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Lol same, I remember in early 2000s, my dad had the movie on his computer and I would just fast forward it to the battle scenes and endlessly replay them during the whole evening. The sequence with the Hailfire droids at 3:16 was my favorite.
@@joshuawillis602 Thats because realistically it was. The Galactic Civil war from a realistic POV was a war on terror, with a superior Government going after an elusive group of rebels who struck from secret bases, which was a more tame and less chaotic war, with less casualties. The Clone War was literally an all-out conflict with 2 Galactic superpowers going at each other with everything they had, with billions loosing their lives in the process.
@PedroOrtega1993 The destruction of Alderaan is one single planet that the Empire kept in the dark from the average people, while the Clone Wars saw the deaths of billions even trillions across the entire Galaxy. Dont see how that combats my initial comment.
Funny enough that transport was actually carrying Eeth Koth, a fellow Master of the Jedi council on it. I'll be honest his reaction time was good but he seemed to show little emotion for the supposed death of his comrade even though he actually did end up surviving.
@@Alexander_Kale I'm not insulting the man. Most Jedi aren't emotionally connected like that. Whenever you see a Jedi showing that level of emotional reaction it's usually reserved for a Master and Padawan relationship. You see Windu checking on a dead Jedi on the floor of the Colosseum during episode 2. He does seem to care but he doesn't show any signs of visible anger or pain. But I agree with you he could have sensed that he was still alive. But I do believe if he had, they would have launched a rescue operation much sooner. So it's more than likely that is just a a case of classic Jedi stoicism.
@@canadianbacon9819 He knew his fellow was alive and he had greater problems. There was no reason to assume that he would be caught in the future. AFTER the battle, when his friend went missing, then would be the appropriate time to show concern. And, as you said, he does show concern for the dead. I am not saying this was intentional, at the time the movie was made, chances ware whatever jedi on that trasnport were unnamed, but the way you tell it, his behaviour is consistent.
More immersive? Are you a pretentious film director? Crash zooms do nothing but actually take you out of the film because it looks like someone is having trouble focusing the camera, the exact opposite of what you just said.
It makes you wonder if the dropships little green laser you see at 0:25 was the first secret prototype for a slightly larger laser made a few decades later.
It wouldn’t surprise me. Palpatine engineered the entire Clone Wars in order to secure the foundation for his Galactic Empire. As seen earlier in Attack of the Clones, Poggle the Lesser hands over the Death Star plans to Count Dooku, who says he’ll take the plans to Coruscant for safe keeping. Coruscant is of course where Palpatine, aka Darth Sidious, spends much of his time during his time as Chancellor, and later on as Emperor. At this point in the Galactic timeline, Sidious still had to keep his Sith identity a secret, as did Count Dooku, aka Darth Tyrannus. Geonosis wasn’t actually the planned ignition point for the Clone Wars, so when a Jedi strike team, led by Obi Wan Kenobi, was found and captured on the planet, Dooku and Palpatine had to change their initial plans. As for the turbo laser on the LAAT gunship being a potential prototype of the planet killer, Palpatine and Dooku probably wanted to see if the prototype was a viable option for larger scale projects. Given the fact that the mini composite laser weapon obliterated droids that the beam hit, it was a success, and would therefore be the basis for super laser weapons years later.
I love to believe that everyone but Obi-Wan, Mace, and Yoda just feel completely lost as to what is happening but just goes along with in order to survive
Yep, that's more or less the whole deal in the Clone Wars. People are like 'why would they accept this shady Clone army?' and 'because without them, the Jedi Order doesn't make it past Geonosis' is a fine answer.
That's also why a lot of clones were bitter with this battle. It's obvious the jedi don't really know what they're doing. Mace just gets an army and runs straight at the droids with them. Massive casualties.
This was the first time that we really got to understand the term wars in Star Wars. I remember the first time I saw this on video. I couldn’t think of anything else for many years afterwards, and the clone troopers phase one has always been my all-time favourite! They look so bad ass!!!
