The crowds may have been fake, but at least it was a practical effect. 😉
I was talking about the close-ups with the worse-than-Cantina rubber masks.
Yeah, some of those guys probably should never have been seen in closeup.
The “human” extras bug me a bit.
We don’t see people remotely dressed like this on Taootine in the the original film, let alone the facepaint.
Dude is sitting next to a squid alien. Plainly an out-of-towner, popping into a seedy locale to see a low class sporting event.