04-21-2004, 08:48 PM
I agree with that final point, it seems that these last three movies are just a huge advert for what Industrial Light & Magic can do these days. But given their current stranglehold on the movie effects industry I don't think these movies needed to be that advert. Not to bash on over the same point again and again but look at Lord of the Rings, WETA Workshop in New Zealand managed to produce three movies worth off effects without those effects distracting you from the movie.. the first time I saw Gollum, I just accepted him as another character in the movie, he didn't seem out of place, and didn't distract from the story, similarly with the multitude of other effects, they were there to aid the storytelling not subsume it. Lucas could learn a lesson from Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor and the rest of the NEw Zealand Gang.
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