Oh, sorry I thought you meant another image where they show Martian Manhunter between those two. You meant the character select screen.... which it appears to be the female character in red in the bottom right of this pic

To a degree, but not quite. True Mary Sue/Gary Stu characters are typically beyond even Anakin Skywalker (the super powerful, literal virgin birth like Mary, prophesied savior of the Force) in terms of perfection and sudden competence. He’s the closest to a true example even more than Luke and Rey in Star Wars. but…

Looks to be Martian Manhunter

Likely comedian Ken Jeong (The Hangover movies, Community, Dr. Ken).

I believe it is Ken Jeong. The are articles from earlier this year saying he joined the cast so it’s almost definitely him.

Ironically this is the issue with the franchise in general. A large portion of it’s audience wants to be the Luke Skywalker “chosen one”.

This is a theater issue. Most theaters are now set up to show 3D movies - and 3D lenses considerably darken the film. They lenses aren’t being removed during standard, 2D showings - so the same darkening effect is happening. Theaters are making you pay more, for a worse experience.

I can’t watch 3D. Not without riskof serious migraine anyway. So it’s either dark and dingy or clear, but painful for me. The least the theater can do is remove the lens for standard showings.

Saw was an interesting character. Lot of interesting concepts behind him and yet I felt something was off with the first half of Rogue One and he was part of it. The first half has so much ground to cover - and really you could get to a lot of the plot points still if he were written out completely. He had a lot of…

Yup! Some total bullshit. I Notice it every single time it happens.

-Was my theater having issues or is this movie really that visually dark and washed out looking?

When I was younger I used to say it with the J sound. Then at the time of the first RE movie I was really big into DVD commentary so one day I popped it in for a listen and the director (Paul WS Anderson) uses the J pronunciation during the commentary that he’s recording with her! She keeps correcting him throughout…

But are you saying it right? That J is a Y sound.

Pacific Rim: Maelstrom had such an awesome ring to it.

It’s settled by game of thrones rules. You either win defeat a giant monster or die. ... or occasionally get sealed in an iceberg or volcano or die and get resurrected because radiation or erased from reality by either time travel or black holes or hit with cadmium laced shells or cocooned by caterpillars or....…

The first movie is not without its charms, but there has been severe diminishing returns on subsequent releases - which we can see here with “Ha! Rubix Cubes were a thing!” as one of the main “jokes”.

It’s a shame. The bullshit idiocy “memes” have pretty much ruined these otherwise delightfully absurd supporting characters from a children’s movie franchise. . . which is yet another thing I did not think I’d say in 2016.

Well you know it is still for kids. A superfluous amount of chrome and LED lighting makes for a great toy. Also they could be an impossible to look at mess of parts like the Bayformers.

Probably. Those toys were likely finished months and months before the final renders for the movie were done.

I’m OK with these. Their designs are about 10 - 15% too overwrought with goofy sci-fi bullshit, but that’s the trend in Hollywood the last few years and they could have gone way worse with it.