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Star Wars Original Trilogy had 'it', but 'it' is hard to explain. — Page 2
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In the OT, almost every last thing you saw on screen was real, even if it was a minurature or model. It was all stuff you could touch and feel and was really there. In the PT, almost everything you see if CGI, and you can tell it. The PT doesn't feel real at all. Deos Jar-Jar look like someone you could reach out and touch or interact with? No. Does Yoda look nearly as real as he did in ESB? No. In the OT, everything was there. No CGI.
Also, the acting wasn't stale and wooden in the OT, the dialouge was great, and the charecters were real. They were charecters you could really connect with.
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Originally posted by: CO
My whole point is I have loved other movies growing up so I can dispel the nostalgia factor that is thrown in so many times: Raiders of the Lost, Superman, Back to the Future, The Terminator, etc., but I cannot watch those movies as much as the OT, or I guess I don't love those as much as the OT. I have seen them alot of times through the years on HBO and video and now on DVD, but I do need a break every once in a while, as I am always afraid I will just get sick of them. Sometimes if I haven't seen Back to the Future in a couple of years, I enjoy the movie more, not with the OT.
What is 'it' about these movies? How do they have this replay value that no movie I have ever seen possess? I mean ROTJ is not the greatest movie in the world to me, surely not better than the original Superman or Back to the Future, but I would pick that any day of the week to watch over them.
29 years later, I still love these 3 movies more than ever and still watch them just as much today. (Well not as much, I am too old to stay home from school sick, I have to go to work every day now!)
How did Lucas do 'it'? Sometimes I really can explain 'it'
I understand what you mean, CO.
I've been a fan of the movies since 1982 and my love for them has never wavered.
For me, the "IT" you refer to is a kind of organic beauty, a sparse, simple "hand-crafted" feel, which the digital effects in the SE completely destroy.
I also love how so many of the shots in the trilogy, are composed like they were still photographs- and they tend to linger on those shots for a while, unlike many of today's films that are just RUSH RUSH RUSH.
That, plus the original John Williams scores = perfection.
Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
Wait....Now I've figured out what IT is!!!
In the OT, almost every last thing you saw on screen was real, even if it was a minurature or model. It was all stuff you could touch and feel and was really there. In the PT, almost everything you see if CGI, and you can tell it. The PT doesn't feel real at all. Deos Jar-Jar look like someone you could reach out and touch or interact with? No. Does Yoda look nearly as real as he did in ESB? No. In the OT, everything was there. No CGI.
My whole point is I have loved other movies growing up so I can dispel the nostalgia factor that is thrown in so many times: Raiders of the Lost, Superman, Back to the Future, The Terminator, etc., but I cannot watch those movies as much as the OT, or I guess I don't love those as much as the OT. I have seen them alot of times through the years on HBO and video and now on DVD, but I do need a break every once in a while, as I am always afraid I will just get sick of them. Sometimes if I haven't seen Back to the Future in a couple of years, I enjoy the movie more, not with the OT.
What is 'it' about these movies? How do they have this replay value that no movie I have ever seen possess? I mean ROTJ is not the greatest movie in the world to me, surely not better than the original Superman or Back to the Future, but I would pick that any day of the week to watch over them.
29 years later, I still love these 3 movies more than ever and still watch them just as much today. (Well not as much, I am too old to stay home from school sick, I have to go to work every day now!)
How did Lucas do 'it'? Sometimes I really can explain 'it'
I understand what you mean, CO.
I've been a fan of the movies since 1982 and my love for them has never wavered.
For me, the "IT" you refer to is a kind of organic beauty, a sparse, simple "hand-crafted" feel, which the digital effects in the SE completely destroy.
I also love how so many of the shots in the trilogy, are composed like they were still photographs- and they tend to linger on those shots for a while, unlike many of today's films that are just RUSH RUSH RUSH.
That, plus the original John Williams scores = perfection.
Originally posted by: Darth_Evil
Wait....Now I've figured out what IT is!!!
In the OT, almost every last thing you saw on screen was real, even if it was a minurature or model. It was all stuff you could touch and feel and was really there. In the PT, almost everything you see if CGI, and you can tell it. The PT doesn't feel real at all. Deos Jar-Jar look like someone you could reach out and touch or interact with? No. Does Yoda look nearly as real as he did in ESB? No. In the OT, everything was there. No CGI.
That's true- even though the spaceships were miniatures- they were "real". The human eye is expert at detecting the inorganic, which is why the digital effects don't ring true.
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