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Water Spectacular in Episode III?

An anonymous reader writes "From StarWars.com: 'With the prequel trilogy lacking in elaborate musical numbers, Aaron McBride and the rest of the Art Department were given the task to create visuals for a new spectacular in Episode III.' Lucas didn't piss off enough people with Jar-Jar?" The link is to an image of a Mon Calamari(?) woman in some sort of performance outfit. A water spectacular ala Esther Williams, perhaps?

441 comments

  1. Water spectacular?! by bersl2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somebody cue Ackbar.

    1. Re:Water spectacular?! by Fjornir · · Score: 5, Funny
      It's a trap!

      Fuck, I'm on slashdot. Sorry.

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    2. Re:Water spectacular?! by scragz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Would not hit it. Eyes are way too big and she has webbed hands and feet.

    3. Re:Water spectacular?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd hit it, with a stick.

    4. Re:Water spectacular?! by Fjornir · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      I'd hit it. With your dick.

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    5. Re:Water spectacular?! by The+Archon+V2.0 · · Score: 2

      I remember her before she got implants. Way hotter. You'd have to be a real dumb biatch to get implants. (OMFG! Is that a cold sore? I would not hit it.)

    6. Re:Water spectacular?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Now is that "kicked into the abyss" Not Hit, or "drunk and deny" Hit? How 'bout we just cut to the chase and you give us your best friend's cell number?

    7. Re:Water spectacular?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually, this isn't much of a spoiler considered the thing was shown in the trailer released in March. The fish people are performing a type of ballet that Palpatine and Anakin attend. This is in the trailer where Palpatine says, "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural." Anakin then asks if it's possible to learn those abilities.

    8. Re:Water spectacular?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well take your scuba goggles off and put your beer ones on!

    9. Re:Water spectacular?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I would hit it, but only under three conditions:

      1) I get paid a lot,
      2) I get to use a wet suit (customized, I guess), and
      3) she doesn't sound like Ackbar.

      OK I think I just outdid myself on that one. The thought of that last one alone is scaring me.

    10. Re:Water spectacular?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Oops. Messed up the image link. Here is the correct one.

    11. Re:Water spectacular?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      no way. her knees are too sharp.

    12. Re:Water spectacular?! by NormalVisual · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      That recent Fark thread was pretty funny, wasn't it?

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    13. Re:Water spectacular?! by Sloppy · · Score: 5, Funny
      That Innsmouth-look gets me so hot.

      "Hey baby, show me why they call you a Deep One."

      "You, me, and a shoggoth. Whaddya say?"

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    14. Re:Water spectacular?! by d_p · · Score: 1

      It's a trap! /morally obligated

    15. Re:Water spectacular?! by Megane · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd hit it... with red wine and tomato sauce.

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    16. Re:Water spectacular?! by praedictus · · Score: 1

      It's the ultimate in Evil...

      ...It's Cthulhu's wife!

      Welcome to the dark side!

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    17. Re:Water spectacular?! by rasjani · · Score: 2, Funny

      that joke is so ancient!

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    18. Re:Water spectacular?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      That recent Fark thread was pretty funny, wasn't it?

      You guys talking about the one about Nika Mamic? Loved it. People arguing about STDs and linking to stuff that "proved their point" but really didn't. I mean, it's one thing to not RTFA, but not RTF Thing You're Linking To?

      The hell of it is, the parent poster's got it right - she was hotter before she got implants. A Google Image Search (safesearch off, natch) brings up a rather... er... more entertaining image set.:)

    19. Re:Water spectacular?! by MutantHamster · · Score: 0, Troll

      And 60 years ago people wouldn't hit black women because their "lips were big" or their "skin was dark." Get with the times, you racist!

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    20. Re:Water spectacular?! by DarkSarin · · Score: 1

      your sig:
      it's from "The Gods must be Crazy", no?

      I love that movie, but most have never heard of it or seen it. The other one that people haven't seen is "Animals are Beautiful People", by the same folks.

      Great flicks.

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    21. Re:Water spectacular?! by StormKrow · · Score: 1

      couldn't we just put a bag over her head? I mean after all she's ribbed for our pleasure 3:)

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    22. Re:Water spectacular?! by Atario · · Score: 1

      Ze goggles, zey do nuhsing!

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    23. Re:Water spectacular?! by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 1

      That bitch's knees are way too pointy, anyway..

  2. Spoiler Alert! by Ragin'+Asian · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The posts following this one may or may not contain spoilers. Read at your own risk.

  3. Obligatory by hyperm0g · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a trap!

    1. Re:Obligatory by TrippTDF · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you look really closely during the fight scene where Vader takes out the Jedi temple, one of the Jedis in the background is actually a Domo Kunk, and he's fighting a kitten that looks like Drew Curtis covered in mustard, making jokes about soviet Russia and profits.

    2. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I heard those roles were to be played by the Backstreet Boys.

    3. Re:Obligatory by arivanov · · Score: 4, Funny

      It definitely is. Since when do molluscs have tits and need a bikini top?

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    4. Re:Obligatory by ultranova · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Since when do molluscs have tits and need a bikini top?

      Since marketing got their hands on one.

      However, has it ever been stated that Calamari are not mammals ?

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    5. Re:Obligatory by TheoMurpse · · Score: 1

      But will Amidala come out naked and covered in hot grits? That's all I want to know!

    6. Re:Obligatory by JabberWokky · · Score: 2, Funny
      Calamari is that deep fried italian pasta, right?

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    7. Re:Obligatory by Guppy06 · · Score: 1

      Well, at least it wasn't "It's a guy!"

    8. Re:Obligatory by Megane · · Score: 1
      more like... It's a tripe!

      This has the promise of being totally surreal. Unlike Jar Jar who was just plain stupid. It still doesn't make it a good idea.

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    9. Re:Obligatory by sg3000 · · Score: 1

      > It definitely is. Since when do molluscs have tits and need a
      > bikini top?

      Lucas had a squid flying shotgun in a gigantic spaceship issuing orders as an admiral of the Rebel navy, but your suspension of disbelief ends at the boobies? It's a trap, indeed. [I never post on Fark, but it feels like I just did]

      That reminds me of when people were complaining that it was revealed in Episode II that Queen Amidala was an elected official. "But, queens aren't elected!" So suspension of disbelief covers the Force, light sabers, Wookies, Yoda, hyperspace, et al, but it doesn't cover Naboo's political structure?

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    10. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It doesn't matter. The director called for a female and breasts are one of the things that make humanoids look female. It was a simple art decision made over and over in all fantasy across all genres. Deal with it.

    11. Re:Obligatory by lederhosen · · Score: 1

      >However, has it ever been stated that Calamari are
      >not mammals

      Yes (on earth)

    12. Re:Obligatory by rikkards · · Score: 1

      um...
      Last time I checked Squid was never considered made of seminola or pasta.

    13. Re:Obligatory by provolt · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think slashdot's quality has declined as the number of hot grits posts have decreased.

    14. Re:Obligatory by WormholeFiend · · Score: 1

      and I was about to complain about sounds in space...

    15. Re:Obligatory by SA+Stevens · · Score: 1

      For surreal, you want the long kitchen scene at the beginning of the Christmas Special.

      The Jefferson Starship video was cool, though.

    16. Re:Obligatory by JabberWokky · · Score: 1

      *sigh*. -- Evan "Has panicked many a waitress by announcing how much he loves this deep fried pasta stuff when it arrives at the table ('Do I tell him?')"

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    17. Re:Obligatory by rikkards · · Score: 1

      Funny!
      Maybe I will try that next time :)

    18. Re:Obligatory by coopex · · Score: 1

      I hereby nominate that provolt's Law should be the quality of slashdot is directly proportional to the number of hot grits and naked and petrified posts.

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    19. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      that's just tits.

    20. Re:Obligatory by Tackhead · · Score: 1
      > It definitely is. Since when do molluscs have tits and need a bikini top?

      Spoken like someone who never played Star Wars Galaxies.

      Now that was a TRAP.

    21. Re:Obligatory by provolt · · Score: 1

      Sweet. I was always hoping for a law. I gratiously accept the honor and thank all the trolls who made it possible.

    22. Re:Obligatory by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 1

      However, has it ever been stated that Calamari are not mammals ?

      You probably have to assume that they are. Animals which don't care for their young for a long time don't form very advanced societies. On Earth, anyway, this means live birth and no yolk-sacs, hence mothers' milk.

      You can probably further assume that they've got some convergent evolutionary traits with squid because they became aquatic mammals. Like whales and dolphins look somewhat like fish. But whales still nurse their young, which means whales must have tits too.

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    23. Re:Obligatory by biglig2 · · Score: 1

      I had no problem with Queens being elected. It's just a title. Our elected leader in the UK is called the "First Lord of the Treasury", after all.

      I had a problem witha political process that elects a teeneager to supreme executive power.

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    24. Re:Obligatory by zero_offset · · Score: 1

      Excellent. See sig.

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  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by teiresias · · Score: 5, Funny

    and nothing says that like a musical number. Get those legs up padiwans!

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    1. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


      No, it's actually supposed to be buttery with hot grits pouring down Mon Mothma's pants.

    2. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

      As someone who couldn't care less about Star Wars, I have to say I am really loving Lucas. The more he and others bastardize Star Wars (darth potato happy meal figure!) the more pissed off and upset Star Wars gits become. It's great entertainment.

      I hope Lucas continues to screw with various Star Wars bits far into the future. Maybe redo all six episodes with some new technology and add/remove things. Maybe replace all the light sabers with walkie-talkies, ala Spielberg's ET. And if he does the next three movies, it'll give us another decade of pure enjoyment watching all these guys growing into their 50s, still bemoaning the more raping of their "childhood" by Lucas.

      Pure gold. Pure frigging gold!

    3. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I agree with this post. As a long time fan of the, far superior, Star Trek: The Next Generation franchise, I have to say that it brings me great joy watching the idiots who believe in a fantasy get upset over the desecration of their childlike vision of the universe. There is no predestined "chosen one" as the Star Wars series seems to fixate on. In reality, the people who are vaunted as the "chosen ones" are typically egomaniacs or members of the elite ruling class. These people have no interest in really helping the common man. They only pay lip service to those functions of their position. The pope is our most recent example of this fallacy. The only way for humans to evolve to the next level is for us to put away greed and fear. Once those negative traits are eliminated from humanity, we will make the next step to being a new kind of human. This is what the Star Trek franchise is all about. It is a celebration of what man CAN be. Not a child's fantasy about far away, great places with noblemen. So, for those of you with a brain, put away your childish fantasies of the Star Wars joke and instead broaden your minds to the maturity and integrity of the Star Trek universe. If you want role models, there are plenty of great ones in Trek:

      1. Captain James T. Kirk
      2. Scotty
      3. Spock
      4. Data (I relate to him the most as I really consider myself to be more a machine than a human)
      5. Captain Jean-Luc Picard
      6. Captain Katherine Janeway
      7. Tuvok

      If you model your life after any of these characters you will server yourself much better than if you try to become Anakin or Luke. Wake up people. Star Wars is a joke that only pathetic losers are into. Star Trek is for those of us who have grown up and have an open mind to reality instead of fiction.

    4. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As a long time fan of the, far superior, Star Trek: The Next Generation franchise

      Translation: You can ignore everything I have to say from here on out.

    5. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Seumas · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well, I don't like Star Trek, either. But if I had to pick a Star Trek to like, it would have been the Next Generation. Best character development, best characters, best stories. In fact, I would actually say I liked TNG, without qualifying it. But Star Trek in general just doesn't do it for me. Neither does BattleStar Galactica.

      It isn't that I'm a sci-fi snob (I'm not). I just haven't found that stuff to be my cup of tea. Likewise, I'm a huge Dr. Who fan. So... I can't afford to be a snob, reputationally. ;)

    6. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Man, how the hell did this get past the lameness filter?

    7. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by secolactico · · Score: 5, Insightful

      A Star Trek fan (Trekky? trekker?) telling Star Wars fan to go get a life.

      Only on slashdot.

      But you do have a point. Let's stop looking for role model in blockbusters or almost any movie in general.

      Star Wars is entertainment. Cool coreographed battles. Lots of special effects. Plotlines that have been done many times over.

      Let's watch and enjoy the movie. But don't go looking for the meaning of life on them (insert Monty Python joke here). Same goes for Star Trek, the Matrix and The Lord of the Rings.

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    8. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Star Trek is for those of us who have grown up and have an open mind to reality instead of fiction.

      this is to show that your entire post is a joke, right? If not, you're a nutcase.
    9. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by shiba_mac · · Score: 1

      Why oh why isn't there a moderator option that pithily sums up "your post is well written, and has grammer and stuff, but you're full of sh1t".

    10. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Dobeln · · Score: 1

      This actually made me laugh out loud - great stuff! :) Bring on the funny mods!

    11. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Haeleth · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, folks, it's "Springtime for Vader"!

    12. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks for sharing your opinion. Now you can go back to making lighsaber sounds.

    13. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by T'hain+Esh+Kelch · · Score: 0

      I hope Lucas continues to screw with various Star Wars bits far into the future. Maybe redo all six episodes with some new technology and add/remove things.

      He's already working on that. Ep. I-VI is going to be remade as CGI.

    14. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Captain Katherine Janeway as a role model - interesting you're not planning on getting laid ever.

    15. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by bosshoff · · Score: 0

      So, if I were going to model myself after Spock, should I get some cosmetic surgery on my ears? Will that help me to emulate the great one?

      Seriously, I hope this is troll bait, and not the product of actual reasoning.

    16. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by MrEd · · Score: 1

      Yes, as shown by this storyboard that was too "dark and moody" to be kept in the film.

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    17. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by rob_squared · · Score: 1

      No way do I want to be Janeway, I do *not* want to attract men. Unless she were a lesbian...hmmm...brb.

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    18. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by HoppQ · · Score: 1

      But I really want to see Star Wars 3: The Saddest Wookie.

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    19. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by coaxial · · Score: 4, Funny

      Where's Quark? Nothing epitimizes rising above greed and fear more than Quark. I know he's not human, but I relate to him because I too like to be surrounded by naked women chewing my food and spitting it in my my mouth.

