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Star Wars Episode 3 Release Date Announced
snitty writes "Lucas Films has announced the release date for the last movie in the trilogy of prequels. The date is set for May 19, 2005. The title of the movie has yet to be released. I think I'll give it another year or so before I get on line for tickets."
... when I say that it will probably suck but that I'll go anyway ;-)
Must... resist... going... to... movie...
To paraphrase a well known SF icon.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
May 2005. Anyone else notice that that's about the middle of the indeterminate area that the PS3, GC2 and XBox2 are currently likely to be launched?
O Lucasarts give us this day our tie-ins, we are ready to recieve... -_-
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
Anakin to Padme: "I don't like sand. It's rough. Not soft and smooth like you."
Some of the dialogue in Episode II was cringe-inducing. I feel the special effects were actually underrated, though. For example, people gasped in awe at the opening scene in TTT, (Gandalf diving down under the bridge in Moria after the Balrog), but few realize (or will admit) that those effects were essentially copied from the scene in AOTC where Anakin dives from his speeder.Ideally, Lucas should aim for both good effects (at which, IMO, he has been fairly consistent), and good direction and dialogue (a bit lacking in AOTC).
When will they post which theatres will be having midnight showings? Or will there be a special early screening in select cities? I need to which theatre to go to so I can be the first one in line. That way I can be that crazy fan shown on national TV. Who cares if I have to quit my job, drop out of school, etc. Star Wars is worth it.
Movies are generally released on thursdays.
Not sure why, exactly, but I have a theory.
Movie twits go to the opening, boast about the movies to their friends, who might go friday.
And no matter how horrible the film, movie twits pump it up like it's the be all and end all of western civilisation.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Wonder what an older version of the Darth Vader uniform will look like?
I thought that movies were generally released on Wednesday or Friday. Do you have statistics?
www.timcoleman.com is a total waste of your time. Never go there.
One was bad, two insulted my intelligence (and I only rented two). Three. Yeah, right. I won't waste my time.
I think this comic strip says all that needs to be said about the new Star Wars movies.
In a very sarcastic manner, of course.
I wonder how many youngsters seeing the series starting at episode one will hear the title "A New Hope" for episode four and wonder if the new hope spoken of is for the story lines? Its kind of ironic...
Don't waste time... procrastinate now!
- To The Well Again! -
George Lucas has proven that, in the absence of a genuinely new idea, we (I include myself here) are happy to drink up an old story presented with improved special effects. Hell, we don't even need the marketing machine to tell us how thirsty we are...
This is not the sig you're looking for.
me thinks you missed the joke
jar jar says: "Episode 4 was the first movie relased. Me so think you so stupid"
My greatest fear is that Lucas will decide to remake the original Episode 4 -- from scratch, so that he can fully incorporate his "vision". He could justify it pretty well by the need to tie up the loose ends that are sure to be left by the prequels, like:
* Why doesn't C3P0 remember being created by Anakin? He keeps saying "Thank the Maker", when he could easily thank him in person.
* Assuming that C3PO has had his memory wiped, what about R2D2? Are we going to have to say they wiped him, too, or does he just not bother telling what he knows?
* In Ep IV, Darth Vader doesn't seem to ascribe any particular significance to Tatooine -- his birthplace.
* We were introduced to Luke's future foster parents (in Lucas' trademark ham-handed way) in Ep II. So when Anakin/Darth visited, why would he have them barbequed?
* In fact, why would he even need to massacre Jawas to find the droids -- why not just drop in on Owen and Beru directly?
Maybe some of these questions are going to be answered next May... but I can't imagine it'll be in any way satisfying. I suspect Lucas would remake Eps IV, V, VI in a heartbeat, if the studios were fool enough to let him. And they could well be.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
This is the entire and I mean ENTIRE problem with Ep. I and II, everyone is seen as either pure good or pure evil.
There is no one like Han, who is by nature a self serving man, but actually has a decent side to him.
Makes it so you can actually like him.
Obviously this type of person isn't something that Lucas agrees with, considering the chop job he did with the whole shooting first thing.
This is going to be biased of course, but as far as sequels go, I think the ones that might actually be worth watching will be:
Spider-Man 2
X-men 3 (2 was even better than 1, so 3 should be unbelievable)
The Hobbit
And that's about it. All the other large franchises are either played out, or got so horrible that hopefully they won't bother to make any more sequels. Terminator 3 was pretty lame, and pretty much wrapped up the storyline anyway. The last two "Alien" movies were terrible. We all know how rancid Star Wars episodes 1 and 2 were. Star Trek has become rather tired, and has had a pretty bad track record (2, 4, 6, and 8 were great, but the rest were either mediocre or terrible). Matrix went way south with the last two installments, and its storyline seems to be wrapped up as well (I hope). Maybe the next James Bond movie will be good, but it's impossible to say since they'll be starting over with a new actor.
Luckily, good new non-blockbuster, non-sequel-generating movies come out now and then, such as Master and Commander.
vi +
The gladiator fight scene was actually pretty good, if you can overlook how the newbies (R2, C3PO, Amidala, Boba) managed to escape the battle unscathed while jedi's were getting their shit ruined all over the place. Padme with her little blaster should have been the first to fall, but then we would have had a severe "boobs-in-tight-white-shirts" shortage, and that wouldn't have done at all.