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#4325636 - 01/03/17 07:17 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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I'm wondering if we should ask to get this thread and the thread in CH combined. I posted in the CH thread mostly because it warned of spoilers in the title so I felt more comfortable discussing it openly in that one..


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#4325789 - 01/04/17 06:55 AM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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IMHO, No, too much negativity in the CH lately to bring down to our little unnoticed forum.

#4325920 - 01/04/17 05:26 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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Here's an interview with some of the editors about difference scenes, and a little about the reshoot footage. Spoiler alert!:

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/rogue-ones-e...-110124381.html


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#4325977 - 01/04/17 08:12 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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Just back from the cinema. I thought it was great.I will definitely be seeing it again once released to DVD etc.


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#4325979 - 01/04/17 08:16 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: Chucky]  
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Originally Posted By: Chucky
Just back from the cinema. I thought it was great.I will definitely be seeing it again once released to DVD etc.


I guess I was rooting for the bad guys because I just absolutely loved that scene at the end where Vader went all medieval on the Rebel soldiers. biggrin


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#4326001 - 01/04/17 10:28 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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In the end credits I saw Alan Tudyk and thought 'I didn't see him'? I guessed then he might have been the voice for K2-SO. Had to get home and google it.

I have to be honest,I didn't expect to see a
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or a
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right at the end but boy was that fantastic smile


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#4326462 - 01/06/17 07:16 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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Just back from seeing this with two of my grand kids, they both loved it and said it was the best SW film yet and totally eclipsed Force Awakens.
However they did both say one thing I agreed with in that...

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The Peter Cushing footage was solidly in the uncanny valley, it felt creepy to me also knowing that he had passed on didn't help, and the voice of Vader, it's inflections didn't seem to match the action going on


I really quite enjoyed it, apart from the discomfort mentioned above, I have mentioned before that we have intermissions about 1hr into the film here and that disrupts your immersion into the film and they always seem to pick a spot where there is no natural break, they just chop a scene and leave you for 10 minutes and by that time you are out of the action.

It was our annual pilgrimage to the cinema with the grand kids, today there were 8 of us, the young ones went with my wife and sister in law to see: Sing, Ghost Rockers, and Trolls, while I took the older two to see Rogue One.


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#4326467 - 01/06/17 07:26 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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The advances with CGI in "bringing back" deceased actors has most definitely started a heated debate in the industry now. I think though for the most part the actors unions are fine with it as long as prior permission is given by the estate or relatives of the deceased actor. Oh, and financial compensation given to the estate/relatives of course. smile

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#4326473 - 01/06/17 07:52 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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It was kind of funny to see all those "revived" actors, I don't have problem with it, just that it was almost but not quite right, had me looking to see what was wrong rather than enjoying the performance.


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#4326474 - 01/06/17 07:58 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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I remember how this issue first came to the forefront with the death of Oliver Reed during the shooting of "Gladiator". The producers ended up using a CGI face on the body of another actor for a couple of shots in the final act of the movie.


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#4326497 - 01/06/17 09:48 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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I enjoyed the film. My only reservations are the CGI for dead actors and all the goods guys get killed off at the end. The only other Hiccup in the movie was the supposed Love interest of the main characters. popcorn

#4326606 - 01/07/17 03:05 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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I was OK with it. I was hugely distracted at first, but also amazed. To me, it was so convincing that after a few minutes I assumed they had simply found some actor who looked exactly like him :/

I think many of the complaints about "obvious CGI" come about when what you're seeing can only be CGI wink it's in the same vein as "I can always tell a fake dinosaur" biggrin everyone I know who don't really know who
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is didn't see a thing out of place.


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#4326672 - 01/07/17 05:41 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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The only issue I had with the Peter Cushing CGI was in some close ups his lips appeared a bit "off" while speaking. Otherwise it was very, very good.


Princess Leia at the end however just looked really "off" altogether.


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#4326674 - 01/07/17 05:41 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: DM]  
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Originally Posted By: DM
I was OK with it. I was hugely distracted at first, but also amazed. To me, it was so convincing that after a few minutes I assumed they had simply found some actor who looked exactly like him :/

I think many of the complaints about "obvious CGI" come about when what you're seeing can only be CGI wink it's in the same vein as "I can always tell a fake dinosaur" biggrin everyone I know who don't really know who
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Peter Cushing
is didn't see a thing out of place.

Ah, but my grand kids didn't know who the actor was and they still brought it up as looking odd, on the drive from the cinema to the restaurant the grand daughter was the one that first commented on it and she is not that big a star wars fan either.


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#4327065 - 01/09/17 02:47 AM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Originally Posted By: F4UDash4
The only issue I had with the Peter Cushing CGI was in some close ups his lips appeared a bit "off" while speaking. Otherwise it was very, very good.


Princess Leia at the end however just looked really "off" altogether.



The thing I don't get is that they could have easily roto'ed her image in from some footage in the OT. I guess it was all to make her say a single word of dialogue...


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#4327087 - 01/09/17 05:27 AM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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I wonder if they had two "teams" working on the graphics. I don't know how one could be pretty good and one character so un-professional looking. Broke my suspension of belief.

#4327108 - 01/09/17 10:03 AM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: Falstar]  
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I wonder if they had two "teams" working on the graphics. I don't know how one could be pretty good and one character so un-professional looking. Broke my suspension of belief.


PC looked ok when he was looking directly at the camera, but when the head turned away the facial image stretched and lost the shape of PC's head, that caught my attention and then that made me look so much closer to the image and thinking "Was it CGI or did they find an actor that looked a little like PC in only one direction"

With 8 of us going to the movies I bought a 10 use 100 day card for 84, card gives you 10 tickets that can be used over 100 days, the normal cost of entrance is 10.50 so for 8 of us it was going to be 84 any way and now I still have 2 tickets left to use over the next 3 months. Kids and adults pay the same, and if the film is 3D then it is another 3 on top, there was no 3D of Rogue One at the time we wanted to go.


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#4327185 - 01/09/17 02:57 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: Alicatt]  
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Originally Posted By: Alicatt

I really quite enjoyed it, apart from the discomfort mentioned above, I have mentioned before that we have intermissions about 1hr into the film here and that disrupts your immersion into the film and they always seem to pick a spot where there is no natural break, they just chop a scene and leave you for 10 minutes and by that time you are out of the action.



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#4327188 - 01/09/17 03:00 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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I'm pretty sure that in the US the use of intermissions for films died out by the mid 70's. The most recent film I have on dvd that used an intermission is "Tora, Tora, Tora" which came out in 1970.


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#4327204 - 01/09/17 03:34 PM Re: Star Wars Rogue One [Re: FlyingToaster]  
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The Hateful Eight had an intermission. But, I guess that's Tarantino :/


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