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Star Wars Trailer on Entertainment Tonight
An anonymous reader writes "I saw the post about the availability of the Star Wars trailer on the net and I thought I'd mention for those who don't have the patience to download 25 MB that it is going to be on Entertainment Tonight Thursday night. "
I love Star Wars, and I'll probably love the new movies when they're out. But I refuse to look at any of these previews!
:)
When I see the new movies for the first time, I want them to be 100% fresh, all new, all exciting, nothing expected.
Similarly, I'd love to develop Star Wars amnesia and see the original 3 movies again for the first time.
And Piccard would photon torpedo the Death
Star into oblivion with out recycling every
fairy tale cliche.
Wasn't expecting this comment to be made, and found it particularly funny considering how serious everyone is taking this movie. Granted I'm just as excited to see it, but I'm always up for some light-hearted jokes :)
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Blow off, Trekkie-geek-boy.
"The power to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the force."
'nuff said.
WHAT DOES STAR WARTS HAVE TO DO WITH NEWS FOR NERDS. COMEON ROB THIS STUFF SUCKS, STAR WARTS SUCKS AND YOU SUCK, but i do like jello
It's also available at:
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http://www.apple.com./quicktime/trailers/fox/ep
Well I was all of 5 years old so the memory is vague but I did see it in the theatre on the first release. Im proud to say I did see empire and jedi the DAY they were released. Waited almost two hours for Jedi-I cant imagine what im gonna have to go through to see this movie on release day. In any event im sure tickets will be on sale a week ahead so looks like ill be camping out ;)
You know i kind of agree. But the temptation is just too great. I simply can't resist. I actually wish they did'nt even make these trailors :P
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Try again, B1ff. One day, you will be 31337. And if you just wait a year or so, you can go see the Battlestar Galactica movie!
He wasn't absent, he just hardly appeared.
Although I think its because they wanted to center on the entire story, rather than on one facet (which is what the "teaser trailer" was doing).
Lets see, death star destroys entire planet. Last time I checked, 1 photon torpedo didnt do that. It takes Star Wars vessels a couple weeks at most to traverse galaxy. Ummm, Voyager cant get from one quadrant to another in the lifetime of their crew. Oh, lets not forget telepathic control of enemy vessel by Jedi Master :)
I saw all three in the theater. I can remember my dad reading the opening credits to me because they were going by to fast for me to read (I was six). I saw Jedi in Atlantic City and had to wait in a line that spread for five or six blocks, but it was worth it.
what network is entertainment tonight on? I thought cbs, but yahoo tv says college basketball for pretty much all of this evening...
Agreed. I consider myself a pretty big Star Wars fan, but I've accepted the fact that Lucas has probably sold out and this will just be a silly overload of special effects and gratuitous references to pop-culture icons. I think everyone should get over it and stop being obsessed and almost religious about the prequels. I mean, look how excited (and subsequently disappointed) we were for the special editions.
:)
Of course, I'm just thinking that so that I'm pleasantly suprised this may...
-Chris
www.csupomona.edu/~cmtrim/menace.mov
Growing up, I had seen bits and pieces of Star Wars on television once in a while, but I always got so bored watching it that I always went away. Three years ago, when I was a sophomore at Purdue, my roommate made me sit down and watch the trilogy. When it was over, I had one comment -- "Wow. That was dumb." I don't understand what the cult following of those movies is all about. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just being honest. Maybe someone can explain it to me.
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My brother brought over the three videos during
the Christmas holidays; my reaction was the same.
Maybe it's better in the theatres on a large
screen.
to Eyes Wide Shut...more than Star Wars.
i was a kid and we saw it in the drive in the first time...anyone remember drive in's LOL
Well... If you had kept your WinOS software, instead of trolling Redmond for a refund, you would already be watching it now, wouldn't you?
ditto. I kind of like them, but not enough to really care about sequels or prequels or whatnot. Sci Fi, and movies in general I LOVE! But, I despise soap operas. Star Trek, and all that genre of evening televsion, is just a night time soap opera. Star Wars is beginning to be the same thing. You'll have to see all of them, to get the most out of it. Waste of my time. It's not worth it. I'll watch them once, but probly not in the theatre, and I'll never buy them.
