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Star Wars II (Attack of the clones) Trailer
tjansen writes "The Episode II Trailer is available.
You need be a starwars.com member to watch it and must have installed the Quicktime plugin though." I guess thats 2 strikes against me. Glad I saw it in front of Monsters Inc.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/
I was just about to watch the trailier, and you had to Slashdot it. arrgh.
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/
StarWars.com member? HA! =)
OK,
Whose going to download it, and setup a mirror? I'ld love to see this!
Um, this is my sig.
I saw it at the front of that movie too. I was glad that there was a movie after the trailer, and that I hadn't gone just to see the trailer. The trailer doesn't make me want to see ATOTC, as it's more of a slideshow than a real trailer. Not that Lucas really needs to show anything other than a lightsaber to get the fans to go see it... :)
I saw the trailer as well. No dialog, but Darth's breathing was cool. It's all video, and sheds no light on the story. Patience.....
post those mirrors people! i don't want to login to no stickin' web page...
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apple.com/trailers/. You still need the QuickTime plugin.
This is actually what the movie industry calls a 'teaser'. In todays movie industry, a trailer is the Cliff Notes version of the movie.
This teaser, on the other hand, is a series of snapshots of different scenes where some fx has been completed. It requires no music, editing, and is basically the cheapest, fastest thing Lucasfilm can put out at this point.
Its disgusting how well they know how to get me. That teaser rips through my consciousness and grabs hold of my emotions instantly. I grew up with Star Wars. "A New Hope" came out when I was 5 - my dad took me to it. I'm not a huge raving fan, but the trailer gets me. Two things in particular: the breathing (!) scours my emotional memories, and the shot of Anakin and Amidala by the dome house brings up founts of anticipated grief!
ARG!!!
I hope that the story isn't ruined. Lucas came close with Ep. I. Please.
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You can download it from here: http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/img/sw_ctp _320.mov
Should be a link to the medium sized file. The large one requires QuickTime pro.
Have you tested this URL:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/
I think it's great!
Use this Crossover plugin from Codeweavers to play the Quicktime movies under Linux ! It uses wine and works great under Mozilla / Galeon / Netscape.
... yowza ;-)
I just saw the trailer with it
blaah !
Granted this is a Star Wars movie, which I'm required by the Geek Code to see, so I'll go see it when it comes out. Until then it'll be stepping through a mine field of films trying to avoid seeing it. Thanks for the warning about it preceeding Monsters, Inc.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Is a 30 second trailer worth $28 ????
Maybe I've become numb to such teasing in my old age, but the trailer did nothing to whet my appetite.
The least they could have done was included a cutaway shot of Natalie's robe falling to the floor, just before her bare, firm buttocks appeared.
I just teased myself into petrification. I'll be back in a few minutes.
Knunov
Why do users with IDs under 100,000 or over 700,000 usually have the most worthwhile comments?
... that got so much interest a while back. I remember reading something that the producer of that trailer said... that mostly he just looked for various 'head turn' shots, and incorporated them into his trailer.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
I gave phantom menace the benefit of the doubt, but I will be reading the reviews of 'clones' very carefully before parting with my $$s.
I may go and see 'harry potter' instead.
Let's hope the title "Attack of the Clones" is just a teaser as well as this clip. That is the worst thing Lucas has done since creating Jar Jar Binks (whom i've heard is on the Emperial Council!). I may wait for the video on this one... but we'll see. Episode 1 was very disappointing, seemingly focused on a pod race and a tribe of moronic underwater creatures.
today is spelling optional day.
I heard a lot of people whine that one reason Episode I was such a disappointment was that the trailer rocked.
I guess Lucas figured out that he could make a less-than-impressive trailer so people wouldn't be so disappointed.
PS - I don't think I saw this much face-sucking in the other 4 movies combined.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
If I got to bang natalie, I'd be breathing heavily also.
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
Being born in 1977, I only saw Jedi in theaters, and am too young to have seen the New Hope and Empire trailers.
As luck (and eBay) would have it, I purchased a copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special (it is -hideous-). Appended to the end were a lot of trailers... and the EpII trailer (Vaderbreath) is a lot like one of the Empire ones.
Empire is my favorite one of them all, so, keep hope alive.
Who says its boring?!
NATALIE PORTMAN MAKEOUT SCENE.
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
The Phantom Premise caused me concern in that I found it hard to reconcile what I was seeing with what I understood the SW universe to be.
The clips in the Episode II trailer (send in the clones for anyone who remembers an RPG game called Paranoia) make me think that Lucas could bring the story back.
Maybe it's just wistful thinking, but scenes of Ewan McGregor with a beard looking older and wiser and Hayden Christianson - who won't be shouting "Yippeee" - looking to do a servicable job as Anakin make me think that Lucas could get it right this time. And finally to see the explanation of the Clone Wars. Children growing into Storm Troopers. Finally we will see how Palpatine seized power.
I had high hopes for the first one too, I hope I won't be disappointed again.
IMHO, as per,
J:)
Oh well, no point in steering now.
Arg.. all sites are *hosed*. Can anyone mirror this?
About half way through, there's a shot of a rather pensive Mace Windu, with Yoda behind him facing the other way.
Yoda is looking at an approaching group. Among them are the Queen (Natalie Portman!), and Jar-Jar Binks.
I think I'll wait for the DVD.
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"Trailer Trash" which is what non Mac OS/QT Pro users must be named.
(I'm not trolling or posting flamebait, people, I made that oddball connection and am still grinning. I hope someone sees the humor in it too).
There is actuall a way to save the trailer even if the ability is disabled...I'll see what I can do about making it into a DivX (now that OS X.1 has ffmpeg to watch DivX's).
If it is not on fire, it is a software problem.
Could someone make a sort of quick & dirty java ASCII knockoff of this trailer? I'm at work right now and I don't have the administrative privelages to install the software to view this, so I have to wait until I get home, but that is in 6 hours and I don't know if I can wait that long!!!
*desperately awaiting new star wars footage*
OK, those 3 lines in the trailer from the first one were good...here are the ones from this one...
Every general leads in battle...
(fade out to show Obi-Won)
Every queen discovers her destiny...
(fade out to show portman)
Every boy becomes a man...
(fade out to show a very yound canadian...)
