# So, Star Wars is just under 3 months away... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2005, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262 "2005-02-28T07:06:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/21 "2005-03-01T01:52:54Z")
> [@me jane](#): > > So what are you looking forward to most about the movie? Knowing that I have finally seen, after 30 years, the making of Darth Vader. And lot of 'SPLOSIONS! ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/22 "2005-03-01T04:20:45Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > I’m really looking forward to finding out how exactly becoming Vader makes Anakin a foot taller. > > Yeah, the helmet probably helps, but Vader was _huge_- David Prowse was chosen for the part purely because of his size. > > If I ruined it for you by revealing what happens to Anakin, sorry 😉 Apparently the person who dueled against Mark Hamill while in the Vader suit was only 6’2" which is exactly the same as Hayden Christensen, so there are ways of getting around the height problem. Or at least making it less noticeable. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/23 "2005-03-01T04:44:05Z")
> [@DataZak](#): > > Unless, of course, if the rumours are true and there will be a TV series. An **Ewoks** TV series! With _ **Christmas Specials!** _ [barf smiley] ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/24 "2005-03-01T05:58:48Z")
You can be guaranteed there will be more Star Wars in the future. The franchise is just too big to let sit. Maybe a TV series, perhaps a new series of movies with another director, cartoons, video games… Star Wars is an institution, like Star Trek. They’re cash cows. They’ll never die until the public grows tired of them and they no longer hold the imagination of children. My daughter is seven years old. She just watched Star Wars with me for the first time this winter. Now she’s a fanatic. She’s watched them all over again, and she likes Attack of the Clones best (go figure). But no other movie has ever grabbed her imagination like that. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/25 "2005-03-01T06:43:59Z")
> [@vinryk](#): > > I would rather have them spend some time on insignificant details, like ummm…character development. Since when has Star Wars EVER been about character development? Anyway, I’m really looking forward to this. I’m sick of the haters… I liked AotC, and am ready for more! ---
**Author:** ![James\_Westphal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@James\_Westphal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Westphal)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/26 "2005-03-01T06:44:06Z")
I doubt there’ll be another director if there would be another movie series, Lucas wouldnt let Spielberg direct one of the more recent ones, despite the fact that Lawrence Kasdan directed ESB and ROTJ, and those are the more lauded of the trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/27 "2005-03-01T13:06:47Z")
I’m less interested in how Anakin becomes Vader as to why he apparently becomes Frodo for the duration of this film. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/28 "2005-03-01T14:49:06Z")
Star Wars three months away? You mean they are rereleasing **The Empire Strikes Back** , right? Because they never made any Star Wars movie but those two. Nope. Never happened. Two movies, and that was that. Thank Ghu Lucas stopped while there was still life in the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/29 "2005-03-01T15:03:57Z")
This must be about that ‘Revenge of the Jedi’ rumour that went around after the second movie, right? :: adjusts rose-coloured glasses :: ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/30 "2005-03-01T15:25:22Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > You can be guaranteed there will be more Star Wars in the future. The franchise is just too big to let sit. Maybe a TV series, perhaps a new series of movies with another director, cartoons, video games… Star Wars is an institution, like Star Trek. They’re cash cows. They’ll never die until the public grows tired of them and they no longer hold the imagination of children. I don’t know the details, but I’m quite sure Lucas exerts much greater control over Star Wars. Paramount could order a new Star Trek series whenever they wanted; Fox could not do the same without Lucas’ blessing. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/31 "2005-03-01T15:30:28Z")
> [@James Westphal](#): > > I doubt there’ll be another director if there would be another movie series, Lucas wouldnt let Spielberg direct one of the more recent ones, despite the fact that Lawrence Kasdan directed ESB and ROTJ, and those are the more lauded of the trilogy. Lawrence Kasdan directed neither, though he has screen-writing credit on both. Irvin Kershner directed _Empire_ and Richard Marquand _Jedi_. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/32 "2005-03-01T16:16:51Z")
