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Episode III Deleted Scenes Leaked Online
Master_of_Tumbleweeds writes "Like the previous Prequels' arrivals on DVD, Revenge of the Sith will have several deleted scenes included when it's released next month. We now have a sneak peak (thanks to various online spies like the infamous Darth Psychotic) at a couple of these sequences, one that depicts General Grievous actually dispatching a Jedi Knight (something we didn't even see in the theatrical release) and Yoda's arrival at the swamp planet of Dagobah. Episode III comes out on DVD November 1st"
Takes some balls to do this right after 6 people get arrested for leaking the movie.
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Sure, EpIII ended the series with a modicum of dignity that was absent from I and II, but with Serenity coming out tonight, I'm disinclined to get excited about Star Wars anymore. Joss Whedon is my master now.
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Dunno. The screens just show the spaceship landing and Yoda in the doorway. I imagine the rest is still left to the imagination.
FWIW, I think the whole "exile" thing was one of the worst handled parts of Episode III. Yoda failed to dispatch the Emporor. So what? Suddenly, he MUST go into exile? No one is going to question the decision? No one thinks that they should regroup and attack the Emporor in force?
I can understand the idea behind the exile, but the execution needed a lot of work.
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Also does anyone remember the South Park spoof of it where they show the first episode with defender robots walking around..
Our CEO gave us free tickets, which is the reason why I even watched Episode 3 in a theater - the journal. I didn't like the movie when I saw it on screen, it's very unlikely that these new additions will make it any more palatable.Now if only he'd give us free tickets for some good movie ... :)
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I sometimes wonder if they don't purposefully create scenes with the intent of only putting them into a DVD release to entice people to buy them.
I don't get it.
I recall reading a few years back that movie makers were making extra scenes just for the sake of calling them deleted scenes and selling special editions. Considering that Lucas has the Midas touch, I would suspect that some of these weren't cut solely to shrink the film size.
It's underhanded, but its good news for fans - deleted scenes are deleted for a reason, usually that they suck. In this case, they will probably be better than that.
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...to anybody who saw Clone Wars season 2 on cartoon network. She was left captured and you know they were coming to get her, but it ended there.
other scenes were leaked to anybody who either read the novelization or the comic adaptation, just like with every SW film up 'til now. (i.e., in Empire, the sequence where C-3PO removed the "beware" sticker on the door so the troops could get pummled by wampas; in SW where luke and biggs are watching the battle from the planet surface; there's more...).
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True geeks know (as later related by Timothy Zahn) that Yoda actually arrived on Dagobah
in pursuit of a dark jedi clone -- whom he fought, and wasted underneath a certain large
tree. That tree retained powerful "echoes of evil" for years afterwards,
and was later used by Yoda to test the resolve of his young padawan "Luke" (in
Episode V).
My theory? This apparent contradiction in plotlines may have been why Lucas
cut the scene of Yoda peacefully arriving on Dagobah.
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Okay, I will admit my respect for the actors in the original series, (IV to VI) has increased enormously since I to III came out.
They made a silk purse out of a sow's ear (or Lucas' tin ear for dialog.) I also never thought much for his choice of secondary actors. (Thank [name of deity] Jar Jar Binks was never played by a real human actor. That is definitely NOT something I'd want to put on my resume.)
Lucas made some high tech, high priced kid's movies. But I seriously doubt they actually have any 'legs' to go beyond the existing base. They will never be more than a foot note in film history and most of the film students will study THX rather that the Star Wars swill. Now business students are another thing...
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the t1000 exploded on that scene because it was hit with ther grnade launcher, not a shutgun blast.
As for why shoot and shatter the frozen T1000, 3 reasons:
1) it looked frikkin cool
2) gave them an excuse to play with a lot of mercury/molten solder.
3) gave them a chance to show us just how resilient the thing is
on #3, i had wondered, throughout the movie, if there was indeed some central unit somewhere in there that controlled the rest of the thing. That scene solved that puzzle -- no. Perhaps the t800 didn't realize how resilient it was either?
