"No, that was the Star Wars Trek."

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Wow! I just got back from buying my tickets, guys! It was SO MUCH BETTER THAN I EXPECTED!!!!

First, I pulled right up in the front of the theater! I was running late for a hair appointment, so I was getting really nervous. I practically RAN into the lobby. Imagine my JOY at seeing there was NO LINE!!! The girl at the counter was even dressed up in a Regal Cinemas uniform for the big event! Then I realized I didn't have any cash. *GULP* This is not going to end well, I thought. I felt such relief when she said they accepted credit cards!!! Whew! I asked for FOUR tickets for Saturday at 10. ONE LITTLE PROBLEM... Was that 10 AM or 10 PM, she wanted to know. I took a deep breath, finally, and unclenched my fists and replied, as calmly as possible, "AM." The conclusion left a little to be desired; I had to sign a ticket stub instead of a receipt. Then I was off to my hair cut. What a great night! Lucas did it again!!!

TOtP LOLing

[Reply #241 on:]

This movie was much better than I expected.

I totally agree with nerdo, this is almost tied with Return of the Jedi as my favorite StarWars movie.

It absolutely blew me away.

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One of my favorite little things from the original movies was at the end when Vader and the Emperor are observing the Death Star's construction, that Imperial Officer (I can't remember his name) is there as well. Nice little touch.

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It's Tarkin (though he's digital)... Didn't you notice Mon Mothma at the funeral? And Tantive IV? And the classic trilogy lightsaber?

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VF:       Neeeerd.

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@rage: Go check out the end of Season 1 of Clone Wars.  Grievous wipes the floor with ... 5(?) Jedi, 2 of which were on the Council.

Speaking of, how did Captain Forehead escape that fight?  I haven't seen any of Season 2.

One of my favorite bits (in Ep3) was a background shot in the opening battle - when one of the Clone Pilots gets shot down, you see his body floating in the debris.

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Heheh, Captain Forehead, escapes as follows:

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A clone trooper unit arrives in a gunship while he is still saber dueling with Grievous, and they blast the bejeesus out of him (not hitting anything, of course) then they grab Shaak Ti and Aayla Secura (who also survive) and make tracks.

[Reply #246 on:]

Very, very good film.  I'll have to reflect on it and see it again to really compare it to the original trilogy, but I thought it was very good and towards the end I even had a tear or two in my eye.  This is definitely what the previous prequels should have been.

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Wow, these people act fast...

Going to see the movie this weekend, can't wait.  I may sneakily go see it later today.

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I wouldn’t mind go and see the film but I have to watch the second one first.

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@Melll: I had access to that video for a while. But I didn't see it before I saw it on the big screen.
I saw it again yesterday in the big 'un. Still haven't seen the leaked version.

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Wow, it's so tempting to view the spoilers, but I don't want to spoil it because I havn't seen it.   

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Just watched by SE Version of ESB and ugh, the guys who edited Boba's voice didn't even amp it despite the freaking fact he's wearing a helmet and speaking through an intercom!

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Originally posted by VelourFog:
Wow! I just got back from buying my tickets, guys! It was SO MUCH BETTER THAN I EXPECTED!!!!

First, I pulled right up in the front of the theater! I was running late for a hair appointment, so I was getting really nervous. I practically RAN into the lobby. Imagine my JOY at seeing there was NO LINE!!! The girl at the counter was even dressed up in a Regal Cinemas uniform for the big event! Then I realized I didn't have any cash. *GULP* This is not going to end well, I thought. I felt such relief when she said they accepted credit cards!!! Whew! I asked for FOUR tickets for Saturday at 10. ONE LITTLE PROBLEM... Was that 10 AM or 10 PM, she wanted to know. I took a deep breath, finally, and unclenched my fists and replied, as calmly as possible, "AM." The conclusion left a little to be desired; I had to sign a ticket stub instead of a receipt. Then I was off to my hair cut. What a great night! Lucas did it again!!!

TOtP LOLing

 

I think you may have the wrong thread. 

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Leading you all astray, I ask- how long was Han Solo in that carbonite? Some dudes are arguing over it at some other forum, and I'm getting sick of it. It'd be nice with something to back up the information. Thanks, peoples.

And then go back to the Ep.3 goodness.

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Originally posted by Pikka Bird:
Leading you all astray, I ask- how long was Han Solo in that carbonite?

Well, according to the official timeline, Jedi takes place about a year after Empire, so there you go.

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It's official, at the largest mass of SW fans on the web, ROTS has dethroned ESB as the fan favorite. Note: This obviously didn't happen after TPM and AOTC.

