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Admittedly, I’m an embarrassingly huge Star Wars nerd. But that said, I find myself weirdly apathetic about Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which hits theaters this August. And I’m not one of the people who’s too cool for new Star Wars, either—I’m one of the many who loves the old ones, but I’m also one of the very, very few who liked the prequels, too (especially the third one). So if my math’s right, I’m exactly the sort of dweeb that George Lucas is courting with The Clone Wars, a film that wisely ditched its working title, George Lucas’ Latest Attempt at Making a Movie Without Any Actors Whatsoever.
But I don’t know—whether it’s the characters’ creepy marionette looks, the unoriginal concept (Genndy Tartakovsky already did this, right?), or the fact this is just a glorified TV pilot (the movie is a lead-in for an animated series starting this fall), I’m just not really feeling this one. I mean, I’ll see it—of course I’ll see it—but on my summer movie radar? Pretty low priority.
All that whining aside, goddamn, the colors in this are gorgeous, yeah? So at least there’s that. Crappy YouTube below (the best one I could find was subtitled en Français, which totally makes the trailer feel all cultured and shit); pretty HD version here.
oh. i thought that was supposed to be a video game.
Wow, and to think I thought you couldn't beat Shrek IV?
@1 - I think he meant "one of the few people of good taste."
Star wars is vulgar and silly, has always been vulgar and silly, and will always be vulgar and silly. The series is utterly lacking in artistic merit. The fact that the prequels are even worse than the originals is mind boggling.
Wow. That shit looks like shit.
The animated one that ran on Adult Swim was fucking AWESOME. This version.... not so much.
It looks like some lame video game lead-in. Lucas can't direct an actual actor to save his life so maybe this has a chance of not sucking but I seriously doubt it.
oh yes, so very few people liked the prequel movies. which is why every movie broke all the current box office records. hmm...