Star Wars Episode 3 Release Date Announced 533
snitty writes "Lucas Films has announced the release date for the last movie in the trilogy of prequels. The date is set for May 19, 2005. The title of the movie has yet to be released. I think I'll give it another year or so before I get on line for tickets."
I think I'll speak for everyone... (Score:2, Interesting)
Must... resist... going... to... movie...
To paraphrase a well known SF icon.
That's convenient... (Score:3, Interesting)
O Lucasarts give us this day our tie-ins, we are ready to recieve... -_-
You can say that again. (Score:1, Interesting)
Anakin to Padme: "I don't like sand. It's rough. Not soft and smooth like you."
Some of the dialogue in Episode II was cringe-inducing. I feel the special effects were actually underrated, though. For example, people gasped in awe at the opening scene in TTT, (Gandalf diving down under the bridge in Moria after the Balrog), but few realize (or will admit) that those effects were essentially copied from the scene in AOTC where Anakin dives from his speeder.Ideally, Lucas should aim for both good effects (at which, IMO, he has been fairly consistent), and good direction and dialogue (a bit lacking in AOTC).
Get in line NOW (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:May 19 2005 is a Thursday (Score:2, Interesting)
Not sure why, exactly, but I have a theory.
Movie twits go to the opening, boast about the movies to their friends, who might go friday.
And no matter how horrible the film, movie twits pump it up like it's the be all and end all of western civilisation.
Darth Vader (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:May 19 2005 is a Thursday (Score:3, Interesting)
Oh, god no. (Score:1, Interesting)
Radioactive Panda (Score:4, Interesting)
I think this comic strip [radioactivepanda.com] says all that needs to be said about the new Star Wars movies.
In a very sarcastic manner, of course.
A New Hope? (Score:3, Interesting)
A New Hype (Score:1, Interesting)
- To The Well Again! -
George Lucas has proven that, in the absence of a genuinely new idea, we (I include myself here) are happy to drink up an old story presented with improved special effects. Hell, we don't even need the marketing machine to tell us how thirsty we are...
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Episode 4 remake (Score:5, Interesting)
jar jar says: "Episode 4 was the first movie relased. Me so think you so stupid"
My greatest fear is that Lucas will decide to remake the original Episode 4 -- from scratch, so that he can fully incorporate his "vision". He could justify it pretty well by the need to tie up the loose ends that are sure to be left by the prequels, like:
* Why doesn't C3P0 remember being created by Anakin? He keeps saying "Thank the Maker", when he could easily thank him in person.
* Assuming that C3PO has had his memory wiped, what about R2D2? Are we going to have to say they wiped him, too, or does he just not bother telling what he knows?
* In Ep IV, Darth Vader doesn't seem to ascribe any particular significance to Tatooine -- his birthplace.
* We were introduced to Luke's future foster parents (in Lucas' trademark ham-handed way) in Ep II. So when Anakin/Darth visited, why would he have them barbequed?
* In fact, why would he even need to massacre Jawas to find the droids -- why not just drop in on Owen and Beru directly?
Maybe some of these questions are going to be answered next May... but I can't imagine it'll be in any way satisfying. I suspect Lucas would remake Eps IV, V, VI in a heartbeat, if the studios were fool enough to let him. And they could well be.
Re:Why is there no Hans Solo character? (Score:5, Interesting)
There is no one like Han, who is by nature a self serving man, but actually has a decent side to him.
Makes it so you can actually like him.
Obviously this type of person isn't something that Lucas agrees with, considering the chop job he did with the whole shooting first thing.
Re:You can say that again. (Score:4, Interesting)
In TTT, Gandolf has good reason for falling down the chasm--afterall, it wasn't even his choice! I'm sure that he'd rather be doing other things.
Anakin diving off the speeder was just stupid. He did it with no clear reason for doing it, in the face of the great possibility he would become jedi-jelly. He used the special effect as a motivator in the movie, in place of inteligence. Futhermore, it was done with absolutely no suspense. We know he (Anakin) isn't going to die; Gandolf, on the other hand had the people that never read the book fooled--last thing they were expecting to see was Gandolf fighting and falling!
Re:what is there to live for? (Score:4, Interesting)
Spider-Man 2
X-men 3 (2 was even better than 1, so 3 should be unbelievable)
The Hobbit
And that's about it. All the other large franchises are either played out, or got so horrible that hopefully they won't bother to make any more sequels. Terminator 3 was pretty lame, and pretty much wrapped up the storyline anyway. The last two "Alien" movies were terrible. We all know how rancid Star Wars episodes 1 and 2 were. Star Trek has become rather tired, and has had a pretty bad track record (2, 4, 6, and 8 were great, but the rest were either mediocre or terrible). Matrix went way south with the last two installments, and its storyline seems to be wrapped up as well (I hope). Maybe the next James Bond movie will be good, but it's impossible to say since they'll be starting over with a new actor.
Luckily, good new non-blockbuster, non-sequel-generating movies come out now and then, such as Master and Commander.
Re:Its not the Episode, It's You! (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:You can say that again. (Score:3, Interesting)
If you think and use historical frames of reference (hard to do for some I know), you'd know that Lucas has been very busily ripping off Samurai films whenever he can. The Yoda fight was an extension of that (bear with me) in that he wanted to show the old master teaching the rebelling student a lesson. That was the crux of the fight. It had *absolutely* nothing to do with Tolkein.
Think before you post. With your brain.
Re:Its not the Episode, It's You! (Score:4, Interesting)