TheBoost said:
This is less about how the visuals were achieved, but about the lack of passion put into them.
Think of how awesome the following should have looked
- A guy fighting with two lightsabers at once.
- A lightsaber duel in the dark.
- A guy fighting a four-armed monster each arm wielding a lightsaber.
The lightsabers in the dark I fantasized about in the 80s. When I was in middle-school I made an art project called "Jedi Fighting In a Cave" with a piece of black construction paper, whiteout, and highlighter pens.
Yet all three ammount to nothing. Nothing memorable or exciting. They all last for less than ten seconds.
I think the commentary on the ROTS DVD said that they couldn't figure out how to do a four-armed sword fight, resulting in Grievous losing two arms in 9 seconds.
Ray Harryhausen did in with STOP MOTION in 1973!!!
What should have been these extremely fun and visual fights almost result in just a throwaway joke.
Very much this. As a film maker, one would think, "how can I present this idea in the most exciting and impactful way?" The framing, the backdrop, all of it. I don't feel that in the PT. It is a series of places filled with things. Places and things that took great creativity and effort but were not meant to showcase any particular visual element nor move the story forward.