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"Clone Wars" was easily the best element of all the Prequel releases. I find it interesting that "Animatrix" kicked ass over the two Matrix sequels, "Clone Wars" outclassed the Prequels, and "Dark Fury," a "Chronicles of Riddick" prequel directed by "Aeon Flux" creator Peter Chung, was infinitely better than either "Chronicles" or the original movie "Pitch Black."
What should "The Industry" take from this? Perhaps a great deal of talent can be found in the animation community, and perhaps the medium itself should be reconsidered as fare for adults as well as children. Certainly animation is now about as expensive as live action and possibly less expensive when you consider the cost of elaborate "event" movies that are half CGI anyway.
However, this would mean that "The Industry" should also cast off another assumption: that people will not sit and watch drawn traditional animation anymore. "Clone Wars" was not only drawn animation, it was beautifully stylized and designed drawn animation. "Animatrix" had CGI segments, true, but some of the most striking shorts in the "Animatrix" collection were 2D, like "Kid's Story" and "Detective Story" by Watanabe Shinichiro, and "Beyond" by Morimoto Koji. "Dark Fury" was 2D with 3D elements.
Will "The Industry" ever "get it" about animation? I don't know. It doesn't look so good. "Corpse Bride" was very poorly promoted, and looks like it won't make back its investment. The coming "Wallace and Gromit" movie has recognizable characters going for it, but its essential Britishness might relegate it to a niche audience in the US. And "Chicken Little?" What I saw of it looked good, but Pixar needn't sweat Disney taking its crown as the domestic leader in CGI. The stuff I have heard of several rewrites and story changes makes me think that Disney doesn't "get" the reason why Pixar's movies are so good: they are story-driven, not merchandising-driven.
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No one thinks that they should regroup and attack the Emporor in force?
Who's "they?" Obi-Wan and Yoda? Everyone else seems to love the Emperor. As for two Jedi attacking a Sith lord, Jedi just get in each other's way. Qui-Gonn & Obi take on Darth Maul, Qui-Gonn dies. Obi-Wan and Annakin vs. Dooku? Obi gets owned early. Mace Windu, Kit Fisto, and two other Jedi Council vs. Palpa? Everyone but Windu is toasted quickly. If Yoda can't take Palpatine by himself, adding more Jedi will just make it worse.
(In a strange way, there's even an explanation for this. Jedi apparently have a bit of future sense, allowing them to choose the best course of action in the next instant. Throw in more Jedi, and the future is more vague because the other Jedi are also sensing it and changing their actions in reaction to the initial perception.)
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I don't think the acting was any better in Episodes 4-6. The difference was that we were not yet jaded by the setting and story.
No no... I hear this come up as the explanation over and over, but I just don't buy it.
You should watch the casting auditions for Ep IV (there's a bittorrent around somewhere). I'll just mention one thing that stood out to me: Harrison Ford.
In the auditions they're using an early version of the script that includes the line from Luke to Han "They'll never get any information out of her! She's a member of the royal family... she knows the art of 'mind control'". The line is terribly stupid, and it sounds stupid when every actor trying out for Luke says it. And every actor trying out for Han sounds stilted afterwards as they reply.
But Harrison Ford does something great: before he says his next line he mutters "mind control" under his breath and rolls his eyes. It totally sells the scene. Suddenly, instead of a stupid script that jolts the viewer out the moment, Ford turns it into "naive Luke" and "streetwise Han", and the line actually works. And it wasn't even his line! He fixed the script with a little flourish in his response!
That is the difference a good actor can make.
If you watch the rest of the audition reel it's pretty apparent that Carrie Fisher and Mark Hammill are much better than the rest too. The rest read like Portman & Christiansen.
And no offense to them, they've both done great work elsewhere. But under George Lucas you have to have a certain type of skill.
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