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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:24:51 EST
From: MrMovie008@aol.com
Subject: [MV] New 'Star Wars: Episode I' Trailer - Shot By Shot
'Star Wars: Episode I' Trailer B Set to air on March 12:
Shot 1: A grassy hill. Some vehicles start to slowly emerge from beyond the
horizon.
Shot 2: Large city with a dome-shaped palace on the edge of enormous cliff.
Probably Queen's palace seen from the opposite side than in the first trailer.
Shot 3: Queen: "I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to
war."
Shot 4: Cool shot of battle tanks slowly hovering above the grass.
Shot 5: Sio Bibble: "A communications disruption can mean only one thing.
Invasion."
Shot 6: A ship flies through space. It has a pointed nose and rear "wings"
very reminiscent of TIE fighters.
Shot 7: A HUGE ship, shaped like a letter "H", landing in the forest
Shot 8: Darth Maul stepping outside from some ship, pod or whatever.
Shot 9: Darth Maul to someone in black (probably Darth Sidious, but he's not a
hologram): "At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi." They are both
standing on some sort of walkway high above enormous city.
Shot 10: Huge fleet (the "H" shaped mothership and many smaller ships)
approaches the planet.
Shot 11: Many battle droids marching in precise formation, guns ready.
Shot 12: Maul to Sidious: "At last we will have revenge."
Shot 13: Battle droids and some weird spider-like robots (at least 15 feet
tall) standing in some sort of hangar, all of them suddenly turning towards
the camera.
Shot 14: Sidious (hologram): "Begin landing your troops."
Shot 15: Several battle droids on STAPs flying past what appears to be the
lower part of the "H"-shaped ship, parked in the forest. It has just opened
and some hovercrafts
are pouring out (the same things that decimated the forest in the first
trailer).
Shot 16: Many different animals running through the forest. Someone is riding
at least one of them.
Shot 17: Detail of Qui-Gon, standing in the ship which is shaking.
Shot 18: Obi-Wan: "We haven't much time."
Shot 19: Ship (seems like Queen's) flying from the planet towards something
(not in the picture) that is shooting at her.
Shot 20: Two Nimoidians.
Shot 21: Queen: "The Federation has gone too far."
Shot 22: Many battle droids getting up (they were probably crouching before).
Shot 23: Wide shot of literally thousands of droids standing in formations in
front of very large vehicles (looking a little bit like enormous toasters).
Shot 25: Some sort of royal chamber. Several people are standing around, one
of them hologram. Someone says: "The death toll is catastrophic."
Shot 26: Palpatine slowly turning towards the camera.
Shot 27: Queen: "Our people are dying, senator, we must do something quickly."
Shot 28/29: Sio Bibble (hologram) to Queen: "You must contact me." (This is
cut to look like a single scene but the Queen has different dress in each
shot).
Shot 30: Qui-Gon to Queen: "There's something else behind all this, Your
Highness." Obi-Wan and Jar Jar are standing nearby as well as two handmaidens
looking exactly like the Queen!
Shot 31: Queen looking from the window (like in the first trailer). Qui-Gon
(voiceover): "They'll kill you if you stay."
Shot 32: Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan getting up from the table and swtching their
lightsabers on.
Shot 33: Obi-Wan raising his hand - using The Force. Qui-Gon (voiceover): "I
can only protect you."
Shot 34: The Force probably worked, because three battle droids are flying
away from the camera.
Shot 35: Qui-Gon: "I can't fight a war for you."
Shot 36: Steps of enromous palace. The Queen and several other people are
being escorted down by battle droids.
Shot 37: Palpatine: "I think we're going to have to accept Federation control
for the time being."
Shot 38: Queen, Bibble and several other people are escorted by
Shot 39: Two very cool battle robots which are "transforming" themselves from
spheres to armored "things" with guns.
Shot 40: Panaka: "This is a battle I do not think that we can win."
Shot 41: Queen to Palpatine: "I will sign no treaty, senator."
Shot 42: Large mounted guns firing.
Shot 45: Pilot in the cockpit being hit. He wears those old-style pilot
goggles.
Shot 46: Queen looking from the window.
Shot 47: Jar Jar to Queen: "You say people gonna die?" Or something like that
(his dialect is terrible.)
Shot 48: STAPs are shooting at Obi-Wan in the forest, Qui-Gon deflects their
fire with his lighsaber.
