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Post #1652859

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oojason
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Poor quality CGI and CGI-affected shots & scenes in the Prequel Trilogy films…
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16-Jun-2025, 6:20 AM

 

2️⃣ • Episode II: Attack Of The Clones

 

 

1. Padme not affected by gravity and not falling mid-air in AOTC - instead the magic of CGI keeping her feet mid-air…

 

 
 

2. Slave I missing Kenobi’s Jedi Starfighter from point-blank rage - despite firing multiple rapid-fire shots.

 

Jango Fett’s Slave I vs Kenobi’s Jedi Starfighter - 3 minute video of the scene; with the ship-on-ship fight starting at 110 seconds into the video.

Kenobi manages to exposition the line “Oh, blast! This is why I hate flying”… whilst continuing to fly in a straight-ish line with Jango Fett firing multiple rapid fire shots at almost point-blank range from behind the craft - before reacting and then turning.

It seems a bizarre choice to position the CGI ships so close to each other with Slave I continually missing the Jedi Starfighter despite multiple shots being fired at such a close range… especially when the scene would likely be more believable - and have more tension - if the ships were simply much farther apart?

 
 

3. The Jedi on Geonosis in the arena (AOTC again) twirling the lightsabers - but not hitting any blaster shots - or falling down dead from not being him by blaster shots

 

^ some 70 seconds into this 14 minute 2024 WhatCulture youtube video: 10 More Worst CGI Moments In Star Wars
 

to find more gifs… or Jedi wielding sabers and killing droids… without really hitting them… (or them dying before being hit / hit by a saber in a non-lethal area etc - to expand upon)

 
 

4. Padme jumping off the top of that 25-30ft high totem pole…

 

and landing on the creature effortlessly; albeit legs akimbo - with no damage / fracture to her pelvis, hips, or legs 😉

 

4b. Poor CGI’d lizard trying to get to Padme on top of the pole… (and Padme aiming to hit it about 1 foot behind where the lizard’s CGI head appears onscreen).

 
 

5. and the cartoon animation of the her lower half of Padme’s torso riding the lizard creature

 

^ some 80 seconds into this 14 minute 2024 WhatCulture youtube video: 10 More Worst CGI Moments In Star Wars

 
 

6. Kenobi and his misaligned lightsaber…

 

 
 

7. Some of the poor quality / fake looking CGI backgrounds - more akin to an animation series or videogame

 

 
At 9 minutes into this 14 minute 2024 WhatCulture youtube video: 10 More Worst CGI Moments In Star Wars

and…

this 20 second youtube clip on the Clones leaving Kamino: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR_icgUc8iA

 
 

8. Obi Wan, Yoda and Mace go for a walk in a CGI hallway in the Jedi Temple

 

^ the artificial feeling of it all - colours and composition, lighting / shading… no atmosphere, no actual believability to 3 characters walking down a hallway etc.
 

9 minutes into this 14 minute 2024 WhatCulture youtube video: 10 More Worst CGI Moments In Star Wars
 

 
 

9. Anakin riding the Shaak CGI creature in the fields on Naboo - attempting to impress and woo Padme

 

 
^ 15 minute 2019 Corridor Crew youtube video: VFX Artists React to THE PREQUELS Bad & Great CGi - at 6 minutes and 40 seconds into the video.

 
 

10. Droid Factory scene on Geonosis in Attack Of The Clones…

 

All 5 uninterrupted minutes of the infamous ‘CGI Droid Factory’ scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaxMHBxck5I

^ It feels like it was made and shot to sell a forthcoming Gameboy-esque game tie-in the film.

 
 

11. Yoda vs Dooku fight AOTC

 
Dooku appears to be ‘fighting air’ in the fight at times… and later Yoda has light casting off from his lightsaber - yet Dooku does not have any from his…

^ 15 minute 2019 Corridor Crew youtube video: VFX Artists React to THE PREQUELS Bad & Great CGi - at 8 minutes and 50 seconds into the video.

 
 

12. Detail-lite and fake-looking cartoonish CGI in the Battle for Geonosis

 

^ no, this scene isn’t from an animated show or computer game - but from the film Attack Of The Clones…

or…

 
 

13. Dex

 

^ Dex doesn’t seem to be in the same scene at Obi-Wan when interacting with him. There are many other ways the scene could have been shot to show Kenobi an Dex hugging / showing their bond or friendship. This CGI didn’t work - again pulling the viewer out of the immersion of the scene.

 
 

14. Geonosis battle

 

2 sides of CGI separatists vs Clones fight each other on Geonosis - with no emotion, stakes, resonance, tactics… they just run towards each other shooting because that’s what the CGI artists though would happen? Nobody corrected them - or gave them advice; tactics etc - or didn’t because the CGI wasn’t able to show that? (or poor direction?)
 

 
 

15. CGI food - parts of it disappear before being eaten

 

^ 15 minute 2019 Corridor Crew youtube video: VFX Artists React to THE PREQUELS Bad & Great CGi - at 5 minutes and 33 seconds into the video.

or…

some 7 minutes into this 14 minute 2024 WhatCulture youtube video: 10 More Worst CGI Moments In Star Wars