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Originally posted by Thoran:
yea... but with CG you expect newer movies to raise the bar. The newest Star Wars is what... a year and a half newer than RotK, I guess I expected something new.
I think Lucas went for quantity over quality, and PJ focused on quality. Not that there weren't a TON of CG shots in the LotR trilogy, but EP3 was wall to wall CG... and maybe that meant he didn't have the time or budget to do REALLY high quality CG (like a Gollum level character)
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Ep. I, the hated Jar-Jar movie, had more CG screens than had ever been done before -- topped off with the Droids vs. Gungans crap at the end that everyone hated. Ep. II had hundreds of jedi w/ lightsabers on the screen at once, fighting in concert, which had never been done before. The battle for Geonosis was another landmark. Ep. III took it to the next level, with all the clone and droid CGI. In the meantime, programs like MASSIVE (used in the LOTR movies) had also come onto the scene for man-on-man combat -- and they were a better product. HOWEVER, the scene above Coruscant (with its thin atmosphere) were the first time a space battle of that magnitude had been shown -- and it was shown WELL.
Also, don't forget that, while it looked to be too heavy and obvious on the CGI, the battle on Mustafar was filmed over an eruption of Mt. Etna. This was another landmark -- and perhaps Lucas & Co. over-reached on this one. But, at least he's pushing the bounds of new technology.