Join: March 22nd 2005 11:53 pm Posts: 1493 Location: Deep Space Nine
Something that just came back to my attention after I thought I'd forgotten it from AOTC are the constant camera zooms in the film. They work a lot of the time but there are many instances where it just looks totally innapropriate. AOTC was filled with these things (And I'm not talking about shots like the Geonosis battle where ILM tried to make it more realistic with the zoom-in shots) where they just look cheesy. I don't normally nitpick this kind of stuff but it's gotten a little distracting.
Good use of zoom-in:
Establishing shots
"Please don't!" "I need him!" etc.
Bad use of zoom-in:
The entire Vader/Emperor scene at the end, including on the star destroyer.
The entire Vader/Emperor scene at the end, including on the star destroyer.
I don't agree with that one. What I didn't like was when they zoomed in on the Obi-Wan vs Grievous and the Obi-Wan vs Anakin duel to the point where it looked like they were just twirling their sabers without any contact. All the choreography was wasted on those shots.