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- #153894
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- Watching in order 1-6 is screwing up the original SW for newcomers!
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Lucas was right in the PT to make the saber duels "faster, more intense." than the OT. Newbies need to understand this was by design and for a good reason.
By design? Yeah, it seems logical, but weren't there "rules" for saber fightin' in the OT that were just ignored to make the PT fight scenes "faster, more intense"? i.e. holding lightsabers with two hands?
As for special effects, some CGI work just looks bad. End of story. Not just ignorant, uninformed, budding filmmakers think so. Moviegoers and film lovers in general have a valid opinion, and not everyone is misguided when daring to point it out. Jar Jar Binks is not only an awful character, but piss-poorly done. Like many bad digital effects, it looks like something out of a Playstation game gone wrong, and like you could peel it right off the screen. It's totally unnatural, and that often rips me out of the movie, and makes me ponder, as someone said earlier, the number of pixels or whatever it took to make it. Not to mention, Liam Neeson seems like he's looking at something else when he should be looking into Jar Jar's "eyes." Not that there aren't bad effects in all eras of film. But personally, more organically done bad effects irk me less than bad digital ones. And once something is done poorly in digital, it sticks out like a sore Gungan. I don't see how one could *not* think that Lucas used CG as a crutch during the PT. Look at that ridiculously busy opening of ROTS, for cripes' sake. And every damn window has to have 800 ships flying by. I guess it's always rush hour in a galaxy far, far away, huh?
I love The Frighteners, and there are a ton of great effects and shots and work put into it-- models, digital, makeup, the whole shebang. But for example, the CG "grim reaper" oily blob crawling on the ground after it was shot is pretty bad. Every time I watch it, I think, UGH.
Sure, there are people who probably think they're "experts" while picking apart every sci-fi flick. But you don't always *have* to be an expert to spot some particularly bad efx shots.