Star Wars: The Clone Wars coming to theaters August 15

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How much room is there between Ep. II and III for there to be more stories? Is this going to contradict the cartoons? Also, Anakin having a padawan seems like a shitty idea. I hope they prove me wrong.
 
kame-sennin said:
How much room is there between Ep. II and III for there to be more stories? Is this going to contradict the cartoons? Also, Anakin having a padawan seems like a shitty idea. I hope they prove me wrong.
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3-4 years between Ep. II and III. I'd say that's plenty of time for more stories.
 
that teaser looked interesting... more of asajj ventress!!

as for general grievous;

grievous is a strategist (coward), he took on all the weak jedi, but runs from real challengers.

mace windu fucked him up with the quickness and all he did was run from anakin and obi-wan.

that's just how his character is.
 
Windu said:
Theaters? Is that just going to be the 1st episode?
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That's what I'm trying to figure out. Is this just the first episode (which would make it about 22 minutes) or is it some sort of pilot movie comprised of the first few episodes of the series?
 
Night_Trekker said:
Why in the hell did they have to go with CG for this? Genndy Tartakovsky's stuff looked great.
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That animation style was perfect IMHO. Why they are using this shitty CG I don't know. It doesn't look as nice and I'm sure it cost a tonne more.
 
acidviper said:
That animation style was perfect IMHO. Why they are using this shitty CG I don't know. It doesn't look as nice and I'm sure it cost a tonne more.
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I'd be surprised if it costs more actually. Especially if it's done at ILM.
 
Didn't Lucas sell off "Lucas Animation" a while back, which became Pixar? Funny that he's starting it again.
 
brandonh83 said:
The final battle in Episode III involving the intercutting between Anakin and Obi-Wan and Yoda and Sidious is pretty much my favorite continuous action sequencing of all time. The editing is fucking amazing especially when it cuts from Anakin blocking the saber attack while lying on the table to Yoda and Sidious throwing down on the rising senate pod as the music explodes... awesome shit if you ask me.
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Agreed, if theres one thing all movies did right, its the action and music. George is really ahead of the game when it comes to crafting action scenes.

You people are just fucking miserable twats that find new things to hate on.
 
Night_Trekker said:
Why in the hell did they have to go with CG for this? Genndy Tartakovsky's stuff looked great.
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People like when raw sewage is forcefully poured into their eyes.
 
:lol Ah man, I popped in the Gen Tartakovsky's Clone Wars DVD out of nostalgia. Fuck man, Mace Windu is just annihilating these droids.
 
Dang I hope it's aimed abit more intelligently then that cartoon network show few years back. Everyone kept praising that and I finally got it on dvd and omg was it juvenile. Constipated Yoda I could not stop laughing and it seemed to be aimed at 5-8 year old bracket with 3 min story telling. I remember it was during the holidays and my family members were around and asking me if I was going play power rangers next.
 
Night_Trekker said:
His saber duel with Obi-Wan was beyond pathetic.
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you are possibly certifiably crazy. That was probably the single second best technical fight in the entire movie, only beaten by Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan vs. Maul. I am as much a critic of the prequels as anyone, but the combat in Ep 1 and Ep 3 are amazing. Arguably it's both movies' only saving grace for me.
 
Green Shinobi said:
I'm pretty sure that the creators of the Clone Wars cartoon didn't know everything about the Grevious scenes in Episode 3, and vice versa. They probably just got a description of the character and his abilities.

With that said, it doesn't look good for Lucas that some cartoonists were able to come up with far more imaginative uses for his own character. Clone Wars' Grevious blows Lucas' Grevious out of the water to an embarrassing degree.
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iirc, I read an article back when ep 3 was coming out, explaining how lucas loved Tartakovsky's work on Samurai Jack so much, that they gave him almost full creative control over the Grievous character; they just supplied an idea of who he is and then let them loose. Afterwards, team Lucas decided to nerf him down big time because they didn't want anyone appearing more powerful than The Emperor.

Quite a shame really because I LOVED the Clone Wars cartoons. Thought the Jedi's were a little too ninja-ish and acrobatic, but that made for great action. Volume 1 > Volume 2. I love how it was decided that if you encounter Grevious, RUN. Reminds me of Nemesis from RE3. Ep3 Grievous = total letdown
 
Well that about wraps it up for Dragon Ball, which also opens on August 15. I'm assuming Fox is distributing this, so why would they sabotage one of their big Summer movies by releasing a Star Wars movie on the same day?

Oh right...they're Fox...

