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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.
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.
I'm a big tall mofo.
This looks totally badass.
Slide 81: the server fall in burning lava. The imperial march begins to play. The END!
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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Dribble. Can't wait....
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?
Read Pynchon.
...because after all blowing shit up is so much more important than dialog...
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4) Site crashes in the end
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Try http://www.mirrordot.org/ for working images.
direct link
You hate George Lucas but you are going to line his pockets all the same. Resistance is futile.
http://www.tpu.fi.nyud.net:8090/~t4jlaaks/ep3/
Hopefully, this time, it works.
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.
It was as if a million acks cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
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I couldn't fail to disagree with you any less.
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. =)
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
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.
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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.
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.
Now, why do I hear Chris Berman's voice going:
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
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.
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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.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
When the first one came out, everyone was so excited. People were camped in front of movie theaters for months, and you could easily get the impression that this was going to be one of the best movies of all time.
Then they saw Jar-Jar and the rest is history.
When the second one came out, people were once again excited. Yeah, they remembered how horrible the first one was, but this new Star Wars promised to be much better! Less Jar-Jar, a new Anakin, and an improved storyline.
Then everyone realized that while it might be better than the first one, that isn't saying much.
Now they release a few pretty pictures from the third one and once again, you have people saying it "look(s) more worthwhile". Sigh. Hey look, someone wrote the word gullible on the movie theater ceiling!
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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.
Both a zips of the site linked from above.
Bandwidth insufficient it is
**ATTENTION SPOILER***
Palpatine is actually a bad guy.
*Shock*
*Horror*
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Two full mirrors:k s/ep3/
http://www.tpu.fi.nyud.net:8090/~t4jlaa
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
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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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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...
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
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.
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If the website guy is correct and Vader forcechokes Padme, who dies giving birth, it contradicts Return of the Jedi when Leia tells Luke she vaguely remembers her mother, being sad and all that stuff.
Way to go, George.
Hey dammit, Natalie Portman did an excellent job of acting in Garden State. Maybe if the director did a better job or the writer wrote the part better, her performance would be more memorable. And if we're throwing stones on acting, I personally feel Hayden's acting was lame in Episode II. I mean his character's emotions were way to over the top. I was just like, "Jeez, stop whining sissy."
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You know, just the good stuff.
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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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I feel as if millions of NIC cards all cried out at once.
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.
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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.
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.....
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.
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.'
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.
Things fall down...People look up... And when it rains, it pours.
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...
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.
I think you are giving Lucas WAY too much credit there.
You say you want a revolution....
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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He writes horrible, truly horrible dialog, and I don't even find the plot/storylines that interesting anymore. Rehashed, recycled.
His characters are paper thin cutouts, the recent ones especially. I mean h*ll, I don't rememeber their names, let alone care if they die in the film(s).
Peter Jackson redention of Tolkein on the other hand... now he understands characters - passion, heroism, comraderie, fear, self-doubt, you name it. While his film was a grand epic, visual feast, some of the most memorable moments to me where moments between characters not just the wonderful special effects and battles.
Now THOSE are great moments... Lucas is fluff an eye candy, nothing more. I loved Star Wars once, he's since turned into a empty film making, and a marketing tool to sell cheap toys.
'The unexamined life is not worth living' - Socrates
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.
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.
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Where's the 'ANY' key? I see Esk, Kitarl, and Pig-Up...