Star Wars III

[Dumbass 0]

Well OK, Lucasfilm anounced last Friday that the 3rd and final installment in the Star Wars saga will be called Revenge of the Sith. Some of us old-timers may remember that the original title of Episode VI was going to be Revenge of the Jedi until someone figured out that revenge would lead to the Dark Side.

 

Personally I think Revenge of the Sith is only so-so as a title. Not as awe-inspiring as Attack of the Clones or as cryptic as Return of the Jedi (The Jedi doing the returning ended up being Anakin, not Luke, proving he was the Chosen One all along), but I guess you have to call it something.

Edited July 26, 2004 by Dumbass

[Tachyon 0]

I guess you have to call it something.

Not necessarily. They called the first Star Trek movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Now is that creative, or what? :P

Edited July 27, 2004 by Tachyon

[Darrik 0]

I'm sorry, but I feel like I'm being ripped off. Although it fits, I feel it's just not creative. I belive it is reasonable, because of the double entant. It shows the cycle that Lucas created, and does have a good insider joke. (ROTJ was originally going to be called "Revenge", but Lucas felt that was not what a jedi would do, so he changed it to "Return".)

 

So, I'm going to have to say that I love polls.

[FredM 0]

Hey there,

 

I'm sorry, but I don't think it really matters. George Lucas has been unable to live up to almost any of the expectations people had for these prequels. Part of me believes it's that he's forgotten about the people who he had surrounded himself with during the creation of the first three movies, the ones who went thru behind him and did edits/changes. Those folks aren't involved here...

 

Sadly, I think Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith will be more predictable than the conclusion of Titanic.

[Darrik 0]

Sadly, I think Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith will be more predictable than the conclusion of Titanic.

It doesn't matter where you end up. What matters is how you get there.

[Seiben 0]

It's an okay title name, I guess. It's not good, but it's not bad either. But since the movie is about Anakin crossing to the Dark Side, I am gonna have to agree with Fred in saying this movie will be about as predictable as the tides.

[Darrik 0]

It's an okay title name, I guess. It's not good, but it's not bad either. But since the movie is about Anakin crossing to the Dark Side, I am gonna have to agree with Fred in saying this movie will be about as predictable as the tides.

At sea, nothing is predictable.

[Dumbass 0]

Sadly, I think Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith will be more predictable than the conclusion of Titanic.

Titanic: Revenge of the Iceberg :P

 

Well, I mean we knew how # 3 would end since 1977, didn't we? No surprise there. I would have prefered Rise of the Sith or Rise of the Empire myself. It seems more... poetic I guess. It does hold Darth Maul's prophecy true when he said "At last we shall have revenge.", but the question then becomes revenge against what? We know the Sith were thought to be extinct for 1,000 years so something really bad must have happened to them prior to those 1,000 years to lead to their near extinction at the hands of the Jedi. But what?

 

Yeah, I know, the Extended Universe answers this question, but it's not really Lucas's style to include too much Extended Universe stuff in the movies. There is already a lot that needs to be included - the conclusion of the Clone Wars, the birth of Luke and Leia and Luke visiting Dagobah (why it seems familiar to him in V), the transformation from the Galactic Senate to the Imperial Senate and the rise of the Empire, the Great Jedi Hunt, Yoda and Obi-Wan going into hiding after discovering Palpatine is Sidius (Lucas hasn't said so but isn't it obvious?), Obi-Wan's name change ("I haven't gone by the name Obi-Wan since, oh, before you were born."), the memory purge of R2 and 3PO, who Sifo-Dias was and how he ordered the clones, Dooku's death, Windu's death, begining construction of the Death Star, and... let's see, did I leave anything out?... Oh, yeah, something about Anakin and the Dark Side.

Edited July 27, 2004 by Dumbass

[Merina 0]

It's an awful title. They need to make up a new title. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Edited July 27, 2004 by Merina

[DaryusZaphodDracal 0]

Don't like it, nope not at all. Didn't like the title of episode 1 either. In the original 1974 novel Star Wars, the title of episode 1 was mentioned as "Journal of the Whylls" (sp) In a 1977 interview Lucas was asked the title's of 1, 2 and 3. He replied. "Journal of the Whylls", "Clone War" and "Rise of the Empire." Oh well, such is Hollywood. I downloaded a great fan made trailer for Episode 3, well made and great music. It's definately well worth the download. It's at Episode III trailer Rise of the Empire. from The Force.net."

 

Zaphod,

"May the Shwartz be with you." :P

Edited July 27, 2004 by DaryusZaphodDracal

[Vex Xiang 0]

I vote for

 

Star Wars III: The Last Nail in the Coffin

[Images 0]

The reason they've got so much stuff to do in this film is because they were just plain lazy. To give us 3 films where anakin flips over to the dark side you cannot have this stupid story with the trade federation nor can you just start making up strange clone plotlines (i mean, dude just cos the stormtroopers all look alike doesn't make 'em clones! even in the first film luke's friend biggs is off to join the imperial academy in a cut scene and i hardly think a farmboy is gonna be an admiral). They also gave us far more info than we needed. WHO CARES about how anakin was found? This is about his turn to the darkside! (which by the way doesn't seem to be much of a damn turn since he's been one angry monkey since the first film) You can have people TALK about his past but it was daft to have that podracing thing and the whole "he had no father" line. (frankly if some woman i met said that their son had no father i would be a teeny weeny bit skeptical).

