“Who’s scruffy looking” exchange wouldn’t work in the present.
That’s 'cause the present sucks.
It’s sad that that’s not even really debatable.
Fast forward 40 years:
Person 1 — That’s because the present sucks.
Person 2 — It’s sad that that’s not even really debatable.
This is supposed to be the ROTS Tarkin makeup test, and it looks better than what was in the movie!
That actually looks pretty damn good. Only problem is that he looks just as old as Tarkin in STAR WARS.
Really? To my eye there’s something wrong. He looks way to week and fragile. Just doesn’t look right to me—almost repulses me.
The problem in both cases is that the makeup is designed to look like Peter Cushing in the original SW film – despite the fact that the ending of ROTS takes place roughly 20 years beforehand. The result is a weirdly uncanny makeup that looks like an old man with dyed brown hair.
A makeup that made the actor look like Cushing circa Horror of Dracula would have been much better suited.
And yes, I agree that late 20th-century films did aging makeups much better than today’s movies. Strange.