I didnt see a thread about this under the search tool (not that it works) but I just saw the two trailers for this on IMDB and I geeked out.


Enjoy:

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4159111449/

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1340473625/

[Edited on June 22, 2008 at 1:08 PM. Reason : .]

6/22/2008 1:06:45 PM

Why?? When will Lucas stop?

Sad thing is, this movie will probably make a shit ton of money because there are enough Star Wars geeks out there that will still go and watch this movie regardless of the fact that the last three sucked.

6/22/2008 1:50:33 PM

I read the Clone Wars a looooooooooooooooooooong time ago. This story is perfect for an animated movie.

6/22/2008 1:55:24 PM

tried to watch, but couldn't wait through the painful fucking ads.

6/22/2008 2:03:27 PM

Jabba the Hutt's son? Really?

I'm tired of the franchise continuously dragging old characters out and giving them new back story so that they can have a more galactic presence in the star wars story. Its getting old when it turns out that little wikkit from the first trilogy actually married Chewbacca's parents and told them to go to the wookie homeworld, where they meet Yoda who pulls strings and arranges for Chewbacca to become the warleader of the clan they joined.

I mean fuck, come on.

^wow, really? You can't spare 30 seconds of Bud Light Lime advertising.

[Edited on June 22, 2008 at 2:10 PM. Reason : weak]

6/22/2008 2:10:09 PM

The last two were amazing. People love to bash new things when in reality they grew out of liking them by the time the newer ones came out but the old ones still had nostalgic value. As a kid when you see something theres a certain love you gain that can't be replaced. Its you.

6/22/2008 2:40:21 PM

I thought there was supposed to be a live action TV series.

Also, didn't Cartoon Network already cover the clone wars?

6/22/2008 2:57:59 PM

^ Yeah, but apparently Lucas didn't make enough money from it.

6/22/2008 3:12:32 PM

^From what I've been told, those covered between Ep 2 & 3 whereas these will cover between Ep 3 & 4. Stuff like Luke growing up and all that other crap they jumped over.

6/22/2008 3:18:15 PM

http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000478.html

here's a link from the old thread

message_topic.aspx?topic=477017

...that trailer is over a year old now

i wonder if they've retooled the story...if it's anything like the cartoon network clone wars stuff, it'll have no problem being way more awesome than any of the live-action prequels...general grievous was such a badass in those

genndy tarkovsky nailed it

6/22/2008 3:46:27 PM

Wait is this different from the clone war cartoons Ive already seen??? has it been redone or what is the deal???

6/22/2008 4:39:04 PM

click on the links

same time period, different animation style

6/22/2008 5:28:59 PM

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"Jabba the Hutt's son? Really? I'm tired of the franchise continuously dragging old characters out and giving them new back story so that they can have a more galactic presence in the star wars story. Its getting old when it turns out that little wikkit from the first trilogy actually married Chewbacca's parents and told them to go to the wookie homeworld, where they meet Yoda who pulls strings and arranges for Chewbacca to become the warleader of the clan they joined. I mean fuck, come on."

Exactly. This is probably a gripe that I should post in the movie cliches thread, but I get so sick and tired of recurring characters or people related to them appearing throughout stories. Why does the universe have to depend upon the same five or six people everytime, and then later on depend upon their descendants? It's not necessarily bad if it's built into the story (eg Anakin and Luke), but recycling the exact same characters over and over is just lazy writing.

6/22/2008 5:34:47 PM

animation style looks gay

6/22/2008 6:10:27 PM

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"Sad thing is, this movie will probably make a shit ton of money because there are enough Star Wars geeks out there that will still go and watch this movie regardless of the fact that the last three sucked. "

The second and third of the prequel series were pretty good IMO.

I don't know if an animated movie will work. Maybe, maybe not.

[Edited on June 22, 2008 at 6:27 PM. Reason : /]

6/22/2008 6:25:52 PM

The #1 thing which bothers me about these is a single line from one of the trailers.

