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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).
Nobody's going to feel really bad about seeing those, as George Lucas has turned Star Wars into a franchise to hock his wares.
At least with the original three, that just happened naturally.
although only if you don't know the Chewbacca is Luke's true biological mother
Chebacca and Darth Vader... Nasty.
I saw nothing that came anywhere near spoiler material, nice imagery though.
Just because you disagree doesn't make it offtopic or flamebait.
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?
DAMNIT, First someone ruined Passion of The Christ for me, now this!
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.
I mean, possibly any sci-fi book is at least 34 times better than STAR WARS.
34? Damn, I had my money on 19.5
Excuse me while I sulk in front of my Happy Days tapes which I've never got around to watching. At least Fonzie will always be cool.
Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?
Be like me: if you regard Ep.3 as a kind of CG coffee-table-book, you'll get more enjoyment out of it. Set expectations of plot to zero and you can't be disappointed, right?
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
movieweb.com sysadmin (waves hand): you will not slashdot my webservers.
I have no interest in these pictures, but I went there anyway to make sure the slashdotting was complete.
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.
i think we just spoiled their server, unless its a site about "connection timed out"
In case the page is slashdotted I've put up the pictures on: http://fredrik.kalmar.lu.se. It's on a 10 mbit univeristy connection in Sweden. It should stay up for a while atleast.
He dies, then returns as Jesus the White.
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Seems if i try to view an image all i get is some damned pop-up ad
You need to go here first then: mozilla.org
Oh, and if you don't get the tounge-in-cheek part of the above, don't spend the mod points.
Lets see it the University of Bergen can take the load of an /.
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...if the admin put up a nice message that said "These are not the images you are looking for." Much better than a connection refused.
is that this sorry series will be over, at least the George Lucas part of it. Here's hoping 7-9 will be given to someone with some real edge, like Stephen Spielberg (whose AI or Minority Report films shows how to do intelligent and thought provoking Sci-Fi), or Peter Jackson, who singlehandedly blew away the Star Wars franchise, by revealing the richness and origins of the Star Wars mythology with LOTR. Instead of working on the depth of the mythos, which is what the fans are after, Lucas instead overwhelms us with superficial details--pod racers, giant fighting robots, wookies, talking lizards. By the time the film comes out, why bother? You've already seen it before, only louder and bigger.
You will die alone. :)
SW is a nice idea just apallingly badly done most of the time. The only reason we get so excited is that the sci-fi film genre is *so* badly served with horrible derivative works it makes SW seem ok.
kudos for Lucas for originally having the sage storyline and hiring some damn talented designers to put a unique feel on the films and superb effects for the time. And great music. But if he gets too far involved, it just sucks. Sorry George.
quick summary:
Ep4: poor directing, awful script, okish film
Ep5: good! somebody else writes and directs (take the hint please)
Ep6: Ok film, somebody else directs. bad dialogue is back thanks to georgey boy working on the screenplay again. story rear ended for commerical gain by adding the ewoks
Ep1: Atrocious. Hes back writing on his own and DIRECTING. Dammit george you were not very good to start with and its been 22 YEARS since you last directed anything. story again rammed in the chocolate starfish with the commericalisation of the pod racing scene (which takes up about 50% of the film it seems). pick a totally appaling actor for annakin. Take some of the best acting talent and turn them into cardboard with bloody awful directing and bad script. Hell I can't even remember what happens in this film apart from the pod race.
Ep2: A bit better, i.e. watchable. Script a bit better as hes working with somebody again for the screenplay. again choose an awful annakin. Whats now odd about this is that I can't think of a single point without music in the film. probably why the film seems better as the great music can actually make you feel the emotions that the script and directing cannot.
I don't know why he returned to the writing/directing roles, surely he realised that 5&6 were better than 3? Why couldn't he have turfed the directing/screenplay over to better people? He could have kept his repuation as a god, and become a benevolant god at that. What possessed him to do it?
To leave on a positive note, at least nothing else looks like star wars, it's too 'in your face' to copy. Unlike Alien which although a great film, every spacecraft interior now looks like it's out of Alien and unfortunately it seems a hell of a lot of stories just copy it as well...