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Star Wars Episode 3 Play-By-Play In Pictures
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timothy
on Wed Feb 23, 2005 07:44 AM
from the ok-there-are-like-these-people-right-with-lasers dept.
from the ok-there-are-like-these-people-right-with-lasers dept.
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.
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That's not the worst of it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:btw, it's on Kazaa now (Score:5, Funny)
(http://mboverload.no-ip.org/tech.html | Last Journal: Tuesday July 13 2004, @01:54PM)
Re:FP and the Sites Down! (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.zebs.org.uk/)
Both a zips of the site linked from above.
Re:FP and the Sites Down! (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.tpu.fi.nyud.net:8090/~t4jlaaks/ep3/ [nyud.net]
http://nerdfilter.com/ [nerdfilter.com]
The second seems to be holding up pretty well.
Did anyone torrent it? (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.bowlie.com/forum/)
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.
Massochist (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.insurancegenius.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday March 22 2005, @07:26PM)
You have to feel sorry for the ISP hosting that site and every ISP in between.
Re:Massochist (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Saturday January 31 2004, @05:25PM)
Down the server is. weak it is (Score:5, Funny)
Bandwidth insufficient it is
Re:I have to say... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.ackthud.net/)
Spoiler Warning (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spoiler Warning (Score:5, Funny)
(http://danbirchall.multiply.com/)
George Lucas's plan (don't worry about spoilers) (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Ah! Mirror! Quick! (Score:5, Informative)
Dribble. Can't wait....
Cannes (Score:5, Funny)
(http://blog.intelligentdesign.com.au/ | Last Journal: Thursday March 11 2004, @05:32AM)
Re:Cannes (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.ki.se/ | Last Journal: Tuesday August 28, @07:06AM)
"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:Cannes (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Thursday September 15 2005, @12:33PM)
More worthwhile... (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Tuesday June 26, @08:41AM)
Re:More worthwhile... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Friday March 11 2005, @09:13AM)
Dude, have you heard the dialog in I and II? I'll take shit blowing up over that crap any day.
Warning: spoiler.. (Score:5, Funny)
2) Hero posts hires picture son site
3) Site is mentioned on
4) Site crashes in the end
Mirrors (Score:3, Informative)
direct link [mirrordot.org]
Spoiler: (Score:5, Insightful)
planet-lab mirror (Score:4, Informative)
Hopefully, this time, it works.
Anakin all burned up? (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.spacerook.com/)
BTW, I saw these pics last night when Boing Boing linked to them first, like so much of what appears on Slashdot these days.
Re:Anakin all burned up? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Anakin all burned up? (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.ajs.com/~ajs/)
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).
I sense a disturbance in the force (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:I sense a disturbance in the force (Score:4, Funny)
No, that was Mars Attacks.
Looks, sure. (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.justgiving.com/garethowen | Last Journal: Thursday October 31 2002, @02:07PM)
Re:Welcome to Slashdot.. (Score:5, Funny)
Plus to the best of my knowledge Slashdot doesn't have an open exhaust port somewhere with a big neon "Place Torpedo Here" sign next to it so apparently we ARE the ultimate power in the universe.
Looks really good (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://chrisgonyea.com/)
The movie looks really good.
I'm not concerned about the movie's looks or story though...Star Wars is always at the top with those. For the most part, everyone has to agree that the story line for the first two prequels outside of a few annoying pieces is actuallly pretty good.
What worries me most is the dialogue...that is where the first two prequels failed and where the original trilogy got everyone hooked.
Let's hope that problem is fixed.
Re:Looks really good (Score:5, Funny)
This is Slashdot, where anyone will disagree with you about anything! That being said, many people (myself included) think the story line of the first two were great big piles of steaming crap.
Re:Looks really good (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Friday March 11 2005, @09:13AM)
No way, you're completely wrong about that!
another mirror (Score:5, Informative)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jacoplane | Last Journal: Monday January 05 2004, @09:55PM)
Play-by-Play (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.justgiving.com/garethowen | Last Journal: Thursday October 31 2002, @02:07PM)
Now, why do I hear Chris Berman's voice going:
Meanwhile on a ship to La-La Land (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.rapidnirvana.com/ | Last Journal: Monday January 17 2005, @09:09AM)
Obi - I sense a cute little server at its last breath, while millions of caffeine filled geeks armed with mouseclicks, on its deathly downward spiral. And then silence prevailed.
Luke - What?
Obi - Server got slasdhotted you little wimp!
Luke - Oh Ok! Want some coffee?
Obi - Sure. These long flights give me such a headache.
- moderated +/-5 Weird
In the mean time (Score:5, Funny)
Want to buy some land in Florida? (Score:3, Insightful)
When the first one came out, everyone was so excited. People were camped in front of movie theaters for months, and you could easily get the impression that this was going to be one of the best movies of all time.
Then they saw Jar-Jar and the rest is history.
When the second one came out, people were once again excited. Yeah, they remembered how horrible the first one was, but this new Star Wars promised to be much better! Less Jar-Jar, a new Anakin, and an improved storyline.
Then everyone realized that while it might be better than the first one, that isn't saying much.
