Doing a rewatch of ROGUE ONE and while good, it REALLY benefits from the character building of the Andor series (Andor himself is not a very fleshed out character in the film, the show adds multitudes). The film still also relies on the knowledge/love of the first movie to work. The third act fucking slaps and is perfect though (and If I'm not mistaken that's the part Tony Gilroy took over and did). Most of the stuff with Saw Guerra…

This film checks every I'm a edgy "auteur" you must take me seriously box.

1. Glacial pacing to the point of boredom
2. Use of an underground punk songs in credits (both opening and closing).
3. Kill a dog (wow man, you're so edgy)
4. Kill a child (don't cut yourself)
5. Sexual assault scene
6. Claim your film is a send up of some failure of western culture (in this case violence in film as entertainment)
7. Random 4th…

This is the most poorly crafted, inadvisable musical I've watched all year - and I saw The Apple last month.

Meeting a group of folks I know from the local theater community we braced for what we expected to be a descent into a 100 million dollar film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's most self indulgent play.

I was not prepared for what I endured for nearly two hours. I must note the film felt as if it lasted 10…