Baronlando said:

Supposedly A Bridge Too Far and The Deep in particular were the ones that really looked like flabby dinosaurs by comparison.

Oh it is no contest !

To be fair The Deep has some great underwater photography and A Bridge Too Far does have some well choreographed war battles.

But you have to give Lucas credit for going against the cinematic mainstream norms of the time and really injecting a sense of energy and pace into his then new film.Something which may have been risky at the time because that is something that audiences were not used to back then.

Ironically it is that energy and dynamism that so distinguished Star Wars from it's cinematic contempories that seems to be missing from the prequels.

But then again maybe that is the problem.

By the time the prequels came out; special effects and rip roar fast editing were something that audiences of the late 90's/early 2000's were used to.