Star Wars Ep. III

[TB4000]

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According to that Comic Con place, this is the official title of the newest one...not that it matters that much anymore. :rolleyes:

[missmeow]

Sorry, I'm a major Star Wars geek and I'm excited as hell.

[Mr.Lum]

this will be gay. just like the first two Episodes.

[mr. x]

are they trying to be retro or are they really THAT lazy?

star wars ep 3, the final star wars prequel where you know what happens

[Martino]

are they trying to be retro or are they really THAT lazy?

star wars ep 3, the final star wars prequel where you know what happens

All the Star Wars titles are yawn-inducingly lame when you first hear them, but they grow on you. Like athlete's foot.

[mr. x]

All the Star Wars titles are yawn-inducingly lame when you first hear them, but they grow on you. Like athlete's foot.
well the first three originals u can forgive because cliches hadnt been established then, it was establishing them

but now its like george lucas things all he has to do is write three acts and give us eye candy and that makes it brilliant

[princess]

its supposed to be released in may of 05. not sure if ill go see it. not feelin all that jazzed.

[Irezumi Kiss]

Ahh alla youse KNOW you're going to go see it, don't even fake the funk!

Considering the semi-lousy state of most contemporary sci-fi movies, I didn't mind Episode I nor Episode II, and I'll gleefully go to see Revenge of the Ner...er...ahh...Sith!

[kimpossible]

I didn't see Episode I or II in the theater. Lucas duped me into the theater with the revamped Star Wars - so I'll wait for Episode III on DVD with mild enthusiasm. I'm also not buying Ep. IV-VI when they come out on DVD. It's either the original unmolested or nothing at all.

[Martino]

well the first three originals u can forgive because cliches hadnt been established then, it was establishing them

Wasn't the whole point of starting the film series with Part IV the fact that it was copying the cliche of the original Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials, complete with staid episode titles?

mutter mumble I'd have called it Curse of Palpatine's Claw of Evil mumble mutter

[Irezumi Kiss]

http://www.aintitcool.com/image/rots.jpg

According to that Comic Con place, this is the official title of the newest one...not that it matters that much anymore. :rolleyes:
Has anyone realized that you can have a LOT of fun with this title by rearranging the last three letters in "Sith?"

:biggrin:

[onnihs]

are they trying to be retro or are they really THAT lazy?

star wars ep 3, the final star wars prequel where you know what happens


the new name, however dull it may sound, bridges a nice gap between episode III and episode IV.

I think it's also appropriate for the entire 6 episode series...

Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Episode III: Return of the Sith
Episode IV: A New Hope
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

Fits perfectly if you ask me.

Has anyone realized that you can have a LOT of fun with this title by rearranging the last three letters in "Sith?"


ROFL

[Martino]

Oh those titles never seem accurate:

Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Was the menace at all ... phantom-like?

Episode II: Attack of the Clones

But ... the clones were the good guys. And they saved the day.

Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Revenge for the complicated plot of the second film? (was the Count a good guy?)

Episode IV: A New Hope

ok-ish ... uninspiring as a standalone title ...

Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Well, they strike at the start of the film ... the rest is more of a fox hunt affair with an elaborate meeting of father and son arranged

Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

but ... they didn't. Coz they're all dead.

Can't wait for the third trilogy (not). Bet Lucas does do one, when his popularity starts to wane a little.

[missmeow]

Oh those titles never seem accurate:

Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Was the menace at all ... phantom-like?


Phantom: Something elusive or delusive.

In this episode we find out that sith exist and that there are always two. Well, we know one of them went down the tubes thanks to OB1, but what about the other? That sith is the phantom menace, the backstage puppetmaster, Palpatine.


Episode II: Attack of the Clones

But ... the clones were the good guys. And they saved the day.


They don't have to be bad guys to attack anyone!


Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Revenge for the complicated plot of the second film? (was the Count a good guy?)


No, he wasn't. But the title parallels ROTJ.


Episode IV: A New Hope

ok-ish ... uninspiring as a standalone title ...


A new hope to defeat the "phantom menace." Perhaps uninspiring, but the film might not have spun off a trilogy at the time it was released.


Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Well, they strike at the start of the film ... the rest is more of a fox hunt affair with an elaborate meeting of father and son arranged


Vader's revelation to Luke was quite a strike, yes?


Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

but ... they didn't. Coz they're all dead.


What about Luke? Luke becomes a full-fledged Jedi. Also, there is the return of Vader to the lightside.

yeah ima geek.

[tommyhtown]

I am so pumped about tomorrow's Star Wars Trilogy DVD release. Episode IV-VI are much better than its supposed prequels so far.

[missmeow]

They ruined ROTJ for me with the DVD release :(

[TB4000]

Description of the trailer that won't be out until November, according that force.net site. Gotta see it in action, though.


The first half of trailer consists of ... (begin spoilers) a familiar voice over with Alec Guinness. Fans will love to hear him speak his monologue to Luke from A New Hope about "Jedi Knights always being the guardians of peace." As we hear these familiar phrases, they've intercut shots from various Star Wars episodes, excluding Episode 3. Only when the monologue ends with "Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force" about 40 seconds into the trailer do we see the face of Anakin. He is partly covered with dark hood, looking positively evil.

This is followed by the shot of erupting volcanoes, then some sort of volcanic field with crab-like creatures and then darkness, all accompanied by Vader breathing. Then the following is heard:

Sidious: "Lord Vader..."

Vader: "Yes?"

Sidious: "Rise."

Then we see Anakin in full Vader gear rising on some sort of operating table to which he is chained. The rising is slow and is intercut with shot of various Star Wars main characters. When the table has fully risen so that Vader is basically standing upright, the meatiest part of trailer begins, with many, many shots from Episode III. Most of them are very, very short - this will be something for freeze-frame fanatics to analyze.

The ones that stuck in my memory:

Dozens of Wookiees on some sort of floating platform.

