinion piece on the movie by doing just that. I won't, because I appear more intelligent if I fart out walls of text.
If you needed proof that Rogue One was good but ultimately underwhelming as a character-piece, ask anybody who has seen it to recount all the names of the characters and what defines them. Now, ask the same people about the characters of the Force Awakens and what defines them, and you will probably get a more detailed response.
Let me talk about what I enjoyed about it. The visual effects, the score, the callbacks, and the way it fit snugly in the Star wars franchise was enthralling. Nothing in Rogue one is definitively 'bad'. It's just not that everything in Rogue One is particularly 'good' either.
Visual effects and action should be the 'celebration' of the characters, so to speak. If we watched Force Awakens, even the entire Original Trilogy, and the characters weren't on par, the most we'd get is a fun sci-fi flick with revolutionary visual effects and great music. Unfortunately, that runs the big risk of it not being memorable. Bad characters is like having no backbone or spine. It'll flop down.
I'll close this up because huge walls of text irritate me. Rogue One is, in my opinion, the coolest star wars movie ever made. But it is flat, somewhat shallow. the Force Awakens is a good movie with problems. This is all in my opinion and I'd be interested in what you all have to say.
But why is no one talking about it anymore?
First, a little rundown. Rogue One: A Star wars Story was directed by Gareth Edwards and starred Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, and Ben Mendelsohn. The movie, as will all future anthology films, was designed to tell a contained story set inbetween Star wars movies. It'd tell a tale of a gap or glossed over event.
Despite being massively successful, the majority of critics and audiences agreed that it had a few shortcomings.
Let's compare this to the Force Awakens.
Star wars: The Force Awakens was directed by J.J Abrams and starred Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Harrison Ford. The film grossed over $2,068,223,624 dollars worldwide, with 92% of the critics upvoting it and 89% percent of audiences enjoying it. It got a 26.5% return.
It could be argued that the Force Awakens had the advantage of being the first Star wars film in nearly thirty years to universally please. This could and probably is true, but even now it is still being visited in theaters, bought on Bluray DVD, and is still being talked about.
Rogue One on the other hand grossed far less, with a minor but considerable less appeal to audiences and critics alike.
I now want to share with you my opinion of Rogue One and how it compares to the Force Awakens.
Characters vs Action
A huge part of the movie going experience is the payoff to the inevitable hype. People all over the internet and in real life will talk about what the film will be like, what they think it should be like, and so forth. Over hyping a movie can be extremely dangerous to the film and your experience with it. Our expectations can lie to us and make us think things that will happen but sometimes don't.
When we leave a theater, we tend to discuss it with whomever we went to see it with. Or, we go home and talk about it on the internet. With large titan films like Star wars, this is almost inevitable. What tends to be the number one thing that people talk or remember? Well, I'd think it is the characters.
The Original Trilogy is famous for it's well defined, likable and memorable characters. When the Prequels were released, this was primarily the reason the majority disliked them. They didn't have good characters. Nobody remembered the characters present in the film, at least, not the majority.
Now onto the Force Awakens. What many enjoyed about the film was the extremely well defined and relateable characters. Many walked out the theater remembering the names, definitions, and moments of characters such as Rey, Finn, and Kyllo Ren.
However, with Rogue One, very unfortunately, I couldn't recall " Bodhi '''s name to my brother. I couldn't remember " Cassian Andor " or " Baze Malbus ". He had to tell me the names. If I had to throw my biggest issue with Rogue One, it's exactly that.
Now, I could end my opinion piece on the movie by doing just that. I won't, because I appear more intelligent if I fart out walls of text.
If you needed proof that Rogue One was good but ultimately underwhelming as a character-piece, ask anybody who has seen it to recount all the names of the characters and what defines them. Now, ask the same people about the characters of the Force Awakens and what defines them, and you will probably get a more detailed response.
Let me talk about what I enjoyed about it. The visual effects, the score, the callbacks, and the way it fit snugly in the Star wars franchise was enthralling. Nothing in Rogue one is definitively 'bad'. It's just not that everything in Rogue One is particularly 'good' either.
Visual effects and action should be the 'celebration' of the characters, so to speak. If we watched Force Awakens, even the entire Original Trilogy, and the characters weren't on par, the most we'd get is a fun sci-fi flick with revolutionary visual effects and great music. Unfortunately, that runs the big risk of it not being memorable. Bad characters is like having no backbone or spine. It'll flop down.
I'll close this up because huge walls of text irritate me. Rogue One is, in my opinion, the coolest star wars movie ever made. But it is flat, somewhat shallow. the Force Awakens is a good movie with problems. This is all in my opinion and I'd be interested in what you all have to say.
