I'd prefer they let the results speak for themselves as opposed to running around yelling "Practical Effects!!" at every chance. but it's really important to how this whole thing turns out. way too many times in the prequels it's obvious that Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen and everyone else are just standing in the middle of a featureless green screen hell, not really sure what they're supposed to be looking at or how to react. the result is tons of scenes that are just lifeless and unrealistic not because of the quality of the CGI, but because you have Obi Wan standing in front of a madly lightsaber twirling General Grievous like 2 feet from his face, and not even reacting a little.
it's like McGregor's incredibly cringe-worthy line "how did this happen? we're smarter than this!!" wasn't actually in the script, but rather was an ad-libbed commentary on the whole movie making and viewing experience.
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