Bingowings said:
There is no comparison.
No, there isn't. My post was serious but the screencap portion was more of an attempt at a light moment - start the comparison discussion, post two screencaps, then become distracted by how shapely Carrie Fisher was 30 years ago. I seem to have missed the mark.
Here are my original caps before I decided to lighten the mood.
Outdoors in the originals - detail, color, shadows, texture, depth, perspective, etc is all much more real looking - because it is real. If it's a puppet, it still exists in the physical world. Even when there is a matte painting in the shot, it still looks much more realistic.
On the other hand, the prequels look like cartoons and video games. No matter how much technology Lucas throws at them, they still look exactly like what they are - computer drawings made to emulate reality. Again, I haven't watched them, so I don't know what the motion experience is, but they look fucking terrible. Visually, they look completely unrelated to the originals.
