Originally posted by: CO
I take your word for it, but I guess how are the OT effects that much better than Wrath of Khan? I mean it is like night and day!

I wouldn't go that far. I think that they're on par. It's just that Wrath of Kahn didn't ask for the set pieces Star Wars did. A lot of it is rather subtile. Plus you have two huge, lumbering ships animated like a sea battle. Whereas Star Wars was influenced by small, nimble fighters in dog fights. So it's really more of the focus and emphasis placed on the effects instead of a whole "night and day" sort of thing. Even if it is as "low budget" film, it made more that adaquate use of it's budget. TMP got severely out of hand in that department.

I too am in the camp that effects don't make a movie. People have forgotten that old adage, "if the film has you commenting on how great the special effects are, then the effects have failed". They serve the film, not vice versa. Kahn is a great example of that.

I believe the Genesis sequence was done by the division that eventually became Pixar. Which Lucasfilm had a stake in at the time. ILM claims responsibility for it on their site. I'm not certain though. All I know was that ILM proper didn't do it.