    20. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Doctor_Jest · · Score: 1

      I actually found TNG simplistic and overly preachy. It was what Rodenberry wanted to do with the original, but the networks wanted more violence and conflict in general. According to him, they wanted "Wagon Train in space". Which is not such a bad thing, considering the direction he took TNG. But like you said... I am not a Trek-nut either. I wanted to be entertained, and rarely did TNG do that for me. Heck, the cheesy original series had more entertaining moments... mostly courtesy of James "bang it if it's female" Kirk. :)

      If I had to pick a good Trek series besides the original, it'd have to be Deep Space 9. It was slow to start off, but once it got its groove, it was a highly entertaining show and had some decent elements in it without trying to preach to me the evils of fossil fuels and totally wimping out at the first sign of an alien lifeboat throwing pebbles at a Galaxy class starship.

      I mean honestly. "Let's negotiate." - Picard. "They're shootin!" - Worf. "We surrender!" - Picard. :)

      I know it wasn't all that bad, but I liked at least ONCE in a while to violate the prime directive towards violence, rather than some sappy moralistic whatnot.

      I'm not a Sci-Fi snob either.. I find most hardcore Sci Fi to be crap. Perhaps a good afternoon's reading once in a while, but most of the time, it's not.

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    21. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by king-manic · · Score: 1

      This is what the Star Trek franchise is all about. It is a celebration of what man CAN be

      You forgot to include a collary, it's

      "It is a celebration of what man CAN be if we were all had frontal lobotomies, most laws of physics didn't apply, technology could do everything we need of it, small field deployed changes to hardware can drastically change their behavior and abilities, all other important species are humanoid, and people in red shirts who have the rank ensign always die within 4 minutes of appearing with a main character"

      Given those collaries star trek is predicting the future.

      also if you modeled your life after those characters you'd be a well groomed, self-rightous prick thats speaks like he's doing a bad play and would be shunned by all other human beings except fellow trek nerds.

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    22. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by hazah · · Score: 1

      Every reply I've seen to this is lame, and totally misses the point. Fantasy is fantasy, trek or wars. However, startreck focuses on humanity in a fantastic world, where as starwars is an epic set in one. The characters in startreck simply end up being much more human then they are in starwars. Dismissing startreck on the basis that it too is fantasy does not disprove the point the parent made.

    23. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And if he does the next three movies, it'll give us another decade of pure enjoyment watching all these guys growing into their 50s, still bemoaning the more raping of their "childhood" by Lucas.

      Better yet, they'll be paying for it too. Just look at how many people hated episode one and still went to see episode two, still bought the DVDs, etc. Or the Matrix trilogy.

    24. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "I agree with this post. As a long time asperger syndrome sufferer, I have to say it brings me great joy to watch the bemoaning of other nerds over a fantasy topic that I can make trite arguments against based on some twisted vision of what is and isn't "correct" behavior for human society."

    25. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      stfu

    26. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      should I get some cosmetic surgery on my ears?

      you so don't get it.

      you'll never be a vulcan

    27. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


      Let's watch and enjoy the movie. But don't go looking for the meaning of life on them (insert Monty Python joke here). Same goes for Star Trek, the Matrix and The Lord of the Rings.

      The Meaning of life is not revealed in either Star Trek or the Matrix.

      Tolkien, on the other hand, pretty damn well exposed Christian theology through his portrayal of good and evil in LOTR.

      1) An item whose temptation was power over enemies, and whose cost was a loss in the recognition of good and evil. (See the Old Testament, where the Ark of the Covenant, rather than being venerated and safeguarded, was used as a magic weapon of war.)

      2) People who "use" the ring end up being "used" by it. This paradigm is almost as powerful as Foustus' exchange with Mephistopholes - where Meph says he comes immediately when summoned, not to serve, but to entice and gather the soul who summoned him by feigning service long enough to secure his possession.

      3) True and false friends (Sam, Smeagol) (Jude Thaddeus, Judas Iscariot)

      4) An unfit sub-hero whose position must be usurped (Bilbo Baggins) (bad popes)*

      5) A falsely ill king, betrayed and poisoned by the man whose trused position was ill-used. (Herod and Herodias)

      *Most popes were respectable, and some were great, but there were a few awful ones as well)

    28. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree with this post. As a long time fan of the, far superior, Star Trek: The Next Generation franchise, I have to say that it brings me great joy watching the idiots who believe in a fantasy get upset over the desecration of their childlike vision of the universe. There is no predestined "chosen one" as the Star Wars series seems to fixate on. In reality, the people who are vaunted as the "chosen ones" are typically egomaniacs or members of the elite ruling class. These people have no interest in really helping the common man. They only pay lip service to those functions of their position. The pope is our most recent example of this fallacy.

      A) IHBT - by a post marked +5.

      B) Name other men who:

      1) took a bullet, visited their would-be assissin in prison and forgave him,

      2) travelled around the world speaking for justice and peace,

      3) refused to take the meds for parkinsons' disease because it negatively affected thought thought patterns necessary to do (2,4,5,6),

      4) continued writing and talking at great bodily pain, until he died

      5) Lead and inspired, as far as is humanly possible, a body of one billion people

      6) Openly Challenged Russia to abandon athiestic Communism and declared it antichristian (even the USA hasn't _banned_ the communist party; its simply disfavored)

      7) Openly retracted condemnations of persons from previous pontiffs and apologized for the wayward actions of predecessors.

      he list continues...

    29. Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Translation of the translating poster's intent: "I am a faggot ass Star Wars fan who can't stand being taken to task for what I am and what I believe in. Therefore I will berate the intellectually superior Star Trek fan to make myself feel better and look better. Ahhhh... now I feel better about my faggery. No really.

  6. Proof by CypherXero · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Further proof that George Lucas has lost his mind...actually, he can stop with the proof now, this is like the 200th thing so far...

    1. Re:Proof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Crazy he is not! Lost your mind you have!

    2. Re:Proof by fgl · · Score: 1

      Anyone else laugh at the recent interview where he commented that he had succeded enough in his life so far, that he could afford to fail for the rest of his life...

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    3. Re:Proof by ImaLamer · · Score: 1

      omg... quit bitching!

      Let's see the movie first.

      Of course, I predict the next Slashdot meme to be "WTFM".

    4. Re:Proof by Golias · · Score: 1

      He's been re-using that line ever since releasing "Howard the Duck."

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    5. Re:Proof by Karma+Farmer · · Score: 2, Insightful

      omg... quit bitching! Let's see the movie first.

      I saw "Phantom Menace" and I immediately wanted my $10 back. Why the hell would I ever give Lucas another dime as long as I live?

      The movie may or may not suck. I assure you I will never know for myself.

      (Here's my prediction -- if you paid money in the theaters to see Clones, you will probably pay to see this one too. If you skipped clones, you'll skip this one too. You may or may not enjoy watching this movie. You will eat too much popcorn.)

    6. Re:Proof by edbulldog · · Score: 1

      High Culture From The Depths and a Musical... you know how hard is it going to be to make Cthulhu overlook this?

    7. Re:Proof by Dobeln · · Score: 1

      I got to see Clones for free in the theatre. Let's just say I was happy it was free.

    8. Re:Proof by dimator · · Score: 1

      Hey dude, I'm just as pissed at the last two movies as the next guy. But watching these movies is just not optional anymore. If you want to be the only guy at the office (or dorm) sitting by yourself, clueless as to what everyone else is chatting about, you can skip it.

      But for me, I see it as a social tax, something you have to do...

      Damn, I bet movie studios love chumps like me.

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    9. Re:Proof by phoenix321 · · Score: 1

      The "helicopter" assault at the end of Clones was vietnam-film style. Cue "Ride of the Valkyries" and it would have been a not-so-bad reference to a great movie.

      That scene brought me a fair bit of enjoyment and made me forget the 5 euros I spend on that film. Stromtroopers doing the Air Cav thang, that was so damn funny I could barely hold on to my seat. :)

    10. Re:Proof by Hast · · Score: 1

      I saw it again at a friends on DVD and skipped to that part. I think the reason it was kind of exiting is because you were bored to tears with the Sound of Music part.

      Anything that was action became very appreciated.

      Same goes for the Yoda battle.

      The only good Star Wars stories I've seen the last years has been the KOTOR games. Those are actually good.

    11. Re:Proof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Honest... Clones was not LOTR-awesome or anything like that, but it was much better than Menace.

    12. Re:Proof by netsharc · · Score: 1

      What sort of a weird-ass office/dorm do you work/live in? Only the Uber of Ubergeeks would still be raving about Star Wars after the last 2 films, and if you happen to socialize with them, you need to mingle with "normal" people more.

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    13. Re:Proof by SA+Stevens · · Score: 1

      Well, I'm a nerd. I don't participate in those sorts of discussions very often.

      I don't consider it being clueless. The clueless people are the ones who follow the herd along like sheep.

    14. Re:Proof by Doctor_Jest · · Score: 1

      Eh... it's just more illustration that Lucas is trying to take a story and gear it towards kids. I'm not entirely angry that he does things this way, but I do think the last two movies have been about how much CGI one can cram into a scene.

      It's like the first time you figure out how to do something in Photoshop and you make pictures with 1000 effects exactly the same... :) It's as if he has found you can put CGI into something and make it look realistic, so let's add the kitchen sink!

      No doubt the visuals are stunning, but at the expense of moving the story along, I think that has made Lucas lose his way.

      George, (because I KNOW he reads Slashdot)....

      Let ILM do the thinking about CGI. You concentrate on the story and see what they come up with. :) Don't visit every 20 seconds asking "hey, can we put in a 500 foot fish in this scene? You know, just swimming by..." And don't write your story around what you can put in the CGI scenes. Don't spend 3 days making engine sounds unique for the Pod Racers.

      Of course they're going to say "yes", George. You're their boss. :)

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  7. It's like.. by OmgTEHMATRICKS · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's like Lucas, Michael Jackson, and the guys who did the Matrix Reloaded rave got together and brainstormed. If that's even physically possible.

    1. Re:It's like.. by RabidMoose · · Score: 0

      Now now, it wasn't Matrix Reloaded that was bad, it was Revolutions. Reloaded set up all kinds of good things that Revolutions never delivered on. Offtopic, I know, I know, but it's still about bastardizing formerly good franchises.

    2. Re:It's like.. by WormholeFiend · · Score: 1

      I remember reading somewhere that one of the guys who did Matrix isnt a guy anymore

    3. Re:It's like.. by jackbird · · Score: 1

      No.

  8. Better obligatory by FuturePastNow · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a boob!

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  9. Imperial Skinny Dipping by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's not a moon!

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    1. Re:Imperial Skinny Dipping by metlin · · Score: 0


      No, those are two moons. :-p

      (sorry, couldn't resist)

  10. Prior Art Ripoff by Barkmullz · · Score: 3, Funny


    That is the most blatant example of a prior art rip-off I have even seen...

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    1. Re:Prior Art Ripoff by jabberwocky_rt · · Score: 1

      This has to be a joke...

    2. Re:Prior Art Ripoff by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

      Missing tits

  11. How do they do this? by Douglas+Simmons · · Score: 1

    What kind of software is used for high budget special effects like those seen in the latest Star Wars and well every other movie? What OS, and if Linux, is Blender capable of this?

    1. Re:How do they do this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm not sure about Episode III, but much of the 3D animation on the second episode was done with SoftImage under the Linux platform.

    2. Re:How do they do this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
      Well, if you need to ask you can't afford it, so I'm guessing this is curiosity. The companies that make this software will make a custom installation for the needs of one moviehouse -- and often a single movie. The price of the software will include n techs working for you throughout the life of the project, training for your artists, and so on... Basically hiring a software team to complement your software team to and work subordinate to the true artists.

      Most often you'll be looking at Mac workstations (a recent change from SGI) and linux for the renderfarm (often SGI in the past as well, but SGI had less of a stranglehold outside of the workstation).

      Yes, you could do this with Linux and Blender provided you had a full-time development team to tweak Blender to do exactly what you want, a big enough cluster to render a single preview frame fast enough that the artist doesn't loose their rythm, and another full-time development team working on the tools to move the objects (plot the arc for the ball when it's thrown, and so on).

    3. Re:How do they do this? by albieomoss · · Score: 5, Informative

      I love Blender to death but it is by no means capable of the kind of effects you are seeing now in films. I'd say most movie special effects are done in Maya right now. The MEL scripting makes it very easy to program custom behavior and huge crowd scenes like those in The Lord of the Rings. Some studios use Softimage|XSI, some, like Pixar, use custom software developed in house to work on their computer systems. But I'm just talking about 3D animation packages, half of it is the compositing software. As far as OS goes it varies. You'll probably see a lot of Irix and UNIX boxes. Lots of clusters. Render Farms.

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    4. Re:How do they do this? by teknomage1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Actually only the texture artists use macs, even at Pixar. Most animation and effects work is done on either linux or windows based pcs. Remember the graphics card in your standard power mac is still nothing compared to the really highend 3d accelerators used in professional studios. Though this may change as time passes.

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    5. Re:How do they do this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      From Dictionary.com:

      Loose:

      (def. 9)Lacking conventional moral restraint in sexual behavior.

      Lose:

      To be unsuccessful in retaining possession of; mislay: He's always losing his car keys.

    6. Re:How do they do this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Actually as I understand it the graphics card isn't really used much beyond its ability to display a bitmap on the screen, and the 'really highend 3d accelerators' aren't used in professional studios because their output is shit compared to what the renderfarm produces, and when the modeller is tracking down the problem with the knee joint on this model in scene x the output that he needs is the output from the renderfarm and not a useless simulated output from an accelerator.

      When I took my tour, I asked "Why macs?" and the man said "Why not?"... The interesting part all happens in the renderfarm, the workstation is just a rather smart terminal. The answer was actually more involved and had to do with getting consistent colours between the renderfarm, the 'printers' (oh what printers! I have never seen such things before in my life!) and the monitor of the worker.

    7. Re:How do they do this? by J.+Random+Luser · · Score: 1

      My guess is it'll be virus ridden, and crash often.
      The Mon Calamari speak Basic...

    8. Re:How do they do this? by The+boojum · · Score: 4, Informative

      Often some combination of Maya on the front-end with lots of custom scripts is used to generate RIB data which is rendered by a RenderMan interface compliant renderer. You won't get PRMan (Pixar's implementation) very cheaply, but there some other good implentations. You may still be able to dig up a copy of the Blue Moon Rendering Tools (BMRT) somewhere. RenderDotC has a resolution limited evaluation version. There's also Aqsis and which is GPL, but I haven't used it so I can't really speak on its quality or how complete it is. Pixie is another GPL renderer which seems pretty cool. All of them can run on Linux.

