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.

I have to say...

[DamienNightbane]

This looks totally badass.

More worthwhile...

[Snaller]

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

Spoiler:

[Anonymous Coward]

You hate George Lucas but you are going to line his pockets all the same. Resistance is futile.

The server got its beating yesterday...

[Anonymous Coward]

You're a little late, this was all over boing boing [boingboing.net] yesterday. Way to go with the old news slashdot!

Looks, sure.

[gowen]

These shots -- especially the space battle scenes -- certainly make it look more worthwhile than the two prior episodes.

Well Episodes I and II look worthwhile if you don't have to listen to the dialogue.

Looks really good

[chrisgeleven]

I saw these pictures last night, so I beat the /.

The movie looks really good.

I'm not concerned about the movie's looks or story though...Star Wars is always at the top with those. 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.

What worries me most is the dialogue...that is where the first two prequels failed and where the original trilogy got everyone hooked.

Let's hope that problem is fixed.

Re:Spoiler:

[Anonymous Coward]

heard of P2P ? lucas doesnt deserve a penny, he will be robbed by the people, some call it payback

Want to buy some land in Florida?

[nwbvt]

"These shots -- especially the space battle scenes -- certainly make it look more worthwhile than the two prior episodes."

When the first one came out, everyone was so excited. People were camped in front of movie theaters for months, and you could easily get the impression that this was going to be one of the best movies of all time.

Then they saw Jar-Jar and the rest is history.

When the second one came out, people were once again excited. Yeah, they remembered how horrible the first one was, but this new Star Wars promised to be much better! Less Jar-Jar, a new Anakin, and an improved storyline.

Then everyone realized that while it might be better than the first one, that isn't saying much.

Now they release a few pretty pictures from the third one and once again, you have people saying it "look(s) more worthwhile". Sigh. Hey look, someone wrote the word gullible on the movie theater ceiling!

Re:The server got its beating yesterday...

[JabberWokky]

Ye ghods! A day later!!! Holy crap, how *terrible* to have to... umm.. look at some pictures... a full day...

So what?

--
Evan

Re:Did anyone torrent it?

[Kwiik]

lesse.. Slashdot deliberately mirroring possibly copyrighten material without permission from the copyright owner. I don't know about you, but I like having a place to visit at work so often that I become unproductive and get fired, plus find a new job through some dumb karma rating + low user ID anomaly.

Contradiction

[WormholeFiend]

If the website guy is correct and Vader forcechokes Padme, who dies giving birth, it contradicts Return of the Jedi when Leia tells Luke she vaguely remembers her mother, being sad and all that stuff.

Way to go, George.

Re:wanna see it

[elasticwings]

Hey dammit, Natalie Portman did an excellent job of acting in Garden State. Maybe if the director did a better job or the writer wrote the part better, her performance would be more memorable. And if we're throwing stones on acting, I personally feel Hayden's acting was lame in Episode II. I mean his character's emotions were way to over the top. I was just like, "Jeez, stop whining sissy."

Re:Did anyone torrent it?

[PktLoss]

I really don't think it's that simple. By mirroring the entire series of images elsewhere they would have likely surpassed fair use rights, and opened /. to law suits.

I don't see a creative commons release on that page.

Re:Contradiction

[dswensen]

Don't worry, that will be fixed in the next edition of the Original Trilogy. Lucas will take that line out, or make a CGI Leia who says something else.

Re:I have to say...

[zrk]

I bet you could take 80 screenshots of either of the 1st two movies and make them look great, too.

Re:Fair warning:

[badasscat]

I saw these last night, and this is about the biggest spoiler you can possibly see for the movie. Almost every scene is pictured, along with a description of each scene.

SPOILER ALERT!

Annakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader! Senator Palpatine becomes Emperor Palpatine! Queen Amidala gives birth to Luke Skywalker and Princess Leah!

Seriously, the entire plot of this movie was either spoiled nearly 30 years ago in the FIRST Star Wars movie, or it should at least be pretty obvious by now (no, QUEEN Amidala was never mentioned by name in ep. 4, but jesus christ, who do you think gave birth to the PRINCESS?). If you're worried about "spoilers" at this point, then you really can't be much of a Star Wars fan to begin with. You'd have to be completely oblivious to the story to this point - we know the ending, we know the beginning, we're just missing one part of the saga in the middle, and as ingrained into pop culture as this franchise is, it's not difficult to fill in the gaps, screenshots or no.

as geeky as this is

[Moonpie Madness]

I alwyas assumed that leia remembered her mother due to her ability to see into the past using the force inwittingly, like kiddo annakin seeing the future for pod racing reflexes. Anyway, my point is that there are no plot holes in sci fi. And so, here I am. Posting about star wars on slashdot. I am not cool. I have to acknoeledge that fact and move on with my 'life.'

Re:Did anyone torrent it?

[NanoGator]

"You take the same risk posting them as you do torrenting them."

That's why Slashdot doesn't do either.

Lucas can't write or direct.. I'm done with him

[Morpeth]

This is not flamebait - seriously Lucas won't get anymore money from me. After the recent last two films, I'm done with him, he takes solid actors and gets the absolute worst from them.

He writes horrible, truly horrible dialog, and I don't even find the plot/storylines that interesting anymore. Rehashed, recycled.

His characters are paper thin cutouts, the recent ones especially. I mean h*ll, I don't rememeber their names, let alone care if they die in the film(s).

Peter Jackson redention of Tolkein on the other hand... now he understands characters - passion, heroism, comraderie, fear, self-doubt, you name it. While his film was a grand epic, visual feast, some of the most memorable moments to me where moments between characters not just the wonderful special effects and battles.

• When a dying Boromir calls Aragorn "my brother... my king."
• A despairing King Theodan at his only son's burial. And later his dying words to Eowyn about his pride and love for her.
• When an exhausted Sam picks up Frodo to carry him the last hundred yards up Mt. Doom
• With everyone bowing to him - King Aragorn at his own coronation, bows to the Hobbits, tells them to stand and says "you bow to no one"

Now THOSE are great moments... Lucas is fluff an eye candy, nothing more. I loved Star Wars once, he's since turned into a empty film making, and a marketing tool to sell cheap toys.

I am Star Wars Blackhole... where is the Magic?!?!

[Kong99]

I can only assume that the people who read/view and write/talk about every scrap of info for an upcoming SW release are the same ones who complain about how SW no longer has the magic!!

Of course not you nimrods!!! A big part of the magic of the first 3 was that we knew very little or nothing about the films before we saw them!!! All I knew going to see Ep. 4 in '77 was that it was sci-fi and really cool.

My best movie experiences have always been prefaced by knowing little to nothing about the movie before I saw it. I hate all the commercials for movies, it ruins many of them. I go out of my way to avoid them for movies I want to see (eyes closed, fingers in ears, and saying blah, blah, blah)

NOTE: All I saw before Ep. 4 was the movie poster, I am pretty sure much the same for Ep. 5 because the "Luke, I'm your father" caught me totally by surprise and I was in 100% denial about it!! If it helps I was born in 1968.

Re:Did anyone torrent it?

[arkhan_jg]

But google manages to cache sites just fine. As long as slashdot respected requests to remove caches/mirrors, as google does, I don't see them having a problem.

You could just as easily argue that slashdot could be sued for aiding and abetting DDOS attacks.