Star Wars Revelations - May the Force Be With You! 628
n0alpha writes "For all you Star Wars fans out there, if you've been less than satisfied with the last two episodes of Star Wars, fear not. There is a new episode coming out soon -- but I'm not talking about Revenge of the Sith. On April 16th, 2005 the world will be blessed with a brand new episode, Star Wars Revelations. This is an independent film, completely put together by volunteers and organized by Panic Struck Productions, but don't let that fool you into thinking it is sub-par. Visit their website to view a trailer."
This has... (Score:5, Funny)
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And they do about as good a job as the patent office. Lucas even conflicts within his own films, and doesn't care.
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Kintanon
Parody! (Score:2)
Still, telling it to the court won't be particularly fun. =(
Re:Parody! (Score:5, Funny)
1. Make a film in the Star Wars universe.
2. Hire good actors, and give them good direction.
3. Profit. Fear no copyright infringement.
-matt.
Re:Parody! (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean, those guys freaking suck!
(See what I did there?)
Re:Parody! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Parody! (Score:5, Funny)
This has bugged me ever since the first Star Wars film. They're flying around in spaceships, wearing funky clothing, fighting light-saber duels, etc., and I'll be suspending my disbelief just fine,
C'mon guys, either make the hair (1) really weird (the female actors seem to have this down), or (2) mind-bendingly conservative (pick something that hasn't changed in 1500 years, like shaving it all off). At least stop using Tiger Teen Beat as your model.
Re:Parody! (Score:5, Funny)
Have you seen George Lucas's hair? Is it any wonder they all look like Jack from Three's Company?
My pet peeve. (Score:3, Funny)
And yet they continue to make robots of all shapes and sizes that roll on wheels, walk or stumble around trying to get up stairs.
Re:This has... (Score:5, Funny)
Just because Lucas owns the copyright on Star Wars he shouldn't film knock-offs
Parody is OK! Remember Spaceballs?!? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This has... (Score:3, Funny)
Pot meet kettle
cool (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry (Score:2, Funny)
as
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Re:Sorry (Score:3)
"Two escorts against a Star Destroyer?" A distinctly wooden moment, to be sure.
Yet Revelations is an entire film featuring thespians of this caliber. Could this be a guerilla attack by the MST 3000 crew?
Re:cool... not hardly (Score:3, Insightful)
Are you sure that's right? Lucas himself has been using precisely this formula for deacades with amazing success, and he's not the only one either.
Not sub-par? You already said it wasn't by Lucas (Score:5, Funny)
Since you said it was NOT by George Lucas, I was not tending to think it was sub-par already.
You r right... George Lucs lost his touch (Score:3, Interesting)
The new and improved CG crapfest movies are force fed (go on eat up, it's star wars of course you'll love it) and trudge along with jagged edges.
The new movies also lack patience in its story develop, a
Re:You r right... George Lucs lost his touch (Score:4, Insightful)
Getting to the point: In my opinion, there is something wrong about Lucas's CGI. Whatever he uses just doesn't feel right to me. My father describes it as feeling 'flat' - which he gave no such condemnation to Half-Life 2 or Far Cry. I describe it as being 'too smooth' or 'unrealistic' - but I just can't put my finger on it. It's extremly prominent in Episode 2. However, to see it at it's worst, see the original 3 remade - the CGI scenes in that, which are hacked in, REALLY feel wrong to me. Has anyone else noticed this? I think this may play a large part in the rejection of the newer films - the old ones, while a lot of it was nottoogreatlooking, it was still very real.
Re:You r right... George Lucs lost his touch (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:You r right... George Lucs lost his touch (Score:5, Insightful)
No, you're confused (Score:5, Insightful)
On the other hand, if you watch Finding Nemo, everything feels real, even though it's just CG fish in a CG ocean. What's the difference? Writing, story, acting, perhaps.
The idea that the problem is CG is just absurd. People said the same thing about color movies when they were first released. The problem isn't that you loose something when you use CG for effects, the problem is that you don't gain anything. You can't expect a movie to be good just because it has good special effects.
Go and watch the original movies, the special effects weren't anymore believable. The might have looked more real, but all that means is that Yoda looked like a real puppet, and Jabba the Hut looked like a real bunch of plastic with real people inside. They weren't any more convincing in the roles they were supposed to play. And don't even talk about space scenes, there's no way the space scenes look more realistic in the original movies. The only difference is that they couldn't do as much because of the limitations of using "real" models instead of CG models.