Shot 49/50: Obi-Wan to Boss Nass: "Once those droids take control of the
surface, they will take control of you."
Shot 51: Tanks firing.
Shot 52: Queen: "I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die..." Some
small thing is hovering in front of her (a microphone?).
Shot 53: Dozens of Gungans deflecting laser fire with large see-through
shields.
Shot 54: Senate or something similar. Enormous hall with many small pods, each
of them containing people (ambassadors?). Queen (voiceover): "...while you
discuss this invasion in a committee."
Shot 55: Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon mowing down battle droids with lightsabers.
Shot 56: Two robots from shot 39 firing.
Shot 57: Door opens, several people are running from them. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan
use the lightsabers to deflect the shots, the Queen is shooting from her
blaster.
Shot 58: R2D2 being "sucked" into the Naboo fighter.
Shot 59: R2D2's "head" emerging from top of the fighter.
Shot 60: Battle droids being hit with laser fire.
Shot 70: Queen (shooting): "Get to your ships!"
Shot 71: Obi-Wan running.
Shot 72: Naboo figters flying away from the planet.
Shot 73: C3PO to R2D2: "They'll never get me onto one of those dreadful
starships."
Shot 74: R2D2 beeping.
Shot 75: Obi-Wan jumps up, kicking down one battle droid with each of his
feet. Looks like Bruce Lee. :)
Shot 76: Yoda to Mace: "Always two there are."
Shot 77: Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan standing on the balcony above Coruscant. Yoda
(voiceover): "A master and an apprentice."
Shot 78: Darth Maul standing menacingly in the desert, switching off his
lighsaber. Something flies overhead.
Shot 79: Two Naboo fighters flying, one of them explodes.
Shot 80: The pod race. Various pods (each of them different) speeding through
the canyon.
Shot 81: Naboo fighter flying from space into a hangar, rolling wildly.
Shot 82: Enormous jaws opening (probably shot from inside of the sub).
Shot 83: Obi-Wan duelling with Darth Maul. I'd say that he has 9 horns. One at
the top of his head and four on each side.
Shot 84: Jabba The Hutt on the balcony, surrounded by his familiar minions
from the previous Star Wars movies.
Shot 85/86: Obi-Wan duelling with Darth Maul.
Shot 87: Shmi embracing Anakin.
Shot 88: Huge underwater beast grabs a sub in its jaws. Not sure if they are
the same as in shot 82.
Shot 89: A new kind of ship (somehow reminiscent of TIE Fighter) flying above
the Trade Federation battleship.
Shot 90: Another shot from the pod race.
Shot 91: Title: STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE
Shot 92: Close-up of Maul's face. Sidious (voiceover): "Wipe themout."
Shot 93: Sidious (hologram): "All of them."
Shot 94: Obi-Wan (screaming): "No!!!"
Shot 95: One of the racing pods crashing in very nasty way.
Shot 96: Queen.
Shot 97: Battle droids being blasted by laser fire.
Shot 98: Qui-Gon
Shot 99: Qui-Gon decapitating the battle droid.
Shot 100: Anakin running across the field.
Shot 101: Particularly nasty explosion (remember ID4?) involving one very
unlucky battle droid.
Shot 102: End credits.
Shot 103: THE SAGA BEGINS MAY 21st
The trailer is about 2:25 long (with all the credits). All the music is from
previous movies. Set to air on March 12.
Mr. Movie
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:31:03 -0500
From: Mel Eperthener <bcassidy@usaor.net>
Subject: [MV] Gene Siskel Dies at 53
I did not think that I would be the first to bring you the news. Famed
film critic (He of the Thumbs) Gene Siskel died Saturday.
Some of you outside of North America may have no idea what icons he and his
partner have become. I first caught their show in the late 70s, when it
was still on Public television. Even last week-end, I rushed home from
work to catch their show, to see what Ebert (as Siskel had taken a
leave-of-absence) had to say about the recent movies.
Godspeed, Mr Siskel. Our enjoyment of movies was enhanced by knowing your
opinions. Your passing will leave a void. However, I am sure that when
you get to the Pearly Gates, St Pete will be ready to give you two great
big thumbs up.
This time, the balcony truly is closed (their trademark show ending).