OK, now that last line makes me crack up...This is funny stuff
The first teaser trailer made me want to watch I, that and the anticipation. Now that I've see I, this teaser sucks. I hope that the real trailer/movie is better. And of course I'm still going to see it on opening night...it is Star Wars after all.
"Time is long and life is short, so begin to live while you still can." -EV
For those either on Linux and unable to, or just hate Quicktime for some reason, Dark Horizons has links to these four mirror sites in .mpg format. Note that these seem pretty hosed as well though...
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
Went to see Monsters Inc. this weekend at a local Famous Players theatre. There was a note up at the ticket counter saying there would be no refunds to tickets purchased for Monsters Inc because of the SW Ep2 Trailer.
There's also the fact that QuickTime 5 is needed to view any of these trailers/teasers. Something of a pain, since I can't upgrade past QT4 on this locked-down-piece-of-an-NT-box they gave me at work...
Come to the University of Mars! Classes starting soon!
Yup. You can find it on the Movie Pile at File Pile.
I'm AC'd because, the first rule of File Pile is NOT to talk about File Pile. (See FilePile for more details on this.)
But the site is in .ASP
Sorry, my Mandrake doesn't like that any better...
Not only is one of them in .asp, but the others are either slashdotted or have replaced them with links to the quicktime version. Sorry everyone, Apple have beaten be to it.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
After this post so many users tried to access the site that it's down. Oh man!!!
Looks like we'll get to see some Boba Fett action as well
Note that Jar-Jar does not appear in the trailer... maybe Lucas is taking the criticism seriously. :)
i have one good reason NOT to see episode 2...
episode 1...
and, i thought the first one was hyped up enough? what the hell is this?
get over it, it's a horrible trailor anyway.
Runnin' On Empty
Yup. I just had a post myself. Here are the ratings so far:
Moderation Totals: Insightful=1, Interesting=1, Informative=1, Overrated=2, Underrated=1, Total=6.
I was insightful, interesting, overrated, overrated again, then underrated, and finally informative.
Does anybody know of a way to get these to a none quicktime format? I resisted from using quicktime recently as its a bit bloated, I hate the skins and that annoying "upgrade to quicktime pro" message that always seems to start.
It's a shame as I liked the quicktime technology but the actual software seems to have been filled with useless features. If anybody has a codec for this to work under windows media player (yep a win2k box) please post it.
You need be a starwars.com member to watch it and must have installed the Quicktime plugin though.
Or you can grab the nine MB mpeg off gnutella...
Unless you are in possession of great qualities of bandwidth, you only just saw the Episode I trailer on the big screen (like me, during "The Man Who Sued God" which I really did enjoy, pity it won't get an international audience).
What were the skies like when you were young?
i went to see Monsters, Inc. this weekend, and I saw the disappointing trailer. It was a slideshow, NOT a trailer. NOT NOT NOT NOT !!!!
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As usual, when all the mirrors are swamped: find it on P2P.
This is the PAID version as well, so even if you have QT 5, like I do, you still can't see it.
/. brought down the starwars.com site.
I'm pretty impressed that that
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Whatever happened to all the Apple trailers being hosted by Akamai? When they were, I never had this kind of hassle accessing things, even when the _huge_ Episode 1 trailers were up at 640. Apple really shouldn't have stopped using them.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
You have to be a member to watch a commercial (the trailer) so that you'll go buy their product (the movie). That is beyond lame.
go get crossover plug-in, watch quicktime on linux, stop complaining, smile.
computers never mkae mistooks. --Tandy T1000
AFAIC, there is no movie called "A New Hope." :)
It's "Star Wars," no extra anything. Lucas added that only after Empire came out to make it look more like a continuing series than a one-shot deal that hit paydirt.
He said at the time that it cost $15 million to make, and expected and get about $25 at the box office, if he was lucky. He got *real* lucky.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
No.
...not *all* trailers spoil the entire plot for a movie. But some do. And in my experience, the ones that do that do so because they had to scrounge the entire film in order to find enough interesting, amazing, or funny bits to make a trailer. Once you've seen the trailer, you've seen all the bits worth watching. (Commercials for sitcoms work much the same way.)
Case in point: Disney threw in a trailer for their theatrical sequel to "Peter Pan," cleverly entitled "Return to Neverland." It involves Wendy's daughter and the entire Neverland cast of the original movie, and apparently some Wacky Adventures. Based on that (and, admittedly, my previous experience with non-Pixar Disney sequels), I now know everything I need to know about this movie. My wife and daughter can go see it themselves in February; I know for a fact I won't be missing anything.
If they don't provide an entire plot to you, then you're probably safe going to see it. There will be enough surprises to make it worth your $7.50. Otherwise, take a pass and wait for the Rotten Tomatoes rating to come in.
I'll leave it to the die-hards to speculate what that could mean plotwise.
I was just looking at this last night. Does it work as well as they say? Is the installation seamless?
Is it worth the money? I think it might be for me (Now that I spend all of my time in linux).
Give some details.
Derek
"Send in the clones"!
Its too late I know, but Im really beginning to believe this prequel idea was a horribly bad one. I dont see Episode 2 being much better.
Plot: Episode I sets up the plot for the next film, but without much conviction. How can we see Anakin freeing the slaves, with "Yippee" in our minds. They will need a heavy dose of the Jedi Mind Trick (TM) to get us to forget so much of the flaws of the previous film.
Characters: After the 1st film, we dont have a good association with any of the characters. Anakin was a child, and we had a difficult time understanding the kid. Amidala was always shifting from Queen to friend and back, so we dont really know the real Amidala. Qui Gon is dead, Yoda and Mace were introduced to us like we've known them for ages. The only one we have the slighest insight into would be Kenobi and Binks (sad but true). As such, we really arent motivated to learn more about them.
Lack of surprises: The first trilogy succeeded because we WANTED to know what Jabba looked like. Had to wait 3 movies to find out. 3 movies to see the evil and dreaded Emperor (minus the teaser in Empire). 3 movies to find out about Leia...3 to find out what was under the mask. Episode 1 throws it all out on the table. Midichlorians cause the Force, Emperor in-you-face, etc. I dont see the room for the great plot twists of the originals.
Special Effects: George is hooked on 3d. And it truly sucks. The models used in the originals made it the best special effects ever, and blows away anything they can do today on computers. I dont want to go see on the big screen what Star Trek manages to do on the little screen. After Episode 1, the awe of the space adventure has been cheap-nd. And with the investment in Jar Jar, it shows no sign of going away.
