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Patrick Berry writes
"The Star Wars Online Shop has new
Episode I posters for sale. It looks like the 'teaser' posters are gone forever but these may stick around a while longer. "
The teaser poster scam bummed me out. I wanted the picture with
Anakin & Darth's shadow so bad, but all I got was a cheesy
8.5x11 drawn poster of Star Wars. Not even prequel related.
But I did see the trailer B last night. It was much
better than the first one. A bit of a glimpse into the plot,
and most of the fx were much smoother. Plus comments about
Jedi's coming in pairs (Emporer & Darth, Obi-Wan & Luke, and
presumably in the prequel, Anakin & Obi-Wan). Some great
Jedi fighting shots too. I'm just to stoked. Guess I'll
have to order the poster.
Enough Already! Stop these silly articles. I am sick of seeing these "StarWars" articles here. Isn't there anything more instersting to talk about? This is sick sick sick. Stop it now.
PS: Last post BTW.
It looks pretty sharp, that poster. Made a nice tiled background. ;)
this is certainly more pertinent than those anoying articles about the most recent release of e and crap like that.
Geez. It took you what, 1/3 of a second to download this part of the page and see that it was something you weren't interested in. If you really hate it that much IGNORE IT!!! (This is one of the largest problems with society, they spend 10x the energy complaining about something pointless they could just as easily ignore.)
She's the Queen something or another, future mother to Princess leigha (hence the hair) and luke. I have no idea how she "got elected" queenbut she is also the same actress who was the way too sexy 12 year old in the Professional.
Yes, the Star Wars movies were well made, but the Star Wars posts are getting as old as the Microsoft posts.
Anyone know where I can get the trailer in mpeg or avi format? No damn qt3.0 for Linux :[ and I don't feel like rebooting...
True
In Real Life(), that is not impossible either.
She is Queen Padme, represented by Natalie Portman (good choise, IMHO).
Royal people can be chosen to rule very early,
our history tells about 12-year old kings.
You may call me a cynic, but I don't think they were the worst ones..
I swear I just don't understand you ppl that dont like Start Wars :P
I am the one who made the post, but the number of articles is sick .. gotta customize my /. ...
i was wondering that myself..
i got a couple teaser posters from the starwars.com website recently..
what scam are you talking about?
It's not quite a scam, because we didn't have to pay anything, but here's what happened. LucasFilms said they were giving away free Star Wars posters. They may have said they were prequel posters, or else we all just assumed they would be. I ordered one. It came about 5 weeks later. It was not a prequel poster. It was a hand-drawn, 8.5"x11"(!!) poster of the main characters from the original trilogy. We were disappointed, to say the least.
Umm. Sorry, but a teenage girl cannot EVER be President. I believe the age requirement is still 36 (or was that 35.. hmm). You need many years of being a lawyer and learning how to screw your friends and neighbors before you are even allowed to THINK about becoming President of the USA. ;-)
I thought they did a very good job of sticking to the style of the originals.
Mirror for STARWARS Media: http://x.ius.edu/sw
If your based in the UK / Europe the MPEG version is available ( assuming no /. effect ) at
/~helios/Starwars/Episode1/tb480.mpeg
;-)
http://ps.cus.umist.ac.uk
Enjoy
I went to watch Wing Commander last night, hoping I'd catch the trailer, but the movie was really what I was going to see. Anyways, the Lucasfilm logo pops up and the whole audience starts cheering and clapping and when the Episode 1 title comes up near the end, everyone cheers again.
:)
Nobody cheered during the movie tho.
-Restil
You have to be 35 and born in the country.
You don't have to be a lawyer or a polititan, however, it helps give you credibility if you are.
In fact, no elected office has any requirements except regarding age, residency, and criminal history.
I'm SICK if people trying to designate what
type of content is "Appropriate" for this site.
This site started as an assortment of things that
the Authors thought was cool, and it remains that
way...
The only thing that has changed is the increase
of Whining by Pansy ASS Readers.
Stupid file formats. They can stick that trailer right up their ass.
They should put it up in something where the viewer runs on more than Macintrash/x-eighty-sucks pieces of shit.
