CGI fail

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2015)

The Clone movie is supposed to take place many years before the original trilogy, so why does it look so much more technologically advanced? I am aware that Lucas had much more money to spend and his company had advanced the CGI thing much further than was available in 1970's. Part of the charm of the original film was that everything looked used and battered- almost nothing in the earlier films looked that way. Hayden , simply, was not up to the job and had zero chemistry with Natalie, though we were told that was the reason for casting them. Ewan McGregor whom I rate as an actor was limited by his need to channel Sir Alec. I have watched these prequels 3 times and find my mind wandering which never happened with the original films. Mind you none of those first three had Jar Jar Binks - a mistake of gargantuan dimensions which seemed impossible for a filmmaker of Lucas' experience to make. Many of the characters had voices where it was difficult to catch what they were saying (Watto and Binks come to mind). After 3 viewings they do not seem as awful as they, at first seemed but they are still a huge disappointment.