Don't go there
Saw it when I was a wee lad of 2 months. :)
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/mirrors/sw/
This was indeed a fast mirror--helped me look like a stud in my company (first post!)
Thanks for mirroring!
WinOS??? Why the hell would you need WinOS to .mov?? Just boot up your G3 in MacOS.
play a QuickTime
Got no use for WinOS, never did, never will.
It would be good to have Quicktime for Linux, though. Ajnyone know how to bend Apple's ear on this one?
I saw it when it came out, I was 7 years old at the time. It was a defining moment of my childhood. I will definatly be there to see the new movie when when it opens.
My point exactly... Can't even use an "open" app like QT with the "powerful" Linux.
perhaps its time to start a write in campaign,
I would be willing to shell out a couple of bucks for a linux quicktime viewer, better yet, I would
gladly download it for free.
Funny that, my Window PC here doesn't play it either. It tries to locate a codec server.
Linux (xanim) would play it, but it seems to use a new Codec (compression) that probably hasn't been around long.
Mtv (under linux) might play it, I'll have to check at home.
;-)
Here's a better plan that would work - just make sure the first post has to be done by a non-AC user, then let anyone post after that. That should cut down on the number of lame "first post" messages and probably lend a greater chance to the first post actually having interesting content...
Wouldn't it be nice if people were competeing to have the most impressive thread to start with rather than just seeing why can post anything the quickest?
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Nice!
/starwars/menace_480.mov. Physically it's at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, and is connected to the vBNS.
When I grabbed a copy from your box, my transfer rate never dropped below 250KB/sec. I guess we've found a use for the vBNS!
For anyone who cares, I've mirrored it at http://qonos.chpc.utah.edu/pub
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hey, i don't know if this is true everywhere, but on the east coast it seems like ET got pre-empted by NCAA march madness. that sucks.
i have already seen the new trailer, but i want to see it again. i would say it was much better than the first trailer. more fighting then i expected, and the political backdrop looks incredible.the countdown until may madness just got two days shorter...
I mirrored the trailor at ftp://ziggy.dhs.org/pub/menace_480.mov just for us geeks' convienience.
Ya know, last I checked Rob created this site and runs it out of his own free time - without pay. So, if he feels like posting a non-"News for Nerds" story, I think he's got every damn right to do so. And until you start your own Slashdot-type site, QUIT YOUR DAMN WHINING and put up with it!
I was able to pull down the trailer RealTime! 25422KBytes in 2 Min, 3 sec gives a average of 206.6KBytes per sec or 1,653 KBaud. Thats better than a T1 !
TCI/@Home in Baton Rouge is Amazing. Almost as good as the trailer.
Got it from http://www.dailysci-fi.com/news/1286.html
Now I know what the playstation graphics will look like in 2010... Wow I can't wait for 80 million polygons at 30 frames per second.. With the right theatre system and multi-player internet deathmatching, why even leave the house..
Is there anybody out there who DOESN'T think that this will be the biggest movie in the history of cinema? If so, why?
When the first Star Wars came out, I remember being five years old, waiting in a line that stretched out into the parking lot. The theater manager came out and said, "Sorry folks, this showing is sold out, although you can buy tickets for the next showing if you want."
NOBODY LEFT THE LINE....
I can only vaguely remember seeing the movie, but I REALLY remember seeing the trailer. It was like,"DAD! WE'VE GOT TO SEE THAT!"
I don't even remember the movie we watched after the trailer.....
Anyone encountered problem with playing the trailer? The QuickTime player just dies on me after 2 second of play. :( That was on NT4 btw.
