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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Ryu on March 11, 2002, 05:55:16 PM
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I love Star Wars. (I love Star Trek as well, but Star Trek movie fever hasn\'t hit me since it\'ll be awhile until that comes out later this year). Anyways, I wanted to get this thread going seeing as how there\'s a little over a month until its release. I am very excited about the film and I just wanted to see who else here are Star Wars (or Star Trek) fans on this board and who else enjoys the films like I do.
To move things along, here\'s the latest full length 3 minute trailer just released yesterday. I have it in three varieties for you all to view and it should be noted that the downloads are rather high so narrowband warnings are in effect.
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/clonewar_lg.html (requires Quicktime Pro v. 5) 31 megs.
http://planetmirror.com/pub/movie_trailers/ep2_clone_war_p640.mpg (mpeg version, requries WMP 6.4+) 28 megs.
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/clonewar_md.html (medium res, requires Quicktime v. 5) ? megs.
Post your thoughts of the trailer. I\'d like to see some people react to this thread first before I post my opinions on it. I have made 25 screenshots from the trailer as well which I will post later if some people reply. :)
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Ah, what the hell. The screens are so good, I can\'t help but post at least a sample.
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Just a sample. Just a sample.
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Are there any humans in the movie?
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Your sarcasm was... expected. Download the trailer and see for yourself. :)
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Oooooh WOW! Jedi Battle 2 for the Xbox is near completion I see! Looks great! Another AAA title! :D
Ok, so there was no point to that. Big deal. I didn\'t think the trailer looked all that good. It looked like a stoopid movie to me, but then again I\'ve never been a fan of Star Wars. The first three were ok, but Episode I and (from the impression that I get) the trailer for E2 look like Lucas is just trying to "One up" everything about the originals while ignoring what made them good movies in the first place. Just more mediocrity with a SW title to boost sales, just like all the games they\'ve been producing lately.
I\'ve always loved Star Trek though. Haven\'t kept up too well with DS9, Voyager, or Enterprise.. but the original and ST:TNG were great. I really like how in TNG, they focus not so much the technology.. but on the personal lives of the people on board. It really gives their characters some true depth, and makes the viewer start to actually care about what happens with the cast. My favorite episode is where the enterprise runs across that probe in deep space, and Jean Luc ends up living an entire lifetime within the span of about 15 minuites.
Plus, Star Trek has Q. Q is the Shiznits.
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Originally posted by Ryu
Your sarcasm was... expected. Download the trailer and see for yourself. :)
hehehe.. It\'s just that every clip I see is 99.9% CG. I don\'t even know why they bother with real people at all. Oh well, as long as they bring back Jar Jar. He\'s Bob\'s Hardwares faborite little buddy.
And your three links blow. None of them are working. What up dog?
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***Link removed because too many people are downloading the trailer rather then replying to this thread.
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i\'m not a big sci-fi fan, but this movie is gonna be very impressive. Hell even if the story sucks, I will at least appreciate the technical aspects of the movie. But then again the story is probably pretty good, ok I\'m babbling....well the movie should be pretty damn good....
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I\'ve never been much of a SW fan, but I can say that if the trailer I\'ve seen is anything to judge from, this is a movie I won\'t be seeing anytime soon.
"I didn\'t think a Jedi was allowed to love...". Yawn.
BTW, who else thinks that Hayden kid sucked at acting (at least in the trailer)? Hell, even I could have done the \'angry teen gets pouty lipped\' part better.
But whatever floats your boat. :)
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Well I\'m a frellin (Farscape pun) huge Sci-Fi fan, been a trekkie since I was 9 years old....that\'s almost 10 years now.
Anyhoo, I\'m not a huge Star Wars fan, but I give it the respect it deserves. Personally I prefer Star Trek, Babylon5, Farscape and even Andromeda.
