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Episode III

#41
side note: has anyone seen the new light-saber toys. they are awesome. You hit the button and it lights from the base up, like a real one. Plus they have the sound effects built in. So when you swing it it goes "whoooaohh" "whoaaaoh" and when you hit something it makes the "crrrrsshhhkk" noise. I would be all over one, but they'r $100 bucks. :eek:

I'd rather buy a pedal. :D
 
#42
43% burnt said:
side note: has anyone seen the new light-saber toys. they are awesome. You hit the button and it lights from the base up, like a real one. Plus they have the sound effects built in. So when you swing it it goes "whoooaohh" "whoaaaoh" and when you hit something it makes the "crrrrsshhhkk" noise. I would be all over one, but they'r $100 bucks. :eek:

I'd rather buy a pedal. :D
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I gotta complete my sabre collection. I need Darth Vader's and that's it.
 
#45
I've got my tickets to see ROTS tomorrow night at 9:45.

I read the novelization and think it helps flesh out a lot of motivation.

I'm not expecting much from the acting, but I have heard nothing but good things.


Oh, and I just have to say that anyone who feels that Lucas "robbed them of their childhood memories" is absolutely pathetic. I mean, really. I'm a SW geek to the nth degree, and I think the first two prequels were pretty shoddy, but that certainly doesn't affect how I've enjoyed the original trilogy over the years. Sheesh....

I didn't let Charleton Heston being President of the NRA didn't ruin Planet of the Apes. I didn't let finding out Mel Gibson is a really freaky Catholic ruin Mad Max. I didn't let finding out Fred Astaire beat his kids ruin his movies, and I didn't let finding out that Joan Crawford was an insufferable b!tch in real life didn't ruin her movies.

So, why would a movie from my adult years ruin my affection for movies from my childhood years? I guess my mind is simply stronger than that.
 
#48
Bassic83 said:
Remembering back to my childhood, I heard sometime in the 80's that there was a third trilogy- taking place after the ROTJ, but that GL wasn't terribly interested in putting the third trilogy out. Anyone remember this?
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I've heard that as well, but after this last set I'm with Lucas.
 
#49
olesne said:
Man, I am really bugged by the fact my child will not be able to watch this movie for a while. The whole franchise is marketed to young kids. I can't go into a supermarket with my child without seening star wars characters on every box of cereal! You can't escape the marketing. She wants to see the movie but now we have George Lucas' fat rear end telling parents "don't take children under the age of thirteen to see the film." Thanks a pantload George! :scowl:
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pg-13 doesn't mean that you can't bring a child under 13 to the theater to see it. it just means that the parent should be more careful that his child would be able to handle the content of the movie.

http://www.mpaa.org/movieratings/about/index.htm
 
#51
bassmonkeee said:
Oh, and I just have to say that anyone who feels that Lucas "robbed them of their childhood memories" is absolutely pathetic. I mean, really. I'm a SW geek to the nth degree, and I think the first two prequels were pretty shoddy, but that certainly doesn't affect how I've enjoyed the original trilogy over the years. Sheesh....

I didn't let Charleton Heston being President of the NRA didn't ruin Planet of the Apes. I didn't let finding out Mel Gibson is a really freaky Catholic ruin Mad Max. I didn't let finding out Fred Astaire beat his kids ruin his movies, and I didn't let finding out that Joan Crawford was an insufferable b!tch in real life didn't ruin her movies.

So, why would a movie from my adult years ruin my affection for movies from my childhood years? I guess my mind is simply stronger than that.
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that was supposed to be a joke ;) :rollno:
I still love the first ones, I just don't like the newer ones for the most part, so i'm a little sceptical on this new movie. I hope I'm proven wrong. :D
 
#52
I'm going at 12:15...in costume, complete with a Master Replicas Force FX lightsaber (the one that lights up and makes the noises).

Yes I am a geek, but I've been waiting to see this movie since I was 5. I avoided EpII in theatres because of how badly EpI sucked. I still haven't even seen all of EpII...I am actually looking forward to this one though. Everything I've seen and read points to it being, if not totally kick a$$, at least good enough to justify spending $20 on.
 
#55
Yeah I am a Star Wars geek too. I was a kid when the first one came out. It was everywhere, I never stood a chance.
I've been ok with the prequels, but I do wish Uncle George had given some creative control to another filmaker and strayed a little bit from his over-linear film style.
It's funny to read the post above about having to wait between the original movies and not knowing anything about the back story or things that we take for granted as a part of pop culture now. After seeing Star Wars I always assumed Luke and Leia would end up together. I never imagined Han Solo would get the girl, the bad guy would be Luke's dad, or that the Emperor had any force powers at all. I never would have thought Luke and Leia were siblings- no way! I remember my sister getting Bantha Tracks- the Star Wars fanclub newsletter which was this crappy little xeroxed looking thing at first that had pictures and news about Star Wars. At the time that and Starlog magazine where just about the only places to get Star Wars news. It was in a Starlog from 77 or 78 that I first read the Vader/Obi-wan volcano back story in an interview with Lucas. He didn't let on, or even know for sure himself, that Vader was Luke's father.
My coolest moment as a fan of the films was seeing TESB with the director, Irvin Kershner. He attended a screening of the re-release here in Memphis and was very cool, hanging out with the fans, signing autographs and talking to everyone.
At the end the whole audience gave him a standing ovation.
He signed a few things for me. One of them was a Star Wars bubblegum card of Luke at the moment his hand is flying off. Kershner volunteered the info that they had worked really hard to make a mechanical hand that would twitch and move after it's severed, but he wasn't sure that you could even catch any of it in the finished film.
Anyway, I am off to catch a midnight show. Someone ought to create a seperate thread for thumbs up or down etc.
 
#59
Akito said:
Yeah I am a Star Wars geek too. I was a kid when the first one came out. It was everywhere, I never stood a chance.
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I was a Star Wars geek when I was 10. When I got older, it went away like wearing Toughskins jeans, and having a paper route did.

There are two movie theaters within 15 minutes of me showing it tonight at 12:01AM. I drove by to check it out. Quite the scene....some people had been there since yesterday. A few tents were set up, and several tarps. It had been rainy here all day. Some dorks in the front of the line set up a make shift Star Wars Canitina, and were distributing coffee, cookies, and pizza. I saw grown men/women dressed up like the characters from the movie. Some characters I recognized, most I did not. Around the back of the theater was a pack of Stormtrooper dudes enacting a battle scene with a couple dudes dressed up like Jedi's. As the battle came to a close, one guy removed his Stormtrooper mask, and it was a dude from my old job. I never knew he was such a geek. I yelled out to him, but he quickly put on his helmet, and faded into the crowd. Of the 200 plus people in line, I would say half of them were in costume. I felt like grabbing some popcorn, then sit in my truck and watch the people in line.

I don't understand the SW obsession, or obsession with any film. I honestly wonder if these people realize the movies are not real. Jedi's, yoda's, clone wars, the empire, the force, sith, chewbacca...all those things are not real, and never have been. I just felt embarassed for the adults in the crowd who were acting like kids.

-Mike
 
#60
saw it at the midnight sesh last night - very very good :hyper:

probably the most "Star Wars" type of film out of the last three, certainly made up for the problems with the last two. I read somewhere that it would tie up all the loose ends and explain some of the questions from the last two, and whilst it sorta did that, there are still some questions left unanswered.

Lucas said that once you see this film, you will look at one of the characters in the original trilogy in a different light. Without giving the spoiler, I say I agree with that comment.....
 

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