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Content I read this a week ago on DH. Man, this sucks ass. When does the Two Towers come out again?

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Content I will now set myself on fire.

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Content 350 days until the Two Towers, my friend. I actually look forward to Attack of the Clones, to "cleanse the palate" as it were. The same reason I punish myself with 1/2 hour of Mad TV before SNL comes on.

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Content isn't this just an opportunity to exploit more peripheral income streams and merchandising opportunties? Sounds like they're staying true to the Star Wars ethos that's paid off GL's mortgage fairly well.

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Content As long as they die, I don't care. Just kill them and kill them quick. Oh, and kill them in the movie too.

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Content I've indured some very weird rumors while being a fan of this site, but this one takes the cake. There's NO WAY this rumor is true. Lucas would have to be off his rocker to put a boy band in any movie he would make, let alone his precious Star Wars. Why would Lucas want to piss away his cash cow with a stunt like this. Granted, it would lure in a younger audience to the movie, but it would betray and entire generation that has grown up with these movies.

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Content Check out the Rolling Stone N'Sync cover story from a few months ago. In it one of the boys is bragging about his new role as movie producer,(remember "On the Line"), one of the other N'Syncers says he wants to be in the new Star Wars, during the course of the interview they get a call saying the deal is done. Not sure when the issue came out I think in October or November.

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Content ARGHH! The film artist in George must be dead if he would pander to such a low level. Why not throw in a few Pepsis as well? Even galaxies far far away and long long ago cannot escape shameless corporate bullshit. George, STOP making movies by committee and concensus. Repeat after me: To thine own self, be true. To thine own self, be true. Thank God, Peter Jackson stayed true to his vision. . . At least the art of film is not completely dead.

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Content I enjoyed the little Easter Egg hidden sight gags (the ETs, the Dolby logo on the droid) in the PHANTOM MENACE. I have no problem with this just so long as they won't be contributing a song to the soundtracks.

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Content there is no way Lucas would try and pull this shit. He already has Jar Jar Binks appearing in this thing. If this is true is he trying to ruin Star Wars? Does he have some secret hatred toward it and wants some sick twisted vengeance against it and the people who love it? He seems to be trying every damn thing possible to ruin it. He called it "Attack of the Clones", it sounds like some 50's B movie(not that theres anything wrong with 50's B movies). Let's all just hope it isn't true and that the movie will put all our fears to rest. Still I think this project would be in better hands if Ed Wood was heading the whole thing up.

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Content This is just as bad as having Jefferson Starship... oh wait, that already happened in the Star Wars X-mas Special except it's happening in an actual Star Wars FILM! God damn you, Lucas, damn you to hell!

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Content The one that runs before FOTR? "A teenager in love"? And "Obi-wan holds me BACK!" Owwwww, that hurt. Jedi are forbidden to love women, but Anakin falls in love with Amidala? TEENAGE ROMANCE?!?!?!!!???!!!! Don't we have enough of Dawson's Creek on TV?

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Content Harry. Honestly. N'Sync are about as glam as Liberace. On behalf of Todd Haynes and Marc Bolan I demand an apology for your callous misuse of that all-too-often callously misused word.

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Content FLARGH! If in fact N'Stynk is in the film, I may have to protest with my money and just not see the f*cker except on small screen. Unless they all die horrible, gory deaths. Even then, I'm cringing thinking of them dying, groaning in pre-fab, synthesized harmony. ==== Trying to picture an evil anti-universe where the Freaky Squeakies are actually the Hobbits & Gimli in TT. Can't do it realistically. But somehow after the lame announcer doing the pod races (and, yes, I happen to love Greg Proops anywhere else) and, evil upon evils, Jake Lloyd (the missing member of "Hanson"???) as Anakin, I don't put it past GL to include the Stynkies in his next opus. If he can cast possibly the worst child actor of the past several decades in a pivotal role in TPM, I'm sure he can cast possibly the worst excuse for a music group in ancillary ones. ==== I was hoping TCW would redeem GL in my eyes, but I fear the very worst.

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Content This has got to be a nasty rumor. Lucas can't be selling out like this. My heart goes out to all SW fans (I'm one too)! I sincerely hope this is not true. If it is, someone needs to tell him he's killing his creation for anyone over 18. The adult demographic will want nothing to to do with this movie. Tell 'em, Harry!

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Content Is anyone out there, after these three years of crap rumors and speculation, still looking foward to this film? Anyone?

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Content seriously. Check Corona's Coming Attraction. At least they are up to date.

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Content Still think of it as "The Clone Wars". Now it's going to be "Attack of the 50-Ft. Boy Band".

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Content And not until. This smells like BS. Of course, I wouldn't know NSYNC if they dropped by my desk at work and asked if I wanted an autograph (which, incidently, Mr. T did last month, what a weird day that was). By the way, this rumor has been floating around for a LONG time and I haven't seen confirmation of it anywhere.

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Content This is such a minor, minor thing...Now I'm a huge Star Wars fan but I knew all of you guys were going to be committing hara kiri upon hearing this....THEY'RE EXTRAS!!! THEY DO NOT HAVE SPEAKING PARTS!!! THEY WILL BE ON SCREEN FOR SECONDS!!!! Whats the big deal? It's not like he cast them in leading parts or even parts that play minor roles. It's no different than Lucas slipping ET in the Senate scene in TPM...If he's doing someting to make his stepdaughters happy then I say more power to him. What's the big deal? It's his movie. He's not selling out. He's having some fun. He's making his stepdaughters happy. He's letting two guys live out an ultimate fantasy. What's the harm in that? It's not going to have any impact on the film whatsoever. Just chill and enjoy the movie.

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Content considering Sir Rupert owns the Post and is distributing the film. I personally don't care, the article in the Post said that they are in the background, since I don't know what any of them look like anyway it really doesn't make a difference. I am not excited at all about AOTC. Trailer looks neat, but so did TPM. I'll probably get more excited by April or so.

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Content Having them in cameos is one thing. At least they won't be recording a song for the film or anything like that. I say, if Lucas wants to have them in there, just give them cameos and totally deck them out in mucho make-up, so that the regular public can't instantly recognize them.

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Content As far as I know they're just extras in an arena scene among many other jedis who die, so this is no big deal.

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Content The NSYNCH tie-in makes perfect sense. A whole new marketing segment for toys, coloring books and lunchboxes. Ah, the NSYNCH Star Wars figures in Jedi outfits. Hey, will the AOTC DVD include a NSYNCH video in the special features section? Why not hava Britney Spears as one of the queen handmaidens? The dream is over. Just hold on tight to your NON-SPECIAL-EDITION copies of the original three Star Wars movies and pretend the prequels never happened.

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Content ... in Doug Camilli's column for what it's worth, though Mr. "Camilli" (a pseudonym) frequently lists rumours. But KMBH2476 is exactly right, they'll be on the screen for a fraction of a second, in a fight scene, I presume with other anonymous extras. If this still upsets you all, don't think of them as N'SYNC, just think of them as extras that happen to be members of N'SYNC. And, yes, Edward Rooney, there are still many of us who are very much looking forward to ATTACK OF THE CLONES. And, yes, I did love the PHANTOM MENACE, not a perfect film by any means, but neither were the first three. And, yes, I was lukewarm towards LOTR:FOTR, because that sort of fantasy just isn't my bag.

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Content the more i hear, the more i am sure that the next movie will truly be called Episode 2 attack of the SUCK!

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Content GRANTED, I WAS NOT THE FIRST TO POST THIS ON AICN, BUT WHAT DID WE/I TELL YOU?! All because of Lucas' fatass daughter who probably had Hayden do a couple Jedi Tongue tricks on her to get the role! Again, I don't care if O.J. is on the screen for one second (Although Orith Maul would be funny), but Jesus Christ, what is he trying to do?! I've all but bailed for Lord of the Rings now. Ep II may still rock, but he keeps testing us...P.S. BIG shrill screams for N'Back, muted smattering of "Yeahs" for Star Wars on TRL. Here we go again....

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Content NSuck and do a video with Jar Jar like Will Smith and Men in Black. It would be GREAT! At least we have Lord of the Rings -- sigh -- someone spike Lucas' Geritol?

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Content The time has come for someone to knock Lucas off his throne. I never thought I would say this, but if this rumor is true then Lucas really has no idea of what his fans want. I have always been violently protective of Star Wars and Lucas but I simply cannot accept this turn be it true. I really enjoyed LOTR but it wasn't quite enough to replace Star Wars in my heart. If N'Sync is prominently displayed in the next film I WILL DEVOTE MY LIFE TO CREATING AN ORIGINAL FANTASY/SCI-FI CLASSIC THAT WILL GIVE US ALL WHAT WE DESERVE!!! (I am going to school as we speak for this reason. Have faith friends; some of us feel the shadows surrounding us still.) Granted their appearance may not even be relevant in the least and lets hope so, but for god sakes put Jet-Li in the film before you put in Mr. Timberlake. With a saddened and shaking head (until it is proven untrue). -AZ

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Content Now George can blame her if AOTC sucks too. "I didn't really want to put Jar-Jar in these movies, honest! But my daughter looked at me with those pleading eyes and begged me to put him in! The Greedo-kid too! I swear!"

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Content It is a shame to see how the Star Wars Saga begun as a low budget movie that could have sucked but was great and will end as a big budget movie that could have been great but sucks. George, you still have a chance to turn things around, delay Ep II if you have to but please give it your best effort, otherwise you'll prove my theory that in your young age you were among the brightest of the Homo Sapiens and as you approach your old age you are nearing more and more the intelligence an ape. Talk about backwards evolution!!! Ps. LOTR:FOTR rules, that's how movies should be done.

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Content Nobody freaked out when my buddy was in the airport scene in "Dogma", No onw feaked when I was in "X-Files" Just like these two roles, no one even noticed we were there... If we had had speking parts we woulda probably ruined the movie but we were just IN THE BACK GROUND! Now you guys can't tell me that if you were young, goodlooking and were fucking ms Spears, and someone came up to you nad offered you p part in Starwars as a Jedi on the back ground you would say "no". I mean really, These guys were probably at the ranch, talked to lucas (and while they are a boy group, they are actually quite entertaining as "people")and So lukas offers them a part, lets them live out a fantasy (which while they are a boygroup, that doesn't mean they didn't grow up with this shit too). ah fuck it. I just wnat my Joey Fat One Jedi doll.

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Content Alright, I will tell why this is a bad idea...Even if they do get killed off, it would still be, by teenie-boppers, "Hey, Justin was in it, so it has gotta be cool!". Just because they "sang real good", does not mean they can, or should, act. It would just taint the credits and give them some standing. Plus, did anyone see "On the Line"? Well, neither did I. Ryan

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Content Lucas is probably doing this just to be spiteful of all of us poking and prodding into his recent creations. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Which is certainly how I feel now. What an ungrateful bastard! -AZ

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Content So now he lays casting decisions at the feet of his kids? A cameo featuring quick death with no dialogue may just pass, but if these cretins get up and sing as some kind of in-film band in the style of sy snootles, the saga is lost forever.

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Content Will someone please put George Lucas out of his misery? The man has to be completely insane! Either that, or he has a bet with someone that he can make the worst movie ever, slap the name STAR WARS on it, and people will still flock to see it. I, however, will not be among them. N'STINK is the fag boy band that broke this camel's back. I refuse to see this movie, and I beg anyone who has any taste in movies to do join me in my boycott.

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Content http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451630/20020102/n_sync.jhtml?headlines=true Sweet Lord, as Darth Psychotic said... MTV is claiming to have confirmation from Lucasfilms... How long till The Two Towers???

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Content Who care if those dudes are in it? As long as there in the backround, and I can't see 'em (not that I would recognize them), and the movie is good, why should anyone care?

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Content Yet another reason LOTR will overtake Star Wars.

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Content Killing is too good for the Nynch Jedi. It would be much more satisying if they were captured and became Jabba's sex slaves, being constantly violated by a 10 foot long slug schlong.

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Content Sadly it's true, I heard it on MTV(Nsync's ass kissers,and far worse then Lucas ever will be, MTV made them who they are), They said it's been confirmed by Lucas Films. I have to agree with another, how much you guys bet they'll have special Nsync action figures? Lucus has no shame, and he doesn't care because he knows the movie will make money, and the sad thing is we'll all complain, but still go see it, hell most us would still go see it even if Lucas had given them major roles in the AOTC. As much as I and any of you hate to admit, their the biggest thing in music, and very popular, and if any of you believe that they are going to be made up where they won't be reconizable, then you need to take your head out of the sand, because why would he cast them just to deck them out in heavy makeup where they won't be reconizable for their action figures? Who in their huge fanbase would want to buy something they can't droll over. I hate the way Hollywood has become, no self respecting director would allow Nsync to even sweep up at the set. I could maybe forgive Lucas if he didn't have creative control, because at least I can have comfort knowing this is something the studio would do to cash in on popularity, but Lucas is the brains behind this move.

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Content I'm sure they'll only be in the background....but....ugh....I don't even hate their music really, but this is kinda stupid...

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Content NSYNC is the most irritating of all the boy bands, and thats an achievment. Everytime one of them opens their mouth, whether it be to sing or to speak, it's like a sonic wave of stupidity and irritation. The backstreet boys, west life etc I can almost tolerate, but NSYNC...shit man...hopefully whichever Jedi knights they're playing will die in the most painful way possible. Maybe episode 2 can still be good, despite the cheesy title and NSYNC being in it. Maybe I'm just overreacting, considering their screentime will probably be about a split second. Hey, the rumour may even be false, just a horrible nightmare. But I gotta say that, even though I have no right to complain because star wars is Lucas's vision and he can do whatever he wants with it, it just seems that Lucas isn't taking his own vision very seriously, and cares more about pleasing his daughter than his fans.

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Content When's SW Episode III coming out? Probably May 18th, 2005! Just 1233 days away baby!

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Content Read it just before I came here. Apparently they're big fans of the series and asked if they could be extras in AOTC and Lucas said okay. Remember, that's how Samuel Jackson got into TPM, he mentioned that he would love to be in a SW movie and Lucas made it happen. From what I read it's just a couple of the members and they're only in it for a couple of seconds. Hey look, I hate "boy bands" as much or more than some of you, but what's the big deal? Most of us probably won't even be able to pick out which ones are "Nsync" and which ones are the "real" actors. They're non-speaking extras for god's sake. Who's gonna give a shit other than twelve year old girls? Believe me, if Lucas offered me or one of you a non-speaking role in any SW film we'd jump at the chance. Why should the guys in a "boy band" react any differently? Get over it.

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Content Read it just before I came here. Apparently they're big fans of the series and asked if they could be extras in AOTC and Lucas said okay. Remember, that's how Samuel Jackson got into TPM, he mentioned that he would love to be in a SW movie and Lucas made it happen. From what I read it's just a couple of the members and they're only in it for a couple of seconds. Hey look, I hate "boy bands" as much or more than some of you, but what's the big deal? Most of us probably won't even be able to pick out which ones are "Nsync" and which ones are the "real" actors. They're non-speaking extras for god's sake. Who's gonna give a shit other than twelve year old girls? Believe me, if Lucas offered me or one of you a non-speaking role in any SW film we'd jump at the chance. Why should the guys in a "boy band" react any differently? Get over it.

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Content Actually I don't consider myself the king/queen/king & queen/ of talkback, just maybe one of it's jesters. For those who have been wondering where darthpsychotic has been, well I have been busy bum-rushing various Starwars Fansite MessageBoard/Forums and defending Harry, Mori, and El Cosmico from time to time as well.

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Content at the end there was a sad song and the main character was crying! that would be sweet (NOT) I'm now going to gouge my eyes out for reading this!(and im not even a star wars nut!) oooooooooh i finaly get the title AOTC is short for atrocity!

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Content ..as long as they get disembowled by a lightsaber. That is something I would love to see even if it is just for pretend.

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Content I'm no big Nsync fan, but I'm not upset that they are an extra in AOTC. No one has a problem with unknown non-actors who are paid 50 bucks to be an extra, but someone that might actually draw in an audience that wouldn't normally be into Star Wars.... that's bad. Boohoo. Get over it. I'd be vying to get a role in the movie, however small if I were them too. Just think of all the young 16 year old poon that will need comforting when Justin takes a blast to the chops. JOKING PEOPLE!

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Content As long as they die horribly, throw 'em in, I say. 2 seconds of cannon fodder won't ruin a film!

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Content i thought i heard somone call what NSYNC does MUSIC! hahahahaha your kidding right! singing (badly might I add) does not eaqual music! none of them actually play an instrament! so they dont play music! and shut UP! PLEASE DONT LEAVE ME INTESTANAL GAS I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME NOOOOO!

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Content Why?...I hate this! This is bad news, indeed. I declare, from this day forward, I will NEVER SPEND ANOTHER RED CENT ON STAR WARS!!! How could something so powerful and great turn into something so awful. I hate this movie and I've only seen a short trailer. Please...Please...Please tell me something that will change my mind. I want to keeping loving Star Wars. I really do. But I can't. It has entered into the realm of KIDDIE CRAAAAAPPP!

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Content I have had enough, and am now beginning to believe mercier was right. Star Wars is dead for me. Lucas can do what he likes, I now dont give a shit. STAR WARS R.I.P.