Did you not watch Episodes IV V or VI?? This was hardly the first time a battle was fought in Star Wars. This doesn't even look like a battle, it looks like a video game.
@@electricfootballhero1349 Hogg was the only thing that ever resembled a ground battle. and in terms of numbers, it could only really be described as perhaps a large skirmish.
The Battle of Endor was really the only event that felt like a full scale battle. In the end, it makes more sense seeing as how the Rebellion couldn't spare the expense of fighting in larger engagements. That's not to take away from the OT, but the Clone Wars really projected what a galaxy wide war felt like.
@@AnakinSkywakka exactly. I mean, don’t get me wrong The rebel battles were very realistic as well because the only way you could fight against a very aggressive police state like the Empire was through gorilla warfare. But as I said, the clone wars really showed a mess, galactic conflict in proportion.
@@joshuawillis602 im pretty sure the orb starships are just cargo freighters, especially without the ring module, and thus destroying a running cargo ship could classify as a warcrime
@@mokulectodupa if the ship is working toward bolstering the separatists cause then it’s a military target. Especially since the separatists were working hard to defend those spheres.
It’s not that bad. The coruscant chase and atmosphere, obi wan’s investigation on jango and anakins first taste of the dark side is all really good. Literally the Naboo segment is the only bad part and it’s not that long
@@studybooks3395 Only if you're wearing rose-tinted flight goggles. "GOOD CALL MY YOUNG PADAWAN." That's a fine example of how terrible the dialogue is throughout the film. This is a Star Wars film for 3 year-olds.
@@electricfootballhero1349 some of us don't care about the dialogue, some of us don't care about the characters, and some of us, especially myself, absolutely love the in universe politics, warfare and tactics used by both the seperatists and the grand army.
Maybe he knows a litte tad bit about Strategy & Tactics from the old days. But yeah, he doesn't really bother to refining and modernizing it, resulting in dull results on the battlefield. Mace is terrible at first, but he adapts very well into the Clone Wars by just simply learning from mistakes at Geonosis and other Republic Battles.
Yoda has commanded troops before during the Stark Hyperspace war. The clone wars simply refined his approach to command. Yoda was not the Jedi grand master then but became grand master just after the Naboo crisis. Unfortunately Yoda was an armchair general never really venturing out in to the field unless absolutely necessary. He ventured out with the toydarians as diplomatic ties were needed, he destroyed an army on a backwater planet but not with a lightsaber but with special machine cannon, he fought grievous once though that was more a quiet infiltration mission and ran into him, and he fought palpatine. Most of time he was in the temple figuring out troop movements and handling Jedi matters.
Literally one of the coolest ship designs in the movies, if not the entire franchise. Picked up the Lego UCS LAAT/i recently, and I honestly spent an entire weekend just reliving my childhood with a three hour loop of the gunship's engines running in the background.
Well there had been rising political tension for a decade without even considering the in-universe implications of this film. Remember that nobody outside the Jedi knows where the Clones came from or anything about them. Also remember that Obi-Wan and Anakin were both acting unilaterally, without Senate approval or oversight. Obi-Wan committed espionage and sabotage in the sovereign territory of a foreign government. Anakin and Padme, members of the state secret police and legislature respectively, then illegally crossed borders into CIS space, broke into a government site, murdered several civilians and workers, destroyed property and were then captured to have justice done. Then the Republic sends in its magic secret police, the Grand Master of whom attempts to assassinate the CIS head of state on the balcony, and an army that came out of nowhere to, again, violate a foreign government's borders and laws while massacring civilians and destroying infrastructure (counting Droids). To the average civilian of the Galaxy, the Republic committed several acts of terrorism followed by launching an invasion, with the Jedi leading it. If anything, war *not* breaking out would've been crazy.
