Episode III Midnight showing

[Kevin M]

Anybody else capable of going to see the midnight screening of Episode III?

[sperry]

Um, is that Ep 2 or 3?

And no, I can't go, I have to be up early tomorrow morning to go see EpIII for free instead of going to work.

Edit: nice ninja title edit.

[Kevin M]

Nice job seeing the thread in the first 8 seconds it was up.


And uh, nevermind guys. Right after I posted that, I got called and asked to come in for an interview tomorrow at 9. midnight showing= no good.

[MikeK]

Originally Posted by BAN SUVS

Nice job seeing the thread in the first 8 seconds it was up.


And uh, nevermind guys. Right after I posted that, I got called and asked to come in for an interview tomorrow at 9. midnight showing= no good.

Unless the guy interviewing you is a star wars nerd, then seeing at midnight would be a wise career move.

[Kevin M]

So I'll meet you at the theater at 11:30, so you can give spoilers to your entire department in the morning?

[MikeK]

Sorry, but after the abortion that was phantom menace, I can only see star wars movies for free during work hours

[Kevin M]

I'm thinking I'll be going after the meet thursday night. Those of you not getting paid to skip work might want to join me, and probably some of you that did see it will want to again.

[tysonK]

Originally Posted by MikeK

Sorry, but after the abortion that was phantom menace, I can only see star wars movies for free during work hours

ha haha ..

[tysonK]

in other news some high level movie critics are saying episode 3 is better than episode 4,5 ,6 ..

hmm.

[Kevin M]

I think that's distinctly possible. Life in the galaxy really freakin' sucks in Episode III, and life sucking for everyone is whaty made Empire so good. Plus I hear Ian McDiarmid (the emporer) is absolutely amazing.

[sperry]

Just got back from seeing it.

It's certainly *much* better than I & II... Not so sure about the others. I'd say it's possibly better than Jedi, but Empire is still the best IMO.

The Anakin/Padame dialog and acting is still god awful. But no punches are pulled in Anakin's downward spiral... he really does get friggen evil. Darth Vader bitches!

The CGI is terrific. Much better than Ep I where it seemed too gratuitious... The Ep IV tie-ins abound... almost to the point at the end where it's like, "couldn't they have shown us that a bit earlier?"... you feel kinda like Lucas thinks he has a bunch of stuff to show us or we might not get the connection between III and IV... please.

All in all, it's an awesome movie. I wasn't disapointed. 'Course my expectations were lowered by I and II... Either way, Revenge of the Sith is pretty tight.

[doubleurx]

I know there is a ton of deaths, but is the violence really graphic? I don't think I can avoid bringing Bayley to see it, I just want to be prepared. He is so amped to see this movie.

[MikeSTI]

Originally Posted by doubleurx

I know there is a ton of deaths, but is the violence really graphic? I don't think I can avoid bringing Bayley to see it, I just want to be prepared. He is so amped to see this movie.

come on its star wars where bullets (lasers) never draw blood even when they lose a hand theres no blood...............just a nub

diclaimer: I have not seen the movie yet - when might you go Nick?

[doubleurx]

Originally Posted by MikeSTI

come on its star wars where bullets (lasers) never draw blood even when they lose a hand theres no blood...............just a nub

diclaimer: I have not seen the movie yet - when might you go Nick?

Not to sure when, but soon. You wanna go with the kids some time?

[MikeSTI]

Originally Posted by doubleurx

Not to sure when, but soon. You wanna go with the kids some time?

maybe Shaun I don't know if Riley can handdle a non 3-D movie yet thats not a cartoon

I know Shaun would love to go just to hang with boys even if hes not into the movie

[AtomicLabMonkey]

Originally Posted by sperry

It's certainly *much* better than I & II... Not so sure about the others. I'd say it's possibly better than Jedi, but Empire is still the best IMO.

I'll believe it when I see it.

[sperry]

Originally Posted by doubleurx

I know there is a ton of deaths, but is the violence really graphic? I don't think I can avoid bringing Bayley to see it, I just want to be prepared. He is so amped to see this movie.

There's a *lot* of lightsaber fighting.... many robots and clones killed like in most movies, and that's probably not going to affect the kids.

However, some very important (even if they're bad guys) characters meet gruesome deaths. It's not explicitly shown of course, but it's obvious how they die, and I'm sure even younger kids would pick up on it.

And the worst is that a lot of Jedi die. It may be hard on kids to watch the good guys get killed. And of course, the central theme of the movie is Anakin's decent into becoming Darth Vader... if your kids have seen Ep I and II where Anakin is a good guy, they might find this hard to understand. Anakin does some really evil stuff, and gets horribly disfigured (very graphically) to become Vader.

Those w/ little kids may want to pre-view the movie to decide if they want their kids to see it. And if you do bring your little kids, I'd sit down and explain the plot to them before hand... about how Anakin is seduced by the dark side, and how he becomes an evil person... just so they're prepared for the film, and have a better time understanding why Anakin turns evil.

