The Star Wars Cinematic Universe

[Neon Ignition]

The odd thing with Solo as well is that it doesn't disprove the idea that a Lando prequel would have made more sense whilst covering the same ground.

Also - lightness and colour - Force Awakens had a bit more of it but what is with these miserable toned other new entries?

[cutmymilk]

Yes, Force Awakens looked the part. Last Jedi was all red and black wasn't it?

[CMcK]

Yeah Solo does have a grim palette and they need to stop characters from standing in front of bright light sources too.

[Dogg Thang]

I quite liked how Rogue One looked (generally I loved that the movie did things different, same with how Last Jedi looked - I think that's one of the most beautiful looking SW movies) but Solo's greyness seemed totally at odds with the movie itself. I wonder if it was initially way brighter and more colourful and they overcompensated when Howard came in to try to stop it looking like a comedy and they just pulled the colour from it. The train sequence was so flat as a result.

[Asura]

Seems for almost everyone, Rogue One managed to get the balance spot on.

I'm not so certain about that. I loved the movie; it was my favourite Star Wars movie after the original trilogy. However, I'm a bit biased as I loved all of the EU stuff as a teenager, and Rogue One really feels like an EU movie. I think its slightly darker, faux-edgier approach, with a lot of destruction & death and leaning heavily on the original films (Tarkin, the Death Star, Vader) appeals to a specific segment of the Star Wars fandom, and I'm making a bit of a leap here, but I'm willing to bet the Venn diagram of "Loves Rogue One" and "Hates Episode 8" lines up pretty closely and I would propose that those are the reasons why.

Not saying anyone who likes Rogue One is an edgelord who's still furiously editing their "Ep IX was a mistake" analysis video which is longer than the actual film, though. That'd be taking it a bit far!!

[Dogg Thang]

Maybe, but I like both Ep8 and Rogue One and I just haven't really heard all that many complaints overall about Rogue One where the others feel more divisive.

[QualityChimp]

Jazz Funk did not like Rogue One.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Has anyone on here watched Rogue one and then straight in to A New Hope? I wonder how well they hang together.

[Asura]

Has anyone on here watched Rogue one and then straight in to A New Hope? I wonder how well they hang together.

This was my biggest issue with the prequels, if I'm honest. I'd already read a bunch of EU stuff by that point, chief among that Shadows of the Empire, and multiple times as a kid I watched the trilogy, listening to the Shadows audioplay between Empire & Jedi. It's pretty seamless.

The prequel movies always felt too different to me, in a way that KOTOR doesn't - and that's a difficult thing to quantify.

[Neon Ignition]

The slightly darker tone Rogue One has worked well enough but was entirely down to the focus of that story. Ep8, I dunno, just feels like it has a really off visual style sitting alongside Ep7. Solo is just completely wrong on that front.

I'm not expecting Ep9 to be a genre defining experience but I feel pretty confident they should be able to make it a better entry of the new ones.

[Dogg Thang]

Regular reminder: JJ made Star Trek Into Darkness after a pretty decent reboot movie.

[Neon Ignition]

I like most of Into Darkness so I'm good

[Dogg Thang]

I’m so thankful this place doesn’t go in for gifs much but, if it did, I’d be digging out a zinger of a side-eye gif right now.

[Neon Ignition]

It's one of those entries that I wouldn't place at the top of the Trek movie pile but not at the bottom either. The whole Khan reveal and threepeat of the Kirk/Spock death sequence stuff really knocks the movie down but I like a lot of the sequences in the film and it's got enough going on to entertain even if its tonally not as one the money as XI. I struggled a bit more with Beyond tbh, that film also has some good stuff in it but just feels... off.

[Dogg Thang]

Beyond wasn’t a stand out for me but it was a return to form in many ways. It wasn’t blindingly silly in places and at least tried to stand on its own merits, which Into Darkness couldn’t really do. It was a really, really silly film and just tried to paper over it by moving so fast. It’s actually right at the bottom of my Trek list and is the only one I don’t own on blu-ray. But hey, there’s a lot to love in every Trek movie and even Into Darkness has its moments.