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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.

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  1. FP and the Sites Down! by L3on · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's already down!? Mirror!

    1. Re:FP and the Sites Down! by zebs · · Score: 4, Informative
      Mirror here: starwars.zip and here starwars.zip

      Both a zips of the site linked from above.

    2. Re:FP and the Sites Down! by Kwiik · · Score: 5, Informative

      Two full mirrors:
      http://www.tpu.fi.nyud.net:8090/~t4jlaaks/ep3/

      http://nerdfilter.com/

      The second seems to be holding up pretty well.

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    3. Re:FP and the Sites Down! by MoonBuggy · · Score: 1

      Coral Cache is working fairly fast.

    4. Re:FP and the Sites Down! by zebs · · Score: 1

      Also a Bittorrent here

    5. Re:FP and the Sites Down! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Does anyone have the ASCII versions?

    6. Re:FP and the Sites Down! by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 1

      Thank you, Triumph. Your humor is a light unto my path wherever you, err, poop on.

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    7. Re:FP and the Sites Down! by magnifor · · Score: 2, Informative

      Here a mirror:

      Mirror

      Enjoy. :)

    8. Re:FP and the Sites Down! by essreenim · · Score: 1
      wrong again mods. Informative not funny.

      *sigh*

    9. Re:FP and the Sites Down! by zebs · · Score: 1
      Having served up almost 4Gb to ~750 I might remove my above links from the server... heres a e[donkey|mule] link:
      ed2k://|file|starwars.zip|6989760|2EE374BB479A8464 A50B5E82B73118C3|/
      (slashdot don't allow that as a link??)
    10. Re:FP and the Sites Down! by morcego · · Score: 1

      True. They should use "Beat the slashdot effect" as advertisement for the subscription service.

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    11. Re:FP and the Sites Down! by mythosaz · · Score: 1

      This mirror has low-res images. The Coral Cache link above works just dandy still as of 3pm Arizona time.

  2. Just a thought by JamesD_UK · · Score: 1

    Over 80 fairly high resolution screen shots and the editor didn't think to change the links to a handy mirror before we all hammer the server? Luckily it appears to be coping so far.

    1. Re:Just a thought by adinu79 · · Score: 1

      It stopped responding, /.-ed. Hope there's a mirror somewhere.

    2. Re:Just a thought by Threni · · Score: 1

      > nah we all know that slashdotters are proud when they slashdot something

      Why are you talking about yourself in the third person? Threni hardly ever does that.

    3. Re:Just a thought by Carnildo · · Score: 1

      We slashdotted at least three of the mirrors as well: the Coral cache, nerdfilter.com, and zebs.org.uk.

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  3. Massochist by bigtallmofo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Putting 80 screenshots of the upcoming Star Wars movie on your web site at this point is like asking to be DDoS'd.

    You have to feel sorry for the ISP hosting that site and every ISP in between.

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    1. Re:Massochist by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 3, Funny
      You have to feel sorry for the ISP hosting that site and every ISP in between.
      Sorry? I think the server will have gone into utter, utter meltdown by now. Finland will be able to warm every household for the remainder of the winter from the heat coming off that server.
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    2. Re:Massochist by akiro · · Score: 1

      tpu.fi is a school, im feeling more sorry for the student who put those pics on his homepage, i bet he's having a nice chat with their admin right about now ;-)

    3. Re:Massochist by Danathar · · Score: 1

      A little off topic I know.... What's dumb is that the existance of the Coral Web Cache system which is available to EVERYBODY was posted as a story on this site http://www.coralcdn.org/ As a solution to the "slashdot" effect. It works..proven. All the slashdot editors have to do is put a "suggestion" when people link stories to use the cache if they think they don't have the bandwidth and everybody would be a LOT better off. In order for it to work though, the MAIN link needs to be a coralized link. Which is easy enough to do. BEFORE the slashdot effect happens.

    4. Re:Massochist by ultranova · · Score: 1

      Sorry? I think the server will have gone into utter, utter meltdown by now.

      Actually, the server made the smart thing and 404'd the site. As the demotivator says, "There comes a time when every team must learn to make individual sacrifices".

      Finland will be able to warm every household for the remainder of the winter from the heat coming off that server.

      It's minus twelve degrees celsius out and dropping. Do your worst.

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    5. Re:Massochist by Carnildo · · Score: 1

      If you click any of the Coral links posted in this thread, you'll find that they've been Slashdotted too.

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    6. Re:Massochist by Danathar · · Score: 1

      Coral links only work if they are posted BEFORE the original site gets slashdotted. If the coral site can't connect to the origin web site then it does no good. Which is why it needs to be done before the story is posted.

    7. Re:Massochist by Carnildo · · Score: 1
      That's not what I'm referring to. If you actually clicked on one of the Coral links, you'll get the following message:

      Error when attempting to use the Coral Content Distribution Network (http://www.coralcdn.org/).

      The hostname specified in the Coralized URL is currently over its hourly quota. Please try back later.
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  4. I have to say... by DamienNightbane · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This looks totally badass.

    1. Re:I have to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hi George! How's the ranch?

    2. Re:I have to say... by Gorath99 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm hopeful. If this one is as much better than Attack of the Clones as that one was better than The Phantom Menace, then it should be on par with Return of the Jedi. (AotC + (AotC-TPM) == RotJ) If George manages to pull that off, then I'll be content.

    3. Re:I have to say... by Golias · · Score: 1

      Am I the only one who thinks those "Asterisk-Wing" fighters in the space battle shots look kind of lame?

      Otherwise, yes. It looks spiffy. Too bad the script will probably be awful. "Attack of the Clones" is still the worst movie I've seen in the theaters in the last ten years, and I've seen some really bad ones.

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    4. Re:I have to say... by zrk · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I bet you could take 80 screenshots of either of the 1st two movies and make them look great, too.

    5. Re:I have to say... by grumpygrodyguy · · Score: 1, Troll

      Hi George! How's the ranch?

      Seriously, and not to sound overly-melodramatic but I think everyone should boycott this film. Reaching back into important cultural history and modifying the first 3 films while taking measures to ensure that the original copies are no longer made available on store shelves is about as arrogant and socially irresponsible as you can be.

      He may own the rights to the film, but he does not own the rights to our fondest childhood memories.

      Boycott this film. Send a clear message to Lucas and to Hollywood.

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    6. Re:I have to say... by rob_squared · · Score: 1

      Just as long as you don't insert any dialogue or Jar-Jar.

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  5. Spoiler Warning by bircho · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slide 81: the server fall in burning lava. The imperial march begins to play. The END!

    1. Re:Spoiler Warning by jcuervo · · Score: 1

      *watches giant laser beam blast out of Slashdot and at the innocent inhabitants of planet tpi.fi* Leia: I TOLD YOU WHERE THE REBEL BASE IS!#%
      CmdrTaco: Mwahahaha

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    2. Re:Spoiler Warning by Shag · · Score: 4, Funny

      Slide 82: French subtitles surrender. Fark rejoices.

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    3. Re:Spoiler Warning by sharkey · · Score: 1

      What about Padme's boobies? Has Fark let us down?

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  6. George Lucas's plan (don't worry about spoilers) by Xpilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Correction, there was a site with over 80 screenshots (claiming more to come) that shows the story line of the upcoming Star Wars Episode 3. But after Lucasfilm's agents posted it to /. it is no more. Clever fellow, that George.

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  7. Ah! Mirror! Quick! by REBloomfield · · Score: 5, Informative
    Mirror

    Dribble. Can't wait....

    1. Re:Ah! Mirror! Quick! by L3on · · Score: 1

      3/4 of the images arn't working, should I wait..?

    2. Re:Ah! Mirror! Quick! by REBloomfield · · Score: 1

      Keep refreshing ;) They will all load eventually.... makes the aniticipation better :)

    3. Re:Ah! Mirror! Quick! by CyberGarp · · Score: 1

      As a poster for Star Wars II said many moons ago: "I await the new movie with all the anticipation of a communist election."

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  8. Cannes by caitsith01 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can anyone else not believe that this will be opening Cannes? Do the French just have a very strange sense of humour, or do they perhaps intend to get revenge for recent US foreign policy decisions by allowing Lucas to make Hollywood look utterly ridiculous in the most public way they can?

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    1. Re:Cannes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Lucas already makes Hollywood the laughing stock, his creativity died in the 70's and people still snigger at his lack of directing variability and diversity (unlike scorsese etc)

    2. Re:Cannes by screwballicus · · Score: 1

      Clearly, their revenge will be complete when, at Cannes 2006, in a final stroke of revenge against Germany, for deeds now long past, Uwe Boll's next movie, Bloodrayne, opens with much fan fair at Cannes, billed as an exhbition of German cinematic excellence.

    3. Re:Cannes by petepac · · Score: 1

      .. Don't forget that this is the same country that loves Jerry Lewis.

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    4. Re:Cannes by LarsWestergren · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Roger Ebert on Godzilla (1998):
      "Going to see "Godzilla" at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica. It's a rebuke to the faith that the building represents. Cannes touchingly adheres to a belief that film can be intelligent, moving and grand. "Godzilla" is a big, ugly, ungainly device to give teenagers the impression they are seeing a movie. It was the festival's closing film, coming at the end like the horses in a parade, perhaps for the same reason."

      Does it have any significance that SW3 is first though? The canary in the mine perhaps?

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    5. Re:Cannes by TD-2779 · · Score: 1

      It's quite normal for summer blockbusters to open Cannes. For instance, Armageddon opened it several years back.

    6. Re:Cannes by El+Cabri · · Score: 4, Interesting

      A New Hope opened Cannes in 77. It seems like a proper closure to me, that the last Star Wars to be shot opens Cannes. And by the way, the opening movie is not part of the competition. It is often a popular movie, often from Hollywood, and has nothing to do with the artsy offering that acutally runs for the prizes.

  9. More worthwhile... by Snaller · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...because after all blowing shit up is so much more important than dialog...

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    1. Re:More worthwhile... by RangerRick98 · · Score: 4, Funny

      after all blowing shit up is so much more important than dialog...

