The Kid
AMERICA FTW
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Lol fascinating isn't it. It's just a testament to how much could be accomplished back then with real sets, real photography in the real world, that it still outclasses a lot of what's done today. Attack of the clones and its cgi city for instance just doesn't come close to touching what ridley did in blade runner. I never think of it as much more than a cool videogame level I'd like to play whereas when I watch blade runner, there's a moment that's completely earned by the film when I think "is this real?"
That sense of grounded ultra realism really pulls me into the story more. If I want a cartoon, I'll watch bugs bunny. Thats why I'm not liking the trend in today's action films to do everything by the new bloated neck lucas method. There was a time when lucas did use real sets, and ocassionally blue screen. Now of course it's backwards. He'll use cartoon characters, completlely cartoon landscapes and ocassionally a real prop and set if they need a floor. Give me Empire strikes back where Hamill's in a real set getting hit by real flying debris than a completely cgi enviroment where he actor has to imagine stuff that'll be put in the computer later. I firmly believe that if the star wars prequels were made under the same restricted conditions as the original trilogy, they'd have been more competent films. Emphasis may have been placed more on the characters than the fx.
It utterly amazes me that to this day, the yoda puppet with frank oz's hand up its pooter can still hold up well against all the new cgi crafted characters we have now.
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Maybe it's arguable but in my opinion the original yoda puppet has not been topped by any creature done in cgi.
