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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.
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.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
Dribble. Can't wait....
You hate George Lucas but you are going to line his pockets all the same. Resistance is futile.
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.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
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.
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.
Bandwidth insufficient it is
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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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).
I bet you could take 80 screenshots of either of the 1st two movies and make them look great, too.
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.