complaints about “lighting” are silly IMO.
Even if no one goes to the cinema and choses the movie based on its lighting; cinema is a visual art which has internal codes that make it a language; and therefore it can be evaluated according to those parameters. So it’s not a silly complaint. It’s just pointing out a detail for those who valorate the importance of details.
Do you think it was casual that the previous shot of Vader saying I’m your father was a contrapiccato, conveying more power, and that the one where he says it is weighted to the left making it unbalanced? That the final celebration in ANH was shot mainly using centered perspectives with bright spots eclipsing the vanishing points, evoking order? Do you think the sensation at the opening of ANH would have been the same had the gigant ship flew below the camera (casting no shadow) instead of over it?
Who needs film school when you can just hop onto /this site/ and learn everything you need to know about lighting, screenwriting and the rest.
I apologize if the post felt arrogant; I did not mean to lecture anyone at all. As a non native english speaker I can assure there is a lot of room for misunderstanding; specially when it comes to idiomatic expressions. In any case, the “do you think” wasn’t meant to be accusative or inquisitive but rethorical.
Apart from that, I regard any critic to be valid as long as it stands on a relatively deep justification. To keep those critics to oneself just not to be criticized would make a place like the forum loose its whole point which is to share opinions and thoughts.
I’d rather have a long-texts boring forum than non forum at all. But that’s my opinion.