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Go-Mer-Tonic
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Lucasfilm to sell Physical Effects Unit
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20-Sep-2006, 1:04 PM
I certainly don't have anything against people who do not enjoy these as much as I do.

If anything, I wish I could share my joy for this saga with all of you.

If I call you guys into question about how you guys feel about it, it's just to better understand or to perhaps try to get you to see some of these things from a different perspective. Maybe it makes a difference for some of you, or maybe it doesn't. When it comes to matters of taste, there is no right or wrong.

I just think a lot of times people can get so hung up on the things Lucas didn't "get right", they can end up missing out on a lot of the things he did get right.

To me it's much more difficult to believe a bunch of puppets, than it is to accept a digitally shot image. It's not like ANH ESB or ROTJ looked like Saving Private Ryan either, but I still rolled along with the story and suspended my disbelief.

It's like ever since CG and digital film making in general have come about, suddenly it has to look 100% real or we fold. What happened to our ability to roll along with a monkey woman Emperor? Or a Salacious crumb jumping up to the rafters through the magic of reversing footage of them dropping him from the ceiling? Why are we suddenly kicked out of the moment by a CG character who has a mis aligned shadow?