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New Star Wars Episode II Trailer Out
danov writes: "A new trailer for Star Wars Episode II has been released on Apple's website. It's called "Forbidden Love"." Don't watch this one if you want to be surprised when you see the movie. It gives away most of the plot. You have been warned. Update: 11/16 12:49 GMT by M : If you get "referral denied", just hit reload. Silly Apple.
hmm.. link is broken already and no posts
Shouldn't read the posts too, if you want to have the surprise :)
http://www.apple.com/trailers/
/forbidden for some reason...
You can't go direct to
It won't let slashdot refer people there. Startup a clean browser & copy + paste the URL, and it works fine. Preemptive slashdot effect nerf? :)
One must refer to the actual html page to get to the goodies.
No, it does not give away most fot he plot. If anything, the "Mystery" trailer released last week gives away more of the plot. This one, from a plot perspective, focuses on the romance, which we all know is happenning anyway.
I have been very carefull not to read spoilers online. I have watched all the trailers and I can safely say that I don't feel spoiled.
Justin
I mean, who was supposed to know that Amidala and Anakin fell in love? And that there would be fighting involving lightsabers? Damn it, Lucas, I wanted the plot to be a surprise! The next thing you know, Obi-wan will push Anakin into lava!
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download it from here. Enjoy!
Doesn't that sounds more like a Ron Jeremy movie than a George Lucas movie?
It has a plot? Well, thats one improvement over The Phantom Menace then...
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Hey, I'll give you the plot of the whole film.
Mainly Geogre Lucas will be making much money by recycling an old and braindead SCI-FI movie be creating new films on the topic which contain no decent storyline but much special effects and computer animated pictures. Because the ending of the last movie of the old ones had left no sensible possibility to create any sequels, Mr. Lucas will have the innovative and cunning idea of creating prequels.
And now the most important thing of the plot: many coloured things will expode (especially in vacuum with a loud "kaboom !). And some guys will jump around.
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Neither need quicktime 5.0.2 PRO they just say that on the html page.... Work fine in normal fre quicktime 5.0.2
A link available here to the 2nd teaser which is supposedly only for owners of the Ep 1 DVD.
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Here's my plan:
1) Kill the actor playing Annakin
2) Take acting lessons
3) Beat out everyone else during the screen test for Episode III so *I* can be the one that gets to be Luke's father, if you catch my drift.
Imagine if Episode III were rated XXX...
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No Jar-Jar sightings in the trailer...
Please, let this be a sign of things to come...
Crossover. It plays Quicktime, Shockwave, Ipix, Efax, and other win32 web browser plugins under Linux.
Works with Galeon, Moz, Netscape, and KDE 2.2.2 (currently in CVS).
Proprietary license, but most code is given right back to the Wine project. In fact, Codeweavers seems to be almost THE Wine project - founder Alexander Julliard and many other core Wine developers earn their living at Codeweavers. So they seem good for the community.
Download the demo or buy the real thing here.
I own it, and its good (especially the recent 1.01 version). Yay trailers for movies that won't come out in Australia for ages, and banned Bjork film clips!
You know, I'd be annoyed with Apple for preventing people linking to the trailer directly, and once again requiring an upgrade to quicktime pro for the hi-res version... if the trailer wasn't so drenched in schmaltz that I nearly physically barfed.
But... I suppose I better swallow hard a few times, take a sip of water and make the suggestion that we put the trailers on various P2P networks... post filenames, and once you've got the trailer... share it, please?
shut up man
I particularly liked this bit:
Annie? Oh my, you've grown!
It reminded me of this part from the phantom menace script (the abridged version:)
INT. TATOOINE - SOME SHOP WHERE JAKE LLOYD IS HELD SLAVE
JAKE LLOYD
Hi there! Golly I'm cute.
NATALIE PORTMAN
You certainly are, little boy.
JAKE LLOYD
I'm the only one disturbed by the fact that I'm gonna bone you in episode two?
