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Star Wars: Revelations Available Online
Lemming Mark writes "Panic Struck Productions have just released their first Star Wars movie, 'Revelations.' The movie has been produced on a not-for profit basis by a team of volunteers and is available for free download. Despite its humble origins, the production appears extraordinarily professional. The film is over 40 minutes long, complete with space battles and lightsaber fights -- need I say more?
See more details at the official site, or jump straight to the download mirrors." (As promised last month.)
jump straight to the download mirrors
t ions_film_QT_large.mov.torrent
t ions_film_large.wmv.torrent
Or better yet, jump straight to the torrents. I'm getting ~500KB on both of them. I'd probably get more but my cap is set at 4mb/sec.
Quicktime
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/revelations/revela
Windows Media Player
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/revelations/revela
I'm a virgo and on Slashdot. Coincidence? Yes.
You know it's sad when you kill the list of mirrors, before a single comment.
funny munging
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/revelations/revelat ions_film_large.wmv.torrent
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/revelations/day-1.m ov.torrent
Carousel is a lie!
Are there any subtitles for this, or is anyone willing to make them for a deaf person like me? Subtitle Workshop
I was going to try that but I can't even download the torrent. Luckily the other mirrors are working still.
Except for the acting. :(
Obi-Wan and Luke were both very hungry after their long speeder trip to that wretched hive of scum and villiany, Mos Eisley. They settled themselves in a cantina and ordered a big dinner of noodles, rice, sweet and sour dewback, and other oriental style goodies.
The food soon arrived and they set to. Obi-Wan handled his chopsticks deftly, quickly and securely picking up a noodle here, a prawn ball there. He soon sat back satisfied, and let out a quiet burp.
Luke, on the other hand, was in a right state. He just couldn't get the hang of the sticks, and had dropped far more food on the table and down his front than he had managed to get into his mouth. He sat, surrounded by rice and noodle debris, still as hungry as when he started.
Seeing his pupil in such distress, the Jedi Master leant over to dispense some of the wisdom of his years.
Use the forks, Luke he whispered, Use the forks.
I am sure the internet shall sense a disturbance in the force....
Anyone have a torrent of the torrents?
Star Wars Kid got a girlfriend?
I sense a disturbance in the Force... as if 1 million sites hosting revelations suddenly blinked out ...
crossover between a group of fanatical devotees with extreme zeal.... and the left-behind people...
"Waste not one watt!" - CZ
Clicky
Who needs to watch something professional anything when you can have the story of two Pizza Delivery Jedi and a fonzie-looking Yoda?
"Star Wars Kid got a girlfriend?"
Heh. Imagine the pain that'd cause most of the Slashdot community.
"Derp de derp."
The last amateur star wars film I saw with light saber fighting in it wasn't so good...
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milions of souls cry out as their lives were being extinguished.
Good effects, bad acting.
Don't get me wrong, the production looks professional, but the acting leads something to be desired.
Hrmm... try this: go watch Episodes I & II first, come back, watch it again, and see if you feel better about it.
Can't we just enjoy the film for what it is rather than what it is not? In a world where crap like Alone in the Dark gets released, at least we can show movie companies what can be done on a shoe string budget with better writing.
...I don't understand why people are complaining about the quality of the acting - after all, I thought that there were many complaints about the acting in the official films?
This is, of course, unless the acting in this make Jar Jar Binks look like a classically-trained Shakespearean actor...
I heard that your library burnt down and destroyed your only two books - and one was not even coloured in yet.
I've got no idea what it looks like - BitTorrent tells me I'll have to wait 26 hours to finish downloading (:-), but at least it knows how big the file is supposed to be. The torrent had 2 seeders and 20 downloaders a couple of minutes ago, but one of the seeders has left and the number of downloaders has dropped to 14, which is pretty silly for something that download thing *torrent* is that badly slashdotted :-)
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
"Can't we just enjoy the film for what it is...?"
No. That's why there's so much bitching about it.
"Derp de derp."
