Anyone hear about this movie? It’s out next month, and it takes place between the second (Attack of the Clones) and the third movie (Revenge of the Sith). It’s the first Star Wars movie since Revenge of the Sith in 2005, and it’s a project by George Lucas himself. It is a preview, or an introduction, if you will, to a series scheduled to run on Cartoon Network in the near future. Sadly, the only original voices are Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee, for Mace Windu and Count Dooku, respectively.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv_ZHBkkBGY
Website: http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/site/index.html
Screen shots:
I’m pretty sure Lucas will probably stick with an animated format for any Star Wars film in the future.
Anyone hear about this movie? It’s out next month, and it takes place between the second (Attack of the Clones) and the third movie (Revenge of the Sith). It’s the first Star Wars movie since Revenge of the Sith in 2005, and it’s a project by George Lucas himself. It is a preview, or an introduction, if you will, to a series scheduled to run on Cartoon Network in the near future. Sadly, the only original voices are Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee, for Mace Windu and Count Dooku, respectively.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv_ZHBkkBGY
Website: http://www.starwars.com/clonewars/site/index.html
Screen shots:
I’m pretty sure that Anthony Daniels and the guy that plays General Greivous do voices in this film.
i for one liked it.
sure, there were some episodes that could have cut the chatter and begin the slice and dice, but still, it was an overall ok series to me.
Or the Ewok Adventure for that matter….
their ships cant travel through space.
VWOOOOP VWOOOP
There were a few things that I found a little hard to like at first such as a Star Wars movie that does not start with the Fox fanfare and the text crawl is actually spoken which is a little jarring. Also the music did not say Star Wars to me as it was largely just generic rock which whilst it ramped up the excitement in places just seemed out of place when one of the classic tunes kicked in.
Possibly the biggest issue with it was there was no sense of danger as we already know that every character in the show will survive which does greatly reduce the impact of the numerous and impressive looking battles.
I was concerned that I would find the little Padawn girl reaching Ewok levels of annoyance but whilst her little pet names for Anakin and Artoo were grating listening to the laughter from the children in cinema it soon became obvious that she is not meant for me and from then on she became much easier to live with.
This may seem like I found a lot of things wrong with it, but really all of these are fairly major and I would heartily recommend the film to anybody with a love of Star Wars or young children (wait that sounds wrong, I meant people with young children, not people with a love of young children!) and I certainly intend to go again tomorrow.
There was terrible dialogue, ridiculous situations such as Jedi not seeing a platform they need to get to until a page or two of dialogue later when it’s pointed out to them by a much inferior being even though IT’S RIGHT ACROSS FROM THEM and a 1st day padawan just as adept at taking out enemies as her master, incredibly rigid lightsaber battles, a metrosexual Hutt character that talks like Cow from Cow & Chicken, a lot of standing around and looking at the enemy in the beginning battle, etc.
I just could not wait for it to be over. Problem is, when it did finally end, I was like WHAT THE FUCK? It just cut off, there was nothing that felt like any sort of climax what so ever. Regardless of me writhing about in my seat wanting the suffering to end, it turns out I wasn’t even in there that long. I had time to leave the theater, talk to two guys about what they thought about it for a bit, go to Wal-Mart and look around and it was still only two hours after the movie started once I headed home!
It seems like they went for the balance between adult fans and kids, there’s some cursing, some troopers getting taken out fairly brutally, plenty of venom in Asajj Ventress’ portrayal, etc, but for me it just felt so flat. I guess kids will like the baby Hutt and the young padawan girl, will probably go nuts for the action too. As an older fan – there’s stuff in there that was cool to see, but most of my gripes are as a fan of movies in general rather than Star Wars.
It just didn’t seem…cinematic. I don’t see how it was an effectively told story. It’s a glorified rescue mission that would have been better told in a ten frame comic strip on the back of a cereal box. Imagine if in A New Hope, Princess Leia was just the baby daughter of a background character and that once they freed her – it ended right there, with no Death Star attack or the ceremony at the end. Rather than a full story with any hint of importance or weight at all, it felt like a really pointless wank of the old cash cow udders, let’s squeeze dem bitches dry!
I guess the message was sent out to my town ahead of time, because it had to have been the weakest midnight opening I’ve ever seen – there was no more than 10 people.
It’s funny that a lot of my complaints are people’s usual complaints about the live prequels, but I honestly think all of that is much worse this go-round. However – if it hadn’t been a theatrical release I wouldn’t have so many negative things to say really. I just don’t see how they thought this needed to be a MOVIE you know? It doesn’t feel like an important part of the overall story.
The general response so far has been lackluster at best, even with a rating in the low 20s at Rottentomatoes. Regardless, I welcome anyone to check it out for themselves. I’m sure everyone will have a different experience with it though. Despite me feeling it dragged on, the two guys I talked to thought it was too fast.Some will enjoy this, and I hope they do, but I personally expected so much more than I was given.
EHHHHHH. Should have gone straight to DVD. Gendy Tartakovsky’s version (the shorts on Cartoon Network in 03) was way better.
The Baby Hutt is just for the opening arc of the TV series which they made into a film. Don’t expect anymore of it when the series starts in October.
The opening narration was meant to be like the old WW2 news reels that would air in theaters. same style and everything
Star Wars isn’t dead, it will live on threw books, Video Games and TV shows, don’t expect anymore movies though unless they are animated.
Also, you don’t even get to see Yoda fight. Wth?
http://galactic-voyage.com/Music/The%20Clone%20Wars%20Soundtrack/