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Originally posted by: alexborn007
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
We all know why he's thiner: so he could fit on that pre-determined space.

LOL.

The SE Jabba seriously bothers me because he looks so unlike the ROTJ version. I always saw Jabba as this immobile, hideous gangster who moved seldom and with much effort when he did. He's also very nice in ANH. There's obviously some comraderie between Solo and Hutt, but honestly...is this guy a ruthless gangster by just calling people "my boy"? It also does not help that not much effort was put into it by the ILM team if the stories are true (hmmm I wonder why they'd not want to work on a project like this ).

The whole thing is a mess. Touch ups are one thing, but I can imagine it'd be hard enough to create Jabba if the actor hadn't been there. And for what it's worth, the TPM Jabba looked kinda weak. He's a puppet creation, and darn it he should stay one. Watch From Star Wars to Jedi and you'll see those pupetteers had PERSONALITY. They all gave some kind of life to him. The smoking guy, the tail waggler ("Backward and forward, backward and forward..."), etc. A CG Jabba is a bunch of wires.

And equally so, it has always annoyed me when Leia is pulled into Jabba's chest you can see the cheap "skin" material used give way as if she is falling onto a paracheut. The puppet Jabba looks very "fake" compared to TPM Jabba. I've always felt that alot of the early scenes in ROTJ have dated the film. I mean, when I watch ESB, I feel that it was filmed 20 years AFTER ROTJ, 3 before.