Wow, this movie sounds like it will be the best star wars movie ever! Im excited about it now.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Yeah? Well, wait 'til you see MY movie, "Fight Scene: The Revenge," which is a two-hour fight scene between Tall Man, Shorter Man, Man With Hammer, Man with Gun He Never Uses, and Man Who Knows Karate.
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
heh I read that as the "girliest" at first.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Some students in my high school did a short "film" called "Fight Like a Girl Club." I have a feeling it was mostly only funny if you knew the people involved.
Sorry, I'm feeling very random tonight.
On the topic of Star Wars, the first two have killed almost any hopes I once held for the third.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
quote: Anakin's grisly demise at the end of the duel is set to be one of the most chilling moments in the entire saga. -NG
WTF? But... Anakin... Darth... WHA??
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
Demise...from a certain point of view.
Posted by Human (Member # 2985) on :
I don't care how long the dang fight scene is, after Eps. I and II, I'm sure as heck not watching III.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
I hope MST4k or something else MST3k-esque will be made in thirty or forty years, so we can watch a full satirical commentary on Episode 1 and 2.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Maybe Obi Wan is the little Sith at the time the killing takes place.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
12 minutes? That'll be tiring. More to the audience than to the actors.
[ March 02, 2004, 11:28 PM: Message edited by: Book ]
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
I agree, Book. Even the however-long scene in The Phantom Menace felt dragged.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
quote:I hope MST4k or something else MST3k-esque will be made in thirty or forty years, so we can watch a full satirical commentary on Episode 1 and 2.
Have you watched Episode IV recently? I really think that if someone were to see it for the first time, they'd rate it about equal to Episode I.
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
I loved the fight scene from the Phantom Menace. On the whole, that movie wasn't very good, but that scene rocked.
And I think Attack of the Clones was pretty darned good, on the whole.
There. It had to be said.
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
<- Has a sudden, inexplicable urge to watch the Phantom Menace again. Dunno why, maybe it's just because I haven't seen it in 3 years. I'm sure that watching the movie again will only serve to remind me of WHY I disliked it the first time. Bah, this urge can wait until the third movie comes out.
EDIT: I obviously can't spell.
[ March 02, 2004, 11:43 PM: Message edited by: Tstorm ]
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
I think they meant the longest mano a mano duel.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
*high fives Icarus*
Yeah, Episode I had problems. It had good parts and bad parts. I think going back to a series twenty years later is not a good idea. It's too hard to make them flow together, and it's just too hard to write a detailed, seamless backstory when you've already made three movies.
[ March 02, 2004, 11:54 PM: Message edited by: Jon Boy ]
Posted by knightswhosayni! (Member # 4096) on :
::sigh::
Lucas better not decide to make any more starwars movies after this. I shouldn't care, but I do.
Ni!
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
quote:Jon Boy: Have you watched Episode IV recently? I really think that if someone were to see it for the first time, they'd rate it about equal to Episode I.
Probably, but all that proves is that Episode I was only up to 1979's standards.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Am I the only one who thinks Alec Guiness looked more than 20-25 years older than Ewan McGregor?
Posted by FoolishTook (Member # 5358) on :
quote:On the topic of Star Wars, the first two have killed almost any hopes I once held for the third
Same here.
I will, however, see the film when it opens, just for closure. And on a more positive note, there is continuity. Anakin Skywalker has been consistently annoying from childhood on.
Posted by FoolishTook (Member # 5358) on :
quote:On the topic of Star Wars, the first two have killed almost any hopes I once held for the third
Same here.
I will, however, see the film when it opens, just for closure. And on a more positive note, there is continuity. Anakin Skywalker has been consistently annoying from childhood on.
Posted by FoolishTook (Member # 5358) on :
quote:On the topic of Star Wars, the first two have killed almost any hopes I once held for the third
Same here.
I will, however, see the film when it opens, just for closure. And on a more positive note, there is continuity. Anakin Skywalker has been consistently annoying from childhood on.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
The dreaded triple post!
Run children!
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
quote:Speed: Drunken Master 2, Dragons Forever and Police Story 2
Alright, a kindred spirit!
I wanna see the underwater scene from Episode I extended to twelve minutes. Those sea monsters rock!
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
quote:The major focus is the breakdown in friendship between Obi-Wan and Anakin.
Okay-- when were they EVER friends? For like 2 seconds in the elevator on the way to meet Padme in Ep II?
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
I just want to say one thing.
Darth Jar-Jar.
msquared
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Tella meesa where is that boom-bad rebel base!
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
***SPOILERS***
anakin's "demise" is that obi-one shoves him into lava. That's why vader wheres a mechanical suit.
Lucas is supposivly also planning on remaking episodes IV, V, and VI completely in cgi.
afterwords he plans to eventually make episodes VII, IIX, and IX.
***END SPOILERS***
I get most of my info from here, whether it's real or not, I don't know.
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
I'll watch it because I like seeing Ewan McGregor in jeopardy... you know, tied up or fighting or whatever. He's sooo... something.
I only hope that these movies have not completely ruined Hayden Christensen's carreer, because he really ISN'T as bad an actor as the "kiss-become-a-scar" scene (WTF?) would make him look.
And I have to agree that Lucas never made any friendship between Anakin and Obi-Wan at ALL believable.
I saw a spoiler pic of Ankakin all crispy-looking, though I don't know if it is an actual spoiler or a fan-produced hoax. Actually, Star Wars fans are now producing better stuff in that universe than Lucas is. Which is sad.
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
The episodes have both sucked so bad that I will NOT be seeing ep three.
