Do you think the Star Wars special effects suck?

WHEN WILL YOU GET IT RIGHT PEOPLE...LOTR IS BASED ON A WORLD THAT WE CALL EARTH...STAR WARS IS A WHOLE UNIVERSE, THOUSANDS OF PLANETS...THE TROLLS IN LOTR LOOK AS REAL AS THE REEK OR AN ACKLAY, MUSTAFAR LOOKS AS REAL AS ANY VOLCANO IN ACTIVITY, KAMINO`S ENDLESS SEA AND STORM MAYHEM LOOKS AS REAL AS ANY REAL STORM IN "REAL LIFE", CORUSCANT IS A CITY AS REAL AS IT CAN BE......

YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR PROBLEM IS...YOU HAVE ISSUES OF TRYING TO FREE YOUR MINDS...YOUR NARROW VIEWING MINDS.

FIX THAT ISSUES YOU ALL HAVE...THEN WRITE A RATIONAL THREAD

OK?

man, people suck, the effects are great in star wars
LOTR, didn;t have color like star wars, thats why
Hobitts suck, the shire should burn

Originally posted by Lord Darth Gabe
WHEN WILL YOU GET IT RIGHT PEOPLE...LOTR IS BASED ON A WORLD THAT WE CALL EARTH...STAR WARS IS A WHOLE UNIVERSE, THOUSANDS OF PLANETS...THE TROLLS IN LOTR LOOK AS REAL AS THE REEK OR AN ACKLAY, MUSTAFAR LOOKS AS REAL AS ANY VOLCANO IN ACTIVITY, KAMINO`S ENDLESS SEA AND STORM MAYHEM LOOKS AS REAL AS ANY REAL STORM IN "REAL LIFE", CORUSCANT IS A CITY AS REAL AS IT CAN BE......

YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR PROBLEM IS...YOU HAVE ISSUES OF TRYING TO FREE YOUR MINDS...YOUR NARROW VIEWING MINDS.

FIX THAT ISSUES YOU ALL HAVE...THEN WRITE A RATIONAL THREAD

OK?

This film has problems with the VFX. The thing is, it SHOULD look real. And it doesn't all of the time. If you can't see that then so be it. But you can't force your opinions on others.

This film has some bad effects shots. Simple as that.

I agree with you Robin Darkside

I don`t want you to agree...I just want you people to be less punishing with this movies...stop the comparison

But why? Is it harming anyone to compare the movies? I really don't see why some people are so defensive...

I'm not saying the VFX necessarily affect my appreciation of the films... they just could have been better, and I expected more from a company which is supposedly one of the frontrunners in the industry...

agree cause its true
Lucas put more money into starwars than whoever produced LOTR, Jackson or some guy

And yet, the effects aren't as good...

I likes LOTR, dont get me wrong, but its nothing compared to star wars.
Recall that Lucas wrote star wars according to what can be done on screen. Which the PT was all about, Lucas probably figured he could accomplish anything.
For what he did accomplish with the PT, he deserves alot of credit, effects wise

man, the effects in LOTR were horrible though, wtf am I thinking

I think Lucas was overconfident in what he would be able to pull off with CG, which lead to the film looking very cartoony in parts. The fact is the technology is NOT up to the standard needed to make these films as Lucas thought.

Example: the digital double work. Horrendous. Lucas thought he could pull it off seamlessly, but he didn't. The technology isn't there yet...

come on, he accomplished what he can with today's technology
Its not perfect, but what, would you rather wait another 20 years for Cg and shit to become perfect.
Its good enough for me

No, I'd rather he did what the technology was capable of doing. Peter Jackson did it very well with his use of miniatures instead of CG... Lucas could learn a lot from him.

He doesn't have to wait for the CG to become perfect, just don't use CG for frickin everything! Many of the fake looking shots could have been fixed easily by using other methods....

umm, I dont know cause how do you really know it could have been better for other methods. Lucas had to maintain the CG look of the whole movie, so any changes would have looked stupid, because it wouldn't apply to the CG look of the movie.
Lucas made most of the movie mostly digital, more digital than EP I and II.
The amount of colors involed, made the way the movie looked, any changes would be a change in mood of the film

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this thread is screwed too

Many people have talked about the films purposely having a cartoony 'CG' look to them, which I disagree with. I don't think it was ever intentional for it to look that way.

I think that the use of more models would have lessened the cartoony look a helluva lot. For example: I know there were models built, but some of the shots of the shopd looked very bad.

Like I said before, the thing that annoys me the most is the digital doubles. The shot of Dooku throwing Obi-Wan almost made me wanna puke. (not literally of course). It was worse than Legolas scaling the Elephant in ROTK (which was also awful). I maintain that the shot could have been achieved better by other methods.

Also - the digital Clones. Just horrible. Could they not have made at least ONE suit? And I guess your point kinda comes into play here: they couldn't have made just one suit, because it would have made the fact that the rest of them are CG even more obivous.

I think Lucas made some great moves on this film... but he also made many bad ones...

Originally posted by Robin Darkside
umm, I dont know cause how do you really know it could have been better for other methods. Lucas had to maintain the CG look of the whole movie, so any changes would have looked stupid, because it wouldn't apply to the CG look of the movie.
Lucas made most of the movie mostly digital, more digital than EP I and II.
The amount of colors involed, made the way the movie looked, any changes would be a change in mood of the film

Sorry about that the Ast Rofan kid was beginning to annoy me with his... "down syndrome logic"

i think the movie rocked

^ What an insightful post...

srry