I’ve been a longtime fan and supporter of the flanneled one. I’ve defended Episode One. I tried to believe that he was postponing DVD releases so that the final product would be great. I’ve even kept the faith after hearing the dumbass “Attack of the Clones” title. But this, this finally pushed me over the edge. This is the straw that broke the Smeghead’s back. I speak, of course, of the new trailer, which I have not yet seen.
Monsters, Inc. was sold out Saturday when I tried to go, so I was thrilled to hear today that the new trailer was finally available on starwars.com. I attempted to see it. Firstly, the server was glacially slow. Understandable, I suppose, but still irritating as all get out. Next, you’re forced to register with their damn site to view the trailer. That’s low. There is no good reason for this. It’s just a way to harvest spam addresses, no matter what they claim. I just want to see the damn trailer!!
It took me about 45 minutes to get through the registration process because the server sucked so very very badly. But then came the ultimate slap in the face. The decision that has finally turned me to the dark side: to watch the trailer, you have to upgrade to Quicktime Fucking PRO!!! The $30 version!! When every other movie in the world is content to use the free version, Lucas is not. No, no, you must have the extra special souped up fucking PAY version. Damn damn damn damn you, Lucas! Who the hell do you think you are? Do you really think I’m going to pay thirty damn dollars to watch your fucking crappy trailer? Screw you!
I’m sure there are other sources out there by now, but right now you couldn’t pay me enough to watch it. Bastard.
You only have to upgrade to Quicktime Pro to watch the big, super heavyweight broadband version. The fly and welterweight versions can be watched with Plane Jane Quicktime. At least that is what I used to watch it. Yes, server is glacially slow. Yes, registration process is stupid. Yes, trailer really doesn’t show anything enticing. Yes, cnn.com had it on their site and I suppose had to pull it (it isn’t there now). No, I shouldn’t of spent valuable working hours trying to download it. Yes, George Lucas seems to think that every time he strains while shitting it demands entertainment headlines. Yes, I am making an ass of myself in this post.
If anyone wants to see the large teaser, let me know. I’ve put it into my ICQ shared directory. (My ICQ number is in my profile - ICQ2001 is required.)
(Nothing illigal here…that I can think of…I own QT5Pro and it allows you to save the movie. Why not share it?)
You’re shitting me, right? I saw the film version in front of Monsters, Inc in all it’s 35mm super-duper-Dolby goodness, and I thought it stank like a three dollar hooker.
Teaser trailers are supposed to make you want to see the movie. All I saw were three second CG renderings and a few beauty shots of bad actors. This will be worse than Episode I.
(Not that episodes IV, V, and VI are anything better than mediocre.)
Am I the only one who is looking forward to a movie entitled “Attack of the Clones?”
In episode IV, Leia refers to Obi-Wan Kenobi having served her father in “the Clone Wars.” The Star Wars novels also make several references to Palpatine cloning himself and a subsequent conflict.
I’m hoping this means that Episode II will be a shoot-em-up rampage. Space battles and special effects represent 90% of the reason why I watch these damn movies anyway…
But I digress. I’m on the “Screw George Lucas” bandwagon for other reasons. What was up with the fucking DVD release coming so late after the VHS release? It’s not because Lucas wanted a masterpiece of a DVD, which I now know because I bought both versions (of course). Lucas knows his die-hard fans would buy a VHS copy so they could watch at home, and then buy the DVD upon its release for the bonus features and the clarity of the DVD. Bastard.
I’m also pissed off at Lucas’ “let’s milk this thing for all it’s worth” attitude. Why the hell did he go back and “enhance” the first three pictures when he should have been hauling ass to finish the other 6 movies he says he wants to make? His ass isn’t getting any younger, you know. Oh, wait, maybe taking a quick look at my video collection will clarify things. Yep, here they are: VHS copies of the three originals and VHS copies of the “Special Edition” trilogy. Plus, I went to see all three original movies in the theatre, as well as the Special Editions when they were re-released. And guess what? When I see the original movies on DVD in the store, I’ll buy those ones too.
Geez, GL, quit milking the old stuff and finish the freaking series already. Before you age sufficiently to start looking like Palpatine…
I know I’m pissing into the wind here, but it seems to me the answer to your problems lies within your hands. You freely acknowledge that Lucas is ripping you and every other fan off bigtime, but your response is to reward him by buying every goddamn piece of crap he releases. So if you just…
You know who else is really good at this? Frickin’ Valve Software.
WHERE THE HELL IS TEAM FORTRESS 2?
And I don’t think Half-Life 2 is even in development yet. I’d kinda like to see how that ends. I thought it was odd that the best video game ever had the worst ending ever.