Rhaegar
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
MEC that is possibly the worst news ever!
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
Sorry...some (maybe) good news though: A Indiana Jones 4 is supposivly being made.
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
quote: anakin's "demise" is that obi-one shoves him into lava. That's why vader wheres a mechanical suit.
I had heard acid, but yeah, that's about the same.
quote:
Lucas is supposivly also planning on remaking episodes IV, V, and VI completely in cgi.
I doubt this very much.
quote: afterwords he plans to eventually make episodes VII, IIX, and IX.
The original plan was to make nine movies, but when episode I was released, he said over and over again that he would not make the final three. Personally, I hope he does change his mind, even as bad as episode one was. But I haven't heard that he has, and in light of your other rumors, I'm suspicious.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Which is also, unfortunately, not particularly good news. Harrison Ford's practically geriatric.
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
Indy IV does not really sound like good news to me, as much as I liked the other three.
Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
funny... everyone bags on Hayden, but I thought he did pretty well with what he had.
But Natalie Portman is the one who seems just *awful* to me, beautiful as she is.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Bah... grisly? Heck, I couldn't eat macaroni for a month after Han cut open the Taun-taun on Hoth during The Empire Strikes Back. Of course, I was a squeamish kid back then.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I hope they do make the last three, but only after Lucas dies.
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
After having watched the extras on the Indiana Jones DVD collection, I can state without a doubt the George Lucas is the reason that Temple of Doom sucked, and that The Last Crusade wasn't as good as Raiders. During Temple of Doom, Lucas was going through a divorce and as a result, the film was too dark. Spielberg even said in an interview that the only reason redeeming aspect of Temple of Doom was that's where he met Kate Capshaw (whom he later married). The things that made Raiders a great movie had very little if anything to do with Lucas himself.
Indy 4, supposedly, deals with Atlantis and a much older (obviously) Indy. However, production was delayed after Spielberg greenlighted it because Lucas wasn't happy with the script. So he went back to rewrite it himself.
*sigh*
I had hopes for this one. It still could be good, [insert broken clock cliche here].
As far as Episode 3 goes... I don't think that there's anything that can be done for it. I'll see it a few days after it comes out, at a matinee. I want to see the end. But it's a lost cause.
[ March 03, 2004, 12:18 PM: Message edited by: Lime ]
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
You know, I actually LIKED "Temple of Doom." Considerably more than "The Last Crusade," in fact.
Posted by Slash the Berzerker (Member # 556) on :
Temple of Doom was great.
Kate in a wet halfshirt was quite stimulating to my teenage mind. I've loved her ever since.
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
I liked it too. Not better, just different. Complete unashamed tongue-in-cheek gorefest. It was cool.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yeah, I like Temple of Doom also. It's very much an adventure comic book depicted on the silver screen, and I think they did a great job with it. Raiders of the Lost Ark is by far my favorite, but Temple of Doom is a clear second.
Posted by Ron Lambert (Member # 2872) on :
MEC, the Roman numeral for eight is not IIX, it is VIII.
I thought I had heard that Lucas had decided not to do episodes VII, VIII, and IX. There have been so many novels written about the time period following episode VI, that anything Lucas did would conflict with them, or at least wind up being compared unfavorably to writing by superior writers. Of course, Lucas may just feel that he's tired of the series.
Continuing the Star Wars saga would be too much like beating a dead horse. In this case, the horse is not only dead, it's carcass has long since been rendered into glue.
[ March 03, 2004, 03:42 PM: Message edited by: Ron Lambert ]
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Lucas is just tired.
He should just go live his "happily ever after" and leave effing movies ALONE, because he's lost it. HelllOOOOoooo rocking chair.
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
*Zips up flame-retardant suit*
Temple of Doom isn't the worst thing in the world. Far from it. But of the 3, I enjoy it the least, and it is both Kate Capshaw and Lucas' faults. I just can't find compassion in my heart for Willie. Every time she opens her mouth, she whines. And that is both George's fault for writing her that way, and her fault for doing such a good job at it. But characters like that have always gotten under my skin, and I can't help it. I could probably do with a trout-thrashing for letting that ruin the movie for me. But only under protest.
After taking a moment to think about the movie without Willie, I do admit that it is probably better than I've let on. I'll have to watch it again.
(Shortround is cool, btw).
Posted by Trogdor the Burninator (Member # 4894) on :
STARWARS TOTALLY RAWKED MAN AND IF YOU DON'T THINKSO THEN UR JUST STOOPID. ANAKIN WAS SUCH A GOOD ACTOR AND THE FIGHT WHERE HE LOSES HIS HAND IS JUST AWESOME AND YODA JUMPS AROUND LOL.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: heh I read that as the "girliest" at first.
same. Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I saw Attack of the Clones on opening night.... in France. That was such a cool cultural experience, I don't know if it could be duplicated.
Sigh... being a Star Wars fangirl was so much more fun before it was all mainstream.
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
*Arrowed! Trogdor*
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Am I just such a geek that I thought that Star Wars fandom had been fairly mainstream from the summer of 1977 on?
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Nah, Noemon. It was. It's just that since the prequels have sucked out loud, it is now less than entirely mainstream. If you are not among the generation of 8 year olds who first saw Star Wars in 77 or 78, YMMV.
Here's a link to a spoiler pic I found. It is fairly grisly, but I don't know if it's real.
![[ROFL]](graemlins/rofl.gif)
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
But characters like that have always gotten under my skin, and I can't help it. I could probably do with a trout-thrashing for letting that ruin the movie for me. But only under protest.![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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