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?

Comments

Proof

[CypherXero]

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...

Re:Proof

[Karma Farmer]

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.)

No imagination

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do all female aliens have boobs?

Re:No imagination

[NitsujTPU]

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.

Re:No imagination

[werewolf1031]

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?!

Re:No imagination

[Dobeln]

"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.

Re:No imagination

[skaffen42]

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...

Bring back the bar band

[planckscale]

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.

Stop all yer belly-ache'n

[pdxdada]

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.

Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty

[Seumas]

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. ;)

Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty

[secolactico]

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.

Re:Say it isn't so...

[rfernand79]

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.

Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Obligatory

[ultranova]

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 ?

And here I was illusioned...

[NanotechLobster]

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.

Re:Mon Calamar

[gl4ss]

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..

Re:Obligatory

[provolt]

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

George Lucas == Andy Kaufman?

[Logic Bomb]

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?

Riddle me this

[LPetrazickis]

Okay, WTF does an amphibian have lumps that look a lot like mammalian breasts? Someone ought to pound some biology into Lucas' orifices.