I saw this movie at 12:01, and it blew me the fuck away. I was in tears and in laughter in so many places. Some of the lines made my hair stand on end, with their sheer intensity; or should I say their "POOOOOOWWWWWAHHHHH UNLEEMITAD POOOOOWAAAHHH"? Obi-wans post-Anakin's legs and arm speech made me lose it as did the Order 66. I had no idea it would have such an effect on me. Ki-Adi Mundi went down like such a warrior. The audience and I gasped in horror as the Arc troopers gunned down Aayla Secura and fried her corpse. A mother covered her childs ears and eyes during the temple raid and Anakin frying in the hot sand of mustafar and being operated on by the cold malicous hands of the medical droids and the intercut scenes his dying wife giving birth to the galaxies last hope.
     The multiple endings put ROTK to shame.  They were more efficient and much more memorable and didn't make the audience lose patients and feel more like getting up and leaving then feeling what the characters feel. The success of this movie comes down to the ability to feel what the characters feel with such empathy. No other Prequel could achieve such a feat as could no other Original trilogy movie.

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Originally posted by Nixorbo
Jar Jar didn't have a single line!

It was really subtle, but when Anakin and Obi Wan land for the first time, Jar Jar is in their little welcoming party. When they are all walking away, he says "excuse me".

[Reply #257 on:]

::doesn't listen to hobojobo::

I meant to mention that ending sequence - the birth of Episodes 4-6: great editing there.

Anyone else agree that Obi-Wan did to Young Vader what Darth Maul should have done to him in Episode 1?

If Lucas were really cool, he'd have returned the nods given to him in RotK by calling Planet Mt. Doom Planet Orodruin.

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Anyone else agree that Obi-Wan did to Young Vader what Darth Maul should have done to him in Episode 1?

On the face of it, yes. But, then again, you could see both as examples of the most crippling of Sith weaknesses: arrogance. Maul thought Obi-Wan was as good as done for. Vader thought his uber-ness could overcome simple battle logic. Hell, the fact that Obi-Wan bascially told him exactly what would happen if he tried indicates that Ben was completely ready for it, and Anakin should have known better.

Long story short: Sith is teh dumb.

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I still want to know why the Jedi seemed to get nuked so easy.  I mean, the Twi'lek one didn't even get to draw her sabre.

I still think that one Padawan kicked ass.

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Originally posted by David A:
 Well, according to the official timeline, Jedi takes place about a year after Empire, so there you go.

Actually, Han Solo was in Carbonite waaaaay longer than just a year. I believe it is either 3 years or 5 if you count things like Shadows of The Empire and some other EU stuff. 

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Um... no. It's a year. Shadows takes place within that one year.

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Where was "i've got a bad feeling about this"?

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Right near the start. Obi-Wan said it while he was zipping around in his fighter. Can't remember the exact circumstance... though I bet it was just as they were about to do something dangerous.

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Episode III rocked.
It's my second favorite, only topped by ROTJ.

That whole Jedi killing scene was a lot...
I jumped out of my seat when I saw Plo Koon get killed, he's my favorite jedi.

Also, at the end of the movie I yelled "Wow, I bet there's going to be a sequel to this movie!"   

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Also, what does Senator Organa say to Antilles about the droids?
Apparently C-3PO doesn't like it.

Also again, what does Yoda say about Qui-Gon Jinn?

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Well I saw it, thought it was good enough.

@nibblerjr

my memory is not perfect but

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1. I am sure the senator orders the droids memories to be erased, which makes sense I guess otherwise C3PO would of been able to tell Luke about his father in the orignal trilogy.

2. Yoda tells Obi Wan that Qui Gon has mastered an immoratality technique and that Obi Wan should learn it (the whole ghost thing I would assume)

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Originally posted by NibblerJr:
Episode III rocked.
It's my second favorite, only topped by ROTJ.

That whole Jedi killing scene was a lot...
I jumped out of my seat when I saw Plo Koon get killed, he's my favorite jedi.

Also, at the end of the movie I yelled "Wow, I bet there's going to be a sequel to this movie!"     

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Also, what does Senator Organa say to Antilles about the droids?
Apparently C-3PO doesn't like it.

Also again, what does Yoda say about Qui-Gon Jinn?

They've taken note of his Plo Koon's popularity. Hopefully he will get his deleted scenes back. He got a few kills before croaking and three lines. One during a council meeting, another when all the minor jedi are giving their reports and I heard rumors of a "Holy shit" type of line during his 66 scene. I think that last one's false due to the lack of dialog in those montages.

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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:
Um... no. It's a year. Shadows takes place within that one year.

I don't agree with you Slacky, I think it's 3 years. The DS2 must have taken an age to build, hell they weren't finished with it in ROTJ.

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I thought that you were supposed to be some kind of Star Wars trivia expert, Nurdy.  The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi take place three and four years after A New Hope respectively.  Therefore, Jedi takes place one year after Empire.

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I re-watched eps 1 and 2 this week (I'm sure I was the only one...) and I noticed a bit of an odd timing thing between the two.  Correct me if I'm wrong (I wasn't paying full attention, it is a boring movie, after all), but wasn't Owen Lars introduced as Anakin's half-brother? As in Shmi married his father and had him in the time between the two movies?  So... how far apart are those movies, because Owen looked about as old as Anakin.  Of course, this whole thing is irrelevant if Shmi isn't acctually Owen's mother. I don't care enough to re-watch the movie, just enough to bring it up on the internet.

