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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Massochist

[bigtallmofo]

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.

Re:Massochist

[JaredOfEuropa]

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.

Spoiler Warning

[bircho]

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

Re:Spoiler Warning

[Shag]

Slide 82: French subtitles surrender. Fark rejoices.

George Lucas's plan (don't worry about spoilers)

[Xpilot]

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.

Ah! Mirror! Quick!

[REBloomfield]

Mirror

Dribble. Can't wait....

Cannes

[caitsith01]

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?

Re:Cannes

[LarsWestergren]

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?

Re:Cannes

[El Cabri]

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.

More worthwhile...

[Snaller]

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

Re:More worthwhile...

[RangerRick98]

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. ;)

Warning: spoiler..

[Linker3000]

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

Mirrors

[rezitoz]

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

direct link

Spoiler:

[Anonymous Coward]

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

planet-lab mirror

[GrAfFiT]

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

I sense a disturbance in the force

[waterlogged]

It was as if a million acks cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
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Re:I sense a disturbance in the force

[screwballicus]

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

No, that was Mars Attacks.

Looks, sure.

[gowen]

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.

Looks really good

[chrisgeleven]

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.

Re:Looks really good

[Laur]

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.

Re:Looks really good

[RangerRick98]

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

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

another mirror

[jacoplane]

nerdfilter.com

That's not the worst of it

[aendeuryu]

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.

Re:Anakin all burned up?

[Warlock7]

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

Did anyone torrent it?

[buro9]

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.

Re:Did anyone torrent it?

[LiquidCoooled]

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)

Play-by-Play

[gowen]

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.

Meanwhile on a ship to La-La Land

[cOdEgUru]

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

In the mean time

[screwballicus]

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.

Want to buy some land in Florida?

[nwbvt]

"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!

Re:Want to buy some land in Florida?

[natrius]

[hand wave]

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

Pictures/trailers are meaningless

[limabone]

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.

Re:FP and the Sites Down!

[zebs]

Mirror here: starwars.zip and here starwars.zip

Both a zips of the site linked from above.

Down the server is. weak it is

[essreenim]

Always uncertain the future is.

Bandwidth insufficient it is

*Spoiler*

[Walkiry]

**ATTENTION SPOILER***





Palpatine is actually a bad guy.

*Shock*
*Horror*

Re:FP and the Sites Down!

[Kwiik]

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

http://nerdfilter.com/

The second seems to be holding up pretty well.

Fair warning:

[GrandCow]

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.

Re:btw, it's on Kazaa now

[mboverload]

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

Re:Anakin all burned up?

[ajs]

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).

Contradiction

[WormholeFiend]

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.

Re:Contradiction

[will_die]

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.

Re:Contradiction

[Neurotoxic666]

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

Re:Contradiction

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Welcome to Slashdot..

[JudgeFurious]

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.

Mirror

[magnifor]

Mirror Enjoy. :)

Re:I have to say...

[zrk]

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

Re:Padme dies in child birth?

[Bloomy]

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.