"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" Feature Talkback (Spoilers)

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Release Date: August 15, 2008
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures, Lucasfilm Animation
Director: Dave Filoni
Screenwriter: Henry Gilroy, Steven Melching, Scott Murphy
Starring: James Arnold Taylor, Matt Lanter, Ashley Drane, Tom Kane, Samuel L. Jackson
Genre: Action-Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG (sci-fi action violence throughout, brief language and momentary smoking.)

Synopsis: As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace.

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But...there's a spunky, sassy new character! A super-cool new padawan with a lot of heart and "somethin' to prove"! What a refreshing, new idea! I hope she gets a comic-relief, cute pet that tags along with her. She's SURE to be as big a fan favorite as Jar Jar Binks! I hope she also gets her own breakfast cereal! A shame Anakin's probably going to slice and dice her up (with the rest of the "younglings") in Revenge. Poor padawan!

...okay...I can't do this anymore...this looks terrible! Lucas seems to have a crazy obsession with this particular span of time in his movies. How many more Anakin movies are there going to be? If he insists on milking this cow, why not give us a film set 20 or 30 years after Return of the Jedi? Or even waaaay back when there was more than one Sith Lord?
 
Someone making the decisions (probably Lucas) must be convinced that the only thing audiences want to see are hordes or Jedi swinging lightsabers around, Yoda jumping around like a little green booger, tons and tons of clone troopers and little else. So more Clone Wars it is.

Lame.
 
No, that's not it. The problem is that the Clone Wars have already been covered, and don't need to be revisited. Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars series was great. It had great animation, great action, and it was undeniably "Star Wars". This new movie just looks cheap and crappy.
 
I disagree with the assessments here completely. The expanded universe has some great stories that deserve to be told, but we still don't have anything on what actually happens during the Clone Wars themselves. We've merely seen how they begin and end and how 3 or 4 battles are resolved (thanks to CN's Clone Wars series). Folks, these battles are supposed to thin out the Jedi and actually have some of them killed, making it easier for Palpatine to know when the time is to strike against the main masters. They are supposed to last for a period of 3 years. Furthermore, whil the movie will focus on Anakin and Obi-Wan, the actual series is not going to have them as the main focus point. While I question the animation, I look forward to seeing this new take on Star Wars, especially since it's actually supposed to be better than the prequels, despite whatever ratings it's being given. Just remember you have to judge the Clone Wars on more than this movie- you have to judge it on the actual series.

As far as George Lucas only wanting to touch on items with Jedi swinging lightsabers around and such, remember that the live-action TV series being worked on takes place between episodes 3 and 4. While there are a few Jedi alive, most will have been killed off, so there won't be much lightsaber swinging then.
 
I used to be a huge Star Wars fan so I'll probably see it but I have so many problems with this movie. But ignoring most of those I just don't wanna see something that's set in the Clone Wars, I was hoping Lucas'd do something new like adapt one of the books.That'd be cool, but no he's gotta do some cgi movie that ends up looking like wooden figures and that no one wants to see.

Is this out today?
 
Alright, enough of this. I completely disagree with you guys. Don't you think that you should see the movie before you assume it's terrible. The entire series of Star Wars was great. The Clone Wars Series was great. George Lucas is great. Who's to say that this movie isn't great as well? A preview doesn't do a movie justice. I don't think it looks bad anyway. You guys have seen what George Lucas has done. Give the movie a chance before you bash it like this! I am looking forward to seeing it to prove that Star Wars isn't over yet!
 
The critics who already saw the movie? :sweat:

Still, I'll probably watch this when it airs on TV. I don't think it's worth the $10 ticket...especially when it'll air on TV in a few months.
 
We're not saying that it is terrible, we're saying that it looks terrible. And while I agree that one should see a movie before judging whether it's good or bad, the trailers for this film have not inspired confidence in me. So it's pretty likely that I'm not going to see this voluntarily.
 
The movie won't be airing on TV, at last not in a few months and probably not for at least a year. Basically they made it where what would have been the first three episodes are the movie, so the movie is the launch, but the series on TV will start with episode 4, much like Transformers: Animated.
 
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