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Chapter Two : Do Filmmakers Resort And Using Cgi Too Quickly?

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Chapter Two: Do Filmmakers Resort to Using CGI Too Quickly?
1999 saw the release of the much anticipated, “Star Wars Episode One – The Phantom Menace”. It had since been nearly sixteen years since the original trilogy; a new movie meant there was a lot of hype surrounding a new Star Wars story, with audiences knowing there was going to be at least another two more leading up to Episode 4. The anticipation for a new Star Wars movie was a massive phenomenon around the world. During a time before Youtube and social media, cinema audiences even bought tickets just to see the trailer alone - to then proceed to walk out of the cinema after it finished (Alice Vincent) whereas nowadays we have the luxury of viewing trailers online.
Leonard. P, a news reporter for ET 43 News described the reaction of preview screening audiences in 1999 as, “Well I don’t think anybody is gunna be walking away disappointed with this movie”. Audience members he interviewed praised the visual effects and the story; with one interviewee, saying it even “lived up to the originals”.
Today, The Phantom Menace is referred to as having an unnecessary use of CGI and features distinguishable green screen effects around edges. The film holds just a 51 metascore on Metacritic.com and only a 55% on the Tomatometer, from rottentomatoes.com, both popular internet user-based critic websites for TV and Movie entertainment. There is even a website dedicated to finding reasons to dislike the film and to point out what

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