Egon Longshanks: Star Wars

Showing posts with label Star Wars. Show all posts

Thursday, August 10, 2017

'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Movie Review

You can read my review of the film here.

Pros

- While grimmer than most "Star Wars" entries, this one manages to make good with the entertainment, providing impressive action and a healthy dose of humor throughout.

- K2SO

- The movie gives us more shades of grey as the rebellion isn't quite the idealistic movement that it is in the succeeding movies.

Cons

- Having grown up playing the "Dark Forces" games, I was hoping to see Kyle Katarn either make an appearance or at least get name dropped. Neither happens.

- Needed more Forest Whitaker

- Jyn's turn from uninterested cynic to idealistic champion is a bit too quick.

Overall

This wasn't a story that needed to be told, but the telling still makes for solid entertainment. It manages to be self contained, but provide just enough fan service via established character cameos to satisfy fans and cement this movie's role in the overall narrative. Even the fact that a lot of it was a foregone conclusion doesn't become the detriment that you'd think it would.

Given the amount of hype behind this one, there might be some degree of disappointment, but all in all, I thought it was a very good movie that's worth a purchase.

Click here to join our Patreon campaign

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Daily Dose of Awesome(?): Star Wars/Avengers Crossover

I came across an article that discussed the idea of a crossover movie between the "Star Wars" franchise and the MCU. While it could "technically" happen as both are owned by the same company, I think it is just a fun "what if", though Stan Lee seems to support the idea.

Honestly, I could see it as a comic mini-series, or maybe an animated movie. There have certainly been stranger crossovers. It isn't even that outside the realm of possibility as Thanos is a galactic threat. It wouldn't be that much of a stretch to put one of the infinity gems in Skywalker's neck of the woods. It would also be interesting to see a team of jedi try to challenge the mad titan.

The obvious problem is timeline. As every movie in the "Star Wars" franchise notes, those events took place a long time ago. Maybe use the characters from the "Legacy" comics, that take place several centuries later and focus on descendants of the more well known characters of the original trilogy?

Making it canon for both franchises also adds weird implications in terms of story and the rules of the established universes. I think it's best left to the realm of a self contained "elseworld" story.

Doing a live action film of this nature is also difficult as there are just so many characters. It would get a little crowded and the story would likely suffer for it.

Still, if you're a geek, you can't help but be intrigued by the idea. Crossovers are always fun, especially when they feature such popular franchises like the two discussed here.