You nailed it with "soulless" (Score:3, Insightful)
Take the asteroid sequence in ESB -- fabulous! You get a sense of real depth and motion, to the point of tipping back and forth in your seat and feeling your stomach drop at times, like watching those roller coaster films on an IMAX screen. That was all done with models and real cameras.
Take the asteroid/ring belt scene in Clones. Visually, it's a nice piece of eye candy, to be sure. But I was immediately struck by how flat and/or soulle
Re:You r right... George Lucs lost his touch (Score:4, Insightful)
Somehow ILM got it right when filling in the rest of Mos Eisley, because the atmosphere of the town worked and you could really get a feel for how bad a place it really was. The rest of the CGI just didn't work -- and the Jabba scene in the remake of Ep4 was just painful to watch. I cringed in my seat at the theater and had to look away a couple of times.
Re:You r right... George Lucs lost his touch (Score:3, Insightful)
For example, when the 2 jump down into the loading bay on the ship before stowing away to go down to the planet, see if there is any acceleration to their falls.
It's also painfully aware in the droid b'kars (or however they are spelled). When they roll and move, there is no acceleration, just 2 speeds: stopped or rolling 100%.
Many more examples could be given. (I'm not even going to touch it when he tries to ride t
Re:You r right... George Lucs lost his touch (Score:3, Interesting)
I agree totally on this, I think the best special effects (CGI or otherwise) are those that either you dont notice or those that contribute to the scene, not take away.
This is true to alot of the parts in the Lord O
Re:You r right... George Lucs lost his touch (Score:3, Insightful)
I had thought about the mixing of genres when making my comparison, but went ahead with it for a couple reasons. First, the poster I was replying to noted that ILM's work appears throughout the industry.
OT vs. NT - why the anger? (Score:5, Insightful)
I quite enjoyed episode 1 and 2. I always kept Darth Vader in the back of my mind, and I could gradually see Anakin change - I could understand how he might end up on the dark side of the Force. And the NT constantly foreshadows what inevitably will happen in episode 3.
I think you are too caught up in the fact that the NT is not made the same way the OT is. It's not supposed to! The NT is telling a completely different story on a completely different level.
There was a discussion about Star Wars the other day, and amidst all the +5 insightful "SW used to rock, but now it sucks" comments, I found this gem [slashdot.org], where the poster explains how things fit together, and why it's done this way. It makes a lot of sense!
The OT could be watched separately, but the NT is a real trilogy, where you won't get the whole picture, or indeed appreciate it all, until you actually see all the movies.
Presumably :)
Re:OT vs. NT - why the anger? (Score:3, Interesting)
It's as if the new three films are there just to tell star wars fans what 'happened' before the originals, rather t
Re:You r right... George Lucs lost his touch (Score:4, Interesting)
The things I noticed:
Sense of granduer - Watching the OT the universe seemed so much bigger than the characters. In Star Wars just the opening scenes allude to many things that were not explained until the prequels, and some not at all. You get a sense that there is a whole universe of things going on and you are just following the adventures of a particular group of people.
Episode I & II seem to be more pre-packaged. There is no sense you are following the characters on their adventures through the universe, it is presented more as if the universe revolves around the characters.
Extra Characters: In the OT I felt as if there were so many more things going on, other key players. While the movies followed Luke, Han, & Leia, there was still a war being fought, when they returned to that thread things had changed. Battles had been won and lost, the Alliance had grown, in many ways you could feel the main characters in the movies weren't that important, the universe went on without them.
In Episode I, the main characters did pretty much everything. You couldn't come up with stories for Naboo Pilot 13 like you could for Wedge, an "extra" character that shows up in all 3 movies. Episode II does allow stories to be written about the clone wars, but there are no specific characters that you tie into the movies.
Location: The locations in the OT were unique and had a sense of character. Dagobah, Hoth, Tatooine, Cloud City, all had a sense of character about them and they complimented the story. There is a reason every game pretty much has a Hoth battle. Not because the scenery itself was anything special, but because the frozen wasteland so paralleled the story of the rebellion and the battle itself; lonely, hopeless, and on the brink of death.
