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Star Wars Episode III To Open Cannes
bonch wrote in to mention an article on the IGN site. "The Cannes Film Festival is going to the dark side. After months of negotiations between George Lucas and festival officials, Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge Of The Sith will open the festival in the South of France in May."
And you'd get something like: "Monkey Brain controls the Cannes Film Festival".
As if a million voices cried out in Agony
Trashe cannes?
What a frickin' joke. Unless this movie is a massive departure from the other two, it's going to be a terrible, hacked together joke. Why this would open up at Cannes is a mystery to me.
But isn't Cannes supposed to be for good movies? Given the last 2 installments, I'm surprised they're showing it at all, let alone have it as the opening film.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
I'd rather see the Sith crumple Cannes on their foreheads, personally. Aside from Alexandra Kerry's appearance last year, the festival has gotten outright preachy and boring.
That would be worth seeing.
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This just shows how those with a lot of influence and money can get their corporate "art" into an institution with high integrity. RIP Cannes... you had some good principles, but I guess nothing can last forever.
Ahhhh, the Cannes film festival. You shall never find a more retched hive of scum and villiany
I just can't help but imagine Lucas with a big grin holding up his middle finger and giving one final F-YOU to the Star Wars geeks, followed by a "get a freaking life."
Ahem. Sorry. In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that I slept overnight -- ONE NIGHT -- for Empire Strikes Back. But my friend camped out for two weeks, and I was only 30 or so people back. :)
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
http://filmforce.ign.com/starwars/articles/588/588 920p1.html?fromint=1
Sith Opening Cannes
Final Star Wars film set for festival debut. February 18, 2005 - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith will open the 58th Cannes Film Festival. According to This Is London, a deal was recently struck after months of negotiations between Star Wars creator George Lucas and festival coordinators.
Festival De Cannes takes place May 11th-22nd in the south of France.
The UK-based website is also reporting that Ewan McGregor may be in attendance. McGregor is preparing to star in Michael Grandage's new London stage version of Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre.
If you're not on the Cannes guest list then you'll have to wait until May 19th (in most countries) to see Revenge of the Sith.
The final chapter of the Star Wars prequels takes place three years after the events of Attack of the Clones. The Clone Wars are nearly at an end as the Jedi Council dispatches Obi-Wan (McGregor) to bring General Grevious, the deadly leader of the Separatist droid army, to justice. Meanwhile, back on Coruscant, Chancellor Palpatine has grown in power. His sweeping political changes transform the war-weary Republic into the mighty Galactic Empire. To his closest ally, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen), he reveals the true nature of power and the promised secrets of the Force in an attempt to lure him to the dark side.
If the current trend of trailer being slightly better than the movie, and the movie being slightly better than it's predecessor continues, then we might have a movie that I would rent.
Nothing wrong with crap at the Cannes of course - they don't get to see your film first. It'll just get panned.
Oh geez. When I saw Episode 1, someone stood on a railing and yelled to the crowd. "Everyone prepare for the greatest moment in your lives. George Lucas, the genius, is bringing back, the greatest movie series of all time."
Um....
Needless to say... never have such incorrectly words been chosen.
Episode 2 the reaction was a little clapping. I think at that point it was kind of like clapping for a kid who wears a crash helmet when he manages to tie his shoes. It was more for the effort, given the first one.
I hope he dies a horrable horrable death in this movie. Infact I (and probably many others) would go to see it just for that. It would be even better if it would be a random and comical death as something from Monty Python. Just for no reason being squashed by a asteroid, foot, or large object, or being attacked out of the blue by a spam and axe wielding viking or the black (Dark Lord Sith) knight.
It would also be funny to make references to Kevin Smith films as they have made so much reference to Star Wars. Having Darth Jay and Darth Bob (Silent Palpatine) selling weed to Wookies before, during, or after the battle or show a convience store during the construction of the Death Star called the Death Stop manned by two screwed up Storm Troopers named Dante and Randal.
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I'm fairly sure they were actually laughing at the such childishness...
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Keep your eyes to the sky.
-The art of the sellout
-The check's in the mail
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-Call it a "donation"
and
-Benjamin Frankin goes to pockettown
All these great films being brought to Cannes by EA now the official owner of all rights to games based on movie licenses... and Sprite reminds you to: Obey your thirst.
I mean... come on!
My brother in law is a film professor. A post-modernist film professor. A post-modernist, European film professor. Well, OK he's German, but he's from west of the Rhine -- so far west he really ought to wear a beret.
Needless to say, he loathes Star Wars. No, no, he despises it.
I can't to give him the news.
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Personally, if any of the pre-press is telling us what's going on, George may finally be willing to make a PG-13 movie..and have to make a movie that can make it with the increased rating.
Didn't we just read "Robotic Arm Controlled By Monkey Thoughts"?
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The Shit has hit the Cannes
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If it sucks, will Lucas have to face the Wrath of Cannes?
So we all troll it, then we all rush to get tickets. We all know the prequals arn't great films, but we'll all still rent/buy/download them any way.
I've seen all the Star wars films out so far (Ep 1 and 2 at the cinema) and I have to say we need to rate the prequals on a different scale. Look at them as films and not as a legacy. In short
Ep 1= okay movie, bad star wars film
Ep 2 = okay movie, bad sequal, bad star wars film.
So we all scream "RAPE!" because we're ranking these things about classics, NOTHING will ever be as good as the memories you have of your favourite things, so don't compare them.
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Guess now we know which movie's going to get the prestigious Palm d'Merde this year.