      Dude, have you heard the dialog in I and II? I'll take shit blowing up over that crap any day. ;)

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    2. Re:More worthwhile... by Cl1mh4224rd · · Score: 1
      ...because after all blowing shit up is so much more important than dialog...
      There's plenty of time for dialog after the shit gets blown up. I thought that would've been obvious, especially here on Slashdot.

      Server: *boom*
      Slashdot: So, yeah... umm...
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    3. Re:More worthwhile... by drsquare · · Score: 1

      Well, people liked Star Wars because of spaceships blowing each other up, and lightsabre fights. Do you think millions of kids put up posters of Star Wars because they liked the talk about senates and republics?

    4. Re:More worthwhile... by Snaller · · Score: 1

      I would argue that there is NO dialog in I and II - but you may have a point :)

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    5. Re:More worthwhile... by Snaller · · Score: 1

      I use DIV all the time and my pages come up just perdy in MSIE thank you very much!

      No they don't amateur.

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    6. Re:More worthwhile... by Snaller · · Score: 1

      I think you missed the point.

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    7. Re:More worthwhile... by Razor+Blades+are+Not · · Score: 1

      Actually the dialog *was* 'shit blowing up'.

    8. Re:More worthwhile... by robfoo · · Score: 2, Funny

      What, you didn't like "Sand is rough, but you're so smooth" or however it went?
      It was a comedy, right?

  10. Warning: spoiler.. by Linker3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Hero has Web site
    2) Hero posts hires picture son site
    3) Site is mentioned on /.
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    .Spoiler alert...
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    4) Site crashes in the end

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    1. Re:Warning: spoiler.. by LarsWestergren · · Score: 1

      Oh, so THAT is Campbell's Hero's Journey.

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    2. Re:Warning: spoiler.. by Meumeu · · Score: 1

      5) ???
      6) Profit!

  11. It does look sweet but... by Upaut · · Score: 1

    We all know it takes just one small detail to truely ruin a movie for many fans *Cough*mitoclorians*Cough.
    And even though I was sorely dissopointed with the last three movies Lucas made for this series (Including the Ewok Adventure... *Shudder*), I am still going to be in this line for a week to see the movie...
    "This is not the post you are looking for."

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    1. Re:It does look sweet but... by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: 1

      They're little things in your cells that generate energy. You only inherit them from your mother. Some people think that they were at one time a kind of symbiotic bacteria.

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    2. Re:It does look sweet but... by jkarlin · · Score: 2, Interesting

      to be fair, Ben did not own R2. And as far as remembering them, droids are everywhere in their world. So the fact that Ben (as an old man) forgot one never bothered me. Also, he may have remembered them but choose not to say anything to avoid having to tell Luke a story that would lead to more questions about Daddy.

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  12. Mirrors by rezitoz · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try http://www.mirrordot.org/ for working images.

    direct link

    1. Re:Mirrors by MissTuxie · · Score: 1

      hopefully this will prevent me from having to accompany my boyfriend to the movie.

    2. Re:Mirrors by yodaj007 · · Score: 1

      From the direct link: "Sorry folks, at the request of LucasFilm, we had to remove this mirror." Are any other mirrors available?

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  13. Spoiler: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You hate George Lucas but you are going to line his pockets all the same. Resistance is futile.

    1. Re:Spoiler: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      heard of P2P ? lucas doesnt deserve a penny, he will be robbed by the people, some call it payback

    2. Re:Spoiler: by R.Caley · · Score: 1
      You hate George Lucas but you are going to line his pockets all the same.

      Didn't for the last two, what makes you think I will for this?

      Wait, it will be on free TV soon. The adverts they put on during it are all aimed at small kids, because that is his target audience now, so I'm not going to be influenced by them. Apart from the electricity company, and perhaps clean up products if the saccarine makes me throw up, no one is likely to benefit form the miniscule level of curiosity I have about this guaranteed turkey.

      I suspect I am far from alone in that.

      Give Lucas credit, at least it took him a couple of decades to make the trip from reasonably good to abysmal. The Wachowskis did it starting from The Matrix in, what, 3 years? Most people never manage to get to reasonably good.

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    3. Re:Spoiler: by genner · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It can be done. I haven't seen attack of the clones OR the last matrix movie. I don't give second chances.

    4. Re:Spoiler: by mblase · · Score: 1

      You hate George Lucas but you are going to line his pockets all the same. Resistance is futile.

      I went to see Episodes I and II separately, in the theaters, because I wanted to know what went on in 'em. But I only went once, and I never bought the DVDs. On the other hand, I went to see each of the Matrix films at least twice and paid handsomely for the DVDs as they came out.

  14. planet-lab mirror by GrAfFiT · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.tpu.fi.nyud.net:8090/~t4jlaaks/ep3/
    Hopefully, this time, it works.

    1. Re:planet-lab mirror by advocate_one · · Score: 1
      hah... even this isn't slashdot proof...:
      Error: 403 Forbidden

      Error when attempting to use the Coral Content Distribution Network (http://www.coralcdn.org/).

      The hostname specified in the Coralized URL is currently over its hourly quota. Please try back later.

      Server CoralWebPrx/0.1.12 (See http://coralcdn.org/) at 128.31.1.16:8090
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  15. too bad by Eternally+optimistic · · Score: 1

    It is unfortunate (or evil, money-hungry calculation) that all these scenes were cut. But you are still left with a good impression of what the movie will not be.

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  16. Anakin all burned up? by TrentL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Were did the shot of Anakin all burned up come from?

    BTW, I saw these pics last night when Boing Boing linked to them first, like so much of what appears on Slashdot these days.

    1. Re:Anakin all burned up? by Warlock7 · · Score: 4, Informative

      That image came out back in March. It appeared in "Star Wars Insider". There's a much better shot here.

    2. Re:Anakin all burned up? by ajs · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Well, that's a full-body shot, but a much worse picture.

      Overall, these are very impressive shots, and I have to say, I'm looking forward to this. None of what I hoped for is in it (in terms of really turning the plot back on itself and getting creative), but it looks like a lot of fun, and a good cap to what I think was a fairly slow-to-build initial pair of movies (no, I didn't hate them, and I do think that they were at least as good as Jedi... teen romance and cute aliens are just guaranteed to turn off most SF fans no matter what else you have to offer).

    3. Re:Anakin all burned up? by Warlock7 · · Score: 1

      True, the earlier shot was a full body shot and didn't include any of the background, most likely due to most of the film being shot on a green screen set, but the images aren't really anything new.

  17. I sense a disturbance in the force by waterlogged · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was as if a million acks cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
    .
    .

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    1. Re:I sense a disturbance in the force by screwballicus · · Score: 3, Funny

      It was as if a million acks cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.

      No, that was Mars Attacks.

    2. Re:I sense a disturbance in the force by Ack_OZ · · Score: 1

      It was as if a million acks cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.

      ARRRRRRRGGGHHH!!!

      well there's one, where are the rest?

    3. Re:I sense a disturbance in the force by ebob9 · · Score: 1

      If they're having server problems, isn't it more like a million SYNs screamed out, and were never heard from again?

  18. slashdotted.. and a school server by tulimulta · · Score: 2, Informative

    The pics are on the webserver of a polytechnic in Tampere, Finland. The webserver is on its knees already, and the user don't have a permission to keep this material on the server for sure. I guess they're not going to be there for long. =)

    1. Re:slashdotted.. and a school server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Because:
      1) server pings ok
      2) the only network bottleneck would be the speed of server's NIC (or maybe local LAN equipment).

      tpu.fi's internet provider is FUNET (Finnish university and research network). They have "sufficient" internet connections - you can't even notice /. effect from their traffic statistics...
      I'd bet the server is very low on memory with all those big pictures.

  19. Looks, sure. by gowen · · Score: 5, Insightful
    These shots -- especially the space battle scenes -- certainly make it look more worthwhile than the two prior episodes.
    Well Episodes I and II look worthwhile if you don't have to listen to the dialogue.
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    1. Re:Looks, sure. by marsu_k · · Score: 1
      Well Episodes I and II look worthwhile if you don't have to listen to the dialogue.
      Whassa matta witta dialog?
    2. Re:Looks, sure. by m50d · · Score: 1

      The fact that C-3PO puts ten times as much emotion into his lines as Anakin does. Oh, and the fact that most those lines are incredibly cheasy head jokes. And that Obi-Wan comes across as being incredibly pompous because he's talking like he's the wisest guy in the universe and he's nowhere near old enough.

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    3. Re:Looks, sure. by STrinity · · Score: 1

      Episode II is a great movie if you just hit the NEXT button every time Anakin and Padme are together in a non-battle scene.

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    4. Re:Looks, sure. by Rob_Bryerton · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well Episodes I and II look worthwhile if you don't have to listen to the dialogue.

      I respectfully disagree. That is all.

  20. Welcome to Slashdot.. by Quazi · · Score: 1

    ..where we can kill servers from anywhere in the world.

    (Maybe if he didn't have EIGHTY FRIGGIN SCREENSHOTS ON THE PAGE, it wouldn't have died so fast. But what do I know?)

    1. Re:Welcome to Slashdot.. by JudgeFurious · · Score: 4, Funny

      The power to kill servers anywhere in the world is insignificant compared to... um, no wait that's pretty damned significant actually. Sorry, nevermind.

      Plus to the best of my knowledge Slashdot doesn't have an open exhaust port somewhere with a big neon "Place Torpedo Here" sign next to it so apparently we ARE the ultimate power in the universe.

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    2. Re:Welcome to Slashdot.. by Ravenscall · · Score: 1

      This website is the ultimate power in the Universe.

      I suggest we use it.

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  21. French Subtitles by Eradicator2k3 · · Score: 1

    "Je suis votre père, Luke."

    Pardonnez-moi, celui n'est pas jusqu'à l'épisode 5.

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    1. Re:French Subtitles by Eradicator2k3 · · Score: 1

      "Because," he argued in vain, "he hasn't seen his son since killing his mother that it would be awkward for Vader to address his son informally.".....or it could be that that's how Babelfish translated it.

