Rogue One [Blu-ray]

As of March 3, 2025 I was still able to redeem the digital code.This movie great and depicts the Star Wars universe in a more serious light and feels a lot more fresh. Especially the CG and special effects. Rewatching Episode IV: A New Hope is difficult after Rogue One since the stark contrast in effects breaks the immersion for me. The practical effects were good for the time, but some have not aged as well as others. The laser blasts and lightsabers being among the worst offenders.I picked it up since it looks like Andor Season 2 will be setting up to fill the gap to the start of this movie. Andor + Rogue One will probably be the best adult Star Wars series that leads into the original trilogy.

Easily one of my favorite Star Wars projects. Everything was done right. It also had cutting edge CGI to bring long gone familiar faces back to how they were/back to life. Highly recommend if you haven’t seen it. It’s not “necessary” to the Star Wars main saga, but they did an incredible job and nearly every character was memorable.

understand that the dvd is not region 1, ie: North America, but the 4k disc is NOT region locked at all. if the 4k disc is your primary interest, you can buy with confidence in North America, as long as you either don't care about viewing the blu ray, or have a player that can handle other regions.

...Great Star Wars film!...

The story of Rogue One stems from Star Wars IV: A New Hope when the rebel pilots are briefed about the attack on the Death Star – remember? They learn about the fatal flaw built into the station that makes it vulnerable to a single X-wing fighter from information provided by Princess Leia.Flash to the opening sequence of Star Wars IV: A New Hope: Princess Leia’s ship is attacked and boarded by Darth Vader who is looking for the “secret plans,” which Leia gave to R2D2 to give to Obi-Wan Kenobi on the planet below. So how did Princess Leia come to possess the plans to begin with?From those two plot lines the writers of Rogue One have almost parenthetically created the story of how the knowledge of those plans was first obtained by a few reluctant rebels who recognize their importance, and then they steal them and fight to get them to the freedom-loving, democratic Resistance which has the means to exploit them. Edge-of-your-seat tension is achieved from start to finish of this story with the forces of the despotic, totalitarian Empire close on the heels of the two heroes (Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso and Diego Luna as Cassian Andor) who finally get them into Leia’s hands, only seconds ahead of Darth Vader’s ruthless pursuit. The story is very cleverly written and fills an opening in the Star Wars saga.A word about the music . . . Michael Giacchino reportedly had only 4 ½ weeks to score the entire film. The quotes I’ve seen have all struck the right tone and paid the proper respects but let’s face it – I miss John Williams. To mention just two points: Williams’ scoring always has theme music (a leitmotif) for each character, ala Peter and the Wolf – you could close your eyes and tell which character was on the screen just by the music. Also, the mood was quite a bit darker than Williams’ lighter, more lyrical touch. After Star Wars films I remember coming out of theaters humming some of Williams’ motifs. I have watched Rogue One 3 times now and the only melodies I remember are the recycled melodies Michael Giacchino borrowed from Williams.The body count is high on both sides, albeit bloodless, with storm troopers falling like Nazis in a Steven Spielberg movie. The festival of destruction starts when the Empire destroys an entire city with the first use of the Death Star, apparently just to see if it works, then continues until finally two of the Empire’s star destroyers (what is the ship’s complement of a star destroyer?) get destroyed by the Resistance fleet, which itself is losing cruisers and other craft like they have an endless supply.Life was cheap a long time ago in that galaxy far, far away – a galaxy in which, by the way, all the main characters spoke fluent American and fought for democratic ideals against an oppressive despotism. But it’s all in good fun with no gun control advocates or liberal politicians around to spoil the spectacle. In the end good defeats evil and that’s all that counts.

Love this movie it was so fun Star Wars is so good

I never buy movies off Prime. It annoys me that some of the movies are part of the subscription, another part is rent, and the last part is "sign up for another app completely different from ours to watch this movie even though we make it look like we are offering it." However when this movie popped up I had absolutely no problem paying to rent it. This is one of the most epic Star Wars stories that was done correctly by Lucas Films (distributed by Disney) before Lucas Films sold out to Disney and Disney started ruining everything it touched. Not one light saber battle and it still is one of the best stories.

I was not paying attention to this movie so I didn't go to the theater for it, having been one of the so many of us geeks that got to be around during the original trilogy (I was 6 y.o. when the first came out), I had not quite been disappointed with the prequels, just not excited about them, and I wrote it off as just nostalgic admiration that can never be re-captured. I definitely enjoyed Ep 7 The Force Awakens, though didn't go to the theater for it either, I got the special edition box, and I guess I hoped to see what would happen with this new one and bought it on a whim. I am glad I did! Rogue One definitely put the old feeling of having butterflies in my stomach and I have become giddy in awe of this film, it's absolutely amazing! It was like watching a beautiful dream to me, and I actually teared up when it was all over. Got a Target Exclusive set with the 2 extra bonus features not anywhere else, and it's great, watched it in 3D first time being a 3D geek too, worked fine to me via my 4k Samsung CIA-listening device, it looked like they removed the faux-grain for the 3D version and it's quite clear, it's post-production for all the live action parts, but it's much better than others I've seen like this which it should be through the capable hands of this crew, the packaging is awesome-looking, but you'll want to remove some discs white-glove style, but geeks like me understand how to be careful, there's also these 5 interchangeable thick glossy covers, measuring 5 1/8" by 6 1/4", which make great mini-posters! I still can't get over that this movie EXISTS! I'll include pics of the packaging for you, this outstanding flick will go fast in this version, get it while you can, also it says it covers Regions A, B, and C, wow! Nice touch! Get it before the price skyrockets!