To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.starwarsOpen lugnet.starwars in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Star Wars / 2682
    Finally got to see the movie! —Scott Edward Sanburn
   To all, Well, I finally saw the movie! I wanted to wait until the crowds would not be so bad, and I was not disappointed! My place of work has summer hours, which translates into having half of Friday off, so I went to the Showcase theater nearby. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Ryan Dennett
     On 6/1/99, at 7:30 AM, Scott Edward Sanburn wrote: <CUT BORING STUFF> (...) I like the battle droids but they were way too reckless. I mean it was like, "Oh, look! A Jedi! I wonder what he's going to do with that lightsaber!? Oh, I just found out." (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         RE: Finally got to see the movie! —Mark Benz
      Hi, It is very similar to the blackbird, without the canted vertical stabilizers over the engines. The queen's cockpit is much further back as well. Her ship appears to be at least 2-4x the size of an SR71, which is really quite small. See my (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Lindsay Frederick Braun
      (...) To me, and perhaps to others who grew up with Transformers, it looked like Cyclonus, the lieutenant of Unicron, in jet mode. The windows, especially. LFB. (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Scott Edward Sanburn
      Wow, even a Transformers reference! This should go to the obscure reference of the week! I remember that one now! :) Scott Sanburn (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Eric Joslin
     (...) I don't have a photo in front of me, but didn't Cyclonus have forward- swept wings? I'd swaer he did. But now that you mention it, yeah, the windows do look like him. I knew they looked familiar from someplace... eric (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Richard Dee
   On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:34:44 GMT, Scott Edward Sanburn uttered the following profundities... (...) Except for the Coruscant city scenes, IMO. The space scenes were the best ever seen, but cityscapes still have a long way to go. I thought the film was (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Scott Edward Sanburn
     I loved the Corscant scenes, probably because they used an entire planet for one city! (It could have been more detailed, however!) Can you imagine Lego coming out with one of those landing pads that the Queen's ship landed on? That would be a neat (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Richard Dee
     On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 22:52:58 GMT, Scott Edward Sanburn uttered the following profundities... (...) The views from the landing pads were superb. The setting sun scene was excellent. But the general city views were pants. Particularly the views of the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Steve Bliss
   (...) I haven't seen SotL recently, but Hannibal the Cannibal had a *lot* more screen time than 10 minutes. And he had a lot more character than Darth Maul. Darth Maul wasn't a character, he was a plot device. He was a gargoyle, waiting for people (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Scott Edward Sanburn
     (...) I agree with Steve. I loved TPM, the only disappointment (Outside of the technical glitches in all SW movies) is the lack of development of the bad/evil characters. The Trade Federation people were a bunch of weak knee wishy-washy jelly (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Steve Bliss
     (...) I liked the Trade Federation guys -- they're probably invertebrates, evolving directly from some jellyfish floating in an alien sea somewhere. The battle droids definitely should have been more menacing. Or there should have been two different (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Richard Dee
     On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:14:09 GMT, Steve Bliss uttered the following profundities... (...) Leads me to ask a question.... Why, when the issue of "who started it" was done with (the tanks started the battle), did the Gungans not attack the droids when (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Joey Feland
      (...) Quote from TPM the book: "The Gungan shield wall was designed to deflect large, slow-moving objects of density and mass such as artillary vehiclas and small, fast-moving objects generating extreme heat such as projectiles from weapons fire. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Eric Joslin
      (...) It looked to me like the Gungans couldn't throw their little blue balls through the sheilds, just like the Tanks couldn't fire in. Once the Droids got through the shield, they opened up on them. Dropping the sheild to hit the Droids as they (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Steve Bliss
     (...) Because they knew they were just stalling for time? Why hasten the battle when your goal is to use up time? I don't like the explanation of "can't fire out through the shields". Who would come up with a defense like that? Steve (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Kevin Bane
      Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:3756afb3.148651...net.com... (...) Dunno. Someone who didn't wanna get turned into green pastey goo? When the other guys have long range heavy artillery and all you had was sling thrown (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Sonny Sidhu
     I think that the Gungan army held off to conserve ammunition. They knew that the tanks (oops! Errr... ATT's that is) were not the main threat to them because of their powerful shields, but the Battle Droids were. Why waste ammo on something that (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
    
         Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Paul Foster
     (...) Wasn't the Gungan army just there to provide a diversion? Otherwise they would have advanced (or tried) when they were under the shield. (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
   
        Re: Finally got to see the movie! —Richard Dee
   On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:02:41 GMT, Steve Bliss uttered the following profundities... (...) With hindsight, it seems that little. (...) That final truel/duel (is truel a real word?) was one of the best swordfights I ever remember seeing! I think we all (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
 

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR