I’m still a bit confused over why Mustafar was never identified by a caption though. Did they think that too many people might not know the name? Or were they simply trying to keep the PT references to a minimum?
It may have something to do with them not wanting to spoil who the character in the bacta tank is 1 minute earlier. I totally can see secrecy freaks worrying about this.
Second viewing here. Awesomeness of this movie still holds. Compared to TFA, only Disney TM moment is Jyn’s monologue at the Rebel Council.
The prequel we all deserved, at least for me. Specially liked the first act, and the fact that Jyn fucks up big by not taking the hologram with her. Something that Rey never does because, you know, he’s awesome at everything (or her decissions aren’t important to anyone but her).
Jyn, generally I liked her. Her voice and intonation isn’t too decided at times. “run, hide, scatter your forces” is an example of how to deliver a line if you want to sound like a random teenager. I’m somewhat tired of this archetype of the “rough girl” being only someone who can irrealy kick some guy’s asses. That’s what Jyn and even Rey are, sensitive daddy’s girls who know martial arts and can fight. Rey naively trusts Finn, while Solo, who is a man, can tell that he’s lying. Exactly the same goes for Jyn in this movie, with Cassian and the blind guy. At least for me “street-wise” or “rough girl” also implies some level of intelligence and gravitas, such as the one that they correctly put in Mon Mothma. That is a good female character on her own.
Felicity’s performance is hard to rate. I liked very much some bits of her acting. Specially the line “then we’ll find him, and bring him back, so he can tell them himself”. I find the intonation, the pause in “bring him back…”, the very way she delivers the line as something that we don’t see much in the saga, which is the characters making up their specch in the very moment they’re talking. Happens a lot in real life but not in matine movies like Star Wars. And well, there are plenty of moments like that, when the characters deliver lines in strange ways because they are agitated, physically exhausted, etc. Maybe this doesn’t necessarily make me care about the character’s “arc” but it really does make me feel empathy for their situations at the moment.
I still think Vader isn’t well filmed, the score is not quite there, and that thing about the quality of the grebbling in the 3d models.
But in the end, it holds close to the OT, closer than any other SW film, both in heart and mind.