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Star Wars (May the Force be with you)

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WolverineMike said:
watched today. Thought it was awesome. I read where some were saying Moff Tarkin looked really CGI, but I didn't notice it really at all. Disney is doing a fantastic job with Star Wars. Can't wait for Episode 8 next Christmas. Wonder how much shooting had been done before Carrie Fisher's death and how much she was suppose to be in it.
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saw it on the Ultra screen at crosswords... Tarkin bothered the shit outta me... shoulda just gone with the voice.. and not shown the face
 
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scarletmike said:
I finally dragged my ass to the theater to see Rogue One, and man, was it amazing! Those last few moments with Vader were intense and perfect, he was truly villainous and evil there, which I don't think you really get a sense of in the original trilogy outside of the soundtrack cues for him.
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i loved it. thought it fit perfectly into the overall storyline. and agreed 100% on Vader.
 
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I concur with the statements being made about the music. I usually don't notice music, but as a Star Wars fan, there was something off throughout with the score.

and after seeing it on the big screen, Tarkin looked worse than I thought. He looked like Tom Hanks in The Polar Express.


but those are small things to complain about. Still thought it was fantastic.
 
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http://www.starwars.com/news/the-official-title-for-star-wars-episode-viii-revealed

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WolverineMike said:
I concur with the statements being made about the music. I usually don't notice music, but as a Star Wars fan, there was something off throughout with the score.

and after seeing it on the big screen, Tarkin looked worse than I thought. He looked like Tom Hanks in The Polar Express.


but those are small things to complain about. Still thought it was fantastic.
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I just bought the Rogue One and TFA soundtracks last Tuesday (found an FYE going out of business, so basically BOGO), so I've been listening to them both quite a bit. Giacchino's core style is definitely a good bit different than Williams, and even though he manages to generally match the tone of his orchestrations with that of Williams' pretty well, it is definitely still obvious that it isn't Williams that wrote the music. Since all we've known with Star Wars is Williams' music, Rogue One was destined to feel "off" to most anyone, unfortunately. I do have a few bones to pick with it, but on the whole it is very fitting for the movie it emotes (an unfortunate suicide mission with the one good thing happening quite literally at the last second, so yeah, not a happy soundtrack). How he used the idea of the melody of "Across the Stars" is both amazing and infuriating, in a good way. It creates great musical payoff the few times you actually hear it throughout the soundtrack, acting as a relief point of sorts. I have to say, though, that he arranged "Hope" to be about the best ending track anyone could come up with. I think it would stand toe-to-toe with anything Williams would have written (in no small part because it is heavily based around Williams' themes) with how well he took the fury and raw terror of Vader in that scene, and pushed it through to that soft start to Across the Stars building into that last second before the credits. Now if only the CD had the credit roll right after that so "Hope" doesn't leave me hanging without the original Star Wars ending theme every damn time I listen to it.

I had similar feelings about Giacchino's Jurassic World score as well. It is just so hard going from Williams to someone else, because you just can't match Williams across a whole score. Thank goodness Williams is scoring Episode VIII.
 
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Parents buy their children a Kylo Ren mask for Ep. VII...he destroys it in Ep. VIII. Merchandising at its finest (kidding).

I do like the fact Kylo Ren wasn't strong enough to be without the mask and now he is (hence destroying it).

The storyline of there being more than a light and dark side of the force is also intriguing.
 
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