 

Um why am i ranting like will ferrel in the old prospector sketch?

[Vex Xiang 0]

frankly if some woman i met said that their son had no father i would be a teeny weeny bit skeptical

 

Hey now...its the metachlorians! They're a bunch of horndogs they are :P

Edited July 27, 2004 by Vex Xiang

[Images 0]

Hey now...its the metachlorians! They're a bunch of horndogs they are :P

And what was with that? Since when was the force, a beautiful magical thing put down to some weird scientific mutation?

[Vex Xiang 0]

Since when was the force beautiful and magical? I always thought it was just some form of telekinetics.

 

Though movies nowadays almost ALWAYS have some kind if scientific explanation behind whatever happens. The moviemakers slip it in there somehow, whether its Vampires or ghosts or space aliens or Fried Green Tomatoes (a true horror flick). Thats just how movies are these days.

Edited July 27, 2004 by Vex Xiang

[Images 0]

Dude! It is magical!

 

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship."

 

If THAT isn't magical than i dunno what is. I don't like this idea that to be a jedi all you need is a large amount of cells representing cholesterol.

[Nemesis 0]

Sadly, I think Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith will be more predictable than the conclusion of Titanic.

Not true, I didn't think Jack would die :P Making SWIII more predictable :P

[Images 0]

Two signs from above

 

the acronym for "revenge of the sith" is ROTS

 

An anagram of the word SITH...please use your grey cells

[Atragon9 0]

... and Lucas will be laughing all the way to the bank!

 

Seriously though, as sad as Episodes I-III are/will be, you gotta admit that episodes IV-VI were (for the most part) fantastic story-telling!

 

(and if we're going to lament a lost talent, what about Lawrence Kasdan - check out what he did in the 1980's!)

[Dumbass 0]

Seriously though, as sad as Episodes I-III are/will be, you gotta admit that episodes IV-VI were (for the most part) fantastic story-telling!

I think IV-VI were better not because of better storytelling but rather more interesting heros.

 

In I-III the heros are Jedi (or those studying to be Jedi), Senators, Queens, and other people of noble rank. In IV-VI the heros were the scum of the universe - farmboys, gamblers, renegades, outlaws, a BcH (You know what I'm trying to say here), etc. Unlikely heros who you would never suspect would be capable of saving the galaxy.

 

Looking back it is laughable that the Empire that the Sith took 1,000 years to plan and a couple decades to build was brought down in only a few years by a bunch of poorly-equipped riff-raff.

[Dumbass 0]

Hey, I just thought of something.

 

You know all the Star Wars references that are in the Jay and Silent Bob movies? Even the cameos by Carrie Fisher (Leia) and Mark Hamill (Luke) in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back?

 

You don't suppose Lucas would give Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith cameos in Revenge of the Sith, do you? :P

[Vex Xiang 0]

Looking back it is laughable that the Empire that the Sith took 1,000 years to plan and a couple decades to build was brought down in only a few years by a bunch of poorly-equipped riff-raff.

 

No, whats laughable is that the entire Empire went down overnight when the Emperor and Darth were killed and the death star was destroyed.

 

The empire must have had thousands of ships around the galaxy...the next ranking admiral wouldnt have done something? He just shrugged and told the entire imperial fleet to stand down? Please...destroying 1 super star destroyer and 1 death star doesnt mean the entire empire falls. If the white house was blown up with Bush and Cheney in it America wouldnt end.

 

But...it was just a movie.

[Dumbass 0]

But...it was just a movie.

If you are into the Extended Universe stuff then the entire Star Wars timeline extends some 5,000 years before the birth of Yoda (who was 900 in ROTJ) and the next couple generations after ROTJ. What happened after ROTJ is addressed, and includes a resurgence of the Empire a couple times, Luke joining the Dark Side as Palpatine's clone's apprentice, a couple "lost Jedi" being discovered, invaders from another galaxy, and a whole mess of other stuff I don't have time to get into here.

 

Out of that roughly 6,000-7,000 year span of time the movies only concentrate on a couple generations. It wasn't the first time the Sith rose to power and were defeated, and it probably isn't the last time evil ruled either.

[FredM 0]

No, whats laughable is that the entire Empire went down overnight when the Emperor and Darth were killed and the death star was destroyed.

Hey there,

 

As scary as this sounds...I actually agree with Xiang on something. :P :P :blink:

 

This has been my big complaint about not "finishing" the franchise. George Lucas could easily provide a movie or two that actually ends the series properly. Everything we've seen in these prequels actually supports almost a mirror of how Hitler came to power.

 

When he died, Germany did not surrender.

 

Even if you didn't have a Dark Lord running the show anymore, you still have Star Destroyers, Clone Warriors, etc. I just cannot accept that "boom, he's dead and paradise is restored." It's a copout if I've ever seen one.

[Dumbass 0]

Originally that's what Episodes VII-IX were for. I guess Lucas figured he didn't have enough content for a 3rd trilogy and decided to stop at 6.