and I've now seen Rogue One twice so i

thought it's another good time to do a HISHE Review.

So what do you say? You want to

talk to some Rogue One?

Let's get to it. Rogue One! They're building

the Death Star! but then comes Jyn Erso... to

snatch up them plans!.... all right.... Rogue One colon a

Star Wars story. Or to everyone else

Star Wars Episode 3.9 is an epic

adventure about a diverse team of rebel

types from all over the galaxy who

volunteer to go on a crazy mission to

steal the plans of the death star which

you probably already knew because we've

all been talking about this for a long time.

it's also a story that most people

probably could guess how it ends having

episode 4 part of our lives. But i think

it's still totally worth watching just the same.

It's an awesome star wars film! It's full

of nostalgic call backs to the original

trilogy as well as nods to the prequels

and it has some of the coolest fight

sequences we've ever had a Star Wars movie.

The movie does have a slow-burn.

I think that's credit to Gareth Edwards

directing this film, which is fine with me.

it moves kind of slow at the beginning

but it builds to an incredible finale so

to me the movie was fantastic

the tone is a little darker.

Sorry younglings. but I think that's important for this story.

this movie is after revenge of the sith

and before a new hope after all so i

thought the tone was very appropriate i

really enjoyed the movie so I would say

go check it out if you haven't yet so

now that I've kissed this movie's butt a

whole bunch

Let's talk spoilers.

I can't believe Galen Erso turned out

to be Luke Skywalker's real dad!

I'm kidding

that's uh.. that's at least i'm pretty sure

that's not true. We don't know! But still

spoilers ahead people! What do you think

about the cast? I like'd them...

Next question! Oh you want details okay.

I thought the cash was cool. I like that

they're not Jedi. They're just like you

and me. I really like Jyn Erso's

character i like the story about her

father

she's living her life thinking her

father join the Empire willingly so

she's got a seriously troubled past

I thought critic was an excellent

villain he's like everything you want

from the Empire. I love K2SO as the

sarcastic droid he has so many great

lines

he's like c-3po snarky brother that can

actually fight. He's great.

I didn't like Cassian and so much the

first time through but after my second

viewing I was like, "Dude. Cassian's kind of dope!

He and Jyn need to like hook up already.

seriously there's not much time I need to

hurry up!" Another character that didn't

work for me the first time was the pilot

Bodhi but again after the second viewing

I was like, "Bodhi. You're alright man! you

left the Empire! You defected! You got

the nuts!

You just had to put up with Forest

Whitaker's weird truth

Jabba the Hutt creature. Who was your

favorite? My favorite character is

hands-down Chirrut for obvious reasons

Everything he does is awesome and I

totally think we need a mini series of

him and Baze like walking around Jedah

having adventures like KungFu.

I thought everyone felt like they fit

into this universe very well. I would

have liked to have gotten know all of

them a little more but i don't think

that was ever the purpose of this movie

which I'll go into more later

What did you think about CG Tarkin?

I'm seeing a lot of hate on the CG Tarkin

I don't really understand i thought CG Tarkin

was really cool. I'm actually all

for this. So much so that I think we

should be making a CG Han Solo for this

younger Han Solo movie that's coming

down the line, but nobody else here

agrees with me, so I'm on my own with

that one. But whatever. Enjoy your guy

pretending to be harrison ford movie!

Anyway

although there's still something kind of

robotic about him

I just love how far digital effects have

come and that really excites me

CG Tarkin is not perfect he still feels a

little robotic you can really tell it

with the digital Leia later in the movie

but i still love that they are trying to

keep the characters true to the timeline

instead of replacing them with some

look-alikes. What about that Darth Vader Scene Doh!

I'm going to say something that I

think nobody will agree with and that is

I actually feel like Darth Vader wasn't

needed in this movie. Whaaaaat!? Darth Vader had

the best scene in the whole show!

You dumb! stop being dumb!

I didn't say his scene wasn't awesome it

was totally awesome at the second scene

is incredible the first scene I thought

was kind of weird and very out of place

he's just hanging out on musafar some

reason that's important but he's not in

the rest of the story but then he comes

out the very end like "ehemm I believe this saga is supposed to be about me!"