Well you can always look at www.starwars.com .mov and .avi formats
for the trailes in
She's a princess just like Princess Leia, but not of the republic...she's the princess of Naboo. The whole trailer is about her pleading for the republic to save her planet from the evil Trade Federation.
Palpatine is in control of the TF and he's Darth Maul's master. Somehow, this whole thing fits into him wanting to kill all the Jedi nights...any ideas?
Okay.. she's Queen Amidala.. who goes around in several scenes as Padme (who is supposedly one of the queens handmaidens or some such)..
She is the future mother of Luke and Leia.
She is pleading with another race that lives on Naboo for help against the Trade Federation (the robots are all the trade federation). Senator Palpantine (the future Emporer) is a senator form Naboo to the Republic. He is not in charge of Darth Maul.
Darth Sidious is the "phantom menace". Sidious is the master, Darth Maul is the apprentice. Thats who Yoda was refering too by master and apprentice.
Qui-quon (sp!) played by Liam Neeson, is the master and Obi-Wan is HIS appentice.
www.starwars.com didn't release in anything other than QT3.
There is an Mpeg version available at starwars.countingdown.com
What's this about a teaser poster scam? I ordered and received two: one for my brother and one for myself. They're really impressive, and HUGE.
Wow, such a sophisticated analysis. Jedi come in pairs, Emporer [sic] & Darth, Obi-Wan & Luke, Popeye & Olive Oyl, Shaggy & Scooby Doo. And you griped that you didn't like the free shit they sent you.
Would you PLEASE GROW UP and either STOP posting this CRAP or just start a SEPARATE fansite. If you were really interested in "Stuff that Matters" then you'd be commenting on the 600,000 downloads of Quicktime, and 1 million downloads of the trailer in the first 24 hours. Apple says this is the largest online event in history. But you don't care, you're just another obsessed idiot with the maturity of a 9 year old kid.
> If your based in the UK / Europe the MPEG version /. effect ) at /~helios/Starwars/Episode1/tb480.mpeg
> is available ( assuming no
>
> http://ps.cus.umist.ac.uk
Kewl! Thanks for reposting that URL. There was a reason why LucasFilm posted it exclusively in Quicktime format. So I sent the URL to Lucasfilms, expect to see that mpeg version disappear soon.
"Assault force advancing on dome-shaped structures in the distance. What *is* that? It looks too small to
contain cities. Some kind of natural resource?"
those domes are force fields, powered by
generators mounted on the back of the Gungan's
pack animal creatures. The Gungans who live under the planet's surface/sea are finally convinced by our heroes to come to the surface and help rid the planet of the invaders...there's a big Braveheart style battle..
Good God, where are you from? The Quicktime police. Does it really matter what format one views that damn trailer in. Get a life and quit being a such a squealer.
Last time I checked Slashdot was a free site. If you have to put up with a Star Wars article from time to time in order to get your hourly, free Linux-orgasm then I think that's a fair trade. It would take you less time to hit the back button on your brower and read another article than post all these shitty comments. Disgruntled nerds like you really piss others off with your singular wit and your "too-much-time-on-your-hands, god complex"
>Last time I checked Slashdot was a free site.
Last time I checked, Slashdot was an advertising-sponsored site, which means you and I are paying for it by purchasing the advertised products, a portion of those profits goes towards advertising. I suppose you think Network TV is free too? How much would cars and beer cost without Ford and Anheiser-Busch's massive advertising expenditures?
As a secondary sponsor of Slashdot, I think I have the right to object when it is used for such moronic purposes.
Never got mine either. Now that I hear it was a cheap piece of shit, I'm not so bummed out.
Although I personally do not mind any updates that are about Star Wars on here, I do find it odd he did not mention the 600k downloads of qt and 1 million downloads of starwars. Of course, a few news updates past this one, and he posts, and promotes an extremely dumb Apple/Macintosh bashing site. What the hell? Whatever.
See, after your site starts reaching a large audience, I think it would be a good idea to try to not be overly biased repeatedly. If it was a small fan site, fine, do whatever the hell you want. But at this point, his opinion will wash off on upto 500,000 visitors a day. Not enough people are informed or intelligent enough to not be persuaded by anothers opionion, especially if they look up to this person.