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Content Maybe I'm getting old but who are they? Are they a band? Ahh fuck it. As long as they die and don't have anything to say while doing it, who gives a shit?

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Content Dont ever sully the good name of GLAM by associating it with drivel like NSYNC. I would love to know what Fat Harry listens to on his own time.

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Content No good complexion can be put on this. This both blows and sucks. And to say that the timing for this is fucking unfortunate is to drastically understate the case. Now is the time the big dramatic guns should be being polished and oiled at Skywalker Ranch, for the increasing "darkening tone" that was promised. The vats of boiling oil should be bubbling now, the dark bowels of Lucas' empire lit through the night as script doctors solder and acting coaches drill their troops for reshoots. However, apparently part of that dark tone is the inclusion on IQ-less boy bands as gimmicks in the background. I would have thought LOTR would have raised the bar. And there is potentially a huge advantage there for fanboys and girls, cos it meant we could possibly have expected mo' better Star Wars. Seems the bar got raised, only Lucas is now going to be limbo-ing under it as opposed to going over the top. Well, maybe that's harsh (well, I saw TPM, maybe it's not *that* harsh) but damn... I'm absolutely *stunned*... My prayers go out to everybody. This is a dark day in geek history.

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Content Don't any of you get it? NSYNC are going to be the reason Anakin turns to the dark side! It's the big twist. "So Lucas, why does Anakin turn to the dark side? is it because of Obi Wan, because of Padme, because of his mother?" "No, it's because of NSYNC. HAHAHAHAH, bet you didn't see that coming" See, in the middle of the Jedi battle, Anakin's going to turn around and see the NSYNC members behind him, and he's going to cut them up with his lightsaber, and Yoda's going to banish Anakin from the Jedi (although secretly he'll be thankful Anakin did it because he would have been unable to resist doing it himself), or Anakin will be duelling with count duku, and count duku will say "join the dark side Anakin" "No, I'll never join the dark side" "what, would you rather be with them (points to NSYNC)" "On second thought, maybe the dark side wouldn't be so bad" or something along those lines. I knew Lucas had to have some kind of sensible reason for having NSYNC in the movie, though I don't know how I knew, because over the past few years he hasn't exactly had any sensible reasons for anything.

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Content I'm thinking Justin will look pretty sexy as a Jedi...

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Content Boy, oh boy. The fourth horse of the "This Is Going To Suck" apocalypse just trotted up to the Skywalker ranch. I just saw LOTR in the theater last night, and the Episode 2 trailer went over like a fart in an elevator. See you in line for SPIDER-MAN.

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Content Holy shitarrific fuckturds, this has GOT to be the nail in the coffin. Holy shit. Oh my god, what is he thinking? Sure I hate Phantom Menace like Kathy Lee Gifford, but I thought maybe.. MAYBE in my own personal universe I could eradicate..forget the Phantom Menace and start anew with The Clone Whatever (SWII).. but now.. I see.. that it is really over. Saints preserve the original trilogy - those who have the original non-special versions on vhs count yourselves lucky. Keep them close, dear ones, keep them close.. If a triple-chinned, bloated, crazy kenny-rogers look-alike comes a knockin' wanting to insert wuvable racist aliens or trendy boy-bands in the cantina scenes.. please.. STAB KICK BITE AND SHOOT AT THIS LUCASCREATURE UNTIL IT STOPS MOVING!!!!.. and even if it stops moving, don't assume it's dead! JUST RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Content "I watch them in my arcade like laboratory rats hitting the goddamn feeder bar. But as long as they keep pumping in the quarters, who gives a sh*t, right?" - Noah, WAYNE'S WORLD

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Content Harry, it's amazing how you try to put a good spin on everything. Most critics try to hate everything, you try to like everything. Even when it's Star Wars with the Backdoor Boys, N'Stink, and Boyz2Women in the new Cantina scene. The Village People were the original boy band, and the only ones I wouldn't shoot dead on sight. I'd say I hope this is BS but it feels like something the new "Lucas" would do. The amount of screen time they get is irrelevant, their prescence alone confirms all the SW hopefuls' darkest fears. I think George's soul is captive in the dungeons of Bara Dur and being tortured by Sauron himself. I'll withold final judgement until I see it, but damn if that doesn't get harder every day. Lucas isn't giving us anything to defend him with. I can't wait until Mercier gets ahold of this one...

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Content Oh, God, I heard this a few days before and thought there was NO WAY. NO WAY. What a fall.

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Content Not that I ever thought he didn't and not that I think he's perfect now, but...maybe Lucas is really thinking of these as one movie and not completely making it up as he goes along. See, I watched EMPIRE recently. Personally I think the first one, which I just call STAR WARS and always will and will never call A NEW HOPE, was best, but EMPIRE was a Han Solo movie, no question. Yeah, Luke had some interesting things to do with Yoda and the Darth Vader tree, but it was a Han movie for Han-fans. JEDI, a good but highly flawed movie, was a Luke movie for Luke fans. Some of you have always looked on them as part of a whole, but I never did because I'm more interested in films in general than STAR WARS. But if you watch them together, even with different directors, they work better. I'm looking forward to watching THE PHANTOM MENACE with ATTACK OF THE CLONES. I've got a feeling that viewers will gain a new appreciation for EPISODE 1 without detracting from EPISODE 2. For the first time since I saw the EPISODE 1 trailer, I'm excited about STAR WARS. As for this boy band crap, I don't believe a word of it. Just because Hayden is good looking, we're hearing all this boy band crap. C'mon, what're they going to do, hire an ugly leading man?

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Content I never thought of Star Wars fans as geeky trekkies...until today. Almost everone I know who likes Star Wars would not be categorized as a space nerd. But reading this talkback I'm starting to think otherwise now. All this "I'm bailing from SW and going over to LOTR" like your on some team or something. People looking to movies like Twin Towers as some messianic message is just plain sad. You sound like all the nVidia vs ATI discussions I see. I feel like bloody Shanter on SNL. GET A LIFE PEOPLE. GET OUT OF YOUR MOTHERS BASEMENT AND GET A GIRLFRIEND!!! I'm going to go to AOTC come May and probably enjoy it. I'm also going to go to other movies and enjoy them. I still love the original trilogy, moderately like TPM and think I'll like AOTC. BTW, I agree with Cher. Lay off of Lucas' kids. If you had any you wouldn't be talking out of your ass like that. A father that takes his kids into consideration (in a way that doesn't effect the movie in ANY way I might add) has my respect. Man these talkbacks have gone to the dogs. Everyone describes themselves as geeks... that is an understatement. That's like saying Mount Everest is a bunny hill.

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Content who cares. as has been said a thousand times, these people are in the background, they are extras in the middle of a hundred others. and they die. this rumor doesn't excite me, and the only thing that really annoys me about it is the fact that its going to be fussed over for god knows how long. otherwise it really doesn't make a difference, at least not to me. so his daughter likes the "band", asked to have them in the movie for some bizarre reason, and lucas may have said, "eh, what the fuck, i'll have them killed and the fanboys should get a kick out of that." or whatever. i really don't see the reason for getting upset, but that's just me. and something i'm really tiring of is the constant mention of fuck star wars, i've got LOTR, or other such statements. i really don't see why this needs to be a contest for so many people, and said people must continue to shout about their standings. here's an idea, and i know im a radical, but go into AOTC when it opens and watch it, then take note of whether or not you liked it and to what degree. if you liked it, see it again, if not, don't. either way, come back here and discuss your opinion, preferably more in depth than a "rocks" or "sucks" estimation. then, when months pass by, see the Two Towers and enjoy LOTR's continuation. relax.

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Content *Pushes Vicconius out of the way as Sleepy_Woman barrels out of the talkback to puke her guts out all over GunsBlazing* Jesus on a croissant, DID YOU HEAR THE NEWS VICCONIUS? NSYNC .. N*FUCKING*SYNC is going to be on the same stage fighting with Yo*fucking*da and ObiWan! OH THE HUMANI... HUMANIT... H....*projectile pukes on Vicconius*

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Content You remember... last year for AP2 it was, "If you see one movie this year, see Star Wars. If you see two movies this year, see AP2." Now, the AP3 trailer... "If you see one movie this year, see AP3. If you see two movies this year, see AP3 again." Mwahahaha.

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Content Guys, sounds like their "parts" are as big as Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze's were in Phantom Menace. Chill out. Yeesh

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Content You people are just searching for things not to like. They will be in the background and probably no more noticeable than ET was in TPM. Not like there's going to be an obligatory cut to N'Sync fighting with sabers. Far back probably blurs behind Obi-Wan and Anakin. And hey, they die so good.

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Content Back again... but I am kind of shocked so bear with me. (Takes deep breath) Okay, this is looking like... I hate to say it. But SW fans of the AICN stripe are not the demographic that Lucas is interested in anymore. Loving it is becoming like, this, utterly dysfunctional relationship where you had fantastic times and it was the love of your life back in the day when you first got together, but now you sleep in different rooms and it comes home stinking of booze and cheap perfume from other women. Star Wars wants to see other people. Well, dammit. I just got dumped by a movie franchise. Time to play "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor and drink vodka... hey, was it Gloria Gaynor in the SW Holiday Special? Eerie synchronicity if true.

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Content This is a cheap and ill conceived stunt. Marketing ploy? Let's not kid ourselves. Girls under 15 may sit up and notice, but it will definitely alienate every other target market. Next thing we'll be hearing is that N'SYNC will have their own song on the soundtrack. Listen folks, I saw SW in '77 the very first week it opened in May. I remember buying the souvenir booklet and the button. I remember coming out of the theater changed -- forever. I want my neices and nephews to experience that same feeling. N'SYNC has nothing to do with "A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away." Lucas should have more respect for himself and his work. Art should never have to compromise

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Content All this time defending fucking Lucas this is what i got...pah.

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Content Time to get a life. In fact, rent Chris Elliot's Get A Life on DVD. You people could use a good laugh.

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Content Man, Lucas is turning into a big too. nsync in star wars? wtf? he is totally screwing up every aspect of episodes 1-3. can we all say Jar-Jar? he hasnt had a decent movie in forever.

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Content I think I'll also rent Phantom Menace and take a big steamy poo all over the screen as baby Greedo dances around jackassedly and "Annie" squeals "Yippee!!!" while accidentally blowing up things!!.. better yet I'll rent STAR WARS so I can see adult Greedo.. shoot first!! Nah, why not rent Lord of the Rings and give ourselves the mental enema needed to get this lucas-shite out of our brains and hearts!! Oh wait, that's not until august.. so I'm going to be Luc-onstipated until August?

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Content Star Wars is like the girlfriend you had in highschool. You loved her to death, then she moves away. 20 years pass and you've idealized her to the point of sainthood. She comes back, and no longer fits the godlike traits you've put upon her. She hasn't changed, but your attitude towards her have. It not her problem, it's yours. The first Star Wars were not high cinema, but they were great fun. Don't make Lucas have to make AOTC the Godfather or Citizen Kane. These are just fun swashbuckling movies and that's all they ever were. Sheesh.

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Content Only a few members are going to appear. The paper says that 2 members opted not to appear in this film as George also told them he had 2 cameo roles for ep#3 that they agreed to take.

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Content The idea of not seeing this film because N'Sync is in the background and supposedly not even noticeable for literally 1/2 second is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The report says you just see them getting blown up in the background and it's "blurry". I think it rules now that I've thought about it. N'Sync getting blown up... isn't this what many have prayed for since they first appeared? God bless you Lucas. Dreams really do come true at ILM.

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Content but its the principle of the thing. Because they are such big names they will draw a lot of attention. If it was any of us in the cameo no one would give two shits about it. This is why it leaves such a bad taste in the mouth. If NSYNC somehow had relevance to the star wars universe then maybe this would be ok but they don't. This is pandering at its lowest level. It's just extremely aggravating that Lucas feels the need to pull off gimmicks like this. Now everybody will look to see when NSYNC dies instead of paying attention to, oh i don't know, maybe the PLOT. I'm not going to say anything like "Lucas raped my childhood" or any crap like that. I just feel that this is a poor decision. I would expect this of Michael Bay, not George Lucas.

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Content But more importantly, does Justin Timberlake have wings? **** Haha, you're linking to the Sun. This is self-parody right? Right? *** Anyway, after shitting the bed with Episode I and Episode II looking equally awful, I think Lucas should just go head and go apeshit with the series. N'sync is just the start. I mean we need: an all rap soundtrack (Jedi Rap? anyone) with Yoda rapping at one point; a jive talking sidekick; Ben Afflack as Anakin in Episode III; Tom Green, Carrot Top, and Chris Kattan as comedic relief; the Jar Jar dancers; breakdancing robots; and hmmm... I dunno, how about Robin Williams as the caring mentor with a goofy sense of humor, like Patch Adams or whatever the hell he was in Good Will Hunting... but with a lightsabre.

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Content I don't think that the Lucas camp states anything about this. I also don't think that N'SYNC's agent/publicist would ever agree to any on-screen demise. If anyone has site coordinates, do tell. I need a drink, dammit.

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Content If Nsync is going to be in Star Wars, I will never watch another Star Wars movie again. Haven't they learned their lesson with "On the Line" the worst movie ever made next to "Dude Where's my Car" and "Freddie got Fingered." I don't care if they are in heavy make-up, get their heads blown off, or freakin do Neo stuff. It would spoil the movie. This is a stupid rumor put up by some dumb teenaged girl that masterbates with Justin Timberlake's picture under her pillow. If it's true, Lucas get off the weed.

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Content http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2001601540,00.html there you go. same article linked on the main page.

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Content Two second cameo or no . . .the issue at hand here is the fact that Lucas is . . .Lucas is just . . .I don't know what the fuck Lucas is doing. Oh well. I've still got my THX remastered copies of the original trilogy. RIP Star Wars. Frodo Lives.

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Content That was like throwing chum to sharks. I have never seen the gimps and losers here go quite so mindlessly frantic as that before. You aren't real people, you are charicatures. As a film lover, I hate being associated with you socially inept pud pullers. Why don't you screaming idiots take it to the nearest comic book convention and argue about it with the other fat losers and give my poor eyes a break?

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Content Well, I never expected "Citizen Kane" or "The Godfather", and would be disappointed if SW tried to be either. But you know something I remember very clearly from when they first came out was how clear and consistent they were. They weren't self-referential, or smug, or packed with obscure pop culture references to please the grown-ups. They stood out a million miles from the rest of the field because they were... at the time people called them space opera. Yeah, it was this cornball story but it was played with absolute conviction. There were no hidden messages about the "issues of the day". They were singular and uncompromising and... well, yeah, visionary. Clear, simple, very beautiful pictures - Luke against the double suns, the sinking feeling in your stomach as the X-Wings go into the trench... That's why I think they haven't dated much. And that, in the late seventies, was a kiss like a sock in the jaw. And you know, they made a host of cheap imitations - "Buck Rogers" with its crappy disco stylings and "Battle from Beyond the Stars" with its Playboy centrefold, but they were all so *studio*, so mired in "What can we put in that sells? We don't understand what made SW successful, we can only make stuff that we UNDERSTAND, goddammit!" And SW wasn't like that... it was *cool*. And maybe all things change, but one thing I know for sure, anyone that can help me escape, and feel that way, and inspire me with what film and art can actually do and make me want to do it myself... well, that's a rare thing, and if you've got it, you should hold on to it like grim fucking death and not let go. And that includes nixxing the boy band cameos, and managing without the whole global corporate media demographic-appeal tie-in thing. Do what you want with the merchandising, but the film itself... well, anyway. No point labouring the point. I'm disappointed.

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Content I mean this shit here is a lesson in how to fuck up a fanboy's dream. I mean SW boys will get no tail while standing in line trying to see movie called Attack of the Clones. Now NShit is the movie. I mean fuck it Lucas just have Darth Maul and Anakin battle on an old luxury liner called the Titanic and call it a day. That motherfucker has lost his mind and deserves some medieval treatment for this lapse in judgement. Somebody call Ving Rhames so he can bend George over.

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Content Lucasfilm rep Lynn Hale, however, says that, while Lucas' daughters are big fans, "that didn't have anything to do with it." Hale says Justin, Lance, Joey, JC and Chris were big Star Wars fans, so they asked producer Rick McCallum if they could appear in the latest installment. McCallum apparently found a spot for them, in "a big scene with lots of extras." But Hale says they have no dialogue, and they won't even be credited as extras when the film hits theaters May 16. Still, the mere blip of an appearance by the Pop stars has set off a firestorm of talk on Star Wars Internet message boards. "Please no. George, no. Please. Anything but the boy bands. Please," wrote one fan in a discussion on Star Wars news Website TheForce.Net. "Jar Jar I could handle. Not this." Other fans, however, were actually willing to give Lucas the benefit of the doubt--assuming that any cameo with the 'N Syncers would be so brief that they wouldn't even be noticeable. "If they're just in the background, I don't see what it would matter," writes another fan, known as Silac5. "Now, if they were to start having synchronized lightsaber battles and spontaneously bust out in song, then I would have to walk out of the theater."

