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Principal Photography on Star Wars III Complete
An anonymous reader writes "Principal photography for Star Wars III ended yesterday, and they're starting up on the 18 month post-production. Although denied by ILM, here is a quick taste of what the story for episode III might be like (either taken from Lucas' journal in 1983, or just a fake from an insider way back then)."
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Only 3 years of post production to go!
Gotta throw in a bunch of loud noises and shiny things to make up for the lack of story this one is sure to suffer from. Of course I'm going basing this on what an abortion of film the first 2 were
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We already know how the movie franchise ends. Vader dies, balance is restored. See this link for more about it.
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...when most of the acting is going to be done by the CGI characters anyway.
Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm trolling. But Episode 1 was so disheartening that I didn't even bother seeing Episode 2, and Episode 3 has elicited zero excitement from me. So, whoopeedoo, we've got the stonefaced lines-reciting from Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman. Big deal.
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I'd say the biggest difference between "the Star Wars Kid" and the rest of us here on Slashdot is that we never videotapes ourselves doing stupid stuff and let it get out to the world at large when we were that age (or older). I' inclined to give the kid a damned break.
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What I want to know is if we'll see Natalie Portman's knockers. And if so, could she possibly get a breast enhancement before filming starts?
Who the hell modded this as Insightful?
There's nothing insightful about this: it's just plain obvious! :)
Look, rebel scum, I know you're all up in arms about how bad the last two were and how bad this ones going to be, and you're all talkin' 'bout how you'll wait until it comes out on TV, blah, blah, blah.
But let's face it - nothing any better is going to be on at the theater, and you've seen all the other ones, so you're gonna go see this one as well. You know it, I know it, the dark side is calling and you're gonna suck it.
Then you'll complain in the following 'review' story on slashdot about how you were right, it sucked, and you wasted money and time.
Let's just cut to the chase. You're most likely a guy. You like action scenes. The movie could suck, the characters and plot could suck, but as long as it has one or two good fight scenes, you'll be all over it.
Nothing to be ashamed of. Go to the theater (because you don't have the big screen and kick-butt sound system you are planning on building someday), pay up, enjoy the fighting, and go home and then complain about it.
-Adam
If only they had some good writers. As Harrison Ford once said, "George, you can write this stuff, but nobody can say it."
Yes, the first was the only good one. When I saw that muppet troll yoda, I knew it was over.
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Disgruntled by the piss poor Ep1, ever increasing ticket prices, half an hour of TV commercials in the theater before the movie (despite the high ticket prices) and the MPAA's increasingly obnoxious tactics, I stayed home for Ep2. I also stayed home for the Matrix 2, Spider Man, X-Men 2 and the Hulk. In fact, the last movie that I actually went to see was "Bowling for Columbine." For not much more than it costs to take in a movie (Especially if you count the ad revenue from the half hour of TV commercials) I can get dinner and a live play down at the local dinner theater. And that will be commercial free.
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Hmmmm....
The first three SW movies = Good
The Indiana Jones movies = Good
The most recent 2 SW movies = Bad
Let's cut the B.S. here folks. We all know that Harrison Ford is what made all the "Good" movies above as "Good" as they are. It's no wonder Lucas got jealous and castrated Solo's BadAssness in the "Remastered" movies by having Greedo shoot first.
You wrote:
In episode 3 [...] Yoda goes to Dagobah (though it might not be revealed in the 3rd movie) [...]
I'm pretty sure, it will be shown. (I don't expect much new stuff in Episode III, BTW.) You remember the old tree on Dagobah, where Luke had his first "date" with the dark side of The Force? :-)
In Episode VI it is explained, that Yoda was able to hide on Dagobah, because he killed a Sith Lord there, exactly where that tree is, and whose left behind aura saved Yoda from being found by the emperor.
So we just need a "victim" for Yoda. And we already know who him. :-)
George Lukas let Yoda already have a quite absurd fight with Count Dooku in Episode II. Count Dooku is nowhere mentioned in Episode IV to VI and somebody explained somewhere, that Sith always show up in packs of two. The Emperor, Darth Vader and Count Dooku (aka Darth Tyranus, thanks to imdb) are one too much. So bye, bye, Dooku, R.I.P.
So not only the Count has to die, but the studio bosses also love lengthy fighting scenes, to attract the not so much Star War addicted. So I would be very, very surprised, if we don't see Count Dooku dying on Dagobah in Episode III.
I think, the Star Wars universe is quite well known, so there is more than enough fabric for an excess length Episode III. There will be some new details (why or how get C3PO and R2D2 the leap to Episode IV?) or dispensable scenes (with Jar Jar, for example *eg*). But I think, that the basic story board is already pretty well known.
Me, too! There's only one more chance.
And, despite what people say, I think all five movies so far have been great.
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No Lucas clearly understands that Darth and Anakin skywalker are the same character. Back in the 80's when he spoke of 9 movies it was to be 3 independent 3 movie sets. The "first" was set long before the original, the characters from the "first" 3 would have been long dead before the original was to have occured. The last 3 were to have been after the original. He stated that. I don't recall if he was as clear about how far past the original that last set of 3 was in time as he had been with the first three, but he made it clear that it would be far enough that there would be no characters from the first three in any of the other six. He very clearly stated that the two robots were to be the only two characters that were to be in all 9 movies and that none of the non-robot characters would be in per-quels or sequels.
He's clearly changed his vision since then. That doesn't mean episodes 1, 2 and C are any worse or any better than his original vision. I personally think he could have done mush better if he had followed his original vision, but looking at things like Jar-Jar it's clear that he could have screwed up the original vision too by trying to be too cute and creating merchandising oportunities and forgetting who the original movie was targeted at and appealed to. But any claim that a quick taste of the story for episode 3 was taken from anything Lucas did in '83 is clearly bogus.
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I'm just dying to know -- how is it that "political correctness" has spoiled Star Wars in particular?
Greedo shooting first.
'Nuff said.
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