Episode 3

[Shockeye]

Seems there's still tickets available near here for the midnight showing in digital projection.

Decisions, decisions.

[Margalis]

Yes, Luke was a whiny bitch. Nobody likes Luke. Nobody. It's funny because it's supposed to be good vs. evil but the ultimate good guy is a snivelling whiner and a goody two-shoes that nobody can stand.

Edit: I didn't even know the new one was coming out this week. I'm sure I'll see it at some point on OnDemand or something, but I'm in no hurry. Darth turns all evil and people hack at each other with glow sticks. The end.

[Samwise]

I think you're missing the larger point.  Obi-Wan hacks at Darth with glowsticks.  For something like ten minutes.  And fucks his shit up and pushes him into a lava pit or something.

That alone will be worth the price of admission.  I've been waiting for it ever since he spoke the line "Someday I'll be the most powerful Jedi in the universe!"

[HaemishM]

Halloween is coming up.

FUCK NO.

The Snow Beast would have my balls if I tried to put her in that. Though I'm quite sure the PopTart will try to sweater her up at some point.

As for the dialogue, Luke was a whiny bitch. But that was what made his progression interesting (though not as interesting as Han's character). He matured during the series.

Anakin not only hasn't matured, he'd regressed from Ep 1 to Ep 2. He was a mildly annoying, gosh wow kid in Ep 1 to a complete fucking douchebag in Ep 2.

BUT YOU ARE SOFTER THAN SAND, MILADY!

[WayAbvPar]

Though I'm quite sure the PopTart will try to sweater her up at some point.

That will take a shitload of wool- she is gonna be a big dog. Pics please!

[Shockeye]

[MrHat]

I'm so horribly confused.

Is she a clone?

[WayAbvPar]

Obviously she looks better with hair, but she is still eye-catching with a crewcut. And no discernable undergarments.

[Comstar]

Well I saw it midnight, and it was worth doing that. Becomes a good movie as the Jedi are killed. i expect thje Tv show will be about Obi Wan becoming a Private Dective in CSI:Mos Eisley. His partner is a blue ghost who helps catches bad guys while avoding being ID's a jedi (Special Guest Star: A Imperial Offcier who every week JUST misses finding Ben Kenonbi is actually the one guy in the galaxy he's searching for).

Makes me want to join SWG and play a Bounty Hunter. With enough troops you CAN take down Jedi's, only need about 6-1 odds too.

The entire Wookie subplot was a waste of time and was only used for a 3 second shot that wasn't needed or asked for.

I might have to buy the book, appenrlty Hadens acting in the book makes more sense.

I give it 4 stars out of 5.

[Evil Elvis]

If I was constantly being recognized as "that person who gave a horrible performance in those terrible star wars prequels", I'd probably shave my head, too.

That, or she's so disgusted with the aberration she's contributed to, she's psychosomatically contracted cancer.

[Shockeye]

"Star Wars" fans rebel over policy to scuttle theater lines
By Daarel Burnette II and Felisa Cardona
Denver Post Staff Writers

Ken Hamner brought an inflatable Darth Maul, a camper, a sofa, a projector and video games along with steel drums and folding chairs to celebrate the release of "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith."

"This is an excuse to miss work and do urban camping," the 28-year-old Hamner said Tuesday in the parking lot of the United Artists Continental 6 at Interstate 25 and Hampden Avenue in Denver.

But this year, many opted out of an overnight stay because of the theater's new policy.

The theater was going to issue numbered wristbands starting Tuesday evening, good for entrance to the midnight show tonight.

"It's almost pointless to camp out," said Art Stewart, 41, who has brought his sleeping bag and tent for the past three episodes.   "I'm going to get my wristband and go."

The new rule frustrated many fans who say lining up before the movie is tradition.

"The manager is the Darth Vader to our rebellion," said Hamner's friend Sean McNerney, 20.

The theater manager declined to comment.

Mike Wheeler, a 30-year-old computer technician and a self-proclaimed "Star Wars" junkie who has camped out five
   
times at the theater, was baffled by the new rules.

"It's always gone smooth as glass," Wheeler said while sipping from his "Star Wars" Slurpee cup. "It's absurd. They're trying to fix something that's not broken."