From Yahoo! news service:
>Saturday February 20 10:16 PM ET
>
>Film Critic Gene Siskel Dies
>
> By HERBERT G. McCANN Associated Press Writer
>
> CHICAGO (AP) - Film critic Gene Siskel, known for the
thumbs-up and
> thumbs-down reviews he and Roger Ebert shared on
their popular TV
> show, died Saturday. He was 53.
>
> Siskel had surgery in May to remove a growth from his
brain, but returned
>to the syndicated television show ``Siskel & Ebert'' soon afterward. He
announced earlier this month he
>was taking time off from that show to spend time recuperating from the
surgery.
>
>He died at Evanston Hospital near Chicago, surrounded by his family.
>
>``There was a bedrock of respect that developed over the years,'' Ebert
said, explaining their unique
>relationship, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his
home in Michigan.
>
>Siskel wrote movie reviews for the Chicago Tribune and also did reviews
for ``CBS This Morning'' and
>WBBM-TV in Chicago.
>
>He had said when he announced his leave on Feb. 3 that he expected to
return to writing his reviews
>and the television show this fall.
>
>``I'm in a hurry to get well because I don't want Roger to get more screen
time than I,'' Siskel said then.
>
>Robert Altman, director of ``M A S H'', ``The Player'' and ``Nashville'',
said from his Los Angeles home
>that ``I didn't think critics ever died.''
>
>``He didn't like my stuff too much. I don't pay much attention to critics.''
>
>But Altman said Siskel, with Ebert, changed the way movie criticism is
viewed by both moviemakers
>and the public.
>
>``I think that they were a positive thing,'' he said. ``Several shows
tried to emulate them and failed.''
>
>Paul Dergarabedian, spokesman for Exhibitor Relations Co. which compiles
box office receipts, called
>Siskel's death a great loss.
>
>``He, along with his partner Roger Ebert, took film criticism into the
mainstream,'' he said. ``The
>average person would look toward them about whether to take their
hard-earned dollars to the box
>office.''
>
>Siskel and Ebert are likely the most recognizable movie critics in the
nation. Their trademark
>``thumbs-up'' and ``thumbs-down'' reviews became a benchmark for the movie
industry.
>
>Their show's continuing success was largely attributed to the chemistry
between the tall, balding Siskel
>and the heavyset Ebert. They appeared to practice a one-upmanship that was
in the tradition of the
>rivalry of their newspapers. Ebert is a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.
>
>Their conflicting opinions often prompted the other to respond with biting
sarcasm.
>
>``We had lots of big fights,'' Ebert said in an interview with WLS-TV.
``We were people who came
>together one day a week to work together and the other six days of the
week we were competitors on
>two daily newspapers and two different television stations. So there was a
lot of competition and a lot
>of disagreement.''
>
>With the death of Siskel, the show's future is uncertain.
>
>``The show will continue with revolving guest critics,'' Ebert said. ``In
the future, we will see.''
>
>Siskel was known for his outspoken opinions of not only movies, but of the
people who made them.
>
>He voiced objections to the Oscar awards, presented annually by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts
>and Sciences. He once told Playboy magazine the awards were overrated and
the system of selection
>meant the nominations can be bought with advertising.
>
>Siskel said critics have more right than the academy to pick the Oscars,
saying critics have given their
>lives to film and have an advantage over the people who vote - the critics
have seen all the movies.
>
>Siskel graduated from Yale University in 1967. He joined the Tribune in
1969. He and Ebert began their
>partnership in 1975 with the public television program ``Sneak Previews.''
They left the program in
>1982, when their show went into syndication.
>
>He is survived by his wife, Marlene, two daughters and a son.
- --Mel Eperthener
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 15:40:16 -0500 (EST)
From: maillist@moviejuice.com
Subject: [MV] MovieJuice! - BLAST FROM THE PAST - Perry Como-tose
A PHANTOM MENACING TRIBUTE
Get excited. You're only days away from the MovieJuice! video tribute to the Star Wars prequel. Download the free RealVideo G2 player now at http://www.real.com. And God help us!
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BLAST FROM THE PAST - PERRY COMO-TOSE
by Mark Ramsey
http://www.moviejuice.com
February 21, 1999
Blast From The Past is bad.
It's that stench, deep in the putrid guts of bad. It's that heinous blast from the ass, that's what it is. The good news: The gas is passed and this blast is past.