Edit: Ah, didn't catch the Warner Bros. in the press release before. Still, Dragon Ball just got hosed big time.
 
Night_Trekker said:
Why in the hell did they have to go with CG for this? Genndy Tartakovsky's stuff looked great.
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hell yeah

Awesome scene:
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I think it looks pretty decent. My only gripe is the characters with beards. They don't look at that great. The rest looks pretty decent for a CG TV series. Hell, I watched Reboot back in the day and this takes it to town. It looks fine.
 
That looks bad. That is to say, it looks "decent", but decent CG is still bad CG when you're talking about a major movie. They should've gone with hand-drawn animation, or hired Pixar or whatever.
 
Concerning the prequels, they were a complete failure. SO much potential. With that said I still enjoy them.

This CG series has a high visual quality though. Voice acting seems a bit overdramatic, but this could be pretty nice.
 
VaLiancY said:
:lol Ah man, I popped in the Gen Tartakovsky's Clone Wars DVD out of nostalgia. Fuck man, Mace Windu is just annihilating these droids.
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My favorite part of all the prequel stuff, live-action or cartoon.
 
iirc lucas said the 2D cartoons were simply an exercise for what this is going to be. so i'm guessing this is going to be a clone wars redux. as much as i love the cartoons that's gravy with me. it didn't really pick up until the second season (wtf was up with that sinead o'connor sith woman. pretty unecessary, but i digress)

but i dont really understand about it coming to theaters though. and its going to be on tv. what? i'll have to consult the wiki or something.

edit: nevermind. 100 episodes it is
 
I suppose I would have liked the ObiWan/Grievous fight more if it weren't punctuated by that damn chase sequence between a unicycle and a hooting lizard.

Anyway, is this Clone Wars series supposed to overlap with or recreate any scenes from the original animated version?
 
Green Shinobi said:
and Palpatine vs. Mace Windu.
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what

that was like, one of the worst fights scenes ever seen in an action movie, period.
It was like two geriatrics flailing at each other. looked like they were more fighting arthritis than each other.

and the shots were so zoomed in you could barely see any body movement
 
brandonh83 said:
3-4 years between Ep. II and III. I'd say that's plenty of time for more stories.
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I KNEW you'd be in this thread.

Seriously though, I think it looks fucking great and I can't wait to see it. Especially considering how good the Clone Wars cartoons were.
 
i kind of find it ironic that everybody bitches about the certain fights in the prequel trilogy. yet all of them totally blow away the battles of their beloved precious original trilogy, where it looked like everybody was waving a flashlight around.

all battles in the prequel trilogy gave anybody who knew their way with a lightsaber a 'dont fuck with me' edge
 
Tyrone Slothrop said:
i kind of find it ironic that everybody bitches about the certain fights in the prequel trilogy. yet all of them totally blow away the battles of their beloved precious original trilogy, where it looked like everybody was waving a flashlight around.

all battles in the prequel trilogy gave anybody who knew their way with a lightsaber a 'dont fuck with me' edge
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Pretty much. Seriously, go watch Episode IV. Obi Wan v. Vader pt. 2 is underwhelming.
 
Xavien said:
He was still woefully inexperienced compared to obi-wan and his belief that he was "better than all the jedi", betrayed him in that fight. Though he put up one heck of a fight which showed his raw talent.
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He was dirt stupid. The fight's ending was amazingly bad.
"Don't flip over me. I'll cut your legs off."
"I'm jumping over you!"
"Don't!"
*boing* "Auuugh!"
 
Tyrone Slothrop said:
wtf was up with that sinead o'connor sith woman. pretty unecessary, but i digress
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asaaj ventress? she's an actual expanded universe character as far as I know, so I think it's really cool that they threw her in there
 
Looks pretty bland, especially compared to the Genndy series. At least judging by the screenshots there, maybe they're holding back on showing the more action packed stuff (can't get the trailer to load).
 
Gryphter said:
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asaaj ventress? she's an actual expanded universe character as far as I know, so I think it's really cool that they threw her in there
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Asaaj Ventress is a rejected Darth Maul concept that was put into Clone Wars.

I can't see her otherwise.
 
Night_Trekker said:
Yeah, but come on... he's an unstoppable threat at first, taking on seven or eight jedi at one time and killing most of them in the miniseries, and he turns into some robotic Dracula impersonator because of just that? His saber duel with Obi-Wan was beyond pathetic.
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I think it's funny that you guys think he was nerfed in Ep III. I'm more of the opinion that they overpowered him in the Clone Wars cartoon. I don't think he was ever supposed to be as tough as they made him out to be.
 