Episode 2 is as doomed to fail as was #1. It may have a more adult theme, but the "magic" of Empire will not be there. And its all because of Episode 1.
Can 3 fix all this? Perhaps but still not likely. 3's problem will be continuity. Its clear Lucas hasnt thought his plots out, and as such by the time 3 rolls around, the continuity will be completely hosed. It will be fun to hear James Earl Jones again, but those kinds of things are the only things that will make it worth watching.
Besides, when you know how the outcome will be, how can we be expected to side with the protagonist? Is this movie going to be about Anakin, or more about Kenobi? Ep 1 had us on Anakin's side. Somewhere in 2, we HAVE to make a switch to siding with Kenobi. This is awkward, and will lose quite a few.
They should have kept on going after Return of the Jedi. Make the final 3 movies instead of the first 3.
On Friday I went to see MI at the Paramount in Toronto, lo and behold the theatre we saw the film and ALL trailers in was using a DLP projector. This was just excellent! Everything was crisp (too crisp in terms of static text), no jittering and no defects in the 'film'! As soon as Texas Instruments gets the resolution a little higher to get rid of the last of the jaggies, consider me sold!
Here's the direct link to the larger movie. NOTE: They appear to have done something funky with the web server to first check to see if you have QuickTime 5.0 before they let you download anything. If you do not have 5.0, you will not get to download the movie. It's amazing what you can accomplish with a packet sniffer though. :-) The large movie is 12.1MB. Looks more like a slideshow to me though.
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Followed by a lightsaber crash....
My name fits again.
Starwars.com Site Error
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties.
Our droids are hard at work bringing the system back on-line.
Please try again later.
During the trailer the lady sitting in front me says, "Oooo they are making another one!"
I, of course, replied by saying "DOH!"
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein
After downloading the teaser/trailer, go to your browser's cache, if possible.
I use iCab pre2.6 on Mac OS9, which caches into "System Folder -> Preferences -> iCab -> iCab Cache"
iCab Cache is a collection of folders labeled "a" through "z".
IE caches into one single file that I don't know how to get into.
Anyways, I just poke through the cache folders (or use Sherlock to search for all ".mov" files) and look for large, ".mov" files. Drag-n-drop outa the cache, rename, and BINGO! There you go.
I did this with the LOTR full-screen, but it didn't work for the AOTC medium; the cache folder size decreased as I downloaded, but it didn't show up...
Hope this helps.
(tig)
Ignorance and prejudice and fear
Walk hand in hand
Thanks, that link worked great!
The quality is oustanding. Best video I've ever seen on the Mac; it easily surpasses DVD video. Go Sorenson 3!
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Flying between different sites, searching newsroup binary groups, P2P seraching, and finally found a link that worked.....it really wasn't worth all the effort.
With all the hype about the trailer/teaser, I was half expecting my PC to float in midair, slap my face, and explode with excitement. What did I get? 45 seconds of very short clips that look nice, but don't tell me anything.
Hey, I love Star Wars as much as the next guy, but what an anti-climax.
So here's a question: Now what?
I submitted this as an article when it was announced but it was rejected. Apparently, weekly articles complaining about editors' inability to run QuickTime (while they're happily playing one Windows-only game after another) is News For Nerds, but a solution isn't.
Was definitely Hot Shots with Chuck Sheen. What was especially sad was that they were able to fit *all* the funny scenes into a 30 second commercial.
mirror up at http://dangermouse.pod4.org/breathing.mpg for those of you without starwars.com membership :)
"I'm tired of looking like an ass because of people's assumptions" - Dalvenjah Foxfire
Super Colon Blow anyone?
So, after about 15 minutes of download install download install, I finally get a message from the Star Wars site: To view this you must have Quick Time Pro. Click here to upgrade.
Gees, another upgrade... off to Apple's site I go (again) and what's this? $29.95 ?!!? TO see a TRAILER!! SCREW THAT!!
Please, someone tell me that I am wrong, that I missed something, that I don't have to PAY to see a trailer. Please, because this is just killing me that Lucas would think his followers would PAY to see this trailer.
This is not the sig you are looking for...
Click link on website to play teaser. After teaser is downloaded go to your /tmp/501/Temporary Items/ directory. There should be a QTPluginTemp* file in the directory. Copy the file as a .mov file. I don't know if /tmp/501 is the same for all OS X systems, but the cached file will definitely be in there somewhere.
It was very amusing to watch the preview of Star Wars and at the end of the preview they saw it name and a relly good %(over 50%) of the audence (Including me) Laughed at the name. At least it is not just slashdotters who thinks it is a stupid name.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
If I remember correctly, The Phantom Menace was directed specifically towards boys ~10 years old. Would I be correct in assuming that we may be moving up the ladder in the target audiences age??
Now that they have the 10yr olds hooked, etc...
It's always amusing to see the dichotomy between Slashdotters blindly hating all corporations (Borland is giving their C++ compiler away for free, but not the source code! They are evil; down with Borland!) and the love of various other corporations, like AMD, Paramount, Lucasfilm, FOX, and so on.
Many slashdotters won't remember this, but for Alien, back in the late 70's the trailer was very brief, showing an egg cracking and light radiating through the crack, with the tag line "In space no one can hear you scream" Pretty effective, didn't give away a lick of what was going to happen besides a very very well done film. It really helps a suspense story not to be giving away anything. While I don't expect Star Wars movies to have the same level of suspense, it helps the experience that there is some and I don't remember seeing something in the trailer that will dilute the suspense.
I've seen many trailers where the entire movie was given away, all the good jokes, all the exciting action, that's another view, drumming audience expectations and therefore attendance. That is a kind of fraud, IMHO.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
It's one of the best products I've ever purchased for Linux... It's just a shame that it requires money to use otherwise free plugins under Linux.
Dinivin
Strange ... all I'm getting from this is a 2k .qt file.
nt
Yes it's pretty darn good. Use it every day.
Went to take my 2 year old to see Monsters, got treated to this teaser as well as a longer trailer for LOTR.
When she saw the lightsabers, she said "Hey! That's my Daddy's movie!"
The force is strong in this one....
-- When a fool hears of the Tao, he will laugh out loud.
