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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)."
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)."
Hmmm...Where have I known that taste before? Ah yes! The well familiar taste of bullshit! And when this guy was done writing "Ep III" he might well have tried his hand at another brand of fan fiction.
Lucas' stroytelling prowess seems to have diminished with the ensuing decades after Jedi, but have they diminished this much? I sincerely doubt it. Even taking Ep I into consideration.
Face it folks. We're waiting until the release date.
AS much as my enjoyment of the franchise has diminished with age (damn you adulthood!!!) I am intrigued to see how the movie franchise will end.
Until Lucas changes his mind and decides once more to make the last trilogy
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
Wow that went down fast!!! Hopefully the story has more strength!
Scanned script direct from George Lucas' desk:There, I've save you $8.00.
Trolling is a art,
Will we be seeing the Star Wars Kid?
Did the Star Wars kid make it in?
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Natalie Portman gets herself into a gritsy---er, I mean gritty situation.
Karma: Marginal (mostly due to the border around the website)
Damn thing's slashdotted before a comment's posted. Fortunately, Google's cache is on the case.
The Kingdom of Retarsia
or are his eyes not on straight?
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Here's a mirror of the dead link:
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There's a great picture of Anakin/Vader still floating around (hi-res one was taken down).
On what planet do you live that you have 6 month years? Here on Earth 18 months is 1 1/2 years.
I can accept bad spelling from slashdotters but bad math is just scary.
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:)
Some Of Lucas's best work yet
In Soviet Russia, Trojan exploits YOU!
Not that I expected the link to be legitimate anyway. Although, I did read a plot synopsis of Episode II a few months before it came out that turned out to be 100% accurate. Nevertheless, it's way too early for "leaked" summaries on this one.
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
..this thread's gonna get bumpy.
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:EjlFNploWcoJ: www.geocities.com/area51/Vault/2371/episodeIII.txt +%22%2Bwww.geocities.%2Bcom/area51/vault/2371/epis odeIII.txt%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
For those that missed the first 5 seconds after the article was posted.
DARTH SIDIOUS I find it amazing that your overwhelming stupidity is only offset by your incredible ability with a lightsaber. You've come a long way from those days on Naboo when you were tripping over every single available object.
DARTH JAR JAR Mesa not cuttin' off mesa arms, mesa not cuttin' off mesa legs! Mesa muy good with a lightsaber, Darth Sidious!
DARTH SIDIOUS (massaging his temple) Christ, I need a Tylenol.
DARTH JAR JAR Whatsa bein' wrong, Darth Sidious?
DARTH SIDIOUS Jar Jar, please, don't talk again. Just listen to me.
DARTH JAR JAR Okieday! Mesa listenin' to you now!
DARTH SIDIOUS God, I need a drink, too. Look, Jar Jar. I'm going to take you to fight the Jedi. We're going to lure Anakin to the Dark Side, and...
DARTH JAR JAR (interrupting) Nooooo! Little Annie?
DARTH SIDIOUS Jar Jar, I'm serious. Shut your stupid mouth and listen to me, or I will make you suffer as you've never suffered before, all right?
DARTH JAR JAR Okieday, mesa shuttin mesa mouth now!
DARTH SIDIOUS Jesus. All right, here's the deal - we lure Anakin over to the Dark Side, which should be easy to do. I'm surprised he hasn't drifted over here yet of his own free will. He was a little pouty brat of a kid, and he was a surly, rude, angry teenager who pouted and got all pissy when he didn't get his own way. Now he's a little older and he's still acting like a petulant teenager. I will simply have him embrace his rage, and he will join us.
DARTH JAR JAR But Darth Sidious, if Annie besa joinin' us, doesn't that mean hesa goin' to have to kill mesa?
DARTH SIDIOUS (hurriedly) No, no, of course not, Jar Jar. We've...um...abandoned those usual rules. Yeah, that's right. Now there can be a master and two apprentices.
DARTH JAR JAR Oooooohhhhhhh. Okieday! Mesa ready to besa killin' the Jedi!
DARTH SIDIOUS (quietly) I can't wait until Anakin joins us.
BOBA FETT steps out on to the balcony. SIDIOUS and JAR JAR turn to look at him.
DARTH JAR JAR Hey there, little Boba! How's yousa doin' today?