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Content Well this cant be true. i mean george lucas must be somking some strong crack. After reading this and finding out if this is true i will not be seeing episode TWO. Personally i think we should be calling Lord of The Rings the holy fucking trilogy.Because it seems that Star Wars has become more Man than Machine now. I mean it seems that Star wars has more links to coprations than does it to it,s fan . I mean whats next the backstreet boys play all of Blofelds sons in the next james bond movie. If this is true this is a sad day for fandom . Fuck you George Lucas

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Content OK. History time. George adopted his oldest daughter after ESB. She was about 2-3 at the time. For her he changed the Wookies to Ewoks, and then added Chewie doing the Tarzan call. Now when I was 13 in May 1983 laughed at that joke. But now I realize it doesn't fit. That heavy a pop culture reference is out of place in the mythos of the story. Cut to 1996: George's youngest is 4-5 years old and as Lucas works on the re-release he sees Solo shoot first. Problem: he's afraid his kid will freak if "Uncle Harrison" kills the alien in such a cold blooded fashion. Thus alter the scene so "Greedo shoots first". In conclusion, both Lucas and Spielberg in the name of protecting their children have changed their filmmaking styles and are kid-proofing their PG films. It's getting harder and harder to defend them.-----later-----m

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Content Remember when Alec Guinness was going to provide the voice for a computer generated Obi Wan?

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Content which it probably will. "ani? is that you?, my, how you've grown" please, titanic had better dialogue.

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Content Oh well, the 'Star Wars' prequels couldn't be saved anyway. It would suck having the entire 'Star Wars' DVD (or video) collection and thinking: "Ah, every episode of my favourite film series... it's a pity 'Episode 1' was the biggest load of cow shite this side of the sun..." This is really terrible news and I guarantee that we will not see the members of Armagn'sync dying. George won't show anyone dying in his films - he's gone pansy on us. Sorry for the negativity, but I actually think that I don't respect George Lucas anymore, and that's a big thing... By the way, if you haven't already, please go here to sign this petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/fotrdvd/petition.html

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Content THIS WILL RUIN STAR WARS FOR GOOD!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!! PLEEEEAAAAASE LET THIS BE TRUE!!!! (Although this hast he smell of bullshit written all over it....) hehehehe....

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Content I'm still ROFL from your post. It's quite possible Luca$ has conceded that the prequels are crap, and is now having fun with it, going out of his way to antagonize the Ep.I critics with this shite. I also like the theory he has gone insane like Howard Hughes. After the NSYNC decision, casting Ben Affleck as Anakin in Ep.III would be A STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION. Putting in NSYNCH is Luca$'s final middle finger to the late twenty and thirtysomethings that grew up with the original flicks. So long, George. Good luck with your new demographic: people with AOL personal pages devoted to nsynch. And to the apologists whose argument is always "Star Wars belongs to Lucas, we have no right to question his judgement", you're right. If Luca$ chooses to make SW a joke, let him do it. Here's a publicity shot of Nynsch dressed as the queen's handmaidens: http://www.nsyncworld.com/title.jpg

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Content Thanks, Butch. I could use a shot. Interesting, though, after all this time, people are so passionate about SW. GL definitely did something right, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

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Content OK....it'll be ok...confidence a little cracked, but im cool....I'm remaining calm...everything will pan out ok in the end...and I'm with the general consensus, as long as they stay their asses in the background, or, if they do get some spotlight, they die sweet, wonderfully horrible deaths, its not a total loss....but the principle of it....that Lucas would bend his will to his 13 year old brat....when he KNOWS how much rides on this movie...and for something so fucking DUMB, too...i mean, put it in perspective....imagine if, in FOTR, Peter Jackson's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roomate was a Limp Bizkit fan, and all of a sudden, boom, Fred Durst is playing a hobbit....i dont think it'd take away much from the final product, but what it says to the hardcore is that this story isn't important enough to maintain some sense of integrity, not to be distracted by some unnecessary cameo. If you can whore out space in your story for some second rate performer's face in the crowd, who knows what else you might wind up sacrificing in your haste....and even then, you know what? I don't even think its the fact that some celebrity's got a cameo...its the fact that it's NSync...what those hemmorhoidal ass-bandits represent....its bullshit, and without a point...goddammit, Lucas, wake up, come back from the dark side of the Force...a boy band does not belong here, whether your daughter thinks so or not...listen to your fans. Trust us. We know best. Watch what you sacrifice. But like the subjetc line says...its just a little airborne...its still good...its still good...Revolution is my name...

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Content Listen. This rumour is total bunk. No way in Hell NSYNC make cameos as Jedis or as a band in the canteena or piles of wookie crap...you think if Lucas's daughter liked Barney the Dinosaur, he'd have Obi wan in a saber duel with the big purple dufus? Get a grip on reality people....you've all been watching too much E! television and reading too many tabloid rags. What a bunch of brain dead gossip goons.

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Content This decision to put N'Sync is Lucas' ultimate revenge on those who bashed TPM. Know how a jealous ex-spouse will plot and think hard about the BEST way to make their ex angry as heck? They plot it...specific...what specific thing will create maximum damage. It seems like Lucas did that here. There's no reason that he couldn't have given this honor to some obscure garage band or some local Marin County lounge band. But no, he gives it to N'Sync, who epitomize everything we love to hate about the teen pop industry and the 'Britney industry.' What is Lucas thinking? If N'Sync is clearly visible to the audience, it is the biggest slap in the face one can think of. Casting directors and common sense directors know what 'context' means. It means you don't make a film about the Italian Renaissance and put Bruce Willis in as Michelangelo. You don't make a serious World War II film and cast Mike Myers as Adolf Hitler. You don't make a film about the Nuremberg Trials and cast Rodney Dangerfield as a judge, no matter HOW SERIOUS he treats the role. Common sense. You're not gonna see Hitler, you're gonna see Austin Powers. We had this retarded discussion with Leo DiCaprio as Anakin Skywalker. No one is gonna look at Anakin and not think about "Titanic", brainless teenyboppers, and Leo's overinflated talent. While we're at it, let's cast Bernie Mac as President of the Republic for Episode III. So when we look at him, instead of thinking about the fall of Vader, we'll remember that we bought 'Original Kings of Comedy' at Target for $9.95. I think Lucas is a scorned spouse, folks, and you're the ones, right or wrong, that he's gonna get revenge on. Let's hope he gets no more ideas on cameos. Enough with the cameos. The TPM cameo at the end was lame. It practically sang out 'hey look at the makers of Star Wars, that few people give a darn about!'

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Content Fuck George Lucas pandering his fucking narcissistic daughter. Seriously, I'm not going to watch Episode Two. And yes, I am a Star Wars fan. I own Episodes Four, Five, and Six. I USED to watch them religiously. Tomorrow they will be in the garbage. Call me shallow if you want. I already know I am. Pathetic? Perhaps. However, I will not be a sellout. I will not become something which I despise. LUCAS already fucked us all over with Jar Jar Binks. I stood in line for two hours to see Episode One for that annoying piece of shit. Listening to Jar Jar is like someone running their nails against a chalkboard. That was the last and only time I watched Episode One. Now, Lucas is going to fuck Episode Two for us. Which means I'm throwing away all my Star Wars and Lucas related shit, except my Indiana Jones box set of course. Yes, everything Star Wars is shit now. Lucas sold out and I feel like a piece of shit owning anything Star Wars. Just think, fans of N'EACHOTHER will own the same Star Wars shit as we do. I can't even force myself to accept that the mentally challenged soulless nothings who listen to the boy band prefabricated rubbish are actually human beings. I don't know about you people, but Lord of the Rings replaced Star Wars for me. Fellowship of the Ring is better than any Star Wars movie made to date. I also know Peter Jackson won't cast the Backdoor Boys in The Two Towers. This is just one more chapter to add to the vast book that Lucas doesn't give a shit about you or me. All he cares about is selling tickets and pandering to his egotistical daughter. Yes, directors should care about their fans. I know Peter Jackson cares about Tolkien fans. One example would be Jackson saying Tolkien fans would crucify him if he changed the name of The Two Towers (b/c of the WTC attacks). I TRULY BELIEVE LUCAS' DAUTHER'S FIRST WORDS WERE "JAR JAR" AND GEORGE CREATED BINKS AS A SPITTEN IMAGE OF HER.

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Content These guys have much more important projects in the can. Like, for instance... "Baby Geniuses 2!" Now that

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Content You know in some ways maybe George is tinkering with us fanboys. Maybe there is a light at the end of the chunnel. We have a dumbass title, Boy band cameos, now if we can get Mel B aka Scary Spice to wear her tounge ring and give Sam Jackson and Yoda table dances, I will see this movie 1000 times. All jokes aside there are some things which make this film way better than TPM. I say pile on Georgie and let's hope that he shuts us the fuck up in May 2002 with a movie that will make us bust big loads.

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Content WTF is Lucas doing? Does he even realize that anyone who's seen the first three movies is going to see these? I think the think that pissed fans of the first trilogy off was when they realized that TPM wasn't made for them. On top of that, it wasn't about the story anymore. The Gungans weren't necessary, but Lucus wanted to computer generate an entire battle. Hell, as damn cool as Sam L. Jackson is, all Lucus had to do to create Mace Windu was give Jackson some of Yoda's lines and a name that had appeared in a first draft of A New Hope. And now that Lucas is taking orders from his 13 year old daughter, we might just break that tie. It'll be Sucky SW Movies 3, Good Ones 2. Get Irvin Kershner to direct Ep 3; I don't care if he's 80, just give him what he wants. And someone find Lawrence Kasden.

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Content I seem to remember that Greedo shot first in the book ... I personally liked it better that Han shot first.

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Content I TRULY BELIEVE LUCAS' DAUTHER'S FIRST WORDS WERE "JAR JAR" AND GEORGE CREATED BINKS AS A SPITTEN IMAGE OF HER.

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Content Brokentusk: <<George won&#39;t show anyone dying in his films - he&#39;s gone pansy on us. >> Yeah, you&#39;re right. I mean look at Episode I. It&#39;s not like the lead character Qui-Gon, or Darth Maul, died during the final fight. Oh wait... it is. Online "fans" create their own reality.

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Content I basically agree with everything in your post about why the original trilogy was so good. I just think that a couple of extras does not cheapen the film in any way at all. I probably won&#39;t even notice them. If Nsync was in the movie without any prior publicity and you loved the film, then later you found out that a couple extras in the background were Nsync, would you stop liking the movie? It just seems like typical talkback overreaction.

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Content BTW, Mercier, consider yourself spanked by the king of sell-outs, George Lucas!!!

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Content Vicconius, the point here is not that Fat One and his bitches are going to be in the movie. In the grand scheme of things, I could care less about that part. The simple fact that Lucas would put them in the movie is just utterly disgusting. {lucas to himself} "Okay, EPI didn&#39;t outgross Titanic...how can I take back the title with EPII?" If this was nothing more than a favor to his daughter, he would have asked the band for their silence until after the release of the movie. Why do that though? Now a bunch of 12 year old girls will pay to see the movie 15 times to figure out where Lance has Fat One bent over a pod racer. Jesus Christ on a Cracker.

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Content I don&#39;t understand something and it really bugs me. Some of you say you will not see Episode 2 when it comes out. Why? Why can&#39;t you see the movie? You don&#39;t think it will be any good so you won&#39;t see it? You won&#39;t go... you just won&#39;t. "No I&#39;m not going!" "I&#39;ll go see Spiderman again, but I refuse to see the new Star Wars film just because!" So you&#39;ve never gone and sat through a movie you didn&#39;t like or though you may not like? There&#39;s just no reason to say you won&#39;t see it at all. "I don&#39;t like that N&#39;Sync may be in the movie even though I&#39;ll never notice.. It&#39;s the idea that they are there so I won&#39;t see it. Fuck Lucas!" Oh God get over yourselves. Are there any other movies you "refuse" to go see? I wish I could take names of you people and somehow make sure you didn&#39;t go see AOTC when it comes out. You said you&#39;d never see it. That&#39;s bold so you&#39;d better live up to it. Don&#39;t go... while everyone else is seeing it, stay home. Read LOTR again or watch your laserdisc copies of the classics while everyone else is watching the latest chapter of Star Wars. Anyone who says they won&#39;t go is a liar or is just looking for a reason not to like Star Wars.

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Content George Lucas is currently being blown by Justin Timberlake while Britney Spears is in the corner, complaining that her ass won&#39;t fit into anymore pants because they all keep fucking ripping. Meanwhile, the Backstreet Boys are all over the couch, doing each other in the ass, and spewing their loads all over George Lucas&#39;s face, one by one......... "Use the Force, Justin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Content You are shallow and pathetic!

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Content It&#39;s true!!! Butt Backender will be PERSONALLY training these young buns to service ALL the monastic Jedi MEN!!!!!!!!!...http://www.geocities.com/buttbackender/ButtBackender.html WE ALL KNOW WHAT MONKS ARE LIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Content Isn&#39;t this, like, one of the Seven Signs of The Apocolypse?

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Content Its the only reason why NSYNC would be in the film. He fooled us all. He knew it was over.

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Content There is going to be a big battle scene!!! Ain&#39;t it cool!?

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Content ..Maybe he can beg daddy for a Natalie Portman nude scene.

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Content Wow, this Butt Backender stuff is starting to sound like it&#39;s for real!

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Content I&#39;d like to take this opportunity to unveil the Sophia Scale which measures dumbass moves by directors, usually at the behest of wives, kids and other hangers-on. It&#39;s named for Sophia Coppola who&#39;s insanely uninspired casting doomed what should have been a good movie - Godfather 3. One Sophia = one unit of directorial stupidity. For instance, Jar Jar Binks = 10 Sophias - in other words, JJB was ten times worse than GF3 because - he used up lots of screen time, at least Sophia was attractive and he&#39;s completely the creation of one man - you can&#39;t even blame nature. You can also have partial Sophias for just fairly dumb stuff. I would rank the N&#39;Sync mess a .5 Sophia because it&#39;s unnecessary and it&#39;s pandering - but it&#39;s likely to be quick. However, if any of them turn up with the name of Mace or Attillies - then it could go at least 5 or 6...

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Content &#39;cause if you do, there&#39;s this thing called life and, well, you&#39;re missing it. Sure, Lucas has lost his touch. Just point to the Special Editions of the first trilogy for all the evidence you need - Greedo shooting first, Luke&#39;s girlyman shriek as he jumps, the fact that the Ewoks were not digitally deleted--you know it, I know it, he knows it, but no one cares, because Attack of the Clones will still make $400 mil and we&#39;ll all see it early in the run, if not day one, me included (although unlike many others who are bitching about this, I&#39;ll probably stop at one viewing).

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Content Someone else mentioned that the prequels would never measure up to the first 3, and they were probably right. That Lucas saw fit to use a boyband in one of his films is his own business, I suppose; if you don&#39;t like it, then don&#39;t go see it.There&#39;s certainly enough fan fiction and small-time rebel filmakers out there who can bring thier own &#39;vision&#39; of what they think Episode 2 should be to light. I&#39;m just saying...the man&#39;s getting paid. Can&#39;t player-hate him for that. You&#39;re buying the tickets and the videos. Personally, I&#39;d like to see geeks pool thier resources together and come out with a &#39;renegade&#39; version of Episode 2. Get look-alikes for the characters you need them for, and new faces for the rest. Otherwise, grin and take it like a man, fish.

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Content This is all because Lucas cut BUTT BACKENDER from later drafts of Episode II - COME OUT OF THE CLOSET GEORGIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Content What is Lucas thinking. Getting this dude from Mahogany??? What&#39;s next Michael Jackson from the Wiz along with anyone else that worked with Diana Ross? Do you know where you&#39;re going too? I know where Star wars is going too. Hell. Luca$ can screw my ass. I also hear that the Emporer is going to be played by a WOMAN! Lucas has just lost me. I&#39;ll be standing in line for Flash Gordon when that comes out. I&#39;ll never watch another Star Wars movie again. Not even episode 9. At least we have Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers. Those movies will never disappoint us geeks. (Editors note. Thank God talkbacks weren&#39;t around in 1979.)

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Content Jaxxman, is this for real? Was Lucas really planning to introduce a gay character in Episode 2? I heard that rumor a few months ago, but thought it was a joke.

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Content Wouldn&#39;t want to piss of the aspiring director. And an N&#39;Sync song in the movie (maybe playing over Anakin&#39;s landspeeder radio) is definitely a 10!

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Content The guy that trains luke is a MUPPET! WHAT IN LUCAS&#39; NAME IS GOING ON. I will not be standing in line for Empire Strikes Back. What&#39;s next. Kermit as the Emporer. This is what you get when Luca$ panders to kids. I bet his nephews and nieces had something to do with this abomination. He&#39;s only trying to appeal to kids. I&#39;m chucking all my Star Wars LP&#39;s in the trash tomorrow. Call me pathetic or shallow. NO MUPPETS IN SPACE. I bet they&#39;ll make a whole movie about Muppets in space someday. What&#39;s next? Mark Hamil on the Muppet show pretending to be Luke&#39;s twin cousin. This is just SICK!!!

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Content just for perspective - does it really matter if the seat-back trays are in the &#39;upright and locked position&#39; as the plane hurtles toward the ocean at 500mph? didn&#39;t think so. brought the folks to FOTR this past weekend... 2/3 of the way through the AOTC trailer, my mom says in all seriousness, "is this the next star wars???" classic.