Do we really need more of the Clone Wars? Haven't they already been destroyed in our hearts by the crappy character/ship designs and bland pre-Vader storyline that took place between II and III?
 
ChunderMan said:
I think it's funny that you guys think he was nerfed in Ep III. I'm more of the opinion that they overpowered him in the Clone Wars cartoon. I don't think he was ever supposed to be as tough as they made him out to be.
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Of course not. He was exaggerated for the cartoon the same way Mace moving at lightspeed, taking out scores of droids, and super-jumping was an [incredibly awesome] exaggerationg. However powerful he is supposed to be without the license taken by the cartoon, he was able to kill a few light-saber wielders as was hinted by his possession of them.
 
DarkJediKnight said:
The Sidious/Yoda fight was great, but the Anakin/Obi fight sucked! The biggest dissapointment was that you never get to see Darth Vader unleashed! He should have been tossing shit around with the force. Yet, we get a lame force block that shows that they are both equally strong. Vader gets beat due to his arrogance, but he should have demonstrated how strong he really was.
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My "Star Wars fan prequel translator" takes the message above and spits it out as:

"Wah! The prequels aren't the way I imagined them so therefore they suck! I mean, I was a fan for years and that entire time I imagined things different from what George Lucas put up on the screen. I would've been all Michael Bay and put more explosions, robots, and Force chokes. Then it'd be all cool and stuff."

FWIW - the prequels turned out pretty much the way Lucas said they'd be - less action and more political and human melodrama.

The Anakin/Obi-Wan fight works perfectly for me because it highlights that neither had the advantage in terms of their "powers or skill". The outcome was determined my human frailty in Anakin's arrogance.

IMHO - the asskicking Vader you want is what the broken human in Anakin becomes after his dreams of power get set aside by his downfall. Although Anakin pre-suit is called Darth Vader, the Anakin pre-lava bath has delusions of "doing good" with his powers with his wife at his side. That Anakin KNOWS he is doing wrong. Post lava bath, he doesn't care about right or wrong until Luke comes along.

I'm looking forward to both the animated Clone Wars cartoons and the TV series. If they are both Young Indy in quality, I'll be a happy camper.
 
....except the dialogue, acting and directing sucked.

They were mediocre movies. Accept it. Accusing people of wanting more action in the prequels is strawman bullshit. I don't exactly remember non-stop action in the original SW movies.
 
The fight between Yoda and Sidious was dumb. It was slow and klunky and made both characters look like idiots. The Anakin Obi-Wan fight on the other hand was SICK, you know, until Anakin dropped that whole "From my point of view the Jedi are evil." line.

Loved episode 3 still, even with all the flaws.
 
K.Jack said:
hell yeah

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I love that scene. Everything that Genndy Tartakovsky touches is gold. For a while Clone Wars was the only good thing to come from the new trilogy.
 
madara said:
Dang I hope it's aimed abit more intelligently then that cartoon network show few years back. Everyone kept praising that and I finally got it on dvd and omg was it juvenile. Constipated Yoda I could not stop laughing and it seemed to be aimed at 5-8 year old bracket with 3 min story telling. I remember it was during the holidays and my family members were around and asking me if I was going play power rangers next.
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I'm at a loss for words.
 
borghe said:
you are possibly certifiably crazy. That was probably the single second best technical fight in the entire movie, only beaten by Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan vs. Maul. I am as much a critic of the prequels as anyone, but the combat in Ep 1 and Ep 3 are amazing. Arguably it's both movies' only saving grace for me.
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I love the combat in the prequels. It's one of the only things they did right. But go watch the kind of stuff Grevious was doing in the CW animated shorts and look at what he doesn't do in the movie. Even given the fact that the action and the force powers were exaggerated in the CW, even given the convenient "oh, he got Force crushed" explanation, he's a complete pushover in the film.

I'm watching it on YouTube and he lasts ten seconds before losing a limb. Come on. This battle was supposed to be epic.

ChunderMan said:
I think it's funny that you guys think he was nerfed in Ep III. I'm more of the opinion that they overpowered him in the Clone Wars cartoon. I don't think he was ever supposed to be as tough as they made him out to be.
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Now that I can see. Everyone in the CW miniseries is a little too strong.

Watching the cartoons and then watching the movie, it's obvious two teams had different ideas for the character, and that's what sucks the most for me. If he had been the same in the shorts (which had me excited for SW for the first time since the Special Edition re-release) as he was in the film, I would have been fine with it.
 
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