10 Star Wars Scenes Everyone Wishes They Could Unsee

5. De-Ageing The Galaxy

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Constantly improving technology is aiding those folks producing the latest Star Wars adventures in pushing the boundaries as to what is actually possible to bring to life on our screens.

And while this galaxy's simply stunning space skirmishes have become even more impressive by the project for the most part, the utilising of everyone's seemingly new favourite CGI toy in the form of digitally de-ageing actors hasn't quite set this space-aged world on fire.

Sure, seeing the likes of Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher be both brought back to life and thrown into a time machine, respectively, in their heavily CGI'd Rogue One appearances as Grand Moff Tarkin and Princess Leia was interesting at a glance.

But no amount of ground-breaking technology in the world could erase the disturbing feelings conjured up when taking in an entirely unnatural aged-down performance that is primarily brought into being via a computer, with the act of bringing actors back from the dead in particular being an ethical dilemma few needed to be infused into their space-opera outings.

But with Luke Skywalker also getting in on the de-aged action on The Mandalorian as of late, don't expect Disney to back away from this consistently jarring deep fake tool any time soon.

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