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    2. Re:French Subtitles by Meumeu · · Score: 1

      Almost. In french he says: "Je suis ton père, Luke"
      And the rest sounds funny, like a google translation...

  22. Looks really good by chrisgeleven · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Looks really good by Laur · · Score: 4, Funny
      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.

      This is Slashdot, where anyone will disagree with you about anything! That being said, many people (myself included) think the story line of the first two were great big piles of steaming crap.

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    2. Re:Looks really good by mickyflynn · · Score: 1

      Scruffy nerfhearders....

    3. Re:Looks really good by RangerRick98 · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is Slashdot, where anyone will disagree with you about anything!

      No way, you're completely wrong about that! :P

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    4. Re:Looks really good by StrawberryFrog · · Score: 1

      everyone has to agree that the story line for the first two prequels ... is actuallly pretty good

      We have to, or else what?

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    5. Re:Looks really good by tehanu · · Score: 1, Interesting

      To put it another way. I am a girl who used to obsessively read trashy romance novels. I went with a non-geek girl who could barely remember the original series to see Episode 2. Both of us cringed at the "romantic" dialogue. When it's worse than novels with titles like "Passion's Dawn", you know you're in trouble. Oh yeah, and Anakin sucks. Sometimes I watch shows just because the guy is cute, even if he's not such a good actor, but Star Wars Ep 2 - there are some things that no amount of good looks can overcome.

    6. Re:Looks really good by ArsonSmith · · Score: 1

      No your wrong, people will dissagree with anything here.

      Slashdot. News for Cranky people. Stuff that matters.

      --
      Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
    7. Re:Looks really good by SlowMovingTarget · · Score: 1

      I completely disagree, I think they were great big piles of foaming crap.

    8. Re:Looks really good by kponto · · Score: 1

      No way, you're completely wrong about that! :P

      I totally agree.

      --
      This too, will end.
    9. Re:Looks really good by mrmojo · · Score: 1

      This isn't an argument, it's just contradiction!

    10. Re:Looks really good by rpillala · · Score: 1

      What can't be fixed at this point is that we have no character with whom to identify. This wasn't my observation originally, but in the old trilogy it was Han Solo, the skeptic.

      Since you brought up story, let me ask you this: in the Phantom Menace, there was a naval blockade over some trade dispute, and a subsequent invasion, which were all foiled by a ragtag band of adventurers and a bit of luck. What if they hadn't foiled it? What was the plan supposed to be?

      --
      When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "Look out - the handle was once one of us."
    11. Re:Looks really good by ultranova · · Score: 1

      Since you brought up story, let me ask you this: in the Phantom Menace, there was a naval blockade over some trade dispute, and a subsequent invasion, which were all foiled by a ragtag band of adventurers and a bit of luck. What if they hadn't foiled it? What was the plan supposed to be?

      Nothing whatsoever. The blockade had already served its purpose, as far as Palpatine was concerned. He had been made the chancellor; it was of no significance how and if the blockade would end.

      That was the neat story twist in Ep1; it was a seeming victory, but in reality it was too little too late.

      --

      Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.

    12. Re:Looks really good by Xyrus · · Score: 1

      In Korea only old people have spoilers.

      Uh...take that any way you want :)

      ~X~

      --
      ~X~
  23. another mirror by jacoplane · · Score: 4, Informative
    1. Re:another mirror by RichMeatyTaste · · Score: 1

      Thanks, best mirror yet.

      --


      Ever feel like you are driving the getaway car?
    2. Re:another mirror by randomErr · · Score: 1

      Coralized version is down. They can't requery the site so the mirror dropped the site.

      --
      You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
    3. Re:another mirror by gad_zuki! · · Score: 1

      nerdfilter is down due to reaching my max bandwidth. Sorry, but I did keep it up as long as I could.

    4. Re:another mirror by gad_zuki! · · Score: 1

      >Sorry, but I did keep it up as long as I could.

      Insert viagra joke here!

  24. Obviously by rf0 · · Score: 1

    the force wasn't with him this time

    Rus

  25. That's not the worst of it by aendeuryu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, it's down, but that's not the worst of it -- even with nothing available to see, it's still looking more entertaining than Episodes 1 and 2.

    1. Re:That's not the worst of it by SSalvatore · · Score: 1
      Yeah, it's down, but that's not the worst of it -- even with nothing available to see, it's still looking more entertaining than Episodes 1 and 2

      That's because the only way to go here is up. If this was worse, the only way to go would be to subdivide it in 6 pieces and put it as an obscure series in the Sci-Fi channel late at night after the X-Files reruns. It wouldn't be a movie, it would be a lame 2 hour sci-fi soap opera.

      The man with the badge just finished to surround the movies with police tape. There was blood everywhere. He grabbed the bullhorn and shouted: there's nothing to see here people, move on.

  26. Did anyone torrent it? by buro9 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You know... this should really be made part of the editors task.

    If a news story is screenshots... especially if it's 10+ high res... tar + gzip them all and make a torrent somewhere.

    Then sure, post the source... but more importantly... post the torrent link.

    This happens way too often not to be something that could be done.

    What about a slashdot tracker? Have rules on things only being addable by editors, and they can only do so via submitting a story.

    Isn't this what it's about? Damn... where's that Slashcode site again? Sounds like the time to merge Blog Torrent and Slash together.

    1. Re:Did anyone torrent it? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Hate to say this, but this is the sort of thing Roland does.
      However everyone bitches at him for it.

      Mirrordot seems quite good at handling the load (theres a link lower in the comments)

      --
      liqbase :: faster than paper
    2. Re:Did anyone torrent it? by soab · · Score: 1

      Or go to the next level and utilize a webpage-based-torrent system. Functions identically to .torrents, but with a live hosted website.

      FireFox plug-in anyone?

    3. Re:Did anyone torrent it? by Kwiik · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

      --
      Vehicle Stars used car search is my current project
    4. Re:Did anyone torrent it? by 1u3hr · · Score: 1
      Look at the URL, "http://www.tpu.fi/~t4jlaaks/ep3/". Looks like a free home page. Obviously it's going to be offline the moment this goes live, with 88 photos, each about 150k.

      Mirrordot got it all. Slashdot is never going to do anything about this; it's been in their FAQ for about 4 years as something to think about. They don't fact check, spell check or dupe check, so expecting them to cache a page somewhere is just wishful thinking.

    5. Re:Did anyone torrent it? by PktLoss · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

    6. Re:Did anyone torrent it? by Emperor+Igor · · Score: 1

      Might be a bit too much latency, no?

    7. Re:Did anyone torrent it? by haagmm · · Score: 1

      thats the general princaple behind blog torrent, atleast thats what the developer explained to me when he was starting. ideally it could be coded into a plug in for firefox in addition to the specialized self extracting exe they use now. http://www.blogtorrent.com/ is the site, its an offshoot of http://downhillbattle.org/.

    8. Re:Did anyone torrent it? by NanoGator · · Score: 1

      "If a news story is screenshots... especially if it's 10+ high res... tar + gzip them all and make a torrent somewhere."

      Copyright...

      --
      "Derp de derp."
    9. Re:Did anyone torrent it? by AyeRoxor! · · Score: 1

      "If a news story is screenshots... especially if it's 10+ high res... tar + gzip them all and make a torrent somewhere."

      Copyright...


      You take the same risk posting them as you do torrenting them.

      *shakes head*

    10. Re:Did anyone torrent it? by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Insightful

      "You take the same risk posting them as you do torrenting them."

      That's why Slashdot doesn't do either.

      --
      "Derp de derp."
    11. Re:Did anyone torrent it? by arkhan_jg · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

      --
      Remember kids, it's all fun and games until someone commits wholesale galactic genocide.
  27. Play-by-Play by gowen · · Score: 3, Funny
    It's a Play-by-Play is it?

    Now, why do I hear Chris Berman's voice going:
    Anakin is on the edge of the lava pit.
    Obi Wan is forcing him back ... back, back, back, back, back ... gone.
    --
    Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
    1. Re:Play-by-Play by FlopEJoe · · Score: 1
    2. Re:Play-by-Play by mike+at+smu · · Score: 1

      He could....fall....all....the....waaaaaaaay!

    3. Re:Play-by-Play by sharkey · · Score: 1

      Better tahn Rick Berman: "Suddenly, Q appears! He stops Anni's fall in midair, and proceeds to ask inane questions about the purpose of channeling energy into swords and the average annual rainfall in an obscure valley in the Amazon Basin."

      --

      --
      "Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
  28. Meanwhile on a ship to La-La Land by cOdEgUru · · Score: 3, Funny

    Luke - What is it Obiwan?

    Obi - I sense a cute little server at its last breath, while millions of caffeine filled geeks armed with mouseclicks, on its deathly downward spiral. And then silence prevailed.

    Luke - What?

    Obi - Server got slasdhotted you little wimp!

    Luke - Oh Ok! Want some coffee?

    Obi - Sure. These long flights give me such a headache.

    - moderated +/-5 Weird

    1. Re:Meanwhile on a ship to La-La Land by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      R2D2, to himself - beep boop b'dop Weeeooooee

      Subtitle - That's funny, Ben never has a second cup of coffee at home.

  29. In the mean time by screwballicus · · Score: 4, Funny

    While wasting time pondering whether the original site will ever succeed in coming back up, feel free to amuse yourself by refreshing the page's hit counter.

    1. Re:In the mean time by nganju · · Score: 1

      Actually, if the site doesn't respond, the browser hitting the site will never see the html containing the url of the hit counter, so the counter will never be incremented.

      The only reason this counter is getting incremented is because people are hitting the mirrored version of the pages on mirrordot.org which displays the same counter at the bottom.

      --
      There are 2 kinds of people in this world. Those that can keep their train of thought,
    2. Re:In the mean time by darkmeridian · · Score: 1

      What an interesting way to check the slashdot effect. I wonder how many of those increases are due to people reading the article (which is doubtful since it is slashdotted) and how many are clicking through based on the parent comment.

      Just think about it. It is getting three clicks a second from a comment. Boy, I don't want to get slashdotted.

