Originally posted by: SKot
I am of the opinion that Lucas would do better work if he was restrained by budget and technology like he was with the original Star Wars. In this way, he'd have to work a lot harder and do a much better job with the story to make it work.
For example: give a kid everything they could possibly want to play with and they tend to get spoiled and lose their imagination and creativity, whereas a poor kid with fewer toys has to use his imagination to create things out of what's within his grasp.
--SKot
I am of the opinion that Lucas would do better work if he was restrained by budget and technology like he was with the original Star Wars. In this way, he'd have to work a lot harder and do a much better job with the story to make it work.
For example: give a kid everything they could possibly want to play with and they tend to get spoiled and lose their imagination and creativity, whereas a poor kid with fewer toys has to use his imagination to create things out of what's within his grasp.
--SKot
I think that’s an excellent example SKot.
Think about the PT in comparison to many of the movies that came out during the same (1999-2005) time period. Everything in the PT is CG; no miniatures, almost no sets and only a few crappy make-up jobs. I just wonder if 10 seconds of CG could’ve been spared from AOTC to get Ewan a decent fake beard for the Obi-Wan re-shoots? Even the big budget films of the era were restrained in their CG use compared to the PT. The LOTR series, Spiderman and the X-Men films all used CGI, but they used props and make-up and sets as well. Watching Coruscant in the PT hurts my eyes after a while because it’s just CG from a hard drive. Meanwhile I can look at Middle Earth all fucking day because I know it’s just New Zeeland. When I watch AOTC I can only think about switching the video signal and playing KOTOR. When I watch LOTR IF I think about anything beyond the story I think about buying real estate in Auckland. I only use big budget films to illustrate that one can still spend a great deal of money and not go to the ridiculous extremes of the PT films. When one compares quality low-budget films to the PT the difference is even more drastic.