I just watched the trailor.


Oh please, please, please, please don't let this one suck!!!:no:

I liked the trailer. I'm excited...and NO I didn't pay to watch it!!!!

I like trh trailer and I think it won't suck. It looks to be based a lot on OTHELLO... lots of jealousy over Natalie Portman's abs. Was it my imagination, or was Palpatine wielding Ye Olde Red Lightsabre for the first time?

it looks pretty epic

I've seen the leaked footage and it looks bomb as hell

Didn't notice the saber, but I did catch the cinnabun hair-do. Oh.. and was that chewy? I have stayed away from the spoiler sites so I know only the basics of the story. I'm trying not to build up expectations as that inevatably leads to let down.

I have to mention that the CG effects are HORRIBLE!!!! I will go see this movie, but why do all the special effects STILL look like video game crap?! Episode I was bad, but the effects looked very real. Why are the effects in this teaser so bad? That shot of R2D2 is obviously CG, Yoda looks so bad, and the space ships don't look half as good as the miniatures in the origional movies...why? Do they need the folks from Pixar to go help them out? Honestly!

Sorry. Had to rant.

I tend to agree that they should have used the minitures all the way through.. but ya know Lucas wants to use all his toys.

Why are the effects in this teaser so bad? That shot of R2D2 is obviously CG, Yoda looks so bad, and the space ships don't look half as good as the miniatures in the origional movies

http://www.stevenrichards.com/images/smiley_creepy.gif

Oh... I dunno... (http://www.ZenWeasel.com/temp/sw_01.jpg)

FYI kids... most of the spaceships are still physical models except in distant shots & mass battles (and most "hero" ships are still models, not CGI.


*** SPOILER ALERT ***

Just saw the teaser for STAR WARS III. I think it looks good.

For a teaser, they sure are showing us a lot. Vader being created, Darth Sidious (I think) swinigng a red lightsabre for the first time ever, Natalie Portman with the two danish hair buns, Obi Wan and Annakin fighting near Laval (gee I wonder how Annakin gets scarred and burnt), and lots of Wookiees.

I am curious about 2 things that are still a mystery.

1. Is Darth Sidious Palpatine and he is just really good an concealing it, or is it a split personality, or a re-incarnation of an old Sith Spirit (the previously mention by Lucas in TIME magazine "Darth Bane") that either took over a the nice old Senator Palpatine, or was Palpatine an illusion fro the Sith from the get-go?

2. "The Trials" have been mentioend for 2 consecutive movies. Will Annakin take the trails & fail? Will they ignore it entirely? OBi-Wan got out of it for hacking Darth Maul in half, but little Annakin claims he was ready to take the Jedi trials in Episode II. Will he do it, or skip out of it trying to hack Obi-Wan in half?

REVENGE OF THE SITH looks like it will have that little bit of OTHELLO to the plot to help piss off the little Hayden guy as Ewan McGregor hits on Natalie Portman's AMIDALA, or at least that's how the once & future Emporer will make it look to Vader.

To this day I still say "Phantome Menace" is faaaaaarrrrrr better than that crappy "Return of the Jedi". Removing sentimentality, the prequels aren't that much worse than the originals. It's not meant to be a life affirming piece of art, it's gumball generic action set in a fantasy world.

To this day I still say "Phantome Menace" is faaaaaarrrrrr better than that crappy "Return of the Jedi". Removing sentimentality, the prequels aren't that much worse than the originals. It's not meant to be a life affirming piece of art, it's gumball generic action set in a fantasy world.

THANK YOU!!!

I've been saying this forever!

MAS SPOILERITOS!

I was fortunate enough to get to see the trailer about eight times yesterday. We got it at work on the feed, and we recorded it and took it into the edit bay with the best speakers and watched it over and over again. We went through most of it frame by frame.