BOBA FETT Shut up, Jar Jar.
DARTH SIDIOUS Now, Boba, is that any way to talk to a Sith Lord?
BOBA FETT (his mouth hangs open in amazement for a moment, but then he composes himself) You've got to be kidding me. Tell me that's a joke.
DARTH JAR JAR Nonono, it's not bein' a joke! Mesa a Sith Lord! Mesa havin' mesa own lightsaber!
BOBA FETT This has got to be the stupidest damned thing you've ever done, Palpatine.
DARTH SIDIOUS What did I tell you? When I'm in the robes, you're supposed to call me Darth Sidious.
BOBA FETT Oh, blow me.
DARTH SIDIOUS Boba, you will maintain a tone of respect with me, or I swear that I will...
BOBA FETT (interrupting) You'll what? Oooooh, more threats. I'm really scared of you, "dad."
DARTH SIDIOUS That's it! Go to your room!
BOBA FETT No.
DARTH SIDIOUS Go to your room, Boba, or I'll have Jar Jar here cut off your head.
BOBA FETT If he doesn't cut his own head off first. Stupid, clumsy idiot.
DARTH SIDIOUS That's enough, Boba! Go to your room!
...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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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
I bet baby Luke Skywalker and baby Han Solo will have a chance meeting! Maybe baby Han Solo will throw a tater-tot at baby Greedo
our efforts to get "The Star Wars Kid" into the film have failed?
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A million fans are about to cry out in terror - and are suddenly silenced.
Episodes 4-6: I liked them. They were the cowboy fantasy with a tale to tell of redemption, growing into an adult, and the small, plucky rebellion beating the odds against an Empire of British accented bad guys.
Episodes 1-2? We've got some of the worst scripting that has ever happened. Episode 2 alone was nearly a black hole in a craptastic display that was barely saved by the precense of Ass Kickin' Yoda. (And it still had the stupid heroes who couldn't seem to figure out how to roll out of the way of a falling hunk of metal so Yoda had to save their dumb asses rather than taking out the "Bad Guy".)
So unless Episode 3 has a huge song and dance scene with a whole parade of digially generated Natalie Portmans in that super tight white Princess Leia like outfits singing "You Are My Sunshine", I'll just wait until it shows up as a special on Fox.
With plenty of commercial interruptions so I can have a time for hurlage.
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
'nuf said.
"Talk minus action equals nothing" - Joey Shithead, D.O.A.
"Talk minus action equals
INT - MOS EISLEY CANTINA (Hand written in ballpoint, in crabbed, small letters) No point in reinventing the wheel or paying out our asses again for thirty midgets and a small army of makeup artists and top-ranked FX crews, guys. CGI this in its entirety. Get me some of those Japs at Circlehard or wherever. People love repeat themes and babies too- so we'll just have the Cantina band all be a bunch of toddlers, since this is all maintaining the prequel theme, which should go well for our Huggies Pull-em-ups! plug spot. I can just feel the Baby Snoots dolls flying off the shelves at Target and Wal-Mart now. Oh, squeeze in that Britney Spears-as-Twi'lek-dancer cameo we promised if possible too. - George
YODA and ANAKIN sidle up to the bar. The BARTENDER eyes the sabers on their belts suspiciously.
BARTENDER: We don't serve your kind here.
ANAKIN: (Gestures in some arbitrary, mystical manner) You need to go outside now and shave a bantha. We should serve ourselves.
BARTENDER: I need to go out back and shave a bantha. Why don't you two gentlemen serve yourselves.
ANAKIN Force-pours himself and YODA a couple of tall, stiff drinks.
YODA: (Shaking his head remorsefully) Strong in the Force you have become indeed, Anakin. Powers you are not using responsible. (YODA grumbles) Not responsible. Not responsible.
ANAKIN: With all due respect Master Yoda, coming here was at your request. Not only have I prevented a conflict, but now we have an open bar.
YODA: (Sighing in resignation) Then knocking a few back, we will be, and explaining I will the reason of this meeting.
TRANSITION- Now ANAKIN is Force-pouring rows of drinks, sloppily, for a garrolously cheering crowd of CGI, puppets, and whatever monster suited extras we had in the closet. 'Friends' cast cameo.
