Anakin entering the temple is one of my favourite shots of this trailer - amazing.

The one scene that looks very CG is the Vader scene. But hey, I shouldn't be complaining, I love the trailer, I watched it about 20 times before I went to sleep.

IMO, only that one scene with Vader I thought the background looked CG. Everything else from the trailer looks great, and I am certain the whole movie is going to be visually stunning. I am not dissing Star Wars computer generated images/effects, I am amazed at how realistic the images can be.

you do realize they were mostly if not all CG in AOTC, right?

Fantastic trailer! I have one question though. When Anikan and Obi-Wan and swinging at each other on cables on Mustafar, why does Obi-Wan not have a beard and does not even look like Ewan McGregor?

What we concluded is that once you work hard on a movie project, you come to hate it. .

Well let's clear up the misconception that they're "low-level". They're not. And there's no implication to make; their word to me was that the movie had problems, and not little ones. They didn't know first hand the full extent of what those problems were, but one speculated that it was an issue of the film being disjointed. That's as much as I know, and as much as I can offer.

The second thing is: the only people who have "concluded" anything from this little smattering of information are people who don't like the whole idea of it having problems and want to put the whole thing to bed as quickly as possible. For everyone else, it is a legitimate piece of information not from a devalued source, but an honest-to-goodness member of the production team with no particular axe to grind, but no real specifics either. So just relax about it, file it away and find out on May 19th.

You know, none if this is that amazing; people who work on films, even in the post pipeline DO talk to each other, up and down the chain, and have an idea of how their project's going. And they talk to their friends outside the project, too. And it's not like people haven't been burned by the prequels, so more than a little skepticism is warranted.

In the end, instead of freaking about it, and attacking the source, and shooting the messenger and frothing at the mouth, take it at face value and chill the fuck out. We'll see soon enough. Just go watch the trailer a thousand more times and masturbate or whatever.

_Mike

Huge exaggeration. Lucas has been tweaking the middle Act of the film (most specifically, the stuff on Kashyyyk with the Wookiees, et al as well as other intercut sequences) basically since the beginning. "Disjointed" is not the term I would use at all, but I'll humor whoever is making these claims by saying that this is because there might need to be about 5 minutes or so trimmed from that middle act. We all know how Lucas takes his editing deadly serious, so I'm sure this is something that he's been working furiously almost every day now and has not quite locked down. "Hand-wringing"? Sure... if that floats your boat. But, trust me... it's not as big a deal as this makes it out to be.

If anything, I think Lucas has come to discover that he may have packed too much stuff into this film, which is something he has to live with for devoting the entire first film in the trilogy to something that could have been told in the Opening Crawl.

Also, keep in mind that we're not talking about "the good stuff" here at all. All of the Anakin/Palpatine and Anakin/Obi-Wan and Jedi stuff (which, let's face it, is the majority of the film and what everyone cares about the most) has been golden for months now. Lucas is just working to find a way to get the stuff in the middle of the film to come together in a way that doesn't mess up the flow or tone of the entire picture. It does need to be smoothed out a bit there, but it's nothing that can't or won't be fixed. And there is plenty of time for that, even if it required some minor additional shooting (which I doubt).

I'm sure Lucas will give pals like De Palma and Spielberg a look at the latest cut and seek their advice. And, of course word of that will get out and it will be "The Sky is Falling!" again... even though he did the very same thing with pretty much all of his films. Contrary to belief, he DOES seek help and input from peers when he feels he may need another pair of eyes or a critical artistic opinion on something.

In short, I'm not sweating this at all... and I have my reasons. I remain much more concerned about an 11th hour edit that guts the brutal stuff out, cuts down The Duel, and/or adds unwanted and out of place bathroom/slapstick humor. Because that is quite frankly much more realistic than these latest rumors.

Well sounds like good news all around, I'd say! Reports of problems are exaggerated, or made by people with grudges or liars. So the majority opinion rules, and evidently RotS is going to rock. Get in line now!

Seriously, go. Right now.



_Mike

Well sounds like good news all around, I'd say! Reports of problems are exaggerated, or made by people with grudges or liars. So the majority opinion rules, and evidently RotS is going to rock. Get in line now!

Seriously, go. Right now.

They squeal like little girls.

Its more of an animal screech than an actual scream though.

Funny all the same... heheh pokes fun at those in the business world, how they go out like punks.

- What’s with the Tantive IV’s aqua-blue lighting as it flies by the camera? This is either an inconsistency with ANH, or it’s not the Tantive IV
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- Love the quick clip of Anakin and Obi-Wan fighting in the “A-shaped” hallway… very reminiscent of Luke and Vader in Cloud City in ESB

Some thoughts on the trailer:

- What’s with the Tantive IV’s aqua-blue lighting as it flies by the camera? This is either an inconsistency with ANH, or it’s not the Tantive IV

Well, it is twenty years between movies. Maybe it gets an upgrade? Or a downgrade.

After all, the ISD's got an upgrade between ANH and ESB and that was only three years or so.