      --
      A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
    3. Re:In the mean time by ultranova · · Score: 1

      Just think about it. It is getting three clicks a second from a comment. Boy, I don't want to get slashdotted.

      Actually, the counter seems to be increasing at the rate between 12 and 20 per second.

      --

      Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.

  30. I have to ask this... by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 2, Funny
    I saw these pics last night when Boing Boing linked to them first
    Well the mirror has gone into critical meltdown as well so I can't see them. But I need to know this: Any Jar-jar in there?
    --
    If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
    1. Re:I have to ask this... by Reignking · · Score: 1

      No Jar-Jar. Meesa happy.

      --
      One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
    2. Re:I have to ask this... by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 1

      Who modded my previous comment 'funny'? It isn't funny, dammit!! *stamps foot*

      --
      If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
  31. Please mirror site before /.effect takes over! by NoSuchGuy · · Score: 1

    no more text nove on.

    Nothing to see!

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  32. Want to buy some land in Florida? by nwbvt · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "These shots -- especially the space battle scenes -- certainly make it look more worthwhile than the two prior episodes."

    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!

    --
    Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
    1. Re:Want to buy some land in Florida? by natrius · · Score: 3, Funny

      [hand wave]

      This is not the movie you are looking for. But you will watch it anyway.

    2. Re:Want to buy some land in Florida? by ArsonSmith · · Score: 1

      Fool me once shame on you, fool me, twi....uhh, can't be fooled again.

      --
      Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
    3. Re:Want to buy some land in Florida? by Wiggin · · Score: 1

      Well, as they say: Fool me twice shame on you. Fool me three or more times, shame on me.

      --

      "I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines." - Mr. Furious, Mystery Men
  33. Pictures/trailers are meaningless by limabone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't know if you remember the trailer for The Phantom Menace, but it had the Duel of the Fates song in the background and that trailer was amazing! After 20 years or whatever since Return of the Jedi, it made my knees week. That alone is proof that you can take a crappy two hour movie and turn it into an awesome 1 minute commercial.

    1. Re:Pictures/trailers are meaningless by OglinTatas · · Score: 1

      Indeed. We really go to see starwars for the nostalgia of Episode IV and special effects and sword fights than the movie. Industrial Light and Magic is all Lucas has going for him, since he has long since proven himself a failure as a story teller. I liked "A New Hope" and "The Empire Strikes Back" but "Return of the Jedi" was a real disappointment for me. I waited for the video to watch episode 1, and it was also a disappointment. I refused to watch "Clone Wars" because I'd had enough. My nephews insisted, so we compromised and they only showed me the good parts. That's right, we fast forwarded to the Yoda knife fight. That was it. The arena sequence was nothing. I am also going to skip this one, and just watch the sword fight highlight reel in a year or so. Good day to you.

      Oh, and Han shot first. That is the way it should be. I'm never going to get the remix. Jabba was more menacing when we don't really know who he is.

    2. Re:Pictures/trailers are meaningless by Razzberry28 · · Score: 1

      I don't know if you remember the trailer for The Phantom Menace, but it had the Duel of the Fates song in the background No it didn't. The trailers for all the prequels are finalized before the score is even completed. The Ep 1 trailers re-used music from the original trilogy. (IIRC, the music on the original 1977 (1976?) Star Wars trailer used the classical piece Mars)

    3. Re:Pictures/trailers are meaningless by ultranova · · Score: 1

      That alone is proof that you can take a crappy two hour movie and turn it into an awesome 1 minute commercial.

      Maybe the theaters should make special collection movies, composed entirely from the trailers of other movies ?

      --

      Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.

  34. Down the server is. weak it is by essreenim · · Score: 5, Funny
    Always uncertain the future is.

    Bandwidth insufficient it is

    1. Re:Down the server is. weak it is by SamBeckett · · Score: 1

      "Beat to death my speech you have. Die you will. Liked it better when Matrix references mainstream were. Alone you will leave me now." - Yoda

      (I'm just his spokesperson)

  35. I was hoping..... by Rurouni+Joe · · Score: 1

    I was hoping that we'd get to see darth vader in his bad-ass ways (like choking a few officers). If these screenshots are true to the story - then we wont be getting any of that. Still, its got potential to be a good movie.

    1. Re:I was hoping..... by REBloomfield · · Score: 1

      You do - Anakin is Vader before the suit, or at least that was my understanding, although the captions seem to indicate otherwise. I thought he became Vader around the point that Obi-wan and Yoda seem him kneeling before Palpatine

    2. Re:I was hoping..... by tuelpo · · Score: 1

      I dub thee troll.

    3. Re:I was hoping..... by cens0r · · Score: 1

      Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tennebaums, Lost in Translation... I could go on for hours, but I don't see the need.

      --
      Jack Valenti and Orrin Hatch will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
    4. Re:I was hoping..... by ultranova · · Score: 1

      You do - Anakin is Vader before the suit, or at least that was my understanding, although the captions seem to indicate otherwise. I thought he became Vader around the point that Obi-wan and Yoda seem him kneeling before Palpatine

      And a butterfly is a butterfly even before it grows wings, but it's a darn ugly butterfly until it does.

      Not all who strangle are Vaders.

      --

      Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.

  36. *Spoiler* by Walkiry · · Score: 4, Funny

    **ATTENTION SPOILER***





    Palpatine is actually a bad guy.

    *Shock*
    *Horror*

    --
    ---- Take the Space Quiz!
    1. Re:*Spoiler* by Tumbleweed · · Score: 1

      He's not bad ... he's just rendered that way.

    2. Re:*Spoiler* by Lonath · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Am I the only one who knew that the bad guy was "Emporer Palpatine" in the old trilogy? I remember there was a huge debate on TheForce.net after TPM came out where people were wondering is Palpy==Sidious or not. :P

      Also, I like the new movies. If you go back and rewatch the old trilogy, you will note the stilted dialogue and corny comedy is all there. It's just that I saw it as a child so I didn't know better.

  37. Mirrors by Kwiik · · Score: 2, Informative

    Two full mirrors:
    http://www.tpu.fi.nyud.net:8090/~t4jlaak s/ep3/

    http://nerdfilter.com/

    The second seems to be holding up pretty well. Of course by the time this is posted, it'll be the opposite;p

    Addys deliberately not encoded in HTML goodness

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    Vehicle Stars used car search is my current project
  38. btw, it's on Kazaa now by aendeuryu · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know how well this will work, but I've got in on Kazaa as a zipped webpage under the title "Star Wars Episode 3 Photos".

    Do an AC reply to this post if you were able to get it.

    Sorry, I don't know how to do torrents...

    1. Re:btw, it's on Kazaa now by mboverload · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just make sure it's not Star Wars Episode 3 Photos.zip.vbs!

    2. Re:btw, it's on Kazaa now by sexygirl.jpg.vbs · · Score: 1

      Hey, that's my dorky brother's name! By the way, why haven't u called? AND Click here to see my webcam!

  39. Fair warning: by GrandCow · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    --
    "Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
    1. Re:Fair warning: by Flyboy+Connor · · Score: 1
      But the question is: had you expected anything else?

      Ferchrissakes you KNOW what this movie is about. You KNOW what is going to happen. So what is there to spoil?

      And if you look at EIGHTY pictures on a page about FORTY screens high, and at the end say "Damn it, I've been spoiled", then that's entirely your own fault, isn't it?

    2. Re:Fair warning: by badasscat · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

    3. Re:Fair warning: by Dogun · · Score: 1

      Goddamnit you spoiled the movie for me.

    4. Re:Fair warning: by lrucker · · Score: 1

      If a spoiler is something that makes you *not* want to see the movie, then for me, this is an anti-spoiler - I didn't see Jar Jar, for one thing.

    5. Re:Fair warning: by Neoncow · · Score: 1
      no, QUEEN Amidala was never mentioned by name in ep. 4, but jesus christ, who do you think gave birth to the PRINCESS?

      I totally agree with the fact that any slashdotter should know what happens next, but I thought that Princess Leia was adopted by some other royal family?

      Yeah.. found it. She's raised on Alderan by this dude.

    6. Re:Fair warning: by joNDoty · · Score: 1

      I highly recommend exercising some self-discipline when looking at these pics and reading the captions. I started realizing it was a HUGE spoiler about a quarter-way in, so I forced myself to only look at the pictures. Yes, I already know the ENDING. But I don't want to understand the entire script before seeing it!

  40. Nothing We Haven't Already Seen by vjmurphy · · Score: 2

    Let's see:

    * Battling droids, been there, done that.
    * Fighting in front of the old guy, ditto
    * Hand getting cut off, check
    * Stupid names, got it
    * Holograms, yep
    * Space battles, uh huh
    * Yoda fighting, did that

    So, why should I spend my money on this? I already know how it will end and since Lucas is writing the dialogue, I already know it'll be bad. The special effects are common as dirt these days.

    I think I'll give it a pass.

    --
    Vincent J. Murphy
    Spandex Justice
    1. Re:Nothing We Haven't Already Seen by anonicon · · Score: 1

      You know, some people have modded you down to (Score:0, Troll), but where they see a Troll, I see someone who should consider a sideline future as a film critic.

      Cheers.

  41. Re:The server got its beating yesterday... by JabberWokky · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Ye ghods! A day later!!! Holy crap, how *terrible* to have to... umm.. look at some pictures... a full day...

    So what?

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    Evan

    --
    "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
  42. Name change: "Slashdotted Episode 3 photos" by aendeuryu · · Score: 1

    Maybe this name will work better...

  43. A Thousand Light Beers Ago ... by uncleernie · · Score: 1

    Looks great! Less filling! (than "regular" Star Wars fare)

  44. The Toys Tell the Story Too by geoffrobinson · · Score: 1

    I saw pics for the toys from the upcoming movie. I could surmise a lot of plot points from them as well. Some seem very cool.

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    Except for ending slavery, the Nazis, communism, & securing American independence, war has never solved anything.
  45. Damn You by jlefeld · · Score: 1

    Damn you for making spoilers so tempting. Must resist looking at this.