The locations in Ep I & II were wasted or lacked character. The urban slums of Corouscant were ignored, Naboo had no particular sense that it was "special", and Tatoone was just a rehash.
/rant
Re:You r right... George Lucs lost his touch (Score:3, Insightful)
Episode I & II seem to be more pre-packaged. There is no sense you are following the characters on their adventures through the universe, it is presented more as if the uni
now just... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:now just... (Score:3, Informative)
They can do more than that.... (Score:5, Funny)
Hell, he'll win me back if he makes "Sith" nothing more than a 2 hour extremely bloody high body count Gungan snuff flick. The only time the Gungan slaughter stops is when the Ewoks show up and they become the target.
Re:They can do more than that.... (Score:2)
Then the movie, tone set properly, could have then proceeded to tell the story as it should have been.
Ep II, if done correctly, would have had Amadala leaving Anakin, saying something along the lines
Re:They can do more than that.... (Score:3, Funny)
Shh. Don't say that. George will hear and we'll have some made-for-TV series that involves a war between Gungans and Ewoks. But it won't be a bloodfest. It'll be stopped when two bumbling droids take it upon themselves to try and emulate the Jedi council, intervene, and end hostilities w
backups? (Score:2, Funny)
How can they do this? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:How can they do this? (Score:3, Informative)
Just like the real thing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just like the real thing (Score:3, Funny)
Looks good (Score:5, Interesting)
Any word on how they are going to release this film? Online? Select theater?
Re:Looks good (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Looks good (Score:4, Informative)
Can we alter time/space... (Score:5, Insightful)
Lucas recently said the newest sequel is not for children [bbc.co.uk], and given the quality of the other ones put out since about halfway through Return of the Jedi, it's not for adults, either. Die, midiclorians, die! Die, Ewoks, die! Die, Jar-Jar, die!
lather, rinse, repeat
Re:Can we alter time/space... (Score:3, Interesting)
*** MASSIVE SPOILER AHEAD: AVERT GAZE NOW IF YOU LIKE SEEING FILMS WITHOUT HAVING THE STORY PREVIEWED ***
We've lucked out... Jar-Jar doesn't get killed, and instead gets to attend Padme's funeral, who is killed by Anakin.
There's just no justice, is there!
Looks nice but... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Looks nice but... (Score:5, Insightful)
You would probably be surprised to find, should you ever meet them in real life, that most celebrities are hardly more attractive than a lot of the people you'll meet every day. Sure they've got the knack of a winning smile, or a particularly "sexy pout" or whatever, but on the whole the difference isn't that great. What they do have is professional makeup, lighting and cinematography.
Jedidiah.
Re:Looks nice but... (Score:4, Insightful)
I think they did a beautiful job on the effects (specially the ATSTs walking) but at least the people in ep. I and II could ACT (not that they were given the best script, but still). I didn't feel anything from these people.
That said, this still looks better than I and II, and probably III.
Re:Looks nice but... (Score:5, Insightful)
Very true. Again, that's one of those things that's hard, and potentially expensive to do right. Then again, there's the issue of knowing your constraints. That, IMHO, is why Troops was so good. They knew sound and lighting and make-up were really the hard parts, so they managed to write something that required a minimum of it: Everything was shot outside in bright sun so lighting issues are minimised. 90% of the dialog is from the troopers and can hence be recorded separately in sound booth afterwards. Everyone is in costume (which was a point they were apparently very good at, and used to the hilt) except Beru and Owen, who are supposed to look a little haggard and distressed anyway - make-up becomes a non-issue.
The truly great amateur films are the ones that understand what they can do well, and what they don't have available, and manage to create something that fits neatly inside those constraints. Being so constrained is a little more limiting, but if you're really creative in writing and direction you can often do wonders. There are some great Science Fiction films (Pi [colossus.net] and Sticky Fingers of Time [colossus.net] for instance) that were made on shoestring budgets. Knowing and playing to your limitations is what makes for a great low budget film.
Jedidiah.
Re:Looks nice but... (Score:3, Interesting)
It's a hard problem because you rarely find a group of people who naturally have
slashdotted? (Score:3)
The Rise of Free Content (Score:3, Insightful)
The majority of free content created is, of course, subpar. The tools still need to be wielded by skilled artisans to created above average content. Regardless, as the bar continues to be lowered for entry into the field, more and more people with some degree of talent will find new outlets for their creativity.