I liked the use of Obi Wan's speech from Ep 4, and the use of footage from Episodes 1, 2 and 4. Yeah, some of the CGI work looks bad, but the trailers for Ep. 1 and 2 had bad looking CGI in them that turned out to look really good in the movie. They still have 7 months before the release. I liked the shot of the Emperor with a light sabre. I liked seeing Artoo and 3PO in the hallway that looked similar to the hallway that they (and Vader) are first spotted in in Ep. 4. I liked the footage of Annakin and Obi Wan going at it - that should be an awesome fight! I liked the Wookies, but wished they wouldn't have shown so much of them. I liked Amidala's bun do. I wasn't too miffed that they actually showed Vader - I mean we all know he becomes Vader. I liked the shots of the battle of Coriscant (sp?), I hope a Star Destroyer - a Star Destroyer ancestor - crashes into the planet (ala Ep. 6).

About the only thing that irked me (and this was actually pointed out by Dr. Weiner) was Vader's wrists. They looked too small. I question the use of Hayden in the suit ... His body type just doesn't fit.

I saw the trailer again last night on The Incredibles (freakin' awesome movie!), and it looked spectacular on the big screen!

Poke

FYI kids... most of the spaceships are still physical models except in distant shots & mass battles (and most "hero" ships are still models, not CGI.

Well, I have the trailer saved on my computer. I can tell you right now that the ships in the trailer are CG. I wish I couldn't tell, but I can...and the shot of all the clone troopers from episode II was pretty bad too. Oh well. I still enjoy these movies. I just wish the effects were as good as Episode I. Remember those effects? They were superb (although they didn't save the movie). Maybe they looked better in epidsode I because it was shot on film or something...who knows.

According to ILM they space ships are still mostly models. I don't think you can justify it from a highly compressed quicktime file from the web.

I will not argue after this statement, since we cannot actually know (unless you have proof of those particular shots being non-CG)...but you said "MOSTLY models". All the ships in the trailer axcept one look extremely fake. I've never heard of a miniature looking like it's CG. It is quite obvious to me. I have seen these types of effects millions of times. I refuse to think those are models. They are obviously (to me) not.

The two large ships shooting over the city planet are SOOOOOO CG, as is the one crashing and being hosed down. That R2D2 shot is so horrible. It almost looks like the robot is stretching like a cartoon. That's all I'm going to say.

To this day I still say "Phantome Menace" is faaaaaarrrrrr better than that crappy "Return of the Jedi". Removing sentimentality, the prequels aren't that much worse than the originals. It's not meant to be a life affirming piece of art, it's gumball generic action set in a fantasy world
Yeah I know your right. It's not the sentimentality that is the problem for me. Rather its that I was seven(....eight?) when "return.." was in theaters and to me it was life affirming art. In my heart I know that it is unrealistic of me to expect the prequals to have that same kind of magic. I just can't help being let down when they don't.

Uhmm... I just reread that last bit, and... I admit it, it is sentimentality.

Besides isn't the success of these films banking on the sentimentality of all of us twenty and thirty somethings. Aren't we the ones going back over and over again. Aren't we the ones that are purchasing the videos and DVDs. Aren't we the ones buying up the figures and the video games. I just seems to me that this trilogy could have never stood on its on.

All of that having been said, I will be there for the midnight show in May, although I will be leaving the wookie suit at home. :lol:

although I will be leaving the wookie suit at home. :lol:

Sure, sure... you say that now.... :cool:

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I'm not looking forward to this new episode at all.

I applaud Mr Lucas for all the advances he has made in the field of film and SFX, and sound, and... well, basically everything he has done to invent a lot of tools for cinema use that many take for granted these days.

He has done an amazing job, essentially inventing the way many effects and shots are done... not to mention marketing.

I still think he's a "one-hit wonder" when it comes to telling a story, though.

I also am rather bitter at his blatant hipocrosy in his efforts to preserve classic films and protect them from being altered in any fashion... and his delightful abandon in doing the very same to his own films.

But I think Mr Lucas wraps it up best, when he explains to his fans...

I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it.

Why does Lucas still call Star Wars a detour in his career?...I'm still wondering why he said that...

I still think he's a "one-hit wonder" when it comes to telling a story, though.



So "Indiana Jones" wasn't a hit?

:cool:

Lucas didn't direct Indiana Jones. Speilberg did. Lucas is a great concept guy. He can fully realise the concept from start to finish but when it comes to writing and directing he aint nothing special.