@@joshuawillis602 It's what the average civilian of the galaxy saw because they didn't see the events we do. We as the audience are privy to the true intentions and plans behind the war, none of the galaxy's populace are.
Yeah and Mace Windu used them as heavy infantry rather than special forces like they actually are. He got a LOT of commandos killed, which is why all the surviving commandos hated Windu with a passion.
@@FrostbiteDigital to be fair to Windu the First Battle of Geonosis was literally the first battle of the Clone Wars so he didn't know how to use Commandos effectively. Windu got better at leading troops after Geonosis, like at Ryloth. The Regs saw Windu as a decent general and respected him. Windu did have bad time dealing with the death of Commander Ponds
I know it's mostly a cop-out, but they fired diamond-boron missiles, which are incredibly expensive, and the droids themselves were expensive too. The whole shtick of the CIS is that their army was meant to be cheap rapidly built. In-canon the Republic also learned real quick how to counter them with BARC squads carrying explosive tipped lances.
I love fandom-explanations like that. Another one I've seen is that their AI was too aggressive. Like, they just drive straight at the enemy, basically they're made to run over opponents after they empty those missile racks, but that makes them the most predictable targets.
AT-TE was made only for supporting clones while attacking, not for dealing with such machines as Hailfire tanks. You can actually see a moment when AT-TE explodes from just one rocket
There's a lot of cool, subtle stuff here - if Obi Wan had not been so hasty in wasting his ship's rockets attacking the federation starship (which did nothing against a ship so huge) then they'd have been able to shoot dooku down. Hastily rushing to random violence in the opening battle lost them the war. I also love how the moment they touch down, the Jedi are in command, leading troops into battle when no formal declaration of war has taken place, and no one has even taken a second to figure out who they are attacking or what their objectives are- the jedi were far too ready to step into this war, and it led to their doom.
The Clone Wars were mentioned as early as Episode IV. They were mere imagination... until Episode II came out. Then we saw, at last, the incredible scale of this Galactic War, in all of its glory.
@@Lr.Laecro.Lirus3445Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were released in 2002 and 2005. The Clone Wars tv series you mention came out way later.
@ultrabrian8151 it's objectively terrible. Not everyone that dislikes something is a hater. The only people that like this film are the ones that watched it as a small child and couldn't grasp how bad large chunks of it are, but liked the lasers and explosions.
@@kb5509 i watched bot original and prequels when young. the prequels just have a way better world setting than the original. besides episode 1 they just got hated from old fans for no reason. The story with its politic and military aspect are way more dynamic than the originals. In the originals its just the underdog destroying a death star and the next biger death star woooow... Let alone the useless stormtroopers. At least the prequels felt like an even match between the parties.
@misterrex684 Yeah the boomers hated the prequels. The sequels? I'd rather pretend they did not exist, with its lazy rehashed Rebels versus Empire 2.0 and blow up a Death Star expy BS, and don't get me started on "Somehow Palpatine returned".
I love how at 1:35, Anakin just gave an order like it was nothing, and the clones obeyed without question. And this was even before anyone thought up the inhibitor chips.
@@RichardHunslet1963Said no one ever. The old canon still let significant number of clones to disobey Order 66. The inhibitor chips made sure NO CLONE disobeys.....unless there is no inhibitor chip in them whatsoever. Yeah, keep whining you insolent swine.
@@RichardHunslet1963 How old are you? Because I remember when the Prequels were held up (or down?) as the pinnacle of bloated computer-generated empty spectacle, and The Force Awakens was being praised for actually using practical sets and going back to puppets and costumes for aliens. Using this scene to talk about an excess of CGI in the post-acquisition projects is hilarious, because if you stripped away the CG this entire battle would be Samuel L Jackson standing in a blank green box. Not a single one of the clones or droids in the Prequels are really there, every real actor in this sequence is talking at empty space. But every live-action clone in a Disney-produced project has been actual people in actual costumes.
