I quite like the title of the next film and I plan to get a t-shirt soon. The scheduled release date of May 19th, 2005, isn't too far away now and I'm really looking forward to this.
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
omg at leest thers 1 ppl looking 4werd 2 it
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
I guess it's official... And I, too, am looking forward to it.
So, we've got TPM, AOTC, ROTS, ANH, ESB, and ROJ.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
You're missing a couple of 't's.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Here's hoping the movie is good, but has anyone noticed that SITH is an anagram of SHIT? Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Those dark robes cover the stains...
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Ah yes, it is a good title, isn't it? Originally, Episode 6 was to be named "Revenge of the Jedi" in 1983, but it was changed in the end because revenge isn't a favorable trait in Jedi, so it became "Return".
That "Revenge" in fact is used for this title, it and the Sith being opposite values to "Return" and "Jedi", carries both more continuity (they're both trilogy-enders) and more symmetry than I could've hoped for.
Ultra �Manjuice?: You are hopeless.
Posted by Bond, James Bond (Member # 1127) on :
I like it. I'm glad he didn't go for some stupid 40's serial title like the first two. This title better matches the more serious tone of the third film, and like Nim said, is the antithesis of the original title of ROTJ, which is cool.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
NOt that the whole "Sith revenge" aspect has been at all mentioned except ONCE by Darth Maul.
We'll almost certainly see no backstory to make the movie's title make sense and the only Sith in the movie will be (mabye) Palpaltine himself.
Some "revenge".
Posted by Bond, James Bond (Member # 1127) on :
Wiping out almost all of the Jedi isn't much of a revenge to you?
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
DARTH VADAE SI SITH MAN, I SEENED IT
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bond, James Bond: Wiping out almost all of the Jedi isn't much of a revenge to you?
Yeah...I guess so...but for WHAT!? Did the Jedi steal their girlfriends? Did they give them force-wedgies? Mabye the Jedi used force-enhancing steroids to beat the Sith in the galactic olympics.....
It'll be left to fandom to fill those gaping holes in plot....as ususal.
We should just start a thread on it now....
Posted by Bond, James Bond (Member # 1127) on :
Well, I guess that depends on how much credence you lend the Extended Universe, because there's a huge Sith backstory there.
So, someone's already tried to explain things....not that Lucas read those stories, mind you.
Posted by Bond, James Bond (Member # 1127) on :
Someone who knows more on Lucas's very early drafts for Star Wars can correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe he delved into the history of the Sith a bit in those. That's where the basic premise came from, and they expanded on it greatly in the comics.
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Jason: "So, someone's already tried to explain things....not that Lucas read those stories, mind you."
Lucas & Co endorse the works of Dark Horse Comics, making sure info on characters and locations are consistent with the movies and giving new material to spruce the comic stories up. That doesn't mean they must add as much of it as they can to the movies in order to please the comic readers. The comics, the games and the books are companions to the saga, not pacekeepers. As we saw with the Outrider in ANH (from a PC-game), Assaj Ventress and Durge in the Clone Wars miniseries (from comics), they do add things that they think will add to the story.
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
Lucas looks at nothing, his little secretaries make sure facts are okay, according to their reference books, while Lucas masturbates on a pile of hundred dollar bills.
Way to go, Star Wars Fans, that's what you support.
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
Also: The Outrider in ANH, things like that don't add anything to the story, they just make Star Wars nerds masturbate on a pile of carboard backings from action figures of stupid people nobody's heard of.
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
That is heresay and damn poem. What Lucas masturbates to is sealed and governed by top men. Top. Men.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
TEH SIHT R LIEK TEH DRAK OPOPISET FO TEH JDEI THEIR BAD GUYZ TAHTS WYH TEHY TAEK REVNEGE TEH JDEI WUD NEVAR DO TAHT
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
Okay.
Posted by Bond, James Bond (Member # 1127) on :
Most of the pic is obscured by writing, but this directory from the San Diego Comic-Con has a shot of the battle over Coruscant between the Seperatist and Republic forces.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
And, as expected, someone's been masturbating on it.
Posted by UFPSFMC-Colonel Mike Captain (Member # 709) on :
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!![/hammill]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nim the Merciful: Ah yes, it is a good title, isn't it? Originally, Episode 6 was to be named "Revenge of the Jedi" in 1983, but it was changed in the end because revenge isn't a favorable trait in Jedi, so it became "Return".