Yoda: "Anakin Skywalker is the Republic's only hope."

Um... what...?! This is COMPLETELY out of character for Yoda. He seriously doubted Anakin's worthiness to be a Jedi from the very beginning. He knew there was something unstable about Anakin, and he had serious reservations about anything involving Anakin. Everything else in this new series I might try to be open minded about (although Anakin having an apprentice makes NO sense), but I have to draw the line right here.

Will I still go see this? Yeah. But stuff like this just shows me more than ever that the magic of the original series is just gone from the prequel-related material.

6/22/2008 6:48:31 PM

I was not at all excited about this when I saw the preview in theaters.


And that is a very sad thing.

6/22/2008 6:49:41 PM

I think the preview looked pretty terrible. Honestly, the editing job was terrible. It was just a bunch of unrelated scenes strung together with overly dramatic John Williams music. Still, I think the movie/tv series could still be good, or at least decent.

Keep in mind that this movie is the launching point for the new clone wars TV series, which is going to air this fall on Cartoon Network and, I think, TNT. It's not a remake of the old series from 2004 - 2005, but all new material.

V0LC0M - What do you mean you "read" the clone wars? Are you talking about the nine volume comic series, or maybe some of the tie-in novels, like "Labyrinth of Evil"?

TJB627 - Wrong, this is still between 2 and 3.


Here's what annoys me about the movie:

1) The little twi'lek girl in the trailer is Anakin's padawan - WFT? Why? There's never been a mention of it until now. Plus, it's not like Anakin ever showed any sort of teaching skills or responsibility. I wouldn't trust him to take care of my dog.

2) Jabba the Hutt's son is named "Stinky the Hutt"...

6/22/2008 7:28:03 PM

wow you guys are overly critical about this shit

to answer Rem's question, my parents have a novel that was printed in the late 80s, entitled the Clone Wars. It is no longer in production/circulation.

I have also read the comic series and Labyrinth of Evil.

However, I do not remember any mentioning of Jabba's son. That does seem a little cooky.

6/22/2008 8:50:23 PM

I wish George Lucas would stop shitting up the Star Wars franchise, but I guess there's still enough stupid people out there that will give him money so he'll just keep doing it.

6/22/2008 9:05:38 PM

yeah because people that don't share your opinion are stupid

6/22/2008 9:29:09 PM

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"(not that it works)"

(yes it does)

6/22/2008 9:45:20 PM

^^ i don't think people that don't share my opinion are stupid, i think people that reward george lucas' shameless whoring of mediocre products are stupid.

6/22/2008 11:41:59 PM

nothing you do will stop this coming to theaters.

bitch and complain about it AFTER you see it.

6/23/2008 10:00:01 AM

indeed

6/23/2008 10:02:50 AM

I've just watched the latest SW movies for the special effects. I bet you can do a "better", more impressive lightsaber fight in computer animation than life-action. Who cares about the storyline at this point? It just looks cool.

6/23/2008 1:04:09 PM

I won't be seeing it, I'm not into this complete CGI business. The animated series was cool when I could catch it, but that was free. Plus, with the stupid shit already mentioned in this thread (Anakin's padawan? Fucking serious?) fuck that.

I think they should start making movies using the extended universe. There were some great books on this stuff that didn't involve a single skywalker or solo. I liked "I, Jedi" when I was younger, and the rogue squadron? stuff.

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 1:26 PM. Reason : .]

6/23/2008 1:25:25 PM

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"I didnt see a thread about this under the search tool (not that it works)"

actually it does work, and has worked for some time. and it works better than ever since keyword search works now

there was a thread, but it's dead: message_topic.aspx?topic=514443

6/23/2008 1:33:21 PM

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"The animated series was cool when I could catch it, but that was free."

I may be wrong, but I think this theatrical release is only a small bit of a larger series which will be aired on TV.