:)
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I’ve been a Star Wars fan all my life and this movie looks wicked cool man! Can’t wait till it comes out. I have all of the other movies at home and I watch them frequently as well as my Star Trek movies. I’m not a sci-fi geek, I just love the movies. You won’t catch me dressing up like C3-P0 or Like Skywalker at any costume parties, that’s for sure. Any-who, the movie looks like it will be great. I’ll be there when it come to the big screen.
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I like star wars sure, but come on...Attack of the Clones?! It sounds like some corny 80\'s horror flick. Slightly unoriginal.
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Originally posted by Disc 2
I like star wars sure, but come on...Attack of the Clones?! It sounds like some corny 80\'s horror flick. Slightly unoriginal.
The title that I read on the books was "Star Wars - Episode II The Clone Wars", not attack of the clones. If Lucas chose your description of the movie, he would have made a grave mistake.;)
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meh, thats sounds better
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I am a huge Star Wars fan and have been looking forward to this movie for quite some time now. I think the working title is Attack of the Clones like someone mentioned, but I am not completely sure. If you have read the books then you\'ll understand why this title is appropiate. Does anyone collect Star Wars toys? I used to but it got addicting so I sold my collection off on eBay. I had over 1000 original figures, about 50 still in their original packaging and nearly every original playset. Sold for over 5 grand.
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You are right about the working title, what a shame. Well all that aside though, the movie will rock just as the others did - plain and simple.
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May 16, 2002...
drool...
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I too am a huge star wars fan. I remember seeing "A new hope" at the drive-in when I was 4. It literally shaped the way I grew up.
However, I think I will be disappointed by this one. I hope I\'m wrong. Too much CGI. (I know, I know, a fraction of the cost of physical models...) Somehow it just doesn\'t seem... right...
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I love Star Wars too... but these new movies are pathetic, to say the least.
I couldn\'t believe what I was seeing the first time I saw Episode I. It was like a tech demo from Industrial Light & Magic. Where\'s the story? Where\'re the great scenes of the first trilogy?. And what the hell is that lame theory about the force?.
Even if you love Star Wars as much as I do (or even more), you\'ve to admit that the new movies are far from being at the same level as the original ones. It\'s a shame, but it\'s true :(
The funny thing is that I\'m pretty sure that I\'ll end up going to the cinema, just to know that I\'m disappointed... again :/
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Originally posted by project86
the movie will rock just as the others did - plain and simple.
The Phantom Menace did not "rock." It didn\'t come anywhere close. I will see the 2nd film of course, but I\'m a movie fan and I see all kinds of crap. Needless to say my standards are high for any Star Wars film and I refuse to lower them.
It\'s all going to come down to whether Lucas can wake up and figure out who is market is for these films. I was 10 years old when the first one was released in 1977, so I was the perfect age to be drawn in and consumed by these stories. Now that I\'m an adult, I look back and apprecate the adult aspects of the first three films. The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite because it\'s the meanest, dirtiest, and scariest of all the films.
When I see sh*t like Jar Jar Binks, it makes me want to vomit, and I don\'t understand why Lucas is so determined to make films that are baby-friendly. It wasn\'t just Jar Jar that was the problem either. In TPM I never felt any tension because I never believed that any of the characters were in jeopardy. For example, the Jedi Knights knock down bots like they were keystone cops... the princess moans about "our people are dying senator" but you never see anyone dying... the seamonsters look like big Jim Henson muppets.
Lucas needs to understand that unless he can raise the stakes quickly, these three add-on films are going to forgotten as worthless tripe.
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They\'ll never be as good as the originals but I\'ll still go see it.
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Well, I promised more pictures if more replies came to the thread and there we are.
Coredweller: Even I will admit that Episode 1 wasn\'t all that it was supposed to be. But it is hard living up to that whole Star Wars feeling. I feel the franchise was on a downturn starting with the introduction of the Ewoks in Episode 6. It\'s just that things are starting to pick up now and no matter what Lucas did with Episode 1, I don\'t think it would have appeased fans regardless. Some people called EPisode 4 the death of Western culture... but I guess we know what happened after that.
