 When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious shit. Star Wars is the greatest topic of practical versus CGI. They've got, you know, original films were all practical, you know, big AT-AT walkers or out walkers, you know, walking in the snow and they're all being practical. The Millennium Falcon was practical. Everything was practical. But then, you know, the prequel started coming out and George Lucas had all this new technology. He was waiting, in fact, waiting for that technology to come out to make those movies. And people, when they came out, started complaining like, you know, this looks awful. Why is the CGI so bad? There was complaints even, for instance, for Yoda. Oh, my God. So Yoda came out originally as a practical puppet, but then people complained about that. And then he went back and made that a CGI character. And that's why you can see here that Yoda is on the left hand here is a puppet. And on the right, he's a CGI character. And that's the same movie. That's the same sequence. It's just being digitally altered because they didn't feel like the puppet really worked that well. But how iconic is the puppet, though? That is the most iconic puppet of all time. But the CGI characters had far more screen time these days. And I think to most kids and most people that are, you know, the lower generation of us, whatever that is, what's the generation before us? We're millennials, right? So what's the generation before us or after us? After us? Nobs. That's probably what it's going to be. The young generation of knobs. Who knows? But anyway, someone's out. I think someone's sitting at their table right now going, they're theirs. Why did they know they're theirs? Generation Z. Anyway, my point of the matter is that Star Wars, the first movie was a lot of practical. There was tons of practical in that movie. A lot of the spaceships were real, obviously not flying, but like on the ground, the Nubu Starfighters in that big sequence where they fight Darth Maul were all real. And a lot of the creatures were real or the creature effects were real. And then they went into Episode Two. And that movie was entirely outside of basically the actors in some degree were CGI. Well, yeah, except for the actors for CGI is what I was trying to say. So episode one, two and three, though, man, like, you know, a big fan. No, I can't say they I didn't watch Star Wars after that. After I watched those three episodes, I was like, gone for 15 years. Look at him. Jar Jar Binks, come on. Oh, I can't even say. Yeah, the biggest, the biggest movie I don't want to. You don't really don't want to. I probably could, but I don't want to. But, you know, it's the pod races were good, though. Yeah, you got him. You got to admit the Phantom Menace, they were pretty awesome. Yeah. And that's something that CGI, but people will forget about that because it's really good and it's really well done. And that's something that needs to be talked about is that CGI actually can be really good and you're probably not going to say it's really good because you haven't noticed that CGI and something that does that really well was, I mean, Rogue One, you've got giant intergalactic starships or the Star Destroyers, Super Star Destroyers and they look real. They look practical, but they're all CGI and you've got people like Moff Tarkin, who is a CGI character completely rendered in CGI. And he looks. I need to speak to you about that one. Well, I think it looks pretty realistic. Look, OK, so let's let's pause this picture. OK, he looks fantastic there. He looks fantastic in the reflections. But when he starts moving around and talking, yeah, you can see it's not 100 percent. Yeah. Like, I know it's supposed to be CGI, but I want to it's not it's not supposed to be trying to make it they made it. He's too prominent in it. Yeah. And so I was like, just maybe just edge it a little bit back so we don't actually see him in full frame most of the time. It would have been a little bit more of a background character. Yeah. So I'm watching and I'm like, that's CGI. The interesting thing about Moff Tarkin was they they found they found a cast of his face from another movie. So they actually got in there and use that cast. And so that's why the cast and the CGI recreation of that character looks so real. They had something to work with, whereas Leia in that movie doesn't. I think she looks awful. Like, she looks very plastic. It doesn't look like Carrie Fisher to me. It looks really awful. And they didn't have any kind of cast for her. They just had Carrie Fisher now. So they used a lot of her eyes and how her face kind of moves a bit now and stuff like that. And then he used another actor underneath. Just like it did with. They probably could use Carrie Fisher's daughter, Billy Lord. Like, well, she doesn't really I don't think she looks like the actress that portrayed her in the CGI footage. Sort of look like her. But I don't know, man. Like that was sort of believable. It was only a snippet at the end. Yeah. But look, another 10 years and we're going to be seeing movies full CGI and we're not going to even know the difference. Yeah. That's why I like your point when you brought up row one. Yeah. Not there wasn't one point in the movie where I go, oh, this is CGI. I watched it. Leia was for me. Leia, like it all got all the way to the end. I'm just saying, like, up to that point. Yeah. Apart from the moth bit. Yeah. Just a little bit too much moth and that Leia little bit at the end. The rest of the movie, I couldn't like, I wasn't there going, oh, that's CGI. I was actually really enjoying it and you lose yourself in it. Yeah. That's why technology is just so incredible this these days. That's why we're speaking about many weeks ago about Avatar 4 and Avatar 2. Sorry. Yeah. Well, yeah, it's going to be up to four, isn't it? It's going to be up to like 25. Where is that going to be? You know, what's going to be happening? Yeah. Any time will tell. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, there's so many bad uses of CGI. I mean, all the way, I think Scorpion King was an awful use of CGI, the rock in that movie looked bloody awful. And, you know, but then there's also so many great uses of CGI that you can't even... Oh, my God, I can't even bring that up. I can't even look at it. It's so hard to look at. Be careful, man. Sorry. Sorry, mate. It's very hard to look at terrible CGI. But then, you know, there's some cases where it's done really well. And another point of that is another Star Wars movie, and that's The Force Awakens. And a lot of people, you know, say awesome work to JJ for bringing back practical. But there's a ton in that movie that you might not even realize is CGI. And BB-8 is a big part of that. And he's very much CGI. It's obviously a lot of practical work with him. But a lot of him is CGI. R2-D2 in the movies, a lot of him is CGI. There's, for here, for here, for instance, is the Millennium Falcon in the background. They had a full-scale Millennium Falcon to use, but they didn't. They used a practical CGI, sorry, CGI model. But did you watch this and pick up or not? Were you just so... No, but that's what I mean. It's done so beautifully and well that you just can't tell. But the best part of this is, is that it's the same company. It's the same company that did the special effects in episode one, episode two, episode three, episode seven. You know, Jurassic Park, it's all... We're talking about 20 plus years. No, we're not. We're talking about five. Five, I think there's seven years. You're saying episode one. Yeah, episode one was 99. Episode two was 2003. No, it was 2002 and then episode three was 2005. So we're talking, you know, just a little bit over 10 years between... We're only on about 20 years. Yeah, just a little bit over the 10 years between episode three and episode seven. And like, you can look at films back from 2005 that look really good. There's, I mean, Jurassic Park, for instance, is 1993, 1993, and that movie looks amazing to this day. It still doesn't date because they use CGI and practical effects flawlessly. You just can't tell. Like there's this couple of sequence, I'm sure you can't. But mostly you can't really tell. Anyway, my point is, when it's done well, CGI can be amazing and it's flawless. And when it works, it works. But if you don't have the time to work on it, you don't have the money to spend on it, you know, you're gonna get dodgy crap like episode two and episode three. 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