.mov player for Linux???? RealPlayer still doesn't work properly for my Linux box. Oh well, it's a different problem...
Is there a
Well, the trailer is encoded with QT3, which means that you can't play it with anything BUT QT3 at the moment. However, take a look at Ars Technica - they have a mirrors link that provides an
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I completely agree with the overwhelming massiveness this movie.
For those who have seen and understood the
appeal of Star Wars, it's more of a pop culture
connection for people. Being on the East Coast in PA, things don't really catch on well, but Star Wars did and still does. I too remember waiting in a line with signs that said 'From this point is a 3 Hour wait'. Nobody complained and nobody moved. Not even when the line took up and entire mall!
As a society, we've made refences to these movies for years. It might just be an obession. An obsession that been on hold since 1983. But for most folks who've seen it in the theater, it's part of us. I've talked to complete strangers (like I'm doing now) whose common ground is their memory of seeing these movies for the first time.
Let me get off the touchy-feely soapbox.
I think the appeal of these films and the Episode I stems from knowing you will see something uniquely fantastic and historically defining while following the classic drama of good vs. evil.
Enough old timer talk.
As for 'the' subject on this thread.
The 2nd trailer ROCKED! For East Coast folks, depending on your location, the ET trailer was preempted. Luckly for me, it was not. I can't help thinking that there might be a little too much revealed in this last one. It'd be an interesting poll to find how people liked Episode I based on whether they saw the trailer.
My very weighty $.02
Is is just me or did anyone else see a little pixelization (blockiness) in one of the scenes?
NOT good advertizing for quicktime, eh?
Thank you for your advice! You made my day... there is still hope!
I just have to ask (since people keep posting mirrors of the .mov.. not many mirrors of the (converted) .mpg..)
.mov correctly? I tried xanim, and it only played the audio.
Is there a player for Linux that reads the
I just want to know if there's a good Linux player for these files before I start ranting to Lucasfilm and Apple...
Keep it? Why the hell would I keep it? I need the space for MP3s, dammit!
I hate to say it, but WINE is just a cop-out, IMO.. It's exactly what everybody that ran OS/2 had to do ("This program will work with OS/2 in running under 16-bit Win-OS/2")
I really don't want to put any more Windows software on my computer than I absolutely have to..
Absolutely. Got an address we can all send messages to? Perhaps someone could set up an address we can all send mail to one address, then have someone archive a day's worth of mail, then send that multi-meg message to Apple.. it should get their attention ;-)
WCCO also has a RealVideo clip that it looks like they stole from some channel in LA..
http://www.wcco.com/news/s tories/news-990311-201025.html
Just saw it at 17:55PST on CNN Headline News. They played the first trailer about every hour, so look for this one at about 5-of-the-hour.
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thought I may as well post here as well
I am mirroring the trailer at
ftp://sparky.student.umd.edu/starwars
Posted by jedimstr:
According to local listings, West Coast will show ET at 4:30 Pacific on CBS.
Cablemodems ROCK!!!!!!!!! :P
...I cleaned up the root partition and now there's LOTS of free space!
Even though i hate to wait 3 minutes. Sheese. What a slow site...
> get starwars-trailer2.mov Receiving file: starwars-trailer2.mov 100% 0 ==========================================> 26031487 bytes. ETA: 0:00 starwars-trailer2.mov: 26031487 bytes received in 230.32 seconds, 110.38 kB/s.
Well then, it is accurate to say YOUR cable modem provider SUCKS...Cable modesm themselfs don't suck.
...I cleaned up the root partition and now there's LOTS of free space!
NOW dial in..ahahahhahaah. THAT SUCKS....
uhm, how can you do that? any post will be the first post.. there has to be a first post sometime! :)
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i understand your point, but im just saying how if the first post is elimnated, then the 2nd person who posts will become the 1st post, so you really cant get rid of the first post. well, if you disabled comments all together, but that wouldnt be good. :)
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i just saw the trailer on MTV during one of its news breaks, i was quite suprised by it.