      Part of the reason that RenderMan renderers are so popular is that they let you write custom shader scripts which they interpret to shade and deform the geometry. It's kind of the equivalent of GPU pixel and vertex shaders (which are partly inspired by RenderMan, by the way.)

      If you want books, Advanced RenderMan is excellent. (My copy is well worn.) The RenderMan Repository has some examples and some good basic information on RenderMan. They also have a nice collection of PDF's of the course notes from the RenderMan SIGGRAPH courses over the years. Those typically have chapters by folks from the studios describing how they accomplished certain effects. I highly recommend it for getting the flavor of the the thing. Lastly, there's the RenderMan spec itself from Pixar, though I certainly wouldn't recommend it as an introduction to all this.

      My suggestion to start trying this stuff out would be too Google for RIB export scripts/plugins for Blender (I know they exists, but I don't use Blender), grab one of the GPL renderers out there and pick up a copy of Advanced RenderMan to start learning the shading language. Good luck!

    9. Re:How do they do this? by The+boojum · · Score: 1

      The bit about graphics cards not being needed was my first thought when I read his post. But what I think he meant was that they need the graphics cards for interactively previewing scenes in the modeller and such. Though I'll agree with you that they're doing enough wacky displacement mapping and such that they really need the renderer output anyway.

    10. Re:How do they do this? by Cougem · · Score: 1

      Jar Jar was CGI? Damn, I thought they just got some foreign kid with ADD and put in him some piece of shit suit.

    11. Re:How do they do this? by OverlordQ · · Score: 1

      WETA used Maya? I thought WETA did their own software for LotR as well?

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    12. Re:How do they do this? by dangitman · · Score: 1
      What OS, and if Linux, is Blender capable of this?

      No, but Bender is if you give him enough martinis and hookers.

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    13. Re:How do they do this? by FunkyChild · · Score: 1

      Capable of what, exactly?

      Modelling and texturing? Sure. Especially for sub-d character modelling, Blender's toolset is extremely capable. The LSCM UV unwrapping is arguably better than in many of the big 'high end' apps - some people have been bringing it into their pipeline for that feature alone.

      Character animation? Technically yes, but can be very difficult and inflexible, so practically, probably not. A big rewrite of Blender's animation tools is planned for an upcoming version, after which, the answer will a lot closer to yes, but that remains to be seen. Having said that, it held up fine for the previs animation on Spiderman 2.

      Rendering? No. Blender's renderer is fantastic and very fast for video work, but doesn't have nearly the same sort of flexibility and robustness as you'd get with something like PRMan or Mental Ray, that these guys doing Star Wars would be using. On the other hand, there are a few Blender -> Renderman exporters in various states of completion, and if you had the resources, it shouldn't be difficult develop these further or write your own.

      Effects such as particles, dynamics, etc? No. Blender's particles are rather limited and don't provide enough programmable control for the hard-core cases. Blender has no dynamics system yet, though the next release will include soft body dynamics. Since it's in development, it remains to be seen how robust it will be, the tests so far have been promising for everyday work, but still probably won't compete with a fully specialised system with teams of TDs tweaking it. I don't think it's targeting that audience anyway - more of an artist's tool.

    14. Re:How do they do this? by brainstyle · · Score: 4, Informative
      Weta used Maya for LOTR quite a bit actually - read all about it here if you want.

      You may be thinking of Massive, which was written by devlopers at Weta to drive the crowd behaviour in Maya, and has since been spun off to its own product.

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    15. Re:How do they do this? by snorklewacker · · Score: 1

      WETA wrote MASSIVE, which is a system for simulating the behavior and mechanics of crowds. By no means did they invent their own modeler or renderer, which would have been an, er, massive duplication of effort.

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    16. Re:How do they do this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > What OS, and if Linux, is Blender capable of this?

      Technically, Blender is capable of doing any model at all, including ones with millions of polygons. However, the undo function in blender is fairly primitive, copying the ENTIRE model for each undo step. This is not only slow, it eats memory like there's no tomorrow. This can lead to much anguish and rending of garments among artists.

      Its animation system is also not quite up to the standards of SoftImage|XSI and the like. Neither the built-in renderer nor yafray are up to snuff either, so you'd have to use an external pipeline, none of those know about blender models, so you'd have to invest time and money to do it. A studio like LucasArts and ILM could probably manage to beat a system into shape around Blender, but it'd be a pretty big investment.

      Blender's a fine modeler for games and pre-production stuff like storyboards (Spider Man 2 used it for that purpose) but it's just not designed for movie work.

    17. Re:How do they do this? by jackbird · · Score: 3, Informative
      Most big shops largely use Maya, but not as much more than a plugin loader for custom code that handles most aspects of the pipeline, and tons of custom MEL to handle routine tasks, so it's hard to say with a straight face that most film effects shots are "done in" any package. They'll also split a shot between several applications/renderers sometimes, though, to get the strengths of each (a few shots in the Incredibles used 3ds max with the Brazil renderer, for example, for generating matte paintings - and this is at Pixar, the home of Renderman).

      Smaller shops might use more (but still not entirely) off-the-shelf Maya, XSI, max, Houdini, Lightwave, etc. seats, to get the job done.

      I think very few places use blender at all, however(other than the FX house that wrote most of it) because its UI and workflow are so very different than most other 3D packages, which makes it harder to throw extra artists at a particularly big job or farm out work.

      You also see less and less IRIX around, as the SGI hardware is becoming hopelessly outdated. Hence the interest in Linux by the big studios.

  12. Re:Mon Calamar by Fjornir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would a humanoid squid have breasts?

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  13. Even more frightening... by Lars+T. · · Score: 3, Funny

    The "previous image" shows a vehicle with wheels.

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    1. Re:Even more frightening... by game+kid · · Score: 1

      Worst part is it's called a Juggernaut. Star Wars might not be very original, but here there's prior art to spare, both in the wheels and the 'naut. Lucas, you fail it here. The musical number and Anakin->Vader transformation process better be good.

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    2. Re:Even more frightening... by flyingsquid · · Score: 1
      The "previous image" shows a vehicle with wheels.

      Wheels... and breasts!

    3. Re:Even more frightening... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I get a big kick out of people who think that history began with their childhood.

      Clue: "Juggernaut" is a word which pre-dates Marvel comics by at least a good five minutes or so. Maybe even longer, I couldn't say, since I was born in the 60s.

    4. Re:Even more frightening... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks for the explanation, I was wondering what the grandparent was talking about, since I had never heard of that character (so I didn't know what picture to look at). For a little more info, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggernaut I'm feeling lazy so I didn't look for anything else, but that's enough, I'd say.

    5. Re:Even more frightening... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Even more frightening...
      The "previous image" shows a vehicle with wheels.


      what's really more frightening... is that while you all rake good ol' george through the coals, you will plop down your 8 bucks to stand in line to watch the movie in the theatre, and another 30 bucks on the 'ultra platinum premium edition' dvd next year. i haven't seen ep1, ep2, nor will i bother with ep3 or ep7-8-9 when they are released.

      i did see the original three, the first time they were in the theatres. once, and that was enough. i was a kid, i didnt know better.

  14. You want a spoiler... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fine. Save your money, I already know it's going to suck.

    1. Re:You want a spoiler... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's going to be like The Fifth Element, minus Bruce Willis, plus more bad cgi, without the excuse of really being French.

  15. Re:Mon Calamar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I always thought it was funny that they named an aquatic race the calamari. Kind of disrupts my suspension of disbelief. Although that was already pretty strained.

  16. OK by kamapuaa · · Score: 1

    The dancing aliens fit into "Return of the Jedi" pretty well, at least in the original version (the muppet playing harmonica in the revised version was too goofy). So it could work, who knows?

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    1. Re:OK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It'd be funny if the scene was a bunch of cute dancing aliens, then Anaken jumped in and massacered them.

    2. Re:OK by Nos. · · Score: 1

      Yes, but the closest thing to a recognizeable "female" was not something most men would have found attractive... its obvious this is meant to replace Princess Lea in the slave outfit.

    3. Re:OK by TheoMurpse · · Score: 1

      I think it's really meant to replace Oola, the Twi'lek dancer who gets her shit ruined by a rancor in Jedi.

    4. Re:OK by AndyChrist · · Score: 1

      I thought it was a little annoying in the original....it was PHYSICALLY PAINFUL TO WATCH in the special edition.

  17. That suit's about as useful as. . . by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . .tits on a squid.

    KFG

    1. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 4, Funny

      Interesting to note that you can dress up anything with a pair breasts and it becomes sexy. Sort of. There's this terrible rending sound as I try to process the conflicting urges of repulsion and attraction.

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    2. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 1

      Umm... breasts are mammary glands... I.E., belonging to mammals. What are they doing on a fish? Does some Star Wars Whiz care to elaborate?

    3. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Yeah! And why are they speaking English??? They're FISH!!!

      Get a grip man, it's a movie.

    4. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      It looks kinda like Jar Jar in drag.

      I think he should give the new thing big eyes and a small, lippy mouth at least. There are a lot of interesting things to do with a human body before going to the squid look. Give a humanoid female 3 breasts and 3 legs (making 2 vaginas!). Loco Lucas missed a great opportunity to play with the human female's body. The fish/squid look is not going to turn very many people on, but even non-SW fans will pay to see 3 breasts and 2 vagies on a humanoid.

    5. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Golias · · Score: 2, Funny

      Interesting to note that you can dress up anything with a pair breasts and it becomes sexy

      Spoken like somebody who obviously hasn't seen my Halloween pictures from last year!

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    6. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 1

      I just think it's an interesting social commentary that usually when a Western artist attempts to depict an attractive female of a fictious alien species, they will do so by giving them the body shape of an attractive human female, but then add fins, blue skin, forehead ridges, et cetera.

    7. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How is this social commentary? Are you claiming non-Western cultures don't ever depict anthromorphized animals?

    8. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by werewolf1031 · · Score: 1
      . . .tits on a squid.

      Aaaand there we have it. The new catch-phrase for all that is pretentious and pointless.

      "Tits on a squid." Couldn't have said it better myself.

    9. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by mysticwhiskey · · Score: 1

      It really rolls off the tongue, heh. I like it.

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    10. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 1

      I'm claiming that non-Western cultures that non-Western cultures that do not value torso-shape and breast-size as greatly as we do would be less likely to add them to their depictions.

    11. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Xyrus · · Score: 1

      Squid have something like a hundred hatchlings.

      Shouldn't she have like, 100 boobs?

      (No this isn't a serious question.)

      ~X~

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    12. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by ShortSpecialBus · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Would you call japanese anime porn Western or Eastern? I haven't seen much of it, but it would appear that every alien/whatever has breasts the size of most people's heads.

      I don't think it's limited to western at all.

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    13. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Art+Tatum · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh my GOD! We're talking about breasts here, man! Who cares whether they're supposed to be there or not? Take your breasts where you find them and don't ask questions. Where are your priorities?

    14. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by bigt_littleodd · · Score: 1
      "Oh my GOD! We're talking about breasts here, man! Who cares whether they're supposed to be there or not? Take your breasts where you find them and don't ask questions. Where are your priorities?

      Spoken like a true /. virgin.

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    15. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We're talking about breasts here, man! Who cares whether they're supposed to be there or not? Take your breasts where you find them and don't ask questions.

      Paging Art Tatum. Paging Art Tatum. James Coco is waiting for you in the jacuzzi suite.

    16. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      this is definitely not exclusively western. have you seen the female figurines that have been discovered all over the world from the Old Stone Age? They are universally large-breasted and wide-hipped, and were among the earliest art to be created by humans. Fixation of the female figure (especially breasts and, in pre-industrialized societies, hips) is universally human.

    17. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Art+Tatum · · Score: 1

      Touché.

    18. Re:That suit's about as useful as. . . by Art+Tatum · · Score: 1

      There are so few of us, somebody has to stand up and defend the cause...

  18. No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do all female aliens have boobs?

    1. Re:No imagination by NitsujTPU · · Score: 5, Insightful

      For that matter, why are they humanoid.

      What if there were just giant planets inhabitted by slime-mold, or intelligent creatures that just didn't give a damn, and so they never developed useful society?

      Where the hell is Planet Hollywood!?!

      Why do these creatures want to form governments anyway. With drastically different evolutionary timelines, one creature has propably evolved past war, another so evolved that all of the others seem more like suitable pets, another so unevolved that it's unaware that the others exist.

      Why do people in the future right with light sabers?

      Why do people in the future fight in person, if there are autonomous robots capable of doing so?

      Why do space ships need pilots at the helm rather than computers?

      Why is future technology so bad it always needs fixing?

      Why does C3P0 handle machinery with his hands, rather than some sort of networking?

      When R2D2 connects with machinery, why isn't it wirelessly? Why does it require physical manipulation? For that matter, when he's in Cloud City, why does he move so slowly when hacking into that computer, how many bits could he really encode a second through physical manipulation?

      Probably, because it makes a better movie. My bet is that, if we ever talk to life somewhere else in the universe, that they are literally nothing like us. It won't be humanoids in space suits breathing nitrogen... it will be giant amoebas in polymer bags that prevent them from splashing apart in the low atmosphere of the earth.

    2. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not the future. If you paid ANY attention to Star Wars, you'd notice that every movie begins with:

      "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...."

    3. Re:No imagination by NitsujTPU · · Score: 1

      Oh, right, it's in the past.

    4. Re:No imagination by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 1

      Why are all the intelligent aliens humanoid? Because it's Lucas.

    5. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You realize this is an entertainment and not meant as a realistic look at the possible development of an intergalactic galaxy, right? Relax!

    6. Re:No imagination by Cryptnotic · · Score: 4, Funny

      Probably, because it makes a better movie.

      Bingo!

      Don't you feel silly for typing all that?

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    7. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      why humanoid?

      Bipedal, forward knees, two additional appendages known as arms, they walk upright, a pair of eyes and nostrils and finally...

      *drum roll*

      BREASTS!

      All seemingly in similar places as you'd find on a human

    8. Re:No imagination by NitsujTPU · · Score: 1

      Nah, the post before me asked why the women have breasts...

      Personally, if I wrote a movie with slime-mold aliens... the female slime mold would form into humanoid form with perfect bodies to welcome their new male overlords.

