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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: darkjak951 on May 23, 2008, 03:09:58 am
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Wow.....
Is George Lucus on crack or somthing? This looks like some sort of freaking digitally animaited children's cartoon! What are they thinking?!
Anyway, this movie will basically fill the gap between episode 2 and 3 and seems to be based on the "Clone Wars" cartoon, which was a pretty decent addition to the starwars universe. However, I just don't like where Lucus is going with this movie. Why not use the real actors? Oh well, most(maybe all) of the voices come from the Episode 3 cast, and that was my favorite of all starwars movies. There seems to be some new characters as well as some suprisingly awesome saber fighting. Despite the fact that this movie LOOKS like shit, i will still see it. This is mainly because the Clone Wars cartoon didn't answer all of my questions and it just seemed so mute most of the time. Expect to see some more big screen lightsaber action(and milking :P) this Summer.
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I have no idea why this couldn't be made into more cartoons, as it obviously will not fit with the 6 original movies. Then it hit me. It's all about the $$$.
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can't believe star wars is sellin out like this...
...it used to be about more than the $$$
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he's doing this 3D animated movie (checked out the trailer and well... 3D movies with lower res textures than most PS2 games...) and then he's following it on with a 3D animated TV series about the clone wars (while the in production live action series is between eps 3 and 4 and is gauranteed to piss over so many of the expanded universe fiction)
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myu god. i had no idea it had gone this far.
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(while the in production live action series is between eps 3 and 4 and is gauranteed to piss over so many of the expanded universe fiction)
This is what will finally bring me to join the hate-club for George. The EU is too good to be messed up, he should just adapt the books into his shows.
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edit: oh i guess that picture wasn't what you were talking about nevermind (there's not much else to say because who is surprised by george lucas making something ridiculous?)
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man the EU is actually pretty awful buttttt they could adapt the thrawn stuff or yuzhan vong and it'd be kind of okay because while they are some of the worst fiction possible it at least has a neat premise or two around there.
so basically doing what he's doing now to the EU, taking what he likes.
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I just saw an extended trailer, and i must say this does not look abysmal nor does it look spectacular. This could be the low point of the series, but hey both episode 2 and 3 were my favorite out of the 6. As long as they don't fuck around with the storyline, i will be content and ignore the fact that Lucus is making his new movie look like an out dated dreamcast game.
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man the EU is actually pretty awful buttttt they could adapt the thrawn stuff or yuzhan vong and it'd be kind of okay because while they are some of the worst fiction possible it at least has a neat premise or two around there.
so basically doing what he's doing now to the EU, taking what he likes.
Dude, the latest Star Wars EU fiction is basically "Bush is Hitler" (http://pretensefish.livejournal.com/1873.html)(also little hint here Lucas people, calling a book Sacrifice and then having Mara jade's picture on the cover... WAY TO NOT SPOIL THE PLOT THERE)
Yah the EU does have it's few moments(most of them in comic form) but Lucas has a near DC ability to change shit, rendering parts of the EU useless and incomprehensable unless you've read the latest retcon.
I like the Star Wars EU, mainly because I'm really really fucking lazy(it's no excuse I know) and because everything's already drawn out for me and there's no useless fucking technobable (which on it's own means that 99% of science fiction literature is pure crap) for me to pretend to care about. Same reason I used to spend 14 hours a day on L][ I guess!
Darkjak, episodes 2 and 3 were the lowpoint in the series, Jesus dude!
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I thought they were abandoning the future book stuff after Legacy started (the comic).
so wait how many EU characters died after the Vong stuff KAWORU HELp.
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Uhhh, we have Chewbacca, Anakin Solo, Mara Jade and Jacen turned to the dark side and became Darth Caedus and... that's all I can think of because I haven't read a lot for a while.
Wait that might be during the Vong stuff, I should really just leave this to Kaworu.
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that's prettymuch it. The rest were non entities like poiticians and z-list jedi(Alema Rar, and Lumiya who hsn't been in it since the 80's Marvel comics and was brought in as some amazing villain that we should all care about and shit I don't care to remember (also Admiral Akbar died during the vong war) oh and pelleaon died, got killed by Caedus' new
mistress apprentice. Also some people may have died in the latest one which just came out (presumably Caedus dies as it's the last in the "story")
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Pretty much the only good EU is the Thrawn Trilogy. The whole Yuuzhan Vong war was terrible and just a poor excuse to kill off major characters. That's also something that bothers me: Can't any old character actually die of simply being old? Pellaeon's death in particular bothered me.
