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Star Wars TV Commercials
Boy its Star Wars Hype Monday here as
Jim Hall writes "I
found the Star Wars Ep. 1 TV commercials
They are spoiler-free! But they are very cool. " VH1 is
supposedly gonna air Duel of the Fates (the Star Wars video)
6 consecutive times at 6pm EST, so get your VCR ready. I'ce
heard the track already- its not the best track on the
soundtrack, but its pretty sweet.
Why are those starwars morons using QuickTime? I wouldn't be so mad if I could play them under xanim. Could somone PLEASE convert these to MPEG?
Do any Sci-Fi fans like Star Wars? I guess it is ok as entertainment. But does it qualify as science fiction? It is so ironic that as technology is increasing, good science fiction is decreasing. Don't flame me, it is just my personal opinion, but Star Wars seems to me to be just a Cowboy and Indians movie with different uniforms (... ok, different cows too!).
I had already d/led them myself, but a little ol' "a href=" would've made your post a lot easier.
I'll leave it up until I get home from Moxy Fruvous; whoever gets it, gets it.
It's 43 megs. Hope you've got a T3.
- A.P.
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"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Second, and more importantly, when Apple releases a Quicktime encoder for Linux, I'll get in line with my 30 bucks.
- A.P.
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"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Much music says they'll be airing the Dual of the Fates video at 8:30 EST, so everyone out here better set their vcrs to record at 5:30 (well, actually I'm recording from 5:20 to 6, but I digress....)
:)
I suppose we'll see more behind-the-scenes stuff once the movie is actually out. I found that the most interesting part of this.
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My thoughts exactly.
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Until you realized that having the DeathStar explode in orbit doomed the sanctuary moon to an ecological disaster. The Ewoks are in for a good strong (many year long) winter, not to mention the tremendious amount of junk that will be falling out of the sky all over the place. Not to mention the large amount of stuff (like the reactor core) that will likely be highly radioactive. How's that for an up note?
I read the internet for the articles.
Posted by LazarusLong:
Don't ask, its a spoiler.
With these movies coming out so much time after the originals, they're coming out when many of us who saw it as kids now have kids of our own to take to it. (My boy is just a little young for it right now, but by the time Eps 2 & 3 roll around, I should be able to take him.) So while I hate the overhyping, I've got to admit, there's a certain amount of hope that he'll find it enjoyable enough that it will be sort of a vicarious shared experience between us.
As is, it feels kind of strange realizing I'm part of the last generation of first world humanity (barring catastrophe) not to grow up with computers -- at least, not until I was 15 or 16 -- VCRs, cable TV, etc. Heck, I probably would have had a younger sibling if medical technology had been just a couple of years more advanced. (My dad was RH+, my mom RH-.)
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
> In high school I once wrote that "it is possible that George Washington existed, the revolutionary war could have really been faught, but Yoda IS real, and Star Wars DID happen."
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." - Morpheus, as written by Neil Gaiman, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", _Sandman_ issue 19.
Mashed potatoes can be your friends!
So I think the concept of the behind the scenes stuff is cool, I've always tuned into those silly HBO behind the scenes specials and unmuted when someone besides the actor is talking ...
Therefore, I think that putting in music video, without some dumb actor hyping in the foreground, behind the scene shots is really cool.
However, the concept of VH-1 having the video on autorepeat for a half hour straight (we're in the second showing now) is both very cool and very silly all at the same time.
The VH-1 announcer is really freaking annoying. "Join Yoda and Obi Wan and the whole Jedi crew ..." Sigh ...
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I need to get my laptop IRDA port to speak TV remote so I can get to the mute button in time
Stupid me, I was so busy building the Ep1 Lego sets I got at midnight, that I missed the Star Wars music video on TV. The site above which has it in MPEG format has been slashdotted already. Does anyone else have it up on the net, or do you know when either MTV or VH1 will broadcast it again?
I thought I would also mention that VH1 is also showing behind-the-scenes stuff from the movie @ 6. Looks interesting, even know VH1 isn't exactly the hipest channel out there. :)
I had problems with Quicktime 4. I painfully decided to switch to windows to try and watch trailer one a while ago, and I had to download Quicktime 4, but it like opens and freezes. So that was enough of windows for a while. I found the .mpg on a website somewhere and linux can now happily play videos and saves me a reboot. :)
Log
that "other people" may include yourself.
