Mrebo said:
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.
That's a great point.