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Her CGI was so gooooooooood
Her CGI was laughably bad.
Her CGI was so gooooooooood
Her CGI was laughably bad.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| They rebel - SPOILERS
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It is.
Yeah, I thought it looked amazing
Bah Gawd, Kane would be proud.
StrangeRoboMemory
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When you first see her, there's a brief window where she looks pretty good. And then as the seconds tick by, it gets worse and worse.
WadiumArcadium
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Do we know who the actor was? He looked familiar.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
And then her mouth moves.
I think I prefer nitpicking the technical execution because it allows me to gloss right over the more ethical question of why we needed to digitally resurrect a long dead man for no other real reason than the fiction's CONTINUITY.
I honestly think it's when the CGI characters move. Like Tarkin was almost believable until he would move or start talking and then the illusion would break.
Millisecond .2 looked good but she looked pretty awful at .5 milliseconds. It got pretty good later on in the movie, though, somewhere around .8.
shira
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I'm kinda surprised he didn't tear people into two and shit.
When he did the door thing from ep 1 I was like damn
More than enough killing and violence. He was fucking menacing. Those rebels knew they were dead af
brandonh83
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I think that's why I'm not as forgiving toward it. I can't even figure out why it was necessary to begin with. The ending would have worked without Leia or at least seeing her face. I actually liked the shot of the back of her standing there, but the rest was yeesh. Every time Tarkin appeared was jarring and again, he didn't do or say anything remotely important. So you're just left with shitty CG.
They could have did far away shots of them talking, in fact I think just getting a pulled back shot of Leia would have been better. Just could have worked so much better under more efficient direction. Like a wide shot of her looking out the window, could have even still be facing us but the CGI wouldn't have been shoved down our throats.
SuperStiltzkin
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Yeah, she looks fine, but I don't think they did a good job of animating her talking. Feels like she moves too fast. I have to watch it again to explain, but you can tell there's not enough/or too many frames of animation going on.
RyougaSaotome
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Just got back and loved it. What I wanted from a non-numbered spinoff.
Dude. That's what I said last night. 60 seconds at the end of the film wasn't enough to warrant the chore that was the previous 2 hours.
Tarkin should only have had two scenes MAX -- and quite frankly, could have been entirely replaceable. It's just fan service (filled to the brim with uncanny valley, ugh).
Crap villain, underdeveloped support characters, forgettable score, and a war scene that did not have the gravitas as one would expect from the franchise -- it was all over the place with random characters running in circles.
Too many plot contrivances. The night Jyn finds her father is the night he dies, and he still manages to get some last words before he passes (same situation with Donnie Yen -- they really doubled up on that cliche!).
And we got subplots that amount to nothing -- and any conflict that could arise from them were immediately squashed and forgotten about.
Fuck the cameos, they did not feel organic at all, especially when they're cutting away from the main set pieces.
The more I think about it, the sadder I get.
Anton Sugar
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Everything about his arrival was fantastic. "Vader will take care of the fleet" had me thinking "what the hell could he possibly do?"
And then his Destroyer jumped right in front of the rebels and took a few of them out right there. That's gonna be a great bail out/banned GIF. Bish's face appearing out of nowhere.
When he was onboard slaughtering the rebels, I also appreciated that his movements were still pretty stiff and in-line with the OT Vader fights. He was definitely more mobile than ANH but he didn't come near the PT fights. Easily explained by his injuries, of course.
That's what it is! I was trying to think of why I disliked Tarkin so much and that's it. In comparison to everything else Tarkin's framerate feels way off.
Whoa, what's the issue with Chopper?
The reason he was probably so stiff in ANH was his muscles were sore from all that Rebel Scum he spent hours slicing up and he hadn't the time to go back to his salt bath at his Secret Volcano Base.
Have you not seen those gifs?
It's like at every opportunity he has he uses it to be a total dick.
Like, it's not even funny. Dude's a bully.
Bobby is Snoke confirmed, thats why he wants you to stop with the theories heh.
AgentOtaku
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I actually loved the first half of RO tho :/
Fair enough - guess I just have a warped sense of humor. Those gifs aren't even the worst if I'm recalling correctly. He straight up murders a lot of people.
Same here. I liked it more than the action heavy second half. I think I'm just looking for different things in movies compared to the average moviegoer. I did not find the beginning boring at all.
shira
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Bobby Roberts
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Yeah, Chopper's just a fucking dickslit of a character. There's almost zero redeeming about him.