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I want those 60 seconds of my life back. When will a real trailer be released? I'll gladly endure viewing a clip containing Jar Jar if the rest of the trailer has substance and elicits at least a modicum of excitement and suspense. This EP2 trailer makes me want to work in my cubicle all day.
You need to have QuickTime 5 or massage the headers that your browser sends to the server indicating which plugins you have.
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I was hoping to hear Weird Al Yankovic's "I think I'm a clone now" song as the background instead of the typical Star Wars type music.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
...and watch Farscape. Much better.
Damn it! I feel like i am on IRC now...
You can download it here.
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As mentioned, it's just a teaser. Except that it isn't much of a teaser, either.
There isn't much of anything shown. Most of the teaser is "fade in from black, show something for 2 seconds, fade out to black".
In fact, it was a large let down. If you go to the effort to download it, you'll just be sorry. Even a diehard fan of the series should agree with that!
We saw the teaser with Monsters, Inc. Now, that rocked!
Of the 4 trailers attached to it, Clones was the most second most forgettable; the other being some lame computer animated movie called Ice Age about a band of prehistoric animals saving a human child from the ice age. Lame.
Two good things were shown with Monsters, Inc.
- the trailer for Fellowship of the Ring. While I can't wait for this, I felt the trailer did not do the story justice. (and I'd already downloaded this, too)
- the Pixar short For The Birds. This is hilarious! If you feel like downloading something, then go to http://www.pixar.com/shorts/ftb/index.html and see the first half of it. You won't be sorry!
I hope there is a nice lovingly drawn out and detailed scene featuring Jar Jar and an interrogation droid. Maybe it can jab that syringe into his tongue. It could be a sort of Clockwork Jar Jar thingy. If EPII turns out to be nothing more than yet another sappy melodrama with great special effects then I'll still pay to see it if there is a decent torture Jar Jar scene. What would really backfire and add to the tastiness is if the torture scene is supposed to be a dramatic emotional moment. The cheesy orchestra music can play up the wincing of the other characters as the so-called bad guys get a standing O from the Jar Jar haters.
No stupid Stawars.com user id needed either... Off you go
The trailer was uninspired, pretentious, and boring. Given how pathetic Episode I was, I'm sure that's a sign of what we have in store for Episode II.
At least they're using CG for Yoda now. He looked downright laughable.
max
This is a little off-topic, but I heard that the Episode 2 trailer was physically attached to the beginning of the reels of Monsters Inc. So, in essence, the teaser is the beginning of Monsters Inc. This was arranged by George Lucas and Pixar since 20th Century Fox and Disney didn't want the trailer in front of it and it's usually up to those companies and the theaters to put the trailers together before the film. Pixar used to be part of Lucasarts, but Lucas didn't want to go the whole CG'd route so they broke off, but they're still good friends with Lucas. So Lucas basically called them up and asked them to put his little teaser at the beginning of the prints for Monsters Inc.
I thought that was kind of interesting, but according to theforce.net the trailer isn't on all prints or some theaters are chopping it off so it's possible some people won't see it in front of Monsters Inc. Just thought some people might find that interesting.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
Ok, this is OT, but I thought I'd share.
Posting those .movs on my IBM X20 laptop was probably not a good idea, but it has given me the chance to see how Apache would hold up.
Since September 18, 2001, Code Red 2 has hit me with 1177 GET requests.
In the last hour since I posted the Episode II trailer, Slashdot has hit me 662 times.
Needless to say that I've moved to another station to get some work done.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/media/pro/ ep2_breathing_m640.mov
.mov that it downloads.
/ep2/breathing/media/pro/ep2_breathing_m640.mov HTTP/1.1
Is the large version that requires Quicktime pro.
Quicktime will use your default proxy (on windows) all you have to do, is parse the proxy log for the 2nd
GET
Connection: keep-alive
Host: starwars.apple.com
Range: bytes=0-
Accept: */*
User-Agent: QuickTime (qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1)
All four of those servers are painfully slow. Looks like "Attack of the Clones" is also another term for the /. effect.
The first three (Star Wars, Empire, Jedi) were EXCELLENT stories, although the best by far was the first. It opened up a whole new genre of both movies AND toys (miniature action figures, and all that came with them. THATS where Lucas made the $$$. He owned ALL the rights to ANY toy based on SW. my first was Darth Vader, with the sliding light sabre - 8th birthday). The original Star Wars was unlike those that have followed in that it was capable of standing on it's own, as a complete story. Empire ended with the capture of Han and the cutting off of Lukes hand, while Jedi couldn't exist without Empire.
Anyways, to claim that the movies relied mainly upon visuals, action and comedy is ludicrous. Up until Phantom, the story was what it was about. All the rest was the proverbial cherry on top...
Just my $0.02
(tig)
Ignorance and prejudice and fear
Walk hand in hand
Will this interfere with, say, native plugins? Or does it simply allow you to use whichever windows plugins you want...
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/media/p
Is the large version that requires Quicktime pro.
Quicktime will use your default proxy (on windows) all you have to do, is parse the proxy log for the 2nd
GET
Connection: keep-alive
Host: starwars.apple.com
Range: bytes=0-
Accept: */*
User-Agent: QuickTime (qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1)
I extracted the trailer by "export"-ing it out of Quicktime Pro, does anyone have 9 MB of webspace left?
. take off every
I for one was not impressed. Actually the fake trailer was way more interesting...
So... I'm curious ...
What is it that makes it fail if you don't have QT5Pro installed?
Also, since I work in a research lab where we use QuickTime all the time, we have it on all machines -- so I don't even know what it does if you don't and click the link anyway.
i am a soviet space shuttle
Most DLP projectors in theaters are 1920x1080, progressive scan (progressive scan 24fps version of HD's 1080i).
Most film editing systems run using 2k scans (2048 pixels across), so there's not any extra resolution available in the output from the production of the film.
Some effects houses use 4k scans for input to heavy effects scenes, but as a general rule thats beyond the capability of the film stock to hold. (A 35mm film frame is less than 1/2 the area of a 35mm print frame on your normal film camera, and those barely get any benefit from a 4k scan).
The gnutella network is a fine place to find an mpg version of this trailer, and as more people share it the mirrors will be more and more widespread. Peer to peer networks shine best in when they solve bandwidth problems by distributing the cost of mirroring popular data over the internet.