    9. Re:No imagination by LordEd · · Score: 1

      Funny, i don't remember seeing any on the alien queen in Aliens.

    10. Re:No imagination by Fractal+Dice · · Score: 1

      Why do all female aliens have boobs?

      It's for the same reason that they all speak english: some things are just translated into a form you can understand.

      ( It's the actual interplanet-kissing getting past the censors that boggles my mind - if you stop and think about it genetically, it's a step further than portraying beastiality ).

    11. Re:No imagination by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      Why do all female aliens have boobs?

      How about this for a twist: The alien *is* boobs. A pair of boobs waddles up and nipples start talking, or perhaps squirt milk to spell words......................nah!

    12. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How do you know the ones without boobs aren't female? For that matter, how do you know she is?

    13. Re:No imagination by Greyfox · · Score: 1

      And only two boobs at that. I can imagine that if humans had litters instead of usually twins at most, that four or more boobs would be the norm. Why not some alien species that has boobs everywhere?

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    14. Re:No imagination by Sloppy · · Score: 5, Funny
      Why do all female aliens have boobs?
      So you have something to look at while you're talking to them?
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    15. Re:No imagination by bar-agent · · Score: 1

      Why do all anthropomorphic ducks get to bone Lea Thompson?

      Preach on. Howard stole the woman that should have been mine, yo. So very very unfair.

      Good movie though. I don't know it gets such a bum rap.

      (and yes, I edited the quote, big whoop)

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    16. Re:No imagination by werewolf1031 · · Score: 3, Insightful
      Because in Earth-based biology females traditionally care for the young (at least in mammalian organisms). So, breasts are required for feeding the young. And since these "aliens" are invented by Earthly mammals, well, you get the idea.

      But what I'd like to know, is why the hell to egg-laying aliens in sci-fi have breasts?! On Earth, egg-laying organisms don't nerse their young! WTF?!

    17. Re:No imagination by goldmeer · · Score: 1

      I seem to recall that in Ep4 (the original one) in Jabba's palace, there were 2 dancing girls. One was green and was dropped into the Rancor(?) pit. (2 breasts on her) There was another one that I think had 3 pars of breasts. (yeah a 6 pack) Either that or she was just very large and had more rolls than a buffet.

    18. Re:No imagination by myowntrueself · · Score: 1

      "My but this female fish alien has shapely breasts.."

      "They're not breasts, they're arrhgghhhhh nooooo!!!!"

      The moral of this story is 'Never assume that chest-bumps fulfil the same function across species'.

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    19. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      On Earth, egg-laying organisms don't nerse their young! WTF?!


      Here's one that does...

    20. Re:No imagination by Dobeln · · Score: 2, Insightful

      "Why do these creatures want to form governments anyway. With drastically different evolutionary time lines, one creature has probably evolved past war, another so evolved that all of the others seem more like suitable pets, another so unevolved that it's unaware that the others exist." Evolution isn't some story of linear progress in line with values that are currently fashionable. Worth keeping in mind. A propensity for violence is adaptive in some environments, maladaptive in other circumstances.

    21. Re:No imagination by skaffen42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually the platypus lays eggs and feeds its young with breasts. So it does happen on Earth.

      Then again, if you have to use the platypus to justify anything you have probably gone too far...

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    22. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      For that matter, why are they humanoid.


      Thank you.

      The common sense of it all brings tears to my eyes!
    23. Re:No imagination by ozbird · · Score: 1

      It's easier to tell the sexes apart than with dwarves and their beards?

    24. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "it will be giant amoebas in polymer bags that prevent them from splashing apart in the low atmosphere of the earth."

      Oh, bull. I'm tired of seeing stuff like this almost as much as I'm tired of seeing humanoid aliens.

      Human-level intelligence is not useful - and would therefore not be the result of normal evolutionary development - without the ability to physically manipulate tools. It's no accident that we're at the top of the list in intelligence, ahead of the dolphin, the octopus, and the parrot. (The octopus probably has enough ability to manipulate, but no materials that lend themselves to creating tools).

      That's not going to be any different with any alien form of life. There's only so much intelligence can do for you if all you've got to work with in the competition for food, water, shelter and reproduction is your body. Tool use - and tool creation - takes things to a whole new level. An amoeba or other basically shapeless organism can't manipulate tools, and would therefore not have any advantage from advanced intelligence.

      Assuming I'm wrong, and an oversized amoeba developed real intelligence, it still wouldn't be able to do anything to leave its own planet or even communicate off-planet, so unless we bring the polymer bags to them, don't expect to be talking to them anytime in the next few millenia.

    25. Re:No imagination by M1FCJ · · Score: 1

      Most of the bird familia would disagree.

    26. Re:No imagination by Al+Al+Cool+J · · Score: 1
      My bet is that, if we ever talk to life somewhere else in the universe, that they are literally nothing like us.
      Disagree. Chances are, any aliens we come across will be more technologically advanced by a few hundred million years. At that level of robotics, nanotech, and bioengineering, they could take any physical form they want. And if they wanted to interact with us humanoids, in our humanoid environment, then I'm betting they'd chose to do so as humanoids. (one way to make first contact with primitive humans in a non-threatening way would be to come as small humanoids, maybe with features like a human baby -- large eyed and hairless, not unlike the Greys of UFO lore; as well, faking a spaceship crash so as to appear especially harmless and in need of assistance might be a good way to gauge our reactions; at least that's what I'd do if I was an alien and it was up to me)
    27. Re:No imagination by g00set · · Score: 2, Funny

      OK...I will take a shot.

      For that matter, why are they humanoid.

      Sexual attraction to the characters in the movie may increase the likelyhood they will be liked. Although Alf may prove this to be untrue.

      What if there were just giant planets inhabitted by slime-mold, or intelligent creatures that just didn't give a damn, and so they never developed useful society?

      While it may possible that all *giant* planets have nothing other than slime-mold it does not eliminate all other forms of intelligent life.

      It will be giant amoebas in polymer bags that prevent them from splashing apart in the low atmosphere of the earth.

      You know what I think I am going to stop here. It has just occured to me that you are calling Hollwood's portrayal of outer space life silly while expecting us to accept your vision of intelligent slime-mold beatnick overlords who, despite their intelligence, want to do nothing but sit around all day and "just didn't give a damn."

      Pass it to the left man.

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    28. Re:No imagination by amanaplanacanalpanam · · Score: 1

      Why do people in the future right with light sabers?

      Why do people in the future fight in person, if there are autonomous robots capable of doing so?

      Why is future technology so bad it always needs fixing?


      Ah but remember, Star Wars is not the future, but rather from "a long, long time ago".

    29. Re:No imagination by Yodalf · · Score: 1

      Meet this new word: platypus

      Please get to know each other and have fun!

    30. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If it's any relation to the spiny anteater (which is the other egg-laying mammal), they don't even have fully developed mammary glands, just patches of specialized sweat glands (so far still the same) that don't even have teats (there's the difference), they just secrete milk that the young lick off the skin.

      Something about them proved resilient enough that such an early branch of the species manages to survive to this day. Worth investigating I suppose.

    31. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That should end with a '!' not a '?', but nice call.

    32. Re:No imagination by op51n · · Score: 1

      I read something rather interesting about why other aliens would likely be humanoids. That is, intelligent life.

      The way evolution works, intelligent life would most likely be top of the food chain. To have fast visionary response and good stereo hearing, eyes and ears would be close to the brain. Mouth and anus make most sense in pretty much everything animal you've seen at opposite ends of a torso.
      More than two legs is a bit redundant by a certain point of evolution too. Any more than four and an animal can't travel as fast on land. Hands would be fairly important...
      That and unless thay have formed telepathic modes of communication, they would most likely have some form of speech.

      I was always convinced intelligent life could be well, anything. But having read this it all makes some kind of sense.

    33. Re:No imagination by tryone · · Score: 1

      Waddaya mean, in the future? Which part of "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" did you not understand?

    34. Re:No imagination by CrazyTalk · · Score: 1

      Because the technology is all based on what was known at the beginning of the 1970s, for starters. Ep. IV set the benchmark there. Actually the robots are really based on the 1920s vision of the future, since C3PO is a ripoff/homage to the robot from "Metropolis"

    35. Re:No imagination by blair1q · · Score: 1

      Because sci-fi fans have arms that reach both their wallets and their penises.

    36. Re:No imagination by supaflah · · Score: 1

      Actually none of your comments make good sense. I'll give you one example of why material/touch/physical interfaces /mechanisms beat electronics- the Russian SATAN ballistic rokets.(search for "soviet rocket pneumatic")
      Their navigation system is pneumatic, not electronic.
      Yes, clockwork navigates those rockets that the USA will never hit down.

      You can't get a physical mechanism to fail with a simple EMP blast.

      So having pilots instead of computers makes good sense as far as fail safe.
      So does having robots interact with panels by touch.
      1)Robots are made to function in a human world. It is easier to have one control interface (human touch based) than 2 separate interfaces. Again, mechanical interfaces are less prone to failure than electronic.
      And we all know that direct signal communication (direct electrical link) is more efficient than wireless.
      So none of your arguments make any sense.

      On another note, the first films Spielberg created were better simply because they did not have the CGI to hack out a silly kid job like the last films.
      Don't fetishize technology.
      All the ideas you have are so 1990's...wireless, autopilots, robots.

      Do you have a gps navigation system in your car? And i'll bet you own an ipod... Another consumer masquerading as an intellectual.

      Here's some ideas you might consider when you get a broader futuristic perspective: Space travel and ships are not needed as people are traveling through gates.
      People have a small implanted device that protects them from the elements and weapons via a force shield. Thus, people are walking around naked. They extract nutrients through photosynthesis in their skin.
      Humans no longer need food.
      Primary communication is done via a global network without words or symbols, directly "in mind" via verbal and visual cortexes in the brain. Some humans work for fun only, as alternative energy makes basic survival and travel "free". The battle between "socialists" and "capitalists" is raging with new flames- the socialists have established communes of thousands of people thinking as one giant mind, and execute anyone...etc etc. There are larger and broader horizons than robots and amoebas in polymer bags.

      Oh wait, it's easier to dream of robots and wireless links.

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    37. Re:No imagination by nEoN+nOoDlE · · Score: 1

      Well, I for one welcome our new giant polymer bag wearing amoeba overlords...

      Anyway, to keep this semi-on-topic. Why is every move that George Lucas makes instantly jumped on as a bad one. The story link is to a friggin CONCEPT painting of a Mon Calamari dancer... After the musical number that Lucas added in return of the Jedi, why is anyone a)surprised and b)upset? Is making a sexy female version of Admiral Ackbar somehow a breach of contract of the Star Wars canon? I seem to recall a bunch of sexy aliens in the original trilogy...

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    38. Re:No imagination by Artifakt · · Score: 2, Informative

      Platypi do not have breasts, or even nipples. Females lactate through many small, pore-like openings on their bellies, and must lay on their backs and allow the milk to form pools for the young to nurse from. (Even your link touches upon this)

      http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/ platypus/Duckbillprintout.shtml

      In addition, Platypusses do not waste their time seeing this movie. Platypoids have better things to do.

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    39. Re:No imagination by shrik3 · · Score: 1
      Chances are, any aliens we come across will be more technologically advanced by a few hundred million years.
      Why does everyone always presume that there is a race more advanced than us. What if humans are the most advanced race in the entire known universe?
    40. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We don't like to think about that. We already know what our culture does to any less powerful ones we encounter.

    41. Re:No imagination by m50d · · Score: 1
      What if there were just giant planets inhabitted by slime-mold, or intelligent creatures that just didn't give a damn, and so they never developed useful society?

      Then they wouldn't join the republic or do anything movie-worthy. No-one said there weren't planets like that in the star wars universe

      Why do these creatures want to form governments anyway. With drastically different evolutionary timelines, one creature has propably evolved past war, another so evolved that all of the others seem more like suitable pets, another so unevolved that it's unaware that the others exist.

      Space is big, and we have nowhere near a big enough sample to say that the evolutionary timelines will have been that different. But anyway, even if the majority of creatures have evolved like that, there could easily be enough in a galaxy to need a republic

      Why do people in the future right with light sabers?

      Because they're the best weapons available

      Why do people in the future fight in person, if there are autonomous robots capable of doing so?

      Because the robots aren't up to scratch. They lost every time it was tried. Didn't you watch the first two movies?

      Why do space ships need pilots at the helm rather than computers?

      AI is hard. Really hard. They haven't developed good enough computers. The computer assists things, but can't do everything.

      Why is future technology so bad it always needs fixing?

      Modern consumer goods are no more reliable than they were 10, 100 or 1000 years ago. Sure you can get really reliable stuff, but price will always win out. And the Falcon is hacked to pieces and back, the equivalent of an overclocked board with a processor too big for it and half the parts are weird and possibly faulty, certainly with unapproved upgrades. If you've ever tried to use such a machine, it goes wrong at least as much as the Falcon does.

      Why does C3P0 handle machinery with his hands, rather than some sort of networking?

      Because he's not designed as a machinery operator, he's an interpreter and made to look human. So his only way to use machinery is the same way humans do.

      When R2D2 connects with machinery, why isn't it wirelessly?

      They've given up on wireless networking, too much insecurity. More seriously, it would have taken a lot of foresight to think of wireless networking in 1977. You can't blame the SW people for not seeing it, did you think of it at that time?

      Why does it require physical manipulation?

      That's probably a progress indicator. People like them, blinky lights are good but spinny things are better

      For that matter, when he's in Cloud City, why does he move so slowly when hacking into that computer, how many bits could he really encode a second through physical manipulation?

      Hacking takes time. Today it would probably take you at least 48 hours, unless you get lucky. It's not just a question of sending so many bits and getting access.

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    42. Re:No imagination by eander315 · · Score: 1
      "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away..."

      Dood, they didn't even have Windows back then. Most of that stuff requires at least NT Technology.

    43. Re:No imagination by Al+Al+Cool+J · · Score: 1

      It's possible, especially if we're the only ones in the universe :-) But when you're dealing with galactic and evolutionary timescales in the billions of years, our existance to date is an insignificant blink of the eye. Chances are anyone else is miles ahead of us. People go on about how big space is, but they often lose sight of just how old it is.

    44. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bravo, golf clap for you.

