Even the Resistance movement are shown taking drastic steps to ensure that they are not discovered torturing and interrogating to avoid being betrayed, making their few remaining soldiers pay the price of loyalty often in blood.
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Repurposing a classic war movie structure of anti-heroes set on an impossible suicide mission - Dirty Dozen is the obvious comparison - Rogue One takes its time to paint the decimation of this universe, now heavily occupied by troops (the Stormtroopers far-more in-line with their engineered soldier backdrop from the prequels than their clumsy cannon-fodder antics in the Original Trilogy), with the few rebels sent scurrying like rats. Here, the Resistance were a ragtag ground of desperate con-men and criminals, with few heroes left amidst their ranks few that didn't have the blood of innocents on their own hands, doing whatever it takes just to survive another day as the tyrannical empire chokes the galaxy with its stranglehold.īoth the first and last great modern Star Wars movie
Taking some element of risk with the spin-off tale (which, after all - on paper - was a story that we all knew the outcome of, which nobody was asking to be told in prequel movie format), Disney's first " A Star Wars Story" chapter was an absolutely outstanding effort that surprised everybody with its desire to stay true to the wartorn battlefront that had been so frequently alluded to in the other films, but never really depicted.
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For a series called 'Star Wars', it was a little surprising that there was so little actual 'War', but this franchise had always been family-friendly. As wars go, however, the original trilogy struggled to really capture any kind of galactic conflict, dipping into it most successfully with Hoth, but losing the plot with its Ewok-assisted woodland skirmish in Return.ĭecades later and Lucas would be gifted another shot at the title, and all the VFX tools to finally bring these ideas to life, unfortunately largely squandering them - never more unforgivably than in his summarising the fateful 'Clone Wars' as a by-line at the start of Episode III.
An adult Star Wars movie, and a Darth Vader, that fans have probably been waiting the best part of half a century to see, and whilst not perfect, it fits perfectly, which was more than half the battle.īack in the 70s and 80s, George Lucas had the stories to tell, but didn't quite have the budget or effects to fully realise his vision, introducing cinema to a world of possibilities with this new-fangled Blockbuster model, and its galaxy of wonders to explore, and largely delivering on hitherto unseen grand-scale space battles.
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