New stuff in there. Including at least one new scene of general badassery that will amuse.
…OK, several scenes of general badassery. I really, really hope that my wife isn’t going to be too upset at me going to see this movie the morning it comes out (and thus not waiting for her)…
Just realized: “December 16th”… isn’t really all that far away, huh? 25 days. And will I see it as soon as possible? Why, of course I will. Unless my wife wants us to see it together, of course. In that case, I may have to acquire the emergency services of a babysitter. Anyway, here’s the latest TV trailer, with a bare dollop of new footage:
Got sent this via email, and yeah, I’m gonna watch this movie. I’m gonna watch the heck out of this movie. As soon as I can get to the theater, in fact.
It’s absolutely perfect. Absolutely. They even incorporated Rogue One’s funky alarms. I am in awe and must now watch this film, and the studio didn’t even make the trailer.
Oh dear gods. Amazeballs. #RogueOnehttps://t.co/ii7JOJnTyx
— Shanna Germain (The She/Her-Devil You Know) (@ShannaGermain) August 18, 2016
Got sent this via email, and I gotta say: it’s spot-on, in its way. Particularly the ending. The terrifyingly possible ending that I had not yet considered before watching this, and now my heart is full of fear.
Watch it, and you will understand.
It gets another post because screw it it’s my site. Gonna watch it a couple of times to get a better feel for it.
…OK. One question, here: yes, I understand that there are more accents out there than American. But is there an American accent in this film at all? They all seem to be hailing from various parts of the British Commonwealth.
This is really very sa… oh, who am I kidding? I’m checking YouTube and Google every five minutes, myself. Rogue One in some ways benefited from The Force Awakens, and in some ways has been hampered by it: when it turned out that people still remembered after all how to make Star Wars movies that didn’t actually suck we were all relieved, sure. But then we allowed ourselves too many sips from the dangerous chalice of Hope.
And so, now, we all waver on the edge of cynicism and desire. Will it be bad? Will it be awesome? We don’t know! – So we all watch the trailer like Cold War Kremlinologists used to watch Soviet May Day parade footage, and we try to glean meaning from various positions on a crowded field. It is… our destiny.
Or something like that.
…no, wait, that’s just people starting to realize that that earlier Rogue One footage was what the rumors about a new trailer were actually referring to. Me? I’m chill about it. After all: BLIND DUDE WITH A STAFF AND KUNG FU. Mission Get Moe’s Attention has been a-freaking-ccomplished, is all I’m saying.
tl/dr; :waving fingers: There is no second Rogue One trailer.
This isn’t the new trailer. This is the behind-the-scenes clip where the director and crew pretty much admits that Lucas taught them to stay as far away from bluescreen as possible. Real explosions! Real people in costumes! Actually moving the things that are supposed to be moving!
THEY ALSO HAVE A BLIND GUY WITH A STAFF WHO KNOWS KUNG FU. THIS IS RELEVANT INFORMATION. I FEEL THAT IT REALLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN MENTIONED EARLIER.
Voiced by James Earl Jones… and not bodied by David Prowse. Apparently that particular feud was ported over to the new owners. And I can’t… actually, I’ve decided to not have an opinion on said feud. Life is too short.
As for Darth Vader being in Rogue One: well, geez, easier to have him in there than to say why he’s not, right? I mean, it’s taking place when he’d be around, and all they need to do is to have James Earl Jones read some dialogue. I assume that JEJ is hale enough to do that, and it’d be cool if he did.
