C3: 7 minute preview of the new Star Wars movie

[DaveMunger]

> I don't think the story is squished up, it takes place over a twenty year span.

Man, I'm such a dork, I can't let this go. No way is that a sufficient time span for people to start talking about Jedis like they were Druids. Han Solo acted like he'd never heard of Jedi powers, and he was sceptical that they would even work, that's like if people thought Navy Seals were just a legend. Also, refering to the Clone Wars (rather than the Clones War) implies a very long series of different conflicts with some common denominator such as being exacerbated by cloning technology, kind of like the Punic Wars. I've been assuming that since I was five! Why would they call a single war that involves clones, jedis, droids, and assorted spacy thingies... the Clone Wars? It results in the overthrow of the previous galactic government, wouldn't they call it the Revolution or something? The prequels simply must not be accepted as cannonical!!! *TWITCH* They're like Splinter In The Minds Eye, the Alan Dean Foster novel that came out right after the A New Hope, where Luke and Leia get it on.

Maybe he was just overhyped (I waited quite awhile to see both prequels), but Maul didn't do that much for me. I actually thought the Jar Jar effect would have worked better for a villain like that, it'd make him look all unreal and inhuman, and they could have done him with extra arms and no head. Neither Jar Jar nor the Ewoks where quite as bad as everyone says, IMHO.

[Wence]

In a preview I have seen this "Dark General".
What about that? What level or degree of JarJarism can we expect?

[Theef]

I think he'll be better than JarJar....even if he looks stupid....but he will still have a "childish cgi aura"..like them droids in the first movie....and for the record...the ewoks wasn't bad.....they were good for that movie (rotj)...at least the first 10 times i watched it......

[Zapranoth]

*twitch*  Apologies, but I can't help it.

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(Sorry.)

I'm with the "turn the brain off, expect nothing, go see it anyway" crowd.  I'm gonna cheer when Palpatine fries someone in a fit of rage, and when he utters the words "Arise, Lord Vader."  I'm gonna grind my molars and develop TMJ watching Hayden Christensen act badly in such an ultimate villain role.  When it devolves into droids zapping droids on a smoky battlefield, my eyes will glaze slightly; I will awaken with a small start when something relating to Vader then happens, or Padme appears in something revealing.

Watching and listeningto the guy who plays Palpatine is basically worth the price of admission, for me, by itself.

On a side note:  Yoda's lightsaber fight in episode II:  crowd-pleaser, or cheesy CGI?

[Wence]

Yeah, Palpatine is one of the characters I enjoyed in the old trilogy. He is a "good" evil character, absolutely interesting and not exaggerated like DarthMaul.

His developement into the Emperor is what remained interesting on SW...

[Theef]

ok.I second that. and  Yoda's lightsaber fight in episode II: crowd-pleaser btw

[Fearless Freep]

On a side note: Yoda's lightsaber fight in episode II: crowd-pleaser, or cheesy CGI?


or both

[Theef]

Yeah...I second that too...acctually.