ANAKIN: Woohooo! Make mine a Force Light!
YODA: Talking we must.
ANAKIN: Okay. But do you gotta keep talking like you learned your grammar from an electrocuted Wookiee?
YODA: Comment sliding I will let. Talk to you of Amidala, I must.
ANAKIN: Awww you're not going to start coming down on me like the Jedi Council, all, 'marriage is forbidden' this and 'we're throwing you out' that are ya?
YODA: Spending too much time from Amidala you have been. Speaking with Master Yoda she has.
ANAKIN: (briefly sobering up) WHAT? The bitch lies! I never laid a hand on her!
YODA: Calm, young Anakin. She is lonely. Only seeking companionship she was. Busy you have been.
ANAKIN: (Glowering) What I do wi' my time is my bi'ness.
YODA: Indeed it is... indeed it is.
ANAKIN: Will you drop this pretentious, ancient green sage midget nonsense for one minute and get to your point?
YODA: As you wish. Lonely woman, this Amidala. Seek comfort with old Jedi she did. Leads to other things, one thing does. (YODA giggles impishly) Little Yoda needed some comforting too.
ANAKIN: (Sputtering) You... she... WHAT?
YODA: Woman with needs, Amidala is. Old Jedi knows more tricks than just lightsaber.
ANAKIN: (Staring a moment) How is that even possible! WAIT, don't even respond. You're supposed to be a Master! You're not supposed to be doing that anyway!
YODA: Falling in love is expressly forbidden, but love in general is not. Besides. Jedi Master I am. Jedi Monk I am not.
ANAKIN: I'MA KILL THAT BITCH!
YODA: Find her, you will not. Hidden from you she is.
Queue the Linkin Park plug music. ANAKIN howls all angsty, Force-smashes a bunch of bottles and cups into the wall. The crowd gets upset and starts booing him. ANAKIN, knowing his kung fu is inferior to YODA's, pouts and then jumps out a window, bawling the entire way. YODA calmly finishes his drink.
YODA: Never trust a politician, told him I did.
Joking good sir, joking. Purely sarcasm. I was pointing out Lucas' affection for covering up bad plot and no story with over the top CGI shots and therefore ends up spending too much time on post production.
Besides, the story went down so fast I couldn't read one word of it.
If whales learn how to use weapons we're all screwed!
Here's why Anakin goes bad.
"Anakin, Meesa your father."
"Nooooooooooooooooooo!"
Replying to my own posts, how sad.
Might as just well use Google.
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So, they're gonna turn Anakin into Gollum? Sweet! "Kenobi is tricksy and false, my precious..."
Apparently, TheForce.net has taken it upon themselves to produce Episode VII. After the prequels, how badly could it suck? Might be worth a read for the diehard...
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
Slashdot should be more responsible than to post links to personal sites with low bandwidth quotas.
This is the dumbest thing I've heard here in awhile. Typically, the sites that have high bandwidth quotas are the already-popular, mainstream crap that I am inundated with from every other source. One of the reasons I come here to slashdot is to discover some little-known, alternative-viewpoint material on the web. They typically do not have large bandwidth quotas because, let's face it, they languish in obscurity. Calling for slashdot to only post links to high-bandwidth-capable sites is pretty much the same as calling for slashdot to only post links to mainstream, popular crap. What kind of geek are you? If the site is down for now, just check back in a few days. Hell, check back tonight. It's not like most of us are going to be doing anything else on a Friday night anyhow!
Now I see why I you are already on my Foes list.
GMD
watch this
Not Lucas' fault, mind you. The person responsible is my buddy Sean, who part way through The Phantom Menace turns to me and says "I've figured it out. When they say 'midichlorians', the mean 'semen'."
Gak.
Mike Hoye
First the plot of EP3 is leaked across the net, what is next? where will the madness end!!
:)
Luckly the plot for Return Of The Kind is kept under lock and key
The problem as I see it is that I have no personality of my own.
The key scene to Episode III, of course, is an action sequence consisting of Natalie Portmen pouring hot grits down Darth Vader's pants during a sword fight with yoda. But yet this wasn't represented in any of the pictures...Okay nevermind.
So I guess that means no SWK now? Who knows, since Lucas loves CG so much, perhaps he can digitally insert SWK into SWIII. Couldn't be any worse than Jar-Jar.
