A 20,000 Dollar Star Wars Fan Film???
the mainstream press has picked up on the 40-minute long amateur production "Star Wars: Revelations" due to the relatively huge budget and quality special effects. don't expect it to be up-to-snuff with a real LucasFilm movie, but for the fan film niche (sci-fi geeks paying tribute to their favorite movies) it sounds pretty unique.
i'm grabbing it off of a newsgroup at the moment, as the main host's bandwidth is all tapped out.
here are some links.
news story with general info about "Revelations":
http://news.com.com/Homegrown+Star+W...3-5678819.html
news story about its theater showing in baltimore:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Q...fe-today&hl=en
and here's the homepage:
http://www.panicstruckpro.com/revelations/
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SW Fans Films are nothing new but hopefully this one will be very good.
I've seen some good fan films with much lower budgets.
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just watched it. :D
the script and acting were a bit rough, but then the same could be said of Lucas's SW prequels. it gets a little bit confusing at some points 'cause they're introducing a cast of new characters and telling a pretty comprehensive story in only 40 minutes, but it doesn't take long to figure out what's going on. the production values however were great. they sure squeezed a whole lot of bang out of their budget. some of the sequences are such clear tributes to scenes from the SW series that it's sort of like seeing a cover band play SW's greatest hits. if it had been shot on film (or with a better video camera) it could easily pass for a cable TV show.
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downing now, will watch tommrowow
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Rather rough acting, but the story line was pretty good! Was a pleasure to watch. The special effects were stellar for such a low budget film.
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Just watched it last night before I went to sleep. The acting wasn't that great but the computer scenery and saber effects were quite impressive.... especially becaus it's a low budget film.
It was interesting enough to sit through all 40 minutes, but I'm glad it wasn't any longer.
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yeah first time i actually got full speed on BT...WOW!! ... i will watch this later...
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I watched it last night too. To echo everyone else, acting wasn't that great but the special effects were quite good and a pleasant surprise. :)