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Attack of the Clones: Less Plastic Crap, More Story?

Posted by chrisd on from the jar-jar-is-raj-raj-spelled-backwards dept.

Newsweek has an article in which George Lucas states that there were parts of Episode One that were damaging to the Star Wars franchise. (shocker, I know) "The last movie did not live up to expectations." They'll cut the merchandise by two thirds, as they still have tons of unsold Episode One merchandise. Yahoo is also running an AOTC story. Mild spoilers in the linked stories, by the way.

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  1. Lucas trying desparately to save face by delphin42 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The toys went on sale yesterday at midnight, a month before the movie is released.

    Spoiler footage will be aired on FOX during a showing of Empire Strikes Back this week (Thurs night).

    Rumor has it that at least one person was shown Ep 2 (an early version) at the SXSW film festival in Austin a month ago (see earlier /. story).

    Lucas is clearly trying hard to atone for his mistakes, but the real issue is whether AotC sucks as bad as tPM. I believe the hype machine will be successful in generating a ton of ticket sales on opening weekend. The question is whether fans will go again and again because the movie recaptures the magic of the original trilogy.

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  2. Re:Random plot generator for Lucas to use... by ealar+dlanvuli · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Stage 1: Go to earth
    Stage 2:
    Stage 3: PROFIT!

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