Anyhow, saw Ep3 and loved it. I'm not sure yet where it stands in relation to the OT, I'm waiting to see if it just seems really good in comparison to the other prequels or actually is a great SW movie on it's own right.

Also, did they imply that Anakin's 'father' was Palpy's former master? Creepy...

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Hmm. I thought they said Anakin had the immaculate conception thing going.  This explains quite a bit about him: no strong male influence until he was around nine years old.

Anyway, I thought that Palpatine's old master

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was this Darth Plagus fellow, who had taught him the ability to prevent natural death, or to resurrect people I forget which. I thought that the way they were going to go was that Palpatine hadn't quite mastered this technique, that Grievous had been an experiment (he's a cyborg, in case you didn't notice,) and that Vader was his next step.  Obviously, he was practicing up for himself.  Sadly, this was not expanded on, and I guess I was expecting too much of that little aside.

Also, can someone who's read the novel fill me in on the backstory for Grievous?  I'sa li'l confoosed.

Oh, and the impression I got from Ep II was that Owen would be Anakin's step-brother.  Only about ten years passed between I and II as I recall.

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Originally posted by Nerd-o-rama:
Hmm. I thought they said Anakin had the immaculate conception thing going.  This explains quite a bit about him: no strong male influence until he was around nine years old.

Yeah, but in the opera scene, Palpatine said that

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Darth Plagus or whatever even had the ability to use the midichlorians themselves to create life. I just made the connection to Anakin's 'concieved by midichlorians' origin (as idiotic as it is...). 

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I am a little confused though. I mean how long did it take to build the orginal Death Star? I mean construction began at when Leia and Luke are just babies.

Anywho.

Can people recomend the good books from the series. I have read Shadows of the Empire (which i enjoyed). So any recomendations.

[Reply #273 on:]

I always thought Vader FELL into a volcano...

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he kinda just landed near one. LAME!
and I'm sorry, I was watching the movie, but I couldn't exactly tell which body parts got cut off

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I saw it twice and loved it even more the second time.

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I kinda felt sorry for Count Dooku though, I loved that look on his face just before he's killed.

Also I didin't know the guy with Vader and the Emperor was Tarkin.

And did anyone else think Palpatine looked really creepy after he puts on his hood when his face was deformed?

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Saw it earlier today. Best of the prequels (I actually liked them) second best of the series (after Empire Strikes Back), and the best movie I've seen in 18 months (since Return of the King).

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The opening half hour or so (the rescue mission) were brilliant. The next bit was a bit cheesy, with some lame dialogue and acting. Starting with Mace Windu's death, the movie picked up momentum and was brilliant until the end. I loved the Anakin/Obi-Wan and Yoda/Sidious duels, and the way they intercut.

I'd give it a 9.5/10. It does what all good finales do... make me wish that the series would continue. 

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Did anyone else watch the Opera scene or whatever it was and think, "Yeah, ok Final Fantasy X"?

@Wukong:

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He just ordered "the protocol droid's" memory wiped, not R2's

To people ragging on the script: having Mace echo almost exactly word-for-word what Palpatine told Anakin in the beginning: genious.  Also, Obi-Wan's final speech to Anakin: good.

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Originally posted by David A:
I thought that you were supposed to be some kind of Star Wars trivia expert, Nurdy.  The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi take place three and four years after A New Hope respectively.  Therefore, Jedi takes place one year after Empire.

Well I say it's 2 or 3 years before ROTJ, to me it makes sense. After all, Luke has changed a lot since his confrontation with Vader. I'm sure training to be a Jedi Knight in Galaxy where you are the only one left is pretty hard, Even for Skywalker. He'd have to look up ancient texts that escaped the Imperial Purge, train with his Lightsaber and force powers more. It makes sense too, Mark Hamil aged a little bit between movies.

Ever since George started fiddling with the movie CANON saying that Stormtroopers were clones, then contradicting that and miticholorians (pardon my Corellian) I've decided to make my own mind up with the time line. I may be wrong, but I don't really care because it the long run it's all fiction.

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Way to many Nazi germany/Star wars Paralells. Chancellor Gains Ultimate power to "clean the place up", Storm Troopers etc..

I thought it was damn good. I laughed at the "Noooooo!" part though. So cheesy.

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Great end to a great saga. Did anyone think that the duels (apart from the last one) were short. Dooku's lasts only about 1 and a half minutes. I am a complete darksider so I found it great when

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*Vader storms the temple. When he kills the younglings I get a sense of sick satisfaction that the jedi are being killed. The assasination on mustafar was great too. I have to say I thought vader was winning most of the duel with obi 1.
The quote for the C-3PO memory wipe is...
Bail organa: Clean these droids up and have the protocol droid's memory wiped.
R2-D2: (weird beep laugh).
C-3PO: Oh my !. *

Also did anyone notice the error on the opening scroll. It says two jedi KNIGHTS are sent when obi is a jedi master.