Wheeler, who claims he's collected more than 40,000 items of paraphernalia, said that in past years, fans would line up around the theater organizing   events such as light-saber duels.

One year in frigid temperatures, they built a huge bonfire using cardboard.

"It's not only about the movie," he said. "It's also about the experience."

"The manager is the Darth Vader to our rebellion," said Hamner's friend Sean McNerney, 20.

I pray these people don't breed.

[HaemishM]

"It's not only about the movie," he said. "It's also about the experience."

I wish your "experience" had been crib death.

[WayAbvPar]

Heh.

Making tentative plans to brave the legions of unwashed fanbois and assorted fucktards to see III this weekend. My prediction is that I will arrive at the theatre, see the throngs of nerds, say something unkind (but not untrue) about them, then head home to wait a week or two.

[Shockeye]

Wrong, your 'Star Wars' tickets might be
Fans line up last night to see movie
   
By Germain Lussier
Times Herald-Record
glussier@th-record.com
   
   Wallkill – Too bad Obi-Wan Kenobi wasn't available yesterday to direct befuddled "Star Wars" fans who showed up a day early for the "Episode III" debut.

   "This is not the show you are looking for," he could have said. "Move along."

   Local fans with tickets reading "12:25 a.m. Wed. 5/18" showed up at the Loews Galleria Metroplex this morning and were turned away by mall security and Loews employees.

   "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" opens on Thursday and will begin showing at 12:01 a.m., even though the tickets said otherwise.

   "I mean, it sounds ridiculous," said Steve Briski, 24 of Middletown. "Everyone knows Thursday is the opening. But I bought tickets for tonight because that's what the theater said."

   According to Briski and his friends, about 40 other people congregated at the theater Tuesday night in a haze of confusion.

   The problem may be isolated to Loews locations. No fans showed up early Wednesday morning at the Regal Theaters in the Poughkeepsie Galleria, even though their "Episode III" tickets also said May 18.

  "The reason they say May 18 is that the showing is still during our Wednesday business day," explained Diane Gallagher, an assistant manager at Regal Fishkill 10. "We won't close everything down until it's over and done with, even though technically 12:01 is the 19th."

[Evil Elvis]

FYI, a screening copy of the film seems to have already hit the net o.0

[MrHat]

To get you in the mood.l

[CmdrSlack]

"It's not only about the movie," he said. "It's also about the experience."

I wish your "experience" had been crib death.

It's like Dead tour, but without all of the good drugs.  And hippie chicks.

[Evil Elvis]

You know all those glowing movie reviews about RoTS?  Guess what.  They lied.

Edit: allow me to expand more.  It's bad in all the exact same ways AoTC was bad, there's just more lightsaber fighting/action.  There are a few good moments here and there, but the dialog is actually worse, and it has about twice as much cheese.  Oh, and the frankenvader scene is an atrocity one must witness to fully understand.  I'd say it's slightly better than AoTC, but only marginally so. 

[Ironwood]

You know all those glowing movie reviews about RoTS?  Guess what.  They lied.

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[Daydreamer]

Well somewhere in the last three years - I don't know how or where or when - Hayden Christensen learned to act.  He isn't a great actor, or even a very good one, but he did a good enough job that I really and truly felt sorry for him at the end.  On the whole, I feel I definitely got more than  my 9.25 worth of entertainment, even after accounting for the stupidiots I had to deal with.

I think its going to be CW by Sunday that its the best of the new trilogy but still not quite as good as the old, but anything more specific, well...

Thats what flame wars are for, eh?



EDIT: I hate directors that make political comments on the sly, especially when I expect an apolitical action/drama, but this is just leaps out at me as my quote for the day, "So this is how democracy ends .... with thunderous applause"

[Jayce]

"Star Wars" fans rebel over policy to scuttle theater lines
By Daarel Burnette II and Felisa Cardona
Denver Post Staff Writers


"It's always gone smooth as glass," Wheeler said while sipping from his "Star Wars" Slurpee cup.

[...]

One year in frigid temperatures, they built a huge bonfire using cardboard.

Yeah, I'm sure NO ONE MINDED the blazing inferno right outside their place of business.