Well, enough with the speculation; we'll know for certain soon enough.
If it's great, all the fanatics will love it. If it sucks, all the fanatics will force themselves to love it. Hell, if I waited in line for a month, obsessed over costume designs, was at toys r' us at midnight last night, watched the prequil 500 times on my computer, video taped every second of the film shown on TV, and spent over 3 hours a day on starwars.com or the countdown site, I'd make sure I loved that goddamn movie. I'd hate to think of the mental stress this will put on all the phycho obsessives if it sucks.
--[shangodee]
Actually, IMO, it's neither. It's too bad that Apple didn't release a Linux version of Quicktime. Does the java one work? But it's not really a reason to say that either sucks.
Cheers,
Perrin.
-Perrin.
Now I want you to go in that bag and find my lightsaber. It's the one that says bad mother-fscker on it.
Just got the soundtrack to episode at Tower. Pretty sweet so far, though I'm not even half way through it. Definitely orth venturing out in the rain for. =)
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Yeah, so, Star Wars isn't science fiction. You're absolutely right. It's a space opera. The distinction, at least for me, is that science is not central to the plotline of Star Wars, where it is for movies like Contact, the Terminator, and Blade Runner; Star Wars is simply executed in space, but isn't _about_ science, nor is science important to the execution of the story.
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I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but the Research Triangle Park area is home to RedHat and the former sunsite.unc.edu so I'm sure there are a few people up there who've heard of Linux, not to mention all those students from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, Duke University, North Carolina Central University, Peace College, St. Mary's College, Meredith College, Wake Tech, Durham Tech, and The North Carolina High School of Science and Mathematics who may not have all heard of Linux but have all heard of Star Wars.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
If there is someone out there who can convert/
encode a 30fps 8bit stereo AVI
of rather LARGE (650meg) size to mpeg
or quicktime? I have a recording of
the Duel of the Fates Video that I video
captured last night. My server cannot
handle large amounts of traffic so I would
rather just send the link to one person who
could compress it and spread the joy. If
it's even possible that is.
email me at msimmons@uvic.ca
The four commercials are really quite nice to watch, but I must say the soundtrack Video was
stunning. It was a mixture of Trailer A voices
("hate leads to suffering.."), the Duel of the
Fates music track, and scenes from every bit of
video yet released, the trailers, the "Lynn's
Journal" videos, scenes of the orchestra and
choir and new bits. I am so skipping work May
19th....
Just saw the Video, it did have more behind the camera footage in the video. I hope the movie can live up to all the promotion that it is receiving.
Yeah, I totally agree. I watched them all, and was very underwhelmed. The voice over totally ruined the otherwise beautiful cinematography. That Anakin one was particularly bad. I can't help but think that if you splice all of the footage from the trailers and commercials you can probably see about 25% of the movie. :)
These give me server errors, but I can view the QT just fine in a browser. Anyone else manage to do this?
You will not drink with us, but you would taste our steel? - Walter Matthau, The Pirates
and no your kid can not be in the movie....
later, thermo
Jeez.. I've gotta do something to weed out all the non-eleet people, don't I?
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Everybody hates how starwars.com embeds the movs into their pages. Well, here's direct links to all 16 of 'em. Fetch.