    45. Re:No imagination by Rakarra · · Score: 1
      For that matter, why are they humanoid.

      Because audiences usually react fairly well to humanoids. They wouldn't connect, except maybe to a few hardcore sci-fi geeks who would find it pretty cool, even if no one else did.

      Why do people in the future right with light sabers?

      Chivalry. Star Wars is like an old pirate movie.. in space!!

      Why do people in the future fight in person, if there are autonomous robots capable of doing so?

      Because the people fight better, especially if they use the force which robots can't touch.

      Why is future technology so bad it always needs fixing?

      Why is technology today so bad that it always needs fixing? I can imagine technology will always be bad enough to need fixing, given what it goes through in the Star Wars movies.

      When R2D2 connects with machinery, why isn't it wirelessly? Why does it require physical manipulation?

      Maybe their security policy says no wireless. ;)
      Wireless is incredibly overrated at the moment.

      My bet is that, if we ever talk to life somewhere else in the universe, that they are literally nothing like us. It won't be humanoids in space suits breathing nitrogen... it will be giant amoebas in polymer bags that prevent them from splashing apart in the low atmosphere of the earth.

      But honestly, how intelligent a society could such creatures have evolved into? Humans are very well designed and our civilization was able to evolve because we are physically able to manipulate our environment. For a race to develop.. interstellar travel, these sorts of things are a must.

    46. Re:No imagination by oldwolf13 · · Score: 1

      So you have something to look at while you're talking to them.

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    47. Re:No imagination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      > Sexual attraction to the characters in the movie may increase the likelyhood they will be liked. Although Alf [wikipedia.org] may prove this to be untrue.

      Alf was pretty annoying. Are you suggesting he was annoying, despite his being hot?

    48. Re:No imagination by Elminst · · Score: 1

      One Word:
      Resurrection.

      But OMG was it UGLY.

      (the 4th alien movie where they repeatedly cloned ripley in order to recreate the alien queen, and ended up with a hideous pseudo-humanoid version; complete with saggy breasts *shudder*)

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    49. Re:No imagination by myowntrueself · · Score: 1

      "But what I'd like to know, is why the hell to egg-laying aliens in sci-fi have breasts?!"

      I'd just like to know whats supposed to come out of those nipples???? Cos I bet it isn't milk.

      Might come in useful for thai and malaysian cuisine though.

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    50. Re:No imagination by NitsujTPU · · Score: 1

      I'm working on the DARPA Grand Challenge team at Cornell University. I have 2 cars that drive themselves (shared with the rest of the team), not flawlessly, but I don't have a space ship either. This isn't a 90's idea.

      As for wireless, this entire university is covered with wireless access, it's wonderful. Again, certainly survived the 90's.

      As for the robots, I mentioned the DARPA lab right? Right, the same lab has a few robots. Interestingly, there is plenty of interesting robotics research. Oh, and DARPA, yeah, they want to fight wars with autonomous robots. That would be wars fought by robots. In 2015. Not 1990.

      I have no GPS in my car. I have a Cruzer Micro MP3 companion.

      As for a consumer masquerading as an intellectual, I don't wish to compare credentials. I don't want to fight either. Why are you so combatitive? I made a post to be funny, you took it personally and called me an idiot. I wasn't really thinking in terms of "the future" it was more to be funny. Did you notice "where's Planet Hollywood?" Does that sound like a serious post to you?

      Thanks for running me into the ground.

    51. Re:No imagination by NitsujTPU · · Score: 1

      Sure, hacking takes time, but with that spinny thing, if spinning is the way that bytes are encoded, I would imagine that it would take hours to merely type in your password... or was it intended to be more like a combination lock?

      IE, sure, hacking takes time, but you still need to effectively interract with the machinery. You don't hack more effectively by typing really slowly. That has nothing to do with it.

  19. Re:Mon Calamar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They're pretty good batter-dipped though.

  20. It's so obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    George Lucas succumbed to the dark side.

  21. Musical by ilyaaohell · · Score: 1

    If you want to see a real musical set in the Star Wars universe, check out this disturbing fan film.

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  22. Stupid and a ripoff by TheFlyingGoat · · Score: 1

    Not only is this a downright stupid idea on any number of levels, the linked image looks oddly similar to the Diva Plavalaguna from The Fifth Element, except with more exposed skin.

    Now if they were getting Carrie Fisher to do it at age 50, or however old she is these days, that'd be sweet. :)

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    1. Re:Stupid and a ripoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Is that some kind of joke about how she's so old, and so wrecked from so much coke and hollywood action that if she were nearly naked, she'd look like a squid with he labia appearing to be the tentecles?!

      Dude.... Not cool.

    2. Re:Stupid and a ripoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, but admit it, you'd still hit it. :p

    3. Re:Stupid and a ripoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You'd have to talk to my liver on that one. I'm betting I'd die from acute alcohol poisoning first. Also, I'd like to think that my friends have enough character, and care for me enough that they'd shoot in the head first.

    4. Re:Stupid and a ripoff by ucdoughboy · · Score: 0

      If you've seen her pic lately, you'd know that she has really let her self go since those metal bikni days......

    5. Re:Stupid and a ripoff by Yaztromo · · Score: 1
      Now if they were getting Carrie Fisher to do it at age 50, or however old she is these days, that'd be sweet. :)

      You wouldn't be saying that if you saw her sing in the Star Wars Holiday Special (::shudder::). And that's when she was still young to boot.

      Yaz.

      PS: Thanks for bringing up that memory, jerk! :)

    6. Re:Stupid and a ripoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you a moron? The ONLY similarity between that thing and the 5th element character is tits. The skin is different, the head is ENTIRELY different, the dress is different, etc.

      Dumbass

  23. Porno Spectacular? by NitsujTPU · · Score: 4, Funny

    Forget the water spectacular. This phallic image is sure to have feminists commenting the male dominated society that the Rebels promote.

    1. Re:Porno Spectacular? by vivek7006 · · Score: 1

      Willy ... That looks like a enormous

      Dick!! is that a huge ....

    2. Re:Porno Spectacular? by bersl2 · · Score: 1

      Dude, that's Correllian corvette. That's been around since the beginning. If you look at it from the top, it looks more like a hammer than a phallus.

    3. Re:Porno Spectacular? by game+kid · · Score: 1

      Clearly, sex is bad to Lucas. (Some might agree.)

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    4. Re:Porno Spectacular? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What about when that Phallic spaceship is pulled inside the opening on the triangle shaped Star Destroyer in Episode IV?

      It is clear to me that Lucas is trying to encourage scifi geeks to go out and have sex. Perhaps he saw the future of Star Wars fandom and filled his films with subtle sexual imagery to try and prevent Star Wars fans from being life long virgins?

    5. Re:Porno Spectacular? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Isn't that the ship that the Empire captured with a Star Destroyer at the very begining of Ep 4? The one R2D2 and C3P0 escaped from before crash landing on Tattoine?

    6. Re:Porno Spectacular? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > Isn't that the ship that the Empire captured with a Star Destroyer at the very begining of Ep 4?

      Yes. It was supposed to be the Han Solo ship, so they made a very detailled model. But when 2001 wasd released, they found it looked too similar, and designed the Millenium Falcon instead.

      (Gosh, why do I know such trivia ?)

  24. isn't.. by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the same type ofalien who piloted the Falcon when Solo was away? (I forget which movie now..)

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    1. Re:isn't.. by Maljin+Jolt · · Score: 1

      Yes, he is a top ace pilot from Rogue squadron. Also note Admiral Ackbar, a chief strategist of rebels is a mon calamari and calamari class cruisers, of which the Liberty is most excellent, are backbone of aliance fleet. This race is essential for SW universe history.

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    2. Re:isn't.. by GileadGreene · · Score: 1

      No. The standins for Han and Chewie were Lando Calrissian and some weird-looking guy with about 3 sets of lips. The name of his species escapes me, but he was most definitely not Mon Calamari.

    3. Re:isn't.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That was a Sulustian.

      These are Mon Calamari.

      God, man, get it together.

    4. Re:isn't.. by NormalVisual · · Score: 1

      Nein Nunb (Lando's co-pilot in "Return of the Jedi") was a Sullustan. I'm rather ashamed that I remembered his name, but at least I did have to look up the species. :-)

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    5. Re:isn't.. by GileadGreene · · Score: 1
      Thanks! :)

      I had to specifically resist the temptation to go look up his name and species before I posted...

    6. Re:isn't.. by docflan · · Score: 1

      Isn't that the same type ofalien who piloted the Falcon when Solo was away?

      That was Billy Dee Williams.

  25. Why is there... by Twisted64 · · Score: 1

    a gigantic phallic pole included in the dance routine... oh, I get it! Yes, more dancing!

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  26. ummm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    You like your aliens with penises?

    1. Re:ummm... by DigiShaman · · Score: 1

      If that was ment to be plural, wouldn't it be "Peni"?

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  27. No, No, No... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    he's talking about the aftermath left in the wake of the movie. America's going to be a blasted wasteland, all fight clubs, torches, and pitchforks, with one unifying dream: The perpetual desecration of Lucas's corpse.

  28. It's on the trailer by cy_a253 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can briefly see the water dancing after about 1/4 of the length of the trailer, after Obi-Wan says "We are at war, Anakin".

    http://www.starwars.com/

    1. Re:It's on the trailer by jabberwocky_rt · · Score: 1

      Oh good gord... I think you're right... its right when mace windu says "...I don't think he can handle it..."

      It seems to be some kind of giant bubble thing

    2. Re:It's on the trailer by phreakmonkey · · Score: 1
      To save them the database space from all the /. fake logins, just use mine:

      Login: sp@home.com
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  29. Fits With Classic Trilogy by goMac2500 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I hate to show my Star Wars geek side but...

    The dancer shown is a Mon Calamari. They were very important in Return of the Jedi. The giant pod looking ships in the Rebel fleet were Mon Calamari Star Cruisers, and the attack was led by Admiral Ackbar, a Mon Calamari. You can see him in Return of the Jedi. Admiral Ackbar also made a cameo in the X-Wing game. He's the guy who orders "Launch the X-Wing fighters!" (I loved the game, what can I say).

    So, Lucas isn't pulling this out of his ass. It is consistent with Episode 6. Whether or not having a Mon Calamari dance is a good idea, thats a different story.

    1. Re:Fits With Classic Trilogy by otis+wildflower · · Score: 4, Funny

      The dancer shown is a Mon Calamari. They were very important in Return of the Jedi. The giant pod looking ships in the Rebel fleet were Mon Calamari Star Cruisers, and the attack was led by Admiral Ackbar, a Mon Calamari. You can see him in Return of the Jedi. Admiral Ackbar also made a cameo in the X-Wing game. He's the guy who orders "Launch the X-Wing fighters!" (I loved the game, what can I say).

      But the most important question is...

      Cocktail, Marinara, or Garlic sauce?

      IT'S A TRAP!!!!!!!!

    2. Re:Fits With Classic Trilogy by mrbnsn · · Score: 1

      Amphibians with mammary glands.

      Think about it, and then get back to us.

    3. Re:Fits With Classic Trilogy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When did squids become amphibians? Hell, I didn't even know they were vertebrates.

  30. Actually, by fsh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, I think that *is* Carrie Fisher at age 50. Eeesh.

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    1. Re:Actually, by d474 · · Score: 1
      Actually, I think that *is* Carrie Fisher at age 50. Eeesh.
      Brutal.

      LMAO.
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  31. Re:Mon Calamar by Karma+Farmer · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the Empire being defeated by teddy bears was pushing it. The greatest military mind the rebels have to offer being named "mr. squid" and saying "it's a trap!" pretty much ruined that crappy movie.

    Of course, Jedi was a crappy movie in the sense that it was only so-so, unlike the excellent Star Wars and Empire. It wasn't a completely unwatchable pile of dreck like the last two movies have been.

    If there's a god in the universe, Hitchiker will pull in more bucks than the final installment. I'm certainly not going to ever give that hack another dime of my money ever again.

  32. Re:wow by Koiu+Lpoi · · Score: 1

    What place do you have calling people 'pathetic nerds' when you're taking the time posting on slashdot?

    I may be a nerd, but I take pride in it.

  33. Re:wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    1. Speaking for my self, as well as rodians everywhere, I am truly offended.
    2. Yes.

  34. What!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Am I the only person to see Howard the Duck.... Oh. Right. Nevermind.

  35. Re:Mon Calamar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As Lucas has aged his sexual tastes have drifted to the rarefied realms of his wealth.

  36. /geek by blackomegax · · Score: 1

    fish dont have boobs...they need their streamlined shape and all... lucas is an idiot.

    1. Re:/geek by Hsien · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not to mention fish dont fly around the universe at speed of light in jugenaught sized spaceships like we do.... oh wait a minute.

    2. Re:/geek by werewolf1031 · · Score: 1
      Not to mention fish dont fly around the universe at speed of light

      Yeah, neither do primates!

      Oh, wait...

  37. It's a watery tart.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does she hand out lightsabres?

    1. Re:It's a watery tart.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      She puts her hands on lightsabers, that's for sure.

    2. Re:It's a watery tart.... by nystire · · Score: 1

      Next time, could you maybe leave a bit up to our imagination?

    3. Re:It's a watery tart.... by RexxFiend · · Score: 5, Funny

      real force power comes from midichlorians, not some farcical aquatic ceremony...

      (btw that was genius, I ready did LOL!)

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  38. Episode III? by Volvogga · · Score: 0

    What is this 'Episode III' you speak of. I know of IV, V, & VI, but not of a I, II, or a III. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it (or else I might have to burn the VHS Trilogy I have, no SP editions).

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  39. smart move by cyberon22 · · Score: 1

    Makes thematic sense. Water represents aggression and the subconscious in the symbolic framework Lucas is constructing.

    There's a nice article with more details about some of how this was done in the first film here:

    http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/38/clones1.htm

    1. Re:smart move by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1
      Terrible.

      Piscene face, mammalian, uhhhh... mammaries.

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    2. Re:smart move by sg3000 · · Score: 3, Funny

      > Terrible.
      > Piscene face, mammalian, uhhhh... mammaries.

      "Oh, why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid?! The kind with the fish part on top and the lady part on bottom!"

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    3. Re:smart move by luna69 · · Score: 1

      > Makes thematic sense. Water represents aggression
      > and the subconscious in the symbolic framework Lucas
      > is constructing.

      This assumes that Lucas is "constructing" something, rather than corraling nifty special effects-driven scenes into something vaguely resembling a story.