:)
Seriously though, can't these people _act_? The first half of this teaser is crap!
No, as a previous post pointed out, you can go directly to the large trailer and watch it in regular, free Quicktime. It might give you a referer error the first couple times, but if you click around a bit it'll work eventually.
works every time. Then just click on the starwars trailer button..
I think the refering page has to be from apple.com for some reason.
Maybe in the middle of the film, when Anakin is just turning to the dark side, it is purple ?
Star Wars Episode 2 release to theaters in US is May 16, 2002; 20th century is aiming to get as near as possibly simulatenous release in the UK.
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"I can see my house from here!" - ST:
Well.. I guess you could ask Amidala if it's pu... oh... you're taking about his lightsaber not his "lightsaber (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)". Just ignore me then.
Here's a much better quality version of the Myster trailer (Quicktime).
For those whining about the love plot in the movie, go watch the originals again. They always had that.
This also shows you why Anakin ends up going to the dark side and how the conflict starts. This isn't just some tacked on plot.
I am thinking specifcally thinking of Sigfreid. This raised all kinds of uproar at the time of it's premier because of the way that it it went counter to the morals of the day (regarding forbidden loves, etc).
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Papantine has a new student named Dooku or something like that. The people on the TheForce.net forums are theorizing that Dooku was always a student and Darth Maul was just there as an extra.
Prolly a case of lightsaber switcharoo; Anny loses lightsaber, force-grabs Obi-Wan's (who is tied up at the moment-see breathing trailer) or perhaps using a fallen jedi's ...
BTW Obi Wan lost his saber, so in effect is saber belonged to Qui Gon...
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To me, the Clone Wars is the ultimate climax of the Star Wars Universe. Luke defeating Vader pales in comparison.
I like that part where the dude who looks like Sean Connery whips out the red light saber. ALso likin' the Boba Fett. Not likin' the lovy dovy crap. Mo evil makes better movie.
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All the griping I've read about how "horrible" Episode I was, and Episode II will be, makes me think that people who think that aren't looking at the movies with the right attitude.
"Great cinema" they are not. But these movies aren't intended to be Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan. If you want that kind of movie, go see it. This isn't it, and it isn't intended to be it.
I saw Episode I several times in the theater, and I now own the DVD, and I've enjoyed the use of the money I spent.
I went to see Episode I looking for several things:
- Cool special effects
- A decently entertaining script
- A great light sabre battle at the end
- The first part of a story whose ending I already know
I got every one of those things, and I was very pleased.
I didn't expect Oscar-quality acting, spine-tingling plot lines, statements on the human condition, or exploration of some societal quandry. I didn't get them. Star Wars isn't that kind of movie; it isn't intended as that kind of movie.
Star Wars is a series of movies where you don't have to think real hard about them. Sometimes I want a movie that will challenge me (Schindler's List, Philadelphia). Sometimes it can be fun to just turn your brain off and watch something mindlessly amusing (Something About Mary, Rollerball (the original), A Knight's Tale, Logan's Run). Star Wars is in this second category.
Whether or not you enjoy Star Wars Episode II for what it is, I think, depends a lot on what you expect.
Remove the caps and hold to a mirror.
...explains where those damned doughnut shaped ear-muffs Leia wore in Star Wars came from!
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Was I the only one here who thought that the trailer boded well for Episode II? Grow up, people, and consider that what you saw made some sense. If Anakin is truly in love with Amidala and Obi-Wan nails him with Jedi rhetoric it is entirely understandable that he'd be pissed. We KNOW that the Skywalkers are an unstable family anyway...
As for the complaints about acting, I think we all forget the wonderfully talented Oscar-level performance of Mark Hamill has whiny-boy, er, Luke Skywalker. Saying that "you've grown" seems entirely appropriate for the situation. Similarly, "I'll be the greatest Jedi ever" is exactly the sort of thing an angry unstable twenty-something whose mad at the galaxy would say in a moment of duress.
