Star Wars Episode III To Open Cannes 339
bonch wrote in to mention an article on the IGN site. "The Cannes Film Festival is going to the dark side. After months of negotiations between George Lucas and festival officials, Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge Of The Sith will open the festival in the South of France in May."
But... (Score:5, Interesting)
La Dee Dah (Score:2, Interesting)
That would be worth seeing.
Audience Response (Score:1, Interesting)
Episode 1: Applause the moment the words "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far way" appeared.
Episode 2: General "meh"
I wonder what episode 3 will get.
LOL (Score:5, Interesting)
I just can't help but imagine Lucas with a big grin holding up his middle finger and giving one final F-YOU to the Star Wars geeks, followed by a "get a freaking life."
Ahem. Sorry. In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that I slept overnight -- ONE NIGHT -- for Empire Strikes Back. But my friend camped out for two weeks, and I was only 30 or so people back. :)
George is an independant fim-maker too! (Score:5, Interesting)
Personally, if any of the pre-press is telling us what's going on, George may finally be willing to make a PG-13 movie..and have to make a movie that can make it with the increased rating.
Re:Good idea (Score:2, Interesting)
Nearly everyone I know who saw it was already anti-Bush. And once certain facts about the presentation were shown, it discredited it in the eyes of people who may have been in the running to be converted.
In fact, the problem with nearly all documentaries coming out now is that they preach to the converted. If someone could find out a way to talk about the bad shit that junk food does to you in a way that inner city single mothers would watch, they'd be useful.
Re:LOL (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Can George Lucas Save "Star Trek"? (Score:1, Interesting)
Star Warts (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Good idea (Score:2, Interesting)
I was probably the demographic this movie was directed at. I'm undecided. I have no feeling of identity to either major political party. I have issues with Bush. And there are aspects of the apparent Democratic political view that I find appealing. However, this movie didn't convert me. If anything, it helped alienate me from the Democratic party. This movie, combined with the National Draft "issue" helped point out that the Democratic party is just as much about deceit as the Republicans.
Now, before we get in to a big thread about how right or wrong I am on this perception - let me point out that's NOT the point. The issue is what this movie did for me and whether that's relevant. I'd suggest the success of the movie in converting the public isn't the issue. The fact that the election didn't go the direction Michael Moore would apparently have it doesn't matter. It was still an interesting bit of work.
I'm a professional paranoid. I'm also a bit of a cynic. So I like to think that I'm hard to fool. But this movie had me fooled. To a point. It was the nagging feeling that had me looking for Moore's critics. And when I found them and went back over the movie (one window with a play-by-play criticism and another with the movie), I discovered that Moore had me thinking he said things in the movie that he didn't. Moore did an excellent job at misdirection and implication. He was a magician pulling political rabbits out of soundbites and video clips.
In short, Moore's piece is an excellent work of propaganda; despite it's success or lack thereof. Political analysts have been predicting that this is the beginning of a new breed of political propaganda in the US electoral process. Time will tell.
Isn't cannes film festival just that? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:George is an independant fim-maker too! (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:My ORIGINAL link--avoid the ad (Score:3, Interesting)
What I find even MORE funny (Score:2, Interesting)
I hope that really did happen (Score:3, Interesting)
Because if it did it's got to top my best audience reaction story. "Highlander 2" opening night the theater is full. Highly anticipated sequel to a movie that did poorly in theaters but built up quite a following in rental so pretty much everyone there was really looking forward to this movie.
The very first scene pops up and beneath it appears a caption saying something like.
"3000 years ago, the planet Zeist"
I don't know how many people that theater seated but every single person there it seemed whispered "Zeist?" at the same time. Then several people started laughing and it was all downhill from there.
Re:Good idea (Score:4, Interesting)
Which, If you look at a map, are right next to each other, except people have heard about Flint, not Davison.
He doesn't lie about it. (Score:3, Interesting)
Besides he's never actually said he was born in Flint, just that is where he grew up, which may be very true if he went over there all the time.
But in the end nobody, but you, gives a damn where he was born. If you call that a "deception" you need your head examined.