Current Events > Should more Star Wars movie follow Rogue One's lead and drop the opening crawl?

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Kitt
06/18/18 9:13:38 AM
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I've never been a fan of the practice in movies when they feel the need to open a movie with a large summary about the movie's setup (they're kind of pointless most of the time because we see what we just read a few minutes later).

It's always been kind of weird to me that Star Wars made this into a tradition and I really appreciated Rogue One for dropping it and letting the film itself explain what's going on. This is all just my opinion, of course.
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MuayThai85
06/18/18 9:15:15 AM
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Did Solo have it? Still haven't watched it yet.
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Kitt
06/18/18 9:16:03 AM
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MuayThai85 posted...
Did Solo have it? Still haven't watched it yet.

Neither have I.
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AlisLandale
06/18/18 9:18:18 AM
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Star Wars ripped it off from Buck Rogers because it was basically a love letter to all the kinds of films George Lucas liked. It just sort of stuck. They could probably drop it after IX
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Bringit
06/18/18 9:29:31 AM
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Nah, I think omitting it was entirely stupid.

It's especially dumb now because Disney is counting the spin-offs as canon anyway and for the last however many years we've had videogames with the opening crawl and even the canon Clone Wars movie had it (IIRC?) so... What's the point?

Kinda too late now, though. It's not a huge deal I just don't think it ever really made any sense and it always felt more like Star Wars with than without.
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ALIEN_WORK2HOP
06/18/18 9:33:37 AM
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of all the problems the new movies have, this isn't one of em
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TheRock88
06/18/18 9:35:33 AM
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MuayThai85 posted...
Did Solo have it? Still haven't watched it yet.

Kitt posted...
MuayThai85 posted...
Did Solo have it? Still haven't watched it yet.

Neither have I.


Nope it didnt. So it does look like they're only doing the crawl for the numbered movies and not the spinoffs.
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KamenRiderBlade
06/18/18 9:37:01 AM
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Opening Crawl should be reserved for the Primary Story Line.

All Side Story / Gaiden episodes shouldn't have it.

It offers a easy way of distinguishing between the two.
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CyricZ
06/18/18 9:40:09 AM
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Solo is weird.

It didn't have a crawl, but it DID have an opening bit of writing in the same font as "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away" basically providing some preliminary exposition.

Came out a little awkward to me.
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