8 0_qt4/amidala_480_qt4.mov 4 0_qt4/amidala_240_qt4.mov 8 0_qt3/amidala_480_qt3.mov 4 0_qt3/amidala_240_qt3.mov
8 0_qt4/qui-gon_480_qt4.mov 4 0_qt4/qui-gon_240_qt4.mov 8 0_qt3/qui-gon_480_qt3.mov 4 0_qt3/qui-gon_240_qt3.mov
8 0_qt4/anakin_480_qt4.mov 4 0_qt4/anakin_240_qt4.mov 8 0_qt3/anakin_480_qt3.mov 4 0_qt3/anakin_240_qt3.mov
8 0_qt4/shmi_480_qt4.mov 4 0_qt4/shmi_240_qt4.mov 8 0_qt3/shmi_480_qt3.mov 4 0_qt3/shmi_240_qt3.mov
Queen Amidala: One Will
QT4, 480x260, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/4
QT4, 240x132, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/2
QT3, 480x260, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/4
QT4, 240x132, mono - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/2
Qui-Gon Jinn: One Destiny
QT4, 480x260, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/4
QT4, 240x132, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/2
QT3, 480x260, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/4
QT4, 240x132, mono - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/2
Anakin Skywalker: One Dream
QT4, 480x260, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/4
QT4, 240x132, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/2
QT3, 480x260, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/4
QT4, 240x132, mono - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/2
Shmi Skywalker: One Love
QT4, 480x260, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/4
QT4, 240x132, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/2
QT3, 480x260, stereo - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/4
QT4, 240x132, mono - http://www.apple.com/main/media/lucasfilm/poems/2
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I stick firm to my prediction that this movie will earn hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
Cody
http://www.howstrange.org
What a bunch of crap. "Don't look back. When you leave." Makes me want to toss my cookies. I just hope whoever put them together was some marketing drone who had nothing to do with the movie. With the way GL has been micromanaging everything, it's hard to imagine that he wasn't involved in them.
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It'll probably be months before I can actally get into the theatre to *see* the damn thing, so I figure I might as well enjoy the hype while its around.
Nevertheless, these new commercials are *terrible*.
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Wait, Starship Troopers had a "deep philosophical point about war"? When was this? I must have missed it between the cheesy love triangle, the "dark and mysterious" Doogie Howser, those insanely annoying news bites and that lame ass revelation about the aliens at the end; Ooo, they're afraid...whatever.
Q.
Even if Episode 1 is the worst movie of the year, it will still be the top grossing movie of the decade. My freinds think of me as a StarWars fan, but compared to REAL fans, I'm just a guy that enjoyed the movies. (In high school I once wrote that "it is possible that George Washington existed, the revolutionary war could have really been faught, but Yoda IS real, and Star Wars DID happen.")
I really expect Episode 1 to SUCK badly. But I still will see it even if its the only movie I see for the rest of the year. And even if I'm right, and people all go around talking about how bad the movie is, and there is as much "anti-hype" as there has been hype, this movie will still sale more tickets than anything before it. Titanic had an incredible draw. I remember seeing people sitting on the floor when I saw it 2 months after it came out. But Titanic will look small compared to E1. Bank on it, George is...
ALL music videos are commercials.
The music is not in the piano -Clement Mok
But I'll settle for Anonymous Coward :0)
The music is not in the piano -Clement Mok
Try reading the book 'Starship Troopers'. Then, having got the philosophy out of the way, watch the completely unrelated film of the same title.
These commercials are kind of a disappointment. The narration was so cheesy! I think if it was simply music without dialogue it would have been much better.
A slight update for you people who are going to Linux expo:
The Raleigh Grand Cinema has said it's going to start selling tickets 3pm May 12th for the shows on the 19th. They are listed at moviefone, so I would try that a little before then.
Of course, you're competing with the IBMers and Redhaters in the Triangle, who are on their home turf and are more organized. Best of luck. I'll be home, in Mississippi, by then, for better or for worse.
From http://www.apple.com/quicktime/developers/qtjava/s dk/index.html :
"In order to use the QuickTime for Java libraries, you must have both QuickTime 3 (including QuickTime for Java) and a Java Runtime Environment installed."
So, QT for Java requires QuickTime. No dice.
Gosh, what do you have against Star Wars?
Titanic may have been able to draw the women...
But Star Wars has universal appeal across all race, gender, ethnic, and social boundaries. You make it seem as all the geeks are pre-teens.
Quite a few of us are probably college and post college, who were born just shy of being able to enjoy the original Star Wars phenomena and want to indulge ourselves in every possible way in the new Star Wars movie.
Myself, I'll be waiting a while since I can't just ditch school, much as I like to, in order to see it.
My friends? They'll be skipping school multiple times to see it, probably.
Ya know, Star Wars is a life, to some people out here; is it any less important than flavor of OS, than favorite sports team, than must see rock idol?
Relax a little, or you'll give yourself a hernia =)
-AS
*Pikachu*
They are listed as 'poetry', or something like that, if you see the Apple download listing...
If nothing else, it let me know what these people sounded like.
I so much wish they had done one with Obi-Wan... He's the one I want to hear!
