Star Wars II Trailer Online 585
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.
Divx5 version (Score:4, Informative)
http://node2.callihq.net/
Nice Divx5 Up (Score:5, Informative)
Get trailor (Score:2, Informative)
Cut and paste the link into your browser
(Don't click on the link as it detects the referer address and it will block you.)
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/index.h
Dave
Blocked referral, type manually (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Link not active?!! (Score:2, Informative)
They apparently don't want people linked directly too it so they banned anything with certain referer fields (like slashdot).
Follow the URL, copy it from the location bar, go to some other site, then paste it back in. That should take care of it.
Re:George Lucas/Steve Jobs Axis of Evil (Score:2, Informative)
Of course, this being Slashdot, you probably think it should be free (beer and speech, but mostly beer). Bleh.
On the other hand, I'm really not happy with the nagging. Oh well. *shrug*
DivX 5, MPEG and WMP8 versions here (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Nice Divx5 Up (Score:2, Informative)
Mirror (Score:2, Informative)
I grabbed the divx5 version of the large trailer that was posted on another thread and mirrored it on my site. Grab it here [bill-williams.org].
hmmm (Score:3, Informative)
BTW, was it just me, or was the music on the trailer a bit nondescript? One of the decent things about TPM was the "duel of the fates" track.
I thought whoever converted the trailer to divx should have added after the "the saga continues may 16th" something like "divx coming to your favourite file-sharing network May 20th".
And before you mod me down for not being entirely negative about the film, just think: Christopher Lee! Big battles! Natalie Portman!
graspee
Re:Link not active?!! (Score:3, Informative)
Quicktime pro is needed for hi-res version (Score:3, Informative)
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... (Score:3, Informative)
So I guess that Lucas is flattering The Fifth Element [fifthelement.com]. Or am I the only one who had a little deja vu with the "speeding through three dimensional traffic patterns with futuristic cars, followed by vertical plunge shot?"
Also, blocking slashdot referrals? No class.
Requiring quicktime pro for the large screen trailer? No class.
Yet another "milk the shoddy trilogy" moment.
Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)
Another server, other formats (Score:3, Informative)
The apple server isn't slashdotted (yet). It just wants a specific referring page, or it wants you to come straight in. Click the link from the article, get the error message, click in your URL window, and hit return again.
You can also find the trailer at planetmirror [planetmirror.com]. This completes my collection; now I'll have a full CD-ROM full of stuff to keep me excited until the release date.
Re:Divx5 version (Score:1, Informative)
DivX 5 [studenthem.gu.se]
MPEG [studenthem.gu.se]
Re:/.'ed and blocking referrals (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Direct link to the movie (Score:2, Informative)
wget --referer=http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war
MPEG trailer mirror (26 MB) here (Score:5, Informative)
You may download the trailer from: http://lavender.cime.net/~aotc/ep2_clone_war.mpg
I got it from Drestin (thanks, Dude!)
Cheers,
E
Why do this clowns at Apple.. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Quicktime pro is needed for hi-res version (Score:5, Informative)
Re:/.'ed (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Very unimpressed (Score:5, Informative)
I am afraid it is you who are mistaken about many things... You have a decent analysis, but your facts are all wrong. Of course, that is always a bad start.
George Lucas did make the original Star Wars. And that movie turned out pretty much how you describe it. However, George Lucas did not make the two following films. Not really. Not in the sense we usually give that word.
The Empire Strikes Back [imdb.com] was directed by Irvin Kershner [imdb.com]. Lucas is credited with the role of executive producer and with the story, but not the script. Apparently, Lucas gave Kershner a lot of leeway. Kershner put a lot of himself in the film, which explains why it stands out so vividly in the franchise. As for Lucas, he thought it was a bit too dark. (There is an anecdote, verified by Kershner, about Han's macho "I know" line, which he says to Leia when she tells him she loves him. Lucas didn't like the line and wanted it out, but Kershner held his ground. Lucas only let it stand after he saw how the public reacted in a private screening. Sad but true, Lucas would have preferred Han say "I love you too.")
Now admittedly The Return of the Jedi [imdb.com] looks more like a Lucas movie. But he still didn't direct it. He gave that job to Richard Marquand [imdb.com]. Again, Lucas is the executive producer and is credited with the story, but not the script. Obviously the film is going to feel a bit different. Now apart from the advance in technology which you mention, I personnally see this film as a return to the aesthetics of the first film. I think that this is what Lucas wanted when he picked Marquand. Now, I understand that Lucas guided Marquand more than he had Kershner. But maybe Marquand just happened to share Lucas' tastes more than Kershner did.
So do not be surprised if the movies look and feel different... They were made by diferent people. Funny thing is, I think Lucas used to be very open about all of this. But not anymore. He doesn't usually mention neither directed nor wrote the scripts to two of them. Kind of strange. So... As long as Lucas writes and directs the prequels, don't expect any one of them to turn out like Episode V. Especially since he didn't like it that much in the first place.
Re:To Those Who Complain. (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, it's the chariot race from Ben Hur. Seriously. It's almost a shot-for-shot homage, as Lucas and McCallum both said several times in various interviews.