I think slacker's onto something. Lucas has a great imagination, but sometimes he needs other people to make his ideas more easy to digest for his audience.

I'm still a huge fan of his, though. His movies aren't always for everyone, but I love them (except Episode I).

the wording was "telling a story" not director

see the quote above.

There's no denying the Irvin Kershner, Spielberg, and Ron Howard are far better direrctor's and can take George's ideas & make a far superior movie. NO ONE can deny that....

the wording was "telling a story" not director

see the quote above.

There's no denying the Irvin Kershner, Spielberg, and Ron Howard are far better direrctor's and can take George's ideas & make a far superior movie. NO ONE can deny that....

The esteemed Mr Boo may have a point there.

However, I still think that Lucas was coasting a ride on the coat-tails of Spielberg for "Raiders".

Just wait 'til the new new Star Wars Original Trilogy comes out... oh yes, it will. :cool:

i cant wait to see it.

I will Offer my $8 to George when it comes out... but I am weary. This coming from a recovered SW fanatic. In my mind the movie should be called:
EpisodeIII: "George Lucas and The Last Chance"

I'm really not looking forward to this movie. I had to burn 1 & 2, not as in copy it for all my friends, I mean BURN the bitch....in fire....and toxic gases....just to make sure the world was completely rid of 2 more copies...

I'm really not looking forward to this movie. I had to burn 1 & 2, not as in copy it for all my friends, I mean BURN the bitch....in fire....and toxic gases....just to make sure the world was completely rid of 2 more copies...wow man... that's intense. They weren't THAT bad. Perhaps you just don't handle disspointment well? ;) I mean they could have been worse, they could have.....

Oh, who am I kidding.

Burn baby burn.:evil:

Star Wars is what intrigued me enough to want to make my own movies in the first place.

I was disappointed by Menace, but pumped up by Clones and the Sith trailer looks promising.

You can bitch about special effects all you want, that's the problem when audiences get more sophisticated to the process of movie-making. Once upon a time audiences were blown away by silent black-and-white images of a train pulling into a station. Why is it no-one ever slags off Ray Harryhausen for producing substandard images that just don't look real?!

Seeing all current 5 films at the IMAX in London back-to-back a couple of years ago really brought one thing home: it is really really really really obvious when an actor is acting in a virtual set compared to when they have a set to act to. There's a certain human element missing from the new movies, that much is detectable. But as movies that try to emulate the old saturday morning serials, I think they do a grand job.

Why does Lucas still call Star Wars a detour in his career?...I'm still wondering why he said that...


Maybe he didnt mean anything negative by that.

I personally hate the 2-5th film made by lucas. But the trailer for the 6th movie Ep III looks really cool.

I might go see it.

and of course the first one will always be a classic.

I agree with Nick. Star Wars isn't a detour...it boosted his career to the highest level, spawned several companies he now owns...and it continues to be his most profitable, and time consuming work....it is the whole reason he's famous to pop culture...Star Wars IS his career...everything else is a detour.

Lucas helped introduce CGI to the world of film making. He got people to invest in something that was unknown to most in the late 70s.

Wasnt he one of the first to experiment with blue screening.. or was that around way before?

Bumping an old thread with new... stuff.

A walkthrough of III (with screencaps) is posted below.

If you do not want spoilers, then DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK (http://www.tpu.fi/~t4jlaaks/ep3/)

Mirrors:

http://supersecretwebpage.com/ep3.htm

http://www.josrh.com/misc/ep3/

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( Give me the Original OT Mr Lucas! )

Link doesn't seem to work for me zen :(

For those with a sense of humor:

http://www.sequentialpictures.com/moviestarwarsepisode3.html

:lol:

I've read a lot of spoilers concerning Episode III, and it sounds like it could be great -- the Empire of the prequels.

It almost seems like the first two films (Menace and Clones) were expository. This is the film that people want to see... the story of how Anikan turns to Vader. That's just my gut feeling. I'm always optimistic, but I won't lie, I wouldn't have minded him hiring Kasden to write the screenplay, just to be safe.

Link doesn't seem to work for me

Must have gone over bandwidth. I added two mirror sites, to that post. :cool:

Damn! Those are spoileriffic!

Poke