If you want to tell me to create a site of my own. I remember a friend of mine tried to start a site, somewhat similar to slashdot (news for the geeky) and he got torn to pieces because everyone told him he was a slashdot rip off and he was pressured to shut down the website. The website wasn't even similar except they both covered geeky news pieces, his site in particular wrote small articles on the bigger news pieces, that's about it. So, basically, everyone is stuck with slashdot, and it's sad if this type of behaviour continues by the maintainers of this site (particularly CmdrTaco) and there isn't shit that can be done.
In fact, I don't mind if he shoves his own opinion on every news piece, if he didn't do it in the main part, but rather in the comments section. Even better would be to use a different name.
Yes, you are correct about what you said. I love the discussion part of this site, and that's what seperates it from sites like Wired and such. It's also nice if you happen to be a Microsoft watcher or Linux user. And I am not saying CmdrTaco shouldn't express his opinion, I just think it would be better if it was done in the comments section for normal news pieces. I see nothing wrong with being open in a headline about a movie review or what not, but throwing his opinions in normal news pieces seem to trigger the more outspoken (and, what also appears to be the less informed) to start running their mouths off, which triggers more people to agree with then, or starts a whole mess, where both sides osund like idiots, and continue to hate each other's standpoint even more.
The name of the website was called 'Geek.' Perhaps you remember it? It made a few news updates here. It basically got hate mail from slashdot users who basically accused his site of being a worthless copycat. You know how the slashdot effect is [even though it's used to describe masses of people hitting a website, just think of masses of people with similar opinions (not that they'd have that same opinion if they had no other people to compare themselves with)]? Sheep? People gathering together because the masses are. Then after he couldn't take the hate mail (I believe he was also signed up to several spam and porn lists), he shut down the site. And i believe CmdrTaco had a sympathetic update about that, and all of a sudden everyone was commenting on how stupid the people who disliked the site were. All of a sudden, everyone decides they didn't actually dislike the site. "Perhaps I went overboard." That isn't necessarily related to how Taco (or whoever updated) reacted, but how easily the masses of readers perceptions are changed with what they (the reader) believe the majority thinks. So, the first five or so comments are positive, or sympathetic to him or his site, and the people who read that follow along. And if you still think I'm pulling shit out of my ass, I can have him email you stuff (if he still has it archived) and give you all the details.
As far as voting with my feet, like I said, there really is no alternative to slashdot right now. I enjoy the discussions, and I like reading the news pieces that are commonly found here. I don't typically complain, and am usually satisfied with this site. But posting an entire news update for an anti-advocacey site is just ridiculous. And not mentioning shit about the trailer download stats.
Have you ever heard of xanim? They have quicktime decoders for a lot of platforms. Look before you speak...
http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/xa_mod_cvid.html
-No
Uh, In this movie, Anakin hasnt grown up yet.
Were there 1001?
while i may be a whining pansy i have NEVER been an ass reader. i think maybe you are projecting to much here.
the preview button is right next to the submit button. this isnt a race so i encourage you to use it.
I wish they would release a mpg or earlier form of quicktime so the videos are viewable under linux. Either that or port it to linux :)
Some times things you get for free just don't quite have everything you need. Reboot under an OS with QT and quit yer b*tching.
Well...Have you really bought any thing from those sponsor, then you are really a "Secondary sponsor"
If not, then please shut up and be settle with this FREE service.
Or you can go to other site. No one says you have to stay here!!!
If I had to guess, judging by the body of the person in #22, I would say it is none other than Anakin. There is a shot of Anakin in a black robe in the teaser as well.
"Note: At this time, we can only accept orders from customers in the United States or Canada.", declares starwars.com.
Anyone got any ideas where the rest of us can get our star wars goodies from? Not only do we have to suffer you people getting to see the *film* before us, but we can't get the merchandise either!
Of course, if anyone from the US wants to send me a poster all the way to the United Kingdom, I'll be happy to send you the money...after the poster arrives...
Posted by louie-dog:
There is this director who does little films in hollywood. His name is Spielberg, maybe you've heard of him. He sat down with a Mr. George Lucas and watched this new silly star wars film. Apparently after it ended he turned to Lucas and uttered 3 words... "Oh my god." Last I checked this Spielberg person did a lot of amazing movies. I think he may know what he's talking about.
