thecolorsblend said:

Mrebo said:
I agree with a lot of what you say. In the OT, there was so much focus and effort put into each prop and model and to make them believable on screen.

You mean like the wolf man mask and the ice cream maker? I love the OT too dude but don't oversell it.

Yes. I mean every last detail. Every background element. Every button. /sarcasm

I understand how my statement could be taken that way, but in the context of agreeing with georgec's discussion of CGI, what I meant was that if the scene was dominated by a Star Destroyer chasing a small ship thousands of meters, which were really just models traveling not that far, a lot of care had to be taken to make it a believable and compelling scene to begin the movie. Adding a hundred more elements would not have been worth the effort.

And the camera really lingered on those models (and it worked brilliantly!) something we don't see or enjoy in the PT where there is enormous temptation to add a million elements diving and spinning, little droids attaching for no real reason. That was what I meant to suggest with examples in the parenthetical in my post following the sentence in question. The aesthetic focus of the PT seemed to be more about movement and action than creating powerful visuals to move the story forward.

I didn't mean the OT had better visuals because a guy was carrying an ice cream maker vs a whiffle ball scoop on little Ani's bedroom wall or wolfman vs Gragra.