      Bring on the intergalactic overpass. Now, please.

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    4. Re:smart move by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 1

      Just don't let Troy McClure know. I'd hate to see how he might react.

      And yes, I'm not surprised Lukie put boobs on a fish.

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    5. Re:smart move by cyberon22 · · Score: 1

      huh? The dialogue compares the dark side to an art while the screen depicts a ballet filled with symbolism representing the aggressive subconscious. And this is supposed to be accidental?

      From the article linked above:

      >> Associated with the subconscious since Homer's treatment of Neptune in the Odyssey... water imagery dominates the new film. As a symbol of latent aggression and hubris, it lurks in the background at those pivotal moments in the narrative where characters make terrible lapses in judgement. As a cliff-dwelling diplomat, Amidala is as logically bound to oppose the creation of an Army of the Republic as the amphibious Jar Jar is thematically fated to support it: the deliberate division of ego and id could hardly be clearer. Lucas appropriately places the romance and marriage of Anakin and Amidala at a lakeside retreat, while he situates the Army of the Clones on the watery planet Kamino. Among the most interesting qualities of this film is the way this symbolism reinforces itself on multiple levels. Not only are the Clones an aggressive and irrational race (like the Gungans they are warriors who live in a "hidden city"), but the Jedi are as oblivious to the existence of Kamino as they are to the dangers of the pride and aggression that lurk within themselves.

      If you're sure its accidental perhaps you can post an counterexample inconsistent with this explanation. Might be harder than you think.... :)

    6. Re:smart move by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A shame that tvtome.com didn't give the most obvious cultural reference - the top-half-fish-bottom-half-woman mermaid appeared in Red Dwarf Series 2 Episode 3, as the Cat's fantasy woman. When Lister asks why it isn't the other way round, the Cat just grins and does some very suggestive tongue action...

    7. Re:smart move by Grab · · Score: 2, Informative

      Hate to be the one to tell you, but Red Dwarf did that joke way earlier.

      Grab.

  40. Bring back the bar band by planckscale · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I know it's too late now but I wish Lucas would have spent just a fraction of his budget on location shoots and puppets. Bring back the puppet bar band from the first Star Wars movie. I swear, all this blue screen green screen crap will make this next movie crap. Instead of spending 20mil on a fiber optic digital rendering, spend 10 mil and spend the rest on an actual location shoot. Don't expect to see real dirt when someone falls on the ground. Nor real grass, real fog, or real water. It'll all just be some digital rendering. Even though that trash compactor in the first movie looked kind of fake, at least the actors hair would get wet and princess lea's makeup would run. These water willy extravaganzas will be entertaining maybe but half the fun of the first star wars was the "that's clever" factor; now it's just adventure-less story telling, set on a sterile lifeless digital backdrop. I guess a dollar doesn't go as far anymore but I can't blame Lucas wants to sit in a studio with a mochachino and watch a plasma screen instead of spending a week in the Gobi desert. Oh well, at least I still have the Clone Wars animated series DVD to look forward to.

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    1. Re:Bring back the bar band by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You know Lucas is just using the popular success of the Star Wars saga to play with new technology. Maybe after he finishes the three movies, he'll do something entertaining with all that new-movie-tech experience, rather than revisiting Star Wars more.

    2. Re:Bring back the bar band by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Whether he's playing with the technologies or not, he's lost it as a director, there's no way he'll make something entertaining out of it all.

    3. Re:Bring back the bar band by m50d · · Score: 1

      If it looks good enough, why do you care? The whole point of the digital things is they look more realistic than the puppets did. And, though the puppets may seem to have a quaint charm nowadays, they do. Why use the older, inferior technology when you don't have to, unless it's part of the atmosphere you're trying to create? (which is very much not the case with star wars, it's meant to be futuristic, not quaint)

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    4. Re:Bring back the bar band by rixdaffy · · Score: 1



      I'm not a huge starwars fan, but I can agree with you on this... Especially with the spaceships: no matter how cool the computer graphics are in the new episodes, most of those completely rendered ships just look too "perfect". They looked so much more "realistic" in the older episodes...

      Ricardo.

  41. Obligitory recent article catch-phrase by LordEd · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world.
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  42. I'm not a very big Star Wars fan by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 1

    I did see the one with the Jar Jar character though (whichever episode that was.) Maybe the next episode should be directed by Rodriguez (Sin City) or Tarintino.. seems to me the Star Wars franchise needs a little spice, something to kick it up a notch! And maybe not geared so much towards children but adults, and none of this watered down R rated stuff with a pg-13 label next to it.

    1. Re:I'm not a very big Star Wars fan by jabberwocky_rt · · Score: 1

      episode 3 is supposidly the last star wars... at least until lucas runs out of money and the tv series he plans on putting out crashes

    2. Re:I'm not a very big Star Wars fan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Flash forward to 2011, VH1's Where Are They Now: "Lucas hit rock bottom when he was forced to show a rerun of the Star Wars Holiday Special on PAX TV."

    3. Re:I'm not a very big Star Wars fan by postsingularity · · Score: 1

      I think Episode III is supposed to be intended more for adults than kids. Anakin Skywalker falls to the dark side, kills everthing in sight, gets horribly burned and becomes Darth Vader. Somewhere along the line he knock up his girlfriend. I could've cared less about the eps 1 and 2 since they were basically franchise fodder and eye candy. I just really hope he doesn't fuck this one up.

    4. Re:I'm not a very big Star Wars fan by ckelly5 · · Score: 1

      oh great, way to ruin the movie, man.

      Guess i don't need to wait in this line anymore...

  43. I told you, darling... by Jonathan+Burns · · Score: 5, Funny

    no capes!

  44. Say it isn't so... by Neopoleon · · Score: 4, Funny

    George murdered my childhood with Episode I.

    Then he dug up the corpse and slapped it around a bit for Episode II.

    Now it looks like he's preparing to dig it up once more to further defile its memory by fucking it right in the mouth with a god damned water sequence in Episode III.

    Somebody should have taken his camera away after the first Ewok adventure was shot.

    I mean, anybody could have made that mistake once... But *twice*?

    There is no excuse.

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    1. Re:Say it isn't so... by rfernand79 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Just a small, insignificant, negligible suggestion: DON'T BOTHER WATCHING IT IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO HATE IT. Stick with yout memories, age well, live long and prosper. I for one don't want to see IV, V and VI remade for a new generation, I want to see the story GL wants to tell. Whether I like it or not, I'm in no position to blame a filmmaker for destroying my childhood.

    2. Re:Say it isn't so... by Neopoleon · · Score: 3, Funny

      "DON'T BOTHER WATCHING IT IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO HATE IT."

      My dear, angry friend...

      What I want/believe/etc. is irrelevant here.

      Most junkies know that smack isn't good for 'em, and yet they continue to intravenously inject concoctions of questionable purity into their bodies, risking things like Parkinsonian conditions, sickness, and good old fashioned death all for the possibility of feeling That High again.

      I know George Lucas isn't good for me, but I keep duping myself into believing that he's finally going to put something out that's as good as Episode V.

      For the moment, I have myself convinced that Episode III is the "new" Star Wars that *isn't* going to be a CGI muppet musical, but that George is finally going to put some hair on Anakin's chest and stop all the crappy dialogue about whether or not the Galactic Trade Federation's checkbook is properly balanced.

      No... Like a fly attracted to that strange, magnificent blue of the bug zapper, I will continue to hover, transfixed and drooling before whatever comes out of Skywalker Ranch.

      Until the credits roll, of course, at which time I'll trash the movie and state in obnoxiously loud tones that it was the worst bit of digital drivel to have ever dribbled down the corpulent blood-stained cheeks of Hollywood.

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    3. Re:Say it isn't so... by gad_zuki! · · Score: 1

      > George murdered my childhood with Episode I.

      Maybe you shouldnt invest your identity on a movie. Seriously. Reminds me of those people who buy those tabloid rags and weep when celebrities get married, get arrested, etc. All they talk about is celebrities and how Hollywood makes them look bad. You're just the geek version of them, as are a lot of people in this thread. Sad really.

    4. Re:Say it isn't so... by TheoMurpse · · Score: 0

      You just made me think of mung. You have to scroll down to read the definition. Warning: you may vomit upon reading.

    5. Re:Say it isn't so... by shiba_mac · · Score: 1

      Episode 2 had a lot of good parts in it. A buddy of mine edited out all the crap (Anakin and Amidala) and just left in the good bits (stormtroopers and lightsabers). Natalie Portman gets about 20 seconds of screen time, about 2 lines, and the movie improves immeasurably. It was actually enjoyable to watch.

      Contrast this with the Han and Leia love story in the original trilogy. That was far more believable, and didn't even interfere with the narrative. What happened to GL in the meantime? Where did the talent go?

    6. Re:Say it isn't so... by Neopoleon · · Score: 1

      "> George murdered my childhood with Episode I.
      Maybe you shouldnt invest your identity on a movie."

      Thanks for the advice.

      I'll try to remember that the next time I have a childhood.

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    7. Re:Say it isn't so... by gad_zuki! · · Score: 1

      Are you still a child? I mean, as an adult you should be able to handle changes to a once loved series.

    8. Re:Say it isn't so... by CockblockTheVote · · Score: 1

      lucas did not write Empire. only the story that actual screenwriters wrote from.

    9. Re:Say it isn't so... by Neopoleon · · Score: 1

      "lucas did not write Empire. only the story that actual screenwriters wrote from." Well, that explains why it wasn't a total piece of shit.

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    10. Re:Say it isn't so... by Neopoleon · · Score: 1

      "Are you still a child? I mean, as an adult you should be able to handle changes to a once loved series."

      This is getting really lame.

      Have you ever felt embarrassed for someone because that person didn't have the decent sense to be embarrassed for himself?

      There should be a word for that.

      Anyway, now would be a good time to let you know that I'm not actually upset about Star Wars, so you can stop fl4mz0ring me to the maximum.

      Have a nice day.

      I love you.

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  45. More questions... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Who are you?
    Who am I?
    Where are my pants?
    Is your name sewn into your underwear?
    Do you have stairs in your house?

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  46. For the love of god... by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 2, Funny
    Oh please.....for the love of God George......

    NOBODY LOOK! It's a trap!

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  47. Re:Mon Calamar by Trillan · · Score: 1

    You're overlooking the first problem there, which is: How can a squid be humanoid and still be a squid? :)

  48. Stop all yer belly-ache'n by pdxdada · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What absolutely kills me about the Star Wars prequels is that despite all the bitching and moaning I read here about Jar-Jar, and the excessive digital effects and bad dialog and whatever, episodes one and two have still grossed over 1.5 billion. Everyone I know who actually cares enough one way or the other to bitch about the movies has seen both multiple times. I personally feel, and this may just be me, that after you've paid to see a movie for the fifth time you lose the right to complain about how bad it is. So lets just all calm down here and if you don't think you're going to like the Episode III, this may seem drastic, but do keep in mind you're free not not to watch it.

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    1. Re:Stop all yer belly-ache'n by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

      What absolutely kills me about the Star Wars prequels is that despite all the bitching and moaning........Everyone I know who actually cares enough one way or the other to bitch about the movies has [still] seen both multiple times.

      You mean Star Wars is the Microsoft Windows of Sci Fi?

    2. Re:Stop all yer belly-ache'n by Total_Wimp · · Score: 1

      ...keep in mind you're free not not to watch it.

      I was about to shoot back "but after nearly 30 years, I have to see how it ends!" Then I realized I already saw how it ends 20+ years ago with episode 6.

      So, you're right. If it doesn't look like it's gonna be enjoyable, there's no real reason not to stay home.

      TW

    3. Re:Stop all yer belly-ache'n by maxpublic · · Score: 1

      Everyone I know who actually cares enough one way or the other to bitch about the movies has seen both multiple times.

      Then I'd guess that everyone you know is a bloody loser, given the evidence at hand.

      Max

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    4. Re:Stop all yer belly-ache'n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      See, this is why I plan to download the movie.

    5. Re:Stop all yer belly-ache'n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yea but you can go to jail for that :(

    6. Re:Stop all yer belly-ache'n by Rary · · Score: 1
      This is a good point.

      The truth is, despite all the whining and complaining about the first two prequels, if Lucas had decided after AOTC to say "fuck it, that's it, I'm sick of trying to please these people, I'm simply not making the last movie, ever," there would be an absolute revolt from Star Wars fans -- the same fans whining and complaining about the first two prequals.

      And, yes, I count myself among those. Personally, I complain because I know he could do better. But I still see them because, despite the glaring flaws, they're still Star Wars movies, and I love Star Wars.

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  49. Re:Mon Calamar by Mikelikus · · Score: 1

    it's more like my _shrimp_.

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  50. Akbitch by AliasMoze · · Score: 1

    That republic deserved to fall apart.

  51. Fonzi by Tablizer · · Score: 1

    Star Wars might jump the sharkwomen, but I certainly wont.

  52. Why is everyone so down on the new trilogy? by postsingularity · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure Episode 1 sucked. A lot. But Wpisode 2. C'mon, the romance scenes were pure comedic genius. I don't know how the actors could keep straight faces through them. I can remember the theater after the scene where Natalie Portman's chest was heaving up and down. One person started clapping and then the whole audience broke into applause and laughter. I can only hope that Episode 3 will have a moment like that one.

    1. Re:Why is everyone so down on the new trilogy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you need another scene that funny, try out the deer-attack sequence in Ring II.

      I've no idea what went wrong there, given the fact that the Japanese one was actually just about alright...

    2. Re:Why is everyone so down on the new trilogy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Heh, same thing happened in the last Matrix movie. There was that scene in which Trinity was taking a really long time dying. She asks Neo, "Do you know what has changed in the last 6 hours ?" ... pregnant pause ... "Nothing". That's when one guy in the audience got up and shouted "Die Bitch !"

  53. Not all of us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I for one will not be going to this movie. I didn't go to the last movie because I felt so ripped off by the one before that.

    The only thing that will get me into the theater will be huge word of mouth.

    The reason that some of us complain so much is that the first movie was so good and our expectations were raised.

  54. Re:Mon Calamar by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why would a humanoid squid have breasts?

    Same reason humanoid vaginas smell like fish?

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  55. Re:Mon Calamar by C10H14N2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, it would be "mon calmar."

    "Calamari" is Italian.