I recommend gnut, a text-based GPL'd gnutella client you can use over telnet or whatever, and you can even open a shell over top of it so you can continue interacting with the file system. it's the coolest.
It may be a good idea to search for "monsters" since the correct trailer (the one I found) was marked that way. Otherwise you might end up with the very well done forgery that has been circulating the net for a while.
Bryguy
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
1) There's a link further up that should be modded up, this link doesn't by-pass the check for QuickTime Pro (AFAIK!).
2) QuickTime most certainly is NOT superior to DVD video. I've seen MPEG-2 streams that look much nicer than this and are comparativly sized.
All I know about Bush is I had a good job when Clinton was president.
It looks like Boba Fett is in this movie too. It looks like him in the background and with his jet pack blazing in one of the scenes.
Also, Yoda appears to be CGI instead of a puppet this time. He actually looks really good to my eye.
I can't believe how much whining is going on. They call it a teaser for a reason! What did you expect? A download showing the entire plot, introducing all the new characters and some behind the scenes footage? It wasn't called the Star Wars 2 Teaser Collectors Edition! Some of you people really need to get out more.
Is this movie still called "Attack of the Killer Clones" or something stupid like that?
Check out CNN's write-up of the teaser; apperently the author of this article thought it'd be worthwhile to list tons of thoughts of people who posted on starwars.com's message boards, such as these--
I dunno... the middle one, about Natalie Portman, just struck me as funny for a news outlet to quote.All I know about Bush is I had a good job when Clinton was president.
Smoochin'???
What are you, seven?
In the far distant future...
After George Lucas is dead. And his copyrights on the original Star Wars material have expired.
A new film director arises and reshoots the Star Wars Episode I to III as they should have been done.
This new director focuses on story telling and character development. The new films do not make use of fart jokes, inane action sequences that only exists to have action sequences, and highly annoying animated aliens that only school children can appreciate.
All you need to know about CmdrTaco is that he actually liked The Phantom Menace.
My favorite palindrome is:
-- !todd erases a red dot! I steal music on the internet.
I can't speak for others, but I like to root for the little guy. I figure the big corps got enough momentum going for them, nice to see #2 make a few correct steps once in a while.
If nothing else, it keeps the marketplace honest.
Sorry if you've got a problem with that.
In addition to seeing a glimpse of what could be him behind Samuel L. Jackson in the traier, IMDB has him listed as a cast member:
.... Jar Jar Binks/Achk Med-Beq
Ahmed Best
So much for that bit of improvement that could have been between EpI and EpII.
What were the skies like when you were young?
Where is this from? It sounds very familiar and I can't place it.
Dyolf Knip
1) Download and install Morpheus (www.musiccity.com)
:) and thank you go out to Apple Computer Corporation, Inc. and Anonymity on the Internet :) Have a great day. What a wonderful time to be alive. :)
2) Search for "Quicktime Pro 5.1"
3) Search for "Quicktime 5 Keygen"
4) Install/run both of those
5) Search for "star wars 2 trailer"
6) Download the trailer
7) Double click it
A great big giant happy face
Terrible . . . bloody terrible.
So, you either have to love all corporations, or you have to hate all corporations? I guess no shades of grey are allowed.
Got Freedom?
Thinking?
http://download.theforce.net/theater/episode2/ep2_ large.mov
No, actually, I'm willing to bet the "CrossOver" plug-in won't do extremely well at $20 a pop.
Quite frankly, I'll well past the point of being willing to pay anything extra to be able to view a specific video file format. If people doing advertising want me to see their sales-pitch for a new movie (what a "teaser" is, after all), they should provide it in multiple formats - not just proprietary Apple format.
I appreciate the work that was put into trying to get Quicktime movies to play on Linux - but if they expect payment for it, I just can't cost-justify it. If others can, great. I hope it does well for them.
Let's not forget the fast connection also.....
While I liked the movie (Episode 1), you certainly won't see me prostrating around the theatre in attempt to get quasi-religious significance out of it. On the countrary, there are other films that have taken that place in my heart at this point, thanks...
Check out this link on CNN.com:
a r. wars.trailer/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/05/st
Apparently journalism now consists of checking out web boards and reprinting what you see there.
She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
(I'm a Star Wars fan. I loved the movies as a kid, and enjoy them today while recognizing their flaws. I didn't camp at box office lines, I don't go to theforce.net or starwars.com every week. But I do have some Star Wars Lego sets. Now you know a little about my viewpoint.)
:).
It looks a little gloomier than EP I (as well it should, being the second act... wonder how Lucas is going to portray the third act, given how EP IV starts. My guess: lots of gloom and doom, but the last scene references Luke and Leia. Now I'm way off the subject, time to close this parenthetical.)
The city on stilts in the water looks interesting. The shot of the spaceport (on Naboo?) is beautiful. The opening shot of Amidala with the garden wall behind her is adorable. (So's she. But does anyone else think she has a somewhat vacuous expression in a lot of places -- both in EP I and this shot -- like she doesn't really believe she's in a 'space opera' movie or she just doesn't 'get it'?)
We see Anakin in a black outfit... gosh what a surprise there, not like Lucas would foreshadow anything. (Yeah, I'm being sarcastic. I realize you're not supposed to wonder who the bad guy is, but I sometimes resent having things shown/explained to me as though I were a five year old.)
Speaking of Anakin, looks like the young man playing him is doing pretty well. I slo-mo'd through the whole 20+ seconds and he seemed believable. No dialogue tho.... Still {rhetorical question alert}, can he do worse than Mark Hamill?
Obi Wan looks good in his beard... is that him captured in the blue field?
I'm hoping (perhaps unrealistically) that since we only saw one little bit of Jar Jar that he won't be a huge part of the movie... but it is just as likely that they haven't done many scenes with him yet. All that computer time... utterly wasted.... I can deal with goofball droids, and put up with cute fluffly Ewoks, but I'd rather see those computers spend CPU cycles on Fractint. At least the images are pretty!
New spaceships and atmospheric craft, new landscapes and settings, new people. It's amazing that Lucas is able to put together any continuity with everything that changes -- in the first three movies as well. But he does a good job of keeping the main plotlines moving along.