And then he just whoops everyone but and it's

incredible and everybody's like Yeeeeaaah!

it was so awesome and probably most

people's favorite part of the movie

I just wish his presence was more

crucial to the Empire story of rogue one

as the trailers led me to believe might

happen. Which is my other beef with this movie.

There are a lot of shots in the trailers or in the

web featurettes that they released that

did not happen in the final movie which

means they changed a lot of stuff or

they faked some of these trailers shots

like what was that whole 'What will you become?"

why does that even matter i thought this

film was gonna go in a completely

different direction just from that sound

bite alone i thought the rebels were

going to have to sneak on the actual

death star and somehow get the plans out

of there without being captured except

that they are captured you know from

like darth vader and then maybe he liked

brainwashes them or turn them into like

winter soldiers that turn into something

later down the line like I don't know

the Knights of Ren! We kind of went off

the rails on the predictions with this

one I think. Jyn Erso's gonna be Rey's mom I know it!

meanwhile Rogue One's just like "Nope!"

We're changing all that. Jyn walking to the

TIE fighter on the catwalk didn't happen

Krennic talking to Vader on the Death Star

Jyn running on the beach with Death Star plans

Jyns epic turn the camera and the

stormtrooper suit didn't happen

I rebel. Didn't happen. Krennic walking in

the burning beach didn't happen the

darth vader reflection on the Death Star

didn't happen

what was the original cut of this movie?

something led to the beach, because Jyn

and Cassian somehow make their way

down there at the end so there's some

pieces missing here either way thanks a

lot trailers

I've been thinking really hard

about what is it that I appreciated most

about Rogue One and and i believe it's this.

When I watched the film the first time

I thought this movie was just really

slow with an awesome great giant star wars

nostalgia pack mega battle at the end

Which I was ok with but I didn't

like that I couldn't see the subtext

right away. When i watch the film a

second time i think i saw what that

subject is. Trust and also maybe

sacrifice but more trust i think. Most of

the characters in this movie have

an issue with trust or have serious

doubts about the other. Jyn feels

abandoned

Cassian doesn't believe Jyn's father can

be trusted he's even told to assassinate

Galan. K2SO is constantly thinking

they're all gonna die and giving the

odds of how this is never gonna work

Forrest Whitaker thinks the pilot is

lying with Galan Erso's message the

Rebel Alliance can't seem to agree about

anything. Even Krennic can't trust his

own Empire. Everyone is on their own

in a sense, in the galaxy that is going to

hell, and nobody is willing to take that

leap of faith. But two things stood out to

me about Jyn's story in regards to what

was the point. At the beginning when Jyn

is a child her mother gives her the

crystal and says "Trust the Force" and later in an

unrelated seen Cassian is upset with Jyn

when he finds out that she has a weapon

he saying give it here

he doesn't trust her and she says

"Trust goes both ways." I feel like this is the

center of the entire story because the

one character that echoes these two

ideas is Churrit.

Churrit completely trusts

in the force as well as his friend Baze.

he even says I fear nothing for all is

as the force wills it. When these two

ideas are finally applied to the rest of

the cast in the movie the mission

finally begins to succeed and the

rebellion solidifies. When Jyn says

May the force be with us

that's when it all clicks which creates

the new hope they all need to carry on

in the end the mission costs in their

lives but the cause they're dying for was

much greater. I think that is really cool

and very Universal. You could bicker and

argue or live in fear or you can just

give up and not care about anything

"Never look up" as Jyn says. Or you

can come together trust one another and

be a part of something that has meaning

that's really awesome and something I

never really expected this movie to pull

out of that tiny little space between

episode 3 and 4. That final battle is incredible.

And we could have all these awesome memories

of all the old pilots and we could see

how Red 5 dies. But without that story

about trust you don't get to see where

a new hope actually begins

and that's what I appreciate most about Rogue One.

Okay! Those are my thoughts on Rogue One.

I hope you enjoyed it and I hope that you

also enjoyed Rogue One. Please let me know

what you thought of the movie in the

comments below and how much that you

totally wanted cg Han Solo movie!

no just me? ok fine! I know we will get

working on a Rogue One HISHE pretty soon

we've got some other titles that we're

going to focus on first so just add that

to the list of episodes to look forward

to