One of the best aspects of the original trilogy is everything was dirty and used, it looked a damn sight more real. This entire new trilogy has been so fake, and detatched. Even tatooine looks like its from a 5 star holiday brochure!
Its mainly the CGI that does it (of course a director that uses cgi before he has a script is actually what does it), and the lack of decent textures. This just makes them feel so fake and detatched, even when you had a camera zooming at a bit of plastic in the originals, it looked a damn sight better.
To think, these were the set of films that helped influence ridley scott's Alien and Blade Runner
kinda irked by the quick shot of another load of muppets myself
There are no muppets anymore, they've all been replaced by CGI spyro the dragon look a likes
The 'muppets' looked a damn sight better too and at least had the 'human element', so this is devolution in style.
but I still think this is a good cut - as opposed to "well, it's an improvement over eps 1 & 2.
The trailer? No way, episode ones trailer was perhaps the best trailer ever made for a film (or at least had the biggest impact). Because it showed snippets of cool scenes, and was much better paced.
I think you'll find if you go back and look at it, and think about how it was received, you'll find it was a better trailer and the movie wasn't exactly good in the end, despite the fact its trailer was