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Here you all go:
g e. mov.torrent
http://www.css-auth.com/revelations_film_QT_lar
Ads? What ads?
It seems that the servers holding the .torrent files are overloaded. Funny. But is there any reason why one could not post the contents of the .torrent file as a comment on slashdot? Is it binary?
See subject.
I sense a disturbance in the force....as if a Dozen webservers suddenly cried out ...and were then silenced.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Is it just me, or is anyone else tired of movies/games/t.v. shows with words like 'Revolution' or 'Infinity', 'suchandsuch:Armeggeddon or 'Revelations' or so on and so forth?
Please stop! It's not cool anymore!
After seeing the poster they did up for it, who cares what the actings' like? Those two women are hot, that third one in the upper-left...not so much.R EVELATIONS_OFFICIAL_POSTER.jpg
http://www.panicstruckpro.com/revelations/images/
during her second 'vision'.
Can't get past it.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
Still emerging bittorrent in gentoo. *sigh* It's as though I've gained a patient composure through this distro. I should be grateful. ...it's optimized specifically for my hardware...so after 2 hours I saved 2 seconds. Yeah!
That's exactly what I was thinking. Did they skip Star Wars: Reloaded, or what?
I have to reconsider my stance on keeping BitTorrent legal.
Hardly. The characters you see when opening that "text" file are your browser's effort to interpret the binary data as ASCII (or whatever encoding you like to use). It fails miserably as a result, probably because it isn't Korean after all :)
Ads? What ads?
Why can't we moderate posts "incoherent"?
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//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
It's interesting to see bittorrent working on such a large scale type of thing. Notice that the webserver hosting the .torrent files have gone down, and as of now 1338 (darn it I'm # 1338) people are downloading it sucessfully. While it is true that it is going to take me 2 hours to get it all, I remember the days of old 56k modems when a 200mb download would take 2 days, so this is fast enough for me.
For those of you going slower then about 30K down, make sure you have holes poked in your firewalls.
Also, for the rest of us, leave the thing running for a while after you finish getting it please, it 's sad to see the number of seeders drop as quickly as they are....
My UID is prime and so is this number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
An excerpt from your post.
Comedy gold.
That did occur to me just before I posted. Obviously didn't stop me...
Also, the Slashcode has inserted spaces as the 49th character in each data line, which does rather render the UUE much less coherent than it ought to be. However, I'm not feeling motivated enough to recompile my uuencode command with a non-default line length, especially as many (crappy (Windows)) versions of UUdecode get pissy when you do that to their input. If you manually remove those extra spaces from the input, it actually does decode. Someone want to post a perl script for that?
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
thousands of mirrors were silenced at once
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No it isn't binary. !!
.torrent file contains a "bencoded" dictionay (hash table) of information about the torrent. Some of the information in it is SHA-1 hashes of the chunks of files, but it is all UTF-8 encoded so any web browsers without UTF font supprt wouldn't be able to look at it though.
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It definatly would not pass the lameness filter though.
My UID is prime and so is this number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
The BitTorrent download is slower than I would have thought since everyone is trying to download it. Unless only /. people are using BitTorrent so not a lot of upload is going.
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Riddle me this...
I'm downloading this right now with bittorrent, and my upstream is 2-3 times more than my downstream! I thought Bittorrent worked on the principle of "I give you 1kb, you give me 1kb back" so shouldn't my downstream be at least equal to my upstream? I've only downloaded 131MB, but I've already dished out 346MB to other peers.
And yes, I do have the ports opened in my firewalls.
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The acting is terrible. The plot always centers around a couple of dorky Jedis. Because even the fattest nerd can fit into the robes.
The effects are always good, but haven't we learned by now that the effects are not what makes for good Star Wars movies? It's the characters. Specifically, it's Han Solo.
Without someone as cool as Han Solo, Star Wars is just lame. The new movies lack anyone to fill that role, and so do all the fan films. The ultra-serious Jedi are fucking boring.
See, that's the difference in teaching styles between Obi Wan and Pei Mei. Plus Pei Mei has the cooler beard.
