vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
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Rogue One opens to $29M during Thursday previews shows in the US+Canada
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Phonciple said $160-170M! Was he right?
Vinny said $145-155M! Get your Divergent avatar ready
andthebeatgoeson
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This yoot over here.
tearsintherain
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My $40 went towards that, the hype towards TFA was much higher though and every ticket for TFA was sold out in minutes around my area, whereas I can still buy tickets for most showings the entire weekend for Rogue One. They even added crazy time showings at some theaters around here, literally 24x7 TFA and the theaters were still getting mostly booked at like 3am in the morning. Really no comparison at all.
TFA also got a massive positive word of mouth, while I liked Rogue One and it was different in many (good) ways, end of the day it'd probably be #4 or 5 in my rankings of Star Wars movies.
TFA also got a massive positive word of mouth, while I liked Rogue One and it was different in many (good) ways, end of the day it'd probably be #4 or 5 in my rankings of Star Wars movies.
Just out of it.
I think it was the best version of what it was going for. Daughter liked it over Force Awakens, I thought it was a visually good, solid little 2 hour Star Wars yarn.
Characters weren't the most engaging of types but surpassed my (in check) expectations. Death Star shots were gorgeous looming over planets.
You can almost feel the amount of work they put in to make this movie hold together. It feels a little forced (sorry) and less naturally jaunty and flowing than TFA for me but it works and in some ways superior to it.
Deserves whatever money it takes in. I appreciate the effort Lucasfilm and Disney expended - they could have easily been less careful quality wise and still raked in the cash.
I think it was the best version of what it was going for. Daughter liked it over Force Awakens, I thought it was a visually good, solid little 2 hour Star Wars yarn.
Characters weren't the most engaging of types but surpassed my (in check) expectations. Death Star shots were gorgeous looming over planets.
You can almost feel the amount of work they put in to make this movie hold together. It feels a little forced (sorry) and less naturally jaunty and flowing than TFA for me but it works and in some ways superior to it.
Deserves whatever money it takes in. I appreciate the effort Lucasfilm and Disney expended - they could have easily been less careful quality wise and still raked in the cash.
illmatic22
Banned
I haven't seen it yet because of the cold weather but plan to next week. Lucasfilm hit another home run it seems.
ROUGE_BLOCK
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RIP star wars 😫
Thursday typically starts between 7pm and 9pm, and most theatres run the film on fewer screens than Friday night. That may be less true for films with huge demand, but evening demand on Thursday is usually nowhere near as strong as evening demand on Friday.
He also named the film and created the majority of the new characters. Certainly Jyn Erso is his, and the opening scenes of the film are essentially unchanged from his original draft.
xeroborn55
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the first act of the movie is a trainwreck. terrible staging, confusing editing, stilted and unnatural dialogue. my girlfriend and i just kept looking at each other for the first ~30 minutes like are they fucking serious with this??
I would be VERY curious to find out which scenes Tony Gilroy was responsible for as a few particular scenes in Rogue One are of noticeably higher quality. Edwards staging of dialogue was awful in Godzilla and awful in Rogue One. I give him credit for knowing how to film an action sequence (hes quite good at this) but such incompetence when things arent blowing up is hard to ignore.
CassidyIzABeast
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Backlash for A New Hope Awakens tanked the franchise. GG Disney.
Couldn't have been that hard to do. Ep 7 was balls.
Lifejumper
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Hahahahahaha.
I agree.
I still love that movie but I feel like everywhere I turn people are preaching it's dreadful. I just don't remember that message during release.
That is an awesome title for it!!!=p
People are weird for all out attacks on TFA but then we've got people now retroactively saying AOTC isn't all that bad, these are strange times.
I still think its mostly sour grapes from the generation that grew up with the prequels who were conditioned from childhood that the next generation of Star Wars films should always be bashed mercilessly by the prior generation.
Monkey see, monkey do.
It's not the consensus at all. A lot of people loved that movie and still do. I understand people don't like the movie, but it's hardly the popular view.
Did you miss that whole mary sue thread?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
God, I bet Disney is kicking themselves for hiring that director of Godzilla, right?
No.
ty dear sir
If none of the others existed I'd agree
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
A giant spectacle with a slow start and great finale, but with shit characters that make no impression. Almost a chore to sit thru the first hour.
Nowhere near TFA in terms of film-making, storytelling, world building, or really anything else, so I don't think it deserves to make TFA money. Maybe only making a billion (har har) will teach Disney not to glue together reshot pieces of several different movies into one film.
Nowhere near TFA in terms of film-making, storytelling, world building, or really anything else, so I don't think it deserves to make TFA money. Maybe only making a billion (har har) will teach Disney not to glue together reshot pieces of several different movies into one film.
It's how I measure my own self worth tbh
Michael F. Assbender
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vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
MHWilliams
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Rogue One makes me feel better about Trevorrow on Episode 9.
Y'all trash TFA. Goddamn shame.
CreepingFear
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I look forward to next year when Episode 8 threads retroactively bash Rogue One. Rinse, repeat.
Haha yeah like some weird false narrative attempt. Meanwhile there's fuckwits insisting Revenge Of The Sith was a good film, or even one of the best. This is the world that gave us Trump though so I just fucking give up with these people.
TFA is still a fucking magical film to me, and on another level of cohesion compared to Rogue One. Rogue One feels well.. like a good Marvel film or something, but benefitting from the amazing Star Wars universe setting and characters. TFA does genuinely feel like OT Star Wars to me, but with that extra sheen of modern movie making techniques.
Rogue One definitely is a great film, and absolutely a great film in the last half. I don't particularly find much to hate in the first half either but I doubt I'll watch the entire film in one sitting very often, just ff to the best bits. This notion that TFA was awful, OR that Rogue One is awful is just silly and people should stop.
rokkerkory
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bomba =/
jp 7th is great,
Force is good with rogue one
jp 7th is great,
Force is good with rogue one
maquiladora
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Man, Twilight. Remember that. So much money for such trash....
darkistheway
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Easy choice.What if only Attack of the Clones and A Force Awakens existed?
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
There were only 10 people at the noon showing I went to, regular 3D. But it was freezing cold, -30c and 60km gusts.
I really enjoyed the movie, much better than TFA..
I really enjoyed the movie, much better than TFA..
Xisiqomelir
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Much better than TFA but much less intensely marketed.
Hope it does well!
Hope it does well!
PhoncipleBone
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Phonciple said $160-170M! Was he right?
Vinny said $145-155M! Get your Divergent avatar ready
We didn't make no bet this time though.
Besides, I was wrong on a lot of stuff B.O. wise this year. Might as well finish the year proper with wrong predictions.
I was wrong about everything outside of Tarzan.
Bobby Roberts
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You might nose over 160.
Trigonometrize.
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Seems like a modified Sonic cycle
ID4R was supposed to be the next JW.
It was the next Through the Looking Glass instead.
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