Star Wars: Rogue One

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#351
Brave Volunteer said:
I don't think they were 100% digital. I think they were live actors with Tarkin and young Leia's faces digitally composited over them. At least that's what it looked like to me.
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Only their faces were digital. Guy Henry stood in for the voice and body of Tarkin and Ingvild Deila stood in for the body of Leia.
 
#352
#352
CGI was excellent. no one, dont gaf who it is can imitate Cushing himself. HE was Moff.

wanted more Vader.
 
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#353
Brave Volunteer said:
I don't think they were 100% digital. I think they were live actors with Tarkin and young Leia's faces digitally composited over them. At least that's what it looked like to me.
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I agree. The actors who performed those parts did a really good job of mimicking their movement. It is not as easy as just moving spot to spot.
 
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#354
I think it's funny that people are critiquing the quality of including a character that's been dead for two decades. When you think about how far technology has come since the original filming of "A New Hope," it's truly amazing. Imagine telling Lucas back in 1977 that we would be seeing Leia and Tarkin at the same age 39 years later on screen...
 
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#356
Just watched it and it was outstanding. People calling it better than Empire are drunk, but it was still a great movie.
 
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#359
Saw it. Agree that it's second behind ESB. Even lines that COULD have ended up hokey were delivered perfectly. Best cast of any IMO. Only way you noticed the CGI faces is because you were looking for the differences. Anybody watching this movie without seeing A New Hope would have no clue.
 
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Panthro said:
Yes, definitely. I wasn't trying to trash it. I just meant that it reminded me Polar Express the way you could tell there was an actor and then they just animated over it.
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Ah... gotcha.

Ive just seen a few reviewers trashing it like it's video game cut scene quality when I thought it was pretty convincing.
 
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#367
GAVol said:
I don't know if it was the best in the series, but it was clearly the best 3rd act in the series and has the best beast mode sequences ever. It drags a little in the first few minutes as they throw out a lot of new characters and lay out the plot, but as soon as the characters come together you immediately see where it's going and know business is about to pick up.
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No. Empire was better as far as a third act. This one came a distant second though.
 
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#368
That being said, I thought this movie was AMAZING! It does not best Empire but that is a tall task.


FWIW, Tarkin looked photo realistic to Peter Cushing in some scenes and others could have been pulled straight from a video game. Leia looked great but had a much shorter screen time than Tarkin and also much softer features to enhance.
 
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#370
Absolutely incredible. What a payoff to a pretty slow beginning/middle.

I did hit a point in the movie where I was a bit disappointed, it was slow and not fleshed out very well, and I thought "Even if this movie finishes strong I don't think I'll walk away exceptionally satisfied."

...... then it finished stronger than I could have ever possibly imagined. After leaving the theater I understood the slow start. The payoff simply would not have been the same without it. I've honestly never seen a movie finish so strong that it makes the entire experience great, but that's exactly what happened here. A ballsy move by the filmmakers, but one that paid off in dramatic fashion.

As for the CGI, I think they did ok. They would have been wise to keep the cameras farther away. The up close shots looked like they were straight off my PS4. My wife thought the CGI was awful, and she's not much of a Star Wars buff so it's not like she was comparing it to the original.

Not ready to say it's my favorite, but definitely my favorite ending. I still have Empire at #1, with Rogue One and TFA tied at #2 (yes I said TFA at #2... it's an absolutely incredible movie).
 
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#372
Here is a break down of how the digital characters where done. No one has mentioned the X-Wing pilots who were in ANH too so they must have been pretty good LOL.

There are spoilers in the video

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-KJGLRmt0w[/youtube]
 
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#373
burntorangeVOLffle said:
Here is a break down of how the digital characters where done. No one has mentioned the X-Wing pilots who were in ANH too so they must have been pretty good LOL.

There are spoilers in the video

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-KJGLRmt0w[/youtube]
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They were put in using ANH footage, some of it unused. Red and Gold leader's inclusion was a really cool surprise.
 
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