6/23/2008 1:45:37 PM

^^^Oh yeah, "I, Jedi" is my all-time favorite SW novel. /nerd

6/23/2008 2:12:51 PM

^ thats a whole other thread entirely. I, Jedi was one of my all time favorite sci fi books. Rogue Squadron series is way way up there too.

I wont lie, I'll see this CGI fest in July. Why not, it looks like a good summer evening movie to fall back into Star Wars with. And if they redo other Clone Wars cartoons like they had on cartoon network before, I'll try to watch them too.

Shit i already try to catch the new transformers/spider-man on saturday mornings. Might as well complete the set.

6/24/2008 11:26:53 AM

I hope this series isn't a Saturday morning kids show type series.

6/24/2008 11:52:29 AM

You know, this may actually be a genius move by Lucas.


People can't very well complain about how much CGI he used when the whole movie is CGI now can they?

8/4/2008 5:11:55 PM

and the Jedi can actually whip ass like they are supposed to and not gay it out like they did in the last scene of the Attack of the Clones (with the exception of Yoda's fight, of course).

8/7/2008 4:34:15 PM

Yoda's fight scene is overrated.

8/7/2008 7:07:05 PM

Yoda's fight scene is absolute shit.

8/7/2008 7:07:46 PM

both yoda fight scenes from the last two were awesome, unfortunately they couldnt write in that he would actually win because that would mess up the story

there should have been some throwaway badass villain that he actually got to defeat, that would have made him more badass and more relevant

8/8/2008 5:39:05 AM

agreed


i dont care who you are


You know damn well the first time you saw Yoda take his light saber out and fight Dooku, you geeked (even if it was just a little)

8/8/2008 11:26:19 AM

I was not geeking when I first saw it. In fact it ruined that whole scene for me. Most everyone around me in the theater was whooping and hollering but I could only feel embarassment for the franchise.

8/8/2008 12:00:50 PM

self righteous sci fi geeks ftw!

i'll see this probably within a few weeks of its release.

8/8/2008 1:46:50 PM

The Yoda fight was freakin' awesome.

Don't play like it wasn't.


PS. http://geeksofdoom.com/2008/08/07/11-reasons-why-i-didnt-completely-hate-the-star-wars-prequels/

8/8/2008 2:18:52 PM

yoda just kinda hopped around the room continuously for a while iirc.

LAME

8/8/2008 3:27:24 PM

Yeah seeing Yoda fight was a rush (pulling the lightsaber from his holster to his hand with the force was also nice), but once you get past that it's pretty weak

[Edited on August 8, 2008 at 3:40 PM. Reason : .]

8/8/2008 3:32:03 PM

honestly, what did you expect him to do?

he is 3 ft tall

8/8/2008 3:40:56 PM

the only thing cool about the dukuu fight is yoda's yelling at the beginning.

[Edited on August 8, 2008 at 3:45 PM. Reason : fsdfdsf]

8/8/2008 3:42:50 PM

^^That's precisely the problem, you've got an old man fighting a 3 ft CGI imp, there's not much else they can do. Come to think of it, some force pushing and hurling objects could've been fun to watch. Without the geek factor the fight is just silly and falls FAR short of the Darth Maul fight and anything in episode III.

8/8/2008 5:44:35 PM

to me this is just like his last three movies, computer generated kiddie crap

8/8/2008 8:04:00 PM

I always imagined Yoda would have a seamless fluid, conservative fighting style, not hopping around like an hopped up coke-head or at least moved beyond light sabers completely.

8/8/2008 9:07:06 PM

three words:

LIVEJOURNAL MARYSUE FANFIC

8/15/2008 11:51:02 PM

I went to North Hills last night to see Tropic Thunder. Their were some guys dressed up like Star Wars Characters.

I post a pic later. My camera pics aren't coming up online.

[Edited on August 16, 2008 at 9:50 AM. Reason : ..]

8/16/2008 9:47:08 AM