I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but I watched the Star Wars prequel trilogy recently. My God, they're even worse than I remember. They're full of nothing but lines and lines of shitty dialog and equally shitty character names. Count DOOKU? General GREVIOUS? I'm surprised there wasn't a Darth ANGUISH or Stu Padassle thrown in there.
Now that computer technology has become advanced enough, "realistic" animation is possible. So George Lucas went ahead and made three movies filled with endless unnecessary fluff. The films look like the man spent more time on the background animatics than the script, plot, or character development combined. Yes, Mr. Lucas, we know you have a digital effects studio, WE GET IT.
With the prime example of the Star Wars films, it's obvious to me that it is possible for technology to stifle a bad director into being a good one. The original trilogy required tons of innovation, and that made the movies all the more enjoyable. Special effects are like the icing on a cake, you can have too much. It's like the old addage of guests being like dead fish: they stink after three days. Light saber battles are cool, but start to stink after three minutes.
What I'd really like to see is a movie purposely done low-tech. I think it'd be pretty damn cool if they dusted off all that old equipment they have lying around and actually made something creative again.
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