Darth Venal said:
Darth Chronus said:
Darth Venal said:
Ghost said:
The only way Luke on a speeder bike would make sense is if he and Obi-Wan have their conversation in Ben's hut. Then from there have him ride a speeder bike across Tatooine. With a lot of editing, that could be an ok possibilty.
But I would rather have a pretty CG scene of Luke flying in and across Tatooine.
Wow, I'm feeling a rather big generational gap between the two of us.
I think I'm gonna agree with Ghost on that - and I hope that me being a 19 year old guy has nothing to do with that :)
It probably had a lot to do with that, but I don't mean that to patronise you. In the 19 years you've been growing up, movies have changed a lot because of CG, and in many ways it's for the worse.
Like any tool, CG can be used effectively and it can be used unsuccessfully, but too many filmmakers have dumbed down to ONLY showing pretty CG stuff, at the expense of character, story and so on. Movies that use CG only to augment those essential qualities are welcome, those that don't are, for a lot of people, unwelcome. What good are beautiful images within a movie if all they are doing is wasting time? Beautiful CG I can appreciate, but when it's getting in the way of a story, I don't want to see it.
I dare say nearly everyone in this industry I've ever worked with feels the same. And also the deep frustration when their work is rendered dramatically impotent.
I can see what you mean dude. There have been a lot of bad, crappy films for the almost-2 decades that I've grown up (and a lot of them have invested a huge amount on CGI). However I'm glad to see that certain films have become classics in their own right because they had great CGI effects as well as a great story that the effects didn't get in the way of. Terminator 2 is a great example - I wasn't old enough to appreciate it when it came out being a baby, but when I did see it, I thought it was great. I was 10 when Gladiator came out, but I caught it on VHS and thought it was pretty cool (since I wasn't allowed to go and see a '15' rated film at the cinema obviously). 'Toy Story' and 'Batman Forever' must have been the first films I watched on the big screen (aged 5). Toy Story was obviously 100% CG animated and I loved all of it (it's not here as an argument to your reasoning - I'm actually talking about my childhood days now, sorry) and Batman Forever was pretty cool too (in fact I still like that film, despite it's colourfulness compared to Burton's films - and Nolan's gritty realism).
Ok, I'm going off on a tangent - but the last 20 years in film have been pretty good overall, but it probably may not match the grandeur of the 1980s.
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