I am going to be completely honest here: I will watch this only to see Sofia Boutella being amazing in flimsy loincloth.

New #1s every six months, tying everything into a tedious, ill-advised, and poorly planned crossover event which didn’t end on time and threw all their “new” #1s into turmoil... but yeah, let’s blame women and diversity.

Yeah it’s not a secret or anything. They’re connected, just not in the way a small segment of fans want.

It seems clear to me that there are two, 1-way connections:

Looks great! Where are all the trolls whining about Gal Gadot being too small or whatever for this?

I’m here for the Winter Widow commentary. I would love to see more backstory about Black Widow and Winter Soldier. (And because kinja hates me, obligatory Black Widow / Winter Soldier a la comics image.)

Side note: Black Widow may be just a boring human, but marvel has shown that they can get behind a story with just a human (ahem Daredevil). If anything, a Black Widow movie could be a spy thriller on steroids. And people will see that. They keep seeing those Bond films- so why not a black widow movie?

Raccoons are not marsupials! Neither rodents. They’re carnivora

We’re not dumb. We understand its a call back. It’s still incredibly stupid storytelling.

You’re wrong, she’s excellent. Under the Skin is amazing.

As a not-filthy-but-still-somewhat-grimy, semi-casual-but still-gets-the-easier-geeky-stuff viewer, who only saw the movies and none of the ancillary stuff (animated series, games, novelizations, comics, etc.), I had zero problems placing when Rogue One appears in the overall SW timeline. Pretty much the general…

The abject misery is kind of why I dug it. Like it forces present day audiences into the mindset a 1977 audience would have entered the picture with you know? In the mid to late 70s cinema was full of BLEAK thanks to the stranglehold New Hollywood had.

I’ve only seen it once, but I was under the impression that they also had a reasonable fear the Scarif was a trap. Galen was a scientist who had been working for years developing the most devastating weapons of mass destruction ever conceived, for a Sith Emperor. They were so worried about him that at least some of…

Then a high-ranking Rebel officer orders him to assassinate Jyn’s father Galen, even though the complete destruction of Jedha City is all the proof they need that Galen’s work is done and the Death Star is up and running—killing him will achieve nothing.

Frankly, the move away from Jedi/Republic = good, Sith/Empire = Bad, is the best thing that came out of Rogue One. Seeing the Rebels be selfish dicks, and seeing heroes working to topple the Empire from within is what made the movie, really.

You must be fun at parties.

Give me my deep spy prequel!! Clint can show up at the end.

The Avengers Widow may be better than the one from Iron Man 2, but she’s a joke compared to the Russos Black Widow.

In my opinion, this picturs sums up why the fact that this type of movie got made is important.