20th March 2003, 1:25 AM
I just finished watching (over the past 2 days) all 6+ hours of the FOTR DVD documentaries... OB1 is correct. It really is amazing how much of that movie is NOT digital... just watch those extras then the extras from Star Wars eps 1 and 2. The difference is very dramatic... FOTR really is done in the classic way -- real locations, sets on soundstages, and LOTS of miniaures... LOTS of miniatures. Very, very little is really CG... impressive, considering how it looks like a lot could be CG. But its not...
Star Wars of course is the opposite -- its truly amazing how little of those movies is actually real... and how much George Lucas makes his movies in the editing room. The LOTR DVD never even mentioned moving around characters in digital editing... something that was a big topic in Star Wars... and bluescreen? It was in almost everything in SW and in only a few places in LOTR.
Plus there's all the CG characters... sure TTT had Gollum, but Jar Jar, despite his annoy factor, did a lot of that similar stuff years earlier... and TCW just improved on that...
Oh, and on the subject at hand. First. Ewoks are great! I always liked the Ewoks, and don't understand why so many people hated them... Second, the Ewoks would win easily with 2 conditions: 1) Fight in a forest. and 2) Ewoks get the element of surprise. In a open plain (like the Battle of Naboo), I think the Gungans would win despite themselves...
Star Wars of course is the opposite -- its truly amazing how little of those movies is actually real... and how much George Lucas makes his movies in the editing room. The LOTR DVD never even mentioned moving around characters in digital editing... something that was a big topic in Star Wars... and bluescreen? It was in almost everything in SW and in only a few places in LOTR.
Plus there's all the CG characters... sure TTT had Gollum, but Jar Jar, despite his annoy factor, did a lot of that similar stuff years earlier... and TCW just improved on that...
Oh, and on the subject at hand. First. Ewoks are great! I always liked the Ewoks, and don't understand why so many people hated them... Second, the Ewoks would win easily with 2 conditions: 1) Fight in a forest. and 2) Ewoks get the element of surprise. In a open plain (like the Battle of Naboo), I think the Gungans would win despite themselves...