Water Spectacular in Episode III? 441
An anonymous reader writes "From StarWars.com: 'With the prequel trilogy lacking in elaborate musical numbers, Aaron McBride and the rest of the Art Department were given the task to create visuals for a new spectacular in Episode III.' Lucas didn't piss off enough people with Jar-Jar?" The link is to an image of a Mon Calamari(?) woman in some sort of performance outfit. A water spectacular ala Esther Williams, perhaps?
Proof (Score:5, Insightful)
No imagination (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:No imagination (Score:5, Insightful)
What if there were just giant planets inhabitted by slime-mold, or intelligent creatures that just didn't give a damn, and so they never developed useful society?
Where the hell is Planet Hollywood!?!
Why do these creatures want to form governments anyway. With drastically different evolutionary timelines, one creature has propably evolved past war, another so evolved that all of the others seem more like suitable pets, another so unevolved that it's unaware that the others exist.
Why do people in the future right with light sabers?
Why do people in the future fight in person, if there are autonomous robots capable of doing so?
Why do space ships need pilots at the helm rather than computers?
Why is future technology so bad it always needs fixing?
Why does C3P0 handle machinery with his hands, rather than some sort of networking?
When R2D2 connects with machinery, why isn't it wirelessly? Why does it require physical manipulation? For that matter, when he's in Cloud City, why does he move so slowly when hacking into that computer, how many bits could he really encode a second through physical manipulation?
Probably, because it makes a better movie. My bet is that, if we ever talk to life somewhere else in the universe, that they are literally nothing like us. It won't be humanoids in space suits breathing nitrogen... it will be giant amoebas in polymer bags that prevent them from splashing apart in the low atmosphere of the earth.
Bring back the bar band (Score:5, Insightful)
Stop all yer belly-ache'n (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Proof (Score:3, Insightful)
I saw "Phantom Menace" and I immediately wanted my $10 back. Why the hell would I ever give Lucas another dime as long as I live?
The movie may or may not suck. I assure you I will never know for myself.
(Here's my prediction -- if you paid money in the theaters to see Clones, you will probably pay to see this one too. If you skipped clones, you'll skip this one too. You may or may not enjoy watching this movie. You will eat too much popcorn.)
Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty (Score:2, Insightful)
It isn't that I'm a sci-fi snob (I'm not). I just haven't found that stuff to be my cup of tea. Likewise, I'm a huge Dr. Who fan. So... I can't afford to be a snob, reputationally.
Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty (Score:5, Insightful)
Only on slashdot.
But you do have a point. Let's stop looking for role model in blockbusters or almost any movie in general.
Star Wars is entertainment. Cool coreographed battles. Lots of special effects. Plotlines that have been done many times over.
Let's watch and enjoy the movie. But don't go looking for the meaning of life on them (insert Monty Python joke here). Same goes for Star Trek, the Matrix and The Lord of the Rings.
Re:Say it isn't so... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:No imagination (Score:3, Insightful)
But what I'd like to know, is why the hell to egg-laying aliens in sci-fi have breasts?! On Earth, egg-laying organisms don't nerse their young! WTF?!
Re:Ep 3 was suppose to be dark and gritty (Score:2, Insightful)
Star Trek is for those of us who have grown up and have an open mind to reality instead of fiction.
this is to show that your entire post is a joke, right? If not, you're a nutcase.Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Insightful)
Since marketing got their hands on one.
However, has it ever been stated that Calamari are not mammals ?
And here I was illusioned... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Mon Calamar (Score:3, Insightful)
it's not like some guys in space far far away would have heard anything about earthly languages anyways..
Re:No imagination (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:No imagination (Score:5, Insightful)
Then again, if you have to use the platypus to justify anything you have probably gone too far...
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Insightful)
George Lucas == Andy Kaufman? (Score:4, Insightful)
Riddle me this (Score:3, Insightful)