Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Official Teaser Trailer #2

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Hystzen said:
I still don't get the title for episode 2 I mean Attack of The Clones? It makes them sound like clones are enemies in the film but they Republic army and the actual clones don't pop in til near the end. The rest titles in the saga actually make sense but attack of clones always stood out to me it like they had issues titling the film
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Well, that's really what it should have been- a marauding clone army the Republic had to defend against. Attack of the Clones is actually a pretty good title - certainly no worse than The Empire Strikes Back - and evokes the pulpy sci-fi of the 40s and 50s. In a hypothetical alternate prequel trilogy, I'd probably keep it as the title of the second movie.
 
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Timbuktu said:
I would be more surprised if we ever see asians in Star Wars, I guess having east asians would make SW's connection to wuxia/samarai films too obvious.

Edit: outside of asian like aliens obviously
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Actually one of the X-Wing pilots is Asian (can't remember if it's in SW or ROTJ).

Bufbaf said:
compared to the size of the falcon in that shot, how on earth would you ever construct that star destroyer within a lifetime? Or even, how would you create and transport one (!) of it's metal parts, that by itself is bigger than an entire spaceship.

Oh god and now I'm thinking about the Death Star.


Star Wars, you're so silly!

I still love that shot though
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Well, yeah, this is Star Wars. Didn't they build the second Death Star in like 2 years? It was not finished but it was functional.
 
I've never even finished Episode III.

II & III soured the franchise so badly, I didn't even care about Star Wars again until I heard about Rogue One.

It's a damn shame, considering how much I loved the world as a kid - between the Original Trilogy & the LucasArts SW games it went from a beloved universe to bottom of the barrel.

I have high hopes for this new batch of movies, though.
 
inm8num2 said:
Don't have a better gif, but if we're talking SLJ in the prequels I like this part of the Windu/Palpatine fight.

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"Sam, just walk forward and swing your lightsaber around as if he's doing flips in front of you."
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I honestly think that fight is the worst in the whole series. Just so badly done.

Sidious was actually pretty creepy in 1 and 2 but they just threw that away for a cartoon monster. I just can't accept that the shadowy, sinister guy from the holograms is the same guy cartwheeling around his office and shrieking.
 
The only good things about the prequels are

1. Ewan McGregor's performances

2. Natalie Portman being the biggest cock-tease in the Republic throughout Episode II

3. John Williams' scores

4. Ian McDiarmid as the Emperor, fun just to see a character who bloody loved being evil, could have done without the monster face though.
 
I was watching Jeremy Jahns AOTC review on Youtube the other day, and he made a good point. All of the other movie titles had some kind of major plot or thematic relevance to what was going on in the film. But "Attack of the Clones," a. the clones do not really "attack," and b. it's not important to the overall movie. The film really should have been called "Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side" or something like that. A title like that would make much more sense given what happens in that film.
 
Asami208 said:
I was watching Jeremy Jahns AOTC review on Youtube the other day, and he made a good point. All of the other movie titles had some kind of major plot or thematic relevance to what was going on in the film. But "Attack of the Clones," a. the clones do not really "attack," and b. it's not important to the overall movie. The film really should have been called "Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side" or something like that. A title like that would make much more sense given what happens in that film.
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Lucas only picked it because of his obsession over 50's and 60's monster movie titles like Attack of the Giant Ants or whatever-- and the clones did attack the arena at the end. Like with the rest of the franchise it's just meant to be in good fun. I'm not sure what I would have called it. I think Attack of the Clones sounds fun. An alternate title maybe could have been "The Clone Invasion" as Episode II marks the episode where the clones come into play and will be such a huge part of the wars as well as paving the way toward the stormtroopers; they do "invade" the galaxy, pretty much, from that point on.
 
Hystzen said:
I still don't get the title for episode 2 I mean Attack of The Clones? It makes them sound like clones are enemies in the film but they Republic army and the actual clones don't pop in til near the end.
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Well, in all fairness, Return of the Jedi didn't have the Jedi return until the end. :)
 
I have a soft spot for Episode I. It's my favourite of the trilogy, as far as a single standalone experience is concerned. I recall liking III more, but I'll be lying if I said there wasn't the factor of it being the connecting piece to the Original Trilogy.

Episode II, however, is trash. The love story was so fucking horrible.
 
dreamcastfan said:
Well, in all fairness, Return of the Jedi didn't have the Jedi return until the end. :)
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Well it kind of did. The Jedi "returned" via Luke. Hence lines like:

"Pass on what you have learned."
"When gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be."
"You have failed your highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me."
"So be it, Jedi."
 
Nightengale said:
I have a soft spot for Episode I. It's my favourite of the trilogy, as far as a single standalone experience is concerned. I recall liking III more, but I'll be lying if I said there wasn't the factor of it being the connecting piece to the Original Trilogy.
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I love a lot of things about each prequel, but I think Episode I, in terms of vision, is perhaps Lucas' most accomplished work. Episode III is easily my favorite, but I have a soft spot for Episode I when it comes to the art, character design, soundtrack, the first time seeing a lightsaber that wasn't a single blade, the podrace, the fight at the end, and so on. I think it's a bizarrely fun movie to look at, despite some of the CG, namely the Gungan battle at the end. I think it holds up visually for the most part.

