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Star Wars Episode III Spoiler Photos 288

XSSIV writes "Amazing new spoiler filled imagery from next year's Star Wars: Episode III can be found at the MovieWeb Star Wars III Detail Page. Here is the Gallery for Star Wars III Images" There are a couple of cool shots that cross into spoiler territory (although only if you don't know the Chewbacca is Luke's true biological mother).
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  • by Trigun ( 685027 ) <evil&evilempire,ath,cx> on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:43AM (#8422300)
    Nobody's going to feel really bad about seeing those, as George Lucas has turned Star Wars into a franchise to hock his wares.

    At least with the original three, that just happened naturally.
    • by TheLinuxSRC ( 683475 ) <slashdot&pagewash,com> on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:46AM (#8422317) Homepage
      Yes, at least the original three weren't drivel written for little kids. There was a story there. The latest SW movies have been about nothing other than making George some bank.
      • by AIX-Hood ( 682681 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @10:01AM (#8422373)
        Huh? Ewoks are nothing but fury drivels.
      • The original three?

        Talk sense, man. Only Empire is a remotely decent movie - Star Wars was novel but crappy, Empire was good, Return was a big budget, low-brow remake of Star Wars with any charm sucked out of the script and fucking Ewoks.

        Face it - the Star Wars series has been almost entirely crap with Empire stuck in the middle putting a rosy glow on the first movie and allowing us all to hope that any sequel might be as good, though none of them ever have been.
      • by cbreaker ( 561297 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @12:52PM (#8423289) Journal
        Yes, the first three WERE written for kids.

        The story is simplistic, "evil versus good", the characters are goofy, etc..

        They made millions of lunchboxes, action figures, and other toys. Not for kids eh..

        I won't say that they were the worst movies ever, they weren't. I'm a scifi fan and it's decent scifi. I won't however pretend they are something that they are not, and they are not fantastic.

        In my humble opinion, they should have made the new movies (episode 1, 2) for adults rather then kids like the old ones. The kids that watched the old one and loved them growing up are all grown up now.
        • by Endive4Ever ( 742304 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @05:03PM (#8424660)
          Well, I am a science fiction fan, and I know I am not alone in saying that the whole Star Wars phenomenon did unimaginable damage to the SF genre.

          I'm not speaking from an 'elitist' point of view, mind you. The good SF from the 70's isn't about elites, it's mostly a hopeful vision for the future.

          Star Wars dragged in the whole Space Western bullshit and crowded out and killed a lot of good stuff.
          • " The good SF from the 70's isn't about elites, it's mostly a hopeful vision for the future."

            What? were you even alive?

            Omega man, Soylent green, Planet of the apes, Buck Rogers, etc . . . were all about the folly of man and our path to self destruction.

            Star Wars proved that even though Sci-Fi was expensive, it could make big dollars. Look at some of the sci-fi that came out in the next 10 years. some Realy Good Stuff. also a lot of crap, but that is to be expected.

            Star Wars was pretty much anything but a Space Western. Closer to a martial arts movie, or Space fantasy. There was no expansion(Star Trek) involved with Star Wars, no wagon train(Battle Star).

      • by Lonath ( 249354 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @03:38PM (#8424206)
        Yes, at least the original three weren't drivel written for little kids.

        Have you watched the first three recently? I like the new movies, and I remember seeing the first ones as a kid, then again as an adult. I also realized upon re-seeing them as an adult that the dialogue and acting and the story in the first three weren't so hot, either. But they were fun movies.

        I like the new movies because I try to watch them as a child would, before I grew up and became cynical and bitter, and I really enjoy them. I didn't realize when I was watching the movies as a child that it was really Anakin's story, and I think the new movies are doing a good job of telling the earlier story of Anakin, even if I would change some things in some places.

        I especially enjoy the "Palpatine's rise to power pretending to be nice while he's really a mean nasty Sith Lord" plot, and how he manipulates everyone into doing what he wants. And how the Jedi can't tell he's a Sith lord. In fact, this plot point is apparently subtle enough that I remember going onto theforce.net after TPM came out and reading the boards where people were discussing whether or not Palpy==Sidious or not, and to this day, if you google "palpatine sidious" you will see lots of discussions on this issue. If people miss this point from the movies, then it's not surprising that so many people think the new movies are crap. (It's also interesting to me that without the existence of movies 4, 5, and 6 there actually could be a question about their relationship because you wouldn't know where the story is going...but that's clearly not the case here.)