On the molten, volcanic world of Sigma Vulcanus, Anakin Skywalker, a handsome, swarthy man with a dignified stature, makes an important discovery.
Wow. What a picture-perfect description of Hayden Christenson...
Now if the script described Anakin as a punk-ass little pretty-boy shithead with a dippy smile, I'd be more inclined to believe this "script" :)
GMD
watch this
Mannequin Skywalker
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
the odds of me getting to see Jar Jar die in a wash of gore that would put the best of "Starship Troopers" to shame are?
**insert favorite profound quotation here**
I'm still hoping they'll film this!!!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Baby Greedo hucks a lima bean at Baby Han first.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Did the Star Wars kid make it in?
I think the MORE IMPORTANT question is:
Which version of the Star Wars Kid will they digitize into the final release of the movie?
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I assume they meant "coffee roll." Although, I can't be totally sure... It's Australia, after all.
...spike
Ewwwwww, coconut...
lucase err whoever wrote this "script" for the ENTIRE damn movie did it in about one day note the dates on all the pages....freakin amazing.
The legions of fans of "Indiana Jones" would disagree. George Lucas co-created "Indiana Jones", and its stories exceed the quality of the stories of "Star Wars". The former has less sci-fi gadgetry and more human quality than the latter. The exception might be Star Wars IV.
Say it with me
Episode III spoiler FREE
Are you saying the plot blows?
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by having him kill Jar Jar Binks.
A nice 30 sec bit of him bumping into Jar Jar "accidently" knocking him off a very high cliff and then saying "oops" and running off.
Ben
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In episode 3, anakin becomes an evil man known as darth vader, after making padme pregnant with twins.
Palpatine becomes the Empreror, and the Jedi are hunted down, with only a few escaping.
Yoda lives through it, and so does Obi Wan Kenobi, Yoda goes to Dagobah (though it might not be revealed in the 3rd movie) and ObiWan goes to live on Tatooine, where Luke is left with his uncle Own Lars.
If you don't vote, you don't matter, so don't waste your time telling me your opinion
http://www.supershadow.com/starwars/episode7/plot. html
Actually, the script isn't completely finished yet. There are few things that could change.
This guy is very near with Lucas. If you are interested, take a peek at his site.
Considering that 1 and 2 are nothing at all like Lucas said they would be back in '83 (remember the promise that none of the characters from the original series would be in any of the other six episodes?), nothing he said back them would matter at all. This is clearly a fake.
Does anyone old enough to use slashdot without mommy or daddy's help care about this anyway? The original episode was fantastic and a quantum leap in sci-fi production. The next two were ok, but suffered from a lot of very obvious merchandising influences and also bad muppets rather than the good innovative effects of the original. Things went down hill from there, I can't see how episodes one, two and now three could have any appeal unless the advertisements in your Saturday morning cartoons and on your 60% sugar breakfast cereal product tie-in box brainwash a weak mind into thinking they want to see this.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
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
$ grep "Jar Jar" episodeIII.txt
$
I'm sold.
Arrr!
This better not suck like the first two, or we'll be hanging Lucas from the yardarm!
"As sharp as a sack of wet mice."
Someone was doing that once, but I don't think I've seen it since. Probably because when the site "comes back", he tries to sell Amazon books on it or something? I dunno.
Really, after they introduced muppets, it was all over.
So you're saying that the only good Star Wars was the first one? Y'know, Yoda was a Muppet in Empire Srikes Back and Return of the Jedi...
(Yeah, yeah, I know, IHBT, but It was too good to pass up.)
Jay (=
The coolness that was star wars, has been utterly ruined by episode 1+2. What should make 3 any better ? I predict lots of sabres, a romance or two, a script that have been lifted from a dutch porn movie, and acting worse than on the dutch porn flick.
... SW is dead.
/Rumagent
On what planet do you live that you have 6 month years? Here on Earth 18 months is 1 1/2 years.
Well.. If there's a bright centre to the universe, it's the planet farthest from.
I've gotta go and fix some moisture evaporators now. And find that missing droid.
BOBA FETT
As well you should be, boy. We are supposed to all be clones,
but you look different, which makes you a threat to our morale.
You are hereby banished from the clone army, never to return.
