[Darth Sane]

What do you think? after all, the OT was made with other methods...

[barend]

i think it detracs over all...

it looked lame in 2, but improved in three...

but because they rely on it to carry the film, instead of a story, it detracts...

however... despite it's dumb name, mustafar looked awsome.
all the shots i saw of that fight was green screens and green boxes.
for a shot that had nothing real in it... i certainly did beleive what i was seeing watching that fight...

it looked quite impressive...

[Mnesymone]

The CGI was way too fake in TPM... thusly it sucked, then in Clones the digital orientation made everything that was real look really fake... it was cleaned up by ROTS but there were still "eeh" moments.

[barend]

like yoda.... who fit in like roger rabit for 90% of his scenes...

[Despondent]

If I want to nitpick, there was a column shot that was noticeably fake. I could never accept grieveous as "real." Of course I could never accept the piano player at Jabba's fort as "actual" either. SW/ESB was gritty and set the standard for the times. New times, new standard- If you're into computer animation.

The rots CGI enhances the PT. The PT detracts from the OT.

[Darth Sane]

It is a lot harder for the actors than most people realize when all they have is blue screen. I know I know...these are highly payed professionals and blue screen is no excuse for poor performances, but as a stage actor for my high school and local shakespeare company I could never imagine doing it.

[Despondent]

Might as well be "Reader's Theater."

the Blue Harvest crew in Norway probably had a lot of good times. Han and Leia in the Hoth hallway were actors in an actual setting. That doesn't happen anymore.

[andy_k_250]

i think it detracs over all...

it looked lame in 2, but improved in three...

but because they rely on it to carry the film, instead of a story, it detracts...

however... despite it's dumb name, mustafar looked awsome.
all the shots i saw of that fight was green screens and green boxes.
for a shot that had nothing real in it... i certainly did beleive what i was seeing watching that fight...

it looked quite impressive...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I actually thought that Mustafar was a good name for a volcanic world. It is a name that sounds like a vulcanological term - basalt, asbestos, pyroclasm, Norfair, magnesium, mafic, pumic...mustafar - it just kind of fits.

[Dark_Sith]

I voted that it enhances the feel of the story. Go ahead and bash me all you want for this decision, I will not change my decision because of it. I think it's a great way to give you more of a feel for what is really going on within the story. Lucas couldn't just go to certain places to be able to film those certain scenes. I'm sure there might've been problems with trying to get to certain places to film scenes like in Kyshyyyk, because it would cost a lot of money to move from one place to another and back to put it all toegther. CGI helps in this part because you are able to create worlds with landscapes never seen before.

[diligent_d]

CGI helps in this part because you are able to create worlds with landscapes never seen before.

...and actors who can't act in them.

[barend]

mustafa is a popular arabic mans name...

a planaet named mustafar just make me think of will ferrels character from austin powers.

[Mnesymone]

I thought Lion King when I first heard it - when I saw it I really really wasn't thinking Lion King.

[Darth Sane]

mustafar was great, but they used a lot of models and this weird chemical for the lava. I think the worst CGI parts are when amidalla falls out of the clone trooper transport ship in EP II, the sand and effects look incredibly fake, and yoda fighting right after he limps with a cane. The city of corucant really starts to annoy you after a while and can be a reason for ignoring the PT altogether. why did lucas decide to basically copy Blade Runner? Why does corucant even need to be a city planet...would'nt the Jedi's power be diminished since they draw their energy from life and its basically lifeless other than people. I thought it was unorigninal...but thats off topic.

[floppydisk]

I didn't think that Courscant was that bad. It seems like something that would happen eventually, somewhere. And I didn't like Blade Runner. It was just... blah.

If I was a Jedi I would make my temple a jungle. And as long as we're going along these lines, why did Obi choose a desert to hang around in? Just because it's near Luke right? Well he could've brought Luke to any other home, one that doesn't have Vader's RELETAVES there.

[Lord Aquaman]

CGI in general lacks the solidity and weight of the old models and special makeup effects used previously, and the fact that the CGI tends to overwhelm the film, in my opinion, doesn't help.