Nice to see that C3PO has his parts covered
Lucas has done some cool things with every episode. I look forward to seeing a full-length trailer.
http://209.137.84.15/ep2.mov
So what happened this morning? Did someone wake up and think "Damn it, we need to maximize the piracy of Quicktime 5 Pro!"?
Or do they expect everyone who quickly grabbed an illegal serial number today to see how many "fantastic features" they've been missing and honestly pay up the 30 bucks?
So, you either have to love all corporations, or you have to hate all corporations? I guess no shades of grey are allowed.
If you are a zealot that rails against the evils of corporate control, then yes, you do.
Geeks go to Star Wars flicks.
Dorks toss $7.50 down to watch a trailer, then leave.
I just heard what souded like an obscene phone call
finkployd
"we dont have a good association with any of the characters.... As such, we really arent motivated to learn more about them."
Umm, A good association? the first film was supposed to be an introduction with partial fillin's. we are introduced too each player with ties to their future... You must understand that we DON'T know how each character will develope.... That will be Lucas's job. we already have an impression, being good or bad to each viewer doesn't really matter at this point, but it should be enough motivation to find out how each character will play a part later.
"Lack of surprises" Did you know Maul was going to die? along with Qui Gon? Do you know that there are various new jedi's we have never known before and will play major roles in the next 2 episodes? Can i say Christopher Lee (Darth Tyranus)... Oh and for all you bitter and too mature for Jar Jar Fans, do you know how jar jar will die... I'm sure that is something many are looking forward too.
"Special Effects: George is hooked on 3d. And it truly sucks. The models used in the originals made it the best special effects ever, and blows away anything they can do today on computers."
WHAT!!!!! Are you insane! The reason lucas could not make the films better was because he didn't have the tools for making a more 'realistic' picture... The production using cga is amazing. Why do you think they produced their own software? What kind of visions could you produce using models rather than cga? I would love to see that production!
"Its clear Lucas hasnt thought his plots out, and as such by the time 3 rolls around, the continuity will be completely hosed."
Hasn't thought these plots OUT! He based the last three episodes on plots he's developing stronger than the first three movies... Remember, he had to create the first three episodes before the last three episodes...
"Ep 1 had us on Anakin's side. Somewhere in 2, we HAVE to make a switch to siding with Kenobi. This is awkward, and will lose quite a few."
We HAVE to do that?.. In an interview with Hayden, he states the decisions that anikan goes through is something we all can relate to... He presses the point that some people might actually feel for anakin and is troubled destiny, and will probably take his side! wow
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
to get the trailer from http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/
but you need QT Pro to view the largest.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
My opinions... DON'T EXPECT TO SEE A BLACK SUITED CHARACTER WITH A BIG HELMET
I believe the breathing we all hear, is from the very end of the movie. I have no information on this, but I believe what we will see when we see what we were hearing in way of heavy breathing will be Anakin Skywalker on heavy life support. And I believe that is how EPSIODE II will end. They will fight the war, something will happen to Anakin along the way (obviously) and then Anakin and Obi Wan will fight (I will be very curious to see how Obi Wan defeats Anakin (one who has a lot more in tune with the force than Obi Wan)...and in the end will be a half dead Anakin being kept alive on life support.
Hence the breathing was very long slow and unchanging.
(Of course this is all speculation, we might find that we don't even hear that breathing. I thought the trailer did well. Showed characters and not much more. I DON'T WANT PLOT DETAILS. I am going to try to avoid them. Sometimes the trailers give away all too much. Anyways, we shall see. The one thing I'd have liked to see in the trailer would have been Bubba Fett.)
- Jason
Ahnk, or Moorpork?
mod him up you stupid idiots!!! the link wirks great!
For a breif second I swore I saw a penis in there!!!
I suck hun. Muh! Muh! Muh!
it would fit in with the rest of his emotional problems, and his eventual turn towards violence and hatred... at least that is what I see from the liberals in the US. If you don't believe me, just check out the wreckage after one of their hypocritical hate filled 'protests'... violent psychopaths
Well , it works great inside the browser window. I use it as my main quicktime and even mpeg viewer. You *can* launch quicktimeplayer independantly using their wine stuff but it's too slow for my taste. Opening the movie file in Galeon/Mozilla is much faster and really stable.
;-)
The crossover plugin installs quicktime, wordviewer and excell viewer but you should be able to install any windows plugin ( via the executables ) into the crossover plugin environment. I haven't tried any other installer yet.
I think it's really worth its money , but I didn't pay for it cause i beta tested it and received the release cd in the mail
Since I installed the plugin and aviplay , I did not have to boot to winblows to see some tasty media files... And that's just fab !
blaah !
Does anyone know where you can download the trailer in a decent format (ie mpg, DivX etc)?
Shame on Lucasfilm for choosing quicktime again.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
However, in the opening text, it clearly says "Episode IV: A New Hope".
Then you've never seen the original release of Star Wars, which didn't have the Episode IV text - that was added retroactively, after the movie made several bargeloads of money and Lucas realized he had a franchise on his hands, and then some. A little post-facto editing, a re-release, and voila! the man is a visionary genius.
I distinctly remeber seeing the "Episode IV" text for the first time - I did a quick reality check with my friends, it was a surprise to all of us (I'd seen SW maybe half a dozen times by then).
George Lucas has hacked history.
well, you know ;)
Remember, if you see a trailer with any of the following, it's fake. Trust me...sigh.
*The title: "ep2_large"
*Christopher Walken
*A blonde girl with a lightsaber
*Dozens of Braveheart actors carrying photoshopped lightsabers.
*Merv Griffin
*Gabriel Byrne
Aussie actor Jack Thompson was interviewed on the *cough* Ray Martin Show last night, here in Australia.
He talked a little about his role as a "moisture farmer". Talked about the set in Tunisia and how he took his son along to the set each day.
He also mentioned that video-cameras were allowed on the set... I'm not aware of any leaking yet - but even after the film is released, this footage would be gold.
Can't wait.
