Haha! Fair point- what I loved about The Force Awakens were the characters- and how the film itself was driven through the interactions of the characters. Rogue One was not driven by the characters nor by their interactions, it was driven through situational means, and the entire plot was forwarded by the circumstance that the characters fell in to. It's a narrative fallacy that the Star Wars Prequels also fell in to. When you're at point A, and you HAVE TO get to point B- you end up not driving the narrative down a logical path, but more so a pre-set path.
I about died laughing here. xD
That must be it. I actually have not liked a majority of films Disney has released. I feel no love or nostalgia for movies like Lion King or Beauty and the Beast- and I don't trip over myself for PIXAR releases. This past year has been very surprising, as I loved both Zootopia and The Jungle Book. Rogue One was very different from all the other Star Wars movies, and at the points where it shined, it excelled- it was just bogged down by a lot of intrinsic issues in the writing that stopped it from being a "good movie" in my book. In fact, if it weren't for the superficial Star Wars set dressing, I would probably put this film along the ranks of The Expendables. It's not bad, it's just... fine.
Yes. I did like Force Awakens a whole lot more... Rogue One felt a bit contrived... and that's even considering The Force Awakens ended with them blowing up the Main Reactor of the Bigger Death Star....
... Oh wait, sorry.... I mean "destroying the Thermal Oscillator of the Starkiller Base".