        Oh well, but the movie industry still sucks so I won't be able to see the third till it comes out on TV. :(
      • by thales ( 32660 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @04:18PM (#8424419) Homepage Journal
        Oh Please!

        I Was 20 when the first film came out so I had about the viewpoint as many posters have for the newer films. The Originals were campy space Operas that had every gimik from 1930s and 1940s Serials and B Movies redone done with what was state of the art effects at the time. They made for a fun night of escapist entertainment, but were never anything near good Sci-Fi. The biggest fault of the prequeals is they try take themselves too damn serious and fail at it instead of being the fun campy space flicks the older movies were.
    • by hype7 ( 239530 ) <u3295110@noSPam.anu.edu.au> on Sunday February 29, 2004 @10:15AM (#8422435) Journal
      Nobody's going to feel really bad about seeing those, as George Lucas has turned Star Wars into a franchise to hock his wares.


      It's such a shame. I remember when Lucas announced he was making the original three - back when, 1998? I thought it was going to be Eps IV - VI, but with awesome SFX.

      Instead, he candied and kiddied them down too much. Some people get edgier and better with age - Lucas, unfortunately, pretty much lost it. There are still flashes of brilliance, but the feel of the movies has been lost.

      I guess you could say if Lucas brought SFX to the mainstream with his original three movies, he over-commercialised it with the last three. Traditional space movies have almost fallen from favour since Ep I. On the other hand, these past few years haven't been a complete loss [myway.com] as far as cool movie genres and odysseys go.

      -- james
      • by utahjazz ( 177190 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @12:10PM (#8423052)
        Some people get edgier and better with age - Lucas, unfortunately, pretty much lost it

        Err..lets not forget that Lucas wrote the Star Wars Holiday Special [wikipedia.org] back in 1978. Try watching that before you watch eps I and II, they seem so you'll be sayin "My god Lucas has gotten so much better".
      • by JasonUCF ( 601670 ) <jason-slashdawt.jnlpro@com> on Sunday February 29, 2004 @01:05PM (#8423379) Homepage
        Apparently Lucas was married/on his way to divorce in the middle of Eps IV - VI and it was her input on the editorial and post in the film that helped make them good. Apparently Lucas wanted to suck at those too but at every step there was her persistent "Uh, dear.." that got him to change his mind. I've never read up enough bio on the man to validate this gossip but it would seem to fit. Lucas channeled by others producing greatness, Lucas left to own devices slinging steaming turds.
        • by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 29, 2004 @04:13PM (#8424388)
          Pardon my anonymousity...

          I worked on a short film with several guys from ILM, and they confirm the ex-wife theory (before I'd even heard of it). She was apparently the driving force behind the quality of those films (and the divorce itself had no small part to play in the dark qualities of Indy 2, but you can hear that from Lucas himself on the DVD).

          Don't forget the creative input of Kasdan on Empire, either. Lucas even let someone else direct the feature, which I think we all wish he would have done for the new ones.
          • Don't forget the script writing prowess of Leigh Brackett on _Empire_... she wasn't around for _Revenge of the Jedi_ (sic) which to me is always why it was an inferior film.

            She wrote the screenplays for _Rio Bravo_, and _The Big Sleep_, so she had a proven track record at great writing. I'm not quite so sure why she did so little work in the 1960s and 70s, but her last work was Empire.
    • by hillct ( 230132 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @10:19AM (#8422453) Homepage Journal
      I still don't understand how there could be spoilers for movies which are prequels. There were three movies made over 20 years ago, which established a plot arc to which these new prequels must match up. This is not to say we don't know the ending. We know the ending vary well. The question is, will the middle of the star wars mythos do justice to the end? Will it honor the spirit of the ending with which we are so familiar or will the release of this movie, which defines the middle of the story arc, simply serve to cheapen the experience of those of us who so enjoyed the original three movies? Only time will tell. While we wait though, we can still enjoy the originals and simply hope beyond hope that George Lucas won't further damage the mythos and cheapen the great work he produced early in his career.

      --CTH
      • by Daniel_Staal ( 609844 ) <DStaal@usa.net> on Sunday February 29, 2004 @11:36AM (#8422875)
        A spoiler is information that makes seeing the movie irrelevant, or at least 'spoils' your enjoyment of it. For a prequel like this it would be information that is in the movie and not in anything else: something you don't know and would make the movie worth watching.

