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RE: Rogue One !!Spoilers!! Discussion Thread - Aya - 01-05-2017
(01-04-2017, 06:19 AM)Tyndles Wrote: I really enjoyed the movie after the first 20 minutes. Â the exposition there was jumpy and weak. Â but after that I was absolutely glued to my seat.I agree with the first point, although I actually liked the opening scene as hard as it was to jump right into, I liked the aesthetic and it did a better job of establishing the regular menace of the Empire than anything in the original trilogy.
Other than that, the only real complaint I have about the movie is that CGI people aren't ready to replace real actors. Â Tarkin was distracting and weird lookin.
But I don't agree with the second. Yes, its obviously not perfect, but I thought that having Tarkin (a wonderful character) added so much continuity and power to this film that a little suspension of disbelief was warranted in terms of accepting his CGIed stand in.  Totally worth it!
But I really do like, "What's a Moff?" Tarkin. (Peter Cushing added so much gravitas to A New Hope, and to the Empire itself. It could not have been the same franchise without him).
RE: Rogue One !!Spoilers!! Discussion Thread - Nako Vesh - 01-05-2017
(01-05-2017, 11:21 AM)Kage Wrote: The character development or lack thereof didn't really bother me cause I wasn't expecting much. Rewatch A New Hope and tell me how much more it does.
Eh? There's tons more development in A New Hope. I don't really like using examples from RedLetterMedia, but Plinkett's comparison of action scenes has merit. You learn a lot about the characters in A New Hope from just a few lines and actions. Even in Force Awakens we learn so much about Rey in her first twenty minutes, and she barely has any dialogue in her introduction (of course part of that is entirely on the shoulders of Daisy Ridley, who is brilliant). But I also realize Rouge One is an entirely different movie, and my preference for more fleshed out character development is personal.
I guess I just wanted to see more of Jyn's life between her rescue and imprisonment. I felt like there was a really good story there. I wanted to be more invested in her. But there's always the novelization for that, I suppose. It's even written by a former Bioware writer!
Side note: Even though CGI Leia looked... hokey, I still immediately burst into tears upon seeing her. lmao