It’s gonna be plastered all over every Web site from here to Bangladesh
by morning; who am I to buck the trend? Lucasfilm just announced
that the full title of SW2 will be “Star Wars Episode II:
Attack of the Clones.” The silly jokes may now commence.
Well, if you insist…
Here are some lowlights from the /. forum:
“Send in the Clones”;
“Killer Klones from Outer Space”;
and of course, my favorite:
‘Next on Fox: “When Clones Attack!”‘
Seriously, though, who really thinks “The Empire Strikes Back” is a sophisticated movie title? I was a little kid when it came out, and I still thought it was sorta goofy. And “Return of the Jedi”? It might as well has been “Son of…” or “Bride of…”. Just what, exactly, is he “returning” from? He never went away in the second one.
LucasFilm’s PR was just better at hype in those days (or we were less immune), so they could bombard us with it until we were brainwashed into thinking these were normal titles for a movie. The only decent title, “A New Hope”, wasn’t even used in the original marketing campaign; it was more or less an afterthought.
Re: Well, if you insist…
I think it refers to the return of the Jedi order, which admittedly doesn’t happen in Ep 6 but could be implied. You’re right, they’re not great title’s anyway, but they leave you wondering–The Empire Strikes Back? Ok, we could guess that, but what are they going to do? Attack of the Clones–um, gee, I can guess what the plot revolves around…
And I have to say, it sounds way cheesier than any of the other four titles.
Stevis
Re: Well, if you insist…
Re: Well, if you insist…
Oh, most definitely, the clone wars have to be here somewhere, as does Bail Organa (“you served my father during the clone wars…”). As does, I suppose, some hot hot Annakin and Amidala action, although I’m going to guess that it will be implied.
I kinda like The Phantom Menace, in retrospect–after all, the whole trade federation gambit was more or less a setup to drive Palpatine closer to power. A number of mainstream reviews decided not to or completely failed to note that Palpatine=Emperor…at least the ones I saw.
Just my $.02
Stevis
The simple route.
Lucas could have taken the obvious yet not quite as
campy route and just called it Star Wars Episode 2: The
Clone Wars. Since these wars are supposed to be
such a big part of the history of this universe. But then
again he named the ugly annoying alien thing after a
studdered glass object for holding food substances, so
what the hell do we want?
===JonShado
Re: The simple route.
I think maybe the reason he didn’t use “Clone Wars” is that it could be seen as redundant, ie. “star *Wars*: clone *Wars*”. So failing that, he went to the next best thing he could think of (ahem…), “Attack of the Clones”.
BTW, I think “Phantom Menace” was pretty good title, but if you think about it, some of the criticism of that title was that it was sort of vague. Certainly nobody can make that accusation here!