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Maybe they were disintegrated instead?

@@KevinJDildonik George loved his characters so much he also started to love money out of nowhere.

@@al112v4 what the hell are you guys on about lmao

@@nismonolo What do you mean? Disney is evil (yes wink wink) and George was a pure soul. Get it?

@Spodo bbb Alright relax love

@TGDS Uncle Peru you mean?

@@noahawad Luke Peru?

Aunt Peru, Uncle Lima

Good thing we know he was joking and he knows star wars well 😂

@TGDS Let’s see how this Obi-Wan series goes. By the end he may have a chance to learn the error of his ways. 😂

might surprise you that some actors like johnny depp cannot watch themselves on screen, so they do not know what their own films are like once they're finished

@@wackyroo not even pirates of the caribbean???

@@yoonahkang7384Yeah. A lot of them feel like they're criticizing themselves unfairly or embarrassed at something they did on screen. Emma Watson admitted to doing this whenever she watched the Harry Potter films.

It’s funny because years ago he was also in the Graham Norton show talking about Star Wars, and the people yelled at him: “it’s BERUUUUU” hahaha.

And as he walks away from her he mutters "That tears it I'm telling the empire where this bitch lives..."

I don't know why but I imagined her saying that with an Australian accent and made me audibly laugh…

@@FreddieHg37 well she's an Australian actress and I think it was filmed in Australia. Makes sense.

@@johnnyonline oh I see, thanks for letting me know.

Then you get Samuel L. Jackson who was perfectly fine with green screen as he claims that actors need to have imagination. It's definitely not a clear cut case.

There's a scene in the hobbit where the dwarfs are gathered around a table "with" Ian. In a bts you see that everyone except Ian is around the table, Ian is by himself acting to a camera but they are linked with earplugs so they can talk and hear. And he starts having serious problems, getting sad and starts to apologize to the others. And it's so heartwarming to see his reaction when everyone reacts with essentialy "Don't be sorry, you're doing great!" etc.

@@Glisern He should have been had the same problems when they filmed LOTR, right?

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p LOTR used mostly practical effects for many of the shots like using camera tricks to have the actors in the same shot instead of compositing them into the same room like Glisern described. the Hobbit was mostly green-screen.

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p yeah plus if you think about, in lotr he often has other normal sized characters in the scene like elves and humans, so he can film with them. In the Hobbit the party is entirely dwarves and a hobbit, so they all get to film together and he’s the lonely tall one filmed with green screen.

I think it's always best for the actors to have something to react to, to immerse themselves. And I don't care what others say, I prefer the sequels to the prequels anyway. Regardless, it's all Star Wars. It's all good.

@@Argumemnon I personally love the CGI in something like Star Wars because it just makes the entire vibe of the universe a lot cooler and there’s more you can do with it. But I definitely agree that actors need stuff to react to

I think the whole practical vs CGI thing is a bit silly,. There have been some absolutely horrible practical effects over the years, and also some amazing CGI, so the insinuation that practical is infallible is totally false. Of course, when it comes to having something for the actors to respond to, a set is always preferable, but they have virtual sets now where you can see actual landscapes and places within the studio as if it were there, so that's that argument rendered moot - especially for sci-fi where things need to be a little more fantastical (maybe not so much for a small indie film set in a kitchen or something). Regardless, using practical JUST because it's practical and not the best option for the goal is stupid.

Practical effects are still fake, none of it's real.

The fun thing about the "all was CGI"-complaint is that it's simply wrong. The only two scenes where everything in the background was CG are the droid factory and the talk - scene between Mace, Yoda and Obi-Wan in Episode II, and those only because they weren't in the original Script and added very late. in 90% of all other scenes, most of the buildings, scenery, landscapes, Backgrounds and Sets are Sets, Real-World locations, models or miniatures. The arena of Geonosis in the background ? Model The Hangar where Obi-Wan and Anakin fought Dooku ? Gigantic Set Most outside- and inside shots of Kamino ? Model All Landscape-shots of Mustafar aswell as the Mining-complex are taken on a model, the Lava is just real footage of Lava from Mt Etna, and all inside shots, aswell as the plattforms Anakin and Obi-Wan fight on are sets. The Mountains in the background on Aldeeran are the alps, filmed in switzerland, Theed and Naboo are all models, or real places in Italy. The underwater-landscapes in EpI are models, and remember the scene in EpIII where a bunch of wookies storm towards droids Landing on their beach ? The Wookies were real people in costumes, and the beach a model. The filmed the wookies in Front of a bluescreen, then put the model-landscape behind them. The exact same way they did it back in the OT. Both Obi-Wans and Anakin Jedi-Starfighters from the Beginning of Episode III were live-sized mock-ups, aswell as a additional Cockpit-only Set for scenes from inside. Basically every detailed background or building we saw in close - up from the outside was either a Set or a model, from Utapau to even extremely minor sceneries like Cato-Neimodia. EPIII alone had vastly more models and sets built for it than the entirety of the OT COMBINED. Wether people want to accept it or not, it's very possible that Ep III relied LESS on CG than TFA.