        So, no, a spoiler is not possible for Star Wars episode III.
  • by TheLinuxSRC ( 683475 ) <slashdot&pagewash,com> on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:44AM (#8422301) Homepage
    although only if you don't know the Chewbacca is Luke's true biological mother

    Chebacca and Darth Vader... Nasty.
  • spoiler material? (Score:5, Informative)

    by poptix_work ( 79063 ) * on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:44AM (#8422303) Homepage
    I saw nothing that came anywhere near spoiler material, nice imagery though.
  • Spoilers? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Ephemeriis ( 315124 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:44AM (#8422304)
    Just took a look over there and I didn't see anything I'd call a spoiler. Some concept sketches and the like for various machines...maybe a baby AT-ST? A couple city-scapes... A picture of (I'm assuming) Annakin looking fairly unhealthy... Nothing terribly spoiling or surprising over there. Did I miss something?

    yrs,
    Ephemeriis
  • Ewan McGreagor? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Mitleid ( 734193 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:44AM (#8422308)
    Is that Ewan McGreagor with all the "burn" makeup on? When the hell did Obi-Won get burned?
  • Great (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:46AM (#8422315)
    DAMNIT, First someone ruined Passion of The Christ for me, now this!
  • by beacher ( 82033 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:46AM (#8422319) Homepage
    Just saw Pinhead [movieweb.com]... Nah that's obviously Annakin after being burned and in the need for his respirator.... -B
  • try again after having some Lucas Skywalker Ranch Wines [sfgate.com]. That should help a lot.
  • star wars (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:47AM (#8422324)
    what's with all the star wars hype? I mean sure, it was one of the first big budget science fantasy movie productions, but let's face it, it's really really bad, and the only reason you think it's good is because you've been spoon fed crappy movies all your lives.

    why don't you go to the library and pick up some good sci-fi? I mean, possibly any sci-fi book is at least 34 times better than STAR WARS. pick up Night's Dawn, Hyperion, heck, even the Foundation series and read some books. pretty soon you'll begin to notice that STAR WARS is a really crappy third grade movie.

    just my 2 dollars.
    • by Gyan ( 6853 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:51AM (#8422334)
      I mean, possibly any sci-fi book is at least 34 times better than STAR WARS.

      34? Damn, I had my money on 19.5
    • True? (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Melvin Daniels ( 757374 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:54AM (#8422346) Journal
      You know, I've been a fan of star wars for a long time, mostly my whole life, but over the past year or two, it's started to wane.

      I basically did what this guy says to do, albeit with different books, and more and more, I don't like Star Wars as much. In fact, I'm starting to really hate it.

      On the other hand, I'm finding some really amazing books that keep me hooked, and I'm starting to even read non-scifi books, which is pretty suprising for me.

      So, even though it looks like a blatant troll, it has real insight.
    • 34? (Score:3, Funny)

      by WIAKywbfatw ( 307557 )
      I think the number you're looking for is 42.
    • Re:star wars (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Scooter ( 8281 )
      This argument is flawed - you just can't compare books and films in that way. Sure they both tell a story, but the constraints, and media are just too different. I've read some sci-fi, well quite a lot to be honest and whilst I'd agree that the plot of Star Wars isn't amazingly twisted and probably doesn't work too well as a 1000 page book - it was perfect for it's medium: film.

      Movies should evoke emotions and with the good old good vs evil, the legacy, the gimmick (the force)and the mentor/apprentice t
  • Um, advertisements? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by nurb432 ( 527695 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:49AM (#8422329) Homepage Journal
    Seems if i try to view an image all i get is some damned pop-up ad.. How kind of them, more companies I can add to the list that I refuse to do business with.

    But i agree with the others, i don't see any 'spoilers' here.
  • by Luigi30 ( 656867 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:52AM (#8422341)
    *going through a box of very rare film things*
    Star Wars alternate ending, Luke's father is CHEWBACCA!? OOH! I'll give you $5 for it.
  • by thatguywhoiam ( 524290 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:53AM (#8422342)
    For myself, I regard the new SW films as just pure exercises in fantastic design. It's a real shame I think.. not just that the movies are not very well written, but the flip side of that coin: they are fantastically, stupendously well done in terms of art direction and technical prowess.

