Star Wars II Trailer Online

Jager writes: "You can download the new starwars trailer here. Enjoy." Seemed to me as if Lucas was worried about the "love story" emphasis in the previous teasers, and wanted to make sure people knew there would be plenty of zapping and slashing.

George Lucas/Steve Jobs Axis of Evil

[HeywoodJablomi69]

I don't know how it works at any other download sites, but if you go to www.starwars.com it won't let you download the hi-res version without Quicktime Pro. What gives? I want my free, bandwidth-consuming movie trailers, and I don't want to pay for them!

/.'ed

[Toodles]

Admiral: Slashdot? You're belief in that ancient religion hasn't help you conjure up that Episode 2 trailer.

Vader: I find your lack of faith disturbing, Admiral.

*Admiral chokes under weight of a full frontal Slashdotting.*

I have to admit, Im impressed. We took down Apple.

Those Crafty Apples

[hackus]

Looks like they are blocking the referral downloads from Slashdot.org.

Gee. I wonder why that is?

:-)

-hack

Re:/.'ed

[Aash]

Oh yes, Apple has been Slashdotted. That's gotta be it. Because, god knows, no one knew about this obscure little trailer before Slashdot brought it to the attention of the masses.

Fox trailer conspiracy against Tivo!

[reaper20]

Crap, I got 1/2 the trailer at the end of malcolm, the other 1/2 in the beginning of the Xfiles ... so I can't watch it all at once ... ARGH!

Summary of Posts

[$carab]

102 Posts saying the link is dead
101 Posts reposting the original link
57 Posts discussing /. effect
4 Posts that rip-off yoda there be only
13 Posts that post a new link, also dead
12 Posts that declare that link dead
41 Posts declaring that the trailer sucked, but that they'll see the movie anyway
17 Posts declaring that the trailer sucked, but that they'll rent it
2 Posts declaring that Star Wars is dead
31 Posts declaring the dark side (Walmart?) alive

Re:/.'ed and blocking referrals

[un4given]

Referral Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://applesw.download.akamai.com/ep2/clone_war/ index.html" on this server.

Your feeble OSX is no match for the power of Slashdot...

Re:hmm..

[Deadstick]

So they show the trailer on Fox and then tell you to see "Ice Age" in order to see the theatrical version of the trailer...wow. A trailer for a trailer, with an inline hype for another picture. Wonder if the actual movie is that creative... rj

Re:cartoon

[Anonymous Coward]

...or a Dr. Who fan.

No CGI monsters on that show, just foam, rubber and a piece of colored glass in front of the camera!

Realism plug-in

[jcsehak]

I think part of the problem is that with CGI, they don't have the limitations of real life, so they just forget about them. "Hey, let's make the camera fly around the race course at a million mph. Ooo, cool." "Okay, while you do that, I'm going to make my CG character figit around annoyingly while the real actors are talking just because I've got a handle on Inverse Kinematics." WTF? Real life actors can sit still, why can't CG ones?

I think someone needs to come up with a plug-in for Softimage (or whatever program they use) that will prevent the virtual camera from doing anything a normal camera couldn't do in real life. Like if you moved it too high, it would make you build a virtual crane to hold it in position. Or if you moved it around in the air, you'd get a $3,000 virtual helicopter rental fee deducted from your bank account.

Attack of the Corn

[r3v0ltn]

Is it me, or does Yoda say "Begun, this corn war has"? Listen carefully at 2:10.

Re:Anakin 2 Vader

[mgblst]

It's called makeup... women have it, men don't. What can you do?

Re:Summary of Posts

[popular]

And one post to bind them all!

Re:Very unimpressed

[jafac]

.. . .and there was this one time, in band camp. . .