Even on second watching and not in 3D Tarkin was distracting because I was intentionally looking for shit that tips you off that he was CGI animation as well as camera tricks to try and disguise the fact.
Sucks knowing that Cushing had been long dead -takes you out of the movie. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ASS11:
Yep. They proved that there is fertile ground for "in between" movies from the OT.
Now give me a live action Shadows of the Empire. The script is already written for you. It's easy money. Just show some balls, like you did with R1, and recast the OT actors. You've already got 1/3 of it done with Sebastian Stan as Luke Skywalker.
You can find a Leia and a Lando, and Han Solo isn't even in the fucking movie because he's frozen.
Hell, Ian McDiarmid can play the Emperor again, even, and you've already figured out how to portray Vader.
The more I think about it, doing SotE would just seem doing a rehash like Ep VII did to Ep IV.
Dash's importance in the Shadows realm was 1) Rogue group pilot taking down AT-ATs 2) tracking Boba Fett (and taking down IG-88), getting the DS-2 plans from the Suprosa (which whitewashes the efforts of the Bothans. Check your privilege shitlords) and then 4) rescuing Leia from Coruscant.
There's no real need to revist Hoth.. nobody gives a shit who IG-88 is.. and the Suprosa gambit would just be a spaceborne version of the raid on Scarif.
EDIT: Also, the big bad in SotE is an alien crimelord with irresistible sex pheromones who has a blonde bimbo sexbot as his hatchet man. As much as the Black Sun was a good foil for the good guys in the expanded universe.. it doesn't match the 'tone' of the latest releases of media.. think back to how the Hutts were handled in Clone Wars. Criminal organizations = dark comic relief, not a serious villain. [Reply]
If anything, it took me deeper into the Star Wars universe.
It made me think the character was the character.
Seeing someone else playing Tarkin would have had the opposite effect. It would have immediately made me think that Peter Cushing was dead instead of focusing on the movie.
Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower:
The more I think about it, doing SotE would just seem doing a rehash like Ep VII did to Ep IV.
Dash's importance in the Shadows realm was 1) Rogue group pilot taking down AT-ATs 2) tracking Boba Fett (and taking down IG-88), getting the DS-2 plans from the Suprosa (which whitewashes the efforts of the Bothans. Check your privilege shitlords) and then 4) rescuing Leia from Coruscant.
That's a video game.
Dash Rendar is barely in the book. The book is about Luke and Xizor and Vader, and those two competing for the Emperor's good graces. Xixor is trying to kill Luke the whole book because he hates Vader so much.
There are no Hoth scenes, Boba Fett or IG-88, no mention of the Death Star. [Reply]
Dash Rendar is barely in the book. The book is about Luke and Xizor and Vader, and those two competing for the Emperor's good graces. Xixor is trying to kill Luke the whole book because he hates Vader so much.
There are no Hoth scenes, Boba Fett or IG-88, no mention of the Death Star.
WTF was the point of a concerted multimedia content project if shit wasn't consistent from medium to medium?
After sitting on it for a few hours I am convinced. This is the best Star Wars movie. The slow build, the perfect character development, the amazing battle, and finally, the fantastic lead into ANH.
Vader got to be Vader. That was the best part. [Reply]
Originally Posted by notorious:
After sitting on it for a few hours I am convinced. This is the best Star Wars movie. The slow build, the perfect character development, the amazing battle, and finally, the fantastic lead into ANH.