While good.. the cinematic quality isnt quite there
/ship effects, almost equal to the current level of effects, and certainly worthy of the classic starwars movies. The extras: generally pretty good, better than the emperor's hand woman in general, except for the dancer at the beginning of the bar.
for instance.. voices are echoey an comm-like when they shouldnt be, for isntance in the entrance to the great hall.
The acting's generally ok... but the woman playing the emperor's hand person over/under acts, I cant quite tell, but she's definately the most "off" of all of them. Vader's voice is a tad off.. and so are some of his actions, like the force choke, it was too quick.. it didnt linger.
The holographic effects are good, as are the space
Camerawork... it's almost.. too fluid.. like a TV show... somethings' not quite right here.. not enough stationary shots that are more characteristic of the real movies. Everytime the camera pans it feels sort of like it's being shot from a home movie camera, unless it's a space-effect, in which case, it feels like the movie.
The special effects were good, that's for sure. But honestly, this production needs light as badly as Doom 3. I actually used QuickTime's brightness and contrast controls on it.
And another thing. What's with people and using Sorenson 3? This is the fucking year 2005. Use XviD, 3ivx or at the very least DivX for crying out loud. All are viable options on QuickTime. And whose brilliant idea was it to encode with the black bars?
ya might want to enable uploads.
130 K/sec here and 30 min. to go...
I call total BS. On my connection, using an ssh proxy from school (which blocks BT) to my home (which is a firewalled connection on speakeasy DSL) with my upload cap at 22.5 I'm getting ~18 down, and I only just started so I expect itll go up as I seed more.
Sounds like a prob with your ISP or the truth moren BT to me....
"goodbye and hello, as always" ~Prince Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series
but it's no worse than Episodes I and II.
Considering the different budgets involved (and cost for us the viewer) I cut it some slack.
No kidding!
The music, sound effects and visual special effects are excellent; remarkably well done and I'd say better than most big-budget Hollywood productions. Amazing!
However, the acting is almost painful. This one comes off like a small town theatre group led by a soap-opera director. I keep expecting Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to pop up and start making jokes at any moment.
By the way, who's the second actress? The chick on the telescreen/command deck who makes her appearance around 00:02:00. I can't tell if that's Xena Warrior Princess, Anna Nicole Smith with a black wig, or Monica Lewinski or maybe all three morphed together. Wierd. Go look for yourself. (If it's Xena, go back to kicking butt and subplots. If it's Anna, that diet didn't last long. If it's Monica, then girl you should stick to what you, um... err..., do best and leave the acting to professionals.)
The acting is very bad.
Give it a shot- all you've got to lose is the time it takes to download it +90 minutes to watch it.
A trailer, so you can try before you watch.
The full movie,if you feel so inclined to skip the website and just watch it.
Links cached for your downloading pleasure.
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I'm pulling this .torrent (the QT version) faster than any other I've ever downloaded. I'll keep it open for seeding...
I've posted the .torrent file at http://tinyurl.com/7oz2d/
Kevin
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While I understand that many of these fanfilms are done out of a sense of respect and admiration for the original material, it always kills me when considerable talent such as this is poured into the creative boundaries and legal obligations of an existing idea. Undoubtedly they get a lot more immediate interest in their work making a 'Star Wars' movie, but if instead they created an original story, I bet it would be a lot more enduring. They would even be able to sell their work on DVD and perhaps fund a sequel. They would be free of the shackles of an existing mythos and could dream up whatever they wanted, something new and surpassing 'Star Wars' in pure imagination and wonder. Something that would mean a lot more than just a fanfilm. No matter the production values, that is what it is. How great would it be to see an ORIGINAL indie sci-fi epic on the scale of this production? New worlds, new characters, new ideas? I'm sure they would get a lot of support. With enough support they might find they can even make it into a series. Ah well.. dxtx
The acting, yes, is not the best however is on par with most of anikin/amidala from Ep1/Ep2. I thought Liam Neeson in Ep1 really brought it out there and Ewan McGregor was great support for Neeson but in Ep2 there was.. nothing.