Padme with signature Leia hairdo.

The Tri-Fighter, aka the precursor to the TIE fighter with three curving wings and guns mounted between each wing. They shoot red lasers.

The ARC Clonefigthter, aka the precursor to X-Wing, with three wings on each side.

A gigantic starship being sprayed by streams of something that looks like dense acid.

The trailer ends with the title "THE SAGA IS COMPLETE - MAY 2005" and ... (end spoilers) is about 100 seconds long.

[golden_buns]

Has anyone realized that you can have a LOT of fun with this title by rearranging the last three letters in "Sith?"

:biggrin:

this shit

The Revenge of This Shit?

[younggiftedandblack]

I'll check it out. The only thing that has turned me off of the 1st two is the acting. There's no chemistry between any of the actors unlike the 1st three.

[TB4000]

Trailer is online, though this is a mirror link. Gotta do the right click, save as thing.

http://206.208.58.220/ep3.mov

[TB4000]

If that trailer doesn't take, here's some shots from it.

http://img111.exs.cx/img111/5262/SW3.jpg
http://img111.exs.cx/img111/6194/ep32.jpg

[s1eve]

Here's a trailer link that works:

http://www.astercity.net/~jerry/full.mov

[TB4000]

Thanks, man. Curious to see if this is an improvement over the last chapter...I enjoyed it to an extent, but the narrative seemed kinda stilted to me. Waiting to see how Anakin's transition into the Vader suit goes.

[bluemonq]

this, of course, calls for a link to this:
http://gamefiles.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyondergames/trailers/ROFL.STARWARS.NERDS.wmv

[s1eve]

^ Cheers. From the trailer, my only nitpick is the color palette for the film. It's too fruity and there is a strong abundance of RED. I always thought Anakin/Darth Vader's color motif was black/white/dark blues, but from the trailer, it is clearly red.

[thaite]

Yoda looks and moves like a Chucky doll.

[Azn Retribution]

"I felt something..."
"A tremor in the force?"
"I can smell it now..."
"What?"
"George Lucas excreting another piece of shit everyone will buy up"

Ep I blew..
Ep II had a cool scene of ass kicking from Yoda.. and painful(for the audience) acting.
Ep III

You wanna know why these movies suck compared to the originals
Its cuz george lucas directed and wrote the screen play on these.

[younggiftedandblack]

"I felt something..."
"A tremor in the force?"
"I can smell it now..."
"What?"
"George Lucas excreting another piece of shit everyone will buy up"

Ep I blew..
Ep II had a cool scene of ass kicking from Yoda.. and painful(for the audience) acting.
Ep III

You wanna know why these movies suck compared to the originals
Its cuz george lucas directed and wrote the screen play on these.

He wrote and direct A New Hope and that was good.

The reason the new ones suck is because he's focusing too much on the look rather then feel of the movies. F**k CGI, I'll take muppets if you can give me some good acting and chemistry.

[TB4000]

http://movies.channel.aol.com/feature/starwars/trailer.adp

Trailer....Anakin is not fuckin' around.

[TB4000]

Well, in about one hour.....Sith happens. I ain't about to go to no midnight showing with all those nutjobs though.

[haplesshobo]

i think the reason everybody hates I and II so much is cause the movies were geared towards a younger audience than all the fanboys and geeks. the original trilogy was also geared towards children and adolescents with its pg rating and ewoks.

frankly, was the original even that good. i bet if you go back and look at the original reviews by critics, nobody was really impressed with IV either. but, its become so popular that critics have to give it four stars.

what if all the fanboys saw the IV today as adults? would they really enjoy the original star wars that much either.

[s1eve]

Just saw it. Wasn't too bad. I give it 7.5/10. Not much to comment as I'm pigging on ice cream at the moment celebrating the end of an era. :tongue:

[onnihs]

^ me too. i just got back from the movies. i love it. although i can see why people can be disappointed.

i give it a strong A-

[bigwong235]

i'd say it was worth the price of admission.

[Irezumi Kiss]

Well, in about one hour.....Sith happens. I ain't about to go to no midnight showing with all those nutjobs though.
You afraid of gettin' jacked by some wayward Nerfherder with a lightsaber and chopped up into Bantha fodder or sumthin'?

:tongue:

[robotic]

star wars is awesome<3

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[Grasshopper]

http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2005/05/19/mn_starwarslines.jpg

^^^ Manditory eugenic sterilization for all these people.

That may be humanity's only hope.

Then again maybe that wont be necessary. It's not like they are likely to breed anyway. :wink:

[Banana]

These people will die alone.

[tommyhtown]

These people will die alone.

Everyone dies alone.

I saw the movie today. It was OK. I like the original trilogy better. I think the leading characters were more interesting in the originals. I could care less about Anakin and Padme where I could really root for Luke, Leia, and Han. If I compare the Prequels to other trilogies like LOTR and The Matrix, the Star Wars Prequel would rank dead last.

[kpih]

Will see it tonight. A copy has been leaked. It is circulating somewhere on the internet. Probably some torrent site.

I was seriously considering going to see it last night. I can be that nerdy. It would be fun to be the only Asian Jedi down here in the South...

Or may be I could have gone as a bounty hunter or something...

[Banana]

Since we all look the same, you should go as a stormtrooper.

[bluemonq]

Will see it tonight. A copy has been leaked. It is circulating somewhere on the internet. Probably some torrent site.
it has a time stamp, watermarks, and it's kinda grainy. :: shrug :: some movies are meant to be seen on the large screen

[TB4000]

You notice in this latest one, the Viceroy from Ep. I that people complained had a bad Asian accent now speaks in a different tone. My new favorite character is now General Grievous, with his four hands and his whooping cough. :biggrin:

[s1eve]

You notice in this latest one, the Viceroy from Ep. I that people complained had a bad Asian accent now speaks in a different tone. My new favorite character is now General Grievous, with his four hands and his whooping cough. :biggrin:

His handling of four sabers was pretty cool. Definitely got the audience excited.

