I have to agree here. Even with the budget that ESB had, the special effects were still pretty ordinary (matte backgrounds, etc.) but that didn't matter because the story was cool, and the humour wasn't forced. And spawn's right about the acting. Christiansen was terrible in AOTC, but I've seen him in other films and he's been brilliant. MacGregor has a wry smile on his face most of the time. Remember in TPM, right at the start when he says, "I've got a bad feeling about this?" He looks like he's about to go into hysterics.junak said:I thought the idea of Star Wars was to have shitty special effects, I think they tried so hard to make the same with new special effects technology that it infact looks retarded.