Jaitea said:

Easterhay said:

Such Luddite thinking. The CGI in the prequels was staggeringly good, raising the benchmark for the industry....

Yep, Lucas has been constantly paving the way and changing the film making process...also pushing for digital projection.

But there can be too many green screen sequences....eventually it overloads and can spoil the film.

Well, I'm not a luddite in the literal sense. I do not think CGI is bad simply because it is new. I think it's bad because it looks terrible. Even the stuff it can do convincing job of, like distant background scenery, sticks out like a sore thumb because it's often so over-the-top. At any rate LOTR proved that miniatures can look really REALLY good when using CGI to supplement them. Jackson also made a point of filming on location whenever possible.

The other thing is, I fear another tremendous visual disparity between the OT and the next movie. Not that a new movie shouldn't have its own style; but I think if Disney really wants to bring this out of the Kids Only territory, it has to look like the old Star Wars universe, not that of the prequels or the cartoons.

Also, they really gotta shoot this on film. In the traditional aspect ratio. Don't follow Peter Jackson's example there, plsthx.