Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

[brownjenkins]

Best Star Wars movie ever! And I saw them all in real time back in the day.

This was the first one that actually felt like a WAR! And the first one where I really felt some remorse for the characters lost. I absolutely loved A New Hope (and still do!). Empire was great as well, if a little overrated. All of us back in the day knew Vader was Luke's dad before the movie came out, in addition to the Han/Leia romance so it wasn't as big a reveal as some seem to think it was.

All that said, these characters felt so real! I'm not sure whether I even knew what the original was missing until a saw this. It made the first three look like a Frank Capra movie. Endearing, timeless, idolized, everything you could possibly expect from a movie except real.

I loved the bigger than life characters in the originals, but it's a whole other level when you watch real flawed people populate a world you loved. I hope they take a bit of this to the next film.