[YuheiCarreau]

Wow. Easily the dumbest movie I've seen all year. I was bored twenty minutes in and I just kept getting boreder.

Let's start with Natalie Portman - what the hell happened to her character? Her work in STAR WARS is easily the worst of her career, but even so the Padme seen in Episode 1 was an intelligent leader, good tactician, and way more than just some weepy Barbie doll sitting on the sidelines. So how is it that in this, the most violent of all the STAR WARS films, Padme never picks up a laser gun, or does much of anything besides cry? I thought her dialogue in Episode 2 was bad, but her scenes this film was just atrocious. Portman is one of the most promising actors of her generation, and it's a real shame that she's not allowed to show it. I guess that's just a STAR WARS tradition - start 'em out strong and capable, finish 'em off in a metal bikini chained to a giant slug.

For that matter, what the hell was up with her pregnancy - every time she appeared on screen, her belly was swollen by another couple inches. How do you get more pregnant ten minutes after being strangled?

Visually, this film was way too busy. I've never been a huge fan of the prequel's special effects, but the two big battle scenes were just riduculous. Cutting from long shots that pack every inch of the screen with spaceships and fighters to a massive closeup of Obi-wan and then back again in the space of half a second is just too much action to follow. The lightsaber battles were hyperactive, shot so close to the actors that you couldn't tell who was hitting who, and they just plain lacked drama. The final battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan might've been entertaining if the whole thing hadn't been filmed on a greenscreen - wow, look at Ewan mime like he's about to fall into hot lava!

The plot was all over the place, and there was so much stuff going on that there was no room for character development. What was the point of the robot general, other than having a battle with a creature that could hold four lightsabers at once? He ate up a lot of time that would've been better spent showing either Anakin's decline, which seems to happen without much prodding - "Chancellor Palpatine, I can't believe that you're a Sith lord!" "Anakin, come with me, I know how to resurrect people!" "Duhhhh, OK...".

And I think I'd rather watch Jar-Jar and Carrot Top performing MacBeth than any of Yoda's contrived, crowd-pleasing fight scenes. The only thing stupider than the action movie cliché of the dude cracking his neck to show he means business is a fifteen-inch tall ninja muppet with a lightsaber.

[Commando_turned_MD]

Great Movie!!!

[deez nuts]

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nice avatar, bud.

look at lindsey lohan and her bazookas. i like how she pushes them together like that. i like that.

edit: as for the new star wars. i haven't watched it yet. i always thought the whole star wars thing was cheesy. i don't think i even watched the last one yet.

[Banana]

It was better than the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.

That is all.

[Arex]

Haven't seen it, but reports from my office are not promising. One of the file clerks described it as "another steaming piece of shit from the mind of George Lucas."=( He did rate it above the first two, however. I'll just assume the worst and maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

[kpih]

The one thing that I really enjoyed is the little nuances, images, scene settings, designs, exchanges and expressions embedded in the dialogue that are essentially references and suggestions about the next three episodes.

Little things make it very interesting and nostalgic to watch.

It is not a great movie. Still I liked it.

The final moments were sort of sad for me. The first one I saw in theatre was the Empire. It has been more than 24 years since. Last night brought a conclusion to an era in my life. As if watching a new Star Wars movie serves as a marker in my life...

Now all we have to do is to force Lucas to make the last three. Seriously.

[Faithless]

I can use this handy-dandy guide:

What's a Wookiee?: A guide to Episode III for non-geeks. (http://slate.msn.com/id/2119056/)

By Adam Rogers * Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005, at 2:21 PM PT

It's OK to admit it. You're going to see Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith. The critics are united—it doesn't suck as bad as the other two prequels—and it is, after all, a cultural event. But now you're in trouble. Because unlike the geeks who are going to be at the first midnight show (who, me?), you are a perfectly normal person. At this point in George Lucas' attenuated narrative arc, you have precisely no idea what the hell is going on.

We're here to help. If you don't know Sith from Shinola, the following glossary of people, places, and things from the Star Wars universe will shed a little light. It'll have some spoilers in it, so if you want to be surprised by what happens in the movie … well, you still might be, because I haven't seen it yet. But I read the Internet, and the Internet is to Star Wars nerds what the forest moon of Endor is to cute little merchandising opportunities (if you didn't get that reference, you really need this glossary). This list is by no means complete, but it does have the important bits.

Episode What?
The first Star Wars came out in 1977. It was later subtitled Episode IV—A New Hope. The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi comprised episodes V and VI. The new films are prequels, and the latest one, Episode III, is actually the final installment. At least, that's what George Lucas, the creator, claims; back in the day he said he had another trilogy in mind, taking place after the IV-V-VI trilogy. And then there are those rumored Star Wars TV shows. …

Padmé Amidala
Natalie Portman. Queen of the planet Naboo and, for a time, its representative in the galactic Senate.* Mother to Luke and Leia. In love with and secretly married to Anakin Skywalker (aka Darth Vader). Are you getting all this, or am I going too fast?

Anakin Skywalker
Hayden Christensen. A high-powered Jedi messiah, discovered on the planet Tatooine by Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson), and Padmé. He's the father of Luke and Leia, and he becomes Darth Vader.

Droids
C-3P0 is the gold, mincing robot. R2-D2 is the one that looks like a trash can with legs. Anakin Skywalker built Threepio when he was a kid; Artoo was a semi-anonymous astromech droid on Queen Amidala's spaceship. Artoo is helpful and Threepio is an attempt at comic relief.