Episode III is my favorite because of the story and action, and I think it has slightly better writing and performances than the others, but I do, like you said, have a soft spot for Episode I.
 
Nightengale said:
I have a soft spot for Episode I. It's my favourite of the trilogy, as far as a single standalone experience is concerned. I recall liking III more, but I'll be lying if I said there wasn't the factor of it being the connecting piece to the Original Trilogy.

Episode II, however, is trash. The love story was so fucking horrible.
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I hate what Episode III did to Padme. Say what you want about the ungodly crappy "love story," but at least Episodes I and II Padme was a formidable character in her own right, who did crap outside of Anakin. By the time we get to Episode III, she's "Anakin's wife," and nothing more. EVERYTHING about her in that film is tied to Anakin:

-Talking to Anakin.
-Talking to someone else ABOUT Anakin.
-Staring out the window longingly for Anakin.
-Worrying about Anakin.
-Crying over Anakin.
-Getting killed by Anakin.
-ETC.

So freaking bad, and don't even get me started on the grade-A BS that was "she's lost the will to live, and is dying of a broken heart." That's the final insult to her character.
 
I've never understood why people think Episode III is actually one of the better ones, they are all equally awful with maybe a highlight or two. Order 66 was so bad, the Jedi put up no fight whatsoever.
 
brandonh83 said:
Well she was very pregnant and staying on the down-low, and yeah she was worried about her husband so... yeah? I don't see how that was insulting at all, she cares about him. Maybe it's sexist and is just going over my head.

Anyway here's a pretty funny teaser reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbnljAq1URI
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Because that's ALL she does. She loses any and all agency of her own. You could replace her with a "sexy lamp" and not much would change. She's a prop for Anakin, nothing more. Contrast that to TPM/AOTC, where she had stuff of her own to do (you know, being an allegedly important politician and all).
 
jelly said:
I've never understood why people think Episode III is actually one of the better ones, they are all equally awful with maybe a highlight or two. Order 66 was so bad, the Jedi put up no fight whatsoever.
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They weren't exactly expecting their squads to turn on them. The Jedi were confident buffoons and Palpatine's element of surprise got the better of them.

Asami208 said:
Because that's ALL she does. She loses any and all agency of her own. You could replace her with a "sexy lamp" and not much would change. She's a prop for Anakin, nothing more. Contrast that to TPM/AOTC, where she had stuff of her own to do (you know, being an allegedly important politician and all).
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I'm not really sure what the deal is. She's in late pregnancy so she's not going to be that actively involved in much because she's trying to hide it.
 
brandonh83 said:
They weren't exactly expecting their squads to turn on them. The Jedi were confident buffoons and Palpatine's element of surprise got the better of them.
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None of the Jedi sensed anything wrong about their murderous associates. The force wasn't that strong with them I guess.
 
zoukka said:
None of the Jedi sensed anything wrong about their murderous associates. The force wasn't that strong with them I guess.
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The clones were practically robots just following commands; they didn't know they were about to turn on the Jedi so of course they didn't sense it.
 
jelly said:
I've never understood why people think Episode III is actually one of the better ones, they are all equally awful with maybe a highlight or two. Order 66 was so bad, the Jedi put up no fight whatsoever.
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I always found Revenge of the Sith to be just more of the same nonsense that we had to endure in Attack of the Clones.
 
brandonh83 said:
They weren't exactly expecting their squads to turn on them. The Jedi were confident buffoons and Palpatine's element of surprise got the better of them.



I'm not really sure what the deal is. She's in late pregnancy so she's not going to be that actively involved in much because she's trying to hide it.
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It's the way they died though, AOTC they were deflecting laser blasts like pros for the most part, even then a few sucked but when Order 66 came through it's like how do use a lightsaber ?
 
jelly said:
It's the way they died though, AOTC they were deflecting laser blasts like pros for the most part, even then a few sucked but when Order 66 came through it's like how do use a lightsaber ?
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I would argue that it's a much different context, again they were all taken by surprise. No matter how good you are, getting ambushed randomly out of nowhere by a bunch of troopers isn't going to work out well for you. You bring up AOTC and how they deflect lasers but they weren't taken by immediate surprise there, and you still saw plenty of them be killed even when they were in the defensive.
 
We only saw a few snippets of Order 66, and the situations vary. Some were ambushed outside battle, so they were taken 100% by surprise, with the Jedi not even having their sabers drawn. And there's also those taken out while they were riding ships/bikes. And Jedis were never impervious super-heroes who can take down armies of blast-fires. Less we forget Qui-gon and Obi-wan had to retreat in the opening scene of Episode 1 against a bunch of Droidekas.

Personally, the only minor nitpick I could see with O66 was the failure of the Jedis to sense it at all, but that could easily be chalked up to the fact that the Force isn't omnipotent, and that the clones, by and large, were just following orders without any sense of right/wrong.
 
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