Revisiting Rogue One
Oct. 22nd, 2017 05:47 pmWith the year having managed to wear along to fall, I've returned to the season I've often watched through the Star Wars movies in. ("Once a year" doesn't feel too obsessive to me; I can at least tell myself I haven't read the novels or comics extending the franchise for a long time now, and I don't even know what possibly premium channel "Rebels" airs on up in Canada; however, I am conscious I've piled up plenty of other movies I don't get around to watching at all...) This year, too, I'd been thinking ahead that things could be a bit different. For all that I let a chance to buy a cheap used copy of The Force Awakens from a discount store across the corner go by and have been letting the Netflix-offered chance to see it for just the second time in total slide by week by week, I did ask for a copy of Rogue One for my birthday, and my brother carried a Blu-Ray across the Atlantic in his luggage so he could hand it to me on the day itself. I then had to carry the disc back across the Atlantic before I could get back to a Blu-Ray player or even redeem the digital copy code in the case, but I took the digital copy home the first chance I got only for my brother to mutter he wasn't really that interested in seeing the movie again...
Having spent a fair length of time by now not watching The Force Awakens again without quite managing to articulate my feelings much beyond "the backstory felt depressing and the rest of the film just seemed sort of pinched and uninspiring", I accepted that and let months pass until the fall. I could at least remember Rogue One had seemed to offer grander vistas and the chance to claim I'm not just resentful whatever ideas George Lucas sold to Disney got locked up (although I might then be accused of resenting having worked so hard not to convince myself I wasn't offended by the previous Star Wars movies, only for the new order to charm everyone with snappy dialogue). After I'd watched the Blu-Ray for the first time and the movie for the second time in total, though, I was conscious it wasn't easy to put my fresh thoughts together.
( If you haven't seen the movie, things may be given away )
Having spent a fair length of time by now not watching The Force Awakens again without quite managing to articulate my feelings much beyond "the backstory felt depressing and the rest of the film just seemed sort of pinched and uninspiring", I accepted that and let months pass until the fall. I could at least remember Rogue One had seemed to offer grander vistas and the chance to claim I'm not just resentful whatever ideas George Lucas sold to Disney got locked up (although I might then be accused of resenting having worked so hard not to convince myself I wasn't offended by the previous Star Wars movies, only for the new order to charm everyone with snappy dialogue). After I'd watched the Blu-Ray for the first time and the movie for the second time in total, though, I was conscious it wasn't easy to put my fresh thoughts together.