zombie84 said:
ChainsawAsh said:
But things that are done digitally are limited to the highest resolution that was worked with. If I'm not mistaken, AOTC and ROTS were shot with 1080p digital cameras, so they'll never be able to look better than Blu-Ray. Though I could be mistaken, as most/all digitally-shot films today are at least shot at 2K, and I don't think George is *that* big of an idiot.
At the time AOTC and ROTS were made, there were no 2K cameras on the marketplace. So the "original (digital) negative" of Episodes II and III is 1080p resolution. Very, very sadly. So what you see in the theatre, even IMAX, is basically just a projected Blu-Ray in some sense.
Not sad to me. Crappy movies shot on crappy HD video instead of on film.
At least the originals were not shot so crappy if they were no one would be fans. The original films had real handcrafted artistry, models, puppets and glass matte paintings as well as specific photographic processes used, lenses and film stock chosen by the director/cinematographer to give the films their unique look.
Once you get to Episode II digital artists who probably did some shots in movies suddenly were doing all the shots but the live action.
All we are left with is some incredibly expensive video game cutscenes. But without the interactivity of a game or a games sometimes awesome story.
At least Phantom Menace theatrical cut can be restored for blu ray for those who want it, i can't get by the first twenty minutes on my laserdisc the film is just awful.
But as terrible as episode 1 was you had a artist like Doug Chiang actually doing real paintings for the pre production art and not computer mock ups like Ryan Church. It was shot on film. It had real models shot and miniatures built, sets etc. And Yoda was a puppet, not as good as the one used on the originals but a far cry from the bad cgi yoda in II and III that looked like a cartoon frog on speed when fighting.
At lot more effort was put into the screenplay even though the film does not show this. Phantom took as long as the original star wars to write.
It was like once they got to clones and sith they were operating on auto pilot. All the effort went into the set up chapter. Other than the art department and cgi artists busy, the movies came together incredibly lazy.
All the prequels amounted to were a back story, but a back story where not much actually happens until the end of sith. The entire thing is at least more than 5 hours of pure cgi filler and inane talking scenes, interparsed with frantic action. But nothing really happens on the screen terrible moving or interesting. In fact the galaxy goes to hell in a handbasket and anakin goes bad just to set up the original trilogy.
So Lucas original outline which was nothing more probably than a couple paragraphs, is really puffed up in the movies but not really developed. Anakin is not developed as a character like Luke was in the original trilogy, what happened to Lucas?
It is really a shame what a good character director and writing team could have done with this concept, which is not a bad idea. Lucas is sometimes a good generator of ideas. It is just the pathetically inept way in which the concept was handled. In a very obvious we go from point A to point B, and we don't even need the set up these 1 film and 2 videos provide. Kenobi's speech in his house in star wars covers the material well enough.