HAN SOLO
That suits me fine, I will make my way as a rogue.
Han Solo gets up from the table, knocks over his chair, picks up a
duffel bag and walks away. He opens the bag and there is a puppy
inside. He takes it out and kisses it on the head.
HAN SOLO
It is okay, Chewbacca, we will be all right.
Puppy? Chewbacca? He's 200 tears old in ANH... WTF?
lol
Never argue with an idiot. They will just bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
If only they had some good writers. As Harrison Ford once said, "George, you can write this stuff, but nobody can say it."
I remember reading this script back in around '94 or '95 when talk of the prequels was first starting to surface.. I seem to recall getting it from a BBS or maybe through my FreeNet account at the time.
I'm pretty sure it was debunked as some fan's lame attempt at writing what the prequels would be like.
Gotta say though, I was always hoping the prequels would have 'Fall of the Republic' in one of their names instead of what they ended up being called.. gah
--mike
Will Jar-Jar be back in Episode III? And will ILM insert him into episodes IV, V, and VI??
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
I'm just dying to know -- how is it that "political correctness" has spoiled Star Wars in particular? You've just said it would ruin the series if we let it go any further, right?
Seems to me like if Lucas'd left out the Stepinfetchit CGI character, and maybe made the trade confederation something other than cardboard standups with vaguely asian traits, he'd have had better movies the last two times around -- just as popcorn movies, leaving alone any sort of "correctness" you want to whine about. Isn't it bad writing in service of bigger-is-better effects that've bored me to the point where I didn't see the last one until video last time?
Frankly I could use a few characters who try to do the right thing and struggle with it, rather than just adhering to that grand, archetypal vision Lucas has convinced himself he had at one point. No problem with the lesbian pair idea, either (ahem)... or really any characters with any chemistry whatsoever, good or bad, between them. If that's "political correctness," please, let's have more.
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
In another part of the galaxy, on the capital world of Jhantor, Palpatine enters his senate chambers - followed closely by a brash, young courtier named Prince Valarium
I think they meant Prince Valium. Either that, or Mel Brooks is psychic in his parodies...
The Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman,
On what planet do you live that you have 6 month years? Here on Earth 18 months is 1 1/2 years
He was speaking in terms of metric years.
Yes, the first was the only good one. When I saw that muppet troll yoda, I knew it was over.
Asses are for crapping, not screwing.
My ferret writes more realistic dialog. This can't really be the script.
Hoist Number One and Number Six.
"This is not the script you are looking for"
"This is not the script we are looking for."
"Move along."
"Move along."
-- Boycott Shell
Saw the last one on a DVD my brother lent me, and ironed through the latter half of the movie only because the kids were half-watching too. It's a mess, they were more interested in playing with my old action figures than watching the movie.
So no, this Star Wars kid, who found himself during the denouement of the Death Star unconsciously "flying" with his hands in the theater, who remembers seeing The Empire Strikes Back without any warning of the Luke's father thing and being staggered, staggered, in the theater, this one didn't see EP I until the bargain theaters, and never put a penny toward EP II after that.
Fool me twice, nuh-uh.
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
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.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Anybody read Splinter of the Mind's Eye? This plot seems to borrow fairly heavily from it. Its initial publication was after A New Hope and prior to Empire. Chances are Lucas didn't (and won't) use large portions of the plot from that book as the basis of the next movie. Also, I was pretty young then, but I'm pretty sure "genetic engineering" wasn't a household term in 1983.
Love justice; desire mercy.
Maybe it's just me but i read that title wrong..
Although some good porn would definetly help the series..
and seeing JAR JAR die..
If Kenobi was the last Jedi, what happened to Yoda? Seems that him making it to Dagoba has to be in the storyline somewhere.
A goal is a dream with a deadline
Would I get a show of hands who believes that an adapted version of the "New Jedi Order" novel series might be a good trilogy to film and produce for the fans? I think they could probably get all the old actors from Episodes 4,5,6 to play characters that are actually pretty close in age now to the characters to the books. Just seeing the Yuuhzan Vong and the new Jedi's trading blows with all the intrigue going on... I think there is enough story material to do a trilogy of sorts. Hell it might even redeem Lucas if he wrote a crappy Episode 3.
