Originally posted by Nephthys
On paper Palpatine may be a great villain, but unfortunately for him a movie uses a visual format. And Palpatine simply fails full stop to impress in a visual format. He's not compelling, he's not chilling, he's not terrifying etc etc. He fails to invoke feelings or thoughts in the audience. In a movie setting, Palpatine is merely mediocre.
Thank you. Statistically speaking, Palpatine should be the GOAT villain but a Nazi officer, hired assassin, and psychotic terrorist all dwarfed him as far as chilling the audience(me). There were moments in TDK, IB, and NCFOM when I was in complete suspense or got scared out of my seat. Star Wars movies are just incapable of giving the viewer(again, me) that kind of impact emotionally.
If were arguing credentials in the MVF then Palpatine is the GOAT. But, your going to sit there and tell me Palpatine scared you in the film?
Landa, Joker, and Chigurgh are icons that held the audience(most) at their mercy when we first watched them.
Originally posted by Darth Martin👆
Thank you. Statistically speaking, Palpatine should be the GOAT villain but a Nazi officer, hired assassin, and psychotic terrorist all dwarfed him as far as chilling the audience(me). There were moments in TDK, IB, and NCFOM when I was in complete suspense or got scared out of my seat. Star Wars movies are just incapable of giving the viewer(again, me) that kind of impact emotionally.If were arguing credentials in the MVF then Palpatine is the GOAT. But, your going to sit there and tell me Palpatine scared you in the film?
Landa, Joker, and Chigurgh are icons that held the audience(most) at their mercy when we first watched them.
Originally posted by §P0oONY
I have to give some props to Light Yagami from Death Note. Although you're sort of rooting for him he's a great character. His tactical game of cat and mouse with L is brilliant.
Originally posted by General_IrohI saw the films before I watched the anime or read the manga so I don't have the same view. I think the films are wonderful adaptations and Tatsuya Fujiwara does a very reasonable job as Light.
Yeah Light was epic, however I don't think this is including anime television characters is it? I suppose there was the Death Note movie version of light, but he didn't measure up imo
Saying this I do prefer the anime, simply because the running time is naturally longer... So we get better character development as well as a broader story arc.