I get the CGI and disrespect complaints (even if I don’t necessarily agree) but what is the problem with the storytelling?

Tarkin is one of the best things about ANH and more Tarkin is not a bad thing.

yhwx said:

I actually found the Tarkin CGI convincing after the first scene with him, but I found Leia’s CGI very distracting and unnatural.

this was my opinion as well when just watching rogue one. but when i decided to pop in Star Wars immediately after, my reaction upon seeing princess Leia in her first scene was “Huh, i guess she does look like that”.

I think the thing that takes everyone out of the movie, is seeing a ‘new’ movie, but with time-traveling actors. We tend to think of them as we most recently saw them, especially when we know the movie was just filmed.

For some reason I thought Tarkin looked good and Leia looked poor when I saw RO in the theater, and then the opposite when I watched the Blu.

My Tarkin-related storytelling complaint is that Tarkin + Vader + Krennic is (at least) one main villain too many. It is narrative bloat for the sake of fan service. (Spider-man 3-esque) This might just be a taste thing but I prefer a more efficient sort of storytelling than that.

The relationship between Tarkin and Krennic is fun to watch just as is the relationship between Kylo Ren and Hux.

Vader is barely in the movie and the Krennic/Vader scene could have easily been cut down or removed.

I don’t have a problem with multiple villains.

multivitamins on the other hand

Yeah, Frink, I think this is a taste thing more than a “this is objectively right or wrong” thing. But the way I see it, you could have removed Vader from the film entirely and had Tarkin fill both roles (Krennic’s boss and the guy who Krennic is trying to one-up) or the other way 'round. It was an unnecessary complication to my mind to have both of 'em - and no doubt done to appeal to the fanbase. (Just one man’s opinion.)

Huh, I just realized we’re in a Han Solo movie thread…

Non-solo post.

you could have removed Vader from the film entirely and had Tarkin fill both roles

I’m picturing a force-choking saber-weilding Tarkin, and it’s pretty funny.

SilverWook said:

Cushing’s estate gave their blessing.

I know. Still feels just a tad ghoulish to me.

Isn’t being a tad goulish right in Cushing’s wheelhouse…?

NFBisms said:

https://twitter.com/starwarsjunk/status/875004810944278530

The film crew’s T-Shirt is pretty lol, but I kind of don’t want the movie to be called “Solo.”

If that is the title, maybe some people will get confused and think of this movie. 😉

God I hope not. But if true also fuck them for still using the who shot first thing.

BigMcLargeHuge said:

My Tarkin-related storytelling complaint is that Tarkin + Vader + Krennic is (at least) one main villain too many. It is narrative bloat for the sake of fan service. (Spider-man 3-esque) This might just be a taste thing but I prefer a more efficient sort of storytelling than that.

No, you are absolutely correct BMH. Krennic should have been the only villain in R1, plus Vader in the very last scene.

There was absolutely no need to have Tarkin in R1, not even the Death Star, which should have just been alluded to and remained an ominous threat off-screen.

But bad storytellers are gonna bad storytell. And the fans gotta have that fanservice and all.

Just in regards to the desert planet talk - If it’s simply for a visit to Jabbas palace at one stage then that’s fine but if a large portion of the movie is set on a desert planet then I will be a bit disappointed, especially if it’s Tatooine as then what always felt like a big and open universe in Star Wars is going to start feeling very small and constricted. The OT did a great job on expanding the universe with each consecutive movie and the PTs even did a certain extent despite continually returning to Tatooine. The ST and other anthology movies need to keep doing this rather than rehashing old ground.

.Val