![]() ![]() ![]() Vehicle movement creates uncomfortable levels of dust. Apparently, designers of military vehicles in galaxies far, far, away have also never actually operated them in the field. Headphones get hung on a convenient grab rail and not on the hanger designed for them - if there even was a hanger. Cockpit windows are scratched, and, if the sunlight hits them wrong, they are hard to see through. Places where hands would naturally grab, or gear would rub, have the paint worn off. I don’t know if they used military veterans as consultants, but Rogue One manages to exude military authenticity. My wife asked, “What is it with you and that movie?” (Warning! Spoilers ahead.) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. It’s rare for me to love a movie - any movie - as much as I love this one. Since then, my conviction about Rogue One’s quality has not waivered. However, we had always adhered to the orthodoxy that The Empire Strikes Back was the best film of the series. That was my age when my mom dropped my brother and me off nearly every day for the original run of A New Hope on the small, single-screen theater in the tiny Tennessee town we grew up in. As for me, I’ve been in this fight since I was five years old… apologies to Alliance Officer Cassian Andor. Describe a plotline, and he can name the season and episode of the Clone Wars that referenced it. The year after I retired with 21 years of military service, I saw the film Rogue One for the first of many times, walked out of the theater, and declared to my teenage son, “That’s the best Star Wars movie ever made!” It was a bold claim, especially among life-long Star Wars fans like my son and me. ![]()
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