I don't see there being any sort of mass uprising anytime soon, as the content cartels still have a lot on the distribution outlets, but the rise of the Internet has changed the playing field dramatically. The major counter-argument has been that the content cartels can merely buy up the few quality titles to maintain their advantage, but my theory is that there is enough latent creativity waiting in the wings they won't be able to stem the tide.
Well... I can dream, can't I?
Re:The Rise of Free Content (Score:4, Insightful)
So what? The majority of non-free content is total crap too. Look how many terrible big-budget movies Hollywood has put out.
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Re:Jar-Jar must die (Score:2)
J. Jar Binks Esq.
Slashdotting: The Play (Score:5, Funny)
Fan films - lack of imagination and inspiration (Score:3, Interesting)
The production tools the average person can get their hands on today are staggering. And yet we continually praise people for making films that show an absolute dearth of original imagination and inspiration. Yet audiences complain continually about how Hollywood shows no originality itself.
All the time spent on Revelations could've been put into crafting a story that would be infinitely more intelligent and challenging than any large scale expensive production. I want to see handmade films that offer the expansive ideas in real science fiction and fantasy that the expense of large scale moviemaking prohibits.
Shane Carruth spent probably as much money on the film Primer, a completely original and not at all amateurish looking film that fits perfectly into the comprehension and intelligence of the slashdot audience. But instead any time a bunch of uninspired morons use their time to knock off and emulate and continue the tyranny of imagination that a thousand executives push on audiences like Robert McKee or endless abortions engineered from a cursory reading of Joseph Cambpell, nerds freak out.
Own yourselves. Use those tools to make original, inspired, unique works of art. Stop making and continuing dreck based up on dreck, especially when you don't even have the option to afford hairstylists who'd make your film look as good as the original.
Re:Fan films - lack of imagination and inspiration (Score:2)
Re:Fan films - lack of imagination and inspiration (Score:5, Insightful)
By using an established genre, they get more media coverage and potential viewers. This increases the chance that the director, special effects guy, or one of the actors will be noticed by a big name to work on something more substantial. And then they will be able to do their own thing.
I believe that in university-level art classes, you need to turn in paintings in realistic, impressionist, post-modern styles, etc, to pass the course, to show that you have more depth than just one artistic style. Even if you never paint another da Vinci in your life, you still have to prove that you can.
Consider this movie the answer to a film student's exam question: "Create a film in the style of Lucas".
It has to be done... (Score:4, Funny)
The Force (Score:4, Funny)
Mirror (be nice) (Score:5, Interesting)
web_trailer_II_larger.mov [aaronmitti.com]
-Mitti
Re:Mirror (be nice) (Score:2)
Maybe the acting was a bit amateur in places, but all the same WOW. Best Fan Effort Ever.
I think they're gonna get sued into oblivion.
Re:Mirror (be nice) (Score:2)
The CG actually looks quite good, particularly when you have no choice but to stand it up next to some of the highest CG budgets ever.
Looks like it was shot in digital, or high-quality video, lacking that grainy feel, and not filtered to hell like Ep II.
Oh, and women fighting with light-sabers...sure to provoke some kind of reaction in this crowd.
Re:Mirror (be nice) (Score:2)
Re:Mirror (be nice) (Score:4, Informative)
http://200.17.94.190/~felipe/star_wars_revolution
I could smell your stench all over this attack! (Score:2)
KKKKAAAAAAAHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!
(fade to black)
Somewhere, very far away... (Score:2)
Right after Lucas read about this on Slashdot.
Where's Mel Brooks? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm still waiting for (Score:5, Funny)
nyud.net mirror (Score:4, Informative)
Homepage [nyud.net]
Trailer (.mov) [nyud.net]
I'd post a torrent but I don't have a tracker... Perhaps Slashdot should run one for things like these
Trailer Impressions (Score:5, Insightful)
I'll be sure to check it out when it comes out.
What terrible acting (Score:4, Informative)
felt like porn (Score:3, Funny)
Oh come on! Tell me you weren't thinking the same thing. You're a perverted bastard and you know it.