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well im really excited, i love star wars!!! i cant wait for it, my mate works ina cinema, so im hoping ill get a earlier preview for it!!!
wooooooooooooooooooooo
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Originally posted by CHIZZY
Too much CGI. (I know, I know, a fraction of the cost of physical models...) Somehow it just doesn\'t seem... right...
heh, you should watch Farscape, all alien characters are models/dolls.
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is Boba fett in the movie now he kicked ass
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Originally posted by Chumpay
is Boba fett in the movie now he kicked ass
Yeah well, he\'s supposed to kick ass, but Lucas ruined even that in Return of the Jedi. Fett had developed some kind of cult following after the second film, so Lucas should have rewarded his fans... INSTEAD he killed him in an idiotic way. As I recall, Han Solo taps his jetpack with a polearm, fires the jets, and then Fett tumbles into the mouth of the Saarlack. It\'s so typical of Lucas. I\'m sure he\'ll find some way to ruin Fett\'s role in this film also. Not that it matters to me.. who cares? I\'m losing interest rapidly.
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in the books he don\'t die, he flies out with his jet pack, damn lucas *grabs long esikmo spear*
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Is this another Kiddie movie? where you figth 20 million CG rendered robots? I hope Lucas gets some balls and makes the movie darker, like it is supposed to be. :D
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Originally posted by Toxical
Is this another Kiddie movie? where you figth 20 million CG rendered robots? I hope Lucas gets some balls and makes the movie darker, like it is supposed to be. :D
thats one thing that bothered me, ep1 was so damn colorful, why? i didn\'t mind all the cg stuff, a lot of movies now have a lot of cg in them, but lucas should use cg tastefully. i remember a statement he made on tv during some interview with him at skywalker ranch, he said that he now has the proper facilities(tools) to make the star wars movies the way he intended them to be. i hear a statement like that from him, then see ep1, and think to myself, "he thought star wars should be a circus?"
i still think the movie will be fun, and hell, he made like a billion dollars on ep1, what do you think he will make on the 3 year hyped ep2? cause come on, its all about the benjamins isn\'t it?
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Episode 2 is not going to make anywhere near the boxoffice that Episode 1 did. No one knew what to expect with TPM, but now that they\'ve been burned, I guarantee there will be many people who will stay away. Sure there are the die hard fans, and the general sci-fi and movie fans like me, but the people who don\'t especially care will think twice before going to another Star Wars film.
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**** lucus.. i dont care about episodes 1 - 3, the series was going to be made up of 9 movies, but 7 - 9 got cancelled! who cares about anakin!? i want to see what happens with Luke! bunch of ingrates
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I\'m sort of looking forward to it, though give me the originals any day.
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Just as long as Jar Jar gets blasted in the first 10 minuets thats all i can say.
Viva La Darkside !
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I realize that most of the movie watching population hates what George Lucas has done with his movies but as far as my opinion goes, they are still the best sci-fi movies to hit the big screen lately.
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Matrix....thats semi sci fi so that is the best so far in my humble opinion
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Yea, Jar Jar have to die !!#%¤ EP1 was a good movie though, but some characters should not be in that movie... And where is the blood / gore etc etc ?
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I can\'t believe they cancelled 7-9 but not suprised. I can\'t wait to see Episode 2. In E1, I didn\'t like it as much as E4-6. They were a lot better.
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Originally posted by Chumpay
is Boba fett in the movie now he kicked ass
well i got some good news and some bad.....good news is bbfett is in it, bad news his a kid ( cos it is set quite a while before a new hope and the others)
also his dad is in, cant remeber his name....
ohhhh yeahhh there is some thing about bobba being cloned, and loadsa kid who look like him in it or something!!??
and he dont die, he crawl out of it ( at least he does on books)