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Content Nah... we got dumped mate. I promise you. Not the other way round. A celebrity cameo is a distraction in drama. It just is. But, we now have this new SW where stuff like this is okay, because, hey, it&#39;s not like SW is any good or anything. Well, that&#39;s simplifying the point, but its clearly not the clear, consistent escapist vision the first two movies were. Now, I can understand Lucas loathing hard-core fans, rich though they have made him. Hard-core fans can be really hard to love, as I&#39;m sure TBers occasionally find. I&#39;m not going to say something dumb like, "I will NEVER see this movie." but I think it&#39;s a real shame, because I would have been really looking forward to it, and now, I&#39;m kind of, "Oh well." And as much as Peter Jackson takes me to all the stores in the mall where I want to shop, buys me fancy lingerie, and sends me roses, I do have a SW-loving component. There&#39;s no denying it. Oh well. Did someone mention bourbon?

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Content You nailed it Alice. "Disappointment." Disappointment is really the emerging shroud that&#39;s enveloping the Star Wars mythos. The "old" Lucas would never have even considered something like this. He shunned main stream like the emotionless, talentless, gutless pariah it is; that engulfs most film, TV, and literature. Come on Lucas, don&#39;t give in to the dark side. Cause folks, this be it. If you don&#39;t think so... can you spell "denial?"

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Content ROFL picturing you in a sweaty frenzied panic trying to think of examples from the original series. Keep up the good work! Come up with 20 more in the next 60 seconds. GO!

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Content What&#39;s up with that? I hope this is just a BBS rumour. Does Luca$ have to ruin everything? I never thought of Vader as human at all, now he&#39;s siring kids. What next, Leia is his SISTER? Damn Lucas in going too far. I&#39;ll be standing in line for Porky&#39;s, not ESB.

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Content Oh bitches. Bitches, bitches, bitches...lol...LOL, lol...<Smacks blackboard with open palms> SCHOOL, BITCHES! <Wipes drool from quivering lower-lip, twitches neck once to the left, widens eyes, yelps like a 2 legged mule who&#39;s just been capped with some buckshot in the hind-quarters> IN SESSION!...LOL! Well, what BITCHES, what did the KING just DECREE last week? That&#39;s right, pay up bitches, pay up, pay up. The KING decreed Lucas&#39; kids had a hand in ANI-SYNC and what do we learn later? Yes, BITCHES that N&#39;SYNC themselves are in the flick! Like I been saying, Lucas and ILAME are walking, talking SELF-PARODY. Lucas just sits at Skywalker Ranch all day pushing the "Mess It Up Good, Mess it REAL Good Button" over and over...LOL...Bitches, bitches, bitches... ALL he HAD TO DO was make a STAR WARS flick...LOL... So, Ewan McGregor&#39;s Greatest Career Regret Pt II will have a boy band fighting at his side, huh? LOL... I CANT WAIT for the press to talk to McGregor about this one! I mean, let&#39;s face it, bitches -- he&#39;s brow beat the STORY, the CHARACTERS, the WRITING, the "ACTING METHODS," and TITLE! LOL! Oh bitches, why do you school SO EASY? Why is it that GENERAL JACKSON is your ONLY hope? G&#39;nite, Lucas, G&#39;nite ILAME, G&#39;nite, Bitches... as if it wasn&#39;t bad enough on Dec 19 when Fellowship opened and BLEW YOU INTO IRRELAVANCE, now Lucas is SCHOOLING HIMSELF and YOU! LOL!!! <Rick McCallum: Whatya doing George? --- Lucas: Oh, just writing TPM III...let&#39;s see how much these bitches will take this time. ---- Rick McCallum: They sure are some dumb bitches, George. --- Lucas: (Counting money) LOL...damn right.> And you, BITCH, in the NEW CENTURY, were greeted by a BROW-BEAT and SCHOOLING at the hands of the KING of TALBACK! Whip-TASH! (The Balrog&#39;s bullwhip, snapping some bitch in a Darth Maul tshirt in the ass in honor of my departure)

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Content George has a very clear vision about the story of Star Wars that he won&#39;t allow to be swayed by the whims of the Internet, the media, critics or anyone. The Internet rumors this time around are possibly even more funny and off base than they were for the first film.

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Content The point, GunsBlazing and all the rest of you, isn&#39;t that N&#39;Sync is in a blurry shots for a millisecond. The point is that Lucas thinks it&#39;s a good idea to put N&#39;Sync in a blurry shot for a millisecond. Star Wars is a story we- and by we I mean pretty much everybody here- have a large emotional investment in. We are who we are today in no small part because of Star Wars. And this is a betrayal. That&#39;s ridiculously melodramatic, maybe, but dammit that&#39;s what it feels like- a betrayal. Lucas wouldn&#39;t have two fucking nickels to rub together if it weren&#39;t for kids like me (and you and you and you) who went and saw Star Wars dozens and dozens of times and told everybody we met in &#39;77 about the best damn movie ever made and how they had to go see it. If that puppy had tanked he&#39;d be working at a car wash in Pasadena right now. As far as I&#39;m concerned, the least he owes us is to stay true to his muse, but instead he skull-fucks her with crass marketing decisions like this. N&#39;Sync being in the movie DOES matter, precisely because their act is the embodiment of everything A New Hope wasn&#39;t- soulless corporate whoremongering. To flip the analogy on its head, this would have been like giving Saddam Hussein a cameo in Saving Private Ryan. And quite frankly, I don&#39;t think it&#39;s an over-reaction on anyone&#39;s part if they declare this to be the reason they will not see Attack of the Clones, because I&#39;m right there myself. Lucas, by demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is only interested in my money and not in the joy I get from his storytelling, has ensured that he will get neither.

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Content First Vader is his father, now Leia&#39;s his sister? I&#39;ve had it. Star Wars Has gone to pot. What next, Han was his babysitter? Enoughs enough. I&#39;ll be in line for Grease 2. At least nothing could go wrong with that film. Luca$ has just lost another customer.

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Content not because you say dumb things, hell, most people in this TB have done that one time or another, it is what you say makes no sense, and you think they do, and you think they prove a point, and you think you are really the KOTB, that is just sad.

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Content Star Wars never really was *all* *that* good to start with. Really, it was pretty much just dumb popcorn fun. We loved it because we were kids and didn&#39;t know any better. We love it now because we&#39;re nostalgic. But we&#39;re not talking high cinematic literature - we have LOTR for that, when it comes to geek-interests. If devoted Trek fans were the pimply skinny science nerds of this genre, then devoted Star Wars fans always were riders on the short bus of fandom. I&#39;m not condemning the original trilogy - just seeing it for what it was. Dumb fun. The only way people could say Lucas raped their childhoods is if Star Wars *has* *always* been for children - though it was only after the steaming pile of carrion that was TPM before Lucas would admit it, and even then as an excuse for producing something that didn&#39;t even come close to living up to the dumb fun that was the original three.

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Content Thankfully, there is one director by the name of Peter Jackson that puts the fans and the integrity of the story first... NSYNC in Star Wars? That&#39;s just GAY... ONWARD TO THE TWO TOWERS!!!!

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Content I hear the new space film by George Lucas is going to include at least one actor from American Graffiti. Ford something. What&#39;s next? Ritchie Cunningham as a space robot? I heard good things about this movie, but now I don&#39;t now. Plus I hear the lead is a reject from Eight is Enough. What&#39;s next, the cast of One day at a Time? I think we will never get a good space movie.

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Content [big fan of the first three. keeping my original vhs thx copies hidden... the true vision!] ***! here is an idea... -!- just don&#39;t see SW:Attack of the Clones on the opening week it comes out. -!- Let it have a very low opening week... let lucas sweat a little.... "oh shit!" Don&#39;t feed him with box office smashes.half of you will go see it anyway... just to say you saw it first. well.. you are all masochistic! It will never be as good as the first 2. [no - will you won&#39;t be young again either] oh - Go see LOTR a couple times more... "lusac here is a movie with some meat." if you din&#39;t like it...er... well, least of all no JAR JARs or boy bands. but send a message with something lucas understands... money! after the Phantom... well, i&#39;m not surprised with this. FYI - ewok is never spoken in the movies... but is a house hold word... it is all about marketing. only thing i&#39;m going to see "clones" for [a week after it opens] is to see Natalie Portman&#39;s new outfit...damn! [that is on the same level as the boy band] what do i expect a good story... hahahahahahahaahahahahahaha! character development! hahahahahahhahah and it is getting even to the point of... i don&#39;t care about ILM&#39;s effects either! hahahahahahahaha They are losing to alot of other houses for effects [The Matrix took it the year of "Phantom"] lucas&#39;s star wars corporation... is much like a greek play! sad sad sad. So don&#39;t feed it!

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Content Ya know, it&#39;s interesting to see some people here bringing up the "LOTR losers are no better than SW losers" arguement in a lame attempt to obscure the issue (specifically, that AOTCisGonnaSuck). But let me continue your analogy: If Peter Jackson ever decided to make a LOTR prequel "The Hobbit" 1) featuring an obnoxious CGI Gollum acting stupid and annoying every other scene for the whole damn movie 2) replacing the somber, opressive tone from the story with saccharine imagery colored using a palette straight out of a crayola box 3) featuring fart jokes (and poop jokes!! Hahahaha!!!) 4) introducing a &#39;love story&#39; that looks like it has been lifted direclty from &#39;Dawson&#39;s Creek&#39; 5) Re-writing and destroying beloved villain Saruman&#39;s backstory (he&#39;s now an eight year old clone!!! Isn&#39;t he fucking cute!!!) 6) replacing the Battle of Five Armies with a dodge-ball game fought by &#39;roger-doger&#39; goblins 7) pandering to the training-bra crowd with boy band cameos - and I could go on - then you know what? Maybe I&#39;d bitch about Peter Jackson&#39;s pathetic prequel trilogy too!

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Content Nice going George... First a 2 hour toy commercial, now a boyband vehicle. Now try to get Celine to sing the damn love theme and have Britney join the cast to sing the worst version of I love Rock

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Content I just love it when people make corrections for others. It&#39;s as if they want to just come out and say, "I&#39;m better than you". "I&#39;m a magnificent elitist, others must bow before me." As shallow and pathetic as I may be for wanting to burn all my Star Wars shit, I would never stoop to an elitist shallowism of thinking I

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Content i know that my $8.50 will hardly be missed but if enough people put their money where there mouth is and just DON&#39;T GO then maybe it would hit home. the idea will catch on that "genre" movies and tv shows won&#39;t necessarily have a built in audience eager for cool effects regardless of poor content. god, show a little restraint and don&#39;t reward a film if you feel it insults you&#39;re intelligence. i wish that i hadn&#39;t paid to see episode one and i&#39;ll be damned if i&#39;m going to give a dime to "Episode II - Melrose Space"

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Content You know what the KING really LOVES, bitches? That Lucas and ILAME are SELF PARODY and that&#39;s no stretch, but an OFFICIAL DECREE FROM YOUR KING. LOL...think about - no matter what you hear, something like - Fran Drescher to voice Empress in TPM III - MIGHT just be true. LOL! You know what I mean, BITCHES? Do my loyal SUBJECTS recall last week when some Twatty Nelson told us NSync were going to be in TPM II? We all that, "Yeah, maybe." You couldn&#39;t even SCHOOL the BITCH, because LUCAS schooled him himself if it was TRUE! And it WAS!!! LOL!!!! Oh bitches...bitches, bitches, bitches ---PLEASE, get out while you still can. LOTR is just now theaters! Two more flicks to go and I promise you GENERAL JACKSON won&#39;t be having any cameos that will look &#39;unnoticable&#39; like Falco and the Go-Go&#39;s would have in Jedi in &#39;82...lol. SCHOOLED! HOw much you bitches and resident Twatty Nelsons want to be that McGregor finds a way OUT of TPM III? I promise, bitches, when McGregor passes away, his last words will be "Script fragments....all I ...ever saw were fragments. Thought...thought it would be like the old one...Im so...so sorry...I didnt know...so sorry." LOL...Oh bitch, why? Why what? Why were you just SCHOOLED by (put your mouse over my user ID and then where my email address shows up, read my name, but not the @part and pretend I didnt tell you to do this) WHIP-TASH! (Lucas borrowing the Balrog&#39;s bullwhip to brow-beat you bitches, thinking it would be a GREAT idea - the Balrog takes it from himm, snaps it in honor of my departure, then hands it back to Lucas who continues)

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Content Bourbon nearly gone now. Shite! Where&#39;s that fuckin&#39; Pinch whiskey I been savin&#39; for a special occasion. hic.

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Content A- In another article at theforce.net it says Nsync came to mccallum. B- They are only in it for half a second dip shits. C- This makes me more excited as (seeing as i am spoiler free) i now know we see the downfall of many jedi in this which is fucking awesome. D-Now Mr McCallum, if u read this, if u give soo many people roles as extra jedi in the next film give me a goddamn call, i live in Oz and not only would it be awesome but i would be a kick ass jedi.

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Content LOL...just a DECREE for my loyal subjects - LOL...QUICK, someone get Lucas&#39; kids a Cure Album, some Poe, some Plath poems, and TPM III just MIGHT have a few saving graces. LOL... And you were given EXTRA CREDIT by the KING of Talback! THWAAAP! (Legolas&#39; arrow, hitting its mark, some bitches "Rise of the Empire" fan-fic script in honor of my departure)

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Content You got your KOTB title from that enya TB from a LOTR article, you bashed LOTR and praised SW and talked about how much it would kick LOTR&#39;s ass when it comes out in May, now, all signs are pointing towards this movie being absolutely terrible, and in yuor last 2 post&#39;s you make no sense and are babbling like an idiot, if yuo wanna keep that KOTB title, please try to make sense, it sounds as if you arent even a SW fan anymore (wouldnt that be ironic?)

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Content This cannot be true. Unless it has been confirmed by Lucasfilm and George Lucas himself, i won&#39;t believe it. No one pisses on their original fans in order to bring in others. At this rate, and if the rumor is true, Lucas had better start thinking about Episode Three going straight to video because of the mass suicides this one will cause.

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Content Remember, I have admitted I did not think GENERAL JACKSON could pull it off, but he DID, and I did NOT see the 90210 In Space trailer during the ENya talkback. When is Harry going to post my "Tori Spelling to Complete Love Triangle in TPM III" article? LOL! No, but I did send Harry this NSYNC piece a few days abo, why not give the KINGS DECREE instead?

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Content It&#39;s the natural order of things for people, especially guys, to bag on NSYNC, but what really feeds your hatred of them? Some will say it&#39;s fanboys jealous that chicks like them, and that&#39;s to some degree true. But mostly it&#39;s this bogus notion of how they fail in our expectations of musicians as "serious artists of integrity." No doubt a Tom Waits or Bob Dylan or Sting appearance in the film wouldn&#39;t be greeted with such anger, and indeed they have respectable acting careers, because they&#39;re perceieved as artists, where boy bands are considered flavor of the month jokes who lip sync, wear fruity outfits, and can&#39;t even write their own songs. True, but that makes it OK to bash the Britneys and Justins because they&#39;re commodities, not real artists, like....WHO? I mean, seriously, what pop musician is really THAT profound? Dave Matthews? The Boss? Sheryl Crow? Zach de la Rocha? Ja Rule? Madonna? Mick Jagger? Fucking Bono? Ok, so maybe their music is more your speed, but none of them are exactly geniuses. Most, if not all musicians, are under-educated bar and road dogs who refuse to grow up, travel to shitty bars in small towns in a tour bus filled with overgrown children lighting their own farts, spend most of their nights in truck stops and seedy motels, etc. THIS is integrity? Maybe it&#39;s just that I see music entirely as a juvenile. junky form of pop culture, that I don&#39;t have this idolizing respect for musicians of pseudo-integrity. Even Henry Rollins said he has more respect for Britney than for Bono. I mean, look at how juvenile pop music is --- the childish feuds among artists, the grown men acting like teenagers in lyrics and appearance, millionaires wearing thrift store clothes or street attire....Can&#39;t these fuckers wear a goddamn suit to the Grammys? Who are they fooling, dressing like hobos? Acting and filmmaking is a pretty silly form of make-believe when you think about it, but for every teenybop idiot, there are plenty of highly educated, cultured theatre actors, and at least they can behave with some acceptance of being an adult in interviews or awards shows (most, anyway.) But back to musicians, at least NSYNC, Britney, Aguilera, BSB, etc., are honest about their cheesiness. They&#39;re in it for the same shallow reasons as everyone else in music, and they don&#39;t feel the need to convey this faux-rebel/ slacker/ gangsta/ thrift store vibe like their counterparts in "respectable" genres. I mean, how stupid is listening to pop music anyway? Ever watch people at a rock concert, mugging like jackasses while air guitaring? The point is, ALL MUSIC is fucking stupid. And almost all of it is made by very stupid people. NSYNC are considered a joke because they are pre-packaged and never lived this supposedly sexy outlaw/rebel image of musicians that is 100% bullshit anyway. I&#39;m by no means a fan of them or any boy band, but there is NO difference between NSYNC and Bono, or Backstreet Boys and Dave Matthews, or Britney and Rage against the Machine. It&#39;s all juveline noise aimed at teenagers.

