Re: Most disappointing films.

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:06:58 -0500, William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

 <snippo>
 

Rogue One is pretty good.

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I don't subscribe to the SF channel, but they were on for free over the
holidays and I taped a pile of Star Wars films.  So I was able to watch
Rogue one last night, and agree that it is better than most of the
others.  Not a disappointment.
>
But it was just jam-packed with stupidity, which can work with a light
hearted space opera like Empire, but not in this case.  It's nice that
the moral landscape of the characters is more complex, but that requires
a concomitant improvement in plotting to have any real effect.
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Still, I enjoyed the first half of the movie.  The second half I found
to be dreadful.

 Yes, it /does/ rather resemble The Last Act of Hamlet, doesn't it.
Kind of a downer, especially the first time one sees it.
 It came up in my daily rotation on Monday. I enjoyed it, as I always
do. So much that I didn't even /notice/ any "stupidity".
 

I didn't realize that there's an actor out there whose entire career
seems to be as zombie Peter Cushing.

 As has been pointed out, this was CGI. As such, it's not half bad.
 The real question is how did they get the Princess Leia from Episode
IV back on-screen at the end? More (and perhaps better) CGI? A double?
A ton of makeup?