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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.
I had already d/led them myself, but a little ol' "a href=" would've made your post a lot easier.
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.
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!
Log
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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Kyle R. Rose, MIT LCS
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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....
I'm a big science fiction fan who also loves Star Wars, and also think it's more than mere entertainment.
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It is simply a different form of fiction.. I don't think Star Wars qualifies so much as science fiction as it does space fantasy.
But the thing is.. Why is it BAD just because it isn't science fiction? Sure, it IS a Cowboy and Indians adventure movie.. but why is it "just" that? Star Wars has garnered a mythical value in our modern culture, and I think its power and value are something to be appreciated.
Who cares if it's not hard s.f.?
See my earlier post regarding this:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/05/03/1382
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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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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Wage Slave Journal
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.
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*
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.
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
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 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.
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?