*** I am the real stylewagon
anakin: he was a kid...his character has nothing to do but develop (and it will be interesting to see where and when and why and how quickly the character change from "good" to "evil" happens).
amidala: the fact that she used a disguise to stay with the action allowed her character to be developed throughout the film. also, the principle of that action gives some insight into her character.
only kenobi and binks: first of all, i want to see kenobi developed further (there's got to be something more than recklessness to both creating and evading darth vader). second of all, there are plenty of characters for lucas to develop that we've already seen--in the sequels.
for example, i am _incredibly_ anxious to see boba fett develop into a real character. you get a short glimpse of him in episode 6, and if you've read the books, you know that he's an established badass, but i want to _see_ him be "coldly efficient" while "exploding into action."
i really don't see how there are big star wars fans who are pessimistic about this...i, for one, have been and will continue to eagerly await it. i trust lucas to entertain me (i wouldn't be a star wars fan if i didn't).
George Lucas, Paramount, and FOX Television lawyers who go after fansites because they believe they are protecting their copy rights are really destroying free advertising for themselves and estranging their most loyal fans.
John Booty Writes:
I have more of a problem giving out my personal information for things I AM paying for. Like when Radio Shack, or some other stores, ask you for your address after a purchase, so they can mail you spam, I suppose.
PONA-Boy chimes in:
Since I was a Radio Shack employee for (too) many years, I feel uniquely qualified to add my two cents on the name/address issue here. When you are indoctrinated into the Radio Shack system of retail bliss, it is ingrained in you that an enormous amount of return business is generated from the seemingly-intrusive practice of asking for names and addresses. It was, to me, an uncomfortable practice to get into the habit of doing but I eventually relented and pursued it. In fact, your performance reviews were partly weighted by your name/address percentage rate.
Believe it or not, the truth is that the marketing geniuses ad Tandy Corporate were right - the more names and addresses we gathered, the more monthly flyers and promotions were mailed out to people in our area, the more advertising revenue went into our district, the more people came into our store, and the more money Tandy (and we lowly slugs) made. I can remember asking overandover again for the last four digits in someone's phone number...which was how the POS system managed groups of names back then.
It was intrusive and borderline downright obnoxious but it really did generate a great deal of revenue for our business. I assume it still does...
I saw the trailer at Monsters, Inc, this weekend myself. As much as I am going to try and insulate myself from the marketing chatter and numerous spoilers, I still enjoyed seeing those brief glimpses of what is to come. Looks like Ewan's got a beard in this one!!!
-PONA-
King of the who?.sig
+that's funny...I don't FEEL tardy.+
I saw a short thing on it. That's how he makes his living. Nothing but movie trailers.
The cake is a pie
Except... Lucasfilm isn't a corporation, it's privately owned (I believe - LucasArts is privately owned, I'm sure of that).
sig fault
Who's to say that it had to be in some civilized, well-mannered part of the galaxy? Why could it not have taken place along the fringes, in the backwaters, amongst the gutters? And just because the "Rebels" won, that doesn't mean that peace is sure to reign; just look at todays real world. The underdog defeated the mighty evil over in Afghanistan (Mujihaddin(?) vs. USSR), but did it bring on an era of peace? No, they immediately fell to in-fighting, and opened the door for an even greater nemesis - the Taliban.
Face it, George Lucas has grown fat and sedentary. He has lost his creativity. 'Phantom' was a joke. The best character, Darth Maul, was created as an after-thought ; the actor was originally hired to train others for the sabre duels, and when George saw is abilities, he wrote the character in at the last minute. Only to kill him off. Jar-Jar Binks is a not-very-funny joke. And where the HELL did he get the LAME idea to incorporate R2-D2 and C3PO?
I'm not holding my breath.
(tig)
Ignorance and prejudice and fear
Walk hand in hand
Uh, just because it's privately held doesn't mean it's not a corporation.
The system has failed you, don't fail yourself. --Billy Bragg
Speaking as someone in the industry (and who sells DLP projectors) let me clarify. The actual DLP resolution is 1280x1024. This gets you almost the full vertical resolution of 1080 HD, but considerably less than the full horizontal resolution (1920 pixels).
Most film editing systems still run at NTSC resolution (720x486). Perhaps you meant most film compositing systems. Many of them do, in fact, work at 4K, and it is getting more economical to work at that resolution (and it will get considerably more so when the Spirit 2 comes out next year -- it does 2K in real time and 4K at 4fps). And a 35mm film frame definitely has more resolution than will fit in a 2K scan -- anyone who says otherwise obviously doesn't work in the business. Remember that you have more apparent resolution in motion-picture film because of the non-grid layout of the film grains. A scan of one frame may not appear all that sharp, but run them by at 24 fps and watch it sharpen up!
-- It only takes 20 minutes for a liberal to become a conservative thanks to our new outpatient surgical procedure!
Morpheus is also nice for mirroring.
Don't care it's EVIL closed source. Works for me.
And since I like giving a little back to the community, I'm leaving the morpheus client on overnight..
We are many, you are few.
Numbers verses money.
Intelligence verses the law.
If a bad law falls, is it wrong to help it down?
If a good law wins, is the world a better place?
If a bad law wins, is the world a better place?
If a good law falls, is it wrong to help it down?
Knowledge wants to be free.
Knowledge must be protected.
You are the corporate interests, we are the geeks.
We give your gift to the world, to allow others to see it,
to view your work unfettered by your own petty limitations,
sharing your message with all.
Without our kind, the technology we manipulate with our magic,
black, white and shades of gray - you cannot exist as you do.
Six of our technomages run a network, the network is a company
you would ignore us only at your peril. Your eyes are closed.
I do not think this is a battle you can win,
I do not think this is a battle we can win,
The winner may never be known.
This is the technological world.
The future is
(Score +5, offtopic)
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Im sure the movie will be great but the trailer was the stupidest thing ive ever seen
Sorry to disappoint you, but Apple hosts trailers for just about every new movie that's released these days.
Have to agree, saw four trailers with Monsters Inc - one was Harry Potter (must see), one was Send in the Clones (worst trailer I've ever seen, but will still see movie), one was Fellowship of the Ring (must see), and one was the short of For The Birds (hilarious).
Monsters, Inc rocked!
Don't know who did the trailers for Star Wars, but they should be immersed in Wookie entrails and left for dead on ice planet BillG.
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
And just because the "Rebels" won, that doesn't mean that peace is sure to reign; just look at todays real world. The underdog defeated the mighty evil over in Afghanistan (Mujihaddin(?) vs. USSR), but did it bring on an era of peace? No, they immediately fell to in-fighting, and opened the door for an even greater nemesis - the Taliban.
Wow, you sure don't have any fun. Sucks to be you !