Advanced Lesson: The popularity of C-3PO and R2-D2 means that Lucas shoehorns them into most every scene, and this has created huge continuity problems. Why does Darth Vader seem not to recognize Threepio when they see each other again in Episode V, on the cloud city of Bespin? Why does Obi-Wan seem not to recognize either droid when he encounters them on Tatooine in Episode IV? And why does Artoo manifest new and wondrous powers throughout the prequel trilogy (he can fly!), when in Episode V, he can barely wrestle a candy bar out of Yoda's hands? Umm … you don't want to know the answers to those questions. This glossary is satisfying your curiosity. Move along.

Accents
In the Star Wars universe, accents = evil unless you are Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Obi-Wan Kenobi
Oh, come on. You know who Obi-Wan Kenobi is. What, are you kidding me?

The Force
Jedi use this magical energy for various superpowers—telepathy, telekinesis, precognition, and so on. Somewhere between episodes III and IV, using the Force turns into something to be embarrassed about in the increasingly technological Empire. Only losers say "may the Force be with you," and one of Darth Vader's officers describes his faith as a "sad devotion to an ancient religion." Vader chokes him.

The Galactic Republic
The politics of the series are vaguely Roman. The Republic, complete with senators, is in danger of being made over into a dictatorship by a powerful man, Palpatine, who wants to make himself emperor. The actual, physical Senate is a giant room filled with open-air flying saucers, where aliens from all over the galaxy yell at each other. Every world in the Republic sends a representative or five. Queen Amidala was a senator from the planet Naboo, as was the computer-generated shucker-and-jiver Jar Jar Binks. How do you get to be a senator? Nobody knows. Probably something to do with electronic voting.

Jar Jar Binks
Ahmed Best (voice). A member of an amphibious race that also lives on Naboo. Jar Jar gets caught up in the conflict in Episode I. His lame comedy bits and weirdly offensive personality make him the focus of fan disillusionment. All I can say is: He has an accent.

Jedi
These mystical samurai cops of the Republic keep the peace and do Senate wet work, like when Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn go to Naboo in Episode I to fight the Trade Federation, or negotiate with it, or whatever it is they're doing. Jedi wield the Force, and they're administered by Masters who sit in chairs (appropriately shaped for alien body types) in the penthouse of the Jedi headquarters on the city-planet Coruscant. Yoda is a Jedi Master, as is Mace Windu, played by Samuel L. Jackson, who swears his character will die like a man in Episode III. Jedi are supposed to be as free of desire and emotion as a Vulcan Buddhist. That's why Anakin's love of Padmé is not only painful to watch on screen, but also catastrophic.

The Sith
The revenge-takers in the eponymous Episode III are the evil counterparts of the Jedi, counting among their members Darth Vader, Darth Sidious, and Darth Maul (he of the double-bladed lightsaber in Episode I). They can often throw lightning from their fingertips, which makes any one of them a Darth and stormy knight. Sith always come in pairs, and they draw their power from the dark side of the Force, a wellspring of anger and hatred—aimed especially at the Jedi.

Palpatine
Ian McDiarmid. Palpatine is secretly Darth Sidious, who becomes the emperor. Hel-lo? Accent! As Sidious, he seems to be the prime mover behind the creation of a clone army. Apparently the idea is to spark galactic chaos so that he can become chancellor of the Senate, and eventually take over the whole show. Palpatine also spends inordinate amounts of time turning Anakin Skywalker from a petulant kid into Darth Vader.

Yoda
Frank Oz (voice). An extraordinarily powerful Jedi Master, originally played by a muppet in Episode V, Yoda packs a lot of Force into a teeny green body. In the prequels, he worries about the fall of the Republic before anyone else. After the Jedi pogrom, he hides out on the planet Dagobah, where he eventually trains Luke Skywalker to be a Jedi. He has difficulty with grammar, but no accent.

Trade Federation and Separatists
These are the bad guys from episodes I and II. The offensive Asian stereotype green dudes attacking Naboo? Trade Federation. The weird insect guys who set up the gladiator scene and the assembly line at the end of Episode II? Separatists. Count Dooku, Christopher Lee's evil Jedi whose lightsaber curves to the left? Separatist. They're the ones with the droid army.

Lightsabers
It might seem, on first consideration, that a weapon of limited range (about 3 feet) that burns through anything it touches (including the wielder) and cauterizes every wound it makes (which definitely limits stopping power) would not be ideal. But Jedi love lightsabers nonetheless.

Advanced lesson: Possibly you get a new lightsaber when you switch sides. Jedi have blue blades; Sith blades are red. Luke's first lightsaber, which Obi Wan told him belonged to his father—Anakin/Vader—was sort of white. It remains to be seen whether Anakin really wanted Luke to have it or if that was another Obi-Wan fib. Oh, and Mace Windu's blade is purple. Sam Jackson makes purple look cool.

Bail Organa
What is Jimmy Smits doing in a Star Wars movie? He's the senator from Alderaan, fighting to defend the Republic. Princess Leia's last name is Organa, too—when Queen Padmé gives birth to her twins, Luke and Leia, the girl goes off with Bail to live on Alderaan. That planet, by Leia's account in Episode IV a "peaceful world" with no weapons, meets a bad end as the first after-market test group of the Death Star.

Stormtroopers
Many, many guys in useless white armor with famously bad aim. In Episode IV they're just average foot soldiers, and not above small talk. One even hits his head on a doorway. But in Episode II, we learn that they're all clones, built to defend the Republic against an equally large and equally computer-generated army of droids. Of course, both the droid army and the clones are actually pawns in Palpatine's grand scheme for domination of the galaxy.

Tatooine
"If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from." That's how Luke describes his desert farm-world to C-3P0 on first meeting. But let's look at the evidence: Anakin Skywalker was born there. He builds C-3P0 there and is a champion pod racer by age 10, or however old that kid was supposed to be in Episode I. Anakin returns to Tatooine to look for his mother and commits a genocidal war crime against the presumably native sandpeople in Episode II. And after Luke and Leia are born, Obi-Wan takes Luke back to Tatooine to hide out.

