Best Trilogy of Films Ever!

There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Some More Blood

Return of the Son of There Will Be Blood

Well, this puts me in mind of the folks who will say: ''They just don't make cartoons like they used to!'', or ''No good music is made in these modern times'', or ''Vinyl records are superior to CD in every way''. They say these things with a straight face, even when plenty of evidence and simple, unbiased observations prove them wrong. Just because you were getting laid and smoking pot all the time at a certain point in your life, that doesn't automatically make your youth a better time period than any other-- it just makes it seem that way to you. 

I honestly hope I never get like that when I get older. Star Wars is a personal favorite of mine, BUT I ADMIT THAT IT'S BASED ON NOSTALGIA, AND NOT THE ACTUAL QUALITY OF THE FILMS! If I would watch them today for the first time, there is more than a good chance I would ask what all the fuss is about. 

Well, you're being honest, which I can respect.  Seriously, though, I think you're letting your personal dislike of CGI to get in the way of the Yoda character's performance. 

Example: there is a scene in Episode II where Palpatine is expressing to Amidala his concerns, and is pushing the matter of a Jedi escort accompanying her, which seems suspicious to Yoda. You see Yoda looking over his shoulder with a stern, suspecting expression on his face. His brow is folded ever so lightly and his eyes are full of emotion. When he talks, his lips match the dialogue perfectly, and he can move his hands as he talks to further articulate the meaning behind his lines. The camera is also freed up to pan and move around like normal whenever Yoda is in the scene, rather than stay static and only show the top half of him like before. This all helps sell the illusion further that Yoda is a living, breathing character within the world. 

Meanwhile, in Episode V, Yoda looks at Luke with that same fixed expression the puppet had, and says ''You will be, you will be''. As he says this, his stiff mouth simply bobs up and down over and over, since the puppet was unable to fully articulate proper jaw and lip movement. Not only that, but the stiff nature of the puppet's movement, the wiggling of the rubber ears and the limited space it can move around in ('fixed' scenes) takes so much away from the scenes, it's not even funny. His hands stay on his cane, and you never see his feet, and the camera is forced to stay in one place for the entire seen for fear of revealing the puppeteers below. And in RotJ, at his death scene, you can see his feet (which actually get shown in this scene!) get caught by the blanket Luke is throwing over him, and the false rubber toes get folded backward, clearly showing that what you are looking at is not a living, breathing creature, but a prop. You're honestly saying to me that just because the puppet was physically there on the set, that somehow makes it superior? 

I would much rather watch a fully-animated CGI creature than a stiff, limited puppet any day. I'm sorry that your bias against modern technology has so clearly distorted your view.

I wasn't saying it apologetically. I typed that sentence in all caps, because I wanted to make clear that I admitted the faults of those films. I wanted to show how easy it is to admit to liking something while at the same time submitting that it does in fact have tons of problems. 

Plus, Natalie Portman is an incomparably beautiful woman, so anything with her in it, I tend to watch over and over.