    Be like me: if you regard Ep.3 as a kind of CG coffee-table-book, you'll get more enjoyment out of it. Set expectations of plot to zero and you can't be disappointed, right?

  • by ATAMAH ( 578546 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:53AM (#8422343)
    movieweb.com sysadmin (waves hand): you will not slashdot my webservers.
  • Bastard (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:53AM (#8422344)

    I have no interest in these pictures, but I went there anyway to make sure the slashdotting was complete.

  • SPOILER (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:55AM (#8422353)


    i think we just spoiled their server, unless its a site about "connection timed out"

  • here's a mirror (Score:5, Informative)

    by Pidder ( 736678 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:55AM (#8422354)
    In case the page is slashdotted I've put up the pictures on: http://fredrik.kalmar.lu.se. It's on a 10 mbit univeristy connection in Sweden. It should stay up for a while atleast.
  • by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 29, 2004 @09:57AM (#8422360)
    Is it just me or does that bottom image mean the land shark gun [mercurynews.com] will be making an appearance?
  • by Stuwee ( 739059 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @10:01AM (#8422371)
    Most of the spoilers are in previous articles [movieweb.com] from the looks of things. Can't see many spoilers in their "huge new spoiler filled photos" though - media manipulation perfected.
  • Mother? (Score:3, Funny)

    by ScarletEmerald ( 717076 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @10:04AM (#8422382)
    although only if you don't know the Chewbacca is Luke's true biological mother

    No. Luke, I am your mother.
    No, that's not true. That's impossible! NO!!!!!
    Search your feelings, Luke. You know it's true.
  • by potpie ( 706881 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @10:05AM (#8422386) Journal
    The real question is: will Gyslain make an appearance? C'est possible, non?
  • Direct Links (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 29, 2004 @10:11AM (#8422420)
    Ease the load on his server and access them directly, nothing like a dynamic PHP script to bring a site to its knees ;)

    • Image 1 [movieweb.com]
    • Image 2 [movieweb.com]
    • Image 3 [movieweb.com]
    • Image 4 [movieweb.com]
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  • by utahjazz ( 177190 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @10:18AM (#8422445)
    although only if you don't know the Chewbacca is Luke's true biological mother

    None of this makes any sense.
    • by unknown_host ( 757538 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @11:14AM (#8422758)
      Here's some popular Open Source code you can use to test who's the "true biological mother"..

      /* HUMAN_DNA.H
      *
      * Human Genome
      * Version 2.1
      *
      * (C) The Omnipotent Creator
      */

      /* Revision history:
      *
      * 0000-00-01 00:00 1.0 Adam.
      * 0000-00-02 10:00 1.1 Eve.
      * 0000-00-03 02:11 1.2 Added penis code to male version. A bit messy --
      * will require a rewrite later on to make it neater.
      * 0017-03-12 03:14 1.3 Added extra sex drive to male.h; took code from
      * elephant-dna.c
      * 0145-10-03 16:33 1.4 Removed tail.
      * 1115-00-31 17:20 1.5 Shortened forearms, expanded brain case.
      * 2091-08-20 13:56 1.6 Opposable thumbs added to hand() routine.
      * 2501-04-09 14:04 1.7 Minor cosmetic improvements -- skin colour made
      * darker to match my own image.
      * 2909-07-12 02:21 1.8 Dentition inadequate; added extra 'wisdom' teeth.
      * Must remember to make mouth bigger to compensate.
      * 4501-12-31 14:18 1.9 Increase average height.
      * 5533-02-12 17:09 2.0 Added gay option, triggered by high population
      * density, to try and slow the overpopulation problem
      * 6004-11-04 16:11 2.1 Made forefinger narrower to fit hole in centre of
      * CD.
      */

      /* Standard definitions
      */

      #define SEX male
      #define HEIGHT 1.84
      #define MASS 68
      #define RACE caucasian

      /* Include inherited traits from parent DNA files.
      *
      * Files must be pre-processed with MENDEL program to provide proper
      * inheritance features.
      */

      #include "mother.h"
      #include "father.h"

      #ifndef FATHER
      #warn("Father unknown -- guessing\n")
      #include "bastard.h"
      #endif

