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Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures
jflint writes "Here is a site with over 80 screenshots (claiming more to come) that shows the story line of the upcoming Star Wars Episode 3. Some of the screenshots have French subtitles in them." These shots -- especially the space battle scenes -- certainly make it look more worthwhile than the two prior episodes.
This looks totally badass.
...because after all blowing shit up is so much more important than dialog...
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You're a little late, this was all over boing boing yesterday. Way to go with the old news slashdot!
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I saw these pictures last night, so I beat the /.
The movie looks really good.
I'm not concerned about the movie's looks or story though...Star Wars is always at the top with those. For the most part, everyone has to agree that the story line for the first two prequels outside of a few annoying pieces is actuallly pretty good.
What worries me most is the dialogue...that is where the first two prequels failed and where the original trilogy got everyone hooked.
Let's hope that problem is fixed.
When the first one came out, everyone was so excited. People were camped in front of movie theaters for months, and you could easily get the impression that this was going to be one of the best movies of all time.
Then they saw Jar-Jar and the rest is history.
When the second one came out, people were once again excited. Yeah, they remembered how horrible the first one was, but this new Star Wars promised to be much better! Less Jar-Jar, a new Anakin, and an improved storyline.
Then everyone realized that while it might be better than the first one, that isn't saying much.
Now they release a few pretty pictures from the third one and once again, you have people saying it "look(s) more worthwhile". Sigh. Hey look, someone wrote the word gullible on the movie theater ceiling!
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lesse.. Slashdot deliberately mirroring possibly copyrighten material without permission from the copyright owner. I don't know about you, but I like having a place to visit at work so often that I become unproductive and get fired, plus find a new job through some dumb karma rating + low user ID anomaly.
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If the website guy is correct and Vader forcechokes Padme, who dies giving birth, it contradicts Return of the Jedi when Leia tells Luke she vaguely remembers her mother, being sad and all that stuff.
Way to go, George.
Hey dammit, Natalie Portman did an excellent job of acting in Garden State. Maybe if the director did a better job or the writer wrote the part better, her performance would be more memorable. And if we're throwing stones on acting, I personally feel Hayden's acting was lame in Episode II. I mean his character's emotions were way to over the top. I was just like, "Jeez, stop whining sissy."
I really don't think it's that simple. By mirroring the entire series of images elsewhere they would have likely surpassed fair use rights, and opened /. to law suits.
I don't see a creative commons release on that page.
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I saw these last night, and this is about the biggest spoiler you can possibly see for the movie. Almost every scene is pictured, along with a description of each scene.
SPOILER ALERT!
Annakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader! Senator Palpatine becomes Emperor Palpatine! Queen Amidala gives birth to Luke Skywalker and Princess Leah!
Seriously, the entire plot of this movie was either spoiled nearly 30 years ago in the FIRST Star Wars movie, or it should at least be pretty obvious by now (no, QUEEN Amidala was never mentioned by name in ep. 4, but jesus christ, who do you think gave birth to the PRINCESS?). If you're worried about "spoilers" at this point, then you really can't be much of a Star Wars fan to begin with. You'd have to be completely oblivious to the story to this point - we know the ending, we know the beginning, we're just missing one part of the saga in the middle, and as ingrained into pop culture as this franchise is, it's not difficult to fill in the gaps, screenshots or no.
I alwyas assumed that leia remembered her mother due to her ability to see into the past using the force inwittingly, like kiddo annakin seeing the future for pod racing reflexes. Anyway, my point is that there are no plot holes in sci fi. And so, here I am. Posting about star wars on slashdot. I am not cool. I have to acknoeledge that fact and move on with my 'life.'
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He writes horrible, truly horrible dialog, and I don't even find the plot/storylines that interesting anymore. Rehashed, recycled.
His characters are paper thin cutouts, the recent ones especially. I mean h*ll, I don't rememeber their names, let alone care if they die in the film(s).
Peter Jackson redention of Tolkein on the other hand... now he understands characters - passion, heroism, comraderie, fear, self-doubt, you name it. While his film was a grand epic, visual feast, some of the most memorable moments to me where moments between characters not just the wonderful special effects and battles.
Now THOSE are great moments... Lucas is fluff an eye candy, nothing more. I loved Star Wars once, he's since turned into a empty film making, and a marketing tool to sell cheap toys.
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Of course not you nimrods!!! A big part of the magic of the first 3 was that we knew very little or nothing about the films before we saw them!!! All I knew going to see Ep. 4 in '77 was that it was sci-fi and really cool.
My best movie experiences have always been prefaced by knowing little to nothing about the movie before I saw it. I hate all the commercials for movies, it ruins many of them. I go out of my way to avoid them for movies I want to see (eyes closed, fingers in ears, and saying blah, blah, blah)
NOTE: All I saw before Ep. 4 was the movie poster, I am pretty sure much the same for Ep. 5 because the "Luke, I'm your father" caught me totally by surprise and I was in 100% denial about it!! If it helps I was born in 1968.
But google manages to cache sites just fine. As long as slashdot respected requests to remove caches/mirrors, as google does, I don't see them having a problem.
You could just as easily argue that slashdot could be sued for aiding and abetting DDOS attacks.
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