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Posted by rival on Fri May 6th at 10:57pm 2005

The new star wars comes out in about two weeks (here in britain anyway) i was just wondering who would recommend to see it?
I was thinking about watching it but i thought the newest two were pretty pants but from the advertixments its starting to grow on me. i was just wondering what you guys thought of it?





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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri May 6th at 11:08pm 2005

I really liked 4,5 and 6, but thought the newer two were pretty bad. I'm still going to go see the third one though, out of curiousity and the hope that it will be better than Ep 1 and 2.

Go see it if you want, I don't see how our opinions will sway you either way.
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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Fri May 6th at 11:30pm 2005

Just go watch it. :P
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Posted by satchmo on Fri May 6th at 11:50pm 2005

Even if it's bad, I still want to watch it, because I am just too curious to find out exactly how Darth Vader became that messed up.

And Natalie Portman is still going to be in there. That's enough reason to watch the whole movie.

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Posted by ding on Sat May 7th at 12:09am 2005

I love Star Wars - therefore I have to watch Episode III. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sat May 7th at 12:52am 2005

Look at the characters in Episode II that aren't in Episode IV: They all die.

It's the only PG-13 Star Wars film.

DARTH SIDIUS USES A LIGHT SABER

It's the only movie in the prequel trilogy that has Darth Vader

The first two prequels aren't bad movies. You're biased and have terrible contrasting skills to say they are. However, they aren't as good as the other SW films. (Yet, you have to wonder if the only reason why we think this is because we're alive during the time that they are coming out. Think about this for a moment: most people who were born after the original trilogy was completed will say Empire or Jedi are the best films, while people who were alive when all of them came out will say that A New Hope is the best ... leading me, personally, to believe that people are rating on nostalgia and not a film's merit. The same goes with many other movie series')

I already have my ticket to the May 19th 12:10 AM show time with my geeky friends. It'll rock. (If you want to know how far the geeky-ness goes, we're watching: Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Clone Wars before we go see Revenge of the Sith, and A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi the next day.) [addsig]



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Posted by satchmo on Sat May 7th at 1:18am 2005

Wow, man, Crono, you out-geeked me. That's not an easy thing to do. I was crowned as the official "geek king" back in high school.

I was alive when "Return of the Jedi" came out in theater, and I thought that was just the most spectacular film ever made. So I don't believe it's a total nostalgia bias. George Lucas has gotten rusty at film making, that's probably the explanation why these new films aren't up to par as the old series.

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Posted by Myrk- on Sat May 7th at 1:39am 2005

You seem to be thinking theres Phantom Menace, Attack of the clones and Clone wars all before Ep. 3.... The last 2 you listed are the same film, so in theory you should watch them all in 1 day.

However I laugh at people who are doing this- all unknowledgable as to the fact that they might be making 7, 8 and 9!

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Posted by Crono on Sat May 7th at 1:41am 2005

... and he didn't direct Empire or Jedi. (Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand respectively) I will give him credit for editing them though. He can do that well at least.

Yet, I know people who're geekier then I. I was born like two months after Jedi came out.

My point is still valid. Most people don't accept new renditions of old stories because they were originally shown something and nothing ever again could be comparable. I think this is also the reason why most people just can't accept changes in a novel to movie process.

Also, on another note: apparently, Lucas got a acting coach for the actors in Revenge of the Sith. If you didn't know: Lucas can't work with actors for s**t. (thus the poor acting from Natalie Portman in Attack of the Clones ... I thought the dead-pan thing worked when she was queen though) The only good movie he's ever made outside of Star Wars is THX-1138.

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Myrk, we are watching them all in the same day ... ?

It doesn't matter if there's another Trilogy or not. My friends and I do stuff like this a lot. (We watched Blade 1 and 2 before seeing Trinity ... seeing how the second movie is obviously the best)

I think the only series of movies we wouldn't do this for is Land of the Dead. Just because the other three movies are so bad. Attack of the Clones and Clone Wars aren't the same thing. To be honest Clone Wars is much better; it's practically nothing but fighting.

But we usually end up talking more then watching movies. It's usually a social gathering.