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Content I do think that Lucas has given up any hope on Episode 2 & 3.

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Content Personally I couldn&#39;t care less if NSYNC is cast as extras in Ep2.. I couldn&#39;t even recognize their faces, so as long as they don&#39;t get all singing, it&#39;ll be okay. However, I&#39;d *love* to see Modern Talking, the duo that have done >irrepairable< damage to my hearing system, mutilated and killed in the most painful way possible, hopefully in a snuff film directed by Peter Jackson. =/

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Content I&#39;m totally sick of Luca$ making a damn toy for everything. He&#39;s making up characters to get a toy out. Everyone is wearing a SW t-shirt. Dammit Chewbacca is on my friggin&#39; Frosted Flakes box. I say everyone boycott any George Lucas films. I&#39;m just hoping he get over exposed with this one and no one wants another. You wouldn&#39;t catch Kubrick putting his 2001 creations on Froot Loops. Feh!

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Content "George has a very clear vision about the story of Star Wars that he won&#39;t allow to be swayed by the whims of the Internet, the media, critics or anyone." --- Yes, it consisted of Pepsi and Pizza Hut promos, PodRace video games, novels, battle droids t-shirts and Jar Jar Binks toys! And a digital camera!!! (Aw shit, almost forgot, I gotta put some stuff together to show in the theaters, too...)

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Content LOL..who CARES about music, that&#39;s not the point here, bitches. The point is LUCAS IS OUT OF TOUCH. LOL...the King was just read another interesting bit - Rick McCallum had them come in. You know, the producer. LOL! People keep asking "Why doesnt anyone tell Lucas no?" Well, lol, look here Twatty Nelsons, how can the producer tell him "No" when the producer is the BITCH bringing IN the bad ideas! LOL! Oh, it hurts, its so funny it hurts! You bitches are getting schooled by Lucas and ILAME themselves! Its like McCallum is holding you up while Lucas brow beats you like a nickel bitch in Betty Boop on animal nitrate/Blade Runner gear and you BEG for more! LOL!!!! Oh bitches. Bitches, bitches, bitches...you have just been SCHOOLED by the KING of Talkback! Whip-TASH! (The Balrog&#39;s bullwhip in honor of my departure)

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Content This is true. I was watching E! News Daily just now and they said that Lucasfilm has CONFIRMED it to be true. HOWEVER, it&#39;s no big deal....you won&#39;t even notice that they&#39;re there. They said "if you blink, you&#39;ll miss it".

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Content Ya its true because it started on the Internet. Ya Harry didn&#39;t want to post this rumor but it was confirmed because it was on MTV. Well if MTV says it then its true! Shit. I bet this and the Celione D. Rumor are started by plants at New Line or LOTR fanatics to defame SW and get people hating Lucas. Lucas don&#39;t care either way. He&#39;ll make his money and laugh at each of you that see AOTC twice. I bet it isn&#39;t true. It will be more bullshit LOTR fans make up to trash every film except the gay-ass LOTR. Harry loves to spin these anit-SW rumors because his buddies got kicked from skywalker ranch. Notice Harry hasn&#39;t published any position news about SW. Unless you count his drooling over Padme pics, drooling over her action figure, and drooling over pics of her as a little girl in The Professionel. Nuff said

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Content it&#39;s kinda sad, really, thank god I am a LOTR fan

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Content couple of things,if Lukas was only in it for the money we would be on s.w. ep.10 like star trek(and would you stand for a one in three average for a good s.w. movie?)franchise.also he&#39;s spending his money.and you know any studio would front a star wars film.i&#39;m realy tired of that"he&#39;s in it for the money"stuff.and about n&#39;stink,i wouldn&#39;t know what they looked like so it won&#39;t mean a thing to me anyway.(but if they die realy cool on screen some one please point them out.i would&#39;nt want to miss it.)oh and not every one who loved star wars when it came out was a kid.

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Content Those boys at http://www.geocities.com/buttbackender/ButtBackender.html are right on top of things!!!!!!! N&#39; Sync are in today&#39;s episode!!!!!!! FUCK YOU GEORGIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Content Some of those examples you cited- Mick Jagger, for instance- would get more leeway because they have proven in the past that they are capable of acting, sometimes (in Mick&#39;s case) brilliantly so. But the decision to put N&#39;Sync in the film has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with acting. If it did- if they had auditioned and gotten minor speaking parts, for instance- I personally would be more forgiving, because at least then the decision would be based in the artistic life of the film, not its life as a commodity. This decision was made solely to put asses in seats, because that is all Lucas cares about any longer. He&#39;s made that plain as day. That&#39;s where my sense of betrayal comes from.

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Content George Lucas has lost all credibility. I don&#39;t care if I see N&#39;Sync in the movie or not, the fact that they are there just sucks huge cobblers......... Thank God for THE ONE RING TO RULE US ALL.....

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Content Yeah, Anton, I just realized somehwere in the midst of all my bullshit I forgot to point out that, yes, I do think musicians can be good actors, and that I think this IS a lame idea --- in general, Eps. 1 and 2 suffer from TOO MANY familiar faces, and having the EXTRAS be well-known pop stars would totally take you out of the movie....By the way, can I just say how full of shit most of the guys are that claim "they wouldn&#39;t know them if you saw them." Uh, Bullshit. There is no way you could have never seen any of their goofy mugs on TV in the last three years, and I&#39;m sure almost every single person in here, whether you hate them or not, could point out which was Chris, Lance, Justin, Joey, and J.C. Every one of you. Don&#39;t lie.

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Content While I resent the fact that these no talent hacks manage to score a role like this, I don&#39;t really care. Its not like there are going to be a group of 5 dancin&#39; jedi in the movie, who get killed. Chances are they will be barely recognizable. So who cares.

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Content Who cares if they are in the background!!!...........IT&#39;S N&#39;SYNC for gods sake...N&#39;SYNC in a STAR WARS MOVIE.....N&#39;fuckin&#39;SYNC....RUN AWAAAAAY..

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Content I don&#39;t deserve Star Wars with boy band cameos! I don&#39;t! (Turning to sob hopelessly into my pillow... "Oh, but we were once so in lo-o-ove...!")

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Content Doubt this will cause me many sleepless nights, either.

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Content You know it used to be on Saturday Morning/Weekday Cartoons, they would have "Muppet Babies", "A Pup Named Scooby Doo", "Flintstone Kids", etc, you know baby versions of old-worn out characters repackaged to sell more shit. Well Rick "Young Indiana Jones" McCallum is the behind this NSYNC shit, just like he was probably behind having Boba Fett as a little brat and a 80-year sithlord named "Darth Tyranus". I&#39;ve said it before and I will say it again, I liked Jango Fett before when he was in ESB and his name was Boba Fett.******************************************************************************** I&#39;ve had a year to mull over some of the more stupid unimaginative aspects of Episode 2. Baby Fett and Daddy Fett, a 80-year old Sith Apprentice. When the leaked storyboards and domain names hit the internet I was like what the fuck?. What the fuck is up with these stupid ass names, Kamino and Darth Tyranus. My name, darthpsychotic is a lot more creative and imaginative that Count Dookie&#39;s sith moniker. On the internet, the username darthpsychotic is probably even more feared as well. The fucking CGI Starship Trooper like aliens and battle droids didn&#39;t help either. I guess the long drawn-out Episode 1 BattleDroid-GunGan war sequence wasn&#39;t enough. When shit start leaking about Anakin and Amidala I began getting a chubby over Starwars again. I guess when it comes to Starwars I am BI. ********************************************************************************** With all that said I&#39;m still excited to see Episode 2 though, psychotic even. If the film focuses on Anakin and Amidala(I prefer that name over Padme) like it did in the Episode 2preview trailers, I will be satisfied. The way the haunting "Leia&#39;s Theme" is used in the Episode 2 preview trailers is beautiful. Young Anakin Skywalker is portrayed as a angry-disgrunted youth pissed off at a bougeouis society and takes it out on some tuskens and anyother motherfucker that crosses him. This fits in well with today&#39;s highschool shootings and blown up buildings. Young Anakin Skywalker is my role model and he should be yours as well!

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Content This is the title of the most anticipated film ever? What were they smoking? Can anyone tell Lucas NO??? God help us. Star Wars sounded so cool. Now the new movie sounds like a friggin&#39; 50&#39;s serial you see on TV after school. Man he&#39;s ruined this for me. Lucas is stuck in the 50&#39;s. I&#39;ll bet the next one will be "The Jedi&#39;s Revenge" or "The Rebels Come Back" or something similarly pathetic. Come on people, this is 1979. I&#39;ll be standing in line for Xanadu. Now theirs a title.

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Content ... and so ... he&#39;s on a mission to make AOTC so fucking bad that it makes TPM look good by comparison. RIP Star Wars.

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Content Other rumors I have heard, in the same scene that N&#39;Synch is in, Britney Spears will be dolled up like Princess Leia in that meta bikini thing from return of the Jedi. During the fight, a stray laser blast disintegrates her clothes, and Justin Timberlake jumps on her and uses his lightsaber on her (if you know what I mean)while the other members watch, then they all DIE!!! Plus the are changing the name of The Two Towers to The Twin Towers out of respect for the sept. 11 destruction of the WTC. Oh one more thing, N"SYNCH will be in the background for two seconds!! Chill out!

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Content Lucas, you whore. First we cater to the brats for part 1...now we have got to try and get in the teeny boppers for part 2? Are you shittin&#39; me?!!! God, this has to be nothing more than a rumor...this is just so unholy...but given the precedent...it&#39;s too bad that I have to even consider tripe like this as being possible. Terrible!

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Content Anyone wanna vote on this one...Who&#39;s hotter, Liv Tyler or Natalie Portman? I gotta go with Liv by a mile. Any votes?

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Content That&#39;s right bitchy-bitches...the KING has another decree. Well, it seems Lucas and ILAME are drawing First Blood, huh bitches and of course, more importanly, my loyal subjects? Well, the KING sees no other choice - we must converge on the wooded slope behind ILM and with donkey fat, elbow grease, and twigs to make a fort. There will will stay until we STRIKE BACK. How? Well bitches, BURY STAR BORES WITH ME! That&#39;s right, G&#39;nite, Lucas, g&#39;nite ILAME, you are offically NO LONGER NEEDED. You handed the keys over to GENERAL JACKSON -- NO, scratch that, GENERAL JACKSON brow beat you like a nickel bitch walking home from junior college and TOOK the keys from you, BITCH. LOL...and you have just been SCHOOLED by the KING of Talkback! Whip-TASH! (The Balrog&#39;s Bullwhip, to signal my departure)

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Content I guess if they are extras...that isn&#39;t such a big deal. What does bother me is that it&#39;s the gearing towards the kiddies that helped to ruin TPM. I wish so much that there were more checks and balances being done on these pictures than letting Lucas run completely carte blanche. It&#39;s outta control just like Star Trek has been! Outta control!!!!

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Content Who&#39;s hotter? Carrie Fisher or Erin Grey? Erin Grey....SLURP!

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Content ... or the CORPORATE ENGINEERED boy band of your choice. I personally prefer music that a person writes because they are inspired, because they want to share how they are feeling. Let me let you in on a little secret about ART that I learned from someone who was a hell of a lot older and wiser than myself. Music is a vehicle for letting you feel what someone else feels... it&#39;s a way to get inside their feelings. Paintings are about showing you something in a way you wouldn&#39;t think to look at it yourself. It&#39;s a way to get inside another person&#39;s perspective. These definitions are not all inclusive, but you begin see what I mean. Movies rock because they are both of the above and something more altogether... the ultimate form of storytelling perhaps... ANyway, to my point... Nsynch&#39;s music (like so MUCH of pop music) HAS NO SOUL. It&#39;s engineered to please a market target group. That is not why I (and MANY other people) listen to music. I want to listen to artists that have something to say, not corporations who just want money. Hell, Eminem may be an arrogant little fuck but at least he HAS something to say. When N&#39;Synch break up, and the artists go their separate ways, perhaps then they will have something to write real music about, and maybe then I&#39;ll want to listen to them. Hell, HANSON has something to say. Marilyn Manson has something to say! Britney just might end up being the next Madonna after she gets done selling her body to the media and grows up a little. You want to try something truly different? Look up Mike Oldfield sometime, if you can handle it. Wow, I got off on a rant there... *chuckle* Look at all the SW fans getting defensive and poo-pooing the bad news... I will force myself to see the movie, it is my duty as a *former* Lucas fan to watch his descent into madness and death... if Indy4 gets butchered I&#39;ll have him killed for it the next day I swear...

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Content hahahahahahaha! had to say it! someone had to! did someone already? WHO CARES ABOUT THIS! GO SPEND YOUR MONEY ON IT!!!!!!YOU WILL BECAUSE ... HE KNOWS YOU WILL.... LUCAS IS GOD! HAHHAHAA

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Content Yes, the truth has arrived. And personally, I&#39;m fucking GLAD! Episode I sucked so badly that I wished this whole new trilogy would go away forever!!! I haven&#39;t been able to WATCH the old one since being raped in the theater 2 1/2 years ago!!!!! At least those flame-boys at http://www.geocities.com/buttbackender/ButtBackender.html predicted shit like was going to happen. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WITH THIS "TITANIC" STORYLINE?? GEORGE WANTS TO CORNER THE MARKET ON PRE-PUBESCENT GIRLS!!!!!! THAT&#39;S WHERE THE MONEY IS!!!!!!!!

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Content hey if you can tell n&#39;stink from backstreet boys to o-town men at 98% you are a chick.yes you can&#39;t help but see them every where,i saw their little head bobby things at best buy today.but they all look and sound the same to me but i&#39;m not their fan base.you must be.and alice stop weeping in your pillow and grow up.(i&#39;ll be here the day after AOTC opens to hear what all you girls thaught about it).

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Content It doesn&#39;t matter if they are just extras, N&#39;SYNC is in a Star Wars movie and they are making a point of it. This movie will age like a banana on a hotplate....BADLY..... You can just hear GL in June when he&#39;s been asskicked ever since the release of AoTC: IT&#39;S ALL RICK McCALLUMS FAULT.....HE&#39;S HOLDING ME BACK!!!

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Content Nice to see you&#39;re getting into the swing of things with everyone else! I am also impressed with your casual amount of &#39;fanboy&#39; knowledge of SW trivia. Seems to me it&#39;s agreed that this "ain&#39;t your father&#39;s" Star Wars Trilogy. He&#39;s just writing for the kids now, so the rest of us 30-somethings will go watch the LOTR trilogy instead. And Vicconius, remember that all his geekboy fanbase from 25 years ago are PLENTY of reason for Lucas to try to triple his gains from this franchise, that&#39;s just the way it is. If Lucas doesn&#39;t want to cater to the fanbase, it&#39;s his call, but it won&#39;t make him as rich as he could be WITH them. You&#39;re being practical but not realistic, and for the megaladon-like proportion of expectations that this movie relies on, that kind of attitude just won&#39;t do. History is history and YOU may not think much of the SW flicks but too many other people outnumber you for that.

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Content Come on people, it&#39;s not the end of the world! I&#39;M not disappointed with the decision! Britney Spears is only in a minor role in Episode 3: The Big Scary Robots from Another Planet!! Her 10 minute music video after the opening crawl won&#39;t be all that distracting! And besides, You Guys Need to Get a Life.

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Content In reading this mile long list of rants there seems to be this pattern of people calling Lucas a sell out along with various other insults. I think people should realize that george is exactly the opposite. StarWars is Lucas&#39; brain child. He created this from scratch and should be allowed to do whatever he wants with it. For instance, Jar Jar. Everyones favorite I know. After episode 1 was released there was a huge backlash against this character from so called fans everywhere. People wanted him dead. Now as we have seen in the first trailers for episode 2, Jar Jar is still here. Now if George was the sell out that all of you are accusing him of, Jar Jar would be gone. I must say Jar Jar doesn&#39;t bother me that much, and I am glad that Lucas has not given in to the petty whinning of those who wish they had an imagination of equal measure. You people should remember that StarWars is Lucas&#39;, not ours. He can do what he wants with the damn movies. As for all these rumours about how his children have influenced his films, if it is true then I commend him. That is why George Lucas is a better parent than any of you will be, Because he cares more about his kids then his so called fans (consequently the same fans who find it appropriate to stab him in the back everytime they see or hear something they don&#39;t like). This post doesn&#39;t apply to everyone, I mean we all have the freedom of expression, but lets not get too carried away.

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Content I have a cousin that is interning on The Carson Daily Show. Being a Star Wars nut that I am, he informed me that on the eve of the opening of Star Wars Episode Two: Attack of the Clones, Carson Daily will have the entire cast of N&#39;SYNC on his show to discuss Star Wars. I don&#39;t know if this has anything to do with a few of the band members being in the movie or not. It is still possible that they may be on the show because they are solely Star Wars fans. Truly, I don&#39;t know all the facts thus far. I know one thing for sure. If they are indeed in the movie, they are making a big deal out of it.

