^ I agree.
Jabba is great (except that his mouth flapping up n’ down doesn’t match the sounds he’s making), but there are a lot of half-assed rubber masks that are too close to the camera and stupid, unbelievable designs like the blue elephant.Of all the goofy aliens in Jabba’s palace, you pick on Max Rebo? I’ll take Max any day over the fat frog they added for the special edtion, who appears to be sitting on a crapper. 😉
I don’t watch the SE. And the blue elephant clearly stands out as looking fake and silly.
Part of the problem is not that the masks were “half assed”. They were probably never meant to be seen in closeup. They are no better or worse than what was in the cantina scene.
Yeah, they’d look ok from a distance. That’s why I said they’re too close to the camera.
There really aren’t many shots/creatures in the bar in Star Wars that don’t work for me. The obvious budget restraints have already put the viewer in a different mindset before we get to the bar scene and the low lights, distance, ect that the creatures are shot at make most of em work. With RotJ, it’s clear that the budget has gone waay up compared to SW, yet there are many more shots/creatures that look very cheap and lazy in comparison.