Posted on 04/24/2005 6:59:21 PM PDT by EveningStar
"Revelations" is a non-profit Star Wars Fan Film that was shot within the Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC Metro Area. Panic Struck Productions set out to produce their first independent film with a very small budget and this is the result.
Length: 47 minutes
(Excerpt) Read more at panicstruckpro.com ...
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Man, that's a lot of spare time somebody had.
Yeah. Tell me about it. And they did it for free. Wow. That's devotion.
Trailer looks great for an amateur production. I'll have to check out the whole thing.
I'll see if my system can do it - I doubt it though. But thanks for the ping.
I'm downloading it now. Thanks for the ping. I hope they don't get sued. Lucas is pretty protective about his properties.
Yes, it does.
Since I can't say anything nice about the acting, I won't say anything at all. ;O)
I'm guessing that, since this was non-profit, Lucas gave it his full blessing (but I've been wrong before).
I was trying to skirt that whole acting issue. :-)
Emporer Soros 
Darth Dean 
Teddy the Hutt 
I'm thinking "Obi Ron Kenobi"...
First off, I think it's stupid to put so much effort into something that isn't your dream, isn't an original screenplay, so you can later sell it. This was a lot of work just to make a copy of someone else's idea. But I wonder if the people who made this would have gotten together and actually made it without the bait of being on Lucas's turf.
Another possibly good thing about copying Lucas is that one can do a point-by-point comparison--a potential employer doesn't have to wonder how these folks would match ILM's FX, they can SEE them working with the same type of material.
OK, so first off, this thing is fatally flawed because the script and acting are gawdawful. The attempts to recreate Darth Vader and the Emperor are a joke. We're talking cable-access awful. I started skipping after the first big FX sequence. The music is fake John Williams and isn't very good because it doesn't share Williams's musical instincts.
BUT...
The people who did the sets and FX on this should be getting calls from Hollywood--if not, they certainly deserve to, because the effects work is every bit as good as any FX on television. (I haven't seen it on anything bigger than my computer screen, so I can't say for sure, but I would bet it's as good as any movie, too.) Yes, the FX are THAT good. The fannish nature gets the better of the filmmakers--we see some FX shots because, it seems, they wanted to show how good they could make a spaceship approach to a planet. But so what? It's a fan film.
So the script sucked, the acting sucked, the story sucked, but the visuals were truly surprising. I hope everyone involved with this gets to work in the business, because based on their work here they deserve to.
Lucas didn't, but he hasn't torpedoed it because they're not making money off it. Who knows how long the control freak will allow that to continue.
You really like the guy, don't you? ;)
Lucas is to Movies what Gene Simmons is to Rock, in the sense that both will sue the a-s off anyone who even attempts to make a dime off their original creation. As harsh as it sounds, I agree with both men regarding intellectual property.
Lucas? I don't like him but I admire him as a filmmaker. His last movies are total garbage to me, but he seems pleased with himself. And seeing how his first movies as a director were THX-1138, American Graffitti and Star Wars, there are few filmmakers who can compare in terms of quality and influence. His Star Wars movies are the best-mounted pieces of junk ever--compare this series with any other and you'll be hard-pressed to find one so consistent in style and technical quality. I just think the content of his films is useless.
I have no problem with Lucas re:intellectual quality. Using that term on this junk he's made in the last couple of decades seems funny, though.
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