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Unfortunately the movie industry is moving away from practical real-world special effects nowadays and it's a horrible thing, really. I saw "The Hateful Eight" recently and there's basically no CGI at all in it, all the shooting and blood effects were real-world practical done the old school way and I have a great appreciate for that.
Knowing that something like SW:TFA was done with so many digital effects, basically a movie done in a green screen environment for practically 95% of the shots done, is what I'd call a travesty but whatever. They could have spent twice the budget on it and done everything with real-world effects (and gave a lot of people work in doing so) and still made a metric fuckton of cash like they've already done and not lose a dime but no, digital is where things are going.
I saw it last week and wasn't impressed - I had some emotions when the original trilogy cast members came onscreen as I'm sure many people did, but as for the newer people, nope, not one tear or whimper at all for any of 'em. It was too rushed IMO, moved along way too fast, and Kylo is just a punk. If they hadn't put him in the mask, I'd be ok with things, but having him in a mask when there's no justification for it aside from (potentially) scaring his enemies - "Oooo, look at the bad man in the mask, it is a mystery..." - and then having him remove it not once but twice so we can see the actor himself undamaged well, it's just stupid to me to have the mask in the movie at all.
I saw Star Wars on the day of release in 1977, saw Empire on its day of release in 1980, and then Return on its day of release in 1983 and I have very fond memories of those experiences as well as multiple viewings after the initial one. Didn't give a shit about the prequels, they came along much too late for me in terms of the time gap, didn't add anything to the story and just proved disappointing to me overall. Now with TFA I'm probably not even going to care about the future movies and offshoots.
The original theatrical trilogy is what holds a place in my heart, not the edits, not the prequels, and not the new stuff coming down the pike it seems.
Ah, well, at least I have memories.
However, I do agree with him on not liking too much CGI. This day and age with sci fi it's going to happen and with that being said I think they did a wonderful job with it. It was a great introduction back into the universe for me and I hope more awesome to come in the next few.