Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures

jflint writes "Here is a site with over 80 screenshots (claiming more to come) that shows the story line of the upcoming Star Wars Episode 3. Some of the screenshots have French subtitles in them." These shots -- especially the space battle scenes -- certainly make it look more worthwhile than the two prior episodes.

FP and the Sites Down!

[L3on]

It's already down!? Mirror!

Massochist

[bigtallmofo]

Putting 80 screenshots of the upcoming Star Wars movie on your web site at this point is like asking to be DDoS'd.

You have to feel sorry for the ISP hosting that site and every ISP in between.

Spoiler Warning

[bircho]

Slide 81: the server fall in burning lava. The imperial march begins to play. The END!

George Lucas's plan (don't worry about spoilers)

[Xpilot]

Correction, there was a site with over 80 screenshots (claiming more to come) that shows the story line of the upcoming Star Wars Episode 3. But after Lucasfilm's agents posted it to /. it is no more. Clever fellow, that George.

Cannes

[caitsith01]

Can anyone else not believe that this will be opening Cannes? Do the French just have a very strange sense of humour, or do they perhaps intend to get revenge for recent US foreign policy decisions by allowing Lucas to make Hollywood look utterly ridiculous in the most public way they can?

Warning: spoiler..

[Linker3000]

1) Hero has Web site
2) Hero posts hires picture son site
3) Site is mentioned on /.
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4) Site crashes in the end

I sense a disturbance in the force

[waterlogged]

It was as if a million acks cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.
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Re:I have to say...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi George! How's the ranch?

Re:Massochist

[JaredOfEuropa]

You have to feel sorry for the ISP hosting that site and every ISP in between.

Sorry? I think the server will have gone into utter, utter meltdown by now. Finland will be able to warm every household for the remainder of the winter from the heat coming off that server.

Re:I sense a disturbance in the force

[screwballicus]

It was as if a million acks cried out at once and were suddenly silenced.

No, that was Mars Attacks.

That's not the worst of it

[aendeuryu]

Yeah, it's down, but that's not the worst of it -- even with nothing available to see, it's still looking more entertaining than Episodes 1 and 2.

Play-by-Play

[gowen]

It's a Play-by-Play is it?

Now, why do I hear Chris Berman's voice going:

Anakin is on the edge of the lava pit.
Obi Wan is forcing him back ... back, back, back, back, back ... gone.

Meanwhile on a ship to La-La Land

[cOdEgUru]

Luke - What is it Obiwan?

Obi - I sense a cute little server at its last breath, while millions of caffeine filled geeks armed with mouseclicks, on its deathly downward spiral. And then silence prevailed.

Luke - What?

Obi - Server got slasdhotted you little wimp!

Luke - Oh Ok! Want some coffee?

Obi - Sure. These long flights give me such a headache.

- moderated +/-5 Weird

In the mean time

[screwballicus]

While wasting time pondering whether the original site will ever succeed in coming back up, feel free to amuse yourself by refreshing the page's hit counter [freelogs.com].

I have to ask this...

[JaredOfEuropa]

I saw these pics last night when Boing Boing linked to them first

Well the mirror has gone into critical meltdown as well so I can't see them. But I need to know this: Any Jar-jar in there?

Down the server is. weak it is

[essreenim]

Always uncertain the future is.

Bandwidth insufficient it is

*Spoiler*

[Walkiry]

**ATTENTION SPOILER***





Palpatine is actually a bad guy.

*Shock*
*Horror*

Re:Looks really good

[Laur]

For the most part, everyone has to agree that the story line for the first two prequels outside of a few annoying pieces is actuallly pretty good.

This is Slashdot, where anyone will disagree with you about anything! That being said, many people (myself included) think the story line of the first two were great big piles of steaming crap.

Re:btw, it's on Kazaa now

[mboverload]

Just make sure it's not Star Wars Episode 3 Photos.zip.vbs!

Re:The server got its beating yesterday...

[EvilAlien]

So that's what getting a Slashdot early access account is good for! News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. When it is actually happening.

Re:I have to say...

[Gorath99]

I'm hopeful. If this one is as much better than Attack of the Clones as that one was better than The Phantom Menace, then it should be on par with Return of the Jedi. (AotC + (AotC-TPM) == RotJ) If George manages to pull that off, then I'll be content.

Re:Spoiler Warning

[Shag]

Slide 82: French subtitles surrender. Fark rejoices.

Re:Court Case....

[Silas is back]

Slashdot "Not guilty. I am not the accused you`re looking for."
Judge "You are not the accused I'm looking for."
Slashdot "Move along."

Judge "Move along. Move along!"

Re:More worthwhile...

[RangerRick98]

after all blowing shit up is so much more important than dialog...

