Star Wars Episode III official thread

[elfneedsfood]

But if you would look on ALL CGI stunt scenes, its a different beast all together. Take for example Van Hellsing, with all the CGI flying, jumping, fighting and swinging. It just looked unnatural, and far less exciting, that if it had at least some of the scenes, to be "real".

Van Helsing is a good example of what not to do with CGI.

[Dolemite]

In the same way you can say why be scared of this monsters in The Thing, since you KNOW that those are mechanical creation of MakeUp team. They are not real.

But they ARE real. John Carpenter, in addition to being a great director, is also a closet mad scientist. He created those creatures, and there were supposed to be more scenes with them in the movie, but they ran amok and had to be destroyed before they ate the cast and crew.

Shows what you know, dummy.

Sure, since CGI is still not flawless, in many scenes they can look less than stellar, but as long as you can ACCEPT them and believe into the fantasy moment director/crew tries to create, you would be ok.

It's not the same. With real effects and props, at least the actor has something to play off of, and at least it actually looks like it's in the room with them, and not pasted in.

Believe me, I do think CG has its place and can be an amazing tool for enhancing a movie. But there should be a balance. If it's possible to do something with make-up and coustumes, they should go that route. If it's not possible, THEN use CG.

Van Helsing is a good example of what not to do with CGI.

Agreed 100%.

[Despair]

But they ARE real. John Carpenter, in addition to being a great director, is also a closet mad scientist. He created those creatures, and there were supposed to be more scenes with them in the movie, but they ran amok and had to be destroyed before they ate the cast and crew.

Shows what you know, dummy.

That was.....awesome

Believe me, I do think CG has its place and can be an amazing tool for enhancing a movie. But there should be a balance. If it's possible to do something with make-up and coustumes, they should go that route. If it's not possible, THEN use CG.

With this I do agree. See my VH comment again

[toxic]

Can we convince Lucas just to make trailers for the rest of his life? I think everyone would be happier that way.

[Ryan]

The fight scene in Epsidoe I with Maul was awesome, but the movie sucked. They didn't even try in Epsiode II

[MVS]

CG Yoda > Puppet Yoda.

Thus ends the good changes with CG in Star Wars.

[haohmaru]

I'm going into this expecting absolutely nothing, because that's what the last two prequels delivered.

[Jetman]

Is the guy that looks like a vampire in the teaser supposed to be a Sith?

This movie is going to have a shitload of fightscenes and duels since we have Anakin,Kenobi, Darth Sidious,Darth Tyrannus, Darth vampire guy (assuming he's not just some normal cornball alien), General Grievous, Mace, Yoda, not to mention every living Jedi futiley fighting for their lives. I doubt this movie will be bad because of those factors alone.

We shouldnt have to worry about anyone bitching about how rough sand is in this one - they wont have time to.

[MVS]

No, he's just an alien, not a sith.

[Jetman]

No, he's just an alien, not a sith.

, Bah, well, we'll still have enough fightscenes to go around either way I'm sure.

I'm going into this expecting absolutely nothing, because that's what the last two prequels delivered.

Well, what exactly were you expecting from the first two and what do you want to see in this one.We're not going to see Han Solo and his Millenium Falcon, We're not getting a half naked Lei chained to a blob, nobody's getting frozen in carbonite,. I mean it seems like nostalgia from the first trilogy just totally ruins a lot of people for these new ones. Just take them as they are - decent action movies with a lot of special effects. They are generally entertaining as hell for me to watch. And yeah there are some gay scenes in Ep. 1 and 2 ("Now THATS pod-racing" , and the aforementioned "sand" lines, any scene with Jar-Jar) but the first trilogy had some equally corny lines and scenes and as a whole those turned out quite well.