Ok, I just watched episode 1 over again.. MAN did this movie SUCK.. I never realized it til now, but Yoda wasn't even CGI in the first movie.. then all the sudden he became CGI in episode 2 and 3.. that puppet in episode 1 looked so dumb..
Well... depends on who and what you want to believe, but supposedly Lucas had outlines written for the "sequel" trilogy. I guess this constitutes as a spoiler, if you actually believe they represent episodes VII, VII, and IX AND you believe they'll be made into film. . . . . http://www.supershadow.com/starwars/jedi_sith.html
I don't know if I wanna see Leia a 100 years old...I gotta bad feeling the sequels (7,8,9) could be the Godfather III of the franchise... I thought there was a story of the Emperor not really dead and coming back in a host body to tempt Anakin Solo, son of Han and Leia. Must be inbetween Episode 6 and 7. Then there is the story of Luke actually succumbing to the Emperor and joining the darkside so that he can learn the darkside and destroy the Emperor while being his Sith apprentice.
Incredible amount of $158.5 Mil earned since thursday INCREDIBLE!! WOW!!! Article Link 'Star Wars' earns $108.5 million in 1st US weekend The final installment of George Lucas' "Star Wars" series grossed about $108.5 million during its first weekend of release across North America, the second-best three-day opening of all time, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday. The record is held by "Spider-Man," which opened to almost $115 million in 2002. "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" narrowly pipped "Shrek 2," which bowed with $108 million in 2004. Final data will be released on Monday. Since its release after midnight on Thursday, the "Star Wars" film has sold $158.5 million worth of tickets in the United States and Canada. It was released by Twentieth Century Fox, a unit of News Corp. 'Star Wars' earns $108.5 million in 1st US weekend 1 hour, 57 minutes ago
1 Titanic Paramount Pictures $600,788,188 N/A 2 Star Wars Twentieth Century Fox $460,998,007 05/25/1977 3 Shrek 2 DreamWorks Pictures $441,226,247 05/19/2004 4 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Universal Pictures $435,110,554 06/11/1982 5 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Twentieth Century Fox $431,088,301 05/19/1999 6 Spider-Man Columbia Tristar $403,706,375 05/03/2002 7 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King New Line Cinema $377,027,325 12/17/2003 8 Spider-Man 2 Columbia Pictures (Sony) $373,585,825 06/30/2004 9 The Passion of The Christ Newmarket Film Group $370,782,930 02/25/2004 10 Jurassic Park Universal City Studios $357,067,947 06/11/1993 I just don't see it taking out Titanic. I seems like the other prequels got off to great starts but faded out later. Since this is the best of the prequels I can see it maybe passing up the original Star Wars to be the #2 grossing movie of all time.
Titanic is still up there? AAAARGH. I hate that film. I remember it getting it to the top, but thought it had probably been knocked off by now. *sigh*. I'm also surprised LOTR is only #7. Anyway, I loved the movie. The first half is perhaps a bit slow and the acting can be a bit pathetic, but the final sequences blew me away. Great fighting, and some emotion as well. I loved the final lines between Anakin and Obi Wan. I kept repeating "YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!" to the annoyance of my girlfriend. GO AND SEE THIS MOVIE!
Can anyone explain why Obi's saber is blue? I thought Jedi's sabers were green while their padawan's are blue? Or is it reversed?? Also if anyone watched the clone wars animation, how did the one Jedi escape General Grievous in that final battle?
QUESTION: In the original 3 movies [4,5,6] Does the Emperor have the same amount of support or is it all out CIVIL WAR I kind of got the feeling NO ONE like the Empire and most were in it out of fear but the APPLAUSE Sidious gets kind fo threw me off. How could people turn against the JEdi so quickly? ALSO Is it me . .. or did MACE seem to have a better chance against the Emperor than YODA [I also go with the idea that Sidious was acting for Anakin's benefit] Rocket River
The original 3 are ~20 years in the future, which gives time for people to turn against the Empire. Also, the Emperor was just holding off and looking weak to get Anakin on his side. Mace had no shot.
By the time 4 has come, the empire is basically a dictatorship. Either follow it, or be blown to bits (by the death star). I think the applause in 3 was genuine (which is what made it so freaky) because they were in the midst of a 3 year civil war that had just hit close to home (Coruscant), and most of the systems would accept anything as long as it meant peace (which an empire did guarantee... from a certain point of view). As for the Jedi hate, it was brilliantly manipulated by Palpatine. He is the galaxy's supreme chancellor... and the only people who really suspect him for mischief are the Jedis. Thus, if you get the population to believe that the Jedi are trying to overthrow the government, you'll get even more sympathy to form an empire. Finally... I do believe that Palpatine was just humoring Mace... just look at how easily he took out the other master jedis in the room. He kept alive the one and only guy he knew Anakin would possibly turn against (besides obi-wan).... Palpatine is just a freaking bad-ass.
Thats some crazy ass humoring If Palpatine knew beforehand what Anakin was going to decide then I would understand but Mace had him and was about to stick his lightsaber right through him when Anakin stopped it
SO DID ANYONE ELSE NOTICE THIS? Padme tells Anakin in one of the scenes something like, "Do you ever get the feeling that we are on the wrong side?" This in the end of the movie turns out to be true because the republic turns bad and into the empire with compelete support of everyone but the Jedi. Also the seperatist that were supposed to be bad turn out to be the ones who really want peace. Because when Anakin is killin all the separatist leaders, one of them tells him that they did what the Emperor asked of them and all they wanted was peace. I know its just not me that caught this because other people I went with noticed it too.
He's the most bad-ass sith there is. He already had told Gunray that he'd soon be having a new apprentice (well before he even spoke to Anakin about officially switching). He knows things. He could have easily used the force lightning on Mace whenever he wanted... he knew that waiting it out till the end would be the only way Anakin would throw himself into the dark side (which as I already said, Palpatine was certain he was going to do it).
In Ep IV, on the DS at the meeting, Tarkin explains that the Emperor had just dissolved the Senate, and that the last of the republic was gone. You're right though, he was basically a dictator before hand.
One question: Palpatine was talking to Anakin about another Sith who had the power to stop death for others or something what was that guys name?
Darth Plagus (sp?) was his name. He was Palpatine's master, I think. Palpatine was the student who killed him in his sleep.
After Anakin received the Vader helmet and spoke, my wife (who has never seen SW before) asked me if Anakin got a portable British ventilator voice with the helmet? An apparent serious question to which I have no answer.
