http://home.comcast.net/~tcmack23/pi...wi75-cover.jpg

Yeah but this picture is a hell of a lot better to judge GRIEVOUS by!

^ yeah he looks wack, sorry; lol.

i dunno if this has already been mentioned, but i just heard on tv today that Keisha Castle-Hughes, the Oscar nominated 13 year old actress who starred in last year's Whale Rider has just been cast as the Queen of Naboo.

If you have no idea who this girl is, go to this link.

I dunno, he looks pretty damn cool to me. Just as long as the entire movie isn't CG like ep2, I'll be fine. There was just an overabundance and overreliance on graphics and shit. Plus the super-bad acting on the part of Hayden Christensen, bleh.

God I hope that's just concept art.

^nope lol that's the guy. haha. and how could you not expect episode 3 to be mostly cg? lmao that's funny. It'll be just like the first two prequels... meaning MOSTLY cg. I thought Hayden did a pretty good job in Star Wars... I mean it's STAR WARS; you can't expect Oscar-worthy performances in it.

Is it just me or does he look like he's made out of plastic?

Please note that Greivous' final colour scheme has still not yet been finalised.

The new Star Wars movies were good, but not great. Give me the originals any day.

Boba better get his revenge on that damn Mace Windu !!

I breaks my heart, but my 3 year old son prefers to watch Attack of the Clones over any of the original Trilogy. He does enjoy watching Return of the Jedi (mostly because of Jabba and the inevitable Ewoks) when I play them on LD. Hopefully once the DVD's are released he may find them to be better than the new Trilogy.

On a side note it was hilarious the other day when he and I were looking through one of the DK picture books and he made the realization that Anakin was inside Darth Vader. It really messed with his mind :D I wonder what he'll think of Episode 3 when he finally gets to watch it.

Love 4, 5, and 6. Amazing movies. Ep 1 was so-so. Ep 2 had some really great things in it but the melodramatic love story between Anakin and the Queen was so lame. Darth Vader was NOT supposed to be such a whiney little bitch!

Darth isn't. Anakin is.

i guess so. That's why Darth is much cooler than Anakin. Anakin was too much of a pussy :)

Jedi??? To quote Kevin Smith's classic Clerks "All Jedi had was a bunch of muppets"

You know I was really looking forward to AotC, depite the rather crappy title, even though Ep 1 was pure crap. To tell you the truth I rather liked Clones... well let me rephrase that... I rather liked Clones when Obi Wan was onscreen. The Padme/Ani crap? That's what the skip button on the DVD player is for :)
Do I have hope that Ep 3 will be great? Not much. Do I think it will be good? Possibly. Will it be as good as Empire? Not a hope in hell.

BTW the SPOILER that Sam Jackson gave away is... and skip it if you dont want to read it but if you've seen the original trilogy its no surprise...
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Mace Windu (Samuel L Jackson) dies. Wow what a shock.

May not be a surprise but him getting owned by Anakin and Palpatine at the same time is gonna be cool to watch.

Ep1 was a piece of shit. It boiled down to a stupid fucking pod race,and an anticlimatic sword fight (Maul got fucking CHODED so bad in that), and Jar Jar fucking Binks, the source of all that is evil and wrong in the world.

Ep2, Yup, that sucked two. Little Skywaker was a whiny fucking BITCH before he put the helmet on. And while he was only in it for 30 seconds tops, it STILL had Jar Jar fucking Binks, the source of all that is evil and wrong in the world. The story was weak, the big villian at the end had the dumest fucking name in the universe. Lord Dookie. What the fuck is that?

There are two reasons, and two reasons only I'm waiting to see the thrid.

1: With luck, we will see Jar Jar fucking Binks, the source of all that is evil and wrong in the world eat the wrong end of a laser blaster.

2: The birth of Vader. The voice of James Earl Jones will once again bring it's joy to the starwars universe. For some things, I will sit through any movie, no matter how bad

BTW, it was Count Dooku, not Dookie. But point taken.

Is it just me or has any body else made the connection that the one character that everbody hates (I'm refering of course to Seer666's tirade) is the one character to ulitmately give Palapatine the go-ahead to take over the galaxy?

Everything in the OT boils down to Jar Jar being a character that wants to do right, and thinks that his actions are what Padme would do to end the feuding. Without Jar Jar there would be no "Grand Army of the Republic" and Anakin wouldn't end up being Vader.

I think GL heard all of the ranting and backlash over Jar Jar and decided to make him be the one character who, through good intentions, unravels the entire galaxy, and vindicates the character of Jar Jar.

Being the unwitting puppet of the evil macinations of someone so much smarter then him does NOT vindicate Jar Jar. Nothing will ever make up for that.....

She did a phenomenal job in "Whale Rider". The girl can act.

