C3PX said:
Rhikter said:
C3PX said:
...I chalked it up to typical bad CG, when in reality it is was bad makeup job.I personally don't have any problem with Tarkin's appearance in RotS. I felt like they successfully managed to portray him as younger, and even more built.
Yeah, that portrait shot of Wayne Pygram in his Tarkin make-up is pretty messy, but in RotS, since he's only in a wide shot, all I see is a Tarkin that's 20 years younger with broad shoulders and a chiseled jaw.
I am wondering if we saw the same film?
This is what I remember,
Which I think looks absolutely awful. I couldn't find a larger resolution image than this one, but in higher resolution he looks even more awful than this. He just looks fake, even more so when the shot is in motion.
Well, to me "Tarkin" there looks like the actor Wayne Pygram in his Scorpius role, which is Pygram in a skull mask basically.
http://www.farscapefantasy.com/creative/gallery/372.jpg
But yeah, I agree with you that Tarkin's character would have made a nice addition to the series, he was a fantastic villian, one of my favorite SW characters actually, way more interesting than wasted and empty villians like poor Dooku and Grevious. I would have liked to see Tarkin's character play a much bigger role in the PT, but as I said before, I am not so sure they could have filled Cushing's shoes (though once I may have said the same about Alec Guiness' shoes, yet I feel Ewan was beyond perfect for that role which makes it all the more ashame he was given nothing but crap to work with).
I think it would be better not having yet another situation where another actor is supposed to be the same character, a situation best avoided when possible. It was necessary with Kenobi and Anakin. It was not necessary with Tarkin.
Nor do I think Ewan was all that good as Kenobi. I think people put his performance on a pedestal because it was way better than Hayden's. I don't think he makes a great connection with the viewer, unlike Guinness. And he came off totally false (like Hayden and Natalie) in AOTC, while in ROTS he usually wasn't much to cheer about either. He was a bit more alive in TPM, but nothing special. A lot of the time his performance was pretty bland. If his performance had been all that good, the prequels would have been better than they were. As it is, he had his moments, but his work was often mediocre and sometimes pretty bad.