Advanced lesson: So, OK. Darth Vader spearheads the slaying of all the Jedi. Two get away. Yoda goes to the swamp world of Dagobah, and Obi-Wan goes to Tatooine. So, was Vader just not looking very hard? Was there never some ambitious young officer who suggested to him that maybe, just maybe, the "Ben Kenobi" on Tatooine might at least know the Obi-Wan Kenobi they were looking for? Or does that kind of initiative just get a guy Force-choked?

Wookiees
Chicks dig Chewbacca, the 7-foot-tall furry co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon, and Han Solo's best buddy. He's sooooo cute. Turns out he's from the planet Kashyyyk (the extra y is for yowling), which shows up in Episode III as the fierce Wookiee warriors battle … whoever the bad guys are. Droids, probably. Hard to tell.

Obi-Wan Kenobi
Fine. He's Ewan McGregor. But luckily he turns into Alec Guinness.

*Correction, May 19, 2005: The initial version of this story said that Padmé was an elected representative. Actually, the queen who succeeded her—queen being an elected (and apparently term-limited) position on Naboo—appointed Padmé a Senator. Even in the Republic, it's all about who you know. Click here to return to the corrected sentence.

Adam Rogers is a senior editor at Wired. He can be reached at rogers@wiredmag.com. * Illustration by Mark Stamaty.

[nameless]

my brother saw it and said it's not even as good as ROTJ. :rolleyes: pass...


Now all we have to do is to force Lucas to make the last three. Seriously.

that'd be like electing bush for a third term if it were allowable...

[Commando_turned_MD]

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nice avatar, bud.

look at lindsey lohan and her bazookas. i like how she pushes them together like that. i like that.

edit: as for the new star wars. i haven't watched it yet. i always thought the whole star wars thing was cheesy. i don't think i even watched the last one yet.

Thanks.
Dude, I'm just mesmerized by those peaks^^.
She is going to be on SNL this week.....
She's no longer voluptuous............
She lost way too much weight... She looks like Calista Flockhart now. But I'll still POKE her..
These boney white chicks are hot stuff.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v733/bazmuz/08.jpg

[kimpossible]

^ omg. what happened to her?!?!? that's not really her is it? shit, i'd have kept the funbags. she was young enough that it was still fleshy and not droopy or cellulite riddled.

jesus h. christ. just looking at that wants to make me keep my fat ass and knock down that last piece of swiss roll i have. and the bleached hair ain't doing her no favors either. i need to get over to gofugyourself ASAP.

[moser]

^ Looks like an eating disorder.

Re: Star Wars: so far, I hear it's better than the previous two, but not as good as the first three. Will wait for DVD.

[robotic]

bahaha!

you all get negative karma..........



for underestimating the force!!


:biggrin:






but when i grin, i really want to cry ;_;

[s1eve]

Did anyone find Vader's "NOoooooooo!" at the end kinda funny? I think I was the only one chuckling at that terrible delivery.

"Nooooooooo!" -- pure space opera

[robotic]

Star Wars Breaks Single-Day Sales Mark (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050521/ap_on_en_mo/film_star_wars_box_office)

LOS ANGELES - The last of the "Star Wars" movies has done what no movie in history has ever accomplished — sold $50 million worth of tickets in a single day.

"Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith" grossed $50,013,859 from showings at 3,661 theaters and more than 9,000 screens around the country on Thursday, including special midnight shows, according to box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. That beat the one-day record set in May 2004 by "Shrek 2," which sold $44.8 million on a single Saturday — its fourth day in theaters.

"It's staggering," said Bruce Snyder, president of domestic distribution at Twentieth Century Fox. "It's probably 20 percent more than I thought we could do."

The George Lucas film, which features the transformation of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker into the evil Darth Vader, also beat the opening day record held by "Spider-Man 2," which grossed $40.4 million when it opened on a Wednesday last June.

"Fifty million is a good opening weekend, let alone a single day," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations. "This is the box office equivalent of a 100-year flood."

The news comes as a relief to Hollywood, which has seen a box office slump for 12 straight weeks.

Theater owners, studios and marketing partners had their hopes pinned on "Star Wars," to kick-start the summer movie season and they weren't disappointed.

The film debuted on 2,900 screens at midnight Thursday. The take from that one showing alone was $16.5 million, which beat the previous record of $8 million set by "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" in 2003.

Thursday's take dwarfed the next highest film, and last week's box office champ, "Monster-in-Law," starring Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez. That film grossed $1.5 million on Thursday, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.

It is almost assured "Star Wars" will push past the $100 million mark for its opening weekend. The record for a three-day weekend is held by the first "Spider-Man," which grossed $114.8 million in May 2002.

[thaite]

Did anyone find Vader's "NOoooooooo!" at the end kinda funny? I think I was the only one chuckling at that terrible delivery.

"Nooooooooo!" -- pure space opera

Yeah, that was somewhat comical. I think it served two purposes, 1) to kind of parallel Luke's "Nooooo!" in The Empire Strikes Back, and 2) It was Vader losing the last vestige of any humanity he had left -- when he lost what he had loved.

[SunWuKong]

my office-mate made a good point about the Stormtroopers the other day.
they all wear armour that does not protect against laser guns... and everybody shoots laser guns...

[applehead]

my office-mate made a good point about the Stormtroopers the other day.
they all wear armour that does not protect against laser guns... and everybody shoots laser guns...

why, of course they do!!
hahahahaha

[bluemonq]

my office-mate made a good point about the Stormtroopers the other day.
they all wear armour that does not protect against laser guns... and everybody shoots laser guns...
perhaps it's just light armor that's designed more to protect against the various environments that they're deployed to rather than against enemy fire?

[TB4000]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! !
http://darthno.ytmnd.com/

[s1eve]

I cannot believe Padme died of a ....

... broken heart.

The tradegy ...

[tommyhtown]

I first saw Episode III in an IMAX theatre due to peer pressure then my girlfriend and I saw it together without her knowing that I had already seen it. I don't know the differences between the two except the IMAX screen is bigger. As far as the film, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't memorable either.

One of the few things I like about this film is Yoda's lines. Here is my favorite: "Good relation with the Wookiees, I have." Somehow that line cracked me up.

[TB4000]

Yoda's entire speech pattern is just hilarious...Lucas' attempt to make him sound philosophical. Just reverse your sentence structure. Did anyone else want to just cry when Palpatine forced Yoda into hiding? :frown:

[robotic]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Anuma/yoda.jpg

[rotrab]

By giving your money to see these movies, you're not helping AA. Star Wars sequels are made by the same Hollywood that shits all over Asians.

Here are a set of movies chalked with aliens galore. Have they ever bothered to use an Asian-face for any of them? I haven't seen all the Star Wars but I don't recall seeing a single one.

Funny that Asians can be so marginalized in Hollywood as the perpetual foreigner and yet in a movie with every scene featuring aliens, not one is ever of an Asian appearance. That's right. Star Wars is popular so, of course, Hollywood has no intention of "wasting" any of it featuring Asian faces even though they are the standard alien in any movie not deemed sci-fi.

You can't wait in line to se these pieces of shit and then cry later that Hollywood disses Asians. You're giving them your money so why should they care after the fact? You have to force concessions from them FIRST. THEN and ONLY THEN do you give them a single penny.

But then I'm just a bitter know-nothing asshole so just ignore me and go ahead and give all your money to those who have nothing but the deepest contempt for you. That's a lot smarter.

[SunWuKong]

Yoda's entire speech pattern is just hilarious...Lucas' attempt to make him sound philosophical. Just reverse your sentence structure. Did anyone else want to just cry when Palpatine forced Yoda into hiding? :frown:

the way Yoda talks has always been a part of his character. but i do wonder - he's so powerful with the Force, why can't he fix his speech patterns?

[thaite]

Yoda is Asian.

[SunWuKong]

Yoda is Asian.

no wonder he's so short and his kungfu is so good!

[rotrab]

^^Oh, boy! Lucky us! A real breakthrough role for Asians.

[Commando_turned_MD]

By giving your money to see these movies, you're not helping AA. Star Wars sequels are made by the same Hollywood that shits all over Asians.

Here are a set of movies chalked with aliens galore. Have they ever bothered to use an Asian-face for any of them? I haven't seen all the Star Wars but I don't recall seeing a single one.

Funny that Asians can be so marginalized in Hollywood as the perpetual foreigner and yet in a movie with every scene featuring aliens, not one is ever of an Asian appearance. That's right. Star Wars is popular so, of course, Hollywood has no intention of "wasting" any of it featuring Asian faces even though they are the standard alien in any movie not deemed sci-fi.

You can't wait in line to se these pieces of shit and then cry later that Hollywood disses Asians. You're giving them your money so why should they care after the fact? You have to force concessions from them FIRST. THEN and ONLY THEN do you give them a single penny.

But then I'm just a bitter know-nothing asshole so just ignore me and go ahead and give all your money to those who have nothing but the deepest contempt for you. That's a lot smarter.


You are wrong.
There are several Asians in Episode 2. Check out the battle arena fight at the end. There are several Asian Jedis.

That's the extent of it... :biggrin:

[deez nuts]

yoda is irish. an irish leprechaun on steroids.

the asians in the star wars series are those two alien dudes with the fob accent in cahoots with the emperor in the beginning of episode 1. what a travesty. thank god i watched it on bootleg. i helped out my regular chinatown vendor guy by donating to his kid's ivy league college fund who probably bought the bootleg in bulk from members of the fu-ching gang.

[Commando_turned_MD]

By giving your money to see these movies, you're not helping AA. Star Wars sequels are made by the same Hollywood that shits all over Asians.

Here are a set of movies chalked with aliens galore. Have they ever bothered to use an Asian-face for any of them? I haven't seen all the Star Wars but I don't recall seeing a single one.

Funny that Asians can be so marginalized in Hollywood as the perpetual foreigner and yet in a movie with every scene featuring aliens, not one is ever of an Asian appearance. That's right. Star Wars is popular so, of course, Hollywood has no intention of "wasting" any of it featuring Asian faces even though they are the standard alien in any movie not deemed sci-fi.

You can't wait in line to se these pieces of shit and then cry later that Hollywood disses Asians. You're giving them your money so why should they care after the fact? You have to force concessions from them FIRST. THEN and ONLY THEN do you give them a single penny.

But then I'm just a bitter know-nothing asshole so just ignore me and go ahead and give all your money to those who have nothing but the deepest contempt for you. That's a lot smarter.

Tons of Asians in the movie industry...
Look at Jackie, Jet, Michelle, Chow-Yun, Kenau Reeves .......

Asian folks are GREAT for MARTIAL ARTS Movies...Yup...Yup...
Not stereotyping here.....
"Give me a karate chop!!!" :biggrin:

[robotic]

Here are a set of movies chalked with aliens galore. Have they ever bothered to use an Asian-face for any of them? I haven't seen all the Star Wars but I don't recall seeing a single one.

Asian Men Deliberately Excluded from Star Wars?

Now that the fifth installment of the Star Wars saga has hit theatres, it's official: Asian men have no place in George Lucas's vision of the future. An Asian female Jedi was glimpsed in the most recent installment, but not one single Asian male has been spotted in any of the five movies.

The absence is all the more remarkable given that Star Wars borrows its themes and fight scenes so obviously from samurai and kung-fu flicks. On a purely demographic level, it's difficult to imagine a distant future in which Asians will not be the preponderance of humanity. Even on a mundane economic level, Asians account for at least a third of today's global box office and video revenues.

The utter absence of Asian men in the latest installment is even more glaring in light of the promises Lucas made in response to Asian protests over the omission of Asian actors coupled with suspicious attachment of Asian cultural traits to unsavory alien grotesqueries in The Phantom Menace. Lucas had even hinted that images of Bruce Lee would be used in the installment now known as The Clone Wars.

In The Phantom Menace Lucas used Asian martial artists both to choreograph and perform the kendo-inspired light-saber sequences. But as if wishing to take back the decision, in The Clone Wars Lucas's PR machine made a point of showing that the fight sequences were choreographed by a white man and performed by the actors themselves. That explains why they were so leaden and lackluster, but raises the question why?

Could it be that George Lucas wants to avoid calling attention to his large debt to Asian action films?

Is Lucas afraid that including an Asian man will invite critical focus on the new movie's sub-par swordfight sequences?

Is Lucas slyly inviting viewers to see wizened little Master Yoda as a winking representation of Asian men?

Despite his avowed interest in Chinese and Japanese martial arts, culture, literature and films, is Lucas a closet racist after all?


a readers response to this article:

I think Asian Americans need to wake up and start protesting, complaining and threatening boycotts of advertisers, Hollywood producers and the media in general for continuously portraying Asian men as weak characters. Asian men are portrayed in one of four ways. #1 Evil Military Foreign General #2 Weak Computer Nerd (most prevalent) #3 Chinese/Japanese Chefs #4 Again, as a Foreign KungFu Master. Asian men are almost never portrayed in positive masculine roles as everyday American figures. But always as weak, greedy, clever but nerdy foreign characters. To the readers, do me a favor. Try to jot down the number of commercials/ads you view and see how many of them even cast Asians in there ads let alone positive ads. If you do see one it will be of some foreign speaking Asian cook holding a fish or some other stereotypical image. For a long time, blacks were stereotyped as well, I'm sure you all heard of the term "black exploitation films." When the media or Hollywood would always portray blacks as drug addicts, pimps and lazy criminals. However in the mid to late 1980's things changed because and only because the black leaders and communities started to threaten boycotts and protested regarding such poor images and representations of blacks by Hollywood producers and media giants.

Today, you see many blacks in ads and TV shows and films portrayed in various and positive images. Trust me before the 1980's you really didn't see too many blacks in ads or movies other than the stereotypical ones. You as an Asian person may say, “who cares about all this, it doesn’t directly affect me.” Oh how WRONG you are! It MATTERS a LOT!! It means everything with regards to general acceptance as Asian Americans and not some "little foreign Chinamen."

When a viewer is constantly shown the same negative/weak images, it will influence their thoughts. It MATTERS a LOT because it means Asians are less likely to be offered a position on a sports team, an executive level promotion (no corporate glass ceilings, which is often the case for Asian Americans with great credentials thus forcing us to go out and start our own businesses) and generally speaking, greater acceptance as Americans equal to the next white guy. It MATTERS a LOT because if you the Asian guy try out for sports and fail one time and strike out or throw an interception, the coach isn't privately going to think "why did I give this ASIAN guy a chance for a tryout, he's ASIAN he can't play ball, I'm going to cut him." It's called stereotyping & discriminating based on some preconceived notion that this coach may have about Asians not being athletic enough to compete at a certain level. Where would this Coach get such discriminating thoughts & prejudices? Well, you guessed it……..through the media! Again, images/ideas seen and heard over and over again influence the mind, whether you agree with it or not. Why do you think Advertisers spend billions of dollars each year to advertise? They know this truth. But going back to my example of the sports coach…… if a white or black guy missed the same play or threw that same interception the coach is more willing and open to give him another chance, thinking the kid just had a bad day! Because he has the belief that whites and blacks can play ball. The coach hasn’t been repeatedly exposed to the negative images, negative stereotypes about blacks and whites by the media. I’m not saying that whites or blacks are never shown in a bad light but it is balanced. Or I should say they are presented far more often in a positive light.

Are you guys now understanding why this image thing in the media and how Asian men are portrayed is so very important? Like I said the power of the media is HUGE! Because it has the power to influence people’s minds. Only when the media started to portray blacks as equal to whites, did the rest of American society become more receptive and respectful of African Americans. I remember in the late 70's and early 80's, most people were ignorant and thought many negative things about blacks because of the negative stereotypes shown in the media and they were the only images we saw over and over again. And unfortunately that influenced a lot of people’s opinions about blacks. Which was very wrong. It was Racism. The same thing is still happening today against Asian Americans and specifically Asian men. So YES it does affect you and me, the everyday Asian and we Asian Americans need to get angry and passionate about this.

Start writing, emailing or calling the advertisers who sponsor films, companies and other media outlets which continue to stereotype. Tell them all, we’re tired of this crap! I'm not saying don't ever portray Asians in negative roles at all, that's not realistic but similar to their portrayal of whites and blacks, balance it out by also portraying us as powerful, insightful, sensitive, confident and strong leading men. And don't just stereotype us into the 1 of 4 roles I mentioned earlier. Tell the media and advertisers that we will no longer spend a single dime buying or supporting any of their products or services if they continue to feed us with negative/stereotypical views of Asian men.

Not too long ago a racist incident occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. As most of you may know, California is the state with the largest contingency of Asians in the country. In the San Fran Bay Area, the numbers are even greater. I believe every 4th person in SF Bay Area is Asian. Meaning 25% of the total Northern CA. population is Asian American.

Anyways, going back to my story...there was a Chinese American family who walked onto a luxury automobile dealership. One of the family member was a young college UC Berkley student. He overheard a white guy making some offensive racial slurs and comments about some other Chinese family there looking for cars. Well the Chinese American guy got pissed and reported it to the manager who just shrugged it off and dismissed it. Probably thinking, "ah who cares, there just a bunch of Asians and they won't do anything about it." Trust me people if it was a black person (because of the NACCP’s strong presence) making this same complaint, the apathetic white male manager would have taken it a lot more seriously and would have addressed it right there and then! But since they were Asians, he assumed they were going to be "passive" and not do anything about it. BIG MISTAKE! This Chinese American guy wasn't some " me no speaka engrish Chinamen.” He was some type of Cal University student body activist. So this Chinese American dude emailed everyone he knew, including the local news stations and guess what? The local news channels aired this story and within days the auto dealership was bombarded with phone calls and emails regarding this racist salesman demanding that they reprimand/terminate him or ELSE. What is the or "ELSE" part? Simple, pure economics! You see in California and especially the metropolitan areas, there are a lot of Asian Americans purchasing luxury cars!