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Content Lets go ahead and have Britney Spears and J-Lo in there to be the princess&#39;s "best friends" and hand maidens. Since there is the romance plot...we already are almost getting to chick flick territory. These new breed of wanna be Star Wars films are starting to make the Batmans look respectible. This is the kind of stunt that I would expect in Batman. Those always cast the flavors of the month..and that&#39;s expected. I hope that they are killed bloodily and hideously. I intend to be half sloshed in the theater and will be cheering quite loudly. I hope it&#39;s Fett or one of his guys that does these fools in. If this is all true...it really is pathetic for so many reasons.

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Content C&#39;mon, give Mr. Lucas a break! He has created an exciting universe, between the films and the books. It is his vision he is following, not trying to buy the favor of some rude and foul-mouthed punks! If he wants a cameo by N&#39;Sync for a few seconds as non-speaking (and thankfully non-singing) Jedi, what&#39;s the big freakin&#39; deal? His little girl likes them, and he can do this for her, I say it is great. Doesn&#39;t affect the movie in the slightest. Unless it bombs at the box office. Then he can start a new ad campaign saying "Come watch N&#39;Sync get killed!" and we&#39;ll all laugh and watch most of you previous posters rush out with your $8.50 to get a cheap thrill watching N&#39;Sync get it. What&#39;s wrong with N&#39;Sync anyway? They are just a bunch of kids that got lucky. Personally, I don&#39;t like their music, but so what? You have to learn, in this world, it isn&#39;t always the talented people who reap the rewards. More often than not, it is just the lucky ones. Good for them, I say. I don&#39;t begrudge anyone getting lucky. I&#39;m not jealous of their success. Doesn&#39;t make me feel insecure. But it seems to make a lot of you feel that way. Live and let live, people. Their luck doesn&#39;t actually impact any of us in any practical way at all, just them.

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Content From now on, I don&#39;t want to hear any of the die-hard Star Wars geeks try to defend Lucas anymore whenever someone calls him a sellout. Because this PROVES that that is the case. Goodbye, Mr. Lucas. We thought we knew you. The old gods are dead; long live the new Messiah, Peter Jackson!

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Content A movie which some of you didn&#39;t like? A director which some of you don&#39;t have a favorable opinion on? A tralier that only showed a few clips of the movie? A cameo by a boy band that has nothing to do with the plot of the movie? C&#39;mon, you haven&#39;t even seen the movie yet! Why get all pessemistic? Cant you just wait till the movie to bash it? I mean c&#39;mon! And don&#39;t bash the people you defend the movie. They have every right to defend the movie as do you to bash it. And don&#39;t turn it into a LOTR vs. SW debate again. If LOTR is good, so what! I bet when ATOC turns out to be better than expected you people are still going to be complaining about "The movie was good but he still didn&#39;t listen to the fans". Knock it off! No wonder this talkback is considered a joke on some other boards on the net.

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Content After sitting in line to get the Tickets for TPM it think its cool that some girls will go to and possibly see this film just for its boy band content. It beats the scary guys that dressed up as princess lea and amidala that showed up for the last one. I saw Lord of the rings and other than some cool fight sequences the movie could have been cut down at least another hour. I even laughed when they pumped Mark Hammils voice screaming no no!!!!! when Gandalf gets pulled off the ledge by a Diablo Clone! (i am aware that the story of lord of the rings came out before StarWars) People wake up you bash Lucas because it its cool. Ive said it before most of you probably purchased the Vanilla Ice records then said you hated it when it wasnt cool to like him any more. The jokes on the people who think Starwars will flop anyway. He could put OJ Simpson in the film and still have a record number of people go to see it. I don&#39;t like boy bands but that fact is people they sell. If anything they shoud get points for being fans of the films. As for people attacking Lucas&#39;s kids thats just plain sick. Maybe your parents should limit you computer time and send you to bed without desert. If your willing to kill someone over a film that your going to complain about no matter what lucas does in it then I pity you I really do.

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Content AP - Skywalker Ranch, Jan 2, 2002: A computer generated Ralph Malf has signed on to play the crucial role of &#39;Gummy&#39; Skywalker in TPM III, Lucasfilm announced today. "What you find out is, Gummy and Jar-Jar are old yuck-yuck town perfomers, which is kinda a vaudeville thing. Anyway, they were separated, so there&#39;s a whole backstory there, but in the movie we focus on getting Gummy and Jar-Jar back together, and how their Laurel and Hardy antics sort of help to bring a little tenderness back to the universe, after the rise of the Empire and the Emperor, which, will all happen off screen, between the 2nd and 3rd," Lucas noted from his Ranch compound, surrounded by midgets from fourteen different countries dressed as ewoks, sans mask, and carrying AK-47&#39;s for protection of "Daddy." TPM III is expected to be released in May of 2005. ... and you, bitch, were SCHOOLED on Jan 2, 2002! LOL! by the KING of TALKBACK! Whip-TASH! (The Balrog&#39;s bullwhip to signal my departure, and, of course, in my honor)

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Content << 4) introducing a &#39;love story&#39; that looks like it has been lifted direclty from &#39;Dawson&#39;s Creek&#39; >> Everyone keeps saying that the Attack of the Clones story looks like "Something from 90210" or now Dawson&#39;s Creek. Um, except for the young age of the participants, how is this so? did I miss the storyline when Dawson became the member of a religious order of bad ass knights who had vowed to a life of celibacy. but then Dawson fell in love with the queen of another world and they began a romance that could threaten both their worlds? Oh wait, that DID happen on season two. My bad.

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Content ... some of you geeks are just shit beyond all belief. Holy Christ, if Lucas wants to put *NSYNC in his film, he can put them in. It&#39;s his film. And the very fact that they&#39;re in it for two seconds or whatever getting killed just makes your bitching look even more pathetic. Seriously, think about it. You are crying and bitching and moaning over a couple of seconds of film that you haven&#39;t even seen yet. That is a sad reflection on your lives, if you get so worked up over a few seconds of a film. Not even the film as a whole, but a few seconds of it. I mean, come on... Mark Wahlberg didn&#39;t ruin Three Kings or Boogie Nights or anything because he used to be in Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, and he was in a leading role! Donnie Wahlberg was good in Band of Brothers, and he was in New Kids on the Block. But the thing is that *NSYNC aren&#39;t going to have anywhere near as major role as the Wahlberg&#39;s have had in their various films - they&#39;re just EXTRAS for god&#39;s sake. So shut your bitch-ass mouths up and crawl back into a hole, like the pathetic little slugs that you are. And another thing, stop hailing Peter Jackson as the second coming of Christ. Face it - he took a well established novel with a pre-sold fanbase, took the talking and character development out of it, and formed an epic action film. Does this make him a genius? No it doesn&#39;t. It means he has made a fairly good action film. Nothing more. FOTR is not a classic film.

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Content If he really wants to put in 5 sorry excuses for musicians,he should make up for it by giving David Bowie, Billy Corgan, and the members of Garbage cameos as well. I would love to see Shirley Manson as a bounty hunter. Mmmmm......

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Content Star Wars is now officially in the same class as Pearl Harbor and Batman & Robin. That&#39;s just a fact we will have to live with. .....................BTW........FOTR is indeed a classic.....FACT ............flame on:)

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Content In Star Wars they mention Clone Wars. Who won? Did the Jedi kill off all the clones, or did the clones kill the Jedi? And if they killed the Jedi, what hapend to the clones? I bet they are the Imperial Commanders. They all have the same accent and look the same. Lucas doesn&#39;t even mention the clones in ESB. Why bring something up if your not going to follow through on it. That is bad film making.

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Content I&#39;m not sure but if a man forces his wife down on the bed, beats the living shit out of her, and penetrates her every orifice while she screams and pleads for him to stop is that considered rape?Hmmm....why don&#39;t we ask GL?! If it were possible to bring up charges for battery I would be first in line. I sat by after being thoroughly dissappointed with TPM, but convinced myself that is was the beginning, the time to lay down groundwork for the next two kick-ass episodes. I guess I was wrong. This must be GL&#39;s demented albeit, successful attempt at dismantling the world&#39;s greatest (film)trilogy (so far) with the same amount of films. I always cringed when I entered a movie theater with my wife to see the next Brad Pitt movie. Not because Brad Pitt starred in the film, but because I knew that I would have to contend with some 13 year old teeny-bopper who would have no idea what was going on in the film and would just scream every time Brad showed up. Well, I know I won&#39;t have to worry about it for ATC, because the teeny-boppers can have the fucking theater. I absolutely will not put more money into a man&#39;s pocket who has no respect for the series of films that made him famous or for the people that made the film&#39;s famous!!!!! I hope you will all join me in my REBELLION AGAINST THE EMPIRE (of GL)....God my ass hurts!!!

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Content Actually you may have a point, let&#39;s bash it some more and maybe it&#39;ll reach the status of not-offensive-to-any-lifeform-whatsoever..........

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Content I hear Lucas is going to re-release Star Wars as A New Hope. What is this, a soap opera? It sounds like a name for a douche. Why not call it Love Story or something similarly inane. As far as I&#39;m concerned, it will forever be Star Wars and Luc-ass can go to hell.

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Content really have to be in this film, why do they have to be Jedis? Putting them in the same league as Yoda and Samuel L Jackson is just not right. Make them put on Jar Jar masks so they can leap about like the pathetic gimps they are in Naboo scenes or something. But Jedis? the survey says WRONG. Even if one of them has conquered the Jedi-like feat of slipping Britney the pork sword..

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Content I actually enjoyed TPM, but it gets weaker and weaker with repeat viewings. Jar Jar has gone from annoying to intolerable. They&#39;ll just be extras, it&#39;s true - but can anyone doubt that George will feel it necessary to give them a nice close-up before they&#39;re killed or whatever? This, much like the whole Greedo-shoots-first thing, is yet another drop in an allready too-heavy bucket. Yes, these are George&#39;s movies and he can do whatever he wants with them. But I must admit that with every new change, that Star Wars universe I used to get so lost in seems less and less mystical and more and more - well, fake. It seems written with a calculator rather than imagination. It&#39;s not because I&#39;m getting older. I still love "The Sword and the Sorcerer" as much as I ever did - and it&#39;s easy to still love "Beastmaster" because the sequels were SO bad that I could ignore them alltogether. But with every step, from Jedi to the special editions to TPM, Star Wars has been . . . . oh, hell, maybe AOTC will be brilliant. I suppose I can hold out my hope for one more spin.

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Content George... sweetey... you wanna make your movie? You go right ahead. Knock yourself out. If you need me, I&#39;ll be down the hall from your movie... watching Peter Jackson&#39;s movie... again. Seriously though, it&#39;s not about whether or not I can see them. It&#39;s that they are there in the first place, and I will know they are there. It&#39;s about discovering the man behind the curtain controlling the great and powerful Oz. It&#39;s about Star Wars being turned into a 2 1/2 hour toy commercial. It&#39;s about the wisdom of Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, who have put as much distance between themselves and this piece of festering shit as possible. We all could learn a lot from them. It&#39;s about waiting years for a new SW movie, and walking into something vaguely resembling Star Wars, but with fart jokes. FART JOKES IN A STAR WARS MOVIE! It&#39;s about Ewan McGregor, who has gone from the happiest man in the world to being embarrased to talk about the title of Episode 2. If he had been told the title before filming of Ep1 commenced, no doubt he would have agreed it was a great title, just because he was so utterly excited to be in a Star Wars movie. Now look at him. He&#39;s hating life right now, hating that he didn&#39;t follow his Uncle Denis&#39; advice : "Stay away from Star Wars." I still have some hope that Ep3 will be watchable, but not if Ewan isn&#39;t committed to the role he is playing anymore. It IS about Greedo firing first. It IS about "You were lucky to get out of there." It IS about "It&#39;s alright! I can see a lot better!" Above all, it&#39;s about the Peter Pan we once knew turning, painfully, into the Robin Williams we first meet in Hook. George and Steven need to sit down and watch Hook together some night, they might learn something (You&#39;d think Steven would be hip to the irony already... oh well). They might discover that they need some Julia Roberts enhanced pixie dust shoved up their asses. Then again, even Peter himself took some convincing. Maybe we should all chip in to send George and Steven to Never Never Land for a month. Attack of The Clones and Ep3 might even become worthy of the name Star Wars after a trip like that. "Think of the happiest things.... it&#39;s the same as having wings... what the fuck? Joey! Lance! Get your pansy asses off of my set!" Now, everyone, altogether, clap very hard, and say you believe in fairies. It might be our only hope.

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Content The key term is extras! Do you guys realize how many extras there are in films that you never actually see on screen? It&#39;s not like they were given staring roles. It is just Lucas, being the centimillionaire that he is, using his said hundreds of millions of dollars worth of power to get his spoiled daughter a chance to meet her favorite (of the month) "band". And I&#39;m sure that the guys from Shitfest USA, as I like to call N&#39;Stynk, would gladly blow Lucas, especially for the chance to be anywhere near Star Wars. WHO GIVES A FUCK IF THEY ARE IN THE BACKGROUND, OUT OF FOCUS! IT WON&#39;T RUIN THE MOVIE!

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Content Whether that guy Connery is making that up or not, about a cousin interning at the Carson Daily Show, (God I even hate typing that), N&#39;sync will make a bid deal out of this. They will be on Leno, Letterman, shitty TRL, and the rest of those garbage MTV shows TALKING ABOUT THIR CAMEOS IN STAR WARS. No matter what, the members of N&#39;SYNC can now say "WE WERE APART OF STAR WARS". We Star Wars fans only have one person to blame for that. George Lucas. That is why several of us despise him. I wish I were Lucas&#39; daughter, I would tell daddy to give Conan&#39;s DUDEZ A PLENTI cameos in Episode Two. Has anyone else seen that? O&#39;Brien is a genius.

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Content http://www.theforce.net/ - So much for holding out hope that it was BS. Sorry TerryK. I&#39;m not saying Lucas has no right to destroy his franchise, but I won&#39;t hold back bashing him into oblivion for it either. That&#39;s MY right. God, and to think I actually believed that BS about these films being written back in the 70&#39;s before IV,V,VI but being put off because they didn&#39;t have the technology to do them back then. Guess they were waiting for the invention of Boy Bands. /shrug I&#39;m going to go watch some foreign films, this is depressing...

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Content "Be like Gandalf. Have no children, and remain cool until a Balrog drags you into hell." --> that was hilarious!

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Content Dudez-A-Plenti would kick butt. I&#39;d also want Conan in there as a Jedi Master, and Andy Richter as one of the clonetroopers or something. Oh, and I may have more old talkback stuff. It&#39;s fun to go back and look at that stuff after a few years. What were we thinking back then??? But it&#39;s getting to be too much work for me. I have to port all that stuff over from my old Apple II.

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Content I can&#39;t defend this. This MIGHT have been cool if this wasn&#39;t going to be used as a way to sell the movie. Even though Lucasfilm won&#39;t overtly promote N&#39;Sync being in the movie (because they&#39;re "extras"), it&#39;s still a fucking gimmick. That cheapens it. You know the movie mag shows will be selling this like no other. MTV will be selling it. I can see one of these bastards on Letterman or the Tonight Show. "Yeeah...I called my boy up and said I wanna be in the new Star Wars movie. He said yeeeah and we git to play some Jedis in the background. Yeeahh, everybody was real cool and stuff. We might be in the next one...yeeeah." If their appearance was somehow kept under wraps and then discovered as an easter egg, it wouldn&#39;t have been as bad. Regardless, AOTC will rock your asses...but this is a chink in the armor. Fuck.

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Content *NSync will release their new single in May 2002 - "Forbidden Love (I&#39;m A Jedi)"

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Content This would be the only thing at the moment that would make wanna buy a ticket for this one. The Chad wielding a light saber and screaming frantically - somebody give Lucas a call!

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Content I know plenty of people who don&#39;t have kids and they still think they are cool. I&#39;m afraid they are not. I don&#39;t have kids either. Means nothing except to give yourelf slight hope and a veneer of coolness. And dude, two cats? Your cool days may be numbered. You&#39;ll be the old couple with 60 cats that everyone talks about. But you&#39;ll still be cool I guess. My advice, get a dog. Chicks loves the dogs.

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Content Conan would be a sweet Jedi Master. Hey, did you see when Andy came back to the show as a guest and came with his posse? Too funny. Now how bad-ass would Triumph the Insult Dog be as Yoda?

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Content Scene: Anakin has inadvertantly crashed his fighter inside a ring-shaped Commerce Guild starbase. Surrounded by Clones, he accidentally fires a proton torpedo, blowing up the Spacestation&#39;s shield generator and saving Naboo. Anakin: Oops, I did it again. ***************** Scene: Amidaala and Anakin are alone in her chambers. Amidaala: You are a jedi, Anakin, pledged to your order. If they hear of our relationship, you would be cast out. Anakin: We could keep it a secret. Amidaala: We&#39;d be living a lie. I couldn&#39;t do that. Could you Ani? Anakin: Quit playing games with my heart!

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Content ...a friend of mine is one of Christina Aguilera&#39;s dancers and hangs out with her a lot. She says Christina is working on a song for the AOTC Soundtrack, called "I&#39;m A Jedi In A Bottle".