Unlike the previous two new Star Wars flicks, this is not a kid's movie (all though the dialog between Anakin and Padame sure seems like it was written by 12 year old kids). Before this movie the scariest thing in Star Wars might have been the snow beast in Empire... this movie makes the snow beast look like a puppy dog, at least that's how I think a young kid might take it. For example, Gen. Grevious is friggen scary... the Emperor is a twisted fuck... the Jedi are powerless... and Anakin goes evil like the flip of a light switch, to the point where young kids might not totally understand w/ the "good guy" is suddenly doing such bad things.

[MikeSTI]

Originally Posted by sperry

There's a *lot* of lightsaber fighting.... many robots and clones killed like in most movies, and that's probably not going to affect the kids.

However, some very important (even if they're bad guys) characters meet gruesome deaths. It's not explicitly shown of course, but it's obvious how they die, and I'm sure even younger kids would pick up on it.

And the worst is that a lot of Jedi die. It may be hard on kids to watch the good guys get killed. And of course, the central theme of the movie is Anakin's decent into becoming Darth Vader... if your kids have seen Ep I and II where Anakin is a good guy, they might find this hard to understand. Anakin does some really evil stuff, and gets horribly disfigured (very graphically) to become Vader.

Those w/ little kids may want to pre-view the movie to decide if they want their kids to see it. And if you do bring your little kids, I'd sit down and explain the plot to them before hand... about how Anakin is seduced by the dark side, and how he becomes an evil person... just so they're prepared for the film, and have a better time understanding why Anakin turns evil.

Unlike the previous two new Star Wars flicks, this is not a kid's movie (all though the dialog between Anakin and Padame sure seems like it was written by 12 year old kids). Before this movie the scariest thing in Star Wars might have been the snow beast in Empire... this movie makes the snow beast look like a puppy dog, at least that's how I think a young kid might take it. For example, Gen. Grevious is friggen scary... the Emperor is a twisted fuck... the Jedi are powerless... and Anakin goes evil like the flip of a light switch, to the point where young kids might not totally understand w/ the "good guy" is suddenly doing such bad things.

ahhh Yahhh....I might even say my son understands its just a movie and not real might go along way towards the graphic nature of a "fictional movie", seems to help a lot. they can turn there heads if they can't handdle all the make up and CG that goes into it

[doubleurx]

Thanks for the heads up Scott.

[sperry]

Originally Posted by MikeSTI

ahhh Yahhh....I might even say my son understands its just a movie and not real might go along way towards the graphic nature of a "fictional movie", seems to help a lot. they can turn there heads if they can't handdle all the make up and CG that goes into it

Even if you tell 'em "it's just a story", it's still scary.

I remember nearly crapping my pants when I saw the snow beast when I was 3. However, I don't remember being freaked out when Luke got his hand cut off... and that seems like something that should have freaked me out.

Speaking of lopped off limbs.... there are quite a few in this new one.

[Kevin M]

So who feels like going to the 10:20 showing tonight? Or maybe a little earlier?

Edit: 9:00 and 10:05 at Riverside. I can run for tickets for whoever else wants to go.

[Kevin M]

Anybody want to go? Tickets may already be sold out, but even if not we should get them before the meet.

[Kevin M]

Dammit, are you all going to make me go see this by myself? Please don't make me that big of a geek...

[STIwish]

I'd love to see it again.. HELLA kick ass, it actually made me excited about the Star Wars universe again.. but Im kinda far away!

[AtomicLabMonkey]

Originally Posted by tysonK

in other news some high level movie critics are saying episode 3 is better than episode 4,5 ,6 ..

hmm.

Well I'm sorry to piss in everyone's Cornflakes, but those high level movie critics need to put the rock pipe down. I just saw Ep. 3 tonight, and it was still nowhere near as good as any of the three original films. Same shallow, uninteresting characters and goddamn stupid-ass unreal looking CGI. I'm sorry, but movies just looked more REAL when they actually built sets with full size props and made people up in alien costumes, instead of trying to replicate all that on a fucking computer. Yes, I know, it allows them to do whiz-bang stuff you can't do in real life, but it doesn't matter because no matter how well they do it the effects still look fake. Goddamn, the stop-motion AT-AT walkers from Empire Strikes Back look more real than all this digitized crap.

None of Eps. 1-3 stand on their own as a good, complete movie; if I look at them objectively and not as a SW fan, they just plain suck. There is near-zero character development, so I just find myself thinking "why the fuck do I care what's happening to these people?"

About all I can say in it's defense is that it was much better than 1 & 2 put together... it lost some of the general lifelessness and bad-beyond-belief acting that they had. I might have thought it was a bit better still if the last part of the film hadn't felt so rushed. I guess they didn't have a choice though since they wanked around so much with the story in 1-2 and had so many loose ends left to tie up.

I guess I got my hopes up too much for this one, cause I'm disappointed. I should have known better after the last two catastrophes. Fuck you, George. Fuck you.