Yeah, me too. And that’s the problem I had with it. I could forgive the fact that it was lackluster and uninformative. But it was a horrible trailer to give to fans who have been waiting for over two years now for the second movie.
All the quote’s on CNN about the trailer were all in praise which shocked me to no end since it was a horrible trailer. No suspense. Nothing to anticipate. Just a bunch of scenes that are so quick are brains have no time to register them. Let me tell you, the fake trailer was way better then this one.
I went to Monster, Inc. just to see the trailer, but stayed for the movie. Now I have to do the same thing for Harry Potter on the 16th. That trailer better be a whole lot better or the Clones may suffer under something much worse then over advertising.
I thought Lucas already said he was definately not going to make Eps 7, 8 and 9 and that 3 would be his last Star Wars movie?
That’s just it. That’s my dilemma. Lucas is being an asshole. I’d like to punish him by not buying every single thing he releases, but I’m thoroughly addicted to Star Wars.
Point two: The actual 2-minute trailer will be out in TWO WEEKS. That’s right, in just a fortnight.
Point three: You guys are whining too much about something not worth whining over. If you want to see the movie, then enjoy what you get. If you don’t care either way, then don’t trash the movie before you see it.
There are too many people complaining about Star Wars stuff lately, like George Lucas owes us entertainment. He doesn’t - he’s just a guy who likes to make movies, and hopes we’ll like them too. He is not out to get all our money - he wouldn’t give us all this stuff if we weren’t buying it!
There are few things sillier than saying “How dare you give us all this stuff I want! And you just know I’ll buy it! Well fuck you, Georgie boy! I’ll just… just… complain bitterly on a message board while I go out and continue to line your pockets some more despite everything I am saying.”
I’m looking forward to this movie - I know what happens in it, a friend of mine is an extra in it (his name will be in the credits), the story is really good, the characters do so much more, the actors are allowed to put more into it, Jar Jar is hardly even appearing, Jake Lloyd does not appear at all, loads of spaceships and laser battles and lightsabre duels, and Threepio (my favourite character) gets a bigger role. Hurrah!
As others have mentioned, the upgrade to QuickTime Pro is only needed if one wants to watch the high-bandwidth version, so that concern from the OP is dismissed.
In addition, though, it’s important to note that the $30 for the upgrade to QuickTime Pro goes to, well Apple, not to Lucas. He certainly (well, probably) doesn’t stand to make money off of it. And what’s more, it may very well have been Apple’s decision to charge the $30. They’re the ones who host all those trailers, so it’s their bandwidth that’s being used. Maybe they decided that interest in the new Star Wars trailer would be large enough (No! You think?) and thus the demands on their bandwidth sufficient that they’d make a few bucks off of it.
But, hey, it’s easier for the fanboys to shout, “Fuck George Lucas!” some more than to use reason, or the Force, or what-fucking-ever.
Anyway, I liked the trailer. For a teaser, it did it’s job–it teased. The shot of Slave I coming head-on through the asteroid field firing it’s laser cannons alone was worth it for me. BTW, Episode I DVD owners can use the DVD-ROM link to StarWars.com on Nov. 9 to see a full trailer earlier than everyone else.
I’ll just say I liked the trailer and don’t quite understand friedo. If you didn’t like the first four movies is there any chance you would like the trailer?
To put it another way, I could join a thread about “Riding in Cars with Boys” and point out that I think Drew Barrymore is an untalented overrated psycho, but I’m not going to like any of her movies anyway. So why would I join?
Anyway, it has seemed to me that George Lucas has needed someone to say “No that isn’t a good idea” for a loooong time. Instead he seems to be surrounded by yes-men.
First, I didn’t say I didn’t like the first four movies, I just thought they were mediocre. Secondly, I was insulting the trailer seperately from the films. I can appreciate a well done trailer while still not liking the film. And this trailer was not well done.
A teaser trailer is supposed to have the following effect:
“Look! This is some cool stuff! You want to see this! Here are some itty bitty details about the story! I bet you want to know the rest of the story, huh? Neener neener neener. Here is a montage of cool stuff and teasing text! Wooowooowoo!!”
But instead it sucked. Just Darth Vader having his ongoing asthma attacks and cheesey CG renderings.
A good teaser trailer was the one that was released for Lord of the Rings. That one makes me want to see the movie, even though I’ve never been a Tolkien fan.
I know. It is unusual for Threepio to be anyone’s fave, but I just like the humour he conveys - it’s very Anthony Daniels, too. He was at a convention here recently, and his sense of humour (and arrogance) just screams C-3PO.