When compared to the stuff that other companies were producing at the time, the new trilogy has terrible computer effects in my opinion. In terms of achievement in visual effects, the original trilogy was truly remarkable.
However, if think that the quality of the visual effects is not important when they are used badly, what’s important is how they are used, and even though the original trilogy was spectacular, nothing can top the opening sequence of Revenge of The Sith. That shit was tight.
But then it’s a cyclical argument because it could be argued that such cool uses of visual effects could only be produced because they had the technology to create them…