Bad! So radioactive bad the projectionist handles the film with oven mitts and a lead smock. Does this theater come with ushers or lab assistants? Should we duck around the corner for safety when the lights come down? If I sit against a film panel, can you see my bones after the movie? Can I find the video at Blockbuster or locked away in underground salt mines? I think this movie's giving me cancer - something's growing inside of me, and it's not a happy feeling. I don't know if this flick glows in the dark, but it certainly blows in the dark.
Deep inside a fallout shelter in the early 60's, thespians Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek realize their career choices will be slim indeed come the millennium. Rather than teach the master class at the Actor's Studio, Chris Walken, who in heavy makeup also goes by the name "James Woods," avoids the Bomb and films one instead. It may be under the Earth, but it stinks to high Heaven. Sissy, who's scarier covered in kitchen flour than prom night pig's blood, is in desperate need of a career snorkel.
35 years pass - and I'm not just talking about the time spent in the theater. Son Brendan Fraser - who's gone from God to Monster - wants to visit the surface to get some action and meet a wife. In the real world, the boy in the bubble is a fish out of water, making this movie both bubble-headed and in need of a cleaning and some hush puppies on the side.
Naturally, he settles on Alicia Silverstone because the script says so. Brendan is "Adam" and Alicia is "Eve." Get it? Believe me, gang, this is the Garden of Eden only if we're talkin' Adam West and Eve Plumb. I pray for apples, but I settle for nuts.
Alicia - so golden in Clueless - has gone plum perm crazy in this flick. Is that hair, Alicia, or is a serpent coiled tightly around your head? Who did your makeup, Ray Harryhausen?
Good news! Alicia is never going to have to worry about writing that thank-you speech to the Academy! At least not unless there's an Oscar for "best performance by a hairstyle." Yes, Alicia's curly-mopped perm has life aplenty! Did Pixar do the special effects here? At one point, her curly-q's form the torso of Buzz Lightyear as her tussled "do" signs "To Infinity and Beyond," which, coincidentally, is where Alicia's head seems to be for most of this flick. And it's where all of her talent is, to the extent the word "talent" applies.
Here's some career counsel for you, Alicia. As I see it, you have these options:
1. Play a Hooker in a movie with Richard Gere
2. Play a Hooker in a movie with Larry Flynt
3. Play in a reprise of TV's T.J. Hooker
4. Get Hooked on Phonics
A special obvious-stuff-we're-not-supposed-to-notice citation goes to the peculiar scene in a porno shop where all the nasty video boxes are mysteriously fuzzed out. Hmm. Movie dudes, if your PG-sensibilities require you to cover up the privates, couldn't you digitally render some bikinis? Even a kid knows mommy's boobies aren't shaped like the fog. Sorry, son, mom's in the tub and visibility is zero. Better attach fog lights to those Sketchers, junior. Did Alicia walk into an episode of Cops or something? Must video boxes sign release forms now?
Oh well. I hear the Director of American Graffiti has a new movie coming out soon. Anybody heard anything about it?
Copyright 1999 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.
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FAREWELL GENE SISKEL
I didn't know him, but I'll miss him. Inappropriate though the tribute may be, this issue of MovieJuice! is dedicated to "the tall one."
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:16:49 EST
From: KenKnows@aol.com
Subject: Re: [MV] Gene Siskel Dies at 53
In a message dated 2/20/99 9:38:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,
bcassidy@usaor.net writes:
<< Famed film critic (He of the Thumbs) Gene Siskel died Saturday.
Some of you outside of North America may have no idea what icons he and his
partner have become. I first caught their show in the late 70s, when it
was still on Public television. Even last week-end, I rushed home from
work to catch their show, to see what Ebert (as Siskel had taken a
leave-of-absence) had to say about the recent movies. >>
Gene Siskel, together with Roger Ebert, provided his viewers with many years
of entertaining programing. Their enthusiasm for the movies added to our
enjoyment. I saw Roger Ebert on a book tour and he was fascinating there even
when he spoke to his audience without Gene present. But their television show
lost an important dimension when Roger tried to review movies last week,
leaving Gene's chair empty. That simply did not work because much of the
beauty of their program relied on our hearing two different views of the same
film. I was glad to hear that they do not plan to keep Gene's chair empty
(they will have guest critics), because wonderful as Gene was, the show must
go on.
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:12:29 -0800
From: "Romero, Leticia" <lromero@saonet.ucla.edu>
Subject: RE: [MV] New 'Star Wars: Episode I' Trailer - Shot By Shot