      /* Set up sex-specific functions and variables
      */
      #include

      /* Kludged code -- I'll re-design this lot and re-write it as a proper
      * library sometime soon.
      */
      struct genitals
      {
      #ifdef MALE
      Penis *jt;
      #endif
      /* G_spot *g; Removed for debugging purposes */
      #ifdef FEMALE
      Vagina *p;
      #endif
      }

      /* Initialization bootstrap routine -- called before DNA duplication.
      * Allocates buffers and sets up protein file pointers
      */
      DNA *zygote_initialize(Sperm *, Ovum *);

      /* MAIN INITIALIZATION CODE
      *
      * Returns structures containing pre-processed phenotypes for the organism
      * to display at birth.
      *
      * Will be improved later to make output less ugly.
      */
      Characteristic *lookup_phenotype(Identifier *i);
  • They have a different type of scout walker? That's a spoiler? Maybe they meant that they were going to put one of those giant wings on a scout walker, to match a folger's can exhaust pipe?

    I saw nothing there that would give away a key plot point. Anakin looked like he had a rough time, but that's hardly a surprise for anyone who's even remotely paying attention.

    Cool to see some photos to tie us over until the May after next.
  • Yet another mirror! (Score:5, Informative)

    by EyelessFade ( 618151 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @10:43AM (#8422587) Homepage
    Lets see it the University of Bergen can take the load of an /.

    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd1.jpg
    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd2.jpg
    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd3.jpg
    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd4.jpg
    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd5.jpg
    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd6.jpg
    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd7.jpg
    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd8.jpg
    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd9.jpg
    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd10.jpg
    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd11.jpg
    http://www.student.uib.no/~st09155/SW/jd12.jpg
  • by Zakabog ( 603757 ) <.moc.guamj. .ta. .nhoj.> on Sunday February 29, 2004 @11:04AM (#8422702)
    ...if the admin put up a nice message that said "These are not the images you are looking for." Much better than a connection refused.
  • I'll still see it (Score:4, Interesting)

    by beforewisdom ( 729725 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @11:23AM (#8422806)
    I'll still see it though it is more tired then Star Trek.

    That is what matinees are for.....

    Steve

  • by Anonymous Cowabunga ( 738559 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @11:24AM (#8422810)
    is that this sorry series will be over, at least the George Lucas part of it. Here's hoping 7-9 will be given to someone with some real edge, like Stephen Spielberg (whose AI or Minority Report films shows how to do intelligent and thought provoking Sci-Fi), or Peter Jackson, who singlehandedly blew away the Star Wars franchise, by revealing the richness and origins of the Star Wars mythology with LOTR. Instead of working on the depth of the mythos, which is what the fans are after, Lucas instead overwhelms us with superficial details--pod racers, giant fighting robots, wookies, talking lizards. By the time the film comes out, why bother? You've already seen it before, only louder and bigger.
    • by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 29, 2004 @11:56AM (#8422982)
      AI was a good movie - a Stanley Kubrick movie. Up to the point where the movie _should_ have ended (with the robot kid in the car underwater) - instead, we get some lame ass candy coated hollyweird ending all thanks to Steven Speilberg.

      He's made some decent movies in the past (Saving Private Ryan) but he has no idea how to make a sci-fi movie.
      AI wasn't really a Sci Fi movie anyways....
      • So many people have made that mistake of interpretation, and it's a shame. For that matter, it was said quite a bit about 2001 as well. Would it surprise you to learn the third act has as much Kubrick influence as the other two? It *does* have problems, IMHO, too much narration a large part of that. But it's unfortunate that the shift in style has led people to think of the ending as tacked-on, with Kubrick stopping and Spielberg picking up the pen to finish things off.

        I hope with some investigation you ca
  • by Fantastic Lad ( 198284 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @11:57AM (#8422988)
    of current reality.

    The metaphors fly fast and thick, and probably without intention on the part of the creators. It is certainly a shame that Lucas has lost his creative balancing mechanism, --which I believe, consisted of several people who had both the ability to argue with him and the power to make those arguments stick. That's not the case anymore.

    I wonder what moral is like over at the Ranch. . ? There are some really smart people working on these films. It must be frustrating to be tied into serving a broken machine.

    Still, I am certainly looking forward to the next film. It'll be neat to see how it all plays out. You can map the rise and fall of the U.S. and the world on the parallels presented in the Star Wars prequals.