Actually it was because The Wrath of Khan was originally titled 'The Vengeance of Khan' when Episode VI was still 'Revenge of the Jedi' and they both ended up changing to avoid confusion with the other.
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
Holy Christ in a handbasket, I loved that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, I did.
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
Actually, the real reason (according to George Lucas in The Annotated Screenplays), was that the title was supposed to be "Return of the Jedi" from the start--and the movie was made under the code name "Revenge of the Jedi" (along with "Blue Harvest"). However, FOX began promoting the film sooner than they wanted.
This was a useful way in smoking out pirated merchandise, as well.
Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :
Should be interesting to watch.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
That runs counter to experience.
TAKE THAT GEORGE LUCAS@!!
(Wil Wheaton is totally going to be in KOTOR 2.)
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Triumf of the Wil! Also: I am now cynic-sensing body snatcher. *points at Sol* "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!"
I must get KOTOR1 posthaste, forthwith and tout suite. Which class is the best? Which is bloody awful? Hold on, I'll get separate thread for this.
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
The classes don't really matter, because you'll want to end up as a Jedi, and you'll have access to all nine of your crew members (fighters, rogues and droids and whatnot) at any time, so you can pick and choose based on mission objective.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nim the Merciful: Ah yes, it is a good title, isn't it? Originally, Episode 6 was to be named "Revenge of the Jedi" in 1983, but it was changed in the end because revenge isn't a favorable trait in Jedi, so it became "Return".
Story goes - as I've read it: Star Trek II: "The Revenge of Kahn" was the original TWOK name... conflict arose "Revenge of the Jedi" changed to "Return of the Jedi", "Wrath of Kahn" used instead, anyway.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Veers: Actually, the real reason (according to George Lucas in The Annotated Screenplays), was that the title was supposed to be "Return of the Jedi" from the start--and the movie was made under the code name "Revenge of the Jedi" (along with "Blue Harvest"). However, FOX began promoting the film sooner than they wanted.
This was a useful way in smoking out pirated merchandise, as well.
So that 'Revenge of the Sith' t-shirt that starwars.com are selling "in commemoration" of the limited release of the "Revenge of the Jedi" style t-shirts in, like 1983 - is really based on pirted merchandise?
Lucas is full of faeces. The only smoke around was the smoke being blown up his arse. Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Story goes - as I've read it: Star Trek II: "The Revenge of Kahn" was the original TWOK name... conflict arose "Revenge of the Jedi" changed to "Return of the Jedi", "Wrath of Kahn" used instead, anyway.
quote:Originally posted by Hobbes: Actually it was because The Wrath of Khan was originally titled 'The Vengeance of Khan' when Episode VI was still 'Revenge of the Jedi' and they both ended up changing to avoid confusion with the other.
quote:Originally posted by Veers: Actually, the real reason (according to George Lucas in The Annotated Screenplays), was that the title was supposed to be "Return of the Jedi" from the start--and the movie was made under the code name "Revenge of the Jedi" (along with "Blue Harvest"). However, FOX began promoting the film sooner than they wanted.
This was a useful way in smoking out pirated merchandise, as well.
Posted by Ultra Manjuice (Member # 239) on :
NO IT WAS STAR TREK: KHAN IT BE KHAN? AND THEN STAR WARS: WE WALK ON EWOK.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Hmmm TWOK and EWOK? A subtle dig?
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Yes, Lucas totally and purposely named those fluffy furry fucks after the abbreviation of the title of a competing SF movie. Totally.
BECAUSE HE IS A SPITEFUL MAN.
Posted by Nim the Merciful (Member # 205) on :
Hey! Those phloughy smurfs are what enabled ordinary people like you and me to go on and blow the core and, subsequently, win the game. Their tribe also served as morale strengthener after the rebels expanded their presence in the sector, like Saigon. *female ewok in chock-pink bikini* "Ooteenee, Ooty, hello big strong man."
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cartman: Yes, Lucas totally and purposely named those fluffy furry fucks after the abbreviation of the title of a competing SF movie. Totally.
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The scheduled release date of May 19th, 2005, isn't too far away now and I'm really looking forward to this.
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