Well, you could argue that all the Disney SW films are essentially just high budget fan-films.
Yes, and we’ve known (or should have known) that would be the case since 2012.
Not going to pay more money for fan service cash grabs when the OOT still hasn’t been restored.
I personally use the “fan film” argument as an excuse to see them. I’ll simply enjoy them for what they are, SW fan films made by directors who grew up with the OT. If the film ends up being bad or mediocre, then why should I care? It’s just a silly fan film. And if it’s good, well, then it’s an enjoyable fan film.
The pics I’ve seen of Tarkin look terrible…
“pics”?
I googled it and could only find one very low res picture from RO.
The only Leia one I could find was the one posted above.
I saw two, but now one is gone. It was a kinda profile view. He looks somehow “dopey” in both.
Not too bad really, but I’m so familiar with Peter Cushing (from far more than just Star Wars) that there is little chance of it not pulling me out of the moment. It does looks like something I could adjust to though if the performance is good.
I see what you mean. When I first saw Tarkin staring out the window at the DS, I was consciously wondering if he would be CG or an actor with prosthetic when he turned around. In other words my curiosity and expectations took me out of the movie very briefly. And when he did turn around and was revealed to be CG, I was again very conscious of it. But once he showed up for the second time I had more-or-less adjusted to it. I think a lot of people here, like me, are simply to critical of these things to ever get completely used to it, but I do think most of us will get used to it eventually. And I personally thought the actor did a very good job of emulating Tarkin.
To be honest, I thought the recycled Red Squadron shots were far more jarring than CG Tarkin and Leia. They obviously looked more real, but I recognized those shots from ANH and it was immediately clear (to me at least) that those were 40-ish year old film-footage spliced into a digitally shot movie. The two CG characters did at least fit into RO’s more modern aesthetic.
(Just FYI, I didn’t dislike the inclusion of Red Squadron. It was a pretty clever idea. But I did find it to be the most jarring part of the movie. It definitely had that “fan-film” vibe to it.)