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I agree that cgi takes a lot of finessing to make it look real, for example gollum in lord of the rings feels less fake than jar jar, even though they are both cgi rendered. too bad Peter Jackson succeded in making him rediculously annoying almost as bad as jar jar. He is more a sympathetic character in the books.

for me the logical conclusion of the trajectory Jackson set up was some kind of redemption, even if he still killed himself, because for most of Jackson's Return of the King Gollum just kind of casts aside all the wonderful conflict in the previous film and becomes bad

There's just too much of that, and too much interaction between them, for CG to come off as fully 100% indistinguishable from reality

I donno if ill ever forgive denning for killing anakin in star by star, when the previous 5 books had highlight him as the major character of the series

I think it can be assumed that there are no guard rails on the carbon freeze chamber because the controls are manually operated

As far as blasters go, apparently you didn't pay attention when reading Shadows of the Empire

That lovely book has been responsible for more bullshit explanations that we don't need than anything

This is why I'm in the EU=Canon crowd. The other writers think through the things GL tends to ignore.

Unfortunately, a lot of the elements you mention don't work either because the message is being delivered in an extremely poor fashion or it wasn't the director's intention (probably a little of both).

Nobodies like Anakin because he's "the chosen one". How can anyone be told that at the age of 10 and then possibly be expected to keep their powers in check? Look at Akira for a perfect example. Teenager attains godly powers and ends up destroying half of Tokyo in the process of ascending. And as far as Jar Jar being an exile is concerned, he was given a pretty high position by the Queen herself. He was also the one person that wanted to give Palpatine full control. If anyone is to blame for Palpatine's rise though, it's Amidala with her no confidence vote in TPM.

But all that's way OT.

I think the point is that a lot of things were done very unnecessarily. Look at the "Super Mario" chase through the factory in AOTC. What was that all about?

I don't think anyone thinks CGI is bad, but there is a point where it overwhelms the movie
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Where CGI goes wrong for me, is when it overwhelms the story & characters, and it becomes a big 'look how cool I can make this movie look' fest. You look at a movie like TPM, you have real locations like Tatooine, then you goto CGI environments like Kamino, Geonosis, Utapau, Mustafar, and just don't hold up as well compared to OT enviroments like Hoth and Endor.

Really? you've never been fooled by a special effect?

I haven’t even told Steven or Harrison this," he said. "But I have an idea to make Shia [LeBeouf] the lead character next time and have Harrison [Ford] come back like Sean Connery did in the last movie. I can see it working out.

There were plenty of real elements used in the PT, Lucas just doesn't want to admit it, so all the "making of" stuff focuses on the digital work. There's a convention I go to every year and for several years one of the guests was Carol Bauman from ILM. She showed workshop pics of ILM crew working on models of Coruscant buildings and various craft from TPM and AOTC (ROTS was still in production at the time).

Various digital FX animators, ILM and otherwise, have all gone on record as saying that natural elements - water, smoke, fire, rock formations, etc. - still take a lot of work to generate in CG and look convincing, so they have to resort to the old ways for those elements, at least for now.

But the OT is so powerful, the majority of people will 'put up' with the SE just to have them on DVD

The 6-track is obviously the superior format, and it wouldn't take much to transfer the original elements to a 5.1 mix while remaining true to the opening day

I remember the shot where the X-wings take off--I had always loved the SE revision of the exterior shot of them taking off from Yavin because the original version was so poor. But then I got it. Somehow, that low-tech shot of animated white streaks racing to the sky worked

I am asking for them to dig up those interpositives or WHATEVER their best film elements are of the OOT and transfer them to video