Serenity VS. Star Wars Ep. III??
POSTED BY: arcbeatle
UPDATED: Monday, July 12, 2004 02:42
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Thundar wrote:
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For the NASCAR fans amonst us, that's like Jeff Gordon becoming Dale Earnhardt.
Very apt analogy.
I have a mental picture of myself standing in line to see "Serenity", right beside a poster for "Star Wars III: The (sudden but) Inevitable Betrayal", which features 6'1" skinny streak-of-piss Christensen with the original 6'7" David Prowse costume hanging on him like daddy's britches on an 8-year old...
It's too rich...
Respectfully,
zoid
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"River didn't fix faith. Faith fixed River."
- Senator Richard 'Book' Wilkins, Independent Congress
author of A Child Shall Lead Them: A History of the Second War of Independence
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I'm afraid there is very little star wars left at all thats good, I had a great hope that EU (the books an sutch would continue witht he same quality as before, but unfortunatly, George Lucas wanted the authors to do a little thing that mesed that up permenentally called "Yuzzun Vong" Alas, It was some time ago I had any fun adventures to read or watch, (ive turned to searching out old copies of the good old classic star wars books that made EU so much better than the movies, like Galaxy of fear, I Jedi, the Jedi academy stuff, young Jedi, Heck even the books based off the first too movies are wonderfull. But the Yuzzun Vong, Its just so Corny... predictable, trading good plots and character development for lots of gore and unplesentness, and when readers get bored, Kill one of their favorite characters! unfortunatly, that menas they have to kill a fan favorite EVERY BOOK!!
sorry, had to rant 
People only beleive somehting if it's in a movie
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I too was really looking forward to new star wars films and am old enough to remember first three films when they came out the first time. Back then he had none of the money, and limited special effects made from what he could, and they were basically legendary. Now he's got all the money, all the special effects, and terrible terrible films overall. Yes they look good, have some awesome moments, but that doesnt make whole films good. I wont be queueing either to see Ep III, will go to see it on big screen for size and sound of it, but not in a rush.
I hope Serenity does really well and I suspect with the rabid fans, myself included, it will do good money at box office.
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No doubt "Serenity" will make alot of money. Loyal Browncoats going many times to see it, and newbies going because of the excellent word of mouth.
My only fear:
The over use of CG,digital,etc that killed the Star Wars saga.
I hope they can keep the perfect balance of FX and "realness" the tv series had.
'nuff ranting.
"That's the buffet table....."
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From what I have seen about Ep. III with Lucasfilm focusing on set & prop design, costumes, and all other visuals before even having started the script, I think it is clear that we will have another eye-candy picture with no substance. Which is truly a shame given how good the original trilogy was.
Arawaen
Um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm Angry. And I'm Armed.
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This came to me in a vision, you might say. I was thinking to myself last night "How's this Christeonsen kid going to get the whole Darth Vader voice going?" and then it struck me; there has to be some kind of sith power he uses. I can see it all now.
Pamde: Obi Wan, I was talking to Anakin this morning and suddenly his voice has become very deep
Obi Wan: OH Hell, he's using Sith powers.
Padme: Really?
Obi Wan: Yes, he's clearly used the dark side of the force to make his testes drop.
Yoda: OOHHH, forcing puberty he is. Not good is this. Take lightsaber up I must
Fop: *Leaves Theatre*
once the snow got so deep you almost couldn't hear margaret atwood
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i wouldnt worry about ep3.. after all the info and spoilers etc. at theforce.net i can imagine how it will look like. fights, battles, action, some more fights and maybe a little fight in between. all you here them saying is "ohh, and wait for THAT fight, its awesome" "boy, we are making such a great battle sequence" "you wont believe seeing x fight y", yadda yadda... they claim 60-70% of the movie will be fights and action. must be a pretty long movie, all the fights they describe might be hard to squeeze into a 2 hour movie. and if you dont mind spoiler but really want to cry about your raped childhood memories, search the net for grievous or watch clone wars ep 20 *sigh* (ok, ANY clone wars ep will make you cringe, but..)
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Reality check here. While SW eps 1 and 2 were large disapointments, one can't escape the fact that SW is still ingrained w/in an entire generation. When those of us over 30 hear 'Star Wars', most instinctivly harken back to the 1st movie.... a disillusioned kid from the farm named Luke, a beautiful princess, a swashbuckling smuggler with his "walking carpet" side kick, some mysterious old hermit who lives in the hills, Darth Vader, the Death Star and something called The Force. As bad as these latest installments by Lucas may be, we'll always have that thrill and wonder that made the original movie.
Well said, man. Well said. The Original trilogy is the best.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
How about....
AlliancevsEmpire.com
Hey, I'd buy that one if I had the money! I've always had a soft spot in my soul for the Alliance, as well as other intergalactic, fictional, oppressive regimes.
Yeah. I'll admit it. I'm an Alliance fangirl.
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Originally posted by thefop:
This came to me in a vision, you might say. I was thinking to myself last night "How's this Christeonsen kid going to get the whole Darth Vader voice going?" and then it struck me; there has to be some kind of sith power he uses. I can see it all now.
Pamde: Obi Wan, I was talking to Anakin this morning and suddenly his voice has become very deep
Obi Wan: OH Hell, he's using Sith powers.
Padme: Really?
Obi Wan: Yes, he's clearly used the dark side of the force to make his testes drop.
Yoda: OOHHH, forcing puberty he is. Not good is this. Take lightsaber up I must
Fop: *Leaves Theatre*
once the snow got so deep you almost couldn't hear margaret atwood
I have two things to say about this:
(1) This is so funny!!!! HAAAHAAAHAHAAAA!!!!!!
(2) Have more visions! Now! I command you!
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