If you think all that is bad ... we watched Predator 1 and 2 and all four Alien movies before we went to see AvP. However, we talked through almost all the movies.

I never realized hanging out with friends was laughable.

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Posted by satchmo on Sat May 7th at 2:12am 2005

And talk about being geeky...I don't think anyone has ever done this before, but I've done it--twice.

I created a single-player map, and then I spent a day writing a complete walkthrough for my own map. Now, that's some extreme geek stuff that's hard to top.

And I memorized pi to the two hundredth place while I was in high school. I sound like I am proud of it...because I am.

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Posted by Spartan on Sat May 7th at 2:37am 2005

? quoting satchmo

And I memorized pi to the two hundredth place while I was in high school. I sound like I am proud of it...because I am.

Why?! I know that pi is 3.14159. Or I just hit the pi sign on the calculator. I don't see why yu would need to memorize it to the hundreth place.

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Posted by satchmo on Sat May 7th at 2:51am 2005

I did it because I am geeky. I thought most fellow geeks would understand, but I guess I assume too much.

There are international pi memorization contests where contestants recite pi from memory for days at a time. It's incredible how much time and effort people would spend doing something so meaningless.

http://www.pi-world-ranking-list.com/

However, I still remember it to many digits, definitely more than most people can remember.

3.141592653589793238462643383279502...

Crap, that's it. It's pathetic compared to what I used to remember.

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Posted by satchmo on Sat May 7th at 3:01am 2005

I bet you didn't know there are so many interesting facts about a simple number...

http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/pi/pi.html

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Posted by Spartan on Sat May 7th at 3:20am 2005

Does pi ever repeat itself? [addsig]



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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat May 7th at 3:21am 2005

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The new star wars comes out in about two weeks (here in britain anyway) i was just wondering who would recommend to see it?
I was thinking about watching it but i thought the newest two were pretty pants but from the advertixments its starting to grow on me. i was just wondering what you guys thought of it?


I really dont know what to think of it, I havent seen it yet! Nor has anyone here (unless they got a sneak preview), therefore I don't think anyone here can really give you a valid recomendation. Wait till the 19th of May, then ill tell you smiley.

But I can tell you that the people who havent seen any of trhe movies, cried to learn what Anikin did to himself, and the people who are die-hard Star Wars fans said that they really enjoyed it! So maybe you can form you own opinion about it based off of this info smiley.
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Posted by Cassius on Sat May 7th at 4:09am 2005

? quoting Spartan
Does pi ever repeat itself?

This post confuses me, because I learned about pi in the sixth grade, and figured everyone else had too.





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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Sat May 7th at 4:32am 2005

? quoting Cassius
? quoting Spartan
Does pi ever repeat itself?

This post confuses me, because I learned about pi in the sixth grade, and figured everyone else had too.

I guess there are people in the world who don't know an irrational number when they see one.

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Posted by Dark Tree on Sat May 7th at 5:08am 2005

Ep. 1 was good.

Ep. 2 was incredibl.....y boring.

Ep. 3 I hope will be sweet.

Ep. 4 was ok/boring.

Ep. 5 was ok.

Ep. 6 was awesome.

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Posted by omegaslayer on Sat May 7th at 5:23am 2005

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Does pi ever repeat itself?

http://members.ispwest.com/r-logan/fullbook.html

Lots of brain food smiley
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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Sat May 7th at 6:05am 2005

I watched 4, 5, 6 and then 1 and 2 in preparation for 3. I still think The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones weren't great. The fight scenes (especially at the end of both movies) were spectacular and very entertaining, but I felt the first two movies really just relied on the visuals more than the characters or the acting or even the plot. I liked Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor, but Hayden just didn't do it for me. I mean... Mark Hamill wasn't a great actor either, but the interplay between him, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford (in the first movie) puts him above Hayden. I think you're right when you say that part of the appeal of 4, 5, and 6 is nostalgia. But I wouldn't say I'm biased / have terrible contrasting skills when I say I thought 1 and 2 were pretty bad.

My beef just boils down to: I felt they focused more on spectacle and special effects, and the plot didn't draw me in in the same way 4, 5, and 6 did/do. Some of that is nostalgia, but I think that even objectively 1 and 2 are poorer movies.
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