STAR WARS...anyone else have tickets already?

[Jumper Bones]

funnyh thing ss, myu sister sdaw the movie tonight, and had the sdme questions over luker/leias mommmmuy as Idid.

[DJSapp]

Just testing out the new sig.

Fucking amazing.

edit: and as for the Leia's mom memory:

Luke "What do you remember about your mother, your real mother?"

Leia "Not much, images mostly, she was very beautiful, yet sad."

Luke "I don't remember my mother."

spoliers
My theory, Leia does remember her mother, as padme does survive childbirth long enough to see and name both of the twins. Leia knows she was adopted by the Organas, but never knew her real mother. Must be a jedi thing to remember something right as you shoot out of the womb.

[peterslovo]

Loved the movie... Probably going to see it again after the craze dies down.

I found Anakin's path to the DS slightly disturbing, as he was initially doing it for love, then greed, then he kinda got tricked. But that's a sign of a good film!

[Out_to_lunch]

HOT DAMN!! (yeah I'm getting to this a little late, but oh well)

Yes it was DEFFINITLEY much better than the previous two, but no, not quite as good as Empire.

What I found fascinating was how well it seemed to lead up to New Hope. There seemed to be more ships and things that looked very farmillar (not quite the exact same, but very close)

Lucas did a real bang up job with this one!

and it was also fun to see the die hard fans out there in full costume...

[AfroMullet]

Props to Lucas!! However, Padame's acting blew.

Yoda kicking ass is always a good thing.

Palpatine (whoever played him) had me convinced he was evil.

[rip]

Looks like I am the minority around here, but I didnt think the movie was all that great. I thought all the dialogue pretty much blew and I think that the annikan actor is worse that portman.

I cant exactly say why but I would just say its not a *good* movie. It may be due to the fact that there wasnt really a rooting interest for me and I was talking and not paying attention during the scrolling beginning setup and didnt really know what was going on for the first few minutes.

[SkiingBear]

Finally saw it yesterday. It was great to see how everything came together. It was just hard to watch Anakin's journey to the darkside. You know it's going to happen, but you see so many opportunities for hiim to turn away from it...maybe that's just a sign of a good story-line/movie. I was really left with the following thoughts:

* George Lucas should never again attempt to write a script, the man knows special effects, but couldn't create believable dialogue to save his life. Even Natalie Portman bagged on the writing saything that you don't do Star Wars for the love scenes and script...you do it because it's Star Wars.
* The acting was on par with episodes 4-6, as were 1 and 2, keeping this movie in line with all of the others.
* There's an obvious gap that could be filled by an Obi Wan Kenobi movie (might be cool)
* While not a direct movie observation, a general Star Wars movie observation, that has been growing in me and I see reflected here. There was no way that George Lucas, or anyone else for that matter, could create a movie that would measure up to what we have built episodes 4-6 up to in our minds. We (people of the appropriate age that were raised on the original 3 moives) have seen the originals so many times and built them up to be the greatest movies of all time. Go back and watch them again with the same critical mind that you approached episodes 1-3 with...you'll see that they suck just as bad. IMHO, C3PO was just as annoying in the originals as Jar-Jar was in the episode 1 (I know I'll be getting flamed for that, but whatever ) That doesn't change the fact that I love the original 3 (the originals...they fucked up the re-release in my opinion in several ways). That's all for my 30 second rant, I'm just tired of hearing how episodes 1-3 don't measure up to 4-6...could anything really?

[slippy]

After seeing 6 episodes, this is what bothered me: With all that technology available to them, could they maybe invent a simple light saber wrist-strap for the Jedi? Their achilles heel in every movie is that they're all clumsy and drop them 10 stories off a ledge. Anyways, the movie was pretty good. I could easily pick it apart, but it's a Star Wars movie. I went for the action.

[altagirl]

After seeing 6 episodes, this is what bothered me: With all that technology available to them, could they maybe invent a simple light saber wrist-strap for the Jedi? Their achilles heel in every movie is that they're all clumsy and drop them 10 stories off a ledge. Anyways, the movie was pretty good. I could easily pick it apart, but it's a Star Wars movie. I went for the action.

Yeah but if the didin't drop them all the damn time there would be fewer opportunities for using mind power to zap the back into your hand...

The gap I want filled is how Chewbacca end up with Han Solo. Episode 3.5

[non grata]

"An immense, fur covered warrior of great strength and loyalty, Chewbacca the Wookiee was a well known figure in both the underworld and in the Rebel Alliance. Born on Kashyyyk over two centuries before the Battle of Yavin, Chewbacca was a wise, sophisticated being with exceptional skills in starship piloting and repair. For their brutish strength and technological savvy, Wookiees were enslaved by the Empire for use as labor. For a time, Chewbacca was a slave, toiling away for the betterment of the Empire until an impudent Imperial cadet named Han Solo freed him.
Drummed out of the military, Solo had few options but to return to the fringe lifestyle he knew so well. Chewbacca swore loyalty to Han, and became his partner in crime. The two of them became a well known smuggling duo. When they came into ownership of the freighter Millennium Falcon, their exploits became legendary.

Chewbacca and Solo spent hours modifying and tinkering on their beloved Falcon, souping it up far beyond its original performance specs. Although the Falcon's upkeep was a labor of love, many a time Chewie unleashed his legendary temper on the recalcitrant freighter, banging his massive furry hands against delicate components that refused to behave.

Chewbacca became Solo's conscience of sorts. Though the smuggler maintained a mercenary air of bravado that refused to adhere to any ideals other than self-preservation, Chewie was openly the more compassionate of the two. Perhaps it was the ordeal suffered by his people at the hands of the Empire that caused Chewie to feel this way. Although Solo steered clear of any allegiance during the Galactic Civil War, Chewbacca definitely supported the Rebel cause, though the two of them tried to avoid the struggle altogether.

Ironically, a simple steerage assignment landed them in the heart of the Rebel Alliance. Desperate for cash, Chewie and Han took on a charter of two passengers and their droids from Tatooine to Alderaan. Little did the two smugglers realize that their cargo consisted of a legendary Jedi Knight, the son of the prophesied Chosen One in Jedi mythology, and a pair of droids containing information vital to both the Empire and the Alliance. This trip inextricably drew Chewbacca and Solo into the Rebel fold, and they continued flying missions for the Rebellion for years after that.

Chewbacca stood over two meters tall and had a coat of ginger-brown fur. He wore nothing, save for a bandoleer that carried specialized ammunition for the bowcaster that he carried, and a simple tool pouch so that he could enact the many repairs the chronically malfunctioning Falcon required."

[sea2ski]

After seeing 6 episodes, this is what bothered me: With all that technology available to them, could they maybe invent a simple light saber wrist-strap for the Jedi? Their achilles heel in every movie is that they're all clumsy and drop them 10 stories off a ledge. Anyways, the movie was pretty good. I could easily pick it apart, but it's a Star Wars movie. I went for the action.

Speaking of technology. Isn't amazing that R2D2 and C3PO are still considered state of the art throughout the 6 episodes. So there were no improvements in robot technology from the time Anakin is a boy to the time his grown son Luke blows up the Death Star for a second time. A little hard to believe.

[scoober]

dude... what website did you pull that from?

[slippy]

Here's a video of Comic the Insult Dog rips on nerds waiting in line. It's from when Episode 2 came out, but it's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

Right Here

[non grata]

http://www.starwars.com/databank/

[Jumper Bones]

The gap I want filled is how Chewbacca end up with Han Solo. Episode 3.5

Being a Star Wars nerd myself, I've read those books...
Han Solo Triolgy, by A.C. Crispin - The Paradise Snare, the Hutt Gambit, and Rebel Dawn. Excellent books, and also shed some light about what Han says about to Chewie in 'Empire', when meeting Lando, the "wait, I'm sure he's forgotten about that by now...", and why Lando was so pissed...

[Jumper Bones]

Went and saw it again (2nd time) tonight. Was nice to be able to just focus on the background stuff...anyway, on second sight, man the acting is horrible. I'm sure the writing has quite a bit to do with it as well, but they couldn't make the characters more wooden if they hand-carved them themselves! There was no life to their words, just cold fish deadpan, esp. in the Anakin/Padme relationship. I don't know, maybe Lucas was trying to show off some of the imperiousness of the Old Republic (and point out why it fell), but it was so different from the characters of the 'first' three episodes - those characters were likable.

the special effects though, oh wow are they beautiful. I think this movie was more about Palpatine/Sidious/the Emperor than Vader...Ian McDiarmid stole the show. The transformation from Palpatine to the Emperor of 'Return of the Jedi', which happens right before your eyes in the duel with Mace Windu, is fascinating. Incredible watching his face boil away and skin pale while shooting the lightning...

[Pinner]

Saw it last night and I gotta say... BIG FUCKING DEAL.

What fucking awful acting. I think we were the only two in the theatre laughing inappropriately throughout the film-- and this is from two admitted Star Wars fans (she even saw the first one 10 times in the theatre!)

That Hans Christen Andersen whateverthefuck and Natalie Porkowitz are terrible actors. I mean REALLY not good. Though I'm sending Lucas a thank you card for not forcing teddy bears and childish comedic relief down my throat.

The first film was noteworthy for so many things... the cast, the direction, the quirky and tight dialogue, the obviously laborious set work and special effects, the character development, the mytholgical story elements, the monotheistic struggle between right and wrong, provoking us to imagine a high/low tech galactic world, etc.

This one was washed out by horrid acting, and the computer-generated effects so geared to Generation ADD (with rip-off technology from The Matrix, Terminator, Crouching Tiger etc) that it ended up just another trite shoot-em-up sci-fi film with a mildly interesting story.


Sorry for cunting up your thread. Carry on, nerds.