With the technology at hand and experience under its belt ILM should have done in ROTS a space battle that will steal the first place once held by ROTJ battle.
What do we get?
Chaotic mixture of space vessels, we can't follow who is who, who's winning etc. Too much time devoted to those stupid buzz-droids, as if this was more important than the space siege of Coruscant - darn, that's the capital of the whole known universe! Instead of it I'd like to see a classic "dogfight" (read: fighters' maneuver fight), what was presented to us in ROTJ and ANH-SE. Star Wars always followed the unmentioned rule that space battles should take plane in one plane, as if it was a classic naval duel. See the ships that evaded Death Star blast - they're in circle more or less on the equator level, not "everywhere around". Imperial fleet was positioned on one plane, facing Rebels. In ROTJ when the ships exchanged fire they were side by side - not "hanging upside down" like in ROTS.
Compare the scene when Lando pursues a fighter around a Rebel frigate - this (I remind you - we're in 1982) is still FX masterpiece for me.
Fortunately they followed the path "we're getting close to the original trilogy" and so most of the space ships in ROTS had cool design (I really dig those Republican Star Destroyers, is that the famed Victory-class?). I also loved how they explained why air isn't sucked from the landing bays - it was known to hardcore SW fans, but not for casual moviegoers - the whole sequence with landing bay shielding was a good idea.
It was an "OK" battle, but not what we should expect from Star Wars. I guess modern Star Trek stuff has already battles like this one...
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Originally posted by: InfoDroid
I think a music change would definitely be in order (sorry, John Williams) to something less "cute", and integrate something more mysterious and/or threatening from one of the other films.
"March of the Ewok Empire"?