EU overall is not something I would take as canon (and it isn't so no real argument there). The EU is more or less "this is how things COULD go...". I mean, Owen was Obi-Wan's brother for starters... Yuuzhan Vong MOVING PLANETS to create storms and stuff on Coruscant or whatever.
Liking EU is alright, but saying something like "Lucas is shit for spitting on EU" like Kaworu seem to think is just silly. The reason EU can be so bad is because there are too many fantasy writers like Kevin J. Anderson who adds people turning into wolves and stuff.
he's doing this 3D animated movie (checked out the trailer and well... 3D movies with lower res textures than most PS2 games...) and then he's following it on with a 3D animated TV series about the clone wars (while the in production live action series is between eps 3 and 4 and is gauranteed to piss over so many of the expanded universe fiction)
As for this Clone Wars "film", it's more or less 2 episodes to start off the series. Complaining that it looks like "low res PS2 games" kinda makes it sound like you simply dislike anything related to the new films. Can you imagine the costs if they tried to make it more like Pixar quality? For a 3D tv series, it looks pretty darn good compared to what's out today on regular tv.
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Meh I just think Star Wars would be better (good/acceptable instead of rubbish) if it wasn't so convulted due to trying to work itself around each new thing that gets introduced. Yeah I don't like the new star wars films, but I also only like one of the original trilogy movies and like a small amount of the eu, so don't misquote me, because you're an idiot.
Also I take it you've never watched a 3D cartoon series before, because this does look like a budget series compared to a lot of the stuff that was floating around around the year 2000.
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Meh I just think Star Wars would be better (good/acceptable instead of rubbish) if it wasn't so convulted due to trying to work itself around each new thing that gets introduced. Yeah I don't like the new star wars films, but I also only like one of the original trilogy movies and like a small amount of the eu, so don't misquote me, because you're an idiot.
Aww... Kaworu gets angry because someone disagrees with him? :(
I didn't misquote you, I didn't quote you at all. I simply mentioned how it sounded in my ears based on your post. Maybe I'm not allowed to do that, sorry master.
And yeah, I don't watch much 3D series... give me some examples and prove me wrong then. I'm on thin ice.
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dude you didn't seem to unserstand what I was saying, and I don't get angry over trivial shit :/
Also check out mainframe entertainment, they did 3D animation shows based on Hasbro's toy properties which are prettymuch universally agreed to be really cool. Also they did Reboot.
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I like the Clone Wars serial Tartakovski did for the Cartoon Network. I have it on DVD, the whole thing is really quite stylish and epic, despite the pure cheeze here and there. I'm with everyone else on this one though, it doesn't look promising at all.
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Star The Clone Wars Wars
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If they just threw this whole 3D Clone Wars project away they could spend time on the live action show. Honestly, people waited 25 years to find out what the "clone wars" were. Once we found out, a video game, novels, and the cartoon serial was a blast. But Reveng of the Sith ended the whole thing. No one cares about the clone wars anymore. We know waht's going on this whole time, so why do we need to see the same stories again, in three dee, on the big screen, thne have it on TNT for months.
Fucking George Lucas.
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Maybe if it weren't ugly as all sin, there would be some quality present in this to make it worth watching on at least some level.
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How do you not make something better-looking than that just by accident even
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I gave up on Star Wars after Ep. Three. Number one did some heavy damage to me, and two just added salt to the wounds, but three performed a nice hefty fatality to me. I am awaiting some nasty reviews on tomatoes after this is released.
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I saw this just before and it was pretty terrible. The dialogue was atrocious, the story was really throwaway and Ahsoka is probably the most annoying Star Wars character in history. It was so dumbed down and simplified - it felt like a made for TV kids special.
The fighting wasn't bad and it wasn't too long. Sometimes the visual style was awesome as well, but sometimes it wasn't.
Maybe I'm being too harsh but I do like Star Wars and this was just crap crap crap to me.