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Content If I was Lucas I would be INTENTIONALLY DOING THIS KIND OF SHIT! I would be looking for ways to piss all of you off! For every thousand of you people who say that you won&#39;t see Ep. 2, there is maybe actually one who will actually stick to their word, and for every thousand of you who say it there are 100,000 normal people who will go to see it, so don&#39;t think that if Lucas pisses off his fans by doing stuff like this his movie will fail. This is going to be the same movie it was going to be before this news was confirmed, except now you will know N&#39;Stykn is in the background, as unrecognizable as all the other extras that you never see clearly. If that ruins the movie for you GOOD! I applaud Lucas for having the balls to do something that will so obviously anger so many loser idiots who have nothing better to do with their lives! It shows that he really doesn&#39;t care about those extremist retards, and is making the movies for himself (which includes his pocketbook). Why don&#39;t you guys put your extremist attitudes into something that is actually meaningful, or productive?

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Content "Just imagine a Tom Green cameo... "I&#39;m using the FORCE! I&#39;m USING the FORCE! I&#39;m using the FORCE! Hey! I&#39;m USING the FORCE! I&#39;musingtheFORCE! I&#39;m USING THE force! I&#39;m USING THE FORCE! I&#39;m USing IT! The FORCE! I&#39;m Using the Force! I&#39;m A FORCE USER! I&#39;m A JEDI! I&#39;m A jedi! I&#39;m A Jadi! I&#39;m a Jediiiii! I&#39;m a jedi! I&#39;m a jedi! I&#39;ve got a big LIGHTSABER. Check out my Lightsaber!" -ZeroCorpse

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Content When these boy bands are on MTV I don&#39;t care, because I don&#39;t watch MTV anyways. But once they start bleeding into my world that&#39;s when I do give a shit. Lucas has robbed me and every serious Star Wars fan of what little integrity was left in this new trilogy. Fuck Lucas, that flanned piece of shit. I hope he and those Queens of pop N&#39;Suck read this. Assholes.

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Content If I was Lucas I would be INTENTIONALLY DOING THIS KIND OF SHIT! I would be looking for ways to piss all of you off! For every thousand of you people who say that you won&#39;t see Ep. 2, there is maybe actually one who will actually stick to their word, and for every thousand of you who say it there are 100,000 normal people who will go to see it, so don&#39;t think that if Lucas pisses off his fans by doing stuff like this his movie will fail. This is going to be the same movie it was going to be before this news was confirmed, except now you will know N&#39;Stykn is in the background, as unrecognizable as all the other extras that you never see clearly. If that ruins the movie for you GOOD! I applaud Lucas for having the balls to do something that will so obviously anger so many loser idiots who have nothing better to do with their lives! It shows that he really doesn&#39;t care about those extremist retards, and is making the movies for himself (which includes his pocketbook). Why don&#39;t you guys put your extremist attitudes into something that is actually meaningful, or productive?

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Content This article was posted today and this thread has grown tremendously. I&#39;m a new poster here and was curious if Harry stops the thread or puts a new one up. BTW, I hit the T instead of the F, ROFL-ROTL, but perhaps I can say I was rolling on the table laughing. However George Bushish that may sound.

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Content I knew Star Wars was on life support after I watched that steaming pile called The Phantom Menace. Star was isn&#39;t what it once was. Admit it. Lucas has lost it. The fact that there are actually some on this talkback still trying to defend Luca$ is astonishing. THE KING (Lucas) IS DEAD!!!!! LONG LIVE THE KING (Jackson)!!!!

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Content Let&#39;s all applaud Mr. Lucas. After all, it takes a man with great integrity to put N&#39;SYNC in his movie. If only Peter Jenkins would be so bold as to transcend genres in this clever and thoughtful way. It worked for Wing Commander, didn&#39;t it?

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Content It seems all you have to do to get in a Star Wars movie is let Lucas or McAllum know that you&#39;re a big fan and they&#39;ll give you a part. How long before Lucasfilm figures out a way to sell fans background roles in these movies? People could send in their picture and $100 dollars and ILM&#39;s super-computers can paste &#39;em on a CG extra in the Episode III Jedi massacre. Imagine Georgie counting his money while fan boys scan frame-by-frame on the DVD to point out their millisecond appearance to all their friends. Heck, he can insert everyone into Episodes 4-6 & TPM in New special editions, too! And in the future he&#39;ll find a way to make customized Special Edition DVDs where you can pay to have your likeness replace you favorite character. But, he wouldn&#39;t do that, would he?

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Content I truly hope you are right, and that AOTC kicks my ass so hard that I don&#39;t land until Ep3 comes out. Seriously tho, do you honestly think that this doesn&#39;t damage Lucas&#39; credibility? TPM was an INSULT to Lucas&#39; older fans. TPM is THE cause of all the bad karma towards Star Wars. We had indications before (such as the cleanup of the original trilogy and Greedo shooting first), but this shit indicates a trend. Did you enjoy TPM? Compared to the previous films it was a gut-renching, anal explosion of tripe. Don&#39;t tell me that I just don&#39;t like the originals because I am not a kid anymore either, because I still like the originals a LOT as an adult. I like them because they are interesting and involving, something TPM certainly was not. The chances of TPM kicking ass because of the events in AOTC are slim to none... it&#39;s just another love story, with wars going on. That&#39;s not very different from Pearl Harbor, it&#39;s not very original, and it&#39;s probably just plain pedestrian. I expect PERFECTION from Lucas due to his track record. He is simply NOT allowed to mess up, most of his older fans (the ones bashing) feel this way. We got screwed by TPM and the "Special Editions", what proof can you offer me that it won&#39;t happen again? Admittedly, my expectations will be in the gutter for this one, so it has that going for it as well. My expectations were in the gutter for Black Knight, and guess what? It sucked. The Clones trailer got BOOED out in every theater I&#39;ve seen it in! Our only hope is for this one to fail miserably so Lucas gets scared enough to hire a talented writer for Ep3! Did you ever think you&#39;d be hearing that kind of talk about Lucas?

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Content After getting back from seeing Flash Gordon today, I have entered it into my top 10 movies of all time. It totally kicks ash. SW and ESB have nothing on it. In fact, I believe after SW and ESB have faded into obscurity, Flash Gordon will live on with the greats. Mike Hodges is GOD. Lucas is dead. Long live the new king (Hodges).

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Content Flash is "ok", but Battlestar Galactica is the grooviest movie ever. Glen A. Larson should be worshiped. At least Hodges and Lucas can be mentioned in the same sentence, but come on. They couldn&#39;t carry Larson&#39;s jockstrap. Keep on truckin&#39;.

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Content There&#39;s a problem with your posts... nobody based Lucas back then except the critics and a few oddballs! Change the date of all of them to reflect the release of TPM and you&#39;d be right on target.

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Content Where have all the Lucasfans gone? Apart from Vicconius who doesn&#39;t make much sense at all, they have all but vanished. Why? you ask?............ Star Wars just became impossible to defend....Whatever the fanboys say, you can always counter it with these words: "But, bloody N&#39;SYNC was in Attack of the Clones"..............

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Content There are no people left to school!!

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Content Flash Gordon comparable to LOTR??? HAHAHAHAHAA. I guess you just can&#39;t recognize a good movie when you see one. Hmmm.. maybe there&#39;s a reason LOTR is garnering near universal praise from critics and fans alike, has already gained Golden Globes nominations, and is an early favorite for the Oscars. Oh I don&#39;t know... MAYBE IT&#39;S BECAUSE LOTR IS NOT ANOTHER CRAPPY MOVIE LIKE FLASH GORDON, BUT A GREAT PICTURE WHICH WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR YEARS TO COME. You know like, the original trilogy of Star Wars was. That&#39;s sad that you even remember that a Flash Gordon remake came out in 1980. As clever as you think you&#39;re being, you fail to make a valid point because none of the scenarios you imagine are comparable at all to having NSYNC IN STAR WARS. You also forget that while maybe there were a few naysayers, most people LIKED the first three star wars movies when they were released, and would thus SUPPORT them, not predict their failure. It&#39;s just a sign of what Lucas has become that he seems to have more friends than enemies.

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Content I&#39;m getting old too, so getting piss drunk isn&#39;t the fun time it used to be back in the day. Damn you George, what the hell are you thinking?

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Content Even thinking about N&#39;SYNC being on the bloody set makes me feel physically ill.

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Content ...and thank him on behalf of us fans for creating the spectacular Fellowship of the Ring movie by using his OWN professional judgement, and not letting any children or mentally deluted directors wearing flannel muck it all up.

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Content Is how all of these SW-bashers are under the assumption that only their opinion matters and no one else&#39;s does. That, my friends is pure arrogance. It is exactly why they attack anyone who tries to defend ATOC, even when they claim to get so offended. They are the biggest hypocrties in the world because they want to rant but think no one else can. I&#39;m sorry if I sound offensive, but it seems like tolerance is not allowed on this board. I don&#39;t care you if you no longer like Star Wars, but quit acting like you the smartest people on earth. In this country people have OPINIONS, and you have no right to look down on someone because their opinion differs from yours. To conclude, I do think ATOC can be good, because I have no concrete evidence that it will be bad. If you don&#39;t want to see it, though, but don&#39;t try to make me look like an idiot. It is my right to see Episode 2.

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Content These actual posts from back then (from an alternate dimension, I didn&#39;t want to upset this timeline) show that if the Internet was as publicly popular at the time everyone would be the same nay-saying, annihilistic, faux-anarchist pricks that everyone seems to think they are now. Nsync as extras is worse than Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy as The ultimate Jedi Master?? OK.

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Content Theforce.net reported this rumor over a month ago! Way to be on top of things, Harry. Were you just too caught up in your LOTR-induced stupor to hear about it?

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Content I wish I had all the money in the world so I could make expensive home movies for my kids.... This is pathetic. It&#39;s time for protest and wait until EP4 comes out on DVD before I give double chin any more of my money. I think he needs to get into another car wreck...Thank GOD for Peter Jackson.

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Content hey lucas, lord of the rings rocked, it had no contemporary references. kind of like the original star wars. too bad you forgot what made that film great. as it stands the lord of the rings trilogy will kick star wars ass all the way back to the seventies. n&#39;sync is the biggest pile of shit ever. i hate them. my favorite band is the ramones, but i would have hated to see them make an appearance in star wars. they would have distracted from the film, simply because they are cooler than anyone else. n&#39;sync will distract because they suck harder than any band has ever sucked.

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Content I heard this a long time ago too. Everyone has LOTR on the brain. Slows brain function doncha know.

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Content they&#39;ll be seen for a fleeting moment during a huge battle scene (and they&#39;re gonna be Jedi Knights), on Genosis (?) fighting battledroids. There&#39;s more, but check out Coming Attractions. Sorry. goddammit George - where&#39;s your head?

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Content Okay, here&#39;s how I see it after a few hours of cooling down. (Relatively speaking, of course) Vicconius is primarily playing the &#39;get the geeks riled up&#39; devil&#39;s advocate here (because every great talkback needs at least one)probably because he gets off on the instigation factor. But he and probably others bring up a valid point. What if this cameo were learned of AFTER opening day? What if the first round of reviews and viewings went smashingly well? Do we hate the movie then? Well, no, probably not. BUT...THAT&#39;S EXACTLY WHY WE SHOULD BE PISSED AS HELL. This could&#39;ve been an innocuos "Easter Egg" to find, but Lucas and that "Wormtongue" McCallum have obviously spilt the beans with the intent to drum up an uproar. He hates us, guys. So many of you now see this. We are weak. We at the end of the day will not be able to resist the urge to see this film. We bashed his kiddie film. Rightfully so, but it hurt. I saw this coming when he made his painfully lame acceptance speech at the 2000 MTV Movie Awards. We didn&#39;t get older. He did. Bash A.I. all you want, but at least you can&#39;t say that Spielberg has gotten lamer. If anything, he has inched away from such summer fare. I don&#39;t expect Lucas to try and emulate Fincher or the Coen brothers, but it is very possible to make a classic swashbuckling, pulse-pounding adventure extravaganza without such pointless diversions. But again, he hates us. And so does much of the industry, I fear. Just remember the Scooby Doo casting/script debacle and let&#39;s just wait and see if Spider-Man isn&#39;t more condescending crap. Oh well, I must now write my next sermon, "Fanboys In the Hands of an Angry Nerd". B-Spears and J-Lo as cum-guzzling Twi&#39;leks in Ep III! And Beetlejuice (from Stern) as BizarroYoda. Or just throw the 1979 Holiday Special up there as the Epilogue. Whew....

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Content Hmm... I don&#39;t remember any Muppets being in SW. MAYBE THAT&#39;S BECAUSE THEY WEREN&#39;T THERE. Just because Frank Oz is involved with the movie doesn&#39;t mean that there were muppets there. Frank Oz has done some great work, and is a respected man in the film industry. Trying to compare the Muppets to Nsync is an argument you can&#39;t win. They are nothing alike, and nsync is actually IN the movie, while the muppets weren&#39;t. Oh and you conceded my argument that most people SUPPORTED Lucas back in the day, so you lose.

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Content i&#39;m gonna laugh when spiderman kicks episode 2&#39;s lame ass! by the way i really hate n&#39;sync!

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Content Not being a Star Wars fan I can say that while I don&#39;t really care, it does kind of cheapen the movie and Lucas as a director if this is indeed true. And to all of the fan boys whining about it, you know you&#39;re going to go see the movie anyways so stop crying, hell Lucas could shit on a strip of celluloid and call it Episode 2 and you people would go running. So to all of those, I believe Michael DeLuise said it best in Encino Man, SHOOSH!

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Content Joey Ramone was a big ABBA fan. He even re-recorded some of his songs on one of the Ramones 80&#39;s albums in ABBA&#39;s studio so that he could get some of their magic. He said he wanted it to be as good as theirs (ABBA). He even wrote a great article on them for a 1999 Mojo magazine. Are the Ramones now something less to you? I hope I didn&#39;t ruin Joey&#39;s reputation for you.

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Content No one is denying you the right to see "Attack of the N&#39;Clones" It&#39;s just that many of us consider ourselves old Star Wars fans, but feel that GL has taken the series to crap-city. Star Wars IMO aren&#39;t supposed to be "just movies". GL just doesn&#39;t seem to care anymore.....It&#39;s a sad, sad situation. (ohmygod did I just quote Elton John??)

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Content Fozzie Bear and Yoda share the same voice. Exactly. "How you grow so big eating food like this wacca wacca wacca". He a puppet...operated and voiced by Frank Oz...Jim Henson was originally supposed to do it. Yeah, you&#39;re right, no muppet connection at all.

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Content Ok bitches, the KING hereby DECREES that RECESS is in session for my LOYAL SUBJECTS. Why? I&#39;ll tell you why, bitch. Because we&#39;ve SCHOOLED every Twatty Nelson and Nickel Whore dragging their Vader cape (mudhole stopmed in it -tm- GENERAL JACKSON) through the mud. No bitches worth left SCHOOLING. Sure, there&#39;s a few Twatty Nelson&#39;s and bitchy-bitches here and there who MISS THE POINT of what it means to even put them in the flick (we know they arent in it for long, BITCH, its the PRINICIPAL of it all. You see BITCHES, after GENERAL JACKSON marched on Skywalker Ranch, the stakes were raised, and we dont have to take this BS anymore). In other words G&#39;nite Lucas, G&#39;nite ILAME, G&#39;nite Bitches, here&#39;s the directions to the theater, FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING is playing all day and night, enjoy. And you have just been SCHOOLED by the KING of Talkback! Whip-Tash! (The Balrogs Bullwhip, in my honor)

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Content You know, you can try (and some of you already have) to defend this rumour all you like: it won&#39;t change the fact that George has shown a phenomenal lack of taste, not to mention a complete disregard of the feelings of his millions of paying non-N&#39;Sync fans, in this embarrassing, ham-fisted and ugly to reaching a wider audience. Of COURSE it matters that N&#39;Sync will be there in the background of a scene. Not for me personally: George lost me at TPM. But I would hate to be a full-on SW fan right now . . .

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Content A cold November day, circa 2001. Rick McCallum enters Lucas office on the Ranch - Rick: George, I&#39;ve got a TERRIBLE idea! -- Lucas: SOLD! And that, BITCH, is how TPM parts I - III are written. LOL. SCHOOLED by the KING of Talkback! Whip-tash! (The Balrog&#39;s bullwhip, hitting its mark - the calendar, the day and year Lucas started writing &#39;the prequels&#39; in my honor and to signal my departure)

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Content "You can break these things you know"

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Content My argument wasn&#39;t that THERE&#39;S NO CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MUPPETS AND STAR WARS. My argument is that just because Frank Oz is connected with the movie doesn&#39;t mean that everyone will assume that he will resume his Muppet mode. That&#39;s like saying that because Kubrick directed Spartacus, he will throw gladiator fight scenes into eyes wide shut. Frank oz directed Bowfinger... boy that movie was abounding with Muppets!!! AND ONCE AGAIN you fail to answer my argument that most people didn&#39;t feel pissed off at Lucas back in the day because most people loved the original three, unlike TPM, which had a mixed respone at best.

