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Re: Episode I movie trailer preview
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Wed, 18 Nov 1998 08:08:07 GMT
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Jeff Johnston <sakura@mediaone.net> writes:
> Jesse Long wrote:
> > Tim Rueger wrote in message ...
> > > There's far too much to digest. The best way to describe
> > > it is to think of everything you liked about the SW trilogy,
> > > make it better, and distill it to about 2 minutes. Lots
> > > of new ships, characters, creatures, droids, cities, weapons,
> > > landscapes, explosions...
Just got back from the theatre -- (saw the trailer 5 times, muahahaa :)
Tim, You Said It!!! Man, talk about intense, and talk about a new "look &
feel." This is like Star Wars Episode IV meets Dune meets Willow meets
Flash Gordon meets Evel Knieval meets Aladdin meets The Shining meets Mortal
Kombat (...but in a good way).
> > > I'll avoid spoilers, but C3PO looks, well, different.
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> Please don't! I want to hear as much as possible! E-mail me if necessary...
I read Tim's comment just before heading out...and didn't quite know what to
expect. Wow, Tim, talk about understatement. :) Threepio looks different
in a way I never would have guessed! (I was thinking more of a difference
on the level of Yoda.) I think Artoo looked pretty much the same, if indeed
that was Artoo in the background with Shmi Skywalker.
> > Well, he is 130 years old. I'm sure he's had a few refits (although I'm
> > guessing that the "old" C3PO is going to look a whole lot more modern than
> > the Epsode IV C3PO).
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> Which kind of makes sense, in an odd sort of way. It seems pretty clear
> that the Star Wars-verse has been going into a sort of decline since the
> fall of the Old Republic - at least, the rebel stuff is largely cobbled
> together, etc.
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> Thus, when C3PO was 'new' he probably looked all sleek and modern for
> his time...but over the years, he's had things replaced and changes
> and jury-rigs, so when ANH rolls around, he winds up looking, well...
> less modern, less high-tech.
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> Alternately, fashion and design trends in the SW-verse could go the way
> they do in our universe - that is, they go in cycles, and when ANH is
> around, 'retro' has come back into style. (After all...bellbottoms...
> er, 'flares' are cool again...*shudder*)
It didn't seem like that so much -- it's more like 50's sci-fi, or what my
recollection of it is. Or like mid-60's grade-school science texts on what
space stations of the future would look like. Lots of round things and not
too many straight lines. Big contrast with Episodes IV-VI, which is cool in
way.
I wonder what ship that big shiny silver thing was near the beginning of the
trailer...I don't think it was supposed to be the Millenium Falcon...?
Neeson and McGregor look like they're going to be great in this movie. Not
so sure about Jackson and Portman (lines sounded like they were being read
from a card), but we'll see.
Ran into a couple guys from THE FORCE.NET, who said the trailer would be out
on general release this weekend. IMHO, it's well worth paying $N just to
see the trailer -- if you're into SW and that sort of thing. OTOH,
the official SW site has just tonight put up the trailer online!
http://www.starwars.com/episode-i/news/trailer/
--Todd
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