In Episode III, Padme realizes that Anakin is a major dork. The horror of the realization makes her break free of Lucas's stupid scripting...
As a side effect of the awakening, a glitch in the system creates a clone army of Natalie Portmans! Woohoo! Any excuse for a clone army of Natalie Portmans!!!
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Seriously though, this bloke at that message board seems to be making good progress on creating a clone army of Natalie Portmans! Go CGI-render guy!
I'm actually surprised; this is YAHOO we're talking about. You'd think they have the muscle to handle it and not give users such piss-poort bandwidth quotas. }:)
So don't be trollin'.
The original trilogy rocked. The new trilogy sucked, at least the first two thirds. Great story, crappy writing. "Crappy", in this sense, may or may not mean "better than average but not up to Star Wars standards".
I'm looking forward to the day, maybe 20 or 30 years from now, when some studio finally buys the rights off of Lucas' estate, and remakes parts I-III with a real screenwriter. That may happen about the time they release parts IV-VI in their original format, without the stupid additions that changed *them* from good movies to special effects showcases with incidental characters and plot.
Just because Lucas wanted to evoke the sense of wonder of the pulp sci-fi thrillers of the '50s, doesn't mean he should also employ their lame dialog and plot contrivances. [Insert Darth Maul and/or Jar Jar rant here]
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
A short animated series on Cartoon Network: Star Wars: Clone Wars on Cartoon Network
Here's a picture of Anakin/Vader in Episode III.
Finally, if you're into minor spoilers, head over to the IMDB record for Episode III, and you might recognize some interesting character names in the cast list...
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Dear Star Wars fans. The last two Star Wars movies made me realize that I am unable to write a good script. Hence the forthcoming movie "Star Wars III - the Tatooine Lightsabre massacre" will feature no script whatsoever, just John Williams music, your favourite stars and ILM special effects. After all, this is what we do best. -- George Lucas
If at least one day of the 18 month long post production involves a large barrel full of kersene, all known prints of episode 2 and a match.
Please god after seeing episode 2 I don;t know if I could survive another dose. Although I now know what "Plan 9 From Outer Space" could have been with a budget. Oh, wait Plan 9 had the bad writing, but the acting was MUCH better.....
If you're a Star Wars fan and you ever get the chance, go see this show: One Man Star Wars Trilogy. It's simply fantastic.
Point taken!
Went to see Eps 1. Was so horribly dissapointed I never went to see 2. Not seen the DVD either. (Is it out even?) Everyone says 2 was far worse than 1. Well I for one have no current plans to see 3 at all unless I'm stuck sick at home and it's being shown on Scifi and the remote is broken.
The new films have ruined my memory of the first three, which unfortunately after a great start were also rocketing in to the ground fast. And is seems that continuing the RL time sequence, each one of these is also rocketing (now completely unground) to hell.
Who knows, maybe 3 will actually be great, would make a nice finish to the series I guess. But that won't be known till it's released...
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Episode I was such a turkey you could have carved it up for Thanksgiving. I didn't even bother to rent Episode II.
It's sad that George Lucas, who gave us the truly brilliant THX-1138, has devolved from great artist to talentless hack.
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I never understood the balance, it is...
1) Anakin brings back balance by turning to the darkside, and creating a level playing field for dark vs. light (his massive power against all the jedi).
2) The force is brought back into balance because the whole time it was out of balance with Vader being the icing on the cake, and got back into balance because the good guys finally got their shit together. (with a case of poetic justice was led by his son)
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.
So: does Vader ever actually see R2D2 and C3PO together in episodes IV to VI? I can't remember.
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Didn't the Enhancing Crystal thing already get done (badly)?t ail/-/0345 320239/103-8566168-9878267?v=glance
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I can remember reading this. The amount of revisionist history in the Star Wars universe is mind boggling.
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Splinter of The Mind's Eye
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Information to be found such places as:
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(Hey, Leah Thompson's a bit older now, but I'd still quack for her. And I'd bet the duck is still available too.)
I'd have a personalized plate on my car, but "toxic bachelor" won't fit into 7 letters.
Hmm.
So you're saying that all the movie where George Lucas was NOT the director were good?
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Yeah, I can agree with that.
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Currently 98,988 has signed the "Put The Star Wars Kid in Episode III"-petition.
