'Star Wars' reigns over box office.

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22 May 05

ivanhoe

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22 May 05

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/22/box.office.reut/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- George Lucas' final "Star Wars" movie scored the second-best three-day weekend of all time on Sunday, but the Force was not strong enough to prevent overall ticket sales in North America from posting a year-on-year-decline for the 13th consecutive weekend.

"Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" sold an estimated $108.5 million worth of tickets for the Friday-to-Sunday period, taking its total to $158.5 million since it opened after midnight on Thursday.

Its four-day haul sets a new record, surpassing the $134.3 million tally of 2003's "The Matrix Reloaded." Its Thursday tally of $50 million also set a one-day record, beating the $44.8 million sum for "Shrek 2" last year."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/22/box.office.reut/index.html

ivanhoe

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22 May 05

Anyone seen the movie ?

AThousandYoung

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22 May 05

Originally posted by ivanhoe

Anyone seen the movie ?

Yep. There's a thread in General called "I am Darth Shavixmir" or something like that.

zeeblebot

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22 May 05

what happened to sequels 7-8-9 🙁 ?

darvlay

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22 May 05

Originally posted by zeeblebot
what happened to sequels 7-8-9 🙁 ?

What do you mean? You don't actually believe that George Lucas had sequels pre-written, do you?

D43M0N

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23 May 05

Originally posted by zeeblebot
what happened to sequels 7-8-9 🙁 ?

Not happening anymore. Never were. Read the books instead.

And Ivanhoe : (to quote RC) Where is the debate here?

ivanhoe

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23 May 05

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Originally posted by D43M0N
Not happening anymore. Never were. Read the books instead.

And Ivanhoe : (to quote RC) Where is the debate here?

What is so interesting about these Star Wars-movies ?

I never saw any of the films, didn't read any of the books. Whenever I saw a trailor of a Star Wars movie I always wondered why people could get so excited about it.

Again, what is so interesting about these Star Wars-movies ?

skywalker red

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23 May 05

Originally posted by ivanhoe
What is so interesting about these Star Wars-movies ?

I never saw any of the films, didn't read any of the books. Whenever I saw a trailor of a Star Wars movie I always wondered why people could get so excited about it.

Again, what is so interesting about these Star Wars-movies ?

well, one reason that these movies garner a lot of attention is because of the use of strong mythic motifs employed by Lucas in the structure of the story. Such as the paradoxical nature of Luke's relationship to his father Darth Vadar. There are also spiritual motifs in the writing of Lucas such as "the force" an ambiguous mysterious energy that radiates out of the universe that one can supposedly harness to one's own advantage. Basically very good story-telling is what I think really makes these movies so popular.

Chakan

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23 May 05

Not to mention lightsabers and lasers and things blowing up and a cute natalie portman and little ewoks and did I mention lightsabers? And the hans solo and chewbacca and speeders and lightsabers and if we can just kill jar jar binks it would be so much better 🙂

oh and lightsabers