I remember when watching in the theater, the audience reacted with awe. At the time is was a novel technique. Then it was followed up with Carrie Fisher at the end. And the audience loved it.
The synthetic Tarkin was well received and looked accurate. The synthetic Carrie Fisher looked weird and wasn't so well received.
A while back someone deepfaked the CGI Leia scene with footage of the actual Carrie Fisher as Leia in the original Star Wars.
It looked amazing. So amazing I'm surprised the CGI -> Deepfake technique isn't used more often in movies.
I enjoyed Rouge One a lot despite of all that. It was my favorite of all the recent Star Wars movies.
> I enjoyed Rouge One a lot despite of all that. It was my favorite of all the recent Star Wars movies. Not super surprising to me. I've only seen episode 8. And that was enough for me to be completely uninterested in seeing any new Star Wars media. It's made me strangely nostalgic for the prequel trilogy. At the time they came out I was a little sad at how poorly they compared to the original trilogy. But at least t…
8 is at least the 4th-best Star Wars movie. Rogue one is distantly at 5th. All the rest are quite bad.
[edit] though 8’s quality is kinda useless, being in the middle of a trilogy. It’s hard to recommend.
I recently watched George Millers _Furiosa_ and they used machine learning and cgi to manipulate the face of the pre-teen actress to more closely resemble the adult actress. With the amount of data available constantly being captured of todays actors I’m sure this will become more common - and the brief article I read about it in this case made a point of saying that they had worked with the actors
Guilds to establish appropriate
Compensation (in this case). But it was subtle and I wouldn’t have known without looking into the trivia.
I saw and enjoyed _The Instigators_ last night and was thinking about how strong a physical impression some of the actors made on screen - Alfred Molina, Ving Rhames, and Ron Perlman in particular.
I remember when watching in the theater, the audience reacted with awe. At the time is was a novel technique. Then it was followed up with Carrie Fisher at the end. And the audience loved it.
I remember a lot of uncanny-valley conversations back then.
I enjoyed Rouge One a lot despite of all that. It was my favorite of all the recent Star Wars movies.
I remember leaving Rouge One _shocked_ that it was a self contained story, no post credits scenes, no need to commit to an entire trilogy or need to understand half a dozen recent releases. Given Marvel and similar franchises at the cinema around the same period, it was a breath of fresh air (also a great film)
It is very sad that this is the state of moviegoing these days. That said I’ve learned to just lean back and forget about it. I’ve missed more Marvel movies than I’ve seen (haven’t seen any of the Avengers movies beyond the first I think) and still enjoyed the recent Deadpool movie by just switching off my brain and enjoying the silliness. Same with the second most recent Thor movie… it’s when these movies get excessively self serious that it all unravels.
The synthetic Tarkin was well received and looked accurate. The synthetic Carrie Fisher looked weird and wasn't so well received.
A while back someone deepfaked the CGI Leia scene with footage of the actual Carrie Fisher as Leia in the original Star Wars. It looked amazing. So amazing I'm surprised the CGI -> Deepfake technique isn't used more often in movies.
It was not very impressive to say the least. It looked fake the second it appeared on screen.
It would've been fine if they kept it to a brief appearance, but the movie spends so much time with Tarkin, including closeups of the face which simply does not move like a human's.
Really bad call, takes away from an otherwise very good movie.
> I enjoyed Rouge One a lot despite of all that. It was my favorite of all the recent Star Wars movies. Not super surprising to me. I've only seen episode 8. And that was enough for me to be completely uninterested in seeing any new Star Wars media. It's made me strangely nostalgic for the prequel trilogy. At the time they came out I was a little sad at how poorly they compared to the original trilogy. But at least t…
8 is at least the 4th-best Star Wars movie. Rogue one is distantly at 5th. All the rest are quite bad. [edit] though 8’s quality is kinda useless, being in the middle of a trilogy. It’s hard to recommend.
No way. The Last Jedi is the second-worst Star Wars movie, only outdone (somehow) by its sequel. It was terrible.
I enjoyed Rouge One a lot despite of all that. It was my favorite of all the recent Star Wars movies.
> I enjoyed Rouge One a lot despite of all that. It was my favorite of all the recent Star Wars movies. Not super surprising to me. I've only seen episode 8. And that was enough for me to be completely uninterested in seeing any new Star Wars media. It's made me strangely nostalgic for the prequel trilogy. At the time they came out I was a little sad at how poorly they compared to the original trilogy. But at least t…
I liked the prequels overall (despite their flaws), but I can say you're definitely not alone here. I have seen a lot of discourse online where the sequel trilogy made people appreciate that at least the prequels had a coherent creative vision behind them. Lucas made plenty of mistakes in realizing his vision, of course. But he had one. By contrast, the sequel trilogy is painful to watch because they feel like they were designed by a committee (and the difference in creative leads hurts a lot too). Episode 7 in particular feels like they consciously tried to make a by-the-numbers Star Wars which passed muster with focus groups, but it had no soul at all.
I enjoyed Rouge One a lot despite of all that. It was my favorite of all the recent Star Wars movies.
I remember leaving Rouge One _shocked_ that it was a self contained story, no post credits scenes, no need to commit to an entire trilogy or need to understand half a dozen recent releases. Given Marvel and similar franchises at the cinema around the same period, it was a breath of fresh air (also a great film)
That’s because many of the people watching already committed to three trilogies. Without the previous world building, Rogue One wouldn’t be as good.