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New 'Revenge of the Sith' pics; (pretty big spoilage)

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Simo

Simo

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Whoa is that the final one sheet from Drew Struzan?! =O

Edit: Looks pretty good even from the poor cap though I'll have to check out ET! when it's on in an hour. Keep us posted ManaByte, should a Hi Res version surface like the teaser! :)
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Manabyte said:
Only the films are canon. The novels and everything licensed are official, but not canon. Basically, the movies cancel out everything else. So if someone writes a book about Han Solo's origin, and Lucas then decides to do his own, then the version made for the film (even if it doesn't make it into the film) is canon.
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Only if it's published in a radio drama, novelization, screenplay, etc. You've tried to answer questions here by using Lucas's comments from the annotated screenplays but I don't see any indication that those comments are canon. It has to be from within the actual content of the films, radio dramas, final published screenplays, etc, not interviews with Lucas or his personal musings.

mattx5 said:
What happens in the films is concrete in my opinion. Boba Fett falls into the Sarlaac Pit in ROTJ. As far as I'm concerned, he dies.
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Yet, the films don't state that he dies, so you've already went beyond what the films depict. You can't sit there and say that the EU is bullshit and then say that your own spin is somehow more legitimate.

That poster doesn't please me. Looks like a lame Photoshop job. Grab a bunch of pictures, crop them, and paste them over some uncentered Vader helmet. Weak. There is way too much dead space about Anakin's head. It throws the whole thing off, making it very bottom heavy.
 
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mattx5

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Dan said:
Yet, the films don't state that he dies, so you've already went beyond what the films depict. You can't sit there and say that the EU is bullshit and then say that your own spin is somehow more legitimate.
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Okay, you got me there :p To be fair though, you shouldn't have to be told outright that a character has died, it's implied. Kind of like it's implied that the Emperor perished when he fell down that shaft.

In any case, Boba Fett's last APPEARANCE on film is in my opinion a weak, underwhelming, and somewhat hilarious exit for the character.
 
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mattx5

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Here's a better capture -

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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
mattx5 said:
Okay, you got me there :p To be fair though, you shouldn't have to be told outright that a character has died, it's implied. Kind of like it's implied that the Emperor perished when he fell down that shaft.

In any case, Boba Fett's last APPEARANCE on film is in my opinion a weak, underwhelming, and somewhat hilarious exit for the character.
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I generally agree about Fett in RotJ, I'm just saying Boba's death is anything but "concrete". After all, this is a universe where a starship can travel down the throat of some giant space slug and then escape. His ease of defeat certainly doesn't do much to tie up the whole Fett arc either. Here's this kid that watches his father be beheaded by a Jedi and then he's defeated by a blind Han Solo and a malfunctioning jetpack? I liked Boba a lot more when he was just a skilled bounty hunter doing anything for cash.

Quite honestly, with the way the Fetts were used in AotC, I'm very wary of Chewbacca's presence in RotS. I was very disappointed when that was revealed. I really, really only forsee Chewbacca's OT persona being seen as weaker in comparison. The only characters seen in both trilogies should have been Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Palpatine, R2-D2, Threepio and Bail Organa. As cool as it will be to see Wookies go into battle, I don't think Chewie should have been incorporated. I'm extremely happy to hear that young Han won't be there, but still, I don't see this helping the character at all.

Edit: Ick. I really dislike that poster. Horrible composition.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Fugly. I'm sorry, it doesn't work. The different elements just aren't connected in anyway. It's like Struzan made one poster and then decided to swap out the background for something completely different. The main foreground elements just don't dominate enough of the whole picture. They've been squeezed into the lower two-thirds to accomodate the Vader mask that looks completely out of place.

Also, this is the only poster to have characters appear multiple times. I'm not digging that.

Yoda's action pose is also downright odd.
 
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Duck of Death

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Dan said:
Fugly. I'm sorry, it doesn't work. The different elements just aren't connected in anyway. It's like Struzan made one poster and then decided to swap out the background for something completely different. The main foreground elements just don't dominate enough of the whole picture. They've been squeezed into the lower two-thirds to accomodate the Vader mask that looks completely out of place.

Also, this is the only poster to have characters appear multiple times. I'm not digging that.

Yoda's action pose is also downright odd.
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I agree. Also, what is with the odd lens flares on the prequel posters?
 
Tritroid

Tritroid

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Well so much for the trailer not being leaked before it's shown tomorrow. :lol

'Told ya so'

Anyway, it's fucking awesome. That's the only way to describe it. Of course the quality is shit, but you can still see and hear what's going on in most places.
 
ManaByte

ManaByte

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Tritroid said:
Well so much for the trailer not being leaked before it's shown tomorrow. :lol

'Told ya so'

Anyway, it's fucking awesome. That's the only way to describe it. Of course the quality is shit, but you can still see and hear what's going on in most places.
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A version filmed from a movie screen with a dv cam is not the same as a someone leaking a real version of the trailer.
 
Tritroid

Tritroid

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ManaByte said:
A version filmed from a movie screen with a dv cam is not the same as a someone leaking a real version of the trailer.
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:lol

The trailer was leaked. Whether or not you consider it a 'real' version based upon how it was distributed.
 
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Spiritreaver

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I thought the trailer was leaked days ago with that Peru leak, or does that simply not count? Well it wasn't in English, so I guess that's why.

Anywho, I downloaded it, and then immediately closed it after seeing the blue tinted Anakin at the start. The nice quality trailer is less than a day away, so I think I'm going to wait and not spoil the fun. So I'll be out of the loop until the official version is released/leaked. Yeehaw.
 
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cybamerc

Will start substantiating his hate
I love the art direction in ROTS. Every frame looks like a painting. It's very different from the other movies though. More fantasy-esque.
 
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Matt_09

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Holt shit this looks amazing!

Where and what is going on these shots, anybody know?

I'm guessing the top pic is the opera, but what about the second?

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IAmtheFMan

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Matt_09 said:
Holt shit this looks amazing!

Where and what is going on these shots, anybody know?

I'm guessing the top pic is the opera, but what about the second?

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The second shot:
is Jedi Aayla Secura leading clone troops in one of the last Clone War battles on the planet Felucia... right before Palpatine gives the order for all the troopers to turn on the Jedi
 
Simo

Simo

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Matt_09 said:
Holt shit this looks amazing!

Where and what is going on these shots, anybody know?

I'm guessing the top pic is the opera, but what about the second?

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Since IATFM cleared up the second shot, the first shot is of the Opera. The floating watersphere that you can see on the stage has Mon Calamari dancers performing inside. This is where Chancellor Palpatine tells the story about Darth Plaguesis, the power of preventing death or giving new life to Anakin and where the opening of the trailer occurs.
“Would it be possible to learn this secret in some way?”
"Not from the Jedi"

Here's also a peice of concept art for a Mon Calamari Dancer:
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Edit: Along with those new images from the Insider Supplement was also some PDF files that confirm MF.com's report about Han Solo originally in the script and on Kashyyyk and some dialogue between Yoda and Anakin. The supplement also has an exceprt from the ROTS novelisation:
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith

By Matthew Stover; Based on the story and screenplay by George Lucas

A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY. . . .

[ Star Wars Insider #81 Online Supplement ]

This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

It is already over. Nothing can be done to change it.

It is a story of love and loss, brotherhood and betrayal, courage and sacrifice and the death of dreams. It is a story of the blurred line between our best and our worst.

It is the story of the end of an age.

A strange thing about stories --

Though this all happened so long ago and so far away that words cannot describe the time or the distance, it is also happening right now. Right here.

It is happening as you read these words.

This is how twenty-five millennia come to a close. Corruption and treachery have crushed a thousand years of peace. This is not just the end of a republic; night is falling on civilization itself.

This is the twilight of the Jedi.

The end starts now.

INTRODUCTION: The Age of Heroes

The skies of Coruscant blaze with war.

The artificial daylight spread by the capital's orbital mirrors is sliced by intersecting flames of ion drives and punctuated by starburst explosions; contrails of debris raining into the atmosphere become tangled ribbons of cloud. The nightside sky is an infinite lattice of shining hairlines that interlock planetoids and track erratic spirals of glowing gnats. Beings watching from rooftops of Coruscant's endless cityscape can find it beautiful.