[Merusk]

EDIT: I hate directors that make political comments on the sly, especially when I expect an apolitical action/drama, but this is just leaps out at me as my quote for the day, "So this is how democracy ends .... with thunderous applause"

There's always been the subplot of a democracy turning into a dictatorship.  Lucas wrote the first one in the shadow of Vietnam, and the story has its roots there and the prequels have been exploring this route since 1997, long before Bush II.  While I'm sure he's borrowed some things from the current political climate, this isn't a new idea that's been crammed into the movie just to take a jab at the current people in power.

[El Gallo]

I got to watch a guy in a batman costume and a guy in a spiderman costume fight with toy lightsabers while waiting in line.  That was worth my $9.25.  As for the movie, I'll have more to say in the inevitable spoiler thread I guess.  I thought the dialogue was much better (to the point where I completely believe they had someone come along and re-work large sections of it) but still of course spotty (the bad lines seem to stand out even more because they are surrounded by decent ones, perhaps?).  Ewan stands out again as the only guy who can act decently through his bad dialogue bits because he acts with his body, the palpatine guy was good for most of it but then decided to start showing up to work drunk off his ass or something.  The homages to Nosferatu and (especially) Frankenstein really detracted from a couple important scenes.  A lot of things felt rushed to me, there was a lot of story left to tell for this one.  Maybe if we hadn't had all 78 laps of the pod race there would have been more time, but that's water over the bridge.

I don't really have an overall opinion on the movie yet, probably because I am tired as shit.     

[Abagadro]

Was watching an interesting show on the Discovery channel about the making of the original trilogy which (amazingly) I hadn't seen before and the actors said some pretty interesting things. Hammel said that Lucas would never tell them what to do, just get upset at them when they did some (unknown) thing that he didn't like.  Ford said that Lucas has no concept of how the process of acting works and would just sort of point ot the script and say "here is what it is, just do what I wrote."  Explains a lot.

Other interesting tidbits I didn't know: 

Lucas self-financed Empire and Jedi

Fox canned Alan Ladd around the time Jedi was coming out. He was one of the champions of the original Star Wars. It ticked Lucas off so much he took Indiana Jones to Paramount. Oops.

ILM created the Pixar computer that was later sold to Pixar.


I've caved to my inner SW nerd that not even Lucas can kill (despite a decade of best efforts) so I am going to the 2:30 show today.

[WayAbvPar]

Do you remember the name of the show, Ab? I gotta see if I can TiVo it.

[Abagadro]

After poking around I discovered (no pun intended) that it was actually on A&E and was called Star Wars: Empire of Dreams. It doesn't appear to be on in the next week  based on a search on my Dish.

[WayAbvPar]

Bugger. Maybe I will just set up a Star Wars Wish List and check it once a week or so. Thanks for checking it out!

[stray]

It's on the DVD boxset.

edit: Not that I own one or anything....

[WayAbvPar]

It's on the DVD boxset.

My wife has the old school Han shoots first trilogy on VHS. Much better!  :-D

[Abagadro]

I have the Definitive Collectors Edition (which is the original 3 plus a ton of other stuff, who knows this may be on it) on laser disc. I was planning on trying to burn it onto a DVD, but my laser disc player was stolen.

[stray]

I think it was just filmed for the DVD release. Looks fairly recent (i.e. post Laser Disc). Could be wrong though.

[DarkDryad]

It's on the DVD boxset.

My wife has the old school Han shoots first trilogy on VHS. Much better!  :-D

I am lucas's bitch i own every set from the original movie poster VHS boxes to the latest set.

[Viin]

Anyone actually seen this yet? Comments? Thumbs up? Down? Sideways?

[stray]

Anyone actually seen this yet? Comments? Thumbs up? Down? Sideways?

Judging from El Gallo's post, I think he liked it, but wussed out in saying so, out of fear that he'd take a beating.

I'm bored enough to go see it tomorrow.

EDIT: In other words, the real question should be: Is it OK to say that it was good?

[schild]

It's on the DVD boxset.

My wife has the old school Han shoots first trilogy on VHS. Much better!  :-D

I am lucas's bitch i own every set from the original movie poster VHS boxes to the latest set.

DIE WHORE.