The first film that was made in 1978.
It was the first movie that gave it’s viewers the “space adventure experience” and it didn’t feel aged until around 25 years later, just like the Beatles music that gave listeners the “rock dance experience”.
No movie at that time had the “pew pew” plasma gun sound effects or the “voom” plasma sword effects.
On top of that, it also wasn’t made by a large corporation, so it adhered to solid storytelling, rather than marketed storytelling.
The two later movies were of the same story quality.
For me, experiencing both around 1992 at age 10, Star Wars still was without equal and it wasn’t until the Independence Day movie that it’s special effects stopped being special.
The Beatles on the other hand, felt unfinished, experimental, or just on par with average pop song to me, while Queen was still the classic rock music top quality standard.
In 2001 the next trilogy of Star Wars started and I guess they were hoping to get that same experience back with lots of CGI, except that had already been done in 1994 with Jurassic Park.
On top of that, CGI has two problems compared to other special effects.
The actors can’t see the CGI and so they’re told to just imagine what they see, leading to subpar performances.
Unless it can fool the viewer that it’s real, it looks very ugly.
CGI allows any movie scene to be possible, but this can fall into the trap of #2.
All three were present in the second trilogy.
Storywise they also made a couple of errors.
Then there’s the third trilogy.
No new technology was used there as far as I’m aware.
I think the Mandalorian used new tech, some kind of CGI room, that solves issue #1.
And the storytelling was a confusing mess mixed with a feminist tract, not a space adventure.
I watched it when I was 20-21 and actually enjoyed the visuals even though it was after movies with much better CGI. The plot never grew on me I guess. I can equate this to me being utterly unimpressed by The Avatar.
It’s a “first experience” kind of thing.
The first film that was made in 1978.
It was the first movie that gave it’s viewers the “space adventure experience” and it didn’t feel aged until around 25 years later, just like the Beatles music that gave listeners the “rock dance experience”.
No movie at that time had the “pew pew” plasma gun sound effects or the “voom” plasma sword effects.
On top of that, it also wasn’t made by a large corporation, so it adhered to solid storytelling, rather than marketed storytelling.
The two later movies were of the same story quality.
For me, experiencing both around 1992 at age 10, Star Wars still was without equal and it wasn’t until the Independence Day movie that it’s special effects stopped being special.
The Beatles on the other hand, felt unfinished, experimental, or just on par with average pop song to me, while Queen was still the classic rock music top quality standard.
In 2001 the next trilogy of Star Wars started and I guess they were hoping to get that same experience back with lots of CGI, except that had already been done in 1994 with Jurassic Park.
On top of that, CGI has two problems compared to other special effects.
Storywise they also made a couple of errors.
Then there’s the third trilogy.
No new technology was used there as far as I’m aware.
I think the Mandalorian used new tech, some kind of CGI room, that solves issue #1.
And the storytelling was a confusing mess mixed with a feminist tract, not a space adventure.
Perspective widened, thanks!
I watched it when I was 20-21 and actually enjoyed the visuals even though it was after movies with much better CGI. The plot never grew on me I guess. I can equate this to me being utterly unimpressed by The Avatar.