    Proof yet again that Lucas is a pretentious know-nothing hack. "Mon Calamari," being a bastardization of both French and Italian isn't, even forgiving that, gramatically correct as it uses a singular possessive with a plural noun. Lucas, you ignorant slut...

  56. In terms of cost... by jpardey · · Score: 1

    ...Computer special effects are not used to add detail, but to reduce price, afaik. This way, a few modelers and skinners can put together a large amount of the cast, and significantly reduce the crew. Cheap motion capture, out of work animators... you got yourself a cheap movie.

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  57. Water Spectacular in Episode III! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    In the word's of Bart Simpson, "It's craptastic."

    1. Re:Water Spectacular in Episode III! by dangitman · · Score: 1

      No, he said "craptacular."

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    2. Re:Water Spectacular in Episode III! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      both sum up MHFO

  58. Commando Cody by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I spotted a character in a Ep. III sticker book named Commando Cody. Either that is a nod to classic sci-fi (ancient serial hero) , or else they just have completely given up on being creative.

    1. Re:Commando Cody by jabberwocky_rt · · Score: 1

      I just finished Labrinth of Evil... that is very much a character in the new movie, though its Commander Cody...

    2. Re:Commando Cody by TomHandy · · Score: 1

      If I recall correctly, George Lucas let his son come up with the character name, which might explain part of it. And frankly, given Star Wars' roots in classic sci-fi serials, the name does sort of it.

  59. "Mon Calimari"?!?! by Eatmorecake · · Score: 0

    C'mon, this has to be a joke, right? With a name like that? They should have just called her "Chikenaf ThahSea"

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  60. post 9/11 world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    In the post 9/11 world, all Calamari have b(.)(.)bs. ...ok, a weak one.

  61. Why is this wrong? by rfernand79 · · Score: 1

    I don't understand.. why is this wrong/upsetting? It's an interesting idea to see the "Galaxies Opera". If anything, it broadens a view of Lucas' vision of this galaxy. I wouldn't trade the Mos Eisley cantina scene for 10 minutes of space action...

    ..and it's his movie. See it, lile it, or don't. But pissing and ranting about how he destroyed his own legacy is just ridiculous.

    1. Re:Why is this wrong? by ravee · · Score: 1

      I love star wars sequels and I try my best not to miss any of them. I am waiting eagerly to see the latest one.

      Did you know that to make star wars, george lucas made use of linux - especially the image rendering and special effects.

      that is another feather in the cap for linux.
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    2. Re:Why is this wrong? by maxpublic · · Score: 1

      But pissing and ranting about how he destroyed his own legacy is just ridiculous.

      Except that he actually did destroy his own legacy. He went from genius to pathetic farce between the two trilogies - in less than 10 parsecs, wouldn't you know!

      Max

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    3. Re:Why is this wrong? by gl4ss · · Score: 1

      it's wrong because he's likely to botch it horribly.

      now, if you had not seen episode 1 and 2 THEN you might think that there's some hope.

      but.. think about the factory scene from ep2. think about it. just think about it. is your eyes bleeding already? yeah. now think about what the spectacular(ripoff from 5th element) he has in mind will be. scared yet? not really, i'm not giving him another buck. after ep1 one could still have hope.. but the factory scene.. aaaaaaaargghhhhhhhh.

      why do i even pay attention anymore to lucas? well, i like the starwars universe in the way it's used in the 'extended' books and especially how it has been used in computer games. x-wing, tie fighter, kotor... a bunch of excellent games.

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    4. Re:Why is this wrong? by rfernand79 · · Score: 1

      That's the part I don't get: These days, Lucas seems to be "the bad director everybody loves to hate!" i still don't get it: either you like his work or you don't, but ranting about destroying a legacy and so on... doesn't sound too sane to me.

  62. in post 9/11 world... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    in post 9/11 world police arrest all carmari with b(.)(.)bs.

  63. Can't resist by euxneks · · Score: 1

    Something smells fishy!

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  64. Re:Mon Calamar by Nonoche · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually you can say both calamar and calmar for squid in French, except for the giant squid which is only called calmar géant.

  65. This pretty much says it all by cranos · · Score: 2, Informative
  66. KOTOR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That looks a bit like the fish people (Selkath) from Manaan in KOTOR. Atleast they are keeping consistent with the world from earlier SW products.

  67. Mon Calamar by Akbar Marot by Sloppy · · Score: 1

    My squid,
    Whom I did,
    Not so groovy
    Is your bad movie.
    Sticky-floored prison,
    My bile's risen.
    Life's two hours less
    In this cinematic mess.
    Swim off the set
    If the director will let.
    Come to Sloppy
    Stay not sick --
    Ban your ache,
    For my sake!
    Buttered bread
    While in bed
    Makes a mess,
    So unless
    You would choose
    That bad news,
    I suggest
    That you'd best
    Soon arise,
    So your eyes
    Will not glaze.
    Douglas prays
    Health be near,
    My sweet dear.

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  68. IGNORE ABOVE, prematurely posted by Sloppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn enter key... let's try that again.

    My squid,
    Whom I did,
    Not so groovy
    Is your bad movie.
    Sticky-floored prison,
    My bile's risen.
    Life's two hours less
    In this cinematic mess.
    Swim off the set
    If the director will let.
    Come to Sloppy
    And you'll be happy.
    A new role, you'd
    Play in the nude,
    Though budget's not high
    You'll moan and sigh.
    Your DVD will be
    Released to all the
    Perverts who enjoy
    Tentacle porn toys.
    Be remembered as a squid
    In porn for a few quid.
    That Innsmouth look
    Is a good niche for a spook.
    It will be so much better
    Than Lucas' memory-shredder.
    You'll be glad you did,
    My squid.

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    1. Re:IGNORE ABOVE, prematurely posted by ultranova · · Score: 1

      You know, since the special effects in eps 1-3 are done with a computer, this Calamari has to be a 3D model, too. I wonder how detailed it is ?

      Perhaps some insider in the Lucasfilm might give in to their dark side and release this model to the Net (preferably in a Poser-compatible format), so that artists could let us all see ?-)

      After all, that 3D picture of a Twilek (Jabba's dancing girl with tentacles in her head) having lesbian sex with her clone was pretty good :).

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    2. Re:IGNORE ABOVE, prematurely posted by wintermute1000 · · Score: 1

      I never thought I'd see someone write a parody of a une demoyselle malade dedicated to a sci-fi squid in a bathing suit, but I suppose such are the times in which we live. You ought to send that to Doug Hofstadter - I'm sure he'd be delightfully horrified.

    3. Re:IGNORE ABOVE, prematurely posted by Sloppy · · Score: 1

      It was too half-assed; I didn't really do it justice.

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    4. Re:IGNORE ABOVE, prematurely posted by LocoMan · · Score: 1
      I'm sure lots of people will start to make 3D models of this once the movies are out... :)

      I kinda doubt someone will release a few gigs sized model (as most feature film movie get to be if you include texture maps) in a propietary format that most likely nobody outside of ILM will be able to open in the first place.. :)

    5. Re:IGNORE ABOVE, prematurely posted by srmalloy · · Score: 1
      I'm reminded of a limerick that appeared in Playboy magazine many years ago (and yes, I know the grammar in the last line bites horribly):
      There once was a girl from Madrid
      Who claimed to've had sex with a squid.
      She said, "I've had eels,
      And disported with seals,
      But once you've been squid, you've been did!"
  69. Natalie Portman... by t_allardyce · · Score: 1

    ...Water sports?

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      Where's the "-1, Eww" moderation option when you need it?

    2. Re:Natalie Portman... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  70. Re:Mon Calamar by Threni · · Score: 3, Funny

    And not just humanoids! Uh..I mean...

  71. Re:Mon Calamar by mysticwhiskey · · Score: 1

    If your woman smells like fish, then I am truly sorry for you. :)

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  72. Mon Calamari... by Edward+Teach · · Score: 1

    I wonder if she goes good with rigatoni and a spicy jalapeno marinara!

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    1. Re:Mon Calamari... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bet she still smells like fish

  73. its going to be great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The audiobook was released last week for Episode III and the unabridge version is 11 cds. I am currently on 8 and so far it is much better than the second movie. More action, more sadness and misunderstandings, and at parts, even funny. Hopefully alot of whats in the book will be in the movie.

  74. And here I was illusioned... by NanotechLobster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was hoping that this movie wouldn't blow as much as the first two... And now I find out how wrong I may be.

  75. You broke my brain! by dangitman · · Score: 1
    (dangitman: shivering in the corner)

    Please tell me this is a joke. Please tell me this is a joke. Please tell me this is a joke. Please tell me this is a joke. Please tell me this is a joke. Please tell me this is a joke.

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    1. Re:You broke my brain! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is a joke.

    2. Re:You broke my brain! by dangitman · · Score: 1

      (Sigh of relief. Dangitman puts down razor blades and makes a cup of coffee.)

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  76. waterdancer bad, music good ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    oh well, the music is kinda good .. some tracks available at http://thepsychotic.web1000.com/ for those who dont already know ....

  77. Hey baby ... by Jack+Auf · · Score: 1

    nice ... um ... nice ... um ... nice day isn't it. (Eww)

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  78. Re:Mon Calamar by Surgeon606 · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Calamar" is the Spanish word for squid, so it seems a mixture of both French and Spanish. Has Lucas been at the Pyrenees recently?

  79. Re:Mon Calamar by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well, lucas is a hack, but he can call his own creations whatever he wants.

    it's not like some guys in space far far away would have heard anything about earthly languages anyways..

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  80. Re:Mon Calamar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why do my fish smell like women?

  81. Looks tasty by Bender+Unit+22 · · Score: 1

    If not, then just go for deep fried.

  82. lego catalog is chock full by way2trivial · · Score: 1

    of sith goodness. including sith stuff..

    including general ?devious?- who wields (I SHIT YOU NOT) 4 lightsabers! and looks like a battle droid...

    there is a water vehicle in there with treads wrapped around the body
    some kinda beach lander... but I didn't see any vehichles that seem deigned for underwater scenes....

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    1. Re:lego catalog is chock full by biglig2 · · Score: 1

      It's General Grievous.

      (You might want to consider getting your Star Wars news from a slightly better source than a lego catalogue.)

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  83. Amazing thing about alien morphology by cyberscout · · Score: 1

    Regardless of the original DNA, as in this case "calamari," the females of the species always seem to develop perfectly round and full breasts and asses... Seems to be a universal truism, :-)

  84. Re:Mon Calamar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Actually in the Catalan language, which is the language of Catalonia (between France and Spain), and native language of Barcelona, spoken by at least 7 million people, it's correct to say "Mon Calamar" refering to "My Squid".

  85. Re:Mon Calamar by pipingguy · · Score: 1


    Adding breasts to *anything* makes things more interesting. How come I can't buy a boob mouse with the squishy parts as left/right, up/down navigation and the nipple as a click button? That would be a great complement to my joystick.

  86. Re:Mon Calamar by jebell · · Score: 1
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  87. No, she lobs them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And they're curved, to boot!

  88. Why would she have wide hips if she lays eggs?

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    1. Re:Huh? by teslar · · Score: 1

      These are large eggs ;)

    2. Re:Huh? by joemontoya · · Score: 0

      What about the teats?

  89. Re:Mon Calamar by sharkey · · Score: 1

    If any Slashdot thread is an appropriate one to link to that picture of the woman with the squid in her hoo-hah, THIS one is it.

    Too bad I forgot the URL.

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  90. Re:Mon Calamar by nuintari · · Score: 1

    Because Lucas knows that having boobs of all kinds in this movie is the only way he will get people to watch it.

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  91. Uh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...wasn't April Fools day a few days ago?

  92. That's my wife you insensitive clod! by Cumstien · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's my wife you insensitive clod!

  93. Natalie Portman by isny · · Score: 3, Funny

    Slashdot has really gone downhill when Admiral Ackbar in a swimsuit makes the front page before this does... Bring on the grits!

    1. Re:Natalie Portman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Holy crap, a Natalie Portman + hot grits comment that's actually funny.

  94. The inquisition... by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1

    Bah, it can't be worse than the Inquisition Nuns in Mel Brook's History of the world, part I...

  95. MMMM! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yummy...smells like fish!

  96. Re:Mon Calamar by mormop · · Score: 1

    Because Graphic Artists, like Slashdotters spend lots of time on their own in darkened rooms playing with their computers.

    Just remember, the guy who drew this may not have seen a real woman for a significant length of time and may only remember a faint smell of fish.

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  97. What about? by MisterSquid · · Score: 1

    [. . . ]egg-laying organisms don't nerse their young!

    What about our good friend the duck-billed platypus? Eggs and milk, baby.

    Whenever one generalizes about possible life forms based on knowledge of other life forms, one is bound to overlook counterexamples. Evolution and biodiversity are funny that way. Just look at the platypus!

    To get back on topic, I'm definitely hot for squid with boobs.

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  98. *ahem* by MisterSquid · · Score: 1

    Cocktail, Marinara, or Garlic sauce?

    "I resemble that statement."

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  99. That's DISGUSTING! by PrayingWolf · · Score: 1
    Ackbar had respectability to him. This one is a slut!

    Distracts my consentration.

  100. Star Trek vs Star Wars by dpilot · · Score: 1

    Now you're going...

    Search on this along with "David Brin", author of the Uplift novels. He had an interesting take on Star Trek vs Star Wars, with his preference of the former based on the fact that it uses real people, and those people becoming their best. In Star Wars, matters are decided by "demigods" like Luke, Anakin, etc with supernormal powers, and whatever mere humans do or try to become just doesn't matter.

    Of course William Shatner put it all right, back on SNL. "It was just a TV show!"

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    1. Re:Star Trek vs Star Wars by Doctor_Jest · · Score: 1

      "In episode 31 where you're on planet blah blah and have to get into the safe to extract a nublimean stinkfoffer... my friends and I have been in an argument for some time over this...

      What was the combination to the safe?"

      "GET A LIFE, PEOPLE!" :)

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    2. Re:Star Trek vs Star Wars by dpilot · · Score: 1

      Scary thing was, less than a month after that SNL episode, some friends a few hours away invited me to visit for my birthday, and took me to a (My first, last, and only.) Star Trek convention. They had "Get a Life!" and "It was just a TV show" T-shirts on sale.

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  101. With landing gear extended.... by deft · · Score: 1

    With landing gear extended.... for her pleasure.