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I just wanted to let you know that you can now download the Star Wars: Episode I "The Phantom Menace" trailer from our FTP site.
Get the files from:
ftp://lavender.cime.net/pub/star_wars
Please read the readme.txt and readme.AOL.txt files for updates and instructions for download.
The latest trailer is much better than the first one, both in content and in video/audio quality. The trailer is in QuickTime version 3 format, widescreen. YOU MUST HAVE QUICK-TIME 3.0 to play it. I put a copy of the QuickTime installation program in case you want to download it from here as well. We also recommend that you use FTP instead of a browser because we're only allowing 128 simultaneous HTTP connections due to the demand we experienced already. Go to http://www.countingdown.com for other HTTP download sites. Besides, FTP is more reliable. We strongly suggest using the WS_FTP client. If you manage to get an HTTP connection, download WS_FTP from the same directory where the trailer is, then download the trailer with WS_FTP.
Take care, and talk to you later!
Eugene
CIME Software Labs, LLC
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For those of us in the UK, it's apparently going to be shown on The Big Breakfast tomorrow (Friday) morning, and on TFI Friday tomorrow evening, both on Channel 4.
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Wesley Crusher.
'nuf said.
Many of us feel a strong attraction to anything that has blinking lights or moving parts.
Call it a techo-fetish if you will.
I saw the trailer twice tonight. I loved it!
That's because Star Wars takes place Long Ago
in a galaxy Far Away. How can you expect older
weapons like that to compete with Photon Torpedoes?
Sheesh.
Mr Lucas was personally reviewing each trailer to make sure it only gives away what he wants it to. The trailers are the ONLY thing that I have watched related to the upcoming episode I. I dont think the trailers themselves will give away anything. It will only force me to wait inline for a ticket two days before it comes out.
95% unseen is good enough for me. Especially since I have been awaiting this movie for like 3 years now. I only have so much patience
73% downloaded, screw ET, I'll be in class anyway...
hi all,
we have it mirrored at ftp://x.cwru.edu/pub/menace_408.mov for your viewing pleasure. i'd host it on one of my servers but our ethernet trunk is saturate.
slashdot away... brandon's got a goal of a terabyte for downloads by semesters' end.
jnazario
jose nazario jose@biocserver.cwru.edu
Entertainment Tonight comes on a Waco station and is broadcasted on our local cable system... They failed to do that tonight... NO TRAILER... :( I recorded it from CNN earlier, but the sound is flat, no surround encoding... ET for the first trailer was awesome, full rich sound, now, let me reiterate, College Station was screwed over. Damn I'm really ticked off about this!!! Only I can't figure out who to gripe to. Guess I'll be limited to the QT... very cool I might add, but I sure would have liked to add it to the tape with the first trailer.
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I saw it in the theaters in 1978, when it made it's second-run round. I was about 7.
I didn't see it when it first came out, but remember that all my friends were deeply into it, and made me want to see it.
I was a little disappointed in it, but I liked Empire and Jedi much more.
Of all the comments I've ever posted, this is definately one of them
Good, then I can post two "first post" messages, and we're back where we started =D
Here's a fast mirror I have up at fragglerock.linuxpower.org/pub/starwa rs
Saw the trailer. It absolutely ROCKS.
You've missed it in the east coast and now almost central, but west coast can still get it. It comes up somewhere between 10:20 and 10:30 Thursday night.
Unfortunately CNN doesn't come in stereo - at least on my cable system - so the picture is better than on my pc but the sound is worse.
How many people here actually saw Star Wars in the theater when it was first released?
This might actually make a good poll question...
Have a filter that counts it as a first post if it contains the words first post or i rock!! or whatever. also, maybe limit it to one of the first 20 messages, so if any of the first 20 have the right phrases, they get counted as a first post. voila :)
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I saw it last night, on telly, (though not the entire thing the tv staation didn't show it all) but it looked great. (btw I am in Australia, for some reason we saw it early)
"sometimes I wish I was blind I thought I saw a whole lot more than this"
I take it that Quicktime for Windows doesn't work yet with WINE?