Ew, god, that sucked (Score:4, Insightful)
OTOH, it kinda sucked. I've seen cable access shows with better acting. Not surprisingly given the source material, it's pretty similar to most of the scifi crap Lucas, and Hollywood, churn out these days: blow the budged on special effects, look to Ed Wood for directing inspiration.
"watch the trailer on their web site" (Score:3, Funny)
My heart goes out to the poor admin--I just hope they don't have any daylies on the same machine.
Torrent (Score:4, Informative)
Review based on Trailer (or, IANAMovie Critic) (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't really follow the Star Wars universe as a whole, so all I can say about the plot is that it is interesting.
However, as many people have already pointed out, the acting is sub-par. The lead evil actress tries to have some sort of menacing voice, but just sounds like her mouth is packed with something. (acorns?) The acting of other parts (such as the confrontation on the 'good guy' ship) seems forced, with delayed reaction time. The lightsaber scene between the two lead females just didn't feel right.
There were also some parts of the trailer that just didn't fit in with the pace of it. The one main example that I saw was the girl dancing in a futuristic version of those hanging cages (I have no idea what they are called.) The pace of her body threw off the suspense that was (supposedly) building, and conflicted with the (then) slow music. It also had no real purpose that I could tell.
Hopefully the acting throughout the entire movie averages better than the trailer, but I wouldn't be surprised if the opposite were true.
It's probably good for them that they can't charge money for it.
I am not a film critic, obsessive Star Wars fan, or acting buff, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
Re:Review based on Trailer (or, IANAMovie Critic) (Score:3)
Want to talk about cheese? How about the entire cantina scene from ep4? Or Jabba's palace? Thats muppet amateur night right there, but it cost millions. The 'film crime' per dollar is much higher with Lucas's people.
Acting? In Star Wars? Err, Mark Hamil's whiney performance? The first Anakin? The gay droids? Natalie Portman's stone-faced performances?
As far as CGI goes, go ahead and rent the trilogy and you'l
Don't Insult the fanfilms (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Don't Insult the fanfilms (Score:5, Insightful)
Indeed, it would be foolish to condemn any part of this effort. Sure, the acting isn't awesome, but there can be a lot of reasons for that, including inexperience at directing. It's definitely good enough to carry the show, and some of the lines are delivered quite convincingly.
Now the special effects...Holy cow! Those are fantastic.
Re:Don't Insult the fanfilms (Score:3, Funny)
On Bespin: "Hey check out those stormtroopers! They look a little odd..."
On Tatooine: "Uhhh... aren't those the same... naah!"
On Coruscant: "It's those same three stormtroopers again! Wow, those guys get around!"
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
A great disturbance in the Force (Score:4, Funny)
There's Hope For Chunky People Who Can't Act (Score:5, Funny)
Copyright safety (Score:5, Informative)
Question
Is Lucas aware of your film and isn't he going to sue the hell out of you?
Answer: .To answer, I doubt if Lucas himself has seen "Revelations". However ,Lucas is a large supporter for fan films,and is very kind enough to let other inspiring artists play in his backyard, as long as you don't try and make money from his hard work, and respectfully so.
For most people who do not understand fan films we get this question often
"Revelations" is a non-profit film and everyone who worked on the film was a volunteer (no one was paid). The film itself will be availible free to download from TheForce.net and the "Revelations" website to anyone who wishes to watch it.
A great article put out by "Wired" covers some good ground about fan films and here is what Steve Sansweet (Lucasfilm's head of Fan Relations) had to say:
Wow!!!! (Score:3, Interesting)
Fact is, all the Star Wars films have been, in their own way, deliciously bad. Harrison Ford is a block of wood, Hamill just plain is no actor...
It's all about the story- Star`Wars succeeded because there was never anything like it before- when it hit, no one knew. That Episode Four was a better picture was no surprise. By the time Six cam around, it was time to tie it up in a neat little basket.
The true test will come when we look at this films in story order and see how the whole thing holds up- were te first three exposition adn therefore tedious as hell? Likely so. Revenge of the Sith just might be the tie that binds the exposition to the action. Too damn bad we'll never see the actual climax and resolution of the story.
Forgot the directional boom mike... (Score:4, Funny)
Much of the bad acting are the vocals not being recorded and compressed properly. Hopefully a decent sound guy will step up and help them fix it!