> [@James Westphal](#): > > I doubt there’ll be another director if there would be another movie series, Lucas wouldnt let Spielberg direct one of the more recent ones, despite the fact that Lawrence Kasdan directed ESB and ROTJ, and those are the more lauded of the trilogy. _Return of the Jedi_ more lauded than _Star Wars_? Since when? Most everyone I know thinks that Jedi is the point where the whole franchise started to go down the tubes. Ewoks? Sarlacc pit? Please. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/33 "2005-03-01T16:26:18Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Mostly, though, I’m just looking forward to it being over. After twenty years of wondering how to properly express my feelings about the Star Wars films, you hit it square on the head. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![RogueRacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/34 "2005-03-01T16:33:15Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Since when has Star Wars EVER been about character development? > > Anyway, I’m really looking forward to this. I’m sick of the haters… I liked AotC, and am ready for more! Exactly my thinking. Bring on the light sabers, blasters, wookies, and Natalie! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/35 "2005-03-01T16:39:23Z")
Well the Wookie army looked pretty cool. Was it just me or was the music in that trailer handled badly. The last bit of the Imperial March theme just wasn’t a proper ending. The music was building and building but to no real climax. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/36 "2005-03-01T17:16:13Z")
Episode III is going to be cool. Most of the haters bashing this movie will see it in the theatre within a week of its initial release. Of course they’ll tell you they won’t, but they secretly will. They’ll don a Jedi robe, pull that hood over their heads, and sit way in the back where nobody can see them. They’ll secretly love the movie, but still feel obligated to come online and bash it. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/37 "2005-03-01T17:50:02Z")
Here’s one hater who just won’t go see it - I only saw the one with the wookies once; that was enough. Haven’t seen Phantom or Clones and don’t intend to. So I guess I’m not so much a hater as a “I find it so boring and don’t understand the whole phenomenon and don’t really care”. (and the only reason I’m in the thread at all is to respond to Lord Ashtar’s post). ---
**Author:** ![RogueRacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/38 "2005-03-01T18:11:16Z")
> [@well he's back](#): > > (and the only reason I’m in the thread at all is to respond to Lord Ashtar’s post). Of course his reply was #36, but you just jumped in for that? :dubious: It kind of reminds me of something I heard about Howard Stern at one point in his career. Of his listeners, the ones that liked him listened for about an hour a day. The ones that hated him listened for two hours a day. It’s just not in my make up to care about things in pop culture that I don’t like. I won’t waste my time reading threads and posting. I seem to be in the minority though. Different strokes for different folks and all that, I guess. Oh sure, I hate Jar Jar and their biological explanation of the Force. It still won’t stop me from being at the theater and hopefully enjoying the movie. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/39 "2005-03-01T18:25:27Z")
Oh I’m definitely going to see it, I just don’t expect awesomeness. If it sucks I won’t be disappointed, and if somehow it achieves awesomeness I will be pleasantly surprised. Episode II was better than I so it’s possible. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262/40 "2005-03-01T18:35:11Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Episode III is going to be cool. Most of the haters bashing this movie will see it in the theatre within a week of its initial release. Of course they’ll tell you they won’t, but they secretly will. They’ll don a Jedi robe, pull that hood over their heads, and sit way in the back where nobody can see them. They’ll secretly love the movie, but still feel obligated to come online and bash it. Oh, I’ll be there opening night, no doubt. I’ve seen every Star Wars movie since the age of two on opening night, in the same theater. (well, I probably wasn’t there opening night for Star Wars, but I was for the other four.) No way I’m breaking that tradition just 'cause I expect the movie to be a enormous festering pile of crap. Besides, _Attack of the Clones_ was easily one of the five worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life, and I fully expect RotS to be _even worse_. I’m talking Manos territory, here. How can I miss something like that? I’ll probably pass on the Jedi robe, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-star-wars-is-just-under-3-months-away/292262.md?page=3)