I'd have to agree with that - although this one looks like it has all or at least most of the original star wars magic in it right down to the leia like strap on danish pastries for natalie portman.
Hey Phil:
"leia like strap on danish pastries for natalie portman."
hahahaaaaaaa! that's great! When the Special Editions and Eps 1&2 came out my brother kept trying to talk me into wearing doughnuts on my ears to the theatre . . .
I liked 1 & 2 okay. You see I read the books & play some of the games & such and when you're into the EU (expanded universe: Star Wars outside of the movies) you don't tend to get so up about some of that stuff. Yeah it's a pain but oh well. I realized months ago that one big reason the NJO (new jedi order series of books, set like waaaaaaaaay after the movies) books and movies 1 & 2 aren't *as good* is that the people making them got more concerned with the universe itself like they were really there instead of making something that will be enjoyable to watch/read. They're worried more about the characters, as if they were real, than about the presentation--which is TOTALLY important if you want a following!!! I come up with all sorts of stories that are nice in all sorts of "universes" (ie Star Wars, LOTR, certain manga/anime, certain books, etc) if the characters were real, but they would suck as entertainment or as teaching us stuff and the like that movies/books are supposed to give us. Which is why I can never bring myself to read fanfic--of anything. I'll bet anything everyone else thinks along the same lines. They want everything to happen in a *happy* or at least *redeemable* way for the people but it doesn't add up to *good story material* almost always. Or maybe always for all I know.
But this new one does look totally awesome! The part where Anakin glances around his hood and you see the yellow eyes--and if you look close you can see that his face looks kind of haggard . . . oh, and when you first hear James Earl Jones' voice saying, "Yes, Master" it's pretty creepy . . . and more than anything else the part where you see Darth Vader As He Is in the Original Trilogy--that table-thingy comes up and you see him on it--and they give you immediate contrast with Hayden Christiansen-as-Anakin--that's really ominous and . . . and . . . I had the perfect word! #&*$ it!!! it was a darker form of heart-wrenching . . . I'll remember at some point. I hope.
{edit: I remembered. The word is "haunting". Gives me shivers, yes it does (oh no i'm mixing up my universes why did i just do Gollum? I do a neat Darth Vader impression btw with one of those masks they use to hook to oxygen tanks 'cuz i had a seizure and they said they'd just throw it away anyway so i took it--the echo is really good, esp. after a little practice! people say i've got the Breathing-Of-Vader *perfect*!!!) [and please no comments about how having had three seizures in my life is what's *wrong* with me (jk)]}}
I thought that it was cool the way they tried to tie in the OT with the prequels with the scenes & Alec Guiness-as-Obi-Wan. I looked and they have clips from Eps 1, 2, & 4. I like the way it's coming together.
Did anyone else notice that the only *name* that was ever said was 'Darth Vader'? I thought that was somewhat significant for two reasons. First, in the movie itself, I think they're trying to emphasize the horrible change that Anakin is going to go through in it. {Maaaaaaaaan I can't wait for the movie! I'm one of those geeks who stands in line for hours in a costume (hehe . . . I get looks but people who don't understand, I don't care much about it . . . ) did that for SW and LOTR. Yay! I get to do it again!} Second, I think it's somewhat interesting, but not surprising, that they did not need to say very much about what it was because *everyone* knows Star Wars when they see it. Lots of people need only a quick shot or a short strain of music to identify it. It's just so cool that we all KNOW . . .
Hey, did anyone else see *Emporer/Senator/Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious* go *NUTS* with a *RED LIGHTSABER*~?~!~?~!~?~!~?~!
THAT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOL AND DID YOU SEE THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE AND HEAR THAT EEEEEEEVIL LAUGH? In ROTJ SNES game all the last few levels are regularly punctuated with his evil laughter~~I got it when I was eleven and it gave me the c~r~e~e~e~p~s.
Oh, oh, and Vader Breathing Overlaid!!!!!!!!!! Oh, how effective is THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay . . . cool down . . . cool down . . . as you can *probably* tell, I'm totally obsessed about SW and have so much to say about it . . . does anyone else even care enough to read all this? xxP sorry for going on so long but it's soooooooo coooooooool!!!!
okay i'm gonna shut up now before you all fly out here just to throttle me special-like
bwahahahaha!!! I am the evil conspirator of the commercial industry. Drink Pepsi, watch Anime, and buy Duracell batteries (which cost the exact same amount as Energizer. Repeat after me: Pink Drummer Bunnies Are Fascist)
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If there's one thing that Episode 3 is going to be, it's depressing.
Think about it. Padme has to die. Anakin slips to the dark side and is responsible for the deaths of ALL the jedi. Sidious/Palaptine brings an end to the Republic and the deaths of MILLIONS of people. All this movie is about is pain.
It's gonna be so emotional and... it's gonna freakin' rock.
tripe?! everything has its bad side, but SW has lots of good stuff too if you know how to look. like me. ; P
well, logically speaking, Episode 3 will have to be depressing in order to let the original trilogy storyline pick up properly. Not really any spoilers if you've got a brain to work it out anyway. I've refused spoilers. Only stuff I've seen is the trailer. But I know some things that have to happen. Depressing, yes. Dark. Menacing. But Epic, and All Six Put Together=Completely Rocks!
Holy cow, I misspelled "Emperor" in my last post!
Hey Matthew, how do you dress up like a Wookie? Or was that just a random choice? I can't imagine being in a hairy suit . . . I usually just try to go as a Jedi--no particular one. I don't look like anyone in the movies. Though for LOTR, I was Galadriel. Long curly blond hair & blue eyes. Lucky! Most movies I don't look like anyone. The Galadriel costume my mom made was so cool . . . and she made my brother a Frodo costume too. We got fake pointy ears and he got fake hobbit feet. On his way out of the theatre some guy was like "cool costume. Do you have like a whole Elf posse around here or something?" That caused me endless amusement (after I recovered from the movie, that is).
Oh! This is a Star Wars thread, huh? Sorry. I keep hijacking every single thread I contribute to and start babbling about whatever misty idea wanders into my fool head.
bwahahahaha!!! I am the evil conspirator of the commercial industry. Drink Pepsi, watch Anime, and buy Duracell batteries (which cost the exact same amount as Energizer. Repeat after me: Pink Drummer Bunnies Are Fascist)
Oh I hate when people spoil movies too. I've read the books but they don't say anything that happens--they don't dare encroach on details yet to be revealed by Master George in a movie. It's just, you know, in the original trilogy people from Eps I & II are dead and the Empire is completely in control and Darth Vader is . . . Darth Vader. So ya gotta figure most people have figured some of this stuff out . . . I know very few more specifics than other people about this particular area. The Expanded Universe refers to events from the movies and tries to tie them in but is primarily concentrated around times & events outside the traditional movie plots. Stuff before and after and between. They've got books up to about thirty years after 'The Return of the Jedi'. Not any great literary achievements but an obsession is an obsession, isn't it?
bwahahahaha!!! I am the evil conspirator of the commercial industry. Drink Pepsi, watch Anime, and buy Duracell batteries (which cost the exact same amount as Energizer. Repeat after me: Pink Drummer Bunnies Are Fascist)
i watched that trailer the day that it was put on the net. i'm so excited for the movie!! how in the world am i supposed to wait until may? that's insane. . .
www.worldofepic.net/ep3.mov
and for once it actually looks like a Star Wars film to look forward to....