Dude, have you heard the dialog in I and II? I'll take shit blowing up over that crap any day. ;)

Re:Looks really good

[RangerRick98]

This is Slashdot, where anyone will disagree with you about anything!

No way, you're completely wrong about that! :P

Re:Want to buy some land in Florida?

[natrius]

[hand wave]

This is not the movie you are looking for. But you will watch it anyway.

The good stuff

[tm2b]

when Boing Boing linked to them first, like so much of what appears on Slashdot these days.

Oh, don't exaggerate, it's only a small percentage.

No FSF/GNU/GPL manifestos, no "apple just updated their software again for the third time this week" messages, no permanent floating "the evil of the RIAA" flamefests. None of those "broken record issues" that we've been over a bazillion times. No incompetent "editors" who know neither correct spelling nor grammar, nor what stories have been posted in the last week.

You know, just the good stuff.

Re:Welcome to Slashdot..

[JudgeFurious]

The power to kill servers anywhere in the world is insignificant compared to... um, no wait that's pretty damned significant actually. Sorry, nevermind.

Plus to the best of my knowledge Slashdot doesn't have an open exhaust port somewhere with a big neon "Place Torpedo Here" sign next to it so apparently we ARE the ultimate power in the universe.

Re:Contradiction

[Neurotoxic666]

That'll be fixed when Lucas releases the next version of Episodes IV, V and VI :P

Re:FP and the Sites Down!

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone have the ASCII versions?

pics

[knightrdr]

I feel as if millions of NIC cards all cried out at once.

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Re:Contradiction

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds to me like her 'memories' came through the Force

Ah, when all else fails, use the Force.

Now with fast-acting plot hole filling!

CSI: Galaxy Far Far Away

[monkeyGrease]

Come on, this is just a loose fictional story. No need to do forensic analysis on the details.

10,000 years ago I can see guys like you stomping away from the campfire when the oral tradition of that night contradicts last year's story. Of course that means you'd be the guys missing out on procreational activities later that night.

Yet somehow those genes keep recurring. Odd that is.

Re:Meanwhile on a ship to La-La Land

[Anonymous Coward]

R2D2, to himself - beep boop b'dop Weeeooooee

Subtitle - That's funny, Ben never has a second cup of coffee at home.

No way.

[Captain Scurvy]

I remember when I first saw the trailer for Episode 1. I couldn't stop salivating over the beautiful scenery, cool-looking story, and Natalie Portman. The trailer looked so damned cool that I simultaneously crapped and creamed my pants every time I watched it. Then I saw the movie, and felt like a dumbass. Of course it would suck. Any movie with that much hype is usually a total waste of time. I'm not going to get suckered in. Not this time! Who am I kidding? Sign me up for 100 tickets, please.

Re:You're forgetting...

[Ravenscall]

I think you are giving Lucas WAY too much credit there.

wait wait, let me guess

[geekoid]

there are droids..and some light sabers.
I'm going out on a limb here, but probably some spaceships as well.

Re:Contradiction

[Anonymous Coward]

And it's always amusing to imagine what must be going through Ben Kenobi's head when he's sitting there with Luke, Artoo, and Threepio in Ep 4, listening to Artoo's hologram.

"Crap! We go through all of this trouble to hide Luke and Leia on opposite sides of the galaxy, and hide myself on this miserable ball of sand, and now?

LEIA sends, to ME, ANAKIN's favorite droids and they're delivered by LUKE, who wants me to go rescue her from VADER. The Force is my ally, my ass! With allies like that, who needs enemies?

Somehow, I think Ani's just itching for a rematch. Who would have guessed he'd survive the molten lava , for chrissakes? And I can already sense the incestual/lustful emotions building in this Skywalker kid. Man, this is a messed up family!! Why did I let Qui-Jonn bully me into training such a white-trash hick to become a Jedi?
And whose idea was it to hide Luke with Vader's step-brother? Man, Jar Jar and I must have been smoking some serious clone when we came up with that one! At least I won the rock-paper-scissors with Yoda, and I don't live in a frellin' Dark Side tainted swamp in the ass of the Galaxy.!

All right, one problem at a time. Let's go rescue the girl, hopefully before Dad tortures her and figures out that she's his long-lost daughter, and comes after me. Because I seem to remember Anakin having this whole revenge thing going on, a bit. Maybe he's mellowed... not.

THEN I'll deal with the incest.
Maybe if I get the kid hanging around one of those smuggler guys, he'll get Luke laid somewhere along the trip and Luke won't have all that teen hormone imbalance.

Re:More worthwhile...

[robfoo]

What, you didn't like "Sand is rough, but you're so smooth" or however it went?
It was a comedy, right?