Anyways, the lightsaber scene between the two chicks was horribly choreographed, why would a jedi whip out a second light saber only to swing them both in unison? I thought the one male jedis fight was pretty good, but it seemed like the only one, and it was too short.
These jedi seemed to have a lot of emotions including love between jedi? Did these guys who wrote this thing ever watch any of the movies at all? The only sane guy out of the "good" crew was the one who wasn't a jedi. Being a jedi, wouldn't the two be able to sense the general alignment of the other? The whole trust fight at the beginning is odd. If my sister, who was a seer jedi, knew another jedi and trusted him, why would I, also being a jedi, not trust him, especially if I could just sense his feelings? It makes no sense. Plot = swiss cheese.
Could have been better, had potential, blew it.
Pain? I think you mean hope...
I just finished watching it. Some of the acting was indeed a bit wince-enducing, but I frankly found it more palatable than, say, Jake Lloyd in ep 1 or the romance scenes in ep 2. Space CGI was really nice, music was spot-on, and the lightsaber fights weren't great, but didn't suck either. The only complaint I'd really raise was that it was really dark in some scenes, but overall? Nice.
The complaints I'm seeing here are ludicrous. That was altogether stunning, and I'll be watching it again soon.
I think a light saber fight in a darkened series of caves was a bit ambitious (given that the sabers are strongly monochromatic light sources), but they still pulled it off ok.
I was very impressed.
-truth
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Since everybody else is talking about problems downloading it, let me be one of the first (I think) to write some kind of a review of the movie itself:
The special effects are more than impressive. The CG modeling is on a professional level. This is particularly obvious in the space battle -- dozens of finely detailed starships flying around in considerably more elaborate flight paths than I've seen in any fan film yet. The camera tracks and follows the ships in a nice theatrical manner rather than 1990s-style videogame CG. Earlier, there is also a very impressive fly-through of a large, futuristic city with nearly as much detail as was seen in the Fifth Element. A sequence seen later on of a spaceship flying towards and landing on a planet is on par with the non-character CGI of the Final Fantasy movie.
The most strikingly impressive special effects come in the form of blue screen. There seems to be extensive use of real-life sets (which are on par with most television productions), and the camera moves around quite freely (sometimes it's hand-held). The CG effects in the blue screen windows, as well as other little additions (holograms, neon signs on walls, etc) follow the camera movements extremely well. This in itself makes this superior to every other special effects-driven fan film I've ever seen.
The storyline, as with most fan films, is entirely irrelevant (unless you pay attention to storylines in videogames, of course). The whole point of the story here is to move the characters from one cool location to another (night club, ancient Jedi temple, etc), have them meet up and give them a reason to fight each other. The film heavily borrows elements from movies like "Unbreakable" and recycles plenty of scenes and dialogue from existing Star Wars films, as is common practice among most fan films. Other than that, it feels like a storyline from a Star Wars videogame, only shorter.
The acting is obviously not going to be that good, and the creaters once again continue the fine tradition of fan film casting by employing chubby, goatee-sporting geeks and goth girls to stand around and attempt to recite the cheesy lines given to them, though some try harder than most to sound convincing.
The lighting is also very nicely done, matching the CG and real-world sets quite well. On a greyish-yellow planet (all CG), for instance, the characters do not stick out like sore thumbs and generally blend in quite well with their surroundings.
Light saber battles are not the best. If you want to see how real light saber fights should be done in a fan film, watch "Art of the Saber", whose choerography and combatant skills match those in The Phantom Menace.
Overall, I'd say that this film is an extremely fine technical achievement. The production design has a very expensive look to it. The ending credits are downright HUGE. This is a fine achievement, and shows exactly what big budget fan films can accomplish. Copyright issues and the whole Star Wars labeling apart, this looks like something that could easily have come from a production company that works for the Sci-Fi Channel. It may not be as impressive compared to the real Star Wars, but it is definitely not any worse than, at the very least, cable television production.
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Between WMV and Quicktime...I choose DEATH!
