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Star Wars II Trailer Online
Jager writes: "You can download the new starwars trailer here. Enjoy." Seemed to me as if Lucas was worried about the "love story" emphasis in the previous teasers, and wanted to make sure people knew there would be plenty of zapping and slashing.
Hey, this was from the other thread, and the new trailor is up there. Nice Compression.
http://node2.callihq.net/
Someone from the earlier thread posted a nice Divx 5 version of the trailer at 640 x 480 resolution. Check it out here.
Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.
To go to the trailor site, simple solution:
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Cut and paste the link into your browser
(Don't click on the link as it detects the referer address and it will block you.)
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/index.h
Dave
They apparently don't want people linked directly too it so they banned anything with certain referer fields (like slashdot).
Follow the URL, copy it from the location bar, go to some other site, then paste it back in. That should take care of it.
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You don't need QuickTime Pro. However, QuickTime will bug you constantly about upgrading, which basically amounts to paying Apple $30 for a serial number to make it quit bugging you and un-cripple the QuickTime Player. I suggest finding a pirated serial number, try the extra features, see if it's worth your $30, then register - that's what I did.
Of course, this being Slashdot, you probably think it should be free (beer and speech, but mostly beer). Bleh.
On the other hand, I'm really not happy with the nagging. Oh well. *shrug*
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Right. It's nothing personal against slashdot, Apple just blocked any site pointing directly to the trailer. They've done this before -- and hey, they want to advertise, right? Nobody seems to have posted this yet, but you can just go to Apple's trailers site and click on the obvious graphic.
Die Menschen verhoehnen was sie nicht verstehen. -- Goethe.
Quicktime pro is required to view the hi=res trailer, that's what people are complaining about, not the silly nag screens.
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So I guess that Lucas is flattering The Fifth Element. Or am I the only one who had a little deja vu with the "speeding through three dimensional traffic patterns with futuristic cars, followed by vertical plunge shot?"
Also, blocking slashdot referrals? No class.
Requiring quicktime pro for the large screen trailer? No class.
Yet another "milk the shoddy trilogy" moment.
Here's the (hidden) direct link to the movie in "large format" (640x288):
e /ep2_clone_war_p640.mov
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/media/gat
From this link, you can save the entire 31MB movie to hard disk and play it whenever you want without downloading it again. I'm sure that they'll appreciate me doing this to help reduce the load on their server.
The apple server isn't slashdotted (yet). It just wants a specific referring page, or it wants you to come straight in. Click the link from the article, get the error message, click in your URL window, and hit return again.
You can also find the trailer at planetmirror. This completes my collection; now I'll have a full CD-ROM full of stuff to keep me excited until the release date.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
Just one little thing, that url, "http://applesw.download.akamai.com/ep2/clone_war/ index.html", is not Apple's server. It's an Akamai mirror, running Linux.
...Not that heavy load was the problem in the first place. They're denying external referrals.. on purpose of all things.
Greetings!
You may download the trailer from: http://lavender.cime.net/~aotc/ep2_clone_war.mpg
I got it from Drestin (thanks, Dude!)
Cheers,
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...insist that one need "PRO" version of the QuickTime to watch big version? I just opened this URL http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/media/gate /ep2_clone_war_p640.mov in regular QUickTIme player and got nice, full screen trailer - not some smallish window they force you to see on the web page. And even on the web page this bullshit about getting a paid Pro version. What a bunch of crap.
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you did not take it down, you will never take it down, no matter how hard you try. Apple is coming off akamai servers, which are right down the block from you no matter where you are, isp or at your school. And don't hold your precious slashdot so high, it is what akamai and apple want it to be. The only reason there is a slashdot is because there is va linux, and the only reason there is va still around is akamai, they just blocked your silly link so you will have to go to the apple site, you lazy ass. get a clue
I am afraid it is you who are mistaken about many things... You have a decent analysis, but your facts are all wrong. Of course, that is always a bad start.
George Lucas did make the original Star Wars. And that movie turned out pretty much how you describe it. However, George Lucas did not make the two following films. Not really. Not in the sense we usually give that word.
The Empire Strikes Back was directed by Irvin Kershner. Lucas is credited with the role of executive producer and with the story, but not the script. Apparently, Lucas gave Kershner a lot of leeway. Kershner put a lot of himself in the film, which explains why it stands out so vividly in the franchise. As for Lucas, he thought it was a bit too dark. (There is an anecdote, verified by Kershner, about Han's macho "I know" line, which he says to Leia when she tells him she loves him. Lucas didn't like the line and wanted it out, but Kershner held his ground. Lucas only let it stand after he saw how the public reacted in a private screening. Sad but true, Lucas would have preferred Han say "I love you too.")
Now admittedly The Return of the Jedi looks more like a Lucas movie. But he still didn't direct it. He gave that job to Richard Marquand. Again, Lucas is the executive producer and is credited with the story, but not the script. Obviously the film is going to feel a bit different. Now apart from the advance in technology which you mention, I personnally see this film as a return to the aesthetics of the first film. I think that this is what Lucas wanted when he picked Marquand. Now, I understand that Lucas guided Marquand more than he had Kershner. But maybe Marquand just happened to share Lucas' tastes more than Kershner did.
So do not be surprised if the movies look and feel different... They were made by diferent people. Funny thing is, I think Lucas used to be very open about all of this. But not anymore. He doesn't usually mention neither directed nor wrote the scripts to two of them. Kind of strange. So... As long as Lucas writes and directs the prequels, don't expect any one of them to turn out like Episode V. Especially since he didn't like it that much in the first place.
The pod race that you all drool over is nothing more than "Days of Thunder" with different pictures...
Actually, it's the chariot race from Ben Hur. Seriously. It's almost a shot-for-shot homage, as Lucas and McCallum both said several times in various interviews.