Alec Guinness perhaps

I bet Leslie Jones would do a much better job.

@@smajyman6496 except Alec absolutely hated playing the character.

@@TheChickenlittle11 So did Ewan McGregor. There were some good 10 years where he couldn´t stop joking about how bad the SW prequels were, kind of like Robert Pattinson did with the Twilight films.

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@@KevinJDildonik Maybe. You?

Or simply miming.

It can be great acting but in reality it’s shitty filmmaking

@@jaredeiff7220 thank you, was about to say that's shitty directing and having no regard for actors whatsoever

@@jaredeiff7220 No, in reality it's great filmmaking and a great scene. The fact that it looks so amazing is an accomplishment. Making great things on screen from SHIT on set is a wonder. Hell, they made a lot of A New Hope from scrap WWII model plane parts, shot in a parking lot. Basically, random shit. It's ALL just different shit for different eras. Hollywood is all about, and HAS BEEN all about making shit look great on screen.

@@YodatheHobbit the prequel cgi hasn’t aged well. The original trilogy still looks great

I absolutely agree, however seeing how little he knows, remembers or even understands of the films that made him millions, it's clear it's going to be a money job rather than something out of passion or for the fans. He doesn't even know what his character's plot was.

@@Henkibojj Yeah but honestly, how many actors really remember the plots to their movies decades later? Most probably don't sit down and watch their own stuff when it's on tv. One exception being Samuel L Jackson, he has said in interviews that he'll sit down and watch his own movies. And really, most fans would probably be able to out smart George Lucas in a Star Wars trivia game; as fans we absorb it in a way the actors and creators don't.

Giving the best performance in prequel trilogy is like catching the least bad STD. Seriously thought, Ewan was alright in the prequels. Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine was the best performance.

he talked about it during the interview with Pedro Pascal

Probably changed his look so they could market new toys, so they had to do it again.

@@SamFr1000 Yeah, maybe it was the new hairstyle. Not sure if that was a marketing choice, though. They wanted to go for a kind of Alec Guinness-ish style to bridge the AOTC Obi and the ANH Obi.

@@starlighter930617 the costume was different, too! So yeah, probably because of the different looks? I'd say Ep. III had the most attention paid to continuity out of all the prequels? save for the Mustafar duel

I remember that scene in the extras for II where they shot the last scene of III and George said that if it doesn't work, he won't get the scene. It would be fair of Ewan to include the detail that they had already done this shot in a normal manner, but considering he doesn't seem to have even watched the films that made him millions, I doubt he'd care or even comprehend the fact that this was the scene he did in the desert three years prior.

It's because originally Obi gave the baby to uncle Owen. But Lucas decided that it's better to give him to Beru so they filmed it again in Ep 3.

He was playing the name wrong for laughs. He's not an idiot. He's been a fan of Star Wars his entire life.

Ok, if you find me a lava planet and vertical canyons planet, then sure, you can laugh. And by the way, Utapau was a miniature and volcano footage was real.

@@Alacritous Really? Maybe for the cool effects and stuff, but he doesn't seem to understand the plot at all. Everybody, fans and opponents of the series alike, knows the films have their fair share of troubles when it comes to acting, comprehensiveness and how they all turned out, but a true fan would be apologetic about it rather than diss it like this and say "who knows what they're about, they are difficult to follow anyway".

@@Henkibojj Don't worry, you'll feel differently about it if you ever get to touch a girl.

There was no dialogue in the end scene, so acting was not too difficult to do.

Of course. But I think (if memory serves) that Guinness had more issues with the viewers obsession about the OT than with being in them. In most interviews I have seen him he was very complimentary about the films themselves. Even in the late 80s . Maybe I have missed some information...