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LOL! You just have to imagine that with the Jose Jalapeno accent. Classic.
I think that someone should propose legislation that makes it illegal for film makers to create triple-trilogies.
It should probably be a capitol offence. Or, the perpetrator should be put in a cell with an inmate who believes he's Jar-Jar Binks.
But seriously, screw Lucas.
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will any of the new plot explain the star wars christmas special?
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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.
I've been called a "Fucking Dick" by better people than you.
whats is this; a news for nerds site, and stuff that matters to said nerds?
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When there's 18 months of post ahead of you, I don't see how principal photography has any meaning. Star Wars is barely worth considering as 'live-action' any more. Mind you, Lucas is barely worth considering as 'a director'.
I'd prefer waiting for "Howard The Duck II: Keep On Quacking".
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. - Dorothy Parker
And principal acting and scriptwriting will take place in 2053 when Jerry Bruckheimer III decides to "remake the classics for a new audience"...
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It's a text file, with worse writing then the other star wars films. This is slashdot. We're geeks. We will see it opening night dressed as Natalie Po... I mean Darth Vader. This can't be true. You will disregard all facts from Geocities, for they are lies.
I'll see you there, opening day, 12:01 AM. Bring caffine, the form its in doesn't matter. I'll probably be there for the showing of all 6 films in order, as the marketing this would generate would be a lot bigger then most commercials.
By the way, Geocities also got a hold of a leaked, unedited lightsaber battle. One person managed to download it before the transfer peaked. They mirrored it here.
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Yeah, but I figured that the blatant comparisons to Jesus Christ would be enough ego-tripping for Lucas.
Then again, that only offended a handful of Christians. Maybe he's thinking bigger now, so he's throwing Moses into the mix to get the Jews and Muslims pissed too.
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According to this article in Salon Lucas stated for Time magazine in 1977 that Star Wars was "just for fun". But as the movie became a pop culture milestone, he began dropping Joseph Campbell's name (in the author of the Salon articles supposition) to lend the movie a bit more "legitamacy".
The article also supposes that Campbell himself (who was to that point a somewhat obscure Sarah Lawrency academic) was pleased as punch to have his name linked to the Hollywood blockbuster. Certainly couldn't hurt the sales of some of his books, now could it?
Ever since then Lucas has been shamelessly borrowing these grand mythological archetypes. Though in the case of "the immaculate conception" yes, Jesus was one of the more obvious choices. But this motif has run through many different cultures over the centuries, not just referring our homeboy J.C.
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
I cannot believe anyone is taking that script seriously. The only thing the author nailed was that the StormTroopers are/were clones. I remembered reading a big synopsis CineScape Magazine did on the prequels before Episode I hit the screen, based heavily upon the *Fall of the Republic* treatment. They went into great detail that StormTroopers were clones and even printed an illustration of a StormTrooper assembly line with a LucasFilm copyright notice underneath it. I thought it was a stupid idea but then Episode II then confirmed it. My only hope is that Anakin does indeed fall into a volcanic pit like Lucas said he would back in 1979. Its great symbolism, much like the "Vader in Flames" crew patch during the filming of ESB was...
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Absolutely. Harrison Ford is, IMO, what made Star Wars what it was. Episode II was decent, but it still fell as short as a dwarf on a model runway.
One trend I'm noticing in the new trilogy is that Lucas is trying to throw "surprises" into the mix to keep us old fans interested. In Episode I, there was a "virgin birth", in Episode II, we find out that the Empire didn't conquor the Repblic, but the Republic became the Empire through osmosis. The second of these two was an interesting plot twist, because it pitted people against people that -seemed- to be on their side, and vice versa.
The third prequel is bound to have the same kind of thing. Half of me is hoping for some 'Corellian trader' to save the day. This 'trader' would be played by Harrison Ford (why not, they had Jango Fett, didn't they?), and would be none other than Han Solo's father (or maybe Lando's father, who knows - Lando was quite the amiable character, too).
Having Han's father do some heroic deed would set the precident for when Han Solo decides to turn around and help out the rebellion, saving Luke's ass - that little tidbit wasn't clearly explained in Ep IV, and it's what tends to be considered a loose string.
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Uh...
"watchful sensors of Artoo Detoo and See Threepio, while Bail"
Why are the names spelled out in the so-called script? Am I just a clueless Star Wars newb or does "See Threepio" look absolutely stupid to anyone else?
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).
:-P
NOOO! That link is FAKE FAKE FAKE. Excuse me if I get worked up about it, but it's mentioned basically everywhere you look for Star Wars scripts. Gets annoying after a while.
It's the most well-known fake script in the Star Wars trilogies.
*sigh*
A quick look in Google Groups would have helped to sort that out before you had to confuse others with a totally, 100%, bogus script.
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Actually, the Repiblic becoming the Empire through osmosis isn't the surprise.
It was the clones, fighting for the Republic, at the sides of Jedi.
The only other referances in the movies about the clone wars seems to lead one to beleive that clones are a bad thing, which is reenforced by the expanded universes novels...
(Of course, Ep1 & Ep2 pretty much shot holes into Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy... between the implications of clones, and the existance of a Republic war fleet that predates the clone wars...)
... knowing that Episode III is probably going to suck.
I remember hearing rumours of the extra episodes back when the first movies were coming out. It was something I was hoping/looking forward to for over 20 years.
The first movie starts out promising and has its moments, but is overwhelmed by disappointments that can be sumed up in two words: Jar Jar.
The second movie exceeded the first in its banality. Acting was so bad that I was looking for (wishing for) Crow and Tom Servo to popup in the lower right corner of the screen. The movie a complete farse upon itself.
And that is why I cringe whenever I hear talk of Episode III. After loving IV-VI and 20 years of longing for more, its been a huge and utter disappointment.
May the Farse be with you!
P.S. Of course, this all makes you appreciate Peter Jackson all the more.
Correction: "About as sharp as a pound of wet leather."
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Hrm. I odn't recall the specifics about Zahn's Thrawn trilogy, and what the implications of clones and a republic war fleed would do to it. I might have to find those books again, I recall them being pretty decent.
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Now, with the second episode we were all exposed to the horribly inexperienced acting of Hayden Christensen. If the outline of the leaked story is true, Hayden Christensen will be out of the movie within the first 15 minutes, as Anakin is encased in the armour of Darth Vader.
On another note, I like how the story line ties in with the book "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", which details when Luke and Leia come upon the Kaiburr crystal. (The book takes place between episode IV and V.)
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Sadly, I didn't want to see II, but my wife insisted... and she still hasn't learned and insists we will be going to Episode III as well.
... they'll start working on the script!
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What, you expected continuity?? You insensitive clod!!
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1. Anakin bangs Queen Amidala (I'd pay for^H^H^H to see that.)
2. Anakin turns to the dark side, Queen Amidala begats Luke and Leia.
3. ????
4. PROFIT!
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Seems like /. has taken over another site. Wondering if anyone has a mirror to that .txt anywhere.
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Shame on you, Georgey!
but fool me twice (and who wasn't fooled by the vain hope that Attack of the Cloned Plot was any better than Phantom Plot?) and that's SHAME ON ME!
informal protest vote cast - I shan't be in attendance whenever this mess comes to the theatre near me. George Lucas can suck a dick.
BTW nice post heading by parent! Couldn't have said it any better. w00t!
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Homer: Wow, what an ending! Who would have thought Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father! Crowd in queue: Oh, thank you, Mister Blow-the-picture-for-me.
Well, as far as I'm concerned:
VII = Heir to the Empire
VIII = Dark Force Rising
IX = The Last Command
and the Jedi Academy hadn't been formed at that time. I think Leia may have been in training... (She was pregnant and had the twins Jaina and Jacen at that time, IIRC)
-uso.
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I agree that Episode I was not the best movie. The trouble was it is, of necessity, prologue. It sets up all subsequent movies.
Episode II is much better. All of the preamble pays off in Episode II; everything unfolds nicely. The interesting thing about Episode II is that it is salient to the world today:
-- Chancellor Palpatine -- after the Republican Senate voted to him emergency-powers for fighting the separatists in Star Wars -- Episode II: Attack of the Clones (Palpatine promises to lay-down this power when the crisis has abated -- Sure! I believe that!)
-- George Walker Bush
Dubya is busy trying to overthrow this Republic and set up a Fascistic Imperial Power.
Impeach Bush