Finally, the action scenes are looking reasonably decent. Anyone else notice Boba Fett? Christopher Lee? If Lee does his usual good turn it should be a lot fun. Finally, NO Jar-Jar anywhere in the trailer. This is a Good Thing. More than anything, I think it suggests that Lucas listened to the public outcry about said abomination.
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Is this something similar to the cave in ESB where Luke slices up the Darth Vader of his fears? Or is there a Darth Maul clone?
Also similar to ESB: there is going to be an asteroid field scene. For those who want, here is my ESB inspired asteriods game: Ultimate Blaster.
Lasers Controlled Games!
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quick correction... the free version is crippled. no editing features, no simple way to save movies from the web without digging in the cache, and fullscreen viewing is disabled.
Time for some tasty Shiner Bock!
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It may be that on Naboo, generally the role of queen is ceremonial; it was only the Trade Federation invasion and the fact she was free that made her more essential than usual.
surely if you were trying to lie low (which is what I assume the sith do) why be so bloody obvious with black makeup and horns.
Perhaps his force skills include a "Somebody else's problem" field, so most people simply don't notice his appearance. Or perhaps his species actually all look like that.
Why was R2D2 given a "special commendation" when all the other droids were referred as "We're losing droids..."
Same reason people will pay millions for Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball, even though it's just like every other pro baseball.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
heh.
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I never said it was Sean Connery. Click the link next time.
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Ask them how your expected to see the wonders of os 10 when you can't see any of their damn previews because you run linux.
Always sheathe your lightsaber, young padawan learner. "Using the force" just isn't a valid method of birth control.
Obviously we knew there was going to be some form of romance there, but remember at the end of Ep 1? We thought Anakin's mother getting killed was going to be a central reason for him going to the Dark Side. I think we have a different angle on that, thanks to the trailer.
I watchted it anyway, but then again, I won't be in the states when it gets released, so...
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Episode IV: A New Hope
I remember seeing it as a kid, thinking, "What the heck is this Episode 4 business?"
On an aside, Ep.4 was SO different, even from 5 and 6 in terms of pacing and direction -- there were actually SLOW moments! Probably because it was the only one Lucas actually directed. Just watch the original (not special edition) and you'll see what I mean.
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Rest assured, come May 2002, I will be on the Internet within minutes expressing my displeasure.
All I've got to say is the next movie better be dark. I will give Lucus the whole love story thing in ATOTC. TPM sucked, except for Darth Mule of course. But the next movie better be dark.
And when I say dark I don't mean "my isn't the night sky lovely tonight". I mean "MY God! They just shoot they poor guys dog!" dark.
I mean I want to see Dark Vader come out taking candy from babies, kicking old ladies down stairs, pulling on Yoda's ears will singing the theme to South Park.
I mean eerie dark.
I tried the link to the $102,360 Camcorder but all that comes up is:
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for Netscape 6 users, please click
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browser or open this URL in
your older version of Netscape.
This is the only site that I have had a problem with NS 6.2. Does it open in Mozilla?
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I downloaded all 27.9MB of the large trailer, but Quicktime Player just launched Internet Explorer and sent me back to the trailers site.
That's actually (insert snooty nerd voice) one of the earlier designs for the speeder bike proposed for Return of the Jedi (See: The Art of Star Wars, No. 6)... George seems to be recycling a bit in the way of previous designs, such as the Naboo runner from the original Ralph McQuarrie designs for episode 4...
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Star Wars Episode 2 release to theaters in US is May 16, 2002; 20th century is aiming to get as near as possibly simulatenous release in the UK.
If Fox manages to pull off a simultaneous theatrical release in major markets and then a simultaneous DVD release in major markets, Fox won't be able to hide behind the "staggered release schedule" argument for region lockout. Once AOTC hits second-run theaters, why don't we all go ask Fox to make the DVD region-free?
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Did anyone else notice the scene where Amidala had her hair in those damned earmuffs?
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