@@Dacre1000 "Apart from the money I regret having embarked on the film" is the first quote. I know there's more....

@@Dacre1000 He didn't think the writing was any good. To be fair to him, Star Wars was a totally new thing to cinema, none of the actors had any idea how successful it could be and Alec was probably thinking "how have I ended up here?!"

I remember Mark Hamill going a bit stir crazy during the Dagobah scenes and mentioned how tough it was. Not as bad a green screen, I would imagine, but certainly for the time, he spent a couple of months talking to puppets and men in garbage cans.

It came out in 2005, so 2011 is an oddly specific year for you to mention.

@@YodatheHobbit Even from 2005 to 2011, fans b*tched and moaned about the prequels nonstop until Disney released the sequels. And now they love the prequels. 🙄 Funny how things flip.

@@delgat000 Is that true though? They’re for people who don’t understand how humans communicate yet 😄. I tried rewatching Attack of the Clones last night and it was so bad it actually made for a fascinating viewing experience, until it got a little too much to bear with the “I love you” scene 🤢. The costumes and sound design were great but that dialogue made my skin crawl in every scene. The film tries to have these unearned “epic” moments with characters we don’t even know or care about. Even as a teenager I rolled my eyes when Yoda fights with a lightsaber, because it totally undoes the entire point of his character and the force in general🙄, all in service of selling action figures. The constant green screen stands out even more in 4K. Feels like you’re watching a video game

@@delgat000 speak for yourself, man. I’ve loved the prequels since they released in theaters.

What's really sad is that there are those who love the entire franchise who have to deal with a fandom that is a bigger disappointment than any star wars film that might have underwhelmed someone.

@1993DJC even Jake was good for what George idiotic mind wanted. They really shouldn’t have focused on a baby kid for a whole movie and skip the entire Clone Wars that could have easily been a live action film with Ewan and Hayden

I doubt that's accurate. I doubt there is many shots in the original trilogy that are 100% without practical effects especially if you watch the original versions instead of the special editions. The prequels in comparison have entire battles that are 100% CGI. Do you know how many clone trooper suits were built for Episode 2? Zero. Not a single clone in armor is real. There was a lot of practical effects for sure but more than the original trilogy? Shows like Mandalorian on the other had do a whole lot of practical effects. They don't green screen much at all. Instead they have giant screens they can place that project the already rendered backgrounds.

@@chamoo232 It is accurate. Sure congrats, you know there were no real clone suits. Did you know most the ships you see are real life size and miniatures. Kamino was real, the platform Obi-Wan and Jango fought on was real, the Jedi Council, Palpatines office, Wookies and other alien characters. And much much more. Go search the video, "The surprising practical effects of the Star Wars Prequels." He doesn't even like the Prequels but at least he know the truth. Prequels=More practical than OT Like it or not, that's the truth.

@@bigdoubleu117 That statement just doesn't make sense to me. In the prequels some aliens are puppets, some are makeup and some are CGI. In the original they are all puppets and makeup. In the prequels you have some sets that are real and some that are CGI. In the original it's all real or matte painting backgrounds. In the prequels you have some real scale ships, miniatures and CGI. In the originals it's all real scale and miniatures. It's not that the prequels didn't have a surprising amount of practical effect that is hard to believe. Just that it could have more than the originals. And as I said before I don't compare it to the special edition that just added a bunch of CGI stuff later on. I mean actual original trilogy. Maybe it all comes down to what really qualify as practical effect.

@@chamoo232 soooo, you gonna find the video? Like I brought the receipts, it can make zero sense all day long, but its clearly said in the video and other sources.

As in NUMBER of practical effects, not as in percentage of effects in the movies themselves. Because sure, if there are let's say 300 practical effects shots in the original trilogy, there might very well be 350 practical effects shots in the prequel trilogy. But those 350 shots might only be 50% of the effects made for the prequel trilogy, but the 300 shots in the original trilogy make up 100% of the effects shots. Statistics matter.

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For stuff like that I think it make sense to green screen it all but where it's bad is like the Hobbit movies. Everyone being dwarfs while Gandalf is normal sized mean Ian McKellen ended up spending 90% of filming alone in front of a green screen. There is no life in those movies.

A sofa no friend would ever ask to crash on for the night.

Comfortable sofas tend to make people unflattering on camera.

Dude, the last time he watched Star Wars was 16 years ago