Asians one after another called and emailed the dealership stating they will never again buy another car from them in the future. Well to make a long story short, two days later, the owner of this prestigious auto dealership wrote a personal letter to this Chinese American guy apologizing and a day after, fired the red neck salesman! Now that is what I’m talking about! A collective Asian voice, threatening boycotts….. got results! Without doubt, from that point on, I'm sure this dealership was very cautious and careful as to how they treated and viewed ASIAN customers.

Statistics show that Asians make up about 15% of the total population of California but about 30% of the economic output (income, spending). Meaning more than any other single group, Asians have the absolute power to seriously affect California's economy. The big businesses and merchants know this. With this knowledge we need to start wielding our economic might and collectively unite and voice our anger and frustrations by threatening to boycott, stop purchasing or refuse to support any entity, organization or individual who continue to demean, disrespect, misrepresent, and portray Asians in stereotypical and negative manner.

i recall asian pilot fighters in battle scenes of the original trilogy (empire strikes back/return of the jedi) and another in the phantom menace as a naboo fighter. these asians were mainly given background roles. ;_;

[SunWuKong]

the fu-ching gang.

let me guess - the "Fujian youth" gang?

[Martino]

my office-mate made a good point about the Stormtroopers the other day.
they all wear armour that does not protect against laser guns... and everybody shoots laser guns...

Um. Might have been a good point 28 years ago. That, and putting grills over thermal exhaust ports ...

[TB4000]

Aren't all the clones of Jango Fett Maori or something like that? The dude Temura Morrison is from New Zealand. And with all the talk of light and dark sides, the whole universe that Lucas created is pretty much influenced by some aspects of Asian culture if you really wanna grasp at straws.

[s1eve]

Aren't all the clones of Jango Fett Maori or something like that? The dude Temura Morrison is from New Zealand. And with all the talk of light and dark sides, the whole universe that Lucas created is pretty much influenced by some aspects of Asian culture if you really wanna grasp at straws.

Yup, all the clones are Maori. It's funny, when Tem appears, everyone in the audience crack up laughing, just for the fact our local boy is in it talking with a kiwi accent.

[sdcheung]

By giving your money to see these movies, you're not helping AA. Star Wars sequels are made by the same Hollywood that shits all over Asians.

Hollywood is run by Jews.
and it is they who shits all over Asians.

[Grasshopper]

Hollywood is run by Jews.
and it is they who shits all over Asians.

Interesting article. Came out back when Brando got in trouble for his words back in the 1990s(?)

http://www.eonline.com/Features/Specials/Jews/

Do Jews run Hollywood? - You bet they do--and what of it?

by Ben Stein (Jewish)

"...."Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews--and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are suffering. Because...we have seen...the greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the [line]."
--Brando on Larry King Live..."

[rotrab]

Jews DO have a hand in it. You'd have to be extremely naive or stupid to deny it. I don't know how far we should go in assigning blame to them but definitely they have earned some of it.

[Fireblade]

so wait... how did this turn from a discussion about george luca's latest and hopefully last pile of steaming shit, to a discussion about jews?

seeing it tomorrow night. and I didn't have to pay for the tix. thank goodness.

[sdcheung]

so wait... how did this turn from a discussion about george luca's latest and hopefully last pile of steaming shit, to a discussion about jews?

seeing it tomorrow night. and I didn't have to pay for the tix. thank goodness.

because someone asked why we asians weren't in any one of lucas' films and why Hollywood shits on asians.

[sinisterpanda]

The Star Wars Episode 3 video game is a blast. Completely different from Episode 1's video game.

[robotic]

the star wars photoshop project (http://www.bloggerheads.com/star_wars/) = for the time being, i'll try not to think about it so much (but this is seriously the stuff of nightmares!!)

http://www.bloggerheads.com/star_wars/images/star_wars_original.jpg

Just how much fun can one man have with one image?

http://www.bloggerheads.com/star_wars/images/star_wars_ringu.jpg


http://www.bloggerheads.com/star_wars/images/star_wars_alien.jpg


http://www.bloggerheads.com/star_wars/images/star_wars_young_frankenstein.jpg

[yoMAMA]

i just watched it tonight.

pretty good i thought.

and i'm no starwars geek ;)

Yoda is Asian.

LOL

and he's all philosophical and shit...........

[Napoleon Chynamite]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=episode3

:biggrin:

[yoMAMA]

Darth Vader is so irresistable.......

[mizhi]

Darth Vader is so irresistable.......

There's only one response to that...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :biggrin:

[Irezumi Kiss]

Darth Vader is so irresistable.......
It's gotta be the uniform. All that black. Him and Batman.

[yoMAMA]

It's gotta be the uniform. All that black. Him and Batman.

it is.

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/other/pc/swonline/art/swonline007.jpg

[charliechan]

the ringu photoshop of that star wars scene is kinda of disturbing

[kimpossible]

I want my money back.

[Chester]

Fuck the money. I want those two hours of my life back.

[pikachupacabra]

Fuck the money. I want those two hours of my life back.


don't hate man. I had to watch titanic 3 times in the theaters (once with friends, once with GF, once with parents). That's almost half a day! 10 hours! That's a lot of time i could have spent...oh I dunno, pooping or some other enjoyable activity.

[Arex]

^--- Next time wear diapers so you can enjoy a good poop while you watch.