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Content My argument is that members of Nsync will be extra&#39;s playing Jedi and will in no part be Nsync singing or dancing or lipsyncing. They will be actors in a movie, like everyone else in it. If the Emperor walks them into his office and introduces them to Amidala as Nsync, Lance, Joey, Justin, JC and the other guy, then you have a point. But otherwise your point makes no sense. Two of them have done a movie outside of Nsync. TOUCHE. TOUCHDOWN. HE SHOOTS HE SCORES! THERE IS A NEW KING NOW!

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Content It&#39;s N&#39;SYNC.......in a Star Wars movie........nuff said.

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Content I can&#39;t take this crap anymore!!! THIS MOVIE SUCKS. WE ALL KNEW IT. At least there is a bright side. We can write off this second trilogy as pure junk and dismiss it outright like we do the later Pink Panther movies. I don&#39;t consider the new films "canon" - the stuff at http://www.geocities.com/buttbackender/ButtBackender.html is just as much "canon" to me as this new drivel. I knew it when I saw TPM and I have never been more certain.

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Content Crowley wins. Still sad, though.

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Content ...trying to use logic and facts, tempered with (hopefully) well stated opinions and views. I don&#39;t care that Greedo shoots first. I loved Phantom Meanace without reservation. I don&#39;t mind Jar Jar. But, I&#39;ve gotta say, this really sucks. I know that we won&#39;t be able to see the little pipsqeaks, and ultimately, it really won&#39;t affect the quality of the film at all. I know he just had the boys on the set to make his daughters happy. Hopefully, their cameo won&#39;t be any more prevelant than that of Mark Hamill&#39;s son (of course, maybe Hamill&#39;s kid can act, who knows?), but damn...A boy band in Star Wars. That really sucks.

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Content This is just too much! Marketing at it&#39;s worst. But fear not, my young geeks, for I feel that NSUX will be nothing but a blip on the radar. But it is a sad day indeed for SW fans everywhere. Including me.....**snif**

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Content We should just pretend that 25 years of internet technology don&#39;t exist to speed along the gossip and rumors, just to keep the objectivity of the first trilogy? As if word of mouth wasn&#39;t enough gossip back then? GL has already stated he won&#39;t pay attention to the internet, like that means anything to the millions of us (yes, you too) who DO see this shit online. As I said, it ain&#39;t old-school Star Wars, it&#39;s a whole new ballgame and George can do whatever the hell he wants but media is media and it WILL work against him if he&#39;s not careful. Us geeks are only a nominal percentage of sales, but we eat the stuff up--IF it&#39;s good. As posted before, the NSYNC rumor may be used for the wrong purposes. If not, oh well, but why not get EXTRAS who can actually ACT? Or don&#39;t act but come much cheaper!

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Content I heer Darth Vader is going to tern evil. It would so ruin the movie Luca$ has established. I love Episode I and II, but I won&#39;t spend my Euros on this sellout. Plus thair going to kill off Jar Jar and replace him with a guy in a COSTOOM? Luca$ has lost his mind. I hope thare wont be an episode IV, this franchise is DEAD!

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Content The comparison between these films is no longer valid. IMO STAR WARS best hope is to be compared to CANNONBALL RUN 2. Hopefully GL might just come out on top.

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Content I&#39;ve come to the realization that even though FOTR has some flaws, it is at least 100 times better than TPM. Star Wars is officially in the toilet. But let&#39;s face it, like someone mentioned above, the original trilogy wasn&#39;t exactly the pinnacle of filmmaking either. We were kids, we liked the spaceships and stuff. Our pre-1999 nostalgia was shattered by the abomination known as TPM. Poop and fart jokes and a Stepinfetchit CGI monstrosity brought a once-proud franchise to its knees. This is simply the final nail in the coffin. Lucas doesn&#39;t care about Star Wars anymore. He cares about making a movie for his kids. Which is fine, but I&#39;m tired of pretending that he&#39;s just in a slump. Episodes 2 and 3 will suck. No, I don&#39;t know this. But I don&#39;t know that the sun will rise tomorrow morning, yet it&#39;s a safe bet. I&#39;m going to see FOTR again tomorrow. We need a new trilogy to replace the rotting carcass that is Star Wars. I encourage everyone to see FOTR over and over again. It&#39;s time to stop pretending that TPM was an aberration. I think Empire Strikes Back was the aberration. TPM and ROTJ are more representative of Lucas&#39; "vision". Even though Peter Jackson didn&#39;t bat 1.000 with FOTR, at least he swung for the fences. I apologize for criticizing FOTR. We need more filmmakers like Peter Jackson who are willing to put it all on the line. I&#39;ll be watching FOTR on DVD when AOTC opens. I urge everyone to do the same.

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Content ...if you hate this movie because NSync is in it, you were already going to hate it regardless. If this ruins the movie for you, it&#39;s pretty sad. I can say with all certainty that when I see the flick in five months, I will NOT be scanning the screen for any of these fucking guys; I&#39;ll be watching the damn movie. Shit, I loved Final Fantasy and James Woods was one of the main characters. If you ask me, James Woods is a bigger asshole than all five of these boy band bitches put together. So why should I hate a Star Wars movie just because these guys are in the flick in such a minor capacity? If I don&#39;t like "Clones," it&#39;s because the film itself turns out to disappoint me. Who gives a shit who the extras are?

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Content happy holidays everybody!

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Content I&#39;m using irony as a weapon. Turning the mirror on everyone else. Showing that the same lame anti-Lucas stuff could be applied to the old movies. Everyone today is just bitchy and whiny. LOTR is the flavor of the moment. People will whinge later. I&#39;m just sick of everyone making a big deal out of what is really nothing. Like someone else said, no planes were flown into a building. Get over it and yourselves. BTW, I doubt the Nsync guys got paid. Lucas (or McCallum) probably saved 50 bucks x 5. Thats 250 bucks that can go towards improving Jar Jars animation.

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Content just like in Willow when Fin Raziel "morfed" from a tiger to a woman? George is OVER.. well to be honest he has been "over" since the last 2 star wars movie... Here is the Truth: george has ONLY made one movie on his own.. TPM..that was all him. Truth:*Star Wars.. his wife helped him a lot in editing,story changes,ect.*Empire... he was BARELY on the set.. ( he has said this in tons of interviews BEFORE the movie came out)*Jedi.. he puts out blame and take credit for many things .. because the director is dead.. so who knows??*TPM.. is ALL HIM .. (enjoy!). WHY didn&#39;t George in the original Star Wars put : Leif Garrett , Shaun Cassedy, Andy Gibb, Donny Osmand & or Bobby Sherman in the first movie in "cameos" or X Wing fighters??? hmmmm MAYBE because George wasn&#39;t a HASBEEN! also his EGO wasn&#39;t SO BIG, that he would actually listen to "close friends" advice to help his film...now it&#39;s all him.Having Nsync in this new movie TOPS it for me.. I am NOT going to ever see this one.. or the 3rd one.. ( in theater or on dvd)George is so desperate to put these "cameos" in.. is he thinking "hey, if I put in these cameos for different "target groups"(13 year old girls) they will come see my movie more then once LOOKING for my "teen pop Cameos"... "but I&#39;ll make sure to hide them.. so they have to come back and see the movie 3 or 4 times.." I NEVER thought I&#39;d say or think this.. BUT George TOPPED JAR JAR Binks with this one!!! I never thought it would be done.. but he did it. Such "Douche Chills" thinking about this. I could only imagine this scene in the new movie.. Jar Jar telling Anakin " Meeeeza.. go seeea N sync-a!"

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Content ... who here REALLY LIKES the idea of N&#39;SYNC being in the movie? Be honest. If you do, then why? Are you into the band. If you do, fine. But from the perspective of what will contribute towards a better film, from an artistic vantage point, how do they really "add" to it? Or do we all chalk it up to artist&#39;s conceit. Maybe, in the long run, the sum of it&#39;s parts will eclipse the occasional lapses in judgement -- I hope so. All I&#39;m saying is Lucas has his work cut out for him. He has much to make up for. So many of his own fans are becoming naysayers. Good luck, George. I wish you well.

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Content lucas makes star wars, he has the power. Crying about it is not gonna make a difference. Besides whats a 2 second shot where some dumb extras die? not like hes giving them title roles. Hey, look on the bright side, they DIE! any movie where nsync dies is ok in my book :)

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Content at least on this talkback. That is, since you want to turn this into a Star Wars vs. LOTR debate. I liked the old trilogy and I like the LOTR, but TPM&#39;s only real fully engrossing moments are the jedi and space battles, which still left plot, characters, acting, and theme open to debate (and debate there was!) There&#39;re alot of solid SW fan posters here expressing disappointment. Any other folks here under 17 disappointed with TPM in the slightest? That&#39;s the crowd that determines the future of the franchise more than us old folks, and if the next film fails to please that group, it&#39;s all over.

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Content Sammy Davis jr will be resurrected courtesy of the magic of CG in the new Star Wars movie ;"Attack of the N&#39;Clones". He will play a hilarious starfighter pilot named "Alo Jolsono" who bumps into Obi and Ani on Coruscant. The reason for this according to Director/Producer Rick McLucas is he felt that the chase sequence on Coruscant was too exciting and tense. "I just felt it needed a little comedy at this point in the movie"

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Content ZeroCorpse, I soooo agree with U! Breakin&#39; was 2 fresh for wurds. I heer that thair ging to make a sequal called Electric Boobaloo. That would be such a sellout! I hope its not tru. That would be like calling a Star Wars moovie Attack of the Clones, as though Empire Strikes Back wasn&#39;t already bad enuf.

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Content Cheesy titles, the horrid goofy alien characters as comic relief and now this...the lowest possible denominator, boy band jedi. For those of you decrying this and laughing at the ribing SW fans are going to take, let me say do not not choose the quick and easy path. Despite the "family consulting" that has tainted and in some respects tarnished a once admirable franchise, allow me this one simple question: Can&#39;t it be said that depspite all the crap that can be laid at George&#39;s doorstep, is still one true crime is that he&#39;s been unable to write dialogue effectively? Naysay boy bands and Jar Jar all you want, but the fact of the matter is, these easy targets will ALWAYS be eclipsed by a lack of story. With any luck, most of us will revel in the idea of NSuck being disemboweled...so let&#39;s get on with it, and concentrate on more pertinent issues like writing...if there&#39;s any left.

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Content Last week I took my 14 year old nephew and 10 year old niece to see FOTR. And my niece thought that Legolas was Justin Timberlake. "It is him, Uncle Comedian! It is!" Having the actual guy now in Star Wars makes me suspect that there is something seriously wrong with the space time continuum and my niece is actually some God-like monster like that kid in that Twilight Zone episode.

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Content Uh, wrong. FotR was a pretty good movie, and once all of you social gimps finish with your masturbatory delusions you&#39;ll see that it has plenty of flaws. How about this line: "Nobody tosses a dwarf!" That is exactly the kind of pop culture, cheap reference that you mongoloids are bitching about. Or how about Merry and Pippin in blackface from the fireworks? Wow that was original. Or how about the casting of semi-talented Cate Blanchett as Galadriel the mystic oracle? Fact is, while it was a good movie, it paled in comparison to the books that it raped. Its pacing was so poorly conceived that I had to explain the timeline to about 15 people afterwards. So get off the Peter Jackson bonded love wagon, you little mouth breathers. The guy did a good adaptation of a great book that will NOT stand up over time as a classic. You guys can beat off about it all you want, but your need to use Tolkien to bash Lucasfilm smacks of lackwit desperation. Jesus H Flipping Christ on a crutch; this place IS the Isle of Misfit Toys.

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Content When I read that N&#39;Sync was going to be Jedi Knights in Episode 2 I felt my heart jump to my throut. Nothing personal against the group, I would have love to see the Ramones or other ultra cool group. I was wondering if George had forgotten the fans that keep his franchise alive. Upon doing a little research (including checking out this site) I discover they are going to be killed off fast, and by androids no less. George has not forgotten about his fans. Thanks for giving us a new movie memory.

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Content HEY, We&#39;re bashing here!! Do you mind?

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Content I nearly fell off my chair with that one : )

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Content I heer thair going to start filming Episode 7. Those of us that grue up with The Phantom Menace," "Attack of the Clones," and "Return of the Sith Lords," are being SOLDOUT by this roomer I saw on CNN&#39;s The Naked News. Luca$ is actually casting Destiny&#39;s Grandcild as extras in "Episode 7 . . . Return to Oz." What&#39;s a prison show dooing in the title anyway? That series wasn&#39;t even science fiction and portrayed gay rapes as bad!, if I recall corectly. Luca$ has soldout, but at least we have that new Lord of the Rings movie coming out, "A New Hope."

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Content BTW. "Lord of the Rings" is immune to your bashing, so don&#39;t even think about it:)!

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Content now i can hump my pillows and picture beefy joey fatone in jedi gear. dreamy!

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Content GunsBlazing, what does this have to do with LOTR? It&#39;s like every time someone criticises Star Wars, you are straight away ranting about your hate for LOTR. Who cares? What does LOTR have to do with GL putting *NSync into his film? NOTHING. What does LOTR have to do with GL selling his soul for those ever-important marketing dollars? NOTHING. Get over it. The inclusion of *NSync in Star Wars will weaken an already-struggling franchise. Bleating about your dislike for LOTR won&#39;t change that fact.

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Content Aragorn: Are you scared? Frodo: Yes Aragorn: Not nearly scared enough! I&#39;m sure Ewan Mcgregor (sic) is just gonna&#39; love this development, as well. Why wasn&#39;t Lucas walking on that lonely Maine road instead of Stephen King!!!! Ohh the humanity!!

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Content god, you will probably have to pause the damn DVD to even notice where they are in the film, get a life!

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Content ...is that Lucas obviously put N&#39;Sync in the film in order to give a big middle-finger to all Original Trilogy fans. He is actively trying to incite us, to aggravate us, to make us mad. And you know what? He&#39;s winning...just look at this talkback for evidence. How do we win? Don&#39;t see the film. If you must, wait until an ignorant friend rents it on video, and watch it then. Or wait until it premieres on FOX circa 2004. But before that, don&#39;t give that cocknocker Lucas a dime of your hard-earned cash. That is, if you don&#39;t want to be Lucas&#39; personal cock sucker- "It&#39;s OK George, you can piss on me all you want...I&#39;ll love you no matter how much you abuse me. Now hand me that cock so I can suck it off!!!"

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Content You cocksmokers actually LIKED that Lord of the Rings flick?? It was more boring than a sloppy toothless blowjob from your mothers.

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Content All your irony is well placed and Star Wars would have been different if web geeks had the opportunity to pounce on tidbits like this. But after that, what&#39;s the point of hindsight? If you&#39;ve been watching the AICN talkbacks then you&#39;re more than aware that TPM was a hilly ride for fans rather than a full sweeping success. To anyone reading between the lines, you&#39;re irony only broadens the gap between the trilogies and reinforces that the franchise has so much to live up to here and now, especially with these kinds of sites, and based on the level of industry that Lucas and his own ILM helped propogate. Put it another way: it didn&#39;t cost PJ anywhere near as much to recoup the FOTR production as it will for Lucas for AOTC--that&#39;s a hell of an expensive film to throw ambivalence at in the face of our current media matrix. NSYNC may not hurt the film for such a negligible appearance, but you&#39;re witness here to the fact that it ain&#39;t helping our mass pre-release impressions.

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Content Like with TPM, where thanks to some slick editing the movie is: Opening credits,lightsaber duel,closing credits.

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Content I&#39;m one of the biggest fans ever and no matter what anyone says that will never change. When I heard the N&#39;Sync story I just rolled my eyes and thought "Oh the talkbackers are going to eat Lucas alive." That&#39;s my only concern, not them being in the movie cause it means nothing to the plot. This in no way alters the movie... only difference is now instead of that guy getting blown up it will be that guy from n&#39;sync getting blown up.. and the only way you&#39;ll know is that you read it on the internet, and we all know how accurate the internet is. I wouldn&#39;t like it if they were clearly standing there. If they had a line I&#39;d be pissed, but I&#39;m totally happy about how they are depicted.. It&#39;s almost a shot at the group, they get blown up for god&#39;s sakes. People always joke that they wished N&#39;Sync would die... well Lucas is making that dream come true.

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Content From TheForce.Net: "Brace yourselves: The boys of &#39;N Sync will have a cameo in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones. A Lucasfilm spokeswoman confirmed what Star Wars fan sites had been buzzing about for days, saying the fivesome will appear briefly in a "big scene." A SPOKESWOMAN FOR LUCASFILM. There you have it, for those of you who STILL think this is a rumor. There is, is, is, oh god I can&#39;t stand it anymore! We are all FANS IN THE HANDS OF A PUSSY GEORGE. Okay, now, I&#39;ve got it out of my system. I think George has always felt like this. This is what happens when his TRUE vision comes to life. The Greedo thing should be put back to rights, but if he wants it there, he deserves to be the producer, writer, and director of the biggest bombs. Greedo&#39;s surprised ass now lies in the heap of edited dreams alongside Penisbreath. We are all doomed. I&#39;m just glad Peter Jackson isn&#39;t stupid enough to change the name of The Two Towers to The Happy Hobbit&#39;s Second Adventure.

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Content I&#39;ve seen his reaction to the title, but what other negative comments has he said about Ep II? Anybody have links? Just curious...

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