When I was there, the audience cheered wildly when Yoda pulled out his light saber. The rest of the time, they were pretty quiet (except when they were laughing at Lucas' pathetic attempt at filmmaking).
What's Wrong With Star Wars
What became abundantly clear to me after seeing Episode I, and was reinforced by seeing Episode II, is that George Lucas has no idea how to tell a story.
The first Star Wars movies were successful because they were different. They were space westerns, they had special effects! They were hokey but instant classics. A whole generation grew up loving star wars. But those movies were really targeted at teenage kids, not adults.
Fast forward 20 years. Their entire Star-Wars-loving audience has grown up. We're ready for something darker, something serious, something compelling. Instead we got more pap for teenage kids! And over 20 years, George Lucas *still* hasn't learned how to tell a story. If you need any proof, see the ridiculous battle in Episode II between 20 million robots and 20 thousand Jedi. What the hell?! That's not what Star Wars is about at all! ONE Jedi. ONE hero. Star Wars is all about the INDIVIDUAL accomplishments of certain Jedi. And they butchered episodes I and II anyway--they cast good actors in bad roles (Natalie Portman a prime example), bad actors in hopelessly bad roles (Hayden Christensen) and put in content specifically geared to 4-year-olds (like that motherfucker Jar Jar Binks). They had one of the greatest franchises in history, and they butchered it so badly that we all expect Episode III to be total crap!
Heh, guess I shoulda tried for a joke rather than stating what apparently is the obvious. I'm mollified that so many agree with me that Cannes is "shit."
Any other jokes? Or all they all done now?
You're looking to George Lucas for better scripts? Isn't that like looking to Windows Internet Explorer for a secure websurfing experience?
I hate to say it, but the best thing Lucas could do would be to turn the whole Star Wars universe over to some decent science fiction writers and film directors, then stand back. We'd end up with more and better films and he'd end up with more piles of cash.
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Not sure why my submission was switched around to link to an IGN article that linked to the ThisIsLondon, which would have bypassed the big ad you're forced to click through. I also didn't say Cannes had "gone to the dark side"--the original article was cheesy enough.
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Hot grits.
I just crack myself up.
I'm old enough to remember attending the very first Star Wars movie in New York City. The excitement back then was hard to describe. It was the late 70s, Hollywood was out of fashion, and European New Wave art films were, as the kids today say, "the shit", but Lucas and an army of film school braves put Hollywood dream-making machine back on the map. Flash forward, 28 years later, Lucas's last two attempts have been textbook examples of how fancy special effects cannot save a bad movie, and now as he limps toward the finish line, surprise, surprise, the French come to the rescue. Speaking of cheeky cinema, I posted a tongue-firmly-in-cheek outline for an animated feature film on my blog: http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/. Check it out only if you got nothing better to do.
Sun and Fun
Oh boy, is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog going to have a field day with this one:
TtICD: "Jes, jes, and you little boy...who are you supposed to be?"
Boy (with French accent): "I am a Jedi Knight."
TtICD: "Jes, that is the best nerd costume I have ever seen...(wait for it)...FOR ME TO OUI OUI AND POUPON!"
*rimshot*
if the film is opening at Cannes, then the "simultaneous global release" thing is all shot to hell.
If LucasFilm aren't damn careful, we'll all have it down over BitTorrent before the 30-day-campsite nerds outside the cinema get a sniff of it..
*waves hand*
This is not the movie you want to see.
Move along.
Anyways, he ends up decapitating Skywalker, forces Emporer Palpatine to wet his pants, and gets satisfied by Lady Amadala in an hour long scene that cannot be described in a thread that might be viewed by youngsters.
Who *didn't* know about that? Gosh... ;)
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A Festival For Film? Wasn't star wars filmed digitally. I know that cannes has rejected many pleas to include digitally shot movies. On the plus side, perhaps this will open the way to future digitally shot entries. (Shame amature photographers and movie makers can rarely afford the transfer from digital to film!)
You're saying that the Slashdot editors deliberately misquoted you? And here we thought that the crappy article blurbs were due to crappy submissions - it turns out after all that the editors actually are editing submissions for style, content, link-checks, and so forth ... just in the wrong direction.
Actually, I have to give Lucas credit for imagining new worlds, alien creatures, spaceships, and the overall visual experience of the Star Wars movies. The Star Wars "universe" really was remarkable, even compared to other sci-fi. But his dialogue and scriptwriting skills absolutely suck: this was why Empire Strikes Back was such a great movie. It had the visual stuff he dreamed up, combined with a quality script that a professional scriptwriter had made.
If only George would get over his ego and realize he really can create great things when he allows more-skilled people to do the things he's not good at, instead of trying to do it all himself. Sadly, it doesn't look like this is going to happen.
Is that if they really did edit your submission they directly quoted the entire first paragraph of the link in your original submission.
Because if it did it's got to top my best audience reaction story. "Highlander 2" opening night the theater is full. Highly anticipated sequel to a movie that did poorly in theaters but built up quite a following in rental so pretty much everyone there was really looking forward to this movie.
The very first scene pops up and beneath it appears a caption saying something like.
"3000 years ago, the planet Zeist"
I don't know how many people that theater seated but every single person there it seemed whispered "Zeist?" at the same time. Then several people started laughing and it was all downhill from there.
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He does what most people do: State a reference so others can relate to it. Because mostly people don't really give a shit where you live.
Besides he's never actually said he was born in Flint, just that is where he grew up, which may be very true if he went over there all the time.
But in the end nobody, but you, gives a damn where he was born. If you call that a "deception" you need your head examined.
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