From the inside, it's different.

The gnats are drive-glows of starfighters. The shining hairlines are light-scatter from turbolaser bolts powerful enough to vaporize a small town. The planetoids are capital ships.

The battle from the inside is a storm of confusion and panic, of galvened particle beams flashing past your starfighter so close that your cockpit rings like a broken annunciator, of the bootsole shock of concussion missiles that blast into your cruiser, killing beings you have trained with and eaten with and played and laughed and bickered with. From the inside, the battle is desperation and terror and the stomach-churning certainty that the whole galaxy is trying to kill you.

Across the remnants of the Republic, stunned beings watch in horror as the battle unfolds live on the HoloNet. Everyone knows the war has been going badly. Everyone knows that more Jedi are killed or captured every day, that the Grand Army of the Republic has been pushed out of system after system, but this --

A strike at the very heart of the Republic?
An invasion of Coruscant itself?
How can this happen?
It's a nightmare, and no one can wake up.

Live via HoloNet, beings watch the Separatist droid army flood the government district. The coverage is filled with images of overmatched clone troopers cut down by remorselessly powerful destroyer droids in the halls of the Galactic Senate itself.

A gasp of relief: the troopers seem to beat back the attack. There are hugs and even some quiet cheers in living rooms across the galaxy as the Separatist forces retreat to their landers and streak for orbit --

We won! beings tell each other. We held them off!

But then new reports trickle in -- only rumors at first -- that the attack wasn't an invasion at all. That the Separatists weren't trying to take the planet. That this was a lightning raid on the Senate itself.

The nightmare gets worse: the Supreme Chancellor is missing.

Palpatine of Naboo, the most admired man in the galaxy, whose unmatched political skills have held the Republic together. Whose personal integrity and courage prove that the Separatist propaganda of corruption in the Senate is nothing but lies. Whose charismatic leadership gives the whole Republic the will to fight on.

Palpatine is more than respected. He is loved.

Even the rumor of his disappearance strikes a dagger to the heart of every friend of the Republic. Every one of them knows it in her heart, in his gut, in its very bones --

Without Palpatine, the Republic will fall.

And now confirmation comes through, and the news is worse than anyone could have imagined. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine has been captured by the Separatists -- and not just the Separatists.

He's in the hands of General Grievous.

Grievous is not like other leaders of the Separatists. Nute Gunray is treacherous and venal, but he's Neimoidian: venality and treachery are expected, and in the Viceroy of the Trade Federation they're even virtues. Poggle the Lesser is Archduke of the weapon masters of Geonosis, where the war began: he is analytical and pitiless, but also pragmatic. Reasonable. The political heart of the Separatist Confederacy, Count Dooku, is known for his integrity, his principled stand against what he sees as corruption in the Senate. Though they believe he's wrong, many respect him for the courage of his mistaken convictions.

These are hard beings. Dangerous beings. Ruthless and aggressive.

General Grievous, though --

Grievous is a monster.

The Separatist Supreme Commander is an abomination of nature, a fusion of flesh and droid -- and his droid parts have more compassion than what remains of his alien flesh. This halfliving creature is a slaughterer of billions. Whole planets have burned at his command. He is the evil genius of the Confederacy. The architect of their victories.

The author of their atrocities.

And his durasteel grip has closed upon Palpatine. He confirms the capture personally in a wideband transmission from his command cruiser in the midst of the orbital battle. Beings across the galaxy watch, and shudder, and pray that they might wake up from this awful dream.

Because they know that what they're watching, live on the HoloNet, is the death of the Republic.

Many among these beings break into tears; many more reach out to comfort their husbands or wives, their crèche-mates or kin-triads, and their younglings of all descriptions, from children to cubs to spawn-fry.

But here is a strange thing: few of the younglings need comfort. It is instead the younglings who offer comfort to their elders. Across the Republic--in words or pheromones, in magnetic pulses, tentacle-braids, or mental telepathy -- the message from the younglings is the same: Don't worry. It'll be all right.

Anakin and Obi-Wan will be there any minute.

They say this as though these names can conjure miracles.