No, it was the Devastator. Same Star Destroyer you see come over the top of the screen in the first seconds of Star Wars.
Was it an Interdictor. only saw it for a second
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No, it was the Devastator. Same Star Destroyer you see come over the top of the screen in the first seconds of Star Wars.
self_aware_keyboard
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Just out of cinema, no one else to chat with so here is my take:
Amazing I loved it:
The start, with the dust rings around the planet was a cool new way for you to marvel at the size and scope.
Funny but not hitting you over the head with humor.
Great action at the end, amazing battle.
Looked fantastic, really got me pumped.
Fan shout outs were subtle enough not to remove me from the moment, unlike EP7's fan service.
Things not so cool:
Zero need for a poorly done CGI Tarkin - like would anyone really have an issue with a similar looking actor? or just no real need to have Tarkin at all.
Ditto for CGI Leia, just shoot from behind, no need to see a weird CGI face.
Perhaps a bit slow at the start.
Personally found everything before the Beach planet to be lit very darkly - i assume on purpose.
The overriding feeling coming away was happy excitement wanting to see it again and talk about it. All the things I did not get to so this time last year - EP7 - shown up for the crap it really was.
Amazing I loved it:
The start, with the dust rings around the planet was a cool new way for you to marvel at the size and scope.
Funny but not hitting you over the head with humor.
Great action at the end, amazing battle.
Looked fantastic, really got me pumped.
Fan shout outs were subtle enough not to remove me from the moment, unlike EP7's fan service.
Things not so cool:
Zero need for a poorly done CGI Tarkin - like would anyone really have an issue with a similar looking actor? or just no real need to have Tarkin at all.
Ditto for CGI Leia, just shoot from behind, no need to see a weird CGI face.
Perhaps a bit slow at the start.
Personally found everything before the Beach planet to be lit very darkly - i assume on purpose.
The overriding feeling coming away was happy excitement wanting to see it again and talk about it. All the things I did not get to so this time last year - EP7 - shown up for the crap it really was.
WadiumArcadium
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I liked Tarkin for the most part but Guy Henry looks quite similar to him anyway, I wouldn't have had a problem with them using him as he was.
everything.
I'm surprised to hear something positive about the 1st half since that's what is the most bashed aspect about the movie.
Wasn't he cut from canon?
I actually prefer that trilogy of books to what TFA began...
Edit: just looked up, had no idea he was being re-introduced into a new novel and as part of rebels. Kind of makes me want to re-read the trilogy
WadiumArcadium
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He's back in Rebels and there's a new book based on him coming in March.
I dont know about the first half but I thought the movie started pretty strongly.
So just got back and man I really loved it. This was better to me than The Force Awakens. When Donnie Yen's character was dying, my eyes just started watering, I couldn't help it. If this is what we can expect from these self contained stories, then bring it on. I'll be going to watch it again in a few days.
The one dude he force slammed against the ceiling only to rip him apart with his lightsaber a few seconds later had an especially rough day.
I agree but I'm not sure those making the film do
Its especially weird because they could have easily just recast him and still pulled it off convincingly.
Hell, get Charles Dance to drop some weight and he'd easily knock it out of the part.
Tears were not in my eyes but his purpose felt complete. Yeah, I don't know what people are talking about with "underdeveloped characters." Every character in the group has a purpose and reason for being there and every single one seems fulfilled by the end if not met with a tragic ending.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Honestly I don't get why they can't just recast and live with it.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Most people didn't even realize Tarkin was CG until people tell them the original actor died in the 90s. It really isn't that bad.
BFIB
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So whats the deal man, you sticking around now? B/C seeing you smackdown talking points is always fun. I always enjoyed seeing the same people in the Star Wars threads.
Bobby Roberts
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Eh. Doubtful. I basically came back because I'd seen the flick for the paper and of the alternatives available for freely speaking about spoilers, this was the best one. Now that everyone's seeing the thing, I might retreat back to my little hobbit hole.
Not really that big a deal anyway - this place churns forward as it always has whether I'm here ramming my head into the spokes or not.
Yeah, good then that its not so hyperbolical bad, right?
What
It's noticeable, and distracting. It's not BAD. It's just hard to understand how they couldn't get the mouths right on these digital recreations.
This isn't a hyperbolic stance I'm taking. They swung big and didn't park it in the stands. Doesn't mean it's not IMPRESSIVE. it is. It also doesn't work the way they wanted. If it did, the conversation wouldn't even be happening, at least not on this level.
Yup. From the first trailer, I figured all these dudes were dead.
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