I have put up RealVideo 5.0 and the MPEG version (as well as the Quicktimes) at:
http://solo.gatech.edu/
Note: you'll need some real horsepower to view the fast bitrate RealVideos of the 480x216 version smoothly. My Pentium 200MMX and PowerbookG3 (250) weren't enough, but my dual PII 400Mhz was...
Posted by Bobafett32:
Not only that, but Spielberg and many other directors were impressed by this that they wont be releasing a movies within anywhere from 1 week to 2 months after SWI comes out... And for all of you who say it is going to be a dissapointment, how do you know? I believe that it will live up to many and most SW fans and to those who aren't... You tell us that every director has ups and downs and I agree, yet can multiple directors (say about 5-10) of them be wrong? Or is it just that you don't like or can't comprehend SW so you do your natural reaction... Just talk like its no real big deal. If you do, you better wake up.
Enough Already! Stop these silly articles. I am sick of seeing these "StarWars" articles here. Isn't there anything more instersting to talk about? This is sick sick sick. Stop it now.
I'm tired of seeing it on slashdot too, (and i'm goign to filter it out) but then again, i'm really sick of seeing it everywhere else also, which is just slightly harder to avoid. Not to mention the fact that the 6 weeks surrounding the release of a movie, with a trailer that's just not that impressive on a standalone basis, (that is, if you don't hide it behind all the background and fanfare of the first 3 movies) there aren't going to be any other movies to go see.
I for one am just sick of the hype. 90% of slashdot readers are ridiculed for ridiculing "hype", which is exactly what all this crap is, until the actual movie comes out and all of you bitch that it didn't meet your expectations, which, it obviously won't no matter how good of a god damned movie it is. I find this more amazing than any of the hype out there, the fact that 90% of it is fan-based and the other 10% is just George Lucas saying "star wars this" every now and then.
Worse than a fscking star trek convention and William Shatner showing up in the middle of it.
-Erik-
There is this director who does little films in hollywood. His name is Spielberg, maybe you've heard of him. He sat down with a Mr. George Lucas and watched this new silly star wars film. Apparently after it ended he turned to Lucas and uttered 3 words... "Oh my god." Last I checked this Spielberg person did a lot of amazing movies. I think he may know what he's talking about.
Big deal. Spielberg's made his bombs, too. No artist is going to impress 100% of the people 100% of the time, or even his previous audience 100% of the time.
Personally I can't wait until all of you get back and say "wow, it was good, but not what I expected".
Then, I'm goign to have quite the laugh in this comment section.
-Erik-
What did you think you would find when you followed the link off the main page?
I never got mine. It's been 4 months.
what's the 800 # again? i want to recall them.
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to stupid comments.
> Enough Already! Stop these silly articles. > I am sick of seeing these "StarWars" articles > here. Isn't there anything more instersting to > talk about? This is sick sick sick. Stop it now. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to stupid postings. :-)
> Enough Already! Stop these silly articles.
> I am sick of seeing these "StarWars" articles
> here. Isn't there anything more instersting to
> talk about? This is sick sick sick. Stop it now.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to stupid postings.
Natalie Portman is the girl. Real good actor. Saw her in Beautiful Girls, The Professional, and some Woody Allen movie where everybody sang a lot.
So long as she doesn't break into song again, she should be great for the part.
Can anyone explain to me who that cute girl
with the face paint is? At one point in the
trailer she says something like "this is not
what the people elected me to do". So, she's
the Prez or what? How does an 18-year-old
girl become president of the Republic anyway?
Does anyone know what the deal is?
The trailer confused me, but I still thought it
was soooo cooool.
-Eric
What makes you think he meant of the USA?
/. is multicultural and multinational. Counting Star Wars, it's multiplanetary.
- Darchmare
- Axis Mutatis, http://www.axismutatis.net
- Jeff
...don't.... reply
BTW, wouldn't 'gnash' be a cool name for a shell? It could sort of tie in gnu, and
Well gnash it is. I'll begin work immediately...
Believe with me, my saplings.
Jackie Chan! By Far.
But I digress.. love the new Jedi Fight sequences,
and the effects look too sweet.
