Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures

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Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 23, 2005 @12:44AM from the ok-there-are-like-these-people-right-with-lasers dept.

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 by bigtallmofo · 2005-02-23 00:48 · 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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Spoiler Warning by bircho · 2005-02-23 00:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Slide 81: the server fall in burning lava. The imperial march begins to play. The END!
1. Re:Spoiler Warning by Shag · 2005-02-23 01:52 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Slide 82: French subtitles surrender. Fark rejoices.
  
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George Lucas's plan (don't worry about spoilers) by Xpilot · 2005-02-23 00:48 · 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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Ah! Mirror! Quick! by REBloomfield · 2005-02-23 00:48 · Score: 5, Informative

Mirror
Dribble. Can't wait....
Cannes by caitsith01 · 2005-02-23 00:49 · 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 LarsWestergren · 2005-02-23 02:24 · 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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2. Re:Cannes by El+Cabri · 2005-02-23 05:21 · 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.
More worthwhile... by Snaller · 2005-02-23 00:49 · 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 · 2005-02-23 01:57 · 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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Warning: spoiler.. by Linker3000 · 2005-02-23 00:49 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Spoiler: by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-23 00:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

You hate George Lucas but you are going to line his pockets all the same. Resistance is futile.
I sense a disturbance in the force by waterlogged · 2005-02-23 00:52 · Score: 5, Funny

It was as if a million acks cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
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Looks, sure. by gowen · 2005-02-23 00:53 · 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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Looks really good by chrisgeleven · 2005-02-23 00:54 · 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 · 2005-02-23 01:15 · 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 RangerRick98 · 2005-02-23 02:13 · 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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another mirror by jacoplane · 2005-02-23 00:55 · Score: 4, Informative

nerdfilter.com
That's not the worst of it by aendeuryu · 2005-02-23 00:56 · 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.
Re:Anakin all burned up? by Warlock7 · 2005-02-23 00:56 · Score: 4, Informative

That image came out back in March. It appeared in "Star Wars Insider". There's a much better shot here.
Did anyone torrent it? by buro9 · 2005-02-23 00:58 · 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.
In the mean time by screwballicus · 2005-02-23 01:01 · 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.
Pictures/trailers are meaningless by limabone · 2005-02-23 01:10 · 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.
Re:FP and the Sites Down! by zebs · 2005-02-23 01:10 · Score: 4, Informative

Mirror here: starwars.zip and here starwars.zip
Both a zips of the site linked from above.
Down the server is. weak it is by essreenim · 2005-02-23 01:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Always uncertain the future is.
Bandwidth insufficient it is
*Spoiler* by Walkiry · 2005-02-23 01:12 · Score: 4, Funny

**ATTENTION SPOILER***

Palpatine is actually a bad guy.

*Shock*
*Horror*

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Re:FP and the Sites Down! by Kwiik · 2005-02-23 01:17 · 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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Fair warning: by GrandCow · 2005-02-23 01:23 · 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.

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Re:btw, it's on Kazaa now by mboverload · 2005-02-23 01:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Just make sure it's not Star Wars Episode 3 Photos.zip.vbs!
Re:Anakin all burned up? by ajs · 2005-02-23 01:31 · 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).
Contradiction by WormholeFiend · 2005-02-23 01:47 · 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 will_die · 2005-02-23 02:12 · 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.
2. Re:Contradiction by Neurotoxic666 · 2005-02-23 03:01 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  That'll be fixed when Lucas releases the next version of Episodes IV, V and VI :P
  
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3. Re:Contradiction by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-23 07:04 · 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.
Re:Welcome to Slashdot.. by JudgeFurious · 2005-02-23 02:55 · 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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Re:I have to say... by zrk · 2005-02-23 05:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

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