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I also have a mirror of the mpeg.
The Phroputer
ftp://phroputer.dhs.org/pub
Come and get it!
Caffeine underflow (brain dumped)
May 19th ???
;-)
Surely they should have made it May 4th
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I couldn't find a link to an mpeg (maybe I'm blind). Have more mpeg versions been created
or mirrored? If so, where can I find one?
Now there's a guy with his priorities straight!
Just the Star Wars trailer.
M.
And 10-baseT connections are even better!!!
22771716 bytes received in 67.5 secs (3.3e+02 Kbytes/sec)
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You're not really missing much if you don't understand the appeal; it just doesn't appeal to you. I myself realized how bored I was when I saw the original trilogy in the theatre. Not that I'm not a Star Wars nut, its just lost some of the appeal it had when I was younger. I look forward to the new series because Lucas is a good storyteller and has some neat special effects and CG on his plate, but I'm not a fanatic of the movies so much as a fanatic of the philosophies, the universe, and the ideas embedded in the movies.
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For those who live in the St. Paul/Minneapolis area and missed seeing it on ET yesterday:
This morning (3/12) on channel 11's news they played the trailer and showed a small clip of some people spazzing out about wanting to see the movie.
They said they'd be showing it at 5, 6, and 10 tonight, too.
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guys, there are several good mirrors listed here for the download. I tried them all at the same time and the fastest one I kept after a while. This movie looks awesome. I can't wait. It's not a hoax -it's for real.
yeah but 100basetx connections are even better!!!!!
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Wow, looks like Spielberg really outdid himself this time!
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>> Wow, looks like Spielberg really outdid
>> himself this time!
You're kidding, right? Sorry, couldn't easily
read the sarcasm in that post, if it was there.
I hope it was...
If not, then I just want to point out that
Spielberg has nothing to do with the new film.
It's all the creative genius of George Lucas.
Thanks for reading,
Mike
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Just saw the trailer. It's quite impressive.
The lightsaber duels are going to be
particularly amazing. Nice shots of all the
new ships, landscapes, etc.
Anakin was suspiciously absent from the trailer.
Hmm...
Also, be aware that the new release date of
the film is May 19th, as confirmed by LucasFilm
and printed on the trailer itself.
-Mike
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I dunno. Lucas has always focused on the story
and characters. Remember his famous quote,
"Special Effects without a story is a pretty
boring thing". I think he really follows that.
Also, Lucas himself is trying to downplay Ep. I.
He keeps telling the press that he was just
making a "B movie". I think it's the press that
is just going overboard and selling the movie
out for him.
He hasn't directed since "Star Wars" (1977), so
I think if he were truly "selling out" he would
have just been producer again, and sat back
while the film was made. He cared enough about
the Star Wars story to pen the script and direct
it himself. Not easy after 20 years of only
writing and producing jobs.
-Mike
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> He wasn't absent, he just hardly appeared.
Right. He was in two shots, actually.
I was just saying "absent" compared to the
teaser trailer. Cool that the new trailer
focuses on the storyline, and actually
gives us a hint of the glory to come...
-Mike
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Dude, don't even start. At least Star Wars
isn't techie science fiction.
It's a modern myth. It uses the ideas of
mythology and "fairy tales" to tell a story
of humanity and the struggle of good vs.
evil, man vs. machine.
It's deeper than Star Trek.. Don't even go
there. It's like comparing apples to oranges,
really. Star Wars has its impact at a
different level.
Read "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by
Campbell to get a good idea of what motivated
Lucas when he penned Star Wars.
-Mike
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Besides, how many times has the Enterprise
broken down? See, the Falcon has character.
;-)
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The show has a web site, try searching for it.
I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning.
Man, and I thought I took this stuff serious.