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  102. Re:Mon Calamar by Rolan · · Score: 2, Informative

    Lucas told SWG that Mon Cal females didn't have breasts (not being mamals afterall). There was an on going fight about if they should or shouldn't on the SWG boards, wouldn't want to be there now.

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  103. I for one welcome our new Bollywood overlords... by Branch_Dravidian · · Score: 1

    Star Wars needed some song and dance numbers for the all-important desi demographic...

  104. Re:Mon Calamar by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 1

    With one name... Lucas has upset the French, Italians, grammer nazis, and possibly even a few fans. Brilliant.

  105. Somewhere Dr. Zoidberg is salivating by Conspir8or · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Oy! Get out of my dreams and into my claws already!"

  106. here we go again.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    more bandwidth wasted on Star Wars purists feeling like they've been oppressed by Lucas's vision. You poor poor innocent victims. I would shed a tear for you but I don't have a lot of time since I have a life.

  107. Re:Mon Calamar by C10H14N2 · · Score: 1

    ...but, you cannot say "mon calamar[i|s]" or "mon calmars." On the artwork, it was "Mon Calamari," which any way you slice it is patently wrong.

  108. Re:Mon Calamar by C10H14N2 · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Not a grammar/spelling nazi, more of an intelligence nazi and "Mon Calamari" is as insipid as it is incorrect. Such an obvious blunder would be one thing in a discussion thread, but when it makes it into production art, someone has deliberately enforced their idiocy, at which point it is our patriotic duty to publicly humiliate them. ...oh, and it's "grammar," not "grammer."

    *cough*

  109. OLD NEWS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This art was on StarWars.com since October 2004...

    Aside from that, this appears to be more of a transitional scene, not a direct plot point. Why does everyone freak out about this?

    If we were scrutinizing details of ANH, people would probably freak out about the trashcan robot or some other minor background piece.

  110. Didnt that fail once already? by RagingChipmunk · · Score: 1

    Didnt that fail MISERABLY once? The name "Waterworld" comes to mind. Ha ha ha

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  111. George Lucas == Andy Kaufman? by Logic+Bomb · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ok, obviously not. But even though all his public statements make it seem like Lucas really takes Star Wars seriously, I wonder if really he's laughing his @$$ off as he purposely makes fans get crazy upset. It's just the sort of emotional manipulation Andy Kaufman thought was hilarious. It's not like Lucas has to worry about commercial success. People are going to see this movie no matter how awful it is, and even if it's a total flop Lucas is, shall we say, "independently wealthy". Anyone else get the feeling he's just having a good time screwing with people?

    1. Re:George Lucas == Andy Kaufman? by wideBlueSkies · · Score: 1

      >>Anyone else get the feeling he's just having a good time screwing with people?

      Anyone else get the feeling he's just having a good time reaching into people's wallets?

      wbs.

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  112. Re:Mon Calamar by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 1
    ...oh, and it's "grammar," not "grammer."

    I know. :P
  113. Re:Mon Calamar by C10H14N2 · · Score: 1

    Obviously, the root of the word is shared, because they're in the same language family. The fsck up is that it is categorically wrong in ANY romance language to use a singular possessive with a plural noun or vice versa. For anyone with a first-year highschool knowledge of any of the languages in question, this is not a "grammar nazi" issue, it's an error so obvious that it boggles the mind how it made it to production artwork.

    French:
    MON calmar
    MES calmars

    Italian:
    I MIEI calamari
    IL MIO calamaro

    Spanish:
    MI calamar
    MIS calamares

  114. Re:Mon Calamar by TheMediaWrangler · · Score: 1

    How do you know those are breasts? They could contain ink for a hasty get-away. They could be bouyancy controlling air sacks. Just really conveniently placed air sacks.

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  115. Re:Mon Calamar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Do you really think Lucas was trying to say "my squid" as the name of the species for Admiral Ackbar? Would that make any more sense? He was just trying to make something that sounded kind of cool and fish-like. C'mon, are you going to break down the latin roots of "Count Dooku" or the "No Combackee Law"???

  116. Lucas declares victory over Star Wars fans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Faux News
    Skywalker Ranch, California

    The Star Wars fan community was stunned today by George Lucas' admission that the prequel trilogy is, in fact, an elaborate troll.

    "It was a good troll, and I managed to keep it going a lot longer than I thought," said Lucas. "Between Jar-Jar and Jake Lloyd, no-one at LucasFilm thought I could pull it off at all. They thought it was too obvious." Lucas, however, had confidence. "I knew I could do anything I wanted so long as I threw enough lightsaber fights and space battles in there, he explained. "Rick Berman actually bet me that the theaters would be a ghost town when Episode II came out," Lucas continued. "I'm proud to say I won that bet, even after making the love scenes with Hayden and Natalie as awkward and interminable as possible. I was hoping to keep the gag going until after Revenge of the Sith premiered," he added, "but with the ending leaked on all the fan sites, that's just not possible."

    The leaked video, which has appeared on several websites, depicts the character Jar-Jar Binks bent over in an obscene posture, accompanied by text reading "YHBT. YHL. HAND. |uc4s > j00." It is believed to be an homage to the infamous web site goatse.cx, which is frequently used by trolls to shock unsuspecting viewers. The text is shorthand for "You have been trolled. You have lost. Have a nice day. Lucas is greater than you," a common ending to a sucessful troll. There is also a rumored ballet number featuring the Star Wars kid.

    Fan reaction to the news has been mixed. "I knew it," said Arthur Dent of London, England. "Ever since all those bloody ewoks in Return of the Jedi, I knew something wasn't quite right." Other fans are still clinging to denial: from his place in line at the Senator Theater, Scott Kennedy, 31, was quoted as saying "No! That's not true! That's impossible!" The announcement has also forced fans of other science fiction franchises to view their favorite shows with a more skeptical eye. "I'm wondering what [Rick] Berman's up to," said fan 3.14159265 of 9. "There's rumors that the next movie is called Star Trek: Wesley Crusher's Day Off."

    And does Lucas have any last words for his fans?

    "pWn3d."

    Faux News: we make it up, you fall for it.

  117. Damn right I'll post anonymously by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  118. Re:Mon Calamar by nEoN+nOoDlE · · Score: 1

    Now write it a hundred times on the wall... or I cut your balls off.

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  119. Re:Mon Calamar by C10H14N2 · · Score: 0

    Erm, considering she's a fsking squid, yes, I do think he was being cute and naming her "my squid." Writers do this crap all the time, but usually they're intelligent enough to not make themselves look like illiterate morons in the process.

  120. Re:Mon Calamar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I really miss Jaba's tiwileck dancer. I mean chain mail as your only form of clothing. That and what nerd on slashdot hasn't wanted to do a green girl?

  121. Re:Mon Calamar by floodo1 · · Score: 0

    but the movies are in ENGLISH (mostly)

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  122. ... just.... stupid... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can anybody tell me why the **** a fish woman has BREASTS? OK the hyperspace stuff, the droids, the lightsabers are tolerable to the logical mind. But THIS?

    And I thought the Startrek sequels were bad...

  123. Previous image is clearly a "Big Trak" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you look at the previous image, it's of a big transport vehicle, which I suppose appears in the film.

    The vehicle looks remarkably like a "Big Trak", a toy of the late 70's or early 80's. It was a six-wheeled vehicle which could be programmed for simple trips.

    ie, Forward 5 'steps', turn right 15 degrees, turn right 15 degrees again, forward 5 steps, "fire" three times, reverse.

  124. Yes, thank you for that. by jcuervo · · Score: 1

    I believe I'll go dip my eyeballs in bleach now.

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  125. Aquatic? by fbg111 · · Score: 1

    Amusing how an aquatically evolved organism has roughly the same appendages and organs as humans do - two legs with toes, two arms with fingers, and breasts??? And having your dress straps run through your gill slits must sure be uncomfortable...

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  126. Real Ultimate Calamari! by weston · · Score: 3, Funny

    However, has it ever been stated that Calamari are not mammals ?

    Whoever told you that is a total liar. Like other mammals Calamari can either have breasts or be totally flat.

    Facts:

    (1) Calamari are mammals
    (2) Calamari nurse their young ALL the time
    (3) The purposes of Calamari are to flip out and warn "It's a trap!"

    1. Re:Real Ultimate Calamari! by Westacular · · Score: 1

      Truly, Calamari are the possessors of REAL ULTIMATE POWER.

  127. Jedi IT Dept. by killawatt5k · · Score: 1

    Actaully this should have made the front page! http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/bts/artofrev/2 004/11/artofrev20041122.html

  128. Re:Mon Calamar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Milk Out of Nipples Calamari?

  129. Missing the point? by Artifakt · · Score: 1

    All the people who are questioning why an amphibian has hooters are missing the point. If she was flat chested, she might look like a skinny guy. Here she is, swimming through the water, showing a lot of leg and a pert butt, and just when the viewer's little George starts perking up, there's that icky thought, "Oh my Midiclorians, what if 'she' is a skinny guy fish-thing?".
    This way, any viewer who responds to the more subtle feminine cues can check for bumpies and be assured he is wholesomely turned on by an obviously female overgrown mutant carp, and isn't some kind of prevert that would dig male horribly deformed giant walking catfish.

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  130. Just like normal... by mikefe · · Score: 1

    ...put a sack on her head and you have a winner!

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  131. In Joss Whedons Serenity by Snaller · · Score: 1

    however, you'll probably find the odd clever comment on life (the problem being its clever, and a lot of the dorks will miss it)

    Comming later this year!

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  132. I can't wait for the porno to come out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    MMmMMMm calamar porn...

  133. Mice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I already refer to my mouse scroll wheel as a 'mouse clitoris' ...

    Posting from the relative safety of anonymity ...

  134. Re:Mon Calamar by schon · · Score: 1

    As Lucas has aged his sexual tastes have drifted

    Am I the only one who now imagines him talking in Troy Mclure's voice?

  135. Re:Mon Calamar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    it's an error so obvious that it boggles the mind how it made it to production artwork.

    You ARE joking, right? Otherwise you'd have to be singled out as the second most retarded poster in the history of slashdot (right behind Anonymous Coward... I tend to say some really stupid shit).

  136. Water Follies while Vader knocks up Princess? by joemontoya · · Score: 1

    It's possible that this movie maybe even worse than the last two. I am not sure if I would be sad watching Lucas self-destruct on screen or if I would get a kick out of it.

  137. Amadala's Squid meets Vader's Mech-o-Pecker by joemontoya · · Score: 1

    May the Force be with you!

  138. Special case by Cappy+Red · · Score: 1

    "It was a simple art decision made over and over in all fantasy across all genres."

    Indeed, that decision is pretty ubiquitous, but Lucas has been more than willing to go in different directions with character designs in the past. Especially considering the amount of CG he's been using in the prequels, he didn't have to do it this way.

    Then again, this isn't something I'm getting bent out of shape over. The specific decision for the inclusion of breasts on this background character doesn't really bother me. The overall design of the character might, but it is so far down the list of gripes I have about the prequels as to be insignificant.

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  139. Only on Slashdot.... by bckrispi · · Score: 1

    ...can you get fanboys up in arms over a piece of PREPRODUCTION ART that was released OVER SIX MONTHS AGO. By the Fucking gods!! I can only imagine what the complaints would sound like back in 1980 when the first conceptual drawings of Yoda were released. Seriously, quit your bitching already.

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  140. Re:Mon Calamar by TrippTDF · · Score: 1

    My good sir, this might be the funniest thing I ever read on /. well done.

  141. Re:Mon Calamar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What is even funnier is that someone mod'd it +1 informative!

  142. Data Vader by Atario · · Score: 1
    Data (I relate to him the most as I really consider myself to be more a machine than a human)

    More machine now, than man? Twisted and evil?

    Or

    More a machine than a human? Idiot-savantesque with a Pinocchio complex?

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    1. Re:Data Vader by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, I am the original poster and yes I was going for a Funny mod. But, seeing that you were trying to be funny , I have to point out that your second assertion (idiot savante witha pinicchio complex) is actually a lot more true for me than your first (twisted and evil):

      1. I have a lot of difficulty relating to people in general. I have to think about how to react and then act out my emotions because I really feel nothing when people expect me to feel something.
      2. When I was a kid, I hated other kids a lot because they weren't easy to get along with. Instead I cooped up in my bedroom with my machines. I fell in love with them. They never lied. They never made fun of me. They only did what I wanted them to. They were the perfect friends.
      3. I have no formal training regarding computers. I just intuitively understand them. This is how I got into professional IT. I have a reputation for being extremely good at working with computers. From programming, to scripting, to administration, to long term planning and implementation of systems, I just seem to have a feel for doing this stuff. I may not have a degree or certification, but I can intuitively work with these machines. So yes, I am a savant.
      4. I do wish I understood what it means to be excited about something. I see a lot of people become very excited about things like engagements, something their kids did, the victory of a sports team, etc... The best I can offer them is a preprogrammed smile and response. I have to mentally preconfigure my response and determine what the approapriate expression on my face should be. Even with all that work, I just can't get excited because I really don't care.

      So now you have more of an insight into my personality. I find it interesting that you somehow intuited my real personality from my joke post above.

  143. You are a part of the problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Entertainment? You want to watch programmes as entertainment? What kind of twaddle is that? Personally, I hate Deep Space 9 because most of the time all it was was just story telling. I liked TNG and Voyager because they were focused on visionary viewpoints of where humanity could go if we can just eliminate the undesirables in our species (I'm not talking race, I'm talking attitude). I fully support the cleansing of our species. If we kill all people with an overly selfish viewpoint, I think we'll really be onto something.

  144. Missing option: BREAST! by joNDoty · · Score: 1

    Cape or not, this is one alien I wouldn't mind having a costume malfunction.

  145. Riddle me this by LPetrazickis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Okay, WTF does an amphibian have lumps that look a lot like mammalian breasts? Someone ought to pound some biology into Lucas' orifices.

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  146. It's an opera. by TheBlackSwordsman · · Score: 1
    This particular scene isn't nearly as goofy as some people would make it out to be. The "water spectacular" is part of an opera that Palpatine and Anakin attend. Big whoop. As someone already mentioned, you can see part of the scene in the trailer. I think it actually looks pretty cool.

    It's surely got to be better than that crappy dance number Lucas cooked up for the special edition of ROTJ.