the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

plus, like i said, you can get 'em all for dirt cheap.

ledge is right. padme looked consistently great throughout the prequels. Queen Amidala was pretty unbelievable though.

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/01/duffy/handmaiden.jpg
http://www.beertripper.com/OffTopic/2010/off-pics/Natalie_Portman/Natalie_Portman_Padme_Amidala_Tatooine.jpg
http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/b/b2/Padmegreenscrshot.jpg

man remember when you found out that it was the double who died? what a twist!

$23,000,000 in ticket sales this weekend.

jesus christ

it's being considered a disappointment

anyway it wouldnt have even made that if people like our co-ilxists upthread hadnt caved. SHAME ON YOU.

xp: that's really weird. I was in a completely packed theater for a Saturday matinee.

the audience for this is most likely young kids (and their parents) so it would make sense for a Saturday matinee to be packed, I would think

Yeah okay. I could see there being some midnight showings that were total busts.

or maybe some people came to their senses

If you didn't have a kid, I can't comprehend why you'd go see The Phantom Menace 3D. If you have a kid, you already make a lot of choices I can't comprehend.

If George Lucas walked up to you while you watched Phantom Menace 3D alone and slapped you in the face with his dick repeatedly while shrieking "3-D IN YO FACE! NEW CGI, BITCH!" I'd have a hard time having any sympathy for you.

^^^wait isn't that basically what's happening?

it's him stroking his waddle while doing this that's so distressing

Not only have I withstood two hours of dick-slapping to the face. Not only that I've paid him $22 to do it. But I'm on my THIRD go round with this one.

It was totally worth it to take my kid to the movie. I'm sure I'll pony up for AOTC and ROTS too. But by the end of the movie I was just sort of sitting there with my head in my hands.

good thing you're going to do it again and again!

I think those Clone Wars cartoons got a lot of little kids interested in seeing this.

Those shows are way better than the prequels, btw

will never really understand masochism I guess

xp: yes. They are way better than the prequels, although the Truman Capote gay Hutt character is on a par with Jar Jar for me.

The 2d animated shorts by Genndy Tartakovsky, also called Clone Wars, has more thrill power in 20 3-minute segments than George Lucas managed in all of the prequels.

I've seen some of the Clone Wars series thanks to a friend's kid and yeah, they are really well done. Lucas NOT getting directly involved beyond the basics was probably key. I think by now there's been more hours of them all told than the original six movies.

I only watched a bit but what I saw was super-violent. totally not letting my 4 yo watch that shit

Genndy Tartakovsky did star wars cartoons???! omg

Yeah it was all this mini-episode stuff in the run up to the third movie. And as Andrew sez, it's great.

I admit I was kind of shocked that a recent episode of Clone Wars I saw featured a squad of clones arguing over whether they should hand over a prisoner or execute him vigilante-style. Not quite what I expected from a Cartoon Network show, but entertaining to watch.

you mean a squad of clones WARRING

Get your clone war on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwabxgoSGZY

Love how there's no iconic, pop-culture touchstone voice for Darth Maul for them to do an impression of so they just kind of fuck around improvising for thirty seconds...more dialogue than he had in the whole film, yes?

great commercial

very humourous take on the iconic darth maul character we all love to hate

grrrr... he's so evil!

does make it kinda fun to see him get his, though

disappointed that Lucas is allowing these sacred totems to be exploited by opportunist companies

it's an insult to their native cultures

he cd have just made up some stupid shit

brb

disappointed that Lucas is allowing these sacred totems to be exploited by opportunist companies

Pretty sure when I saw this back in 1994 my reaction was "Whoa, a new Star W...wait, what the hell?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxafIhYFOr0

This was around the same time I think I went "Wait...did I fever-dream it or was there some holiday special nobody talks about any more?"

"simulated demonstration"

http://youtu.be/4OnDizZ7UT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OnDizZ7UT0

another crime: not putting the classic characters in the video games since the SNES days (dancing excepted)

what the

I dunno, I kind of think dancing Han Solo may be the best thing to come from the Star Wars world in a long time.

I can't even deal with that, too much lol

Oh wow i hadn't watched the whole thing. Lando gets his turn in the spotlight too!

another crime: not putting the classic characters in the video games since the SNES days (dancing excepted)

may I remind you of a little thing they call MASTERS OF TERAS KASI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTElGKKnVIY

it was sort of an ill-advised game design

omg i remember that game