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.

Anakin all burned up?

[TrentL]

Were did the shot of Anakin all burned up come from?

BTW, I saw these pics last night when Boing Boing linked to them first, like so much of what appears on Slashdot these days.

Did anyone torrent it?

[buro9]

You know... this should really be made part of the editors task.

If a news story is screenshots... especially if it's 10+ high res... tar + gzip them all and make a torrent somewhere.

Then sure, post the source... but more importantly... post the torrent link.

This happens way too often not to be something that could be done.

What about a slashdot tracker? Have rules on things only being addable by editors, and they can only do so via submitting a story.

Isn't this what it's about? Damn... where's that Slashcode site again? Sounds like the time to merge Blog Torrent and Slash together.

Pictures/trailers are meaningless

[limabone]

I don't know if you remember the trailer for The Phantom Menace, but it had the Duel of the Fates song in the background and that trailer was amazing! After 20 years or whatever since Return of the Jedi, it made my knees week. That alone is proof that you can take a crappy two hour movie and turn it into an awesome 1 minute commercial.

Re:Did anyone torrent it?

[LiquidCoooled]

Hate to say this, but this is the sort of thing Roland does.
However everyone bitches at him for it.

Mirrordot seems quite good at handling the load (theres a link lower in the comments)

Re:Anakin all burned up?

[ajs]

Well, that's a full-body shot, but a much worse picture.

Overall, these are very impressive shots, and I have to say, I'm looking forward to this. None of what I hoped for is in it (in terms of really turning the plot back on itself and getting creative), but it looks like a lot of fun, and a good cap to what I think was a fairly slow-to-build initial pair of movies (no, I didn't hate them, and I do think that they were at least as good as Jedi... teen romance and cute aliens are just guaranteed to turn off most SF fans no matter what else you have to offer).

Original FX Better

[Anonymous Coward]

I imagine I'm in the minority with this, but I actually like the special effects of the original 3 films better than the prequels.

Granted the boxy things around the TIE fighters were goofy, but the heavy use of models made the first 3 films look more real to me than all the subsequent CG stuff. What I really loved was the lived in look. I think that's a big part of what made the franchise. Weren't Star Wars and Alien the first SF films to have an distinctive vision of the future where the equipment didn't look brand new?

And I agree about the dialogue. There were some corny lines in the original films, but I think most people will agree that either due to decent acting elevating the dialogue or everything feeling so appropriate for the various characters it all worked. I just don't get that happy feeling about any of the new lines, and I certainly don't remember them well enough to quote the prequels.

I think I'm starting to feel about this the way I felt about Dune after the Sci Fi channel version came out. Perhaps it would be better done by fans than the current rights holders... Open Source SciFi?

Re:Cannes

[LarsWestergren]

Roger Ebert on Godzilla (1998):
"Going to see "Godzilla" at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica. It's a rebuke to the faith that the building represents. Cannes touchingly adheres to a belief that film can be intelligent, moving and grand. "Godzilla" is a big, ugly, ungainly device to give teenagers the impression they are seeing a movie. It was the festival's closing film, coming at the end like the horses in a parade, perhaps for the same reason."

Does it have any significance that SW3 is first though? The canary in the mine perhaps?

Re:Looks really good

[tehanu]

To put it another way. I am a girl who used to obsessively read trashy romance novels. I went with a non-geek girl who could barely remember the original series to see Episode 2. Both of us cringed at the "romantic" dialogue. When it's worse than novels with titles like "Passion's Dawn", you know you're in trouble. Oh yeah, and Anakin sucks. Sometimes I watch shows just because the guy is cute, even if he's not such a good actor, but Star Wars Ep 2 - there are some things that no amount of good looks can overcome.

Re:Spoiler:

[genner]

It can be done. I haven't seen attack of the clones OR the last matrix movie. I don't give second chances.

Re:Contradiction

[fiannaFailMan]

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.

Other people have replied to you and said that she was talking about her adoptive mother on Alderaan, but that's incorrect. Luke specifically asked her about her biological mother. Leia's response was that she only recalled images and feelings. Sounds to me like her 'memories' came through the Force, so it's possible that Leia was able to remember the sensations that her mother was feeling prior to birth.

Re:Contradiction

[Bloomy]

Another spoiler I read said that Leia was born first, and Padme got to hold her. This left the imprint that Leia remembered in Return of the Jedi. Padme died while giving birth to Luke, which is why he had no memory of his mother. The medical droids working on Padme couldn't exactly determine her cause of death, implying she died of a broken heart, which is the sadness Leia remembers.

what about Storm Troopers, etc

[GreasyBloater]

Where do the Storm Troopers in episode 4+ come from?

Are they clones turned bad? And outfitted differently?

How come the Episode 1-3 droids and battle droids are never seen again in 4+?

I was expecting these to be answered in 3... but so far I don't see it.

Re:Cannes

[El Cabri]

A New Hope opened Cannes in 77. It seems like a proper closure to me, that the last Star Wars to be shot opens Cannes. And by the way, the opening movie is not part of the competition. It is often a popular movie, often from Hollywood, and has nothing to do with the artsy offering that acutally runs for the prizes.

Re:Contradiction

[Master Ben]

Nope not a plot hole. Sorry to burst your bubble but Leia is born first by a few minutes and her mother holds her(remember she is force sensitive so her remembering this isn't completely in left field). Padme passes out afterwards and the droid has to manually remove Luke, which is why he knows nothing of her.

BTW my favorite movie thus far is ROTJ but AOTC comes in a close second. And from what I know and have seen thus far of ROTS, I'm almost positive it will take the top spot.

Re:It does look sweet but...

[jkarlin]

to be fair, Ben did not own R2. And as far as remembering them, droids are everywhere in their world. So the fact that Ben (as an old man) forgot one never bothered me. Also, he may have remembered them but choose not to say anything to avoid having to tell Luke a story that would lead to more questions about Daddy.

Padme dies?

[Peale]

Okay...Leia and Luke were talking, and Leia stated she had memories of their mother.

If she died at their birth, how can they have memories? I suppose memories of the womb, but come on...

Re:Looks, sure.

[Rob_Bryerton]

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

I respectfully disagree. That is all.

Re:*Spoiler*

[Lonath]

Am I the only one who knew that the bad guy was "Emporer Palpatine" in the old trilogy? I remember there was a huge debate on TheForce.net after TPM came out where people were wondering is Palpy==Sidious or not. :P

Also, I like the new movies. If you go back and rewatch the old trilogy, you will note the stilted dialogue and corny comedy is all there. It's just that I saw it as a child so I didn't know better.