Lucas will replace everything again

Rating: 8/10 (11 December 2002)

I believe that the reason that George Lucas uses CGI to that extent, is that he plans to update ALL digital effects when the technology becomes even more advanced, let's say in 10 years time.
He did it with the first three movies and he's going to do it again. Now even easier since he will just have to order new improved effects to replace the current ones.
It has been known that while working on Ep.II he was shooting extra scenes for the old trilogy (obviously to include in the upcoming DVD release of the original titles-whenever that is). This means that Lucas will never stop changing these movies. He is treating them like computer software - eg. Star Wars, Episode II version 1.8.
In case he is not planning such an update, the use of effects is ridiculous. It destroyed the performances of all the actors and ultimately the spirit of the franchise.
One exception: the Yoda fighting scene gave me goose bumps. A really heroic scene!
Hayden Christensen was not as bad as some believe but Ryan Phillippe would have been thousands of times better.
Still with all the flaws, this is a great adventure.