Okay, first, because I'm a firm believer in wolfing down the veggies first and getting them out of the way, what I didn't like: 1) Pondo Baba and Evazan on Jedha. Just dumb. My biggest gripe. Active hate. But the only thing with that much dislike. 2) CGI Tarkin never quite moved right. Would have preferred to have seen Wayne Pygram. Assuming he was available, and for Disney money, he would have been. 3) Near-instantaneous travel.
Okay, done.
This was damned near exactly the movie I wanted. I got a war story. I got a really ass-kicking battle that was maybe more thrilling than the Battle of Endor, lightsaber fight notwithstanding. Vader was monstrous. Lots of old friends showing up. Y-Wing bomber runs. The Rogues were great. No Tatooine, but lots of other places in the Galaxy. The stakes were very high, heroes fought and died. Blind butt-whuppin' Force-worshipping not-Jedi and his Soldier/Heavy pal.
I liked the depiction of the Rebel Alliance as somewhat fractured, or at least not yet solidified. Saw's people were seen as maybe too violent or extreme for the Alliance at large. Factions were so afraid of the Death Star that they were willing to surrender (so the Tarkin Doctrine works).
Gruff and hardass Mon Calamari Admiral Darrus - he has a heavy cruiser, and he's not afraid to use it. And if there's a disabled Star Destroyer sitting right there and you can use it as a battering ram, why wouldn't you?
CGI Tarkin was full-on Uncanny Valley but I was okay with that. My impression was that for all his lack of Force-sensitivity, here was a man who had full-on looked into the abyss of the Dark Side and embraced it, and it had marked him as its own.
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Date: 2016-12-18 01:38 pm (UTC)1) Pondo Baba and Evazan on Jedha. Just dumb. My biggest gripe. Active hate. But the only thing with that much dislike.
2) CGI Tarkin never quite moved right. Would have preferred to have seen Wayne Pygram. Assuming he was available, and for Disney money, he would have been.
3) Near-instantaneous travel.
Okay, done.
This was damned near exactly the movie I wanted. I got a war story. I got a really ass-kicking battle that was maybe more thrilling than the Battle of Endor, lightsaber fight notwithstanding. Vader was monstrous. Lots of old friends showing up. Y-Wing bomber runs. The Rogues were great. No Tatooine, but lots of other places in the Galaxy. The stakes were very high, heroes fought and died. Blind butt-whuppin' Force-worshipping not-Jedi and his Soldier/Heavy pal.
I liked the depiction of the Rebel Alliance as somewhat fractured, or at least not yet solidified. Saw's people were seen as maybe too violent or extreme for the Alliance at large. Factions were so afraid of the Death Star that they were willing to surrender (so the Tarkin Doctrine works).
Gruff and hardass Mon Calamari Admiral Darrus - he has a heavy cruiser, and he's not afraid to use it. And if there's a disabled Star Destroyer sitting right there and you can use it as a battering ram, why wouldn't you?
I love this movie.
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Date: 2016-12-19 09:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2016-12-19 11:06 pm (UTC)Darrus was based on Winston Churchill, I read.
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Date: 2016-12-22 11:43 am (UTC)