Now they release a few pretty pictures from the third one and once again, you have people saying it "look(s) more worthwhile". Sigh. Hey look, someone wrote the word gullible on the movie theater ceiling!
Pictures/trailers are meaningless (Score:5, Interesting)
*Spoiler* (Score:5, Funny)
(http://walkiry.no-ip.org/)
Palpatine is actually a bad guy.
*Shock*
*Horror*
Fair warning: (Score:5, Informative)
Nothing We Haven't Already Seen (Score:3)
(http://spandexjustice.com/)
* Battling droids, been there, done that.
* Fighting in front of the old guy, ditto
* Hand getting cut off, check
* Stupid names, got it
* Holograms, yep
* Space battles, uh huh
* Yoda fighting, did that
So, why should I spend my money on this? I already know how it will end and since Lucas is writing the dialogue, I already know it'll be bad. The special effects are common as dirt these days.
I think I'll give it a pass.
Contradiction (Score:5, Insightful)
Way to go, George.
Re:Contradiction (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.google.org/)
You are thinking that it was thier actual mother instead of Leia being given off to some other people like Luke was.
This also explains how Leia is from Alderan instead of Naboo, and why she has the name Organa.
The plot holes could come in that Darth did not know he had children(RTJ). If he chokes her while giving birth that kind of destroies that.
Before I am marked too high a geek, the only reason I know that is because I walked the movies over the weekend.
Re:Contradiction (Score:5, Funny)
"Crap! We go through all of this trouble to hide Luke and Leia on opposite sides of the galaxy, and hide myself on this miserable ball of sand, and now?
LEIA sends, to ME, ANAKIN's favorite droids and they're delivered by LUKE, who wants me to go rescue her from VADER. The Force is my ally, my ass! With allies like that, who needs enemies?
Somehow, I think Ani's just itching for a rematch. Who would have guessed he'd survive the molten lava , for chrissakes? And I can already sense the incestual/lustful emotions building in this Skywalker kid. Man, this is a messed up family!! Why did I let Qui-Jonn bully me into training such a white-trash hick to become a Jedi?
And whose idea was it to hide Luke with Vader's step-brother? Man, Jar Jar and I must have been smoking some serious clone when we came up with that one! At least I won the rock-paper-scissors with Yoda, and I don't live in a frellin' Dark Side tainted swamp in the ass of the Galaxy.!
All right, one problem at a time. Let's go rescue the girl, hopefully before Dad tortures her and figures out that she's his long-lost daughter, and comes after me. Because I seem to remember Anakin having this whole revenge thing going on, a bit. Maybe he's mellowed... not.
THEN I'll deal with the incest.
Maybe if I get the kid hanging around one of those smuggler guys, he'll get Luke laid somewhere along the trip and Luke won't have all that teen hormone imbalance.
Re:Contradiction (Score:5, Funny)
(http://eryx.ca/)
Mirror (Score:3, Informative)
Padme dies? (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.pealefamily.net/ | Last Journal: Saturday April 20 2002, @12:59PM)
If she died at their birth, how can they have memories? I suppose memories of the womb, but come on...
wait wait, let me guess (Score:3, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday February 21 2002, @04:37PM)
I'm going out on a limb here, but probably some spaceships as well.
Lucas can't write or direct.. I'm done with him (Score:3, Insightful)
He writes horrible, truly horrible dialog, and I don't even find the plot/storylines that interesting anymore. Rehashed, recycled.
His characters are paper thin cutouts, the recent ones especially. I mean h*ll, I don't rememeber their names, let alone care if they die in the film(s).
Peter Jackson redention of Tolkein on the other hand... now he understands characters - passion, heroism, comraderie, fear, self-doubt, you name it. While his film was a grand epic, visual feast, some of the most memorable moments to me where moments between characters not just the wonderful special effects and battles.
Now THOSE are great moments... Lucas is fluff an eye candy, nothing more. I loved Star Wars once, he's since turned into a empty film making, and a marketing tool to sell cheap toys.
Star Wars bosses threaten legal action (Score:3, Informative)
From the IMDb.com news story 'Star Wars' Bosses Warn Websites Again [imdb.com]:
Re:Padme dies in child birth? (Score:4, Informative)
I can't remember if "When your father left, he didn't know your mother was pregnant" (or some semblance) was actually left in the movie version of RotJ, it's been a while since I've seen the movie. But I remember the rest of the quote comes from the novelization, which, while it may be based on an early draft of the script, isn't strictly canon [starwars.com] (I hope saying that doesn't open up a can of worms here).
The novelizations of the original trilogy had extra scenes and dialog not in the movies, like more of Luke's training on Dagobah in ESB and Kenobi telling Luke in ANH that even a duck [starwars.com] has to learn how to swim. I can't remember if Han's confrontation with Jabba in Mos Eisley was in the book. I haven't read it, but I heard the book for the Phantom Menace also had some extra scenes that weren't in the movie, like a dream Anakin had about he and Padme leading opposing armies into battle.
One thing I did learn from the novelizations was the Emperor's name was Palpatine [bookfree.com.cn].