Motion Pixels
One of the most shocking twists of Star Wars: The Last Jedi has nothing to do with the story. As an aging Luke Skywalker tries to forget about the difficult choice he must make, a familiar voice and figure suddenly appear. At this point in the film, the audience gasps in excitement as Yoda returns to the silver screen. However, there’s something odd about the way he moves. His body looks stiffer, and he just bobs up and down as he talks. It’s very obvious that Yoda is merely a puppet. In a franchise that has been maligned by fans in the last two decades for an over-reliance on CGI, and that previously featured a fully-rendered Yoda doing backflips to unimpressed (if not horrified) theatergoers, this is already enough of a surprise. That said, consider that much of the domestic box office is nowadays reliant on massive multi-hundred-million-dollar superhero epics relying on pure CGI escapism (assuming that the studios aren’t planning on simply recouping their expenses in foreign mark...