Is the world blind to this movie's technical problems?

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 2002)

I was excited to see this new form of High-Resolution Digital film making that George Lucas has been shooting off at the mouth about for the past three years.
When I watched this movie I was amazed by what I saw! I don't make movies professionally, and I don't understand the difficulties in producing a $120 million dollar movie. But I do understand what "bad video" is.
For the first time in my life I witnessed bad video compression in a movie theatre. The last time I saw these kinds of compression problems was when I watched my $15 "Bloodsport 2" DVD. Not when I paid $12 to sit in a theatre, and certainly not during a movie that is "setting the standards" of visual effects and digital filmmaking.
This isn't a movie where good vs. evil, it's a movie where little "pixel fairies" battled each other within any on-screen shadows they could find.
Not to mention the fuzzy glow created by all the bad matting and keying, using their "state-of-the-art" green screen effects. These are simple effects that were mastered years ago, but are painfully apparent in this film/video.
And I don't think I'm being overly critical here either. If I'm a simple Canadian boy who doesn't even understand this technology, and I'm seeing all these errors and dirty artifacts, then why didn't the special effects artists notices them? Or any of the other reviewers for that matter. This movie should be setting the standard for visual effects and digital filmmaking, not reminding me what jpg compression looks like, or that all the actors are standing in front of a green screen.
I'm not even going to mention the bad dialog and robotic acting.
If this movie was a bad VHS dub, or I downloaded it off of my 56.6K modem, then I could accept the way this movie looks. Or perhaps if George explained that one of his staff members accidentally pressed the "Random Dancing Pixel" button before the movie was released. And that he got a great deal on his "Scriptor 3000" script writing software, with the new advanced "create love story in space" plugin.
But I cannot accept this. Perhaps when this movie is downgraded for Internet playback, I'll be more accepting of this movie's faults.