I realy liked the Episode Three trailer…
Alec Guiness, Darth Maul eyes, lava, Frankenstein beats, wookies, Hellraiser’s cousin, light saber fights, Liam Neeson, and a sense of finality… finally!!!
Somehow it looks more Star Wars than the last two films… probably the emphasis of character over big toys.
Cool.
Now if only I didn’t have to watch freakn’ TRL to see it!
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
I liked it a lot too. It almost seems as if this is the movie Lucas has really had in his head the whole time. And the other two were just….
i think the first 2 will work better in a whole than stand alone films. he really dropped the ball on ep 2 though. he could have at least started to make anakin more of a bad ass. the scene where he killed all the villagers but we’re told by him as he cries to a chick? first rule of filmmaking. show. don’t tell.
Most people seem to be very forgetful, about the last two films. Yes the films themselves were horrible, but in both cases the trailer, was exciting, artful, and really propelled you to want to see what would be a bad movie. As for the hope that this final and third film will complete the series, that makes no sense. Yes the series will be over, and for that, I personally will be glad, but you can’t expect that the first four hours were simply set up and to be forgiven for being extremely dull, and utterly poor filmmaking. An, exciting trailer for what I fear will be the final in an utterly disappointing set of prequels.
How can you mess up this story? Vader, changing, clone wars, death to all the jedi, saving the kids, moving Yoda, Emperor coming to power, etc.
A friend I trust who I believe has some pretty deep sources inside hears that it’s just coming together pretty awfully. Everyone working on it just can’t wait for it to be over. It’s really bad. In full disclosure, I am a fairly hardcore SW fan (no toys, but I do have the posters framed) and LOVED the trailer. I really hope he’s wrong. But if he’s not, I think the franchise could be redeemed with the proposed TV series if they didn’t cheese it.
Hmmmm….in response to the first comment, one of the guys at theforce.net saw it, and he rates it just below ESB right now as a rough cut (http://boards.theforce.net/Revenge_of_the_Sith_(Spoilers_Allowed)/b10331/17297520/?190). Of course it all depends on how you look at it…if you want the OT, then you’re going to be disappointed. I’ve enjoyed this new trilogy. Sure it’s nowhere the caliber of the original films, but not many sci-fi films since Blade Runner have been classic in that regard.
Like any SW fan I couldn’t help but be excited when I saw the trailer. I got goosebumps the first time. Not many trailers do that to me. AH MAY 19 is too far away!!!
ep. 3 will probably be cool and tie up some loose ends but its never gonna be what the fans want. the new movies are different. I personally think they’re just a way for lucas to test out his new technology while bringing in some more cash so he can make the movies he really wants to after all this crap is done with. I dont really think his heart is in these movies, unlike the original(s).
I don’t think Lucas cares what fans think. He makes his own films.