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Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire

Posted by timothy on from the birth-of-a-marketing-blitz dept.

lemmen writes "According the Brtish tabloid The Sun, Star Wars III will carry the name 'Birth Of The Empire'. This will be announced soon according the article. Also it describes one of the highlights of the movie: 'A thrilling lightsabre clash between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker while surfing on lava.' Can't wait till May 15th 2005!" Thanks to reader ExoticMandibles, another quality news source: Teen Hollywood. Update: 05/20 05:47 GMT by T : Gokey writes with a correction: "StarWars.com indicates that the movie is released May 19th, 2005 (exactly one year from now) not May 15th, 2005."

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  1. Surfing on lava makes sense by Gothmolly · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Heck, for a Jedi, WALKING on lava is possible. That might be a cool fight - each has to walk on the lava, then they're using the Force to stay walking on the surface w/o dying - Annakin somehow losing his concentration, and slipping into the lava.

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  2. Re:Star Wars III: by noewun · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I am part of the original Star Wars Generation - I was eight when the first one came out, and I saw it in the theaters eleven times. I saw Empire and Return multiple times as well. I had Star Wars figures. I went as Luke Skywalker for Halloween, blah blah blah.

    I was excited for A New Hope, and went to see it at the Ziegfeld Theater in NYC when it premiered. I left the movie disappointed and aghast - horrible writing, terrible directing and a movie which bored me silly. My problem with Star Wars is not Star Wars but George Lucas himself, and the huge drop in quality he has overseen. It seems that without Leigh Bracket and Irvin Kershner to help him, Lucas is incapable of rising above rank melodrama in the new movies. The is doubly confusing to me, as Lucas did great things with the first movie, American Graffiti and THX1138.

    I don't know when Lucas lost it (I think it was when he changed the Greedo/Solo scene for the re-release of the original trilogy) but I have no problem saying the emperor has no clothes. I will always enjoy the first three movie, but the last two have been complete crap.

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  3. parallels in the titles by plasm4 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Creeping Fear doesn't make sense, as its a thing.
    ANH and TPM are both things.
    AOTC and ESB are both things in action.
    ROTJ and Birth of the Empire are both events.

    I thinks its funny that the rumor sites never caught onto this parallel, especially since George has been so into creating parallels with the first three movies.