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This was a movie for fans and enjoyable, but for all the excitement and Easter eggs, it had some flaws. It was good, and filled in some blanks in the larger story, but I wouldn't crown it the second best Star Wars movie. I think there's a nostalgia factor that lends to the enjoyment factor, but I found Force Awakens to be a stronger overall movie. This one started out bouncing from place to place with characters who were barely defined, but because there was a familiar backdrop people overlooked that we barely knew their names. That robot was awesome. And it was great to see a SW film end on the somber down note like Empire. But this was a straight fan movie. If you didn't know anything about the history (i.e.- if you are the 8 year old kid who only sorta knows the saga), this stand alone film is about a girl who sees her family killed by bad guys and gives her life so that those bad guys might not win in the end. Sure it's a nice segue to New Hope.


The thing that got me was the end. The whole Rebel fleet can hyperspace to right outside the shield gate. Okay. Then the Death Star hyperspaces there and fires a shot. Hang on.. I didn't realize the moon-sized ball of death had the ability to hyperspace. If it does, why did we have to wait for it to move into position at the end of a New Hope? Surely the engineers could have plotted a course which would have plopped them into similar position to take out the Rebels in the original Star Wars, no? But in that film the Death Star was a slow moving misery machine we needed to wait in suspense for.. would the Rebels destroy it before it moved into position? We know how it ended, but this piece of the larger puzzle didn't fit for me and it's all I have thought about since watching it.

see if I can go point by point


Force awakens was pretty good but I found this one to be stronger in my opinion.  Force awakens did a lot of cheap member this member that nonsense. They also made it so anybody could seemingly be a jedi and basically copied a new hope almost to a tee.  Then the non believable parts like no one on a planet knowing of the most famous ship in the galaxy.  There was even some cheap throwaway dialogue to explain a situation like how chewii and han found the falcon.  I considered it a lazy movie.

 

I think the Idea of Rogue one was not to focus so much on any real character although the girl got all the screen time.  This was a movie about the rebellion and where it started, how it grew.  They didn't really need to define the characters since the knew what happens to them at the end of the movie.  The most defining character of the film was the father who designed and built the death star.  The rest were just pieces on the board.


Death star has always been able to jump to hyperspace it just gets lost in a new hope.  It did travel from aldaran to yavin 4.


Difference is the way the weapon was being deployed.  In new hope its being put in position to blow up yavin 4.  Here it is only being used to blast a military complex off the map.

 

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