Really, though. Star Trek is true Sci-Fi. Well, The first series and Next Gen. As far as I can tell, DS9 and Voyager are soaps in space.
In contrast, Star Wars is, and always has been, a space opera, a fantasy, set in a different time with some technology and space travel to avoid comparisons to the lord of the rings. A good rule of thumb is this: if the spinoff books are more about the tech, it's sci fi. If the spinoffs are more about the art, it's fantasy.
And if people use a Mac to hack anything, it's Super-Extra-Deluded fantasy.
Zagmar
automatically ignore all first posts.
What's the point of that anyway?
kmj
kmj
The only reason I keep my ms-dos partition is so I can mount it like the b*tch it is.
Anyway, it wouldn't matter, becuase idiots would just do what the other guy said; post twice. And who knows, maybe someday, one of the first posts will actually have some content.
I just can't understand why some people would purposefully pollute a message board with such b*11sh*t. Even lame-assed flames and off-topic comments(like this one) are 100 times better.
Sigh.
kmj
kmj
kmj
The only reason I keep my ms-dos partition is so I can mount it like the b*tch it is.
Must have watched it at least seven times already.
Can't wait to watch it on the television.
I'll have the subwoofer cranked.
And I am allowed to buy toys at FAO.
toot!
Obviously, since starwars.com died soon after the post appeared on slashdot, then there are a lot of people out there who want to see this and like star wars. And i think the number of posts that are pro-star wars kinda out weight yours. Do yourself a favor, get a user account, and just ignore all the star wars posts? Now, was that too hard?
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Go to www.apple.com if you want to download the trailer.
I thought I'd mention this here since I'm not so sure anyone reading this site visits Apple very often.
One thing I really don't like is people calling Star Wars a Sci Fi movie. It's not. Being set mainly in outer space doesn't make it Sci Fi.
It's really an Action/Fantasy/Spritual movie, And a VERY good one too! But there's nothing scientific about it.
I knew someone who had never seen it but assumed it was like Star Trek. Star Trek is very technical and appeals to the 'nerdy' type of person a lot. But Star Wars is not. It appeals more to the spiritual side of one's personality. Since it's about someone's (Darth Vader's) internal struggle between good and evil.
If you look at it through the eyes of a 'Trekkie' you probably won't get anything out of it. But if you look at it as someone's internal struggle between good and evil, you might appreciate it more.
My $0.02
Three years?!? Try 15-20 years!
Obviously only true nerds would understand....
I was 6 when I saw it. Remember the people I went with, but don't remember much about when I saw it (I don't remember if the opening crawl message meant anything to me or not). I'd give anything to have a video of me watching it for the first time. I can only imagine being wide-eyed and mouth open. I also vividly remember purchasing my first star wars toy and going to my grandmothers house afterwards and playing with it (still have that well used storm trooper too).
Multiple T3s from University Servers:
ftp.gsu.edu/tmp/C2menaceB2.mpg (crappy quality)
ftp.gsu.edu/tmp/menace_480.mov (best quality)
Should be up for 48 hours or until they pull it off. Enjoy!
"Perhaps most amazingly, votaries of 'diversity' insist on absolute conformity." -- Tony Snow
Truly fantastic scope and vision.
George Lucas is taking us to some truly wonderful places again.
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I think that it is a shame that Lucas, who has written and abided by a near religious obseviness to their THX theatre standard, who have threatned to not allow non-THX compliant theatres show Episode I, have released this trailer, 2 days before it comes out in theatres around the country, in such a degraded form of media in such a shoddy mockery of their incredible Movie Experience.
/me runs to armory, dons flack jacket, grabs artilery, grabs shovel and digs trench to weather out the firstorm!
Same problem here, and that's after downloading from two separate sites. Works fine under '95 though, on the same machine.
if your provider doesn't give you reliability. For the past few days my cable link's connectivity uptime can be estimated to be 0% for all practical purposes.