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Yes, this was a horrible movie. I went in expecting nothing and got pretty much nothing in return. The animation was really, really not that hot and yeah, like PTizzle said, jesus christ the dialogue. Oh god.
HEY SKYGUY DUCK LOL
THANKS STINKY OH GOD YOU SURE STINK
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I heard that this is actually going to bridge the gap to a new Clone Wars mini-series made by the same animation team.
What happened to the Samurai Jack guys? Their little mini-series was kick ass and better than the last three Star Wars movies combined.
Seriously, Lucas is just milking the shit out of Clone Wars because he refuses to use material from the Extended Universe or because he's fucking batshit insane. Pick one. I'm tired of Clone Wars because I already know the end result: all but two Jedi die and any that escaped or had some hazy background were either killed by Darth Vader in the EU or this new "Starkiller" guy in Force Unleashed kills them (before getting killed himself).
How does Lucas expect us to take these plots seriously and be entertained when we already know that the DUDES ARE GOING TO DIE.
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-Marcus how can you reason with the mind of a living, breathing, Ewok?
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I couldn't help but think of the following video when I read this topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQpwEo77VHI
The guy playing George Lucas has me cracking up every time I watch this.
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I saw it and I didn't think it was terrible but it was still flawed. The dialogue was ear grating , it was trying too hard to be funny 80% of the time. That new character ahsoka was fucking annoying and the worst part is that she has waaaay to much screen time. Now about the action, there was a bit too much but they were enjoyable to watch(an AT-TE can walk on walls?!) and the designs for the clones and droids were pretty good. So yea not a bad movie but neither is it good and I will probably not watch the TV series if it keeps most of the bad things in.
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Holy shit the animation in this movie is not much better than the original Toy Story.
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I only like episodes 4, 5, and 6, and quite frankly this looks awful, so I am passing on this one
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For a TV show I liked it. I mean if it had been something created on a normal movie budget and not just the series premeire of a TV show put on a movie screen I might be more hard on it but as far as TV shows go nowadays it was pretty good and I'll probably watch the actual show when it comes out.
Yeah I couldn't help but chuckle after I started watching it and realised that The Force Unleashed, a video game playable in real-time has better graphics than a movie both made by the same company but still it does what a TV show is s'pose to do for me (pretty much hold my attention long enough to waste 30 minutes to an hour of my time).
BTW I have some questions about Ahsoka (or however you spell that, these SW names kill me). I noticed she holds her lightsaber in a back position, Starkiller holds his like that as well. Is this something I just hadn't noticed before or are they the only 2 jedi to actually do this?
And does she die before Episode 3 or are they just retconning everything to add her to the fiction cause I don't remember her being in it nor do I remember Anakin mentioning anything about ever having a padawan. I think I remember there was a jedi girl that's the same species as her that the clones (or Anakin, I'm not sure) kill after they all go postal but I'm pretty sure that's not her.
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BTW I have some questions about Ahsoka (or however you spell that, these SW names kill me). I noticed she holds her lightsaber in a back position, Starkiller holds his like that as well. Is this something I just hadn't noticed before or are they the only 2 jedi to actually do this?
And does she die before Episode 3 or are they just retconning everything to add her to the fiction cause I don't remember her being in it nor do I remember Anakin mentioning anything about ever having a padawan. I think I remember there was a jedi girl that's the same species as her that the clones (or Anakin, I'm not sure) kill after they all go postal but I'm pretty sure that's not her.
That's the Shien lightsaber technique. Yeah, you're right, they both use it. I guess the Lucasarts guys have become pretty fond of it! But yeah, Ahsoka has been written in specifically for the Clone Wars media, and isn't killed in Episode III (doesn't appear) - that's apparently someone called Ashla.
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Yeah I saw this because I really had nothing to do, and I regret it. It had a terrible, TERRIBLE story, with a gay cross-dressing Jabba and easily the stupidest dialog in any Star Wars movie ever. I'm not like an avid fan of the series but I enjoy it, and this is so so bad. Every other comment out of someone's mouth is meant to be some sort of pun, or joke, or witty comment, but absolutely none of them are funny in the slightest. Even as a precursor for the show, it really wasn't necessary to port it to theaters. It's just really, really, really bad.