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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.
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 !
Yeah,
This is really redundant. I posted before any posts were showing. You guys should take it easy on some of the first posts. This wasn't a AC doing FP's this was an actual question. Thanks.
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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.
Yes! Thank you! I, for one, find signing up for free things exceedingly annoying. If it's free, WHO CARES WHO I AM? And even if it's not free? Oh, well. Thanks!
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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.
I don't like having to sign up for free stuff either, but I guess I feel like I've got no right to complain, since I'm not paying for it. Usually I just choose to not sign up for it, or I use fake information.
It really depends on the situation. In the case of the AOTC teaser, I dont want to give out my personal information just to watch advertising. That's silly. On the other hand, I didn't have a problem giving a fairly large amount of personal information to AMD after I won a sweet Athlon 1800XP and motherboard combo at one of their giveaways.
Still, running a website isn't free though, it's actually quite expensive. Some things on the web are worth giving up a little harmless personal info for, if that's all they're charging you for a valuable service (I wouldn't put the AOTC trailer into this category however). Just keep that in mind...
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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.
actually, i want the south park version...the south park edition of the Phantom Menace trailer is still one of the funniest 'net downloads i've got.
Though Troops has its moments, too...
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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.
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.
It depends on your definitions. "Trailers" no longer trail the main feature, so we're already free to redefine.
I'd call this one a "teaser", not a trailer. For shows that are so far off, the "teasers" give just a sneak peak to pique the interest of the fans.
Compare to the Lord of the Rings. The teaser gave us glimpses of all three movies; now the true "trailer" for Fellowship is out.
The Attack of the Clones is still a long ways off, so it'd be inappropriate, IMHO, to show a true three-minute trailer. The slideshow with the breathing was PERFECT, I thought.
After seeing Hayden Christiansen's performance in Life as a House I am REALLY excited to see Episode 2.
- Peter
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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!
Do people actually go to a movie JUST to see the "coming attractions"? That'd be extremely pathetic...
I've heard that it happens... *I* wanted to go see Monsters, Inc because of the truly amazing rendering. That big fluffy one with the hair looks like a real puppet in a lot of the shots. The individually rendered hairs on him and really amazing texturing most everywhere else are freaking incredible. The lifelike movement is generally very good as well. The story is decent (but then, I like cartoons anyway), but I went to see some first-class computer animation. It was just a little bonus that there was supposed to be a cool trailer before the movie (though, the trailer wasn't nearly as cool as those seen for the phantom menace). Anyway, if you go, pay attention to the fabrics in motion (like curtains and some clothing) and to the hairs on hairy monsters - especially how they bend around his muscles when he moves and in the scenes where he's moving very quickly. The physics are very well done in that movie.
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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-
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