- sigs are for wimps.
Darn. You could be right. But they definitely did not stress Jar Jar being in the movie. There was more footage of the winged beastie trader/slaver, so maybe Lucas heard some of the criticism and downplayed his role a bit.
...
Rumor: Jar Jar dies in the volcano accident
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
OK, well that almost works except if you just click on that or copy it into your browser it'll complain about a referrer error and no permission... that's because it expects you to be comming from the page with that movie on it... so, first go to http://www.apple.com/trailers, click on the starwars EPII link, then click on the large link, then on the page that says it requires QT Pro, to download click here... now paste in the above link... bingo... the last page the browser saw was the correct one, and you'll be able to view the movie... and as a bonus you can then jump into your temporary internet folder and copy the .mov file to elsewhere... as I just did... man it's a lot better quality than the smaller one! :)
I'm now very excited about the second movie... it could be a winner... I hope.
1st, what the heck is a "trailor" ?
and 2nd, it's called a "teaser", but hey don't let me get in the way of your inane rantings.
- sigs are for wimps.
This is easier...open a terminal window, and type:
/ ep2_breathing_m640.mov
curl -A "QuickTime(qtver=5.0.2;os=Windows NT 5.1" -O http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/breathing/media/pro
Is this rock and roll, or a form of state control?
I fart in it's general direction..
I pity you pathetic wankers that are going to dutifully pay big bucks to suck shit from Lucas' ass.
This is deplorable, I thought the idea of promotion was to get people to see your ad?
Where do you want to be, What are you doing to get there.
Right Click
Save target as.
Download movie in 45mins across a 56K connection...no freakin' problems!
Om, nomnomnom...
I watched the trailer on CNN:
a r. wars.trailer/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/05/st
Whoops! Too late! It's not on CNN, anymore...
Taking stuff apart since 1969 (TM)
I was reading a cheapo 'encyclopaedia of sci-fi' picked up from a charity shop which imparted this information..
Screw you all! I'm off to the pub
...and she's not petrified.. and I didn't see ANY hot grits!
Screw that! I've been reading Slashdot for the past few years... Lucas is gonna have to do better if he wants to impress ME!
NO CARRIER
here.
Big Daddy, Johnny, Burp, Aunt Zelda, Scott, Slurp, Big Momma
They don't like Slashdot. :)
-Legion
Little Fluffy Clouds - The voices are those of Rickie Lee Jones and Levar Burton from the TV show "Reading Rainbow". I think she plays a Native American talking about life on the plains as a child.
;o)
Never fight naked, unless you're in prison...
Case in point all Lucas companies are privately
held LLC's ( Limited Liability Corporations ).
I am in the process of converting the quicktime file to mpeg1, mpeg2, and DivX. The video portion is actually done already, but it will take some time to rip the audio portion out....
:-)
when I am done, if someone wants to host the files, let me know....
kyoko
Attack of the Clones? For god's sake, that is a horrible title, how about killer space tomatoes. Why not simply call it the "clone wars".
Ah, well, LLC actually stands for Limited Liability Company. As far as I have been able to determine, an LLC is somewhere between a partnership and a corporation. Since the goal of this particular LLC is not to make faceless stockholders very rich, but rather to make George Lucas very rich... well take that however you like.
Corporations aren't necessarily inherently evil anyway (although I'm not sure about their lawyers).
sig fault
Thanks for pinpointing the source of that sample. I'm happy now.
(Really OT)
Karma: Chameleon (Mostly affected by the 1980s)
I wonder how long the line will be for that one?
A friend of mine sent me this URL. It was very interesting and I didn't notice a lot of scenes :).
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Some $3 crack smoking moderator is probably in tears over that tirade.
Its true though.
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Silence is consent.
As stated in the subject, they played the trailer during the news here in Seattle. Stupid trailer.
Yeah, I might have spoken a little soon about the quality. However, the link does work for me, and I don't have QuickTime Pro, but you do need QuickTime.
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I think this is a pretty poor trailer, (especially when compared the LOR trailer) it gives nearly no feel for the movie.
I have the unregistered (free) version but it locks up my win95 pc......
/.'ed/
somebody mirrored a short version where the bullshit is cut out but that one is
Yes, Paranoia was great stuff. And the "Send in the Clones" reminds me so much of this Star Wars. It also reminds me of something Dan Rather (or some other news anchor) said. That "We should be on the lookout for an unknown attack from an invisible enemy."
Personally, I think Paranoia should be brought back. But this time, instead of communists, it should be terrorists. (Which would integrate well with the "secret societies".)
Windows Mozilla and Netscape users wanting QuickTime support should vote for bug 74327 on Bugzilla.
He's a bad man?
Anyone out there can download quicktime 5 from apple for free without having to give out any information. And if you didn't want to watch the 'Large' quicktime of it, there would have been no need to go to google.com and type 'quicktime 5 serial'.
I think the bad people are to be found at the Lucas studios... over a minute of listening to someone with a lung condition, punctuated by three lightsaber lightsaber clashes. Not to mention the complete lack of anything to cause salivation (as I usually do at the mention of Star Wars).
When I finally finished jumping through hoops, and sat down to watch the 'Teaser', I felt like I had been ripped off (and that's considering all it cost me was time). I am saddened to think that all this is going to be, is a remake of the fast and the furious with lightsabers and Jar Jar Binks.
-- Why do all the women in my life make 'common' sense seem an 'exceptional' quality?
This is a thought that's been kicking around in my head ever since I first saw the infamous Phantom re-edit.
Lucas has all these neat digital toys. And we know he's not loathe to reediting his own work. Why not release a G-rated movie, AND an R-, or at least PG13-rated version? Go nuts, George, put in 90 minutes or Jar Jar footage, more Eewoks than you can shake a stick at. And in true G.I. Joe fashion, have people use blasters till they're JUST close enough to break into a wholesome, bloodless fistfight. As long as the REST of us get to see Palpatine popping hapless victim's heads like grapes and Queen Amidala gettin her freak on!
"Eagles may soar, but weasels dont get sucked into jet engines."
Today is the 16th, and a new trailer came out today. As far as I can tell you can only see it on starwars.com, and you have to be a member. The trailer is way longer and has a whole bunch of really cool stuff, chief among them is Natalie Portman. Check it out now, you won't be disappointed.