I read on Fark yesterday that Gary Oldman may provide the voice of General Grievous in Ep. III, and I found two sources that say he might, too.

http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=5250

http://www.wizardnews.com/story.20040624.html

I'm still not sure Gary's doing it, but it would surely be a kick-ass performance if he does. :thumbsup:

Meanwhile, work is coming along on the film at a slow to medium pace:

http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/...s20040625.html

Man! I can't wait to see Kashyyyk. :D

Somewhere, George Lucas is crying because he realized what a hack he had become after he saw Peter Jackson not only NOT fuck up lotr, but make it the pimpest shit in town. After I watched episodes 1 & 2, I thought they were subpar AT BEST... But I trying to rationalize it thinking, "Well, Star Wars is such a huge universe with so much hype and material to cover that it would be impossible for anybody to do it any justice." Well now I obviously know that that is not true, because Jackson accomplished what I thought was the impossible.

When will they unveil the title of the 3rd film? I know the rumor is "Episode III: Rise of the Empire", but is there a date set to let us know officially?

It has to be cheesier than "Attack of the Clones."

I can't believe Lucas is STILL going for nothing but crappy CGI. Audiences are getting tired of CGI's obviously fake effects; how long is it going to be until directors catch on?

If I mentioned Supershadow earlier forgive me, I was fooled, realised the error of my ways many many months ago.

http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/...0040625_bg.jpg

Anakin's not looking like a bitch anymore.

You kidding? No badass could possibly possess those golden locks.

He looks like he's trying for his "mad" face, but it comes off more as "petulant".

He may not look like a bitch, but he'll sure sound like one.

No way the whiny little bastard voice of Annie can turn into James Earl Jones. Thank you Lucas for fucking up another area of the movies.

Will there every be a chance that a ST film will be made not written by Lucas? I wonder.
Probably not but that is something I would look forward to. There are tons of books that could be put into film; hell I thought KOTR would have made a decent flick.

Ahem... regardless of Lucas' propaganda, the rebels are the bad guys. :)

I hope that guys' article is satire, not his real take on the series. :rolleyes:

All I can say is I am going to go see it.

Mace Windu >*

and for the star wars universe holds Lucas please , for the love of all that is holy don't make this about kids and such. its a dark film the jedi are hunted and or killed some make some do not.

The debates about Star Wars prequels are always hilarious.

The ONLY reason people think the first two suck is because of the nostalgia factore created by the first 3. They were something new and innvoative for their time. The story WAS done before (I believe Lucas just merged several popular stories/themes together). Also, most people saw these as kids. There was a HUGE "wow!" factor.

Fast forward 15 years later.. TPM wasn't anything special in terms of graphics. CGI broke boundaries in Jurassic Park 7 years prior, so nothing new in that department.

Considering the original 3 were Episodes 4, 5, and 6, it's the job of the first 3 to simply fill the story that leads up to those movies. Had 1, 2, and 3 been made FIRST, the series probably wouldn't have been as popular. TPM was about.. what? The senate/republic blah blah.. who wants to see that? Well... people clamored for years about the first 3 episodes, and now ya got em! What'd you think it was gonna be about?

Acting was just as shoddy in EP 4, 5, and 6 as it was in EP 1 & 2. Yeah, Jar Jar is a bit out of place, but the character isn't that big of a deal. Anakin in TPM was a horrible actor, but so was Mark Hamill in EP4.

You're witnessing the amazing power of hype. The prequels aren't bad movies at all... it's just that you're expecting them to utterly blow you out of the water when you already know how the story ends, on TOP of a lack of "wow!" from special effects. The MEAT of the storyline was EP 4, 5, and 6... and probably 3 considering it's the turning point of Anakin/Vader. Movies prior to that.. simply filler acts leading to the real deal.

Remember the hype surrounding the Matrix? The first one was goddamn NICE, but because people expected the sequels (which were also good movies) to totally be on par or BEAT the first, they were left disappointed.

The fact of the matter is, if you liked the first 3, you WILL see EP3. You know you will. People can ridicule George Lucas about his money vault all they want, but also realize you're helping him get there ;)

That's it. That's the argument I was looking for. I couldn't have put it better myself, Stompy, because you're precisely correct. I mean, come on, 17 years of anticipation is gonna make anything that you see on-screen, especially something as ultra-hyped as Star Wars, is gonna pale in comparison to your expectations. None of these movies were that bad, the expectations of those who watched them were too high, bolstered by the fact that you had almost 20 years of waiting piled on top of whatever expectations you might have had for the movie. That's just not fair to the people who made them.

The only problem I've had in the two new movies was the teen Anakin being such a whiny little bitch and the putt-putting of the vehicle's engines, the rest doesn't bother me.
Jake Lloyd wasn't that bad for a kid, and I always enjoyed Jar Jar.
I just find him funny. :D

Finally, someone with some god damn sense, thanks Stompy! I've loved every Star Wars film so far and doubt very much that I'm not gonna love Episode III too.

I didn't like the first two, but I'm sure George Lucas is going to try his hardest to make this last Star Wars film great. I'm looking forward to it.

That's easily explained by the machine suit. He doesn't sound like James Earl Jones when the helmet's off.

Stompy, thank you for saying what badly needs to be said...over and over again. You're completely right. I can't wait for episode III - I'm sure I'll enjoy it to some degree. Only time will tell what degree that will be.

Am I the only one who found this fucking hilarious? =D