Now to secure a good camping spot outside the theatre.
~Grell
"To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy -
and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
--Robert A. Heinlein.
...when it gets down to fundamentals, do what you have to do and shed no tears. Dr. Matson in Tunnel in the Sky
Well, exam week is over, and I have some free time to burn! Why not do this with an inaugural posting on Slashdot (well, I've had my share of "me too":s, of course) about my favorite subject -- Star Wars. Below is a collection of my thoughts and opinions on some of the sights and sounds of the new trailer.
Now please bear in mind that this analysis was formed using my own knowledge (which may be patchy in some places!) and own observations made by watching the trailer and teaser. In other words, this is *not* a spoiler, since I am as much in the dark as the rest of you.
With that disclaimer out of the way, let's get on with the show (*firing up QuickTime viewer*):
1. Okay, first shot. Transports advancing over a grassy ridge escorted by hover tanks at point. Notice the fleeing animals to the right!
2. Second shot, panoramic view of what seems to be the royal palace. Beautiful waterfalls, btw.
3. Assault force advancing on dome-shaped structures in the distance. What *is* that? It looks too small to contain cities. Some kind of natural resource?
4. Large ship resembling a TIE-fighter but with a protruding nose flashes by. Is this a capital ship or a fighter? I am leaning towards the earlier, but I am not sure.
5. Landing transport touching down in forest. Notice the numerous identical transports landing in the distance.
6. Darth Maul speaking to robed figure. The second shot of this conversation shows you a bit of the robed figure's chin, which has led me to believe that this is indeed Senator Palpatine himself, later to become *Emperor* Palpatine of the New Order.
7. Horde of droids turning to look at some intrusion. Notice the large hovering droids in the background, and the shape of their eyes (or ocular receptors in Star Wars-speak). We'll get to this later on.
8. The Emperor as a hologram, speaking with the voice we all have come to love and dread!
9. Large transports being unloaded from landing barge. Notice the domed front sections of these transports, and how they somewhat resemble old-fashioned steam locomotives.
10. Orderly row of droids in front of domed structures. Here we also see the open front sections of the transports mentioned above, and in the first shot. Something strange is going on in the domes -- some kind of collecting of energy?
11. Senator Palpatine looking somewhat disinterested. It appears that the good senator is playing an interesting game of deceit!
12. Shot of Qui-Gon (Liam Neeson) and Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) jumping from a table, sabers at the ready. Is that C3P-0 to the left, dropping a tray? He seems to have a lot of plating on him, as opposed to later shots.
13. Qui-Gon blocking a bolt aimed at him (or the CG-companion ducking behind him, don't know his name). Notice how the blaster bolt is deflected and hits the attacking battle droid -- only the most proficient of Jedis can do that (Luke just pulls it off a few times).
14. Queen Amida (Natalie Portman) speaking to the Senate (I think). She seems to be speaking into some kind of camera, broadcasting her image to all members. It seems as if the queen has been exiled from her planet (Naboo, is it not?) by the droid invasion, but that she managed to escape and is now asking for help in the Senate (they don't seem very responsive though). Also notice the way the last "committee" echoes in the chamber, giving that much more force to her words (talk about a committee!).
15. Strange aliens (similar to the companion of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan) kneel and deflect blaster bolts (presumably fired by the battle droids) while the back rows throw something into the air. There appears to be some large beast of war in the background, too.
16. Larger shot of the Senate chamber. Lots of representatives from lots of worlds (a thousand thousand) around the galaxy.
17. Artoo being hoisted into place in the Naboo starfighter. Can't help to think that this system is so much better than that used on the X-Wing and Y-Wing starfighter series.
18. Queen Amida with a needle-like gun and for once without the fancy ceremonial make-up and clothing. I would venture this is where she is forced to escape from the invading forces, aided of course by Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon.
19. I just *love* the fancy lightsaber techniques of Ewan McGregor! Go, Ewan!
20. C3P-0 complaining about "dreadful starships". I gather this means that he was built on this planet, since he evidently never has traveled in space. This must be where he programmed those binary lifters! In addition, it seems as if he is not fully completed -- he is lacking a lot of plating. But Artoo is as feisty as ever.
