skyjedi2005 said:
"Visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman (who worked on Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, as well as Spielberg's War of the Worlds and Munich) traveled to Brazil and Argentina to photograph elements that were composited into the final images.^[56]"

Sending one guy to shoot still photographs to composite in cgi hardly counts as going on a location shoot so you can keep dreaming. Also Hawai is a part of the us.

your original criticism was that they didn't go anywhere outside the US to shoot the film,

i just wanted to clarify that it was wrong the way you stated it. obviously they did.

later

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