Star Wars: Rogue One

[A Black Falcon]

Nice to see you post again... and about this film, since apparently no one else cared? That was odd, but okay.

I think it definitely needed a happier ending, with that I'd rank it more highly... as it is though, it's a good movie that I liked quite a bit, but it does have a bad ending. (As for the first half of the movie, apparently they were reworking things significantly throughout production of the movie, which you can kind of see... like, why whats his name, the older black guy, got killed off midfilm, he was apparently originally going to have a bigger role but it was cut back, or something...)

But as for comparing this movie to the other Star Wars movies, it's kind of difficult because this is a very different kind of movie from any past Star Wars film. As much as I liked this movie, the original trilogy is better... and as one of the relatively few who liked the prequels, I would not say it's better than all of those movies either. I consider The Force Awakens to the worst Star Wars movie, remember, not the prequels. As for this movie though, Rogue One well might be better than Episode I, I'll need to think about that and maybe rewatch Ep. 1 again to decide, but that's it; I at least really liked Ep. 2 (I very rarely care about movie trailers, but I remember watching the Ep. 2 trailers over and over, before its release... and it did not disappoint much.), and Episode 3 is right up there with the original trilogy in quality. It's been a little while since I last watched the prequels though, so it's hard to say for sure offhand; maybe I should rewatch them again and see... but I'm guessing that's where it'd go, above ep. 1 and The Force Awakens, but that's it.

When comparing TFA to Rogue One, to reprise what I said at the time (see http://tcforums.com/forums/showthread.ph...er-Gets-Up ), TFA felt like a mediocre, overly edgy (killing off Han?) reboot EU novel turned into a film. It was fun to watch, sure, but it was a bad Star Wars movie and is vastly inferior to all six of the real Star Wars movies, the ones worked on by George Lucas. Rogue One benefits by not trying to be a 'classic' Star Wars movie and failing like TFA did, but instead trying to be something completely different, a side-story. Excepting a few things, such as the films' many plot holes (and this is not a small issue, if you look at how many there are) and the disappointing ending, it mostly succeeds at that. By aiming for less they ended up with more, basically.

What did you think of Peter Cushin's (Tarkin) digital ressurection? The actor has been dead for thirty years, it makes you wonder if we will see another actor motion capture Alec Guiness's face as the ghost of Obiwan in a similar fashion in episode VIII

Hmm... well, that it was a CG face was kind of obvious, but I do think it mostly worked. You couldn't have that film without Tarkin in it, it wouldn't make sense, so they came up with a pretty decent solution that solved that problem. It was a bit weird to see this CG-headed character next to all the real actors, but what else could they do, just have another actor play the role? That would probably be even more distracting... so yeah, it's a bit odd, but it did work.