This is a genuine question, but what do people mean when a particular Star Wars film doesn’t have an expansive view of the environment/setting? Someone mentioned Empire being less impressive in comparison to ANH because of this in some other thread, and then above me, darklordoftech is echoing this complaint for TFA and AotC.

To me, this has been a weird observation for fans to say since to me, I never felt as if any Star Wars film, all seven, have felt off because of the setting/environment not being explored enough. These movies always take me to new and interesting places via the characters. I don’t need to see LotR type shots to sell me we’re in a different location. I dunno, despite all the times I’ve seen a majority of the Star Wars film over and over, this has been one of the, in my opinion, an odd complaint here on the OT forums. Someone explain this to me.