>That rebel captain specifically just saw his men BRUTALLY
>slaughtered by Vader, and barely escaped himself, all to get
>that data card to Leia. So when he asks her "what is it???"
>dude prolly wants a more specific answer than "hope" with a
>smile and an orchestra swell.

Hadn't thought about that. As others have said they went for cheap nostalgia pops too much (Jimmy Smits, C3P0 and R2 are the worst examples)

>Besides that smile, I thought they did a very good job on
>Tarkin and Leia.

After the prequels and revised originals we should be thanking them for any improvement in the CGI department honestly. We also don't give enough credit to how much CGI has improved in general because it's so engrained in everything. Go back and watch the Sopranos scene where they had to CGI the mother's face after she had died irl. That's TV so it's a different ballgame, but at that time I hadn't noticed it and now it's glaring how bad it is. Maybe in 10 years I'll say the same about this movie, but I sincerely didn't notice anything wrong with Tarkin.