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Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved?
mcwop writes "MSNBC is running a commentary asking: 'Can "Star Wars: Episode III" be saved?' It proposes changes such as ripping off Akira Kurosawa, getting the otherwise good actors to emote, and even firing Lucas. It is one year away, but is it too late to save Episode III?"
no.
Save or save not. There is no try!
Killing off Jar-Jar in the supossed lightsaber duel while surfing on lava scene would help.
Makes sure it's a slow painful death with lots of burning from the lava. Tape his mouth shut too, so I don't need to hear his stupid voice. I say R2D2 should be the one that "accidentily" pushes him in. Cuz R2 is the comic relief pimp.
Sigs? We don't need no stinking sigs!
Well, call me crazy, but how can surfing on lava not save a movie? Is there a better way short of two car chases in a single movie?
Make it a musical! Use a lot of trendy pop-culture jokes and cliched music. Obi-Wan and Anakin surfing during the lightsaber battle is brilliant! BRILLIANT!
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Like Battlestar Galactica , somebody will eventually re-make Star Wars a few decades from now.
In the new version, Luke Skywalker will be a woman...
Star Wars will be saved much like how Alderaan was spared by Tarkin in Ep 4.
I'm assuming that no one here as seen the finished movie. So how can one ask the question "Can a movie be saved?" before knowing if it needs to even be saved.
Of course, based off episode 1 and 2, I'm guessing Jesus couldn't save the thing...
Forget the whales - save the babies.
> -- "I'm no actor, but I'm crass enough to scam my way into a movie every now and then." - Henry Rollins
Your sig gives me a great idea! Why not take the article's suggestion of dropping Hayden Christiansen and replacing him... with Henry Rollins! Wouldn't that be awesome?! Lava-surfing saber battles? Hell no! Serious man-on-man pummeling! A pre-armor Vader the size of a Volkswagen stomping around in gym shorts like some heavily-tattooed punk-rock Hulk would absolutely beat the living *crap* out of what we had before! And the first time someone calls him "Annie" he could just head-butt them and start screaming into... erm... some sort of space microphone or something.
That would rule.
Its far too early to save it.
I reckon I'll be 'saving' it to a couple of CD-Roms in about a years time....
RM
I have no sig yet I must scream.
Talking Pie.
They'll forget all the mistakes of the past if you add such a character.
Jar Jar makes the Ewoks look like fucken Shaft!
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
You just right click, then select 'save as'.
"It didn't take a Jar Jar character in the US Senate when it voted to give Bush the power to wage war.."
agreed...it took 77 Jar Jar characters in the Senate and 296 Jar Jar characters in the House. Of course, why the rest of the Jar Jar characters in the Legislature voted otherwise will always be a mystery...
-- "Do you even know your daughter? There's no way she likes that song. Oop, is she in a coma?"
Think of it: one good move after at least 3 crappy sequels. Statistically, if you encourage this jackass to keep on making movies 75% will be shit.
That's a better average than the rest of hollywood.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
There is no Jar Jar (*cough*) in episodes IV, V and VI.
That means that JarJar will be killed in episode 3. I'll pay to see that!
Not Buzzword 2.0 compliant. Please speak english.
To whomever moderated my original post as flamebait, I think you may have misunderstood my comparison of Bush to Jar Jar binks. I was not insinuating that they are both bumbling idiots, I merely meant that they both have floppy ears and funny accents.
10. Doing the proverbial "stepping on a rake" routine with Anakin's Lightsaber and cutting himself in two - right up the middle.
9. Getting his tongue caught in an X-Wing during take off and getting his head ripped off.
8. Being thrown into the vacuum of space and exploding
7. Two words: Venereal Disease
6. Squished in the trash compactor from Ep IV
5. Sarlacc!
4. Obi Won just getting tired of him and, WHAM, decapitation with the lightsaber
3. Joe Pesci, for no explained reason, walks in stage and shoots him in the head.
2. Uma Thruman, for no explained reason, walks in stage and shoots him in the head.
1. Once again, for no explained reason, Jar Jar catches a foreign born bacteria that causes bleeding from the eyes, vomiting, and nightmarish diarrhea - until death!
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