Years of critical analysis in my English classes can't help but applying foreshadowing and contextual analysis to the commercials... and I come up with some really bad feelings...
I've got a bad feeling about this.
-AS
*Pikachu*
Jedinet reported these a few days ago, before they were released. They also reported that there would be a 60 second long "Darth Maul" one too. In fact, they even had the narration for all of them. But no Darth Maul?
Even the music video thingy has a bit of the Darth Maul commerical, narration and all, so we know it exists...
- 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.
MPG_UNK CODE: e0
and when it finally plays there's no sound and it goes at 1 or 2 fps. Do I have the wrong version? Need flags? Can't play this kind of MPEG? what?
It seems like a bad idea to go this overboard with the hype.
I know nobody wants to think of Star Wars and Waterworld in the same sentence, but I can't help but compare them.
Because of all the hype, it will be extremely difficult not to judge Episode:1 very harshly. No matter how decent it is, there are going to be many people who come out of the theater complaining about it until they run out of breath.
If there wasn't so much of a hooplah about it, we'd all go in expecting to have a good time, and probably be satisfied. Marketing it as the Second Coming: A Messianic Experience for All Ages, is just asking for scrutiny and criticism.
I'm sorry but Star Wars is a B movie full of cheesie one liners. I don't get the appeal. I went to the theatre when it was re-released and I remembered seeing it as a kid but I never remembered it being that lame.
I may go to see episode 1 but only on a tuesday afternoon after it's been out for 3 or 4 weeks. And even then only because it will be years before it makes it on to superchannel.
I'm just generally tired of this whole pop culture mass media over the top money machine.
Even Sly Stallone only puked out 5 Rockies.
Hi, I'm one of the biggest star wars fans I know. Even as such, I agree with you completely.
ANH is cheezy. It was poorly casted, acted, shot, and written. ESB and ROJ only slightly less so.
HOWEVER, no movie will ever be more fun than Star Wars. It's like a wooden rollercoaster at the amusement park. Sure, there are faster, loopier steel rides, but you don't get to feel the damn thing shake you. Star Wars is the same way. Starship Troopers may have lots of eye candy and deep philosophical points about war, but Star Wars is an adventure that every kid imagines at some point. George Lucas is just the kid who got to make a movie about it and share it with everyone else, and it hit close to home.
Or something like that.
-Chris
"Natalie Portman as HAL 9000"
Lowmag.net
That would be fairly ironic, given that the book had the exact opposite message. That is, the book said that military service - and possibly sacrificing your life - is the highest calling of human society. The book was completely clear about the bugs desire to destroy the human race.
I think the movie tried to follow the book; just not very well. Instead of an excellent philosophical movie we got a good action flick. Oh well.
BTW, I highly recommend the book (Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein).
Thank you very much for the URLS!!!
I'm on the west coast, does anyone know if this will be tape delayed so it will show at 6pm on the west coast too? It wasn't on at 3pm PST which translates to 6pm EST... and BTW, aren't we on daylight savings time now, PDT and EDT?
http://www.galaxy47.com/
I went to Star Wars when I was only 3, and I remember parts of it, most notibly the trench scene and the part with the interrogation bot. I'm so happy I remember just those fragments and that I was actually a part of the original Star Wars 'thing' .. ! If nothing else, take him and he'll be able to brag to friends later on in life. ;)
Yeah, i know, thats coming off a bit lame, but I get all tingly knowing ive seen all 3 movies in the theater. Maybe it was because I shouldnt have
seen the first one because I was so young.. Either way, it cant hurt!
Oh yah, on a side note, my parents also took me to see Alien when I was 5 (I think it was 1979?) and I came out screaming and crying, and now its my FAVORITE MOVIE because nothing has scared me so much, and I completely love the creepyness to the entire movie (as well as Aliens, which made me unable to sleep right for 2 weeks!). SCARE THE CRAP OUTTA YOUR KID! Its great!
from http://www.drudgereport.com/matt.htm
X X X X X
NEW STAR WARS THEME COMPOSED ON THE TOILET
Holy Planet Tatooine! Film composer JOHN WILLIAMS wrote portions of the
soundtrack for the new STAR WARS prequel EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE on
the toilet, according to wire reports out of England.