It's really amazing the amount of details and events that happen in the background of the arena battle. Years stopping and repeating it, I see something that my eye didn't caught since I was a kid.
This one battle, probably even just this five minutes of footage, inspired an entire expansion for Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, and 90% of all the units it had for the Republic and Separatists. Although hilariously, all the fighters and bombers for the Republic were LAAT gunship variants. Still, it did make prominent use of the Diamond-class courier ship (the giant fanblade-shaped vessel which you can see way in the background at 3:40), and introduced the Corporate Alliance Persuader-class droid enforcer that got cut from Attack of the Clones, three years before it finally made it into Revenge of the Sith.
It's a useful setup. Not a lot of length needed meaning the weapon is shorter for faster swing to a new target, but I'd expect some sort of inefficiency due to needing to change the direction of the beam.
Seeing this in theaters as a kid was one of the greatest joys for me. I had watched the original trilogy on VHS and to see the a trilogy series come out in my lifetime was awesome. And then years later the animated series StarWars: Clone Wars came out and it expanded further into the lore of the Clone Wars as a whole.
0:52 The Clone stepping up into the shot is probably the best of the scene; perfectly symbolizing exactly who and what they'd be. Not to mention, it's totally badass.
notice how obi wan called anakin his "young padawan" and he started frowning a tiny bit.... forshadowing how he always wanted more, and he felt belittled....
Well after two years of hardwork and suffering he eventually got promoted to knighthood and got the respect and recognition he always wanted from obi-wan, and already had to but wasn't aware of it. Before you bring up TCW, that show sucks and is the blue print for the mess that star wars is in now with bullshit like people coming back from the dead, EU wasn't perfect but it tried to be new, might not have always paid off but when it was a hit, it hit hard.
imagine being born/created to be a fierce soldier, one of the best the galaxy never knew, going through rigurous years of training and learning combat skills all of that and more.... just to 0:47 Oh and just a fact, more than half of republic commandos, clones breed to do STEALTH and BEHIND enemy lines operations died in this battle, why? because the jedis ordered them to launch a forward attack against a big army of droids.
It’s war. Causalities are COMPLETELY unavoidable. Also the Jedi just met the clones in this battle so they’re not used to the individual unique skills each clone possesses. Also the Jedi weren’t hypocrites they too were charging towards the army themselves despite how dangerous it was
@@Brandelwyn who’s to say that didn’t happen during the clone wars where leaders were switched out? That doesn’t relate here however. Not only this is the very first battle of the 3 year clone wars, it’s also the very first time the Jedi worked with clones. Everyone here is inexperienced and not yet used to things. Experience takes time
@@joshuawillis602 clone officers had leadership training at least, they shouldve done all the planning instead of letting jedi to send them all to slaughter
@@Brandelwyn I just told you the Jedi weren’t doing that on purpose and they were not hypocrites they were right beside them in this battle fighting the droid army. Even clone officers need experience. None of the clones fought the separatists droids before
One of my favorite scenes of Attack of the Clones of all times (specially for the Jedi Order and The Grand Army of the Republic)!!!. May the Force be with this movie, ALWAYS AND FOREVER!!!.
Middle School was a big Star Wars heavy time for me back in 2008-2013. I watched them Clone Wars when it first came out when i was in Elementary School and i was watching season 2 on CN when i was in Middle School. in the 7th grade, I got all 6 films and Season 1 of the Clone Wars on DVD as well as the Clone Wars Plug in and Play game for Christmas. I got to see all these background Jedi in the movie and go "Hey I know who that is!" and rewatching this video just takes me back to simplier times 💜💜💜
I once had a dream where I was on that battle. The very epic thing I won’t forget was when there was Juggernaut going on full speed and ground behind him was ripping and falling down when the LAAT’S ships just flew next to him it was totally inaccurate but so epic like in movie
After religiously playing the campaign of the 2004 Battlefront game as a kid, and seeing the cinematic cutscenes pulled from this sequence, it always feels weird to see the "extended" full-length version of it.
Such great soldiers the Clones were. Active listeners, dont hesitate too take orders. Wish they stayed longer instead of 2 episodes. Not counting the animated series.
Was anyone else just in awe when they saw a Droideka, the most terrifying droid of ep. 1, be destroyed in a single shot in ep. 2? I can see now that it obviously didn't have its shield up, but it took a star fighter to take one out.
2:13 I vote Delta Squad: A Star Wars Story Live Action Movie takes place in Comic Books, Republic Commando Video Game, TCW’s Unfinished Episodes and Chapter Book Memoirs about Boss, Fixer, Gregor, Scorch, and Sev
At 1:14, behind the gunships to the right, near the stadium, appears to be a battle going on. Maybe a ground assault was also made to secure the stadium. Saw this movie in theaters in 2002 and since then, I've never noticed that.
That could have been what the ship destruction was for - takes out a lot of line of sight, the dust in the air makes comms difficult, and wrecks a major enemy control computer. In exchange the Jedi don't need line of sight or comms to coordinate themselves and their assigned Clones. So any ambushes that are thought up by the local droids are easily avoided/countered, while the Jedi and Clones are able to take every strategic point that would give them an advantage.
In just a few minutes we get introduced to a whole array of new vehicles, sounds, droid types and landscapes that will become iconic and stick around in the minds of fans forever. Lucas may not have been the best scriptwriter, but he was a legendary visionary and master of imagination
I was 10 when this came out and nothing comes close to the feeling of excitement I had when watching this in theater. I remembered it being a big deal at my local cinema because they had the only digital version within a 300 mile radius and I remembered it being so full.
That first scene of the Jedi leading Clones into battle is when Mace's statement of "We're keepers of the peace, not soldiers." was null, it was that moment they became soldiers and i love it.
2:17 Mace Windu will be responsible for decimating those five elite clone commando units. This will also be why clone commandos hated Mace Windu throughout the war, he led the first commando units to their needless deaths for operations they were not specialized for.
1:09 I vote Jango: A Star Wars Story Live Action Movie takes place in Comic Books, Bounty Hunter Video Game, CW 2003, TCW’s Unfinished Episodes and Chapter Book Memoirs about Jango Fett, Aurra Sing, Zam Wessel, Embo, Greedo, and more of your favorite characters that is before Attack of The Clones/Clone Wars Era
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a lot of people dislike this film but i was mesmerized by the Geonosis scenes as a kid
i use to watch this on cassette and fast foward all the way to the battle as a kid and i was mesmerized by the Geonosis battle art on the box
Lol same, I remember in early 2000s, my dad had the movie on his computer and I would just fast forward it to the battle scenes and endlessly replay them during the whole evening. The sequence with the Hailfire droids at 3:16 was my favorite.
Geonosis is the best part of the film.
@@TheMaxyms I just realised if you pay closer attention these badasses eliminated 4 AT-TE in a few seconds
@@fel_zharost Hellfire Droids. Extremely effective against armored units using their heat-seeking missiles.
The scene starting at 4:35 with the Clones and Droids battling in the dust storm caused by a ship crashing is just so epic. I wish it was longer
Yeah, definitely sholud've received more screen time.
It was probably getting too expensive lol
Me too, always thought the same as a child when it came out
Literal fog of war
Fr, it really captured the chaos and grittiness of war
This really feels like "Star Wars"
I saw a similar comment say that the prequel battles felt more like a Star Wars than the original trilogy galactic civil war
@@joshuawillis602 Thats because realistically it was. The Galactic Civil war from a realistic POV was a war on terror, with a superior Government going after an elusive group of rebels who struck from secret bases, which was a more tame and less chaotic war, with less casualties. The Clone War was literally an all-out conflict with 2 Galactic superpowers