So I finally saw Episode III

[Alex]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Were the special effects not that good? I'm easy to impress I suppose, and found the backdrops to be quite pretty.

It isn't that they're bad, just that they're frequently unnecessary and sometimes distracting.

It is funny that in regular films the director usually does everything possible to screen out the confusion of the real world so that you can focus on exactly what you're supposed to. In computer animated films (and in many ways the last three Star Wars are just CG movies) to show off the technical skill as much of the distracting world as possible is crammed into the frame.