Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
It really irritates how people keep claiming that the PT had to be made now because the special effects necessary to make it hadn't been invented until now. And it especially annoys me when people think that's the reason the OT was made before the PT. True, the special effects are mostly what carry these movies, but there's hardly anything in any of them that couldn't have been accomplished to some degree with the effects made for the original Star Wars movies.
lucas still used alot of models more than even the ot trilogy combined, so saying he had to wait for the technology just seems like bullshit to me. It really irritates how people keep claiming that the PT had to be made now because the special effects necessary to make it hadn't been invented until now. And it especially annoys me when people think that's the reason the OT was made before the PT. True, the special effects are mostly what carry these movies, but there's hardly anything in any of them that couldn't have been accomplished to some degree with the effects made for the original Star Wars movies.