Horrible Special Effects

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 2002)

I'm so sick and tired of people, regardless of whether or not they liked the movie, say "well, the special effects were great." Garbage! It's great for animation, but I didn't come to see Toy Story 3. Yoda is a damn puppet, and he should stay that way. Instead, he and all the other aliens look like phony CG characters that I CARE NOTHING ABOUT! And the stormtroopers? How is it that 20 years ago, Lucas was able to use REAL people for stormtroopers, and now all he uses is CG, which looks horrible! I dare someone to say that the epic battle at the end of the film looked more convincing than the battle on the ice world of Hoth.
The story/plot was 1000x better than TPM, but I think that's what bothered me more afterwards. It could have been so good, but Lucas always wants to rely on ILM to make his movie. Computer graphics have to invade every shot. Even that stupid scene with Anakin and Portman in the prairie could have been good if he just left those stupid, phony-looking "creatures" out of the shot. CG just doesn't cut it for me--go back to scale models.