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Star Wars Episode 3 PG-13?
geekboxjockey writes "This story hints at the next Star Wars being a bit more of a mature themed movie: "[The film] is much more dark...more emotional. It's much more of a tragedy," adds Lucas. "...it will be the first Star Wars that's a PG-13.""There's also a new trailer airing during tonight's The O.C., so you can use that as an excuse to watch FOX teen drama. Fortunately for me, Summer is the only excuse I need. And maybe Captain Oats.
The PG-13® film rating did not exist when the first three Star Wars movies (Episodes IV through VI) came out. Return of the Jedi (Ep VI) came out in 1983; PG-13 didn't start until July 1984, apparently because Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was right smack between PG and R. In fact, some believe that The Empire Strikes Back (Ep V) could have been PG-13 had that rating existed.
The trailer is viewable on my blog. Yeah, it's a bootleg. No, I don't give a damn about movie piracy.
Quicktime required:
http://geekfactor.uni.cc/vids/episode3trailer.mov
For those of you who don't want to tune into the OC but want your Star Wars fix this week, I just noticed this over at starwars.com:
c ity/news20050310.html
Tune in to "60 Minutes" Sunday, March 13 on CBS for a special in-depth interview with George Lucas. The show previously profiled Lucas in 1999 during the release of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace to document the beginning of the prequels. Now that Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith heads into the final stages of post-production, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl returns to Skywalker Ranch to chat with Lucas about his family, his technological innovations and his plans after Episode III.........
You can find the rest of the article here:
http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/release/publi
-geoff313
Fool me once, shame on you
fool me twice, shame on me
fool me three times, who cares? George's career is over.
What is Beck and Star Wars doing on the O.C.?
Never saw the O.C., but I will tonight. Beck will be premiering 4 or 5 cuts from his unreleased new albums.
Off topic, I know, but I don't give a damn. This one should be worth watching.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
Apparently the Mace Windu lightsaber has the letters "BMF" engraved somewhere on it. At least that's what I've heard, anyway...
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
http://geekfactor.uni.cc.nyud.net:8090/vids/episod e3trailer.mov
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."
[blam] [blam] [blam] [blam] [blam] [blam] [blam] [blam] [blam]
- Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
Have no fear. It'll be on Quicktime's page in a day or two.
Actually, provided that there isn't too much other "bad stuff", you can say "fuck" and get a PG-13 rating, provided that it is only used once and in a non-sexual manner.
And actually, even that isn't a hard and fast rule, as it can be overturned. For instance, IIRC both Gattaca and Quiz Show had "fuck" used twice. (There are probably other examples.) Even Spaceballs, which is PG, had "fuck" in it. (Pre-PG-13 era though.)
There are only a couple explicit rules for movie ratings, and these are they:
-Any recreational drug use (I assume besides cigs and alcohol) moves you to PG-13
-Any use of the word "fuck" moves you to PG-13
-And additional use of the word "fuck", or if the first use is in a sexual manner, moves you to R
But these can be overturned even if there is enough redeeming quailities.
http://www.torrentreactor.net/view.php?id=5060754
peace in da hood!\
Direct link to torrent: http://www.torrentreactor.net/view.php?id=5060754
From others, I don't deserve the Karma so posting as a/c: small large
The torrent: heres the video
And of course, the the response from a Star Wars fan.
Lucas claims that the studio did not want "Episode IV" in the title (confusing to the audience etc), so for the initial release it was not.
However, for later prints AFTER it had become a box office smash, it was added.
They also remixed the audio at least 3 times for the initial release, depending on where it was going to be shown: newer theaters with Dolby stereo, old ones with mono, and drive-ins, so depending on where you saw it, you could have heard different things.
Lots of interesting things like that in the DVD commentaries. Not once does he apologize for fscking up our childhoods though!
Mary Shelley re-wrote Frankenstein in a smiliar way as GL. In books, this was an especially common practice. Iit is different in books because GL is preventing modern distribution of the old version, but Shelley did the same thing after she updated her text. It wasn't until after her death that the original version became available. The only reason that was even possible is becasue of the lax copyright laws on old texts.
Reality check : the dialogue in the original trilogy was monsterously bad too. Sir Alec Guiness hated his lines because they were so awful. Yet, people loved the original trilogy. Come on guys, it's supposed to be just a fun movie, don't take it too seriously.