  46. wanna see it by Silas+is+back · · Score: 1

    _now_

    as mentioned before, the pics look great, let`s hope the dialogues do good. And that Padme aka Natalie Portman learnt to actually "act" meanwhile...

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    this sig is useless
    1. Re:wanna see it by elasticwings · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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."

    2. Re:wanna see it by Silas+is+back · · Score: 1

      One point to you (concerning Christensen). And if I remember correctly, Natalie Portman was in "Leon the Prof" (much younger though) where she played good, too. So, another point to you.
      withdrawing complaint... ;-)

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      this sig is useless
    3. Re:wanna see it by Silas+is+back · · Score: 1

      well, I somehow always think of the Scene in Ep II where she falls out of the small Trooper-Battleship into the sand (against the end of the movie). then, when a trooper looks after her and she gets up again and gives some orders, that whole part is absolutely ... not to my pleasure.

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      this sig is useless
    4. Re:wanna see it by fr2asbury · · Score: 1

      I agree about Anakin. I was watching that and thinking when Yoda sent him on his little mission "Hey, Yoda, I know the force is supposed to be diminished and all for you, but damn! The kid's got issues. It doesn't take a jedi master to see that. What are you thinking? Look at him! He's crazy. He wants to dance his wild flashy crowd pleasing steps!" . . .
      Whoops! Wrong Star Wars actor, wrong Baz Lurhman film.

    5. Re:wanna see it by RevAaron · · Score: 1

      I thought Hayden C acted decently in Shattered Glass, a film about the New Republic's Stephen Glass. He played a wuss with various emotional problem in it, but IMHO, he did a pretty good job of it. It wasn't like when I saw Garden State, when I said to myself "huh, who knew she could act?" at the end, but it was pretty good.

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    6. Re:wanna see it by m50d · · Score: 1

      Maybe he was trying to make up for his robotic voice.

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      I am trolling
    7. Re:wanna see it by wynterwynd · · Score: 1

      Natalie Portman can act, and has demonstrated this sufficiently in other works she's done.

      HOWEVER, having said that, her performances in the last 2 SW movies were just craptacular. My personal opinion is that it stems from the overuse of green screens - a lot of actors seem to have trouble realistically portraying the scenes they're in without any backdrop or real sets to give them environmental cues. And I can't think of any other movie series that uses as much green-screen editing as the prequel trilogy.

      Still, no excuse. Carrie Fisher > Natalie.

      --
      "Not all who wander are lost" -- JRR Tolkien
    8. Re:wanna see it by Razor+Blades+are+Not · · Score: 1

      Well - he is playing Luke's dad, right ?
      I mean, if whining could conceivably be genetic, I think you've got your evidence, right there.

  47. Re:The server got its beating yesterday... by EvilAlien · · Score: 2, Funny

    So that's what getting a Slashdot early access account is good for! News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. When it is actually happening.

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  48. Still not going to see it or even bother warezing by happyhippy · · Score: 1
    I didnt even see the second until it was TV and I was bored shitless of it.

    Fuck you Lucass you shill hack.

  49. Court Case.... by djsmiley · · Score: 1

    Defendant "Well, i had to download the whole movie, the pirate site with the pictures on it was /.'ed"
    Judge "Bring forth the forsaid Slashdot"....

    Judge "Slashdot, do you plead guilty or not guilty to the charge of taking down websites depicting mostly stolen content via redirecting unknowing users?"...

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    1. Re:Court Case.... by Silas+is+back · · Score: 2, Funny

      Slashdot "Not guilty. I am not the accused you`re looking for."
      Judge "You are not the accused I'm looking for."
      Slashdot "Move along."

      Judge "Move along. Move along!"

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  50. Contradiction by WormholeFiend · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Contradiction by satoshi1 · · Score: 1

      teh PLOT HOLE!!!11!!~eleven!!

    2. Re:Contradiction by will_die · · Score: 4, Informative

      That is not a problem.
      You are thinking that it was thier actual mother instead of Leia being given off to some other people like Luke was.
      This also explains how Leia is from Alderan instead of Naboo, and why she has the name Organa.
      The plot holes could come in that Darth did not know he had children(RTJ). If he chokes her while giving birth that kind of destroies that.
      Before I am marked too high a geek, the only reason I know that is because I walked the movies over the weekend.

    3. Re:Contradiction by clintp · · Score: 1
      Or that, as a child, Luke was unkowingly using the Force to see things that happened elsewhere.
      Concentrate...feel the Force flow. Yes. Good. Calm, yes. Through the Force, things you will see. Other places. The future, the past. Old friends long gone.
      He simply could have had visions of his mother, and reconstructed those as memories.
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    4. Re:Contradiction by dswensen · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Don't worry, that will be fixed in the next edition of the Original Trilogy. Lucas will take that line out, or make a CGI Leia who says something else.

    5. Re:Contradiction by CrazyTalk · · Score: 1

      yes! Glad someone else thought of that too. Although, after further review, maybe in ROTJ she was vaguely remembering her adoptive mother Mrs. Organa, and was not aware that she had a different birth mother? If Obi-Wan could tell Luke that Darth Vader killed his father, these things are easily explained away.

    6. Re:Contradiction by Neurotoxic666 · · Score: 4, Funny

      That'll be fixed when Lucas releases the next version of Episodes IV, V and VI :P

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    7. Re:Contradiction by Androclese · · Score: 1

      *sigh*

      I didn't even catch that when I read the caption. Lets hope its' wrong...

    8. Re:Contradiction by fiannaFailMan · · Score: 2, Interesting
      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.
      Other people have replied to you and said that she was talking about her adoptive mother on Alderaan, but that's incorrect. Luke specifically asked her about her biological mother. Leia's response was that she only recalled images and feelings. Sounds to me like her 'memories' came through the Force, so it's possible that Leia was able to remember the sensations that her mother was feeling prior to birth.
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    9. Re:Contradiction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Sounds to me like her 'memories' came through the Force

      Ah, when all else fails, use the Force.

      Now with fast-acting plot hole filling!

    10. Re:Contradiction by ArsonSmith · · Score: 1

      uhh, except Luke had no memory of his mother, while Leia did.

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    11. Re:Contradiction by Bloomy · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Another spoiler I read said that Leia was born first, and Padme got to hold her. This left the imprint that Leia remembered in Return of the Jedi. Padme died while giving birth to Luke, which is why he had no memory of his mother. The medical droids working on Padme couldn't exactly determine her cause of death, implying she died of a broken heart, which is the sadness Leia remembers.

    12. Re:Contradiction by ArsonSmith · · Score: 1

      None, because I was given all my military awards just like 99% of the people in the military that have awards. I didn't feel I earned them. I did my time, got my metals moved on. Nothing to brag about.

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    13. Re:Contradiction by Thuktun · · Score: 1

      Although, after further review, maybe in ROTJ she was vaguely remembering her adoptive mother Mrs. Organa, and was not aware that she had a different birth mother?

      During that scene, it's before Luke reveals their kinship, so it's entirely plausible that Leia believed that Bail Organa's wife (who doesn't appear to be named anywhere that I've seen) was her birth mother.

    14. Re:Contradiction by Master+Ben · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Nope not a plot hole. Sorry to burst your bubble but Leia is born first by a few minutes and her mother holds her(remember she is force sensitive so her remembering this isn't completely in left field). Padme passes out afterwards and the droid has to manually remove Luke, which is why he knows nothing of her.

      BTW my favorite movie thus far is ROTJ but AOTC comes in a close second. And from what I know and have seen thus far of ROTS, I'm almost positive it will take the top spot.

    15. Re:Contradiction by fredrik70 · · Score: 1

      Dath would have known he had at least one child, since he's the one telling Luke that he is his father.

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    16. Re:Contradiction by Spencerian · · Score: 1

      A better realization to keep the storyline consistent is that Leia never really saw her true mother. Perhaps Bail Organa's wife, who might have died around the time of Leia's memory. Remember that it appears that Leia is raised not fully knowing she is adopted until maybe later as a grownup, and certainly when Luke provides her his family revolation in RotJ.

      Further, it was never implied that Anakin did not know he had offspring. It was one of those point-of-view things. Anakin obviously knew of the pregnancy. It can be assumed, if the site is right, that Anakin knows Padme has died, but mistakenly presumes that her demise has taken the children with her. This fits better as we know that Vader would destroy his children if he knew they existed, anywhere.

      Obi Wan hides Luke on Tatooine since he knows it would one of the last places Vader would want to go (bad memories on a ball of sand and because "nothing really happens there"). Alderaan is likely one of the worlds least tainted by the new Empire at the start, and has a prominent senator with sufficient resources to make an effective cover for Leia.

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    17. Re:Contradiction by happyclam · · Score: 1
      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.

      Not necessarily. It is well known that eyewitness accounts of any event can differ dramatically, even immediately after the event. People who are in a bank robbery, for example, and never see the robbers, are likely to provide a description of the robbers in later tellings. This is not embellishment because their minds actually remember seeing the robber, even though in fact they did not.

      See the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and an NPR segment on All Things Considered.

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    18. Re:Contradiction by retskcud · · Score: 1

      Here's the script dialog from ROTJ. She was talking about her real Mom it seems. BEGIN DIALOG Luke turns and looks at her a long moment. LUKE:Leia... do you remember your mother? Your real mother? LEIA:Just a little bit. She died when I was very young. LUKE:What do you remember? LEIA:Just...images, really. Feelings. LUKE:Tell me. LEIA:(a little surprised at his insistence)She was very beautiful. Kind, but...sad

    19. Re:Contradiction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      And it's always amusing to imagine what must be going through Ben Kenobi's head when he's sitting there with Luke, Artoo, and Threepio in Ep 4, listening to Artoo's hologram.

      "Crap! We go through all of this trouble to hide Luke and Leia on opposite sides of the galaxy, and hide myself on this miserable ball of sand, and now?

      LEIA sends, to ME, ANAKIN's favorite droids and they're delivered by LUKE, who wants me to go rescue her from VADER. The Force is my ally, my ass! With allies like that, who needs enemies?