On performing arts (Score:5, Interesting)
The thing hat occured to me about watching and noticing the bad acting , as a lot of people here allready have done, is I thought that I would have done it better. Yet the other part of that is that it also occured to me how extremly difficult it would be to get it just right. For novices aswell as for me.
I've long considered starting a little independent film project and I think I would be the type of guy to a) not consider a fan project like this 'below' me and b) actually be able to aply my skills in such a way that everybody would profit from it. Like for instance the mentioned bad acting. There are a few extremly simple rules of acting that just sink in with the years that these people could have followed to greatly enhance even that short trailer. Very much like the simple rules you just know when to apply as an experienced programmer.
Some must-have basics:
If you want to sound fierce, loud and evil, tone down on the vowels and emphasise the consonants. Do speech training. Do speech training with your lines.
The moment you know your lines is the moment you START practicing them, you don't stop it there. (That's what differs a school play from professional acting btw)
When you act, your head and facial expression leads your motion, when you dance your body leads your motion and facial expression. For dancing: On at least one part of your body at a time the musical beat should be visible. (Cue stupid dirty jokes below
And finally, my performing arts process I've refined over 10 years of professional work -
practice an act in this order (and in this order ONLY):
1) Learn to know the play and learn your lines by heart. Nothing else. Don't dare try to act at this stage. NEVER try to act at this stage. If you do, you WILL suck on stage/film. Trust me. I've studied with to many third class perfomers, the world has enough of them. In fact, you shouldn't even move very much when reciting your lines at this stage.
2) Give your lines flow and vividness by supporting each one with an inner picture and vision. EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE. Give the string of visions a storytelling consistency. It's at this stage perfomers notice wether they've understood the playwrite or wether they have to correct their povs at some place or other. This is the stage at which storyboarders, and directors of photography double check their plans for shooting. Again: don't act yet. Do more of a reciting or storytelling thing. Good RPG Gamemasters enter this stage frequently for instance.
3) Forget your lines for this stage. Think of that other person whos lines you happen to know by heart and what kind of a character he might be. Pratice stances, poses and gestures emphasising basic emotions with the impitus of that character. Don't do that with the lines. Don't act the play! Do that with differen't things. Lines you make up. Best is to make up a little play by itself. You're on the safe side if you take - for instance - the tragic Anakin Skywalker (well he was a tragic character and the acting wasn't bad at all for such a 5th grade script) and try to play him as if he were a part in a comedy. Don't speak to early. Practice the stances, poses and gestures. Learn the difference between movement leading to pose and pose leading to movement.
4) Now practive stances, poses, gestures and movement of the play. Use the visions of 2). Don't speak your lines to much. Whisper them or speak them toneless. You want to concentrate on the moving part. You practice that seperately from speaking at first.
5) Add you lines and and your adversaries in play. Get in sync. If your coplayers are good, you won't even need a director. Do the stuff. The thing. In one word: Act.
HERE is where the acting kicks in. And once again: Anybody who starts earlier in the process WILL suck in performance. When you
Well the other 2 covered it pretty well, but (Score:3, Funny)
Mentioning that you are trying to win an award is about as bad as it get (your international multimedia award). Until you get it, do not speak about it, because I am working on an Emmy, even though I am not attractive, can't act well, but I took an acting class! And hell almighty- you think
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Re:Hmm (Score:3, Insightful)
We did? I though Enter the Matrix was a piece of crap. Were there others? The MMO hasn't launched yet, and I can't believe there are people interested in playing it.
I won't argue the merits of the Star Wars universe, I admit it's pretty goofy and the last two movies lacked a lot of the fun factor that made the goofiness excusable in the first three. However, as far as games goes, I'd give the nod to Star Wars. Most of them have sucked, but
Thieves ! (Score:2, Troll)
Haven't you been reading the slashdot arguments every time someone mentions Kazaa and p2p??? You can't call it copyright infringment. It is "Theft!" now. Just like war is peace and freedo is slavery.
The producers of the film are thieves, as are you if you watch it.
Re:Copyrights... (Score:5, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction#Legal_as
Re:People focus on the wrong aspects (Score:3)
It's your basic cheeze story set somewhere cool with fancy swords and lasers.
Wet cats? (Score:2)
I haven't seen this yet. Does it end with wet cats like the original "Wing Commander" did?