    Has anybody ever tried a Phantom Edit of the second film? I might give it a shot; although, I have a sneaking suspicion that I'd only be left with about 50 minutes of footage after all the chops necessary in that monster of a mistake! I'd chop whole battles, like that idiot thing with Yoda and whoever the hell that guy was with the bent saber. What the heck was that scene even there for? Too bad it's not possible to change Anakin from a weenie girli-boy into an actual figure of threat and power.

    Hmm. . . Maybe I'd only be left with 30 minutes. Still, it's amazing what can be done with a pair of scissors. The Phantom Edit of the first film was an amazing tribute to the power of good editing!

    Perhaps if one were to combine the 'Attack of the Clones' with the upcoming film, there will be enough material to hybridize into a whole feature.

    We'll see.

    Wouldn't it be weird if the third one does suck at all?

    Whoa. . !


    -FL

  • by MinorHeadWound ( 710187 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @01:42PM (#8423555) Homepage
    You will die alone. :)
  • by Orion Blastar ( 457579 ) <orionblastar@@@gmail...com> on Sunday February 29, 2004 @04:29PM (#8424479) Homepage Journal
    Both sides seem to be devoid of information when I went to visit them.

    The movie page seems to be a mockup with links going to news items. Hardly interesting.

    The image gallery apparently broke:

    "Warning: opendir(/home/www/media/galleries/7/1692/thumbs): failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/www/lightsout/movies/galleries.php on line 99

    Warning: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/www/lightsout/movies/galleries.php on line 100

    Warning: closedir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /home/www/lightsout/movies/galleries.php on line 140"

    I think the gallay has been removed or disabled in some fashion. Must be the Sith at work again clouding things. :)
  • by st0rmshad0w ( 412661 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @04:34PM (#8424504)
    All this (eps1-3) stuff, meaning the ships and tech and other sorts of things just seem far too madern for my taste. I mean all of this is supposed have happened prior to eps 4-6 so why does nearly everything seem to look more advanced? Bogus in my opinion, I would much rather have seen ships and gear that somewhat obviously predate the stuff of Star Wars.
  • its just a shame (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Dr.Knackerator ( 755466 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @05:05PM (#8424680) Journal
    SW is a nice idea just apallingly badly done most of the time. The only reason we get so excited is that the sci-fi film genre is *so* badly served with horrible derivative works it makes SW seem ok.

    kudos for Lucas for originally having the sage storyline and hiring some damn talented designers to put a unique feel on the films and superb effects for the time. And great music. But if he gets too far involved, it just sucks. Sorry George.

    quick summary:

    Ep4: poor directing, awful script, okish film
    Ep5: good! somebody else writes and directs (take the hint please)
    Ep6: Ok film, somebody else directs. bad dialogue is back thanks to georgey boy working on the screenplay again. story rear ended for commerical gain by adding the ewoks

    Ep1: Atrocious. Hes back writing on his own and DIRECTING. Dammit george you were not very good to start with and its been 22 YEARS since you last directed anything. story again rammed in the chocolate starfish with the commericalisation of the pod racing scene (which takes up about 50% of the film it seems). pick a totally appaling actor for annakin. Take some of the best acting talent and turn them into cardboard with bloody awful directing and bad script. Hell I can't even remember what happens in this film apart from the pod race.

    Ep2: A bit better, i.e. watchable. Script a bit better as hes working with somebody again for the screenplay. again choose an awful annakin. Whats now odd about this is that I can't think of a single point without music in the film. probably why the film seems better as the great music can actually make you feel the emotions that the script and directing cannot.

    I don't know why he returned to the writing/directing roles, surely he realised that 5&6 were better than 3? Why couldn't he have turfed the directing/screenplay over to better people? He could have kept his repuation as a god, and become a benevolant god at that. What possessed him to do it?

    To leave on a positive note, at least nothing else looks like star wars, it's too 'in your face' to copy. Unlike Alien which although a great film, every spacecraft interior now looks like it's out of Alien and unfortunately it seems a hell of a lot of stories just copy it as well...
  • Episode 3 trailer (Score:3, Informative)

    by smcn ( 87571 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @06:26PM (#8425097)
    Gotta link to this every time there's a story about episode 3:

    http://users.eastlink.ca/~jaysilver/ [eastlink.ca]
  • Spoilers? (Score:4, Funny)

    by xihr ( 556141 ) on Sunday February 29, 2004 @06:36PM (#8425150) Homepage
    How can it be spoilers? It's a freaking prequel!

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