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That's lame... If they had it as an AVI, I'd be able to play it on the 'Giant Wall Screen of Doom' straight from my DVD player
Now I gotta string a VGA cable across the room to the DLP projector.
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The Lucas lightsaber scenes are flashier and cooler, but *nothing they do makes sense*. Pretty much no actual swordsmanship has ever been in a Star Wars film, I was certainly not expecting this one to start.
The Jedi emotion thing is inconsistent with the movies, but IIRC the books don't exactly have the Jedi being ascetic. That level of "all ur base r belong 2 us oh, btw, we left ur mom in slavery lol luv is 3V1L!!" seemed created to make Anakin's eventual fall more believable.
The trust fight was odd, and was probably placed there to create tension quickly- it's arbitrary, but how else are you going to get there with two Jedi knights, who would logically be like loyal siblings?
I wouldn't say it blew anything. The plot could certainly have been better, but I wouldn't say it was bad.
I was very impressed.
I think this movie proves that a bunch of Star Wars geeks with access to good effects and no acting or writing talent can do just as good of a job as George Lucas. Imagine what would have happened here if they actually had a budget. If anything, it leads me to believe that an all-CG Star Wars film done by fans might turn out far better than the crap that episodes 1 and 2 have been.
Following your advice, I just watched I & II back to back and to tell you the truth I feel... *runs to the bathroom, spewing half-digested White Castle sliders through two cupped hands along the way*
Acting aside, kudos to the production work. No surprise there either; we nerds are the one doing the CG for the real movies in the first place.
Has anyone seen a torrent or mirror for the "small" low resolution? preferably in WMV.
It's supposed to exist but I can't find it.
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Good, except for the blurry edges...
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
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"I find your lack of faith disappointing."
First off, I only watched the first 15 or so minutes (it was late), so this is a point of view based on it's opening. However, what I saw will probably carry through for the entire thing, considering how basic the issues are. First, the special effects. This is a low-budget "home-brew" movie. I'm not going to demand an ILM quality production. It was fairly decent - on a par with many B movies that recieved far better funding (and full time work). Filming Techniques... these leave something to be desired. The camera shots don't look very well planned out, and are by no means dramatic. Not terrible (the camera's not in anyone's face), but between the lighting and the uninspiring shot angles, it's nothing to brag about. Many no-budget independant films with nothing else to show for, do better than this. Writing... ungh. While a lot of movies get by with poor writing by having high production values and a lot of glitz to distract you from the lines, when you're on a shoestring budget you can't hide a lack of a good script. Acting. This is my main gripe. It was bad. I've seen worse on direct-to-video, but I know non-actor friends who can do better than this. And people who say "watch the originals, are they better" are just looking for something to gripe about - there is no comparison. This is like watching someone's live-action rpg played out on a screen. The actors don't really seem to be into their roles, and are doing more posturing and pronouncing than conveying their characters. The glory of net-distributed films is that it allows people with no budget, no particular skill, and no training to put their heart and soul into a production that concentrates on attributes that have no price - imagination, intensity, and good writing. This didn't have any of these things. I'm sure this was a labor of love... and the sheer fact that they finished it is an accomplishment. The sheer fact that they got this many people interested is an even greater accomplishment. The end product, however, is not.
Do not confuse "Freedom of Choice" with "Free Will".
This is fabulous! The amount of people that got together to put something like this together is just amazing.
:)
Forget about the amateurish acting, the X-files style lighting (not a feature in my mind), the fact that everything was obviously done in front of a green-screen, and the cinematography/camera settings made it look more like a soap opera than a motion picture shot on celluloid (use filters/plugins to achieve that).
This was awesome.. I watched it all the way through, and that includes the credits. I plan on sending the URL to several people I know in the indy film industry, once the interest dies down a little that is.
- Joel
I thought the sets and CGI looked great for a fan film. However, I think Vader's dialogue could've helped with a volume boost.
True, but you could use Sorensen MP4 advanced simple - that works with standard QT installs and provides a better experience than SV3.1.
That was classic intercourse!
