Just got the latest Homing Beacon newsletter from the Star Wars website which says that the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith will be online - for Hyperspace members only - from next Thursday, shown in cinemas in the US from Friday and online for the rest of us mortals on Monday 8th November.

Does anyone care?

Ooh, a whole FOUR days earlier than everyone on Earth, I really
MUST sign on to Hyperspace for some extortionate fee to see it.


*wiggles fingers; does Homer Simpson's 'lolly pop laaaaane' dance*

only slightly, episode 1 and 2 were both disapointments that i dont have high hopes for episode 3, although i do wanna see it.

been watching the episodes 4,5 and 6 over the last few days and they are so much better, really prefer the look of those films. i dunno if im alone in thinking that cg is way over used recently and looks totaly fake.

no, i think george lucas is the one who's alone in thinking it looks so much better.

Eternally optimistic, I'll say I'm looking forward to Ep III.

Continuing the trend of the prequel trilogy, TPM was meh, AOTC was better, so I'm expecting ROTS to be pretty damn good.

Yes, I meant to add that I am actually looking forward to seeing the film itself.

My indifference to seeing the trailer a whole 4 days sooner still stands.

Nicked this pic from another fourm, but it's the first teaser poster of EPIII

I saw stuff on this film from the new box set and I have to say I got quite excited. Hayden what's his face looked divine and the thought of him being Darth Vader looked quite cool. Having said that the trailers for ep 1 and 2 looked cool and look how they turned out!

Nice touch with the cape, looks a bit like Darth Va . . . Oh, I get it . . .

Loon!
Its a lil bit cheezy...I prefer anikins shadow in episode one

Not that I liked episode 1 or anything.

no, it was shit, but anakins shadow was a good publicity stunt.

Except (puts on anally retentive geek hat)... there should have been two shadows, what with there being two suns and everything.

Except of course it's not a real shadow, more a metaphysical manifestation of destiny...



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Worth seeing for a Wookie army, surely. I have always maintained that Empire being the best film is directly related to Chewie's screen time.

*Aghdinigingoemlslghhshshtllvlglg*

*Falls over!*


It looks so good!

that does look really good, starting to look forward to episode 3 now

*crosses fingers* pleeeeeeeeeeeease be good!

Cheers for the tip off Whitey! (downloading now!)

I saw the trailer on Entertainment Today this morning - GMTV, you funny guys. It was just after Blue's new song, which was the worst-mimed performance ever - they were giggling, missing their cues and had to cover their mouths all the time to avoid being shown up. And the song ripped-off the main melody of the classic Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio! Shccking...

But anyway, back to Revenge of the Sith, and being a Star Wars sceptic, I really didn't expect much...but MAN was it GOOD!

Finally, a trailer that properly ties in with the original films, with plenty of evil looks, great action and creepiness. Dark, Lucas, DARK! Perhaps these prequels weren't a wasted exercise after all...

Hmm. Looks good - as in it's visually impressive - but whether it will be good remains to be seen.

A couple of points, it looks as though we are going to see Yoda do another Sonic the Hedgehog impression (he looks seriously pissed too!) and is that a CGI version of R2-D2 at one point as well?

Good to hear they have James Earl Jones doing Vader's voice

I can't not get excited by the new Star Wars, despite being let down twice before.

Fingers crossed he delivers.

(An army of Wookies - oh my god"

The pre-X-Wing X-Wing looks real nice. It has six wings

yarr that link dosent work

it did. you was too slow.
it should be pretty widely circulated by now, it's been 24 hours...
kazaa it or summit.

..and wade through the unbelievable amount of fakes. Waste of time.

Wait until the 8th when it'll be on Starwars.com.

blah i remember when this forum was full of people who'd all have hoped on msn and be bombarding me with attempts to send it

yarr i feel so old

*twiddles thumbs*


(did you know if you twiddle your thumbs so fast that they approach the speed of light you will actually be slingshotted into the future)

EDIT: It worked! ha it does look rather fantastic

An army of Wookies...finally we get what ROTJ was originally going to be like! But for some reason they don't topple the growing Evil Empire, unlike the Ewoks.

I just watched the trailer last night and I have to admit it does look good, I hope that it turns out better than PM and AOTC. the cast list on IMDb has Jar jar on it, lets hope is a very brief appearance or some sort of death scene?

No, that just doesn't seem right at all, does it?

Saw the trailer yesterday, and I must say I was not as impressed as with the trailers for TPM (goosebumps!) and TAOTC. Dunno why, there just seems something missing. Don't get me wrong, there are some interesting, teasingly brief images in the new trailer: a lightsaber-wielding and altogether more twisted-looking Palpatine (?), a desperate looking Mace Windu ("I ain't goin' out like a sucka!"), an evil-eyed-Anakin, a sparklingly new-looking C3P0 in a white corridor not unlike that of his opening scene in A New Hope, a white-corduroy-faced geezer with a serious Harry Hill collar fetish who looks like a cast-off from Hellraiser... this film WANTS to be dark, damn it - I just hope Lucas delivers the goods is all. It would be brilliant if there turns out to be an almighty "jeez, I didn't see THAT coming" twist in it (eg: Anakin isn't Luke and Leia's father after all - but then the prequels are already riddled enough with plot holes, eh? ).

They say 3 is the magic number, and it would be great to think that Revenge Of The Sith will wipe the floor with the previous two films, even (dare I say it) the original trilogy, but somehow I think that the latter is extremely unlikely. But here's to hoping.

Why are people so desparate to hate Jar Jar? I don't get it.

I wouldn't describe it as despearation to hate Jar Jar, he's just such a crap character that people don't want to see him have any more screen time - if he were to be killed off that would ensure no more return performances!

