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Star Wars Episode II DVD Release on Nov. 12

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the frame-by-frame-through-amidala's-midriff dept.

Nerftoe writes "The DVD and home video of hit movie "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones" will land on retail shelves on Nov. 12, the movie's backers at Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox said on Thursday. Lucasfilm and Fox have put together a two-disc DVD set that features six hours of additional material including a documentary about the movie made by Lucas and the movie's other filmmakers and eight scenes that never made it into the movie."

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  1. Re:Episode II DVD checklist by chazzf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And your point is?

    I loved Evil Dead, although the scene you refer to was in Evil Dead 2, but you should remember that Luke lost his hand in the Empire Strikes Back, five years before Raimi made Dead 2.

    All art imitates/copies. It's a natural thing to do. The Fifth Element owes a *lot* to Metropolis, Dune, and the long-standing visuals of Coruscant made long before Episode I.

    Your post smacks of one searching desperatly for a stick with which to beat the movie, and I have to wonder why. The movie is the cinematic creation of George Lucas. No one made you see it. If you went and didn't like it, so what? I don't think the trailers were misleading.

    Personally, I liked Episode II and found the underlying political undertones interesting. The notion that the Senate is being controlled by moneyed interests ought to play well here, and please note that Lucas had that idea some twenty years ago, so it's not like he's trying to pander to anyone.

    Especially not do-nothing grumblers like the loud vocal minority on this site who think much is owed them.

    ~Chazzf

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    No statement is true, not even this one.
  2. Sadly (?), I preferred Harry Potter by tuxedobob · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, I for one thought Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was more enjoyable than The Phantom Menace. I bought the former, not the latter. Quidditch (sp?) and authentic accents beat out podracing and affected accents.

    As for Episode 2, it was rather mediocre. If the scene with Senator ex-Queen Amidala Portman had been longer and had better lighting, maybe even less leather, it might have made up for Hyperactive Bouncing Superball Yoda.