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In lieu of a crawl, here’s the background: Travis and I caught Rogue One on opening weekend. It was great!
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I talk about it at the very end of the episode, although maybe it should’ve come up at the beginning: there’s not really much of anything to *spoil* in this movie. To save myself, I won’t test that theory anywhere here in the text, but I do legitimately think that Rogue One is as straightforward a movie you can get that doesn’t have any twists and turns that requires a spoiler tag.
I’m thinking about examples here: when the original Die Hard came out in theaters, if you’d been told that John McClane ends the movie victorious against Hans Gruber, would you be upset by being spoiled?
Spoilers, in my opinion, are reliant on major unexpected plot beats or twists to really be a “spoiler”. Otherwise, they’re nothing more than just telling you basic parts of the movie. For Rogue One: Jyn ends up looking for the Death Star plans, finds them, and gets them to the Rebel Alliance. Does that spoil anything for you?
If it doesn’t, then any other detail in the movie should be pretty spoiler free as well; that’s how straightforward the film is. It is a legitimately GOOD movie.
Rogue One is, hands down, the best movie for cinephiles. It’s also the best Star Wars movie for those who don’t really like Star Wars fantasy adventure type movies. I think that’s what distinguishes it further from the canon of the other films: it’s not meant as an adventure, it’s meant as war.
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