Anakin and Obi-Wan. Kenobi and Skywalker. From the beginning of the Clone Wars, the phrase Kenobi and Skywalker has become a single word. They are everywhere. HoloNet features of their operations against the Separatist enemy have made them the most famous Jedi in the galaxy.

Younglings across the galaxy know their names, know everything about them, follow their exploits as though they are sports heroes instead of warriors in a desperate battle to save civilization. Even grown-ups are not immune; it's not uncommon for an exasperated parent to ask, when faced with offspring who have just tried to pull off one of the spectacularly dangerous bits of foolishness that are the stock-in-trade of high-spirited younglings everywhere, So which were you supposed to be, Kenobi or Skywalker?

Kenobi would rather talk than fight, but when there is fighting to be done, few can match him. Skywalker is the master of audacity; his intensity, boldness, and sheer jaw-dropping luck are the perfect complement to Kenobi's deliberate, balanced steadiness. Together, they are a Jedi hammer that has crushed Separatist infestations on scores of worlds.

All the younglings watching the battle in Coruscant's sky know it: when Anakin and Obi-Wan get there, those dirty Seppers are going to wish they'd stayed in bed today.

The adults know better, of course. That's part of what being a grown-up is: understanding that heroes are created by the HoloNet, and that the real-life Kenobi and Skywalker are only human beings, after all.

Even if they really are everything the legends say they are, who's to say they'll show up in time? Who knows where they are right now? They might be trapped on some Separatist backwater. They might be captured, or wounded. Even dead.

Some of the adults even whisper to themselves, They might have fallen.

Because the stories are out there. Not on the HoloNet, of course -- the HoloNet news is under the control of the Office of the Supreme Chancellor, and not even Palpatine's renowned candor would allow tales like these to be told--but people hear whispers. Whispers of names that the Jedi would like to pretend never existed.

Sora Bulq. Depa Billaba. Jedi who have fallen to the dark. Who have joined the Separatists, or worse: who have massacred civilians, or even murdered their comrades. The adults have a sickening suspicion that Jedi cannot be trusted. Not anymore. That even the greatest of them can suddenly just . . . snap.

The adults know that legendary heroes are merely legends, and not heroes at all.

These adults can take no comfort from their younglings. Palpatine is captured. Grievous will escape. The Republic will fall. No mere human beings can turn this tide. No mere human beings would even try. Not even Kenobi and Skywalker.

And so it is that these adults across the galaxy watch the HoloNet with ashes where their hearts should be.

Ashes because they can't see two prismatic bursts of realspace reversion, far out beyond the planet's gravity well; because they can't see a pair of starfighters crisply jettison hyperdrive rings and streak into the storm of Separatist vulture fighters with all guns blazing.

A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two.

Two is enough.

Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right.

Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last.
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Tritroid

Tritroid

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Damn this movie is going to be incredible. I keep watching the shitty trailer over and over again because of the sound alone. :lol

The scene where
Windu confronts Palpatine, and he says "Are you threatening me Master Jedi?", and then he whips out his lightsaber and leaps at them with this horrifying scream @_@... It's just incredible.

I think aside from the obviously colossal Anakin vs. Obi-Wan duel, the best duel of the movie could turn out to be
Yoda vs. Sidious in the Senate Chamber. That is absolutely amazing, what with the Senate seats being force-tossed at each other.

Btw: For those who can't wait for the good version and want the shitty version, give me a PM because the site I got it from is down now.
 
Tritroid

Tritroid

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I wish there were pan shots of the portion where
Anakin is leading the clone troopers into the Jedi Temple.
There's a huge feeling of dread at that point in the trailer.
 
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shantyman

WHO DEY!?
None of it is new. Anything not in the previously released teaser is blue screen stuff culled from Web Documentaries and the like. The Greivous shot was fan made.
 
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iceDragon7

Banned
Sorry if its been posted already but the new Star Wars Ep.3 trailer will be playing tommorow night for the Robots movie in theatres.
Also don't forget to watch the OC tonight people...just a reminder.
 
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borghe

Loves the Greater Toronto Area
man I hope the trailer is in 720p/5.1.... that would fucking rule.

the trailer will still rule regardless.... but 720/5.1......
 
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