I watched rogue one as soon as I finished the finale lol.
it really was all pretty precarious with the rebel alliance leadership having some real cowardly clowns in the committee, but overall it shows the empire as a supremely powerful and terrorizing organization that is cannibalizing itself in a Hail Mary attempt to elevate their capacity for galactic terror beyond some perceived threshold of any further resistance.
it’s amazing that Gilroy took some narrow timeframe that Disney IP management didn’t mind letting someone else develop into whatever so long as it didn’t fuck with big IP… and managed to enrich the
hell out of everything it is even peripherally connected to. they make the big budget, marquee efforts for the canon embarrassing.
I dunno if you’ve ever seen Gilroy’s standalone Jason Bourne spin off flick (with Jeremy Renner) titled “The Bourne Legacy” but it’s absolutely incredible. I liked the Bourne movies, especially the earlier ones, but Legacy is fucking magic. it expands on everything, but maintains a really crisp pace while revealing a frightening depth and range of the clandestine program.
Ed Norton plays the primary antagonist, this extremely competent evil asshole who is tying off loose ends. his work meetings are similarly mesmerizing lol.
if you like corporate/military conspiracy thrillers, I recommend it over any of the other Bourne flicks. also, Jeremy Renner really brings it. it’s against the formula of the others because he’s an “altered” super soldier who goes rogue but does not have amnesia, so he’s not struggling to know who he is. he knows precisely what sort of people are after him and there is no mystery to any of it.
honestly, I recommend all of Tiny Gilroy’s flicks. “Michael Clayton” is amazing. more of a legal conspiracy thriller, but again, expertly executed. and has similarly terrifying antagonists that feel real.
I watched rogue one as soon as I finished the finale lol.
it really was all pretty precarious with the rebel alliance leadership having some real cowardly clowns in the committee, but overall it shows the empire as a supremely powerful and terrorizing organization that is cannibalizing itself in a Hail Mary attempt to elevate their capacity for galactic terror beyond some perceived threshold of any further resistance.
it’s amazing that Gilroy took some narrow timeframe that Disney IP management didn’t mind letting someone else develop into whatever so long as it didn’t fuck with big IP… and managed to enrich the hell out of everything it is even peripherally connected to. they make the big budget, marquee efforts for the canon embarrassing.
I dunno if you’ve ever seen Gilroy’s standalone Jason Bourne spin off flick (with Jeremy Renner) titled “The Bourne Legacy” but it’s absolutely incredible. I liked the Bourne movies, especially the earlier ones, but Legacy is fucking magic. it expands on everything, but maintains a really crisp pace while revealing a frightening depth and range of the clandestine program.
Ed Norton plays the primary antagonist, this extremely competent evil asshole who is tying off loose ends. his work meetings are similarly mesmerizing lol.
if you like corporate/military conspiracy thrillers, I recommend it over any of the other Bourne flicks. also, Jeremy Renner really brings it. it’s against the formula of the others because he’s an “altered” super soldier who goes rogue but does not have amnesia, so he’s not struggling to know who he is. he knows precisely what sort of people are after him and there is no mystery to any of it.
honestly, I recommend all of Tiny Gilroy’s flicks. “Michael Clayton” is amazing. more of a legal conspiracy thriller, but again, expertly executed. and has similarly terrifying antagonists that feel real.