This thing is merely a bigger budget version of this classical moment of the web. If this guy would have had half their budget he would have done great things ;) , cause I'll side with the rest on acting quality; amateur film, amateur actors, it was predictable but it is still disturbing to see geeks playing on screen wath they've been practicing in their bedrooms for years...
Although I would like to congratulate them on bringing us the first Star-Wars where women aren't a prize or a decoration...
Is it just me, or are there really recognizable parts of the original film music in the teaser? I cannot recognize the choir bits, but the fanfare is definitely from the first movie (i.e., nr 4). And everything sounds very well done, and somehow I don't think they had an orchestra and choir to their disposal...
I don't get it. Doesn't someone own the trademark for Star Wars still? And don't they still defend it brutally? Also basing a work on another copyrighted work means you are dependent on their copyright. This sort of thing has given "fan fiction" trouble for a long time, I can't imagine the legal result would improve for a franchise like Star Wars ontop of that they are making fan-film not just written text, which only aids in attracting attention (enough to have gotten a slashdot post).
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
This is a first. I have the full codec pack and mplayer STILL says it can't find a matching codec.
That hasn't happened to me before. Anyone know what codec I need?
I thought Lucas disapproved of such things.
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I had the oppertunity to go to the premiere in Baltimore, MD on Saturday night. While I was there, I got to meet several of the actors in the flick as well as the producer. They also had Darth Vader and the 501st Div and R2-D2.
I wasn't sure what to expect, but there were more people there in black-tie than in costume. The whole event was well done and a great time. Thanks PanicStruck.
BT means "Bit Torrent", not 'British Telecom'.
It is a very understandable mistake though.
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
Why the hell did they use interlacing????
long time ago in a computer far, far away I did made a star wars intro using flash...All I can say is that the intro of revelations is a crap and I can do much better than them..I really dunno why they use a background music that contain so much less energy than the original series and the fading of the world "starwars" is damn too slow. The mucis at the time when the text follows is so weak that the whole atmosphere is just not right. But I appreciate their hardworking and enthusiasm. Thanks for the amazement, Panic Struck Productions, despite the pretty much room for improvement.
Professional doesn't even begin to describe the quality of the acting--at all.
It only displays a small fraction of seeders/leechers, those that the tracker has told it about.
:)
To see the total S/L ratio, you need to go to the master tracker's status page, if available. For example, I routinely see only 4-5 seeders in the client when there are 50+ listed on the tracker page, and similarly only 10% or so of the total leechers are displayed by my client.
Up to 225 KB/sec now.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Does anyone remember the name or have a link to the fan film that came out a few years ago, all I can remember is reading about it in Wired that it was rendered on an Alpha.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
They used MIDI! For the title sequence. MIDI I tell you!
ouch.
It's a fan film. They didn't even attempt to make money off of this. It wasn't meant to be a money maker. It was for fun. Get real, okay??!!
A fan movie? Come on.
Here is what I know is in the movie. Please correct me if I am wrong:
1) Too many slightly overweight characters
2) All the women are plain-janes except maybe one
3) Stiff, fake-sounding dialog.
4) Tedious and gratuitous use of special effects.
5) Boring plot
And you want to tell us where your fan film is?
I have the greatest respect for these people - at least they got out there and did something rather than troll-posting on Slashdot.
"Bah!" - Dogbert
The storyline and the acting were terrible.
Has anyone been able to convert this for burning onto a dvd? I have tried various converters for both mov and wmf and have not been able to convert it for dvd. Would be nice to have this on dvd.
After watching the film I have to say that the acting was average at best and mostly very poor (but what do you expect from a low-budget fan film?). The special effects were quite good though, with some of the effects being about Phantom Menace quality, though one or two seens looked to me like a cross between the graphics from Rogue Squadron on N64 and Rogue Squadron 2 on GameCube. Overall though I'd say that for a fan film it's good and if you're into special effects and Star Wars then it's worth the download, as long as you're on broadband that is (obviously...).
Great! Thanks -- downloading now: torrent