The celebrated music man is quoted on the WENN wire late Tuesday night: "I
remember writing ANAKIN'S THEME. I was sitting on the toilet, watching
GENERAL HOSPITAL, when all of a sudden the water plopped and brought
together a syncopated harmony that I found to be perfect for the theme of
the boy who will one day become DARTH VADER."
X X X X X
:)
Maybe I missed it, but is the soundtrack out today? If so, it'll be a quick run by the mall tomorrow morning.
The moment I read this (in Texas, 7:30 CST), I rushed to my DSS and flipped to Much music...the second it started. Thanks for the info, Alan!
I can see making Natalie Portman's voice deeper to make her seem older, perhaps, but they made it TOO deep. And while the new footage was wonderful, there was much too little of it =)
As for the music? I heard it a while back (one of the lucky few whose hunt of the 'net was successful), and while I love it, it will take some getting used to. I've always been a big fan of John William. But this video butchered it.
The trailers had a definite flow to them, making them seem very fluid. This video just jumbled miscellaneous bits of footage and slapped them together. I really wonder if any of Lucas' people had anything to do with making this video, as it is of rather substandard quality for them.
I like behind the scenes shows, but only AFTER I have seen the movie. Spoilers suck, and you can't do a good behind the scenes show without tons 'o spoilers.
*sigh* why does everyone have this stupid idea that the only people who are into starwars are "pimply faced nerds and losers"? i know all sorts of people who dig starwars: skaters, homies, even preps. what the hell makes you think that only geeks would like starwars? pick up a dictionary and look up demographics...
"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want." - F Scott Fitzgerald
I saw something on MTV around 4:00 CST but it was not the music video it was a music video promo thing but I'll be watching.
Code On, Racher
I've heard rumors of a Darth Maul commercial similar to the ones found on star war's web site
/ commercials/)
(http://www.starwars.com/episode-i/news/trailer
anyone have an info on the existance of the darth maul commercial and if so when it will be released, etc???
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I just went to the starwars site and viewed the streaming QT4 video ..not bad. So I got into the http source and found the MOV file and pasted its URL into the Quicktime Player. Since I own the Pro version, I was able to select Present Movie > Current (Full Screen) and voila!! Full screen T1 music video streaming to my PowerMac 7600/120 (upgraded to a G3/305 of course). It's amazing what hardware scaling can do. Too bad RealVideo is shackled to that postage-stamp size. If anyone can post a screenshot please do. The shareware Snapz Pro v1.1.1 got the whole screen but the window for the video was black. hmmm.... oh well! Now I'm almost positive that the only other scenes we're gonna see in the real movie are the credz --what a bummer.
Those who laugh at you for you having a Mac.. are the people who constantly call you to fix their PC.
I downloaded the files directly from the Star Wars site after clicking each preview movie (the larger resolution ones). They're awesome.. I don't know what everyone is trippin' about. Maybe some people have too much garbage screwing up their computers. My trusty Powerbook G3/266 had the commercials presented full screen in all its 44KHz stereo glory. No frame skips, nothing. All that quality for an average of 4.5MB. Maybe the whiners should clear out their system folder of extraneous interface hacks, screensavers, Norton junk, and Microsoft extensions. There's nothing like a full-screen 1024x768 30fps Quicktime 4 movie blaring out of surround sound speakers hooked up to a laptop.
Those who laugh at you for you having a Mac.. are the people who constantly call you to fix their PC.
I just happened to turn the TV on, which was on
:)
MTV, and caught the middle of the the Star Wars
music video at around 6pm Eastern!! Did anyone happen to tape it and encode it into an mpeg
movie?
I'm sure they'll be playing the video a few more
times before the movie comes out...
Captain Abstraction
I thought the voice overs were very moving.
Of course, I'm not a jaded, cynical person that most here seem to be. I enjoy things for what they are and guess what, I end up enjoying life far more!
But I guess I'm a dying breed.
--- "It's not enough that I succeed...everyone else must fail."
Is this video supposed to be an actual music video or a free commercial? Nice marketing George.
Did anyone notice that the Coruscant building displayed in the moonlight waterfall scene appears rounded, yet in the characters perched-on-a-ledge scene it appears to have a flat surface?
Granted that the first is a 3d model and the second is a matte painting. But still, shouldn't the ILM modelers have caught this?
Okay, film's ruined, let's all boycott it, eh?