[OT] Reactions to NEW Episode II Trailer

[Pielorinho]

Missed the trailer. I was out seeing the movie Focus -- and now I have a dent in my forehead. If you look in the dent, you can see a phrase printed backward: "Prejudice is Bad," it says. Man, that moral hurt when it hit me over the head.

I'll go see the movie, but strictly on inertia. I do think it would be even cooler if they introduced a sith lord who fought with a light saber in each hand

-and one in his mouth. Now THAT would be REALLY cool.

Daniel

 

[Some guy from Ohio]

Wolfspider,
I applaud you and your stand, though I don’t agree with you. I’ve been following the various Star Wars threads and you are consistent. I am a huge Star Wars fan that is constantly being driven to distraction by the “bashing” threads, but I stay silent because everyone can have an opinion. Stand by yours and take any flaming with pride.
And one more point for mmu1.

Amidala runs around shooting at things looking a lot like Lea, a lot of soldiers stand around looking a lot like stormtroopers, there's a bounty hunter just like Boba Fett and a ship just like Boba Fett's,

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Amidala is Leia's mother, the soldiers are clone troopers, the template for stormtroopers, and the bounty hunter is Jango Fett, Boba's father. This is where Boba Fett gets his armor and ship called Slave 1.

 

[Methinkus]

i wonder what ever happened to Sauron-with-a-Pointy-hat

 

[mmu1]

Wolfspider,
I applaud you and your stand, though I don’t agree with you. I’ve been following the various Star Wars threads and you are consistent. I am a huge Star Wars fan that is constantly being driven to distraction by the “bashing” threads, but I stay silent because everyone can have an opinion. Stand by yours and take any flaming with pride.
And one more point for mmu1.
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Amidala is Leia's mother, the soldiers are clone troopers, the template for stormtroopers, and the bounty hunter is Jango Fett, Boba's father. This is where Boba Fett gets his armor and ship called Slave 1.

Do tell... Next thing you'll be telling me Leia and Luke are related and Darth Vader is their father... Have you by any chance missed this part of my post?:

" To me at least, a lot of it felt completely irrelevant when it wasn't ripping off the previous movies for a cheap sentimental reaction."

There is no visual continuity between the movies - items from the older movies have simply been ripped out and stuck into the prequels in a clumsy attempt to generate a sense of continuity, and in many cases (R2 droids originally being used in the taxi-cab yellow, pretty, 50's hood-ornament shaped Naboo ships? Right...) they stick out like a sore thumb, and are obvious for what they are - in there for the sake of a weak tie-in rather than for the benefit of the story.

 

[Gargoyle]

I thought the trailer was great. For two people who see eye to eye on dragons 100%, Wolfspider and I seem to be polar opposites on Star Wars...

The thing that pleased me more than anything about the trailer is that it was more of what I thought the other ones should have been. This one seemed more focused on the overall story, and less on the subplots of the several different relationships, ie Anakin/Amidala, Anakin/Obi-Wan, etc.

I'm particularly looking forward to Palpatine's early conversations with Anakin, and the "dead horse with a new twist" discussions here on Anakin's use of two lightsabers.

 

[your_mother]

My opinion

FotR left too much out from the book!
Phantom Menace had Jar Jar, midi-chlorians and Jake Lloyd!
FotR is highly overrated!
Episode II's trailer isn't exciting!
FotR changed too much from the books!
Episode II looks like some lame love story!
George Lucas ran over my dog!
Peter Jackson insulted my mother!
etc. etc. etc.
repeat ad infinitum

Living up to the expectations of a cult fan base must be harder than it looks...

Rounser, I love you.

And on that note (while I haven't read this entire thread) I think it's neat that people have stopped bashing at / defending the Trailer and immediately gone for each other's throats. It's beautiful.

Possible SPOILERS

Now, about Episode II: From what I've read, it is supposed to feature lots of Mr. Fett Senior. This is good.

Also, there will be less Jar Jar. This is also good.

And finally, it's going to lead up to Anakin's fall (maybe not in this movie, but eventually doggonit!) and that's going to be neat too.

Honestly, I didn't see Episode I in the theatre because there wasn't enough lines for Mr. Maul. I like bad guys. I like bad guys with lots of lines. That made me sad, so I didn't see it. Instead, I bought it on VHS: talk about disappointing! It was a cool film--for what it was, mind you--and I enjoyed watching it a couple of times. But then I noticed that I wasn't seeing the whole screen; it had been PAN-N-SCANNED! This made me angry, angry, angry. Needless to say, I ditched the VHS tape and will probably be buying the DVD some day, when all my cash is not going into gaming books and bills.

End SPOILERS and my awful opinion

 

[madriel]

Popped over to apple.com to take a look at the trailer. It looks like AotC will be much better than Phantom Menace.

However, I found some of the scenes visually confusing. Someone said previously that they found some scenes too busy and I agree. The brief time Anakin and Amidala were speaking they seemed rather wooden. The political aspect of the plot shown in the trailer seemed good with Palpatine grabbing extra powers through legitimate means.

I was planning on waiting for this to come out on video, but I think I may give this one a chance at the theatre after all. (On cheap night )

 

[Gizzard]

Popped over to apple.com to take a look at the trailer. It looks like AotC will be much better than Phantom Menace.

Maybe we should compare apples to apples by comparing the EP1 trailers to the EP2 trailers.

Remember the excitement when the EP1 trailers came out? Everyone loved them; there was huge excitement and buzz; everyone in the world was going to go see the movie on opening night because it had created such a stir.

But the truth of trialers is this: if you spend a couple hundred million dollars on spectacular effects for a two hour movie then you surely have enough material to string together 90 seconds of images that look like they might be interesting.

Thats the thing about EP1 as a movie; while it looked just spiffy all the time, it sucked from a plot, acting and character point of view. That makes it a perfect source to be cut up and made into an exciting trailer, but it was pretty painful as a moviegoing experience.

Do I expect more from EP2? Why would I!?

 

[trancejeremy]

I thought the trailer was pretty good.

I guess this is where the movies completely go astray from the various books, comics, and such, though.

That is why I dislike George Lucas - why would he let companies create a background for Boba Fett, when he knew very well he'd simply create his own for the prequel trilogy.

I mean, the whole Boba Fett background wasn't even started all that long ago - 5-6 years I think. About the same times as the Sith stuff. (Which again, he knew he was going to change)

The only reason he let them do that was for money. But really, not all that much, comparatively. Same reason he would abruptly change CCG companies (not to mention RPG companies)

So really, instead of Attack of the Clones, the title should be the same as that new Ice Cube movie, "All about the Benjamins"

Anyway, my point is, while it looked pretty good, I'll either wait til it's on video and buy a used copy, or wait til it's on TV.

Of course, my theory is, he did all this because he's still bitter over Willow being a flop. This is his way of payback.

 

[Mortaneus]

Well, here's some links for people to play with:

Links to Trailer, with mirrors:
http://www.movie-list.com

Complete Spoiler of Movie, including Script:
http://www.supershadow.com/

Enjoy.