21. Yoda speaking to Samuel L. Jackson (don't know his character's name) -- the head of the Jedi Council on Coruscant.
22. Black-robed figure extinguishing his lightsaber, a panoramic view of a desert landscape in the background. Gorgeous shot. The black robe, the elongated lightsaber grip and the red blade leads me to believe that this is Darth Maul. Also, Qui-Gon's and Obi-Wan's ship seems to be speeding off in the background. Along with the information in the teaser, I would venture that Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon has been to Tatooine to find Anakin, escaping with him just in the nick of time (not before Qui-Gon having had to face Darth Maul briefly, though).
23. Race on Tatooine. Notice how these "rocket sleighs" have their cockpits slung behind the two front engines. Strange contraption.
24. Is that Jabba moving out to greet the public, presumably on Tatooine? Also, our beloved Bib Fortuna seems to be with him; strange, I thought the half-life of being a lieutenant of Jabba was way shorter than that.
25. Gotta love those fighting scenes.
26. What are those huge sea-monsters which seem intent on eating our heroes' starship?
27. Enemy(?) starfighter firing over a large capital ship. Notice the red slits on the main fuselage of the starfighter -- very similar to the eyes of the large hover-droids in the beginning. I would say that this means that the starfighters are automated droids as well.
28. Did I say Liam Neeson is looking absolutely *wonderful* as a Jedi Master -- tall, stately and calm, almost serene.
Well, that was that. Comments, flames, suggestions are welcome.
/Nick, Jedi Knight-wannabe
Despite the tag line ("News for Nerds"), /. really isn't a "News" site in the same manner as CNN, ABCnews, and such try to be. Rob et al do not claim to be unbiased - in fact, you can see sagan's bias off the top (he waves in front of everyone's face). If you want more "journalistic" news, go see another site.
What /. is, and what makes it popular, is that it's a discussion site. Think of Rob, et al, as you friendly neighborhood moderator. Noone ever claims they're bias-free. It's more of an exercise in free-thought. If you want your thinking done for you, go see the traditional media, where they have decades of experience with packaging, presenting, and massaging your news for you (and of course, presenting it as "unbiased"). They just manage to politely hide their biases from the user.
By the way, I don't buy the story about the competing site. Just who pressured him? People posting to the site? If you provide something people find useful, then, well, there you go. Obviously, not enough people thought he was doing a useful thing. Don't like it - vote with your feet (metaphorically speaking). And, noone is forcing you to read this. So don't bitch to me about how you don't have any choice. Of course you do.
-Erik
There are always four sides to every story: your side, their side, the truth, and what really happened.
Then use the new /. blocking feature to block out Star Wars articles!
funny, I went to see the Star Wars trailer last night, and stuck around to see Wing Command:) It was about the same with the people cheering and stuff... I was very impressed by the trailer... VERY cool. As for Wing Commander.... Well, it had more plot holes...
If I was that drunk, I would have remembered it -- H. Simpson
Go back to reading Slate instead! Who are you to decide what's appropriate or not anyway? I'm totally stoked for this movie, love /. for making me aware of recent super-cool net-events.
Although I should thank you...it was your last post right? WooHoo!
You got a poster of Anakin with Darth's shadow? Where and are they still availabe?
That's why he added the Custom Slashdot Stuff. Go make yerself a user, and check the "I dont wanna see no starwars" checkbox for yerself. Stop yer Bitchin!
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
As long as I've been reading /. (over a year), Star Wars has been part of Rob's content - it's stuff that matters to him, and as it's his site well, you know, it doesn't really matter if it doesn't matter to you. :op
A) The United States is not the only country that refers to their head of state as "President"
B) Not every country that has a President has the same requirements for holding that office.
B) The character in Phantom Menace is not a President.
I have an idea for Rob that would encourage whiners to register - Have the default view of /. be blank. In order to see articles, you'd have to register and select which ones they want to see. Then they might get a clue. ;o)
I was just wondering what it was. I ordered my teaser poster from the SW fan club and I got it three weeks later...it looks beautiful, too.
*sigh*
I love slashdot and I love Star Wars when the two mix i am very happy so slashdot every little piece of info you get on STAR WARS post that sucker up