Im not desperate to hate him, I was just joking around. im definetly not a fan of the character but thats just my opinion, from what ive heard alot of people arent fans either.

The excitement was building - a Star Wars prequel - dampened only slighly by the name "The Phantom Menace". Then the trailer - wooo look at that guy in the red - double ended lightsabre and that music..

On release the news filtered though - it wasn't very good. Went to see it anyway. The news was right. It was utter shit.


The excitement was building - a new Star Wars prequel - dampened only slightly by the name "Attack Of The Clones" and the huge disappointment of TPM. Then the trailer - mmm that doesn't look very good.

On release the news filtered though - it was better than TPM. With reservations I went to see it. Better than TPM - yes but only in the sense that a turd with a cherry on top is more appetising than one without.

The excitement was building - a new Star Wars prequel. Dampened only by two utterly appalling movie's the name "Return Of The Sith" hardly registers on the radar.

The preview trailer is released. It looks worse than Attack of the Clones.

"I have a bad feeling about this"

the funniest thing i've heard is someone on the internet describing the new star wars movies as looking like command and conquer cut scenes, dont now if anyone here has played it. they do look like computer games due to the over use of CGI, but still I do have hopes for this one.

Well it's a strange thing - ever since the later Wing Commander games I think that in-game videos have quietly been creating a genre all their own. I'd actually love to see a collection of them - in fact I think you can buy the Starcraft videos on DVD. Let's face it, when you see that sort of sci-fi action as a common thing in games then an actual film, that you can't interact with, is actually going to have to be at a consistently high level throughout to beat the intensity of high-action cut scenes in games. In keeping with many others I keep re-watching the Warhammer Dawn of War intro sequence because it could so easily be a trailer for a movie...

I have to say I was expecting a little more. I'd heard great things about the trailer and I had much anticipation but when I watched it, something about it fell a little flat. I did like the wookies, and fingers crossed goerge will not drag them down to the level of some his other creations. I also really liked the shot of the two star ships side by side blowing each other apart, reminded me of ships at sea fireing cannons at one another, those were the days.

And the thing about Episodes I & II looking like the cut scenes from Command & Conquer games had me laughing for quite some time. Though, truth be told I loved those cut scenes and wish they hadnt dropped them in Generals and Renegade.

"Congratulations Comrade General...or should I say, Cosmonaut General!"

Plus the C&C scenes had better dialog.

Damn my eyes. I just saw the trailer today, and blow me if I didn't get goosebumps.

However, the question on most people's lips will be 'How can it possibly be shit?'; unfortunately, I've heard THAT before...

I saw it today. If it were a movie on it's own, more people would be salivating over it.

Looks excellent.

Perhaps I'm just not getting the full effect not seeing it on a cinema screen, but a hell of a lot of it is from ANH! Isn't that, I don't know, cheating?!!! I know it's a teaser trailer but...

Ok, hands up. Who thinks Revenge of the Sith will be a case of third time lucky, or the rotten cherry on top of a nasty turd cake?

Me? I'm holding my nose already.


JJM

Watch the trailer. See the wookiee army. See the Emp's saber.

Repeat.

Cherish it.

Ah, alas...trailers do not a good movie make. I have fond memories of the one for Phantom Menace. But I hope you are right...I truly do.


JJM:D

You're right there - if it was a hitherto unknown franchise, people would be rating it the best thing since the last best thing.
I'll agree it looks visually very impressive ("most impressive") , maybe too much so, for what is ostensibly meant to be
the 'darkest hour' in the Star Wars franchise. It just looks a bit too kiddie-friendly, just a little TOO colourful for my liking.
I hope the film itself is gonna be well proper DARK. As JJM just said, a 'good' trailer don't necessarily make for a 'good' film -
I had goosebumps the first several times I watched the Phantom Menace teaser, only to be disappointed with the end result
(with the exception of the pod race and the awesome lightsaber duels of course!)

Something else that's always bugged me about the prequels is that the acting seems in places to be SO wooden.
Incredible to think the critics said the same about the originals, but something that still holds up today with the original
films is the character interactions just seem natural, more believable, which just seems to be missing from the prequels,
depite the SFX gloss they have had the benefit of.

But I'm just a spoilt curmudgeon who was born and raised on the best sci-fi (ropey FX or not), pay me no heed.

Must admit I'm with you on this. George Lucas does have the knack of making actors of the highest calibre look as though they haven't been inside a studio before let alone act. There are numerous inferences to this on the new DVD's.

I'm a star wars fan and have been since 1977...I WANT the new movie to be good.
I just feel that the motivation for the original trilogy was different to the prequels. I suspect a movie heavy on effects, tugging at the memories of hardent fans by re-introducing familiar characters but low on storyline and a script that, if consistant with the other prequels, will be bloody awful.

Still...at least Darth Vader will be in it. It might just be worth it for that.

Maybe.


JJM

There's a good Epiosde III Trailer joke on PVP today

Great gag that. I can relate to it with relative ease. That bloody Lucas...does he know what he's doing or what?!

JJM

Yeah, that is quite good. Not funny good but accurate. God, nothing makes me laugh these days.

Star wars 3

I'm not saying that i will be good but it looks good, here's the link i think it works

To be totally and completely honest, I can't really say I care any more. I'll see it. And I'll probably own it on DVD when the time comes. But it's all the completist in me doing it, and a vain hope that maybe Lucas will have learned how to be a director by now.

Edgar = Good director of actors.
Lucas = Horrible. Just... unimaginably horrible.

This is the reason you will not find me at any kind of star-wars forum.

The trailer and other ROTS stuff is already being discussed here

Quite right Mr T, merged for Forum Neatness*




*Now with extra gleam

I hope in Episode III they have Yoda as a puppet again, it sucked in II.