Tonight (December 15) was the opening of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story! Que evil Imperial March theme. I was going to go to the midnight show, but for some reason they don’t do midnight shows anymore and instead have a bunch of earlier shows in the evening before the official release date. Going to a midnight show at 6pm just seems wrong, so I got out of work early and went to the 11pm show. I was also suppose to go on Friday morning (December 16) with Mom, but with the bad weather coming on Friday and Saturday she decided to stay awake and meet me at the movies.
Rogue One was really good, the special effects were amazing, and I loved all the tiny little references (hello Yavin 4) to the original Star Wars movie. People are saying its as good as Empire, hmmm I don’t think so, but what I think people like about Rouge is there are no easy answers and no happy endings. Life is messy, people die, shitty stuff happens, the good guys don’t always win (like in real life), but it sometimes happens in a galaxy far, far away with sarcastic robots. You will also be happy to know that no Bothans were harmed in the making of Rogue One, because those spies were after the second Death Star plans and not the first.
This has been the trifecta of movies this year with a new Star Trek movie in July, a new Harry Potter movie in November, and now a new Star Wars movie! Life just doesn’t get any better for sci-fi/fantasy movie fans.
There were Jedi and Wookiees at the theater tonight, here is a Chewie wannabee with Mom.
