TonyWilson wrote:
I think that's a pretty fair description. But I do have to say that the prequels are not well made films. There's obvious plotholes, the dialouge is a step down from ANH, a terribly weak central perfomance that leaves the whole prequel trilogy without an anchor. Ewan MacGregor needed to be kept on his toes becuase there's flashes of Obi Wan there but he never sells me that this guy is a legendary Jedi. And this takes me to my major point as a major fan of the OT - Obi Wan comes off like an asshole when you think about it, Anakin's turn in ROTS is utterly unbelivable and the PT as whole lacks Punky Power despite massive budgets. Heck even some of the CGI is shoddy. The CGI for godssake!!! In a fucking Star Wars movie created by the founder of ILM. That really is unforgivable.
I remember when the talk of the prequels first began, and Lucas announced *everything* would be done by CGI. I remember being really upset because "Nothing looks real in CGI, it has that shiny, fake look. There's always a line around it so you know it's not really there."
But I told myself that it was ILM and it would look really cool, they'd done Jurassic Park and it was The Best CGI EVER.
And then the prequels came out...and looked exactly as I knew they would, which really broke my heart. I thought LOTR would look exactly the same, so talk about being surprised in a GOOD way.
ILM is really hit and miss when you think about it. The effects in H@rry Potter (with a few exceptions, like the smoke movement for the Death Eaters and Order) remain quite dire, whereas Davy Jones remains the best CGI character this side of Gollum.