      Somehow, I think Ani's just itching for a rematch. Who would have guessed he'd survive the molten lava , for chrissakes? And I can already sense the incestual/lustful emotions building in this Skywalker kid. Man, this is a messed up family!! Why did I let Qui-Jonn bully me into training such a white-trash hick to become a Jedi?
      And whose idea was it to hide Luke with Vader's step-brother? Man, Jar Jar and I must have been smoking some serious clone when we came up with that one! At least I won the rock-paper-scissors with Yoda, and I don't live in a frellin' Dark Side tainted swamp in the ass of the Galaxy.!

      All right, one problem at a time. Let's go rescue the girl, hopefully before Dad tortures her and figures out that she's his long-lost daughter, and comes after me. Because I seem to remember Anakin having this whole revenge thing going on, a bit. Maybe he's mellowed... not.

      THEN I'll deal with the incest.
      Maybe if I get the kid hanging around one of those smuggler guys, he'll get Luke laid somewhere along the trip and Luke won't have all that teen hormone imbalance.

    20. Re:Contradiction by CrazyTalk · · Score: 1

      IIRC, Darth knew he had a son, but not a daughter. should be interesting in the movie to see if he knows that Padme is carrying twins, or thinks she is just pregnant with a single child.

    21. Re:Contradiction by STrinity · · Score: 1
      That is not a problem. You are thinking that it was thier actual mother instead of Leia being given off to some other people like Luke was.

      You really shouldn't fanwank unless you have the entire series committed to memory.
      Luke: Do you remember your mother? Your real mother?
      Leia: Just a little bit. She died when I was very young.

      If she's talking about her adoptive mother, it invalidates the entire scene.
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    22. Re:Contradiction by Masker · · Score: 1

      This notion sheds a whole different light on the updates Lucas does to the original trilogy: they're patches. Sorta like Microsoft patches, in that each patch makes the system worse, overall, rather than better.

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    23. Re:Contradiction by naelurec · · Score: 1

      I'm sure once Episode IV, V and VI Longhorn 64-bit comes out, it will be great. Granted, it will require the absolute top-of-the-line playback equipment and super-HDTV to view ...

    24. Re:Contradiction by Keebler71 · · Score: 1
      Lots of good hypotheses being thrown around but I still think a more plausible explanation would be that Lucas just made stuff up as he went along and enjoys "damage control mode" in later films.

      Come-on, think about it:
      -The whole, "Darth Vader betrayed and murdered your father"/"... from a certain point of view"
      -The Luke/Leia Kiss

      oh, and please don't cite for me your explanations to the above... I am not listening.

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      "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
    25. Re:Contradiction by thinduke · · Score: 1

      Or the next versions of Episodes I, II and III.

      You know they're coming!

    26. Re:Contradiction by sharkey · · Score: 1

      That's right. She was placed in a crate along with a giraffe, a zebra, a lion and a hippo and sent to Madgascar. Then Bail Organa adopted her, and took her to Alderaan along with the latest in DRM consumer control technology.

      And don't forget, the penguins are psychotic.

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    27. Re:Contradiction by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 1

      Sounds like another star wars movie in the making.

    28. Re:Contradiction by Doctor_Jest · · Score: 1

      But she didn't know she was adopted.... Luke did.

      She was probably thinking of Bail's wife....

      So, that goes without saying that she thinks Organa's her biological parent.

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      It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
    29. Re:Contradiction by fbg111 · · Score: 1

      the only reason I know that is because I walked the movies over the weekend.

      Out of curiosity, what kind of leash did you use? I need to walk my movies too since they keep pissing all over my house, but I can't seem to find a suitable leash that they aren't able to slip out of when they pull really hard...

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  51. Original FX Better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I imagine I'm in the minority with this, but I actually like the special effects of the original 3 films better than the prequels.

    Granted the boxy things around the TIE fighters were goofy, but the heavy use of models made the first 3 films look more real to me than all the subsequent CG stuff. What I really loved was the lived in look. I think that's a big part of what made the franchise. Weren't Star Wars and Alien the first SF films to have an distinctive vision of the future where the equipment didn't look brand new?

    And I agree about the dialogue. There were some corny lines in the original films, but I think most people will agree that either due to decent acting elevating the dialogue or everything feeling so appropriate for the various characters it all worked. I just don't get that happy feeling about any of the new lines, and I certainly don't remember them well enough to quote the prequels.

    I think I'm starting to feel about this the way I felt about Dune after the Sci Fi channel version came out. Perhaps it would be better done by fans than the current rights holders... Open Source SciFi?

  52. Re:Darn! by REBloomfield · · Score: 1
    she's a jedi. see the past she can. i suppose.

    unless she meant bail organa, I dunno her history.

  53. slashdottted by SQLz · · Score: 1

    ....in under 12 parsecs.

    1. Re:slashdottted by melandy · · Score: 1

      Geez, that's almost 1.85 petafurlongs!

      (according to the Google Calculator)

    2. Re:slashdottted by fuzzdawg · · Score: 1

      Why don't you get an education. Distance and time are nearly equivalent. I believe it's called space-time.

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    3. Re:slashdottted by fishbowl · · Score: 1

      The was we rationalized this in '77 was to decide that Lucas wasn't a moron, and that Solo was bragging about a shortest path achievement. Of course nowadays I can simply accept that Lucas was a moron and the writing was sloppy.

      If you really want a contrived cover story to explain why the Falcon did the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, here's one:

      http://www.starwars.com/community/askjc/jocasta/ as kjc20020221.html

      I find it easy to believe the dialogue was worked out on the day of shooting with a list of buzzwords and nobody on the set with the slightest background in science.

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    4. Re:slashdottted by SQLz · · Score: 1

      Its a line from the movie you dolt. Go get an education about the kessel run.

  54. *Bigger Spoiler* by ShallowThroat · · Score: 1

    **HUGE SPOILER**

    You will die alone.

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  55. You're forgetting... by StarKruzr · · Score: 1

    the terrible acting and awful dialogue in the "love scenes" (ugh) between Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen in the second movie. They were so, so, SO BAD.

    AoC could have been only slightly worse than RotJ if it wasn't for those, but Lucas went and fucked it up, sadly.

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    1. Re:You're forgetting... by Gorath99 · · Score: 1

      Very true. That was indeed a horrible low point of the movie. However, I really, really dislike TPM, so I still consider AotC a significant improvement as a whole.

      As an aside: I don't really blame Hayden and Natalie for the acting. With those lines there's really very little they could have done to make those scenes bearable. Even the best actors (which, admittedly, they're not) need something to work with.

    2. Re:You're forgetting... by djward · · Score: 1

      DVDs are great - AoTC with a little bit of chapter-skip editing to get rid of the Hayden/Natalie scenes results in a damn enjoyable movie.

      Has anyone done this via compter and distributed it, a la "The Phantom Edit"?

    3. Re:You're forgetting... by ultranova · · Score: 1

      the terrible acting and awful dialogue in the "love scenes" (ugh) between Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen in the second movie. They were so, so, SO BAD.

      They were supposed to be bad. Remember, A is supposed to be what, 16 year old at that point ? And most of that time he's spent with the jedi - the people who forbid love, so they are kinda unlikely to include seduction in their curriculum.

      If it had had anything but awful dialog, it would have been just plain absurd. As it was, it helped underline Anakin's lack of maturity - the very thing that would make him into Vader later on.

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    4. Re:You're forgetting... by Ravenscall · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think you are giving Lucas WAY too much credit there.

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  56. Re:Darn! by Justin205 · · Score: 1

    It's George Lucas... You were expecting it to make sense?

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  57. heh by PrvtBurrito · · Score: 1

    You can fool me once. You can fool me twice. You can ... oh well, nevermind.

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  58. Boring! by mbbac · · Score: 1

    I only saw the first 5 frames on that site and I was already bored.

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  59. Re:George Lucas's plan (don't worry about spoilers by gl4ss · · Score: 1

    well.. the mirror works.

    and with the shit that was ep1 and ep2 they're going to NEED to give some juicy spoilers to convince me to go to the movies.

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  60. Good Grief ! by TractorBarry · · Score: 1

    Do people really still care about Star Wars ?

    The first was a reaonsable reworking of one of the classic fairy tales (i.e. fantastic for small children) but then it went sadly, sadly downhill to hit rock bottom with the Ewoks.

    And just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse it returned several years later for a set of "prequels" only to crawl right up it's own arse and die - A death that left only a small stain in the shape of Jar Jar Binks. Fucking hell.

    Honestly anyone who has even the slightest wish to see any more of the garbage produced by that silly old Lucas chap should really either get out more or watch something like Babylon 5. Now that's what I call sci-fi.

    Sorry but it just boggles my mind that anyone would pay good money to see this utter tripe.

    I'd rather spend an entire afternoon watching an elderly Labrador defecate than have my eyeballs infested by this rubbish !

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  61. Watch this instead by Hal_Porter · · Score: 2

    http://www.sequentialpictures.com/moviestarwarsepi sode3.html

    "Warned you we did. Listen you did not. Screwed we now are"

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    1. Re:Watch this instead by radiopillows · · Score: 2, Funny

      "I'm preggers"

  62. Wookie Army by atlantafatmike · · Score: 1

    The only things missing from this sheet are the toothy dude from the lava planet and the wookie army. He could have at least capped those from the trailer and inserted them somewhere.

    1. Re:Wookie Army by sbowles · · Score: 1
      The toothy dude is from the sink-hole planet (name escapes me) where Obi-wan goes to confront Grievous. I think this is just before Palpatine flicks the switch turning the Clones against the Jedi.

      I just scared myself.

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  63. Re:Mirror... by nobilid · · Score: 1
  64. http://hbarbobot.kicks-ass.net/starwars/ by killerface · · Score: 1

    if you go to the blog on my site i was able to grab em but take it easy please.

  65. The good stuff by tm2b · · Score: 2, Funny
    when Boing Boing linked to them first, like so much of what appears on Slashdot these days.
    Oh, don't exaggerate, it's only a small percentage.

    No FSF/GNU/GPL manifestos, no "apple just updated their software again for the third time this week" messages, no permanent floating "the evil of the RIAA" flamefests. None of those "broken record issues" that we've been over a bazillion times. No incompetent "editors" who know neither correct spelling nor grammar, nor what stories have been posted in the last week.

