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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 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... :)
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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*
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...
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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.
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...
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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.
...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.
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.
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.
Perhaps it's not a lightsaber at all but a Moodsaber®. It's green when he's around big, handsome and studly Obi-Wan, blue around the other guy that doesn't swing that way, and purple around the princess....
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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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.
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.
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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'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.
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....
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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.
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Apple hasn't stopped using Akamai. Go to the Apple homepage, all the images are on Akamai.
My guess is that the Akamai charge was a little too much for Apple to absorb, given that many of these trailers are remarkably large.
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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
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.
If that was Annakin's true nature, wouldn't the moodsaber turn purple (put on your Jerry Falwell caps everyone) around "studly Obi-Wan"?
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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.
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)
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.
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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.
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.
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.
What were the skies like when you were young?
Where is this from? It sounds very familiar and I can't place it.
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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.
Even better example, which I somehow forgot in my first post: The Matrix trailer. You can still find it at www.whatisthematrix.com, although it's kind of buried. It gives lots of clips from the movie, but succeeds terrifically in two ways: first, it gives away absolutely NOTHING about the movie plot. Second, it shows a lot of the eye candy from the movie while still saving lots of equally-good eye candy for the people who buy tickets.
Not quite as minimal as the Alien trailer you cited, but just as effective. At least for me.
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.
That's Jango Fett flying, Boba's dad.
Boba Fett is just a kid in this movie, and is shown in the trailer as one of the clone kids sitting in the room with the blue helmet-thingys on.
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.
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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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I saw a short thing on it. That's how he makes his living. Nothing but movie trailers.
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Except... Lucasfilm isn't a corporation, it's privately owned (I believe - LucasArts is privately owned, I'm sure of that).
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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!
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Sorry to disappoint you, but Apple hosts trailers for just about every new movie that's released these days.
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 !
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I recall from one of the earlier movies that a Jedi Knight was supposed to make his own lightsaber near the end of his apprenticeship. (That's a convenient skill. Nobody else seems to have them. So being disarmed in a remote location would be a long-term problem if you had to visit a jedi armory to rearm.)
Perhaps the distinct color is supposed to be an artifact of the individual home-brew devices.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
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.
one way to get movies and embedded files out:
.swf files. The way I do it is to view the source of the page, find the file name, add the file name to the last directory in the URL, copy the url, open notepad, create and html file and link to the link you copied, open the html file in netscape or IE or whatever, right click on the link and click save target as, and then you can download whatever file they were trying to prevent you from downloading. I dunno if this is easier than searching your cache, but it is definitely easy for flash animations and whatnot.
This is the way I got the LOTR movies and all sorts of
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...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!
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Warning: SPOILERS, Perhaps.
Sorry, but that's incorrect. In any case you'll see when the movie is out. Essentially all of the plot has been leaked, and that includes the information about Jango Fett, Boba Fett (he's the first clone, and given as a gift to Jango for his help in destroying the Jedi), etc.
The Slave 1 is in the trailer, but keep in mind that the 'special design' stuff is not canon, its taken from somewhere else (books? RPG?) and Lucas has never promised that the films will be consistent with the 'Expanded Universe' stuff from other media. In fact, if you remember back to the time of the original trilogy, much of plot of 'Splinter of the Minds Eye' (a book released pre-ESB) was inconsistent with what occured in ESB.
I'm quite sure of the Jango/Boba Fett information.
Take a look at some of the star wars fan sites like www.theforce.net for confirmation, or even look at the official site which makes numerous mentions of Jango Fett in Episode 2.
> NORTH
Senate Antechamber
Your lightsaber is glowing with a faint blue glow.
> EAST
Inner Quarters
The emperor is here.
Your lightsaber has begun to glow very brightly.
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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).
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A friend of mine sent me this URL. It was very interesting and I didn't notice a lot of scenes :).
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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.
Basic idea is that the colour of a light saber is determined by the crystal that is used to focus the energy beam. You can have lightsabers with several crystals, allowing for several different colours and different settings of beam length etc.
I intend to live forever, so far so good.
Well, it's hard to say exactly what the resolution of film is, because there are many variables:
1) The film stock used makes a huge difference. Kodak has made incredible strides with their stocks (as has Fuji, for that matter). Their 800ASA stock has less grain than their 500ASA stocks of a few years ago. That said, there's a big difference between shooting 5245 which is a 50ASA stock and, say, 5279 which is a 320ASA stock -- the 45 is virtually grainless.
2) The format used makes a difference. There are many different ways of shooting 35mm film, all of which use different portions of the negative. Basically, the more neg you use, the less grain and the more resolution (because the less magnification you have to make to get it on the screen).
3) The exact post-production chain makes a difference as well. The more optical steps you have to go through, the more apparent the grain will be.
I believe that T2 was mostly scanned at 4K actually, which is higher resolution than most films done today. Pleasantville was done at 2K. However, the technology for printing digital files back to film has improved greatly since then, so it could definitely be done better now. Hopefully more films will be done at 4K in the future as hard-drive space gets cheaper (a big concern since film compositing is typically done uncompressed and with at least 10 and up to 16 bits per color channel per pixel, which means that even at 2K each minute of film is at least 11GB.)
A complete digital chain does indeed get rid of film grain. There are digital techniques that are just becoming available to eliminate grain on film originated material as well.
However, digital projection will, at least in the near term, bring about its own artifacts from compression, the lack of resolution, and some other things that are particular to the current technology (DLP can produce some strange flickering in certain colors due to the way it works). (All this is being worked on, of course).
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