Is Rogue One an influential movie?

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Personally, I do really feel like Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is already proving itself to be an influential movie. Or at least has the potential of becoming an influential movie. But to be fair, you will only know that for sure 5-10 years into the future. Avengers is 5 years old already, and we already know for certain that's a very influential movie. Heck, it most likely helped movies like Rogue One to get made.

But okay, so what are my arguments for this personally? Well, Rogue One was a box office success, which is a big contributing factor to what I'm about to say. Because first of all, it shows studios we want more Star Wars spin-off movies. This will lead to them doing all kinds of spin-off stories we could have only imagined in our wildest dreams before.

*SPOILER ALERT*

Second, it shows studios that we are fine with a movie ending with all the main characters dying.

*SPOILER ENDS*

Third, it shows studios we don't need them to cram in a pointless romance. And fourth, something less this movie and more both this movie AND Force Awakens, they show studios we want to see more practical effects. Rogue One even did a lot of the starships as actual models while they fly around in space, which I personally think is really amazing.

A potential fifth one is that it may revive spin-off movies as a concept. Even Star Wars did spin-offs in the past with it's two ewok-movies... they obviously failed though, of course.

People worry there is a downfall with movies over at Hollywood nowadays. And it seems like they are only feeling that way because movies are made in a different way nowadays, not realizing it's BOTH for the worse AND for the better. Like, sure, Avengers influenced a lot of failed shared universes like with Batman v Superman and more recently with The Mummy. But then we also get stuff like the new Kaiju cinematic universe and Star Wars getting it's own fully fledged out cinematic universe as well. So, I don't really think personally it's all bad.

But hey, it all depends on our opinions I suppose? To some extent, at least. I know people feel bitter the old expanded universe of Star Wars is taken out of the canon, such as Kyle Katarn helping the rebels out to obtain the plans for the Death Star. But I also understand why they had to remove a lot of it, since there was just SO much of it and some of it even contradicted one another. Everything's relative, you know?

But either way, what's your own opinion? Agree or disagree that Rogue One is or has the potential to be an influential movie?
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ImdaBatman's avatar
a lot of people say that the Rebel Alliance being portrayed as more morally grey was a great twist on the usual black-and-white outlook, but (and maybe this is just me) i feel like that kind of twist is far more cliche'd than the thing they're subverting ever was. but aside from that, i loved the movie (especially Vader in full badass mode)