    You know, just the good stuff.
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  66. Not quite... by Evro · · Score: 1

    These shots -- especially the space battle scenes -- certainly make it look more worthwhile than the two prior episodes.

    Of all the problems and criticisms of the previous two prequels, I don't think lack of special effects was ever listed. The problems with acting, writing, and directing are certainly not going to be evident in still photos.

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  67. I'm looking forward to the music... by ExtraT · · Score: 1

    ...and that's it. John William's excellent score is pretty much the only redeeming feature of any Star Wars movie. And I'm certain that is will be the same with that one.

  68. Another Mirror by randomErr · · Score: 1

    Here's another Mirror:

    http://www.koschfamily.com/mirrors/587402/

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  69. Re:Reasons it will still suck... by enrico_suave · · Score: 1

    I thought that James Earl Jones did lend his voice to parts of RoTS, presumably towards the end... He did some of the voice over touch up in the DVD release of the original trilogy... so it's not unheard of.

    *shrug* Not that JEJ can save teh whole flick mind you...

    e.

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  70. Something to think about by Flyboy+Connor · · Score: 1
    When Anakin dons his helmet, will they:

    (a) Let James Earl Jones do a voice-over, or
    (b) Release a new version of episodes IV-VI where the voice of Vader has been changed to that of Hayden Christensen?

    Knowing Lucas, I think (b) will be the choice...

    And to add insult to injury, in the new versions Lucas will let Han shoot first.

    1. Re:Something to think about by Master+Ben · · Score: 1

      This issue was touch and go for a while but yes JEJ will do the voice for vader. Lucas originally wanted to use a voice that sounded like his but after much fan negotiation, he will use JEJ.

  71. Re:Maybe Lucas never saw Return of the Jedi? by Flyboy+Connor · · Score: 1
    I see to remeber Leia saying in Return of the Jedi that her mother died when she was very young... that she was always sad, something like that.

    No problem for uncle George. He will release a new version of RotJ where he changes this particular line in the dialogue.

  72. pics by knightrdr · · Score: 2, Funny

    I feel as if millions of NIC cards all cried out at once.

  73. Closure by adolfojp · · Score: 1

    I know that I will be dissapointed.

    I know that the first trilogy might not be as good as I want them to be or remember them to be.

    But after more than two decades of Star Wars being part of my life... I need closure.

    Even if the recent movies have been crap, especially TPM, George Lucas doesn't owe us anything. Those were his movies, made with his money, out of his dreams. We have been lucky to be part of them and have enjoyed them enough as to make Star Wars memorable.

    Thanks George, for the mithology, for the friends, and for the memories.

    Cheers,
    Adolfo

  74. Hope springs eternal by alex_guy_CA · · Score: 1
    "These shots -- especially the space battle scenes -- certainly make it look more worthwhile than the two prior episodes."

    That is a hopeful thing to say considering it was the acting that made the last two so bad. You can't hear how badly someone says "princess. I love you" is a photo.

  75. Yeah right, the space batte made the last two bad by lashi · · Score: 1
    >These shots -- especially the space battle scenes -- certainly make it look more worthwhile than the two prior episodes.

    Yah, I agree, it's the poor space battles that made the last two episodes so bad. Nothing to do with the bad acting, bad directing, lame dialogs and childish plots.

  76. Here's a spoiler: by hal2814 · · Score: 1
  77. CSI: Galaxy Far Far Away by monkeyGrease · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on, this is just a loose fictional story. No need to do forensic analysis on the details.

    10,000 years ago I can see guys like you stomping away from the campfire when the oral tradition of that night contradicts last year's story. Of course that means you'd be the guys missing out on procreational activities later that night.

    Yet somehow those genes keep recurring. Odd that is.

    1. Re:CSI: Galaxy Far Far Away by dswensen · · Score: 1

      And I can see guys like you impugning that critic 10,000 years ago because he committed the crime of mentioning that the character detail you mentioned in the first act just plain wasn't there in the third. Then you haughtily compare them to a bunch of mammals from the Precambrian period. Then the people who just wanted to talk about the story walk away from the campfire because you're a pompous ass.

      Yet somehow those genes keep recurring. Odd that is.

      People, especially sci-fi fans, like the details in their story to fit. This isn't an unreasonable thing, and neither is calling attention to sloppy storytelling.

    2. Re:CSI: Galaxy Far Far Away by monkeyGrease · · Score: 1

      mammals from the Precambrian period

      Now there's a contradiction in story.

  78. french subtitles? by Bram+Stolk · · Score: 1

    The french subtitles remind me of the pirate
    "pre release" of Halo II.

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  79. sure to choke by TheDoctorWho · · Score: 1

    I mean come on. All Lost Hope Pt III

  80. Computer Game by ugel · · Score: 1

    Isn't pretty obvious that most of these pictures ar screenshots from something like KOTOR II? The CG sure looks like something of an xbox.

  81. I am not by boarder · · Score: 1

    Maybe you and the rest of the sheep on /. are going to line his pockets for the crap he spews, but I am not. After stupidly allowing my hopes to rise for ep2 and it turning out to be just plain awful, I vowed not to do it again.

    And that's a good thing, too, because I have a friend here who has read the script (living in Los Angeles has fun side effects like that). He recounted the entire story to me, and let me tell you how awful and superficial it sounds. It has very little character development, gives no good reason for Annakin to turn to the dark side, and has no surprises a 4 year old couldn't guess.

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  82. coral web cache link by Danathar · · Score: 1

    Why more people don't use the Coral Web Cache when submitting links in their story is beyond me.

    Coralized link below

    http://www.tpu.fi.nyud.net:8090/~t4jlaaks/ep3/

    1. Re:coral web cache link by ultranova · · Score: 1

      Why more people don't use the Coral Web Cache when submitting links in their story is beyond me.

      Why more people don't use the anchor tags when giving addresses is beyond me. Clickable link here.

      Also, I've seen many corallized sites die on me - no, I won't give links, I don't want them any deader than they already are. Coral Cache is way overhyped.

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  83. Mirror by magnifor · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mirror Enjoy. :)

  84. Re:Darn! by SpryGuy · · Score: 1

    That was the first question that came to mind after reading all of that and looking at all the pretty pictures.

    I also wondered how Anikin could force-choke Padme and then have her die nine months later from the choke?

    Um...

    I mean, did he see her obviously pregnant? I wouldn't think so. But maybe he did. But would he want to kill his offspring like that? I doubt it.

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  85. what about Storm Troopers, etc by GreasyBloater · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Where do the Storm Troopers in episode 4+ come from?

    Are they clones turned bad? And outfitted differently?

    How come the Episode 1-3 droids and battle droids are never seen again in 4+?

    I was expecting these to be answered in 3... but so far I don't see it.

    1. Re:what about Storm Troopers, etc by Master+Ben · · Score: 1

      Episode 3 will answer your first question. The storm troopers are the clone troopers, there are other people that get cloned to be stormtroopers by EP4. Some of the stormtroopers aren't even clones just people making an 'honest' living in the galaxy.

      As for the droids, most are destroyed during the clone wars, what's left would have been refitted to make a protocol droid or such.

    2. Re:what about Storm Troopers, etc by jonadab · · Score: 1

      > Where do the Storm Troopers in episode 4+ come from?
      > Are they clones turned bad? And outfitted differently?

      Episodes 1-2 already made it pretty clear that the clones army was designed,
      genetically engineered, and conditioned to take orders. So all it takes for
      them to "turn bad" is for the person giving the orders to give bad ones. They
      were taking orders from representatives of the Republic -- from the Jedi
      Council, as long as the Jedi Council still represented the republic, and from
      the Chancellor, the Senate, and so on. When the Senate voted supreme powers
      to the Chancellor (so that he could create this army) in Episode 2, that put
      the Chancellor in a position to basically do whatever he thinks best or, if
      it comes to it, whatever he wants. So if Chancellor Palpatine were to disband
      the Jedi in Episode 3 and further disband the Senate later, that would make
      him, effectively, Emperor. (He does not disband the Senate in Episode 3, but
      later. Vader announces this to Leia when she is captive on the Death Star, in
      Episode 4, although one gets the impression he's telling her about something
      that had already been done, and she just didn't know about it yet, so it
      probably is an event that takes place shortly before the start of Episode 4.)

      > How come the Episode 1-3 droids and battle droids are never seen again in 4+?

      The droids were produced, maintained, and used by the Trade Federation. The
      Trade Federation seems to lose most or all of its significance somewhere
      between Episode 2 and Episode 4, because you never hear much about it in
      Episodes 4-6. One hopes Episode 3 will explain this point, but you can
      see foreshadowing in Episode 1, where the Sith lord is obviously using
      the Viceroy of the Trade Federation as a puppet.

      But in any case, the droid armies were always Trade Federation armies, and
      the Clone Army (later called Storm Troopers or Emperial Trooms) is the army
      of the Republic, which then becomes the Empire.

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  86. Re:Padme dies in child birth? by Zoso20 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Obi-wan and Anakin are not related. Maybe Obiwan said that in EP4 but lets just chalk that up to living in the desert alone for 20 years and senility.....

  87. Wow great summary! by theendlessnow · · Score: 1

    That was good... probably will be let down if I go and see the movie. I wonder if we'll see a Special Edition version of the Play-By-Play in Pictures. Just hope they don't insert too much Gungan.

  88. DIV in MS IE by ArmorFiend · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what's with that?

  89. No way. by Captain+Scurvy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember when I first saw the trailer for Episode 1. I couldn't stop salivating over the beautiful scenery, cool-looking story, and Natalie Portman. The trailer looked so damned cool that I simultaneously crapped and creamed my pants every time I watched it. Then I saw the movie, and felt like a dumbass. Of course it would suck. Any movie with that much hype is usually a total waste of time. I'm not going to get suckered in. Not this time! Who am I kidding? Sign me up for 100 tickets, please.

  90. No longer available? by orderthruchaos · · Score: 1

    It looks like this site just got yanked...

    1. Re:No longer available? by orderthruchaos · · Score: 1

      Nevermind... to many /.ers trying to access it, I guess! ;-)

    2. Re:No longer available? by TylerDurden0 · · Score: 1

      Use the mirrors, for Vader's sake.

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  91. as geeky as this is by Moonpie+Madness · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.'

  92. 80 by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 1
    Its as if 80 screenshots suddenly cried out at once and were silenced...

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  93. Re:Maybe Lucas never saw Return of the Jedi? by buckeyeguy · · Score: 1

    They tried to hold off parenthood, but Padme's hotness and that dark-side mojo made Anakin "shoot first". Might be worth an outtake on the DVD.

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  94. Padme dies? by Peale · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Okay...Leia and Luke were talking, and Leia stated she had memories of their mother.

    If she died at their birth, how can they have memories? I suppose memories of the womb, but come on...

  95. Awesome... by Robotron23 · · Score: 1

    Whats particularily intriguing is that Anakin actually possesses more of a likeness to Luke, especially in the latter screenshots - probably because of his hair. In Episode II he just looked like some irratating kid with a wooden voice.

  96. Looks better by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 1
    Well, its a darker movie, so it looks better in that regard. I dunno how hot I am about a droid wielding 4 lightsabers. Thats right up there with surfing on lava for me.

    I'll definitely download the movie, and I'll probably end up seeing it, since its the last one in the series and what not. (Please say its the last George, or we will FORCIBLY retire you!)

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    1. Re:Looks better by Master+Ben · · Score: 1

      George said that if this one makes $800 mil. worldwide then he may consider doing the sequel trilogy, which looks like it sux by the way. The plot is way too unoriginal for ep7-9. His ideas for ep.10-12 are still coming out, but are set 10000+ years after the original Tril.

      Basically if you want these to be the end then the movie has to suck financially. I'm

  97. Re:Padme dies in child birth? by Bloomy · · Score: 3, Informative
    BEN (continuing his narrative) When your father left, he didn't know your mother was pregnant. Your mother and I knew he would find out eventually, but we wanted to keep you both as safe as possible, for as long as possible. So I took you to live with my brother Owen on Tatooine... and your mother took Leia to live as the daughter of Senator Organa, on Alderaan.

    I can't remember if "When your father left, he didn't know your mother was pregnant" (or some semblance) was actually left in the movie version of RotJ, it's been a while since I've seen the movie. But I remember the rest of the quote comes from the novelization, which, while it may be based on an early draft of the script, isn't strictly canon (I hope saying that doesn't open up a can of worms here).

    The novelizations of the original trilogy had extra scenes and dialog not in the movies, like more of Luke's training on Dagobah in ESB and Kenobi telling Luke in ANH that even a duck has to learn how to swim. I can't remember if Han's confrontation with Jabba in Mos Eisley was in the book. I haven't read it, but I heard the book for the Phantom Menace also had some extra scenes that weren't in the movie, like a dream Anakin had about he and Padme leading opposing armies into battle.

    One thing I did learn from the novelizations was the Emperor's name was Palpatine.

  98. wait wait, let me guess by geekoid · · Score: 2, Funny

    there are droids..and some light sabers.
    I'm going out on a limb here, but probably some spaceships as well.

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  99. Saves me $20+ by SgtRamirezNYC · · Score: 1

    Now i don't have to drag my girlfriend to the theater for this :) ..

  100. REAL spoiler by gosand · · Score: 1
    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.

    Correction: the spoiler would be actually seeing the movie.

    I think that seeing the screenshots gave me enough of a taste to know that I don't need to see it. I can't possibly imagine how Lucas can redeem the series. Even if Jar Jar dies a horrible death, it won't make up for the fact that he not only created that character, but brought him back in the next movie. EPI got my theatre dollars, EPII only got my rental dollars (thank god for the ability to scan during DVD playback). I don't even know if EPIII will be worth renting, but I sure won't be going to the theater to see it.

    I actually kind of liked the comic-book-style story that I got from viewing the screenshots. Better than the awful dialogue, grandiose panning shots, and general hubris that has become synonymous with Lucas' work.

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  101. Lucas can't write or direct.. I'm done with him by Morpeth · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This is not flamebait - seriously Lucas won't get anymore money from me. After the recent last two films, I'm done with him, he takes solid actors and gets the absolute worst from them.

    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.

    • When a dying Boromir calls Aragorn "my brother... my king."
    • A despairing King Theodan at his only son's burial. And later his dying words to Eowyn about his pride and love for her.
    • When an exhausted Sam picks up Frodo to carry him the last hundred yards up Mt. Doom
    • With everyone bowing to him - King Aragorn at his own coronation, bows to the Hobbits, tells them to stand and says "you bow to no one"

    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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  102. oh, please, don't spoil the craptastic movie... by KunstCleaver · · Score: 1

    holy CRAP!
    this movie is going to SUCK.
    LAVA? lava is why vader has to become a machine?
    the only thing lamer than lava would have been a band of rabid gerbils. no, that would have at least not been cliche. what the hell? vader is maximillian from the black hole now?
    great. yet another 2 hour long toy commercial.

    i think i'll go watch LOTR again.

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  103. Life after Death in Star Wars? by RcktMan77 · · Score: 1

    I guess I still don't understand this "escaping death" phenomena in Star Wars. I've heard that Yoda is aware of this Jedi power, but here it seems Sidious kills his master who was seeking such a power and lets Anakin know that a Jedi cannot have such a power, perhaps implying that it is a Sith force power. As you can see, I have become somewhat confused as to how and why Obi-Wan and Yoda just disappear as they seemingly leave the physical world, and how Anakin appears with them at the end of Return of the Jedi.

    1. Re:Life after Death in Star Wars? by Master+Ben · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yoda and ObiWan aren't escaping death. They allow their souls pass on to the living force where they stay for a few years. Eventually they fade away.

      Darth Plaguesis is talking about staying alive in the real world. Sidious learned this technique from him.

      BTW Yoda learns how to pass to the living force from Qui Gonn, who will appear as a force ghost in EP3.

  104. I am Star Wars Blackhole... where is the Magic?!?! by Kong99 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I can only assume that the people who read/view and write/talk about every scrap of info for an upcoming SW release are the same ones who complain about how SW no longer has the magic!!

    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.

  105. Re:Lucas can't write or direct.. I'm done with him by nagora · · Score: 1
    Well, this isn't flamebait either, but I was very, very glad when I finally convinced my girlfriend that after sitting through Jacksons first two craptastic Rings films I was not going to waste any more money on him. I hope I never see the third one (or the first two again for that matter).

    I can't think of a worse director than Peter Jackson.

    So there you have it: one man's meat and all that. Funny old world, isn't it?

    TWW

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  106. Re:George Lucas's plan (don't worry about spoilers by MsGeek · · Score: 1

    My thoughts:

    This is the one movie Lucas should have done. The necessary expository material in Ep I and Ep II could have been told in flashback.

    Then again this is all without the dialogue and other ancillary stuff. For instance, there is nothing in here that says whether or not we will be seeing Jar-Jar a third time.

    However, as photo-Manga, it works. I don't think it will get me anywhere near the theatre. But they don't need my bucks anyway. :P

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  107. Star Wars bosses threaten legal action by MojoStan · · Score: 2, Informative
    Here is a site with over 80 screenshots (claiming more to come) that shows the story line of the upcoming Star Wars Episode 3.

    From the IMDb.com news story 'Star Wars' Bosses Warn Websites Again :

    Movie bosses financing forthcoming prequel Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith are threatening to take legal action against internet sites that leak pictures and plot details.
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    PRESS ANY KEY

    Where's the 'ANY' key? I see Esk, Kitarl, and Pig-Up...

  108. Plausible Explanation by jhohm · · Score: 1

    Luke and Leia could feel Padme by using the force. Emotions, e.g., sadness at the betrayal of their father, would of course be the strongest felt and most easily assimilated by an unborn child.

  109. star wars as a SoCal analogy? by Suchetha · · Score: 1

    i was doing some serious thinking a few days ago and decided that Star Wars (TOS) is actually an analogy for SoCal. maybe a university environment..

    Luke is the naive farmboy, (even his accent is as farmboy as they come) and he leaves the farm behind. the death of his foster parents to storm troopers is an analogy for the destruction of the agrarian lifestyle by the mechanical/factory elements.

    Leia is the Virginia WASP Princess. politically active in a red state family, she then discovers radical chic. she changes into a rebel leader as an act of rebellion against her parents (and especially her biological father, even though she doesn't know it). and she ends up hooking up with an unscrupulous bad boy called...

    Han Solo. the latino of the movie. (even if he WAS portrayed by a white guy).. think about it.. he's got a pimped out ride that can drag ass.. he smuggles drugs.. he considers himself a playa.. he's always packing heat.. and he's got a big hairy friend called chuey who no one can understand. he joins the rebellion first for the money, then sticks around cos rebel girls put out for bad boys

    think about it

    Suchetha

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  110. better story line by Alien54 · · Score: 1
    Sad to say that George went with a simplistic storyline over the first three movies of the Star Warts series

    I wrote long ago that it would have been far more diabolic to have made Anakin a set of twins in the first place. Together with the problems of mistaken identy, and which one becomes Darth Vader, all this supplies enough potential for twists to drive most fans crazy. It would have been delicious.

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  111. I wonder.... by Cervantes · · Score: 1

    Judging by the last screencap, does this mean that Hans finally shot first?

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  112. dim hope by mike_d85 · · Score: 1

    This actually gives me hope for the last SW installment. Very dim hope. Actually I'm fairly sure that that outline will actually be better as it skips the crap Lucas crams into his precious 90 minutes. However I want to see A) the slaughter of dozens of Jedi (those geeks will weep I say!) B)Yoda battles, always more yoda battles.

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  113. Only one I can seem to get to work. by Debikul · · Score: 1

    The only mirror that I have gotten to work is http://www.lewed.net/ep3/index.html No telling how long that will be up.

    1. Re:Only one I can seem to get to work. by Debikul · · Score: 1