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Star Wars Episode III Spoiler Photos
XSSIV writes "Amazing new spoiler filled imagery from next year's Star Wars: Episode III can be found at the
MovieWeb
Star Wars III Detail Page. Here is the
Gallery for Star Wars III Images" There are a couple of cool shots that cross into spoiler territory (although only if you don't know the Chewbacca is Luke's true biological mother).
Is that Ewan McGreagor with all the "burn" makeup on? When the hell did Obi-Won get burned?
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Is it me, or did it just get fatter in here?
what's with all the star wars hype? I mean sure, it was one of the first big budget science fantasy movie productions, but let's face it, it's really really bad, and the only reason you think it's good is because you've been spoon fed crappy movies all your lives.
why don't you go to the library and pick up some good sci-fi? I mean, possibly any sci-fi book is at least 34 times better than STAR WARS. pick up Night's Dawn, Hyperion, heck, even the Foundation series and read some books. pretty soon you'll begin to notice that STAR WARS is a really crappy third grade movie.
just my 2 dollars.
Seems if i try to view an image all i get is some damned pop-up ad.. How kind of them, more companies I can add to the list that I refuse to do business with.
But i agree with the others, i don't see any 'spoilers' here.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
You know, I've been a fan of star wars for a long time, mostly my whole life, but over the past year or two, it's started to wane.
I basically did what this guy says to do, albeit with different books, and more and more, I don't like Star Wars as much. In fact, I'm starting to really hate it.
On the other hand, I'm finding some really amazing books that keep me hooked, and I'm starting to even read non-scifi books, which is pretty suprising for me.
So, even though it looks like a blatant troll, it has real insight.
The original three?
Talk sense, man. Only Empire is a remotely decent movie - Star Wars was novel but crappy, Empire was good, Return was a big budget, low-brow remake of Star Wars with any charm sucked out of the script and fucking Ewoks.
Face it - the Star Wars series has been almost entirely crap with Empire stuck in the middle putting a rosy glow on the first movie and allowing us all to hope that any sequel might be as good, though none of them ever have been.
That was classic intercourse!
That is what matinees are for.....
Steve
A spoiler is information that makes seeing the movie irrelevant, or at least 'spoils' your enjoyment of it. For a prequel like this it would be information that is in the movie and not in anything else: something you don't know and would make the movie worth watching.
So, no, a spoiler is not possible for Star Wars episode III.
'Sensible' is a curse word.
Apparently Lucas was married/on his way to divorce in the middle of Eps IV - VI and it was her input on the editorial and post in the film that helped make them good. Apparently Lucas wanted to suck at those too but at every step there was her persistent "Uh, dear.." that got him to change his mind. I've never read up enough bio on the man to validate this gossip but it would seem to fit. Lucas channeled by others producing greatness, Lucas left to own devices slinging steaming turds.
It could, of course, be that Lucas is going to spring a really big surprise on everyone - Anakin isn't Darth Vader perhaps, something like that.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Sure, Star Wars was a simple, black-and-white tale. But that's what made it good!
I think many academics and current thinkers would agree that the Star Wars story has entered into our current mythology -- it's become one of our Deep Stories.
Of course, no sequels, prequels, whatever, could ever measure up to the original. It was the Brothers Grimm, it was Homer, it was Myth.
- Murphy's Corollary: - It is impossible to make things foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
Lucasfilm has been firing cease and decist letters at people again. Check out www.jedidefender.com. It appears that the images originally were provided by those guys and -- they were told by Lucas to remove them. It looks like others are removing them also.
That's what I'm thinking too. I posted some thoughts about it before:
Plus, I think I was speculation on theforce.net a few years ago that maybe Senator/Chancellor Palpatine and Darth Sidious are not the same person but rather are clones of each other.
again choose an awful annakin.
I saw Life as a House, and was forced to conclude that Hayden Christenson is a pretty good actor. So what's up with Episode II? Well it seems to me George Lucas must be directing him to act that way: "Okay Hayden, now you are young Anakin, and to show you've already got a chip on your shoulder walk around looking all brooding and self-aware for no apparant reason." I mean, he is brooding with a chip on his shoulder in the other movie too, showing that he can do it without seeming self-aware. There is only one reason he wouldn't do so in this movie: he isn't being allowed to.
So many people have made that mistake of interpretation, and it's a shame. For that matter, it was said quite a bit about 2001 as well. Would it surprise you to learn the third act has as much Kubrick influence as the other two? It *does* have problems, IMHO, too much narration a large part of that. But it's unfortunate that the shift in style has led people to think of the ending as tacked-on, with Kubrick stopping and Spielberg picking up the pen to finish things off.
I hope with some investigation you can confirm this for yourself, and reexamine the third act's messages in light of Kubrick's similar statements in A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket.
You might have a slightly different opinon if you had see the original Star Wars movie ( IV ) in the movie theater when it first came out. For a movie theater experience, most people were impressed and thought it was at least something unique at the time.
The midicholorians apparently represent a biological way of quantifying someone's force potential. Beyond this, they are also intrenched into the Jedi religion itself. A person created by the midicholorians could be viewed as both a biological act (i.e. a virus causing impregnation) and a spiritual act (the Force "willing" someone into being). We have both the divine and mundane aspects involved - Obi Wan confirms the Anakin's midicholorian count at the behest of Qui-Gon's belief that Anakin's birth is the fulfillment of prophecy.
Here, again, we see how "the truths we cling to depend on our point of view", and also how "our focus determines our reality". Anakin was brought up to believe he was the "chosen one" who will "bring balance". What these terms mean, we can only conjecture. By joining the Dark side, he does bring balance by reducing the number of Jedi to exactly the number of Sith; master and apprentice. You can also argue that balance is returned when Palpatine/Sidious is ultimately destroyed by Anakin's sacrifice.
Anakin's lineage has been kept a mystery, and perhaps for good reason. I personally believe that Shmi Skywalker knew more about Anakin's conception than she told Qui-gon. While I don't doubt that "there was no father", I would hardly believe that it was the "will of the Force" alone that caused it.
One thing we know about the Sith is they *love* playing gods. How Darth Sidious and Darth Tyrannus work both sides of the war to their own means is, imho, nothing short of brilliant storytelling; a fact that is overlooked far to often on /. We'd much rather complain about Anakin's "sand dialog", but I digress...
Sidious has already shown his willing to create abomination. His creation of the Clone Army is evident of this; tampering with life itself. So here's the real rub: Since midicholorians are a quantifiable biological entity, and an apparent physical link to the spiritual aspects of the Force, it only makes sense that Sidious would use this fact to his advantage. My theory is that Anakin's creation is part of a diabolical Sith experiment. Find some poor slave girl in the ass-end of the galaxy, load her up with Midicholorians, and wait. The child created will be the most Force - sensitive being in existance. Since he is outside of the reach of the Republic, his early impressions and experiences will be out of the control of the Jedi. By the time he becomes a Padawan, it's already too late to change these impressions. Add on the fact that once his training does begin, he's considered by many to be devine: The Morning Star who is soon to fall from grace.
This is just my theory, of course. But Lucas has promised that Anakin's origins will be revealed in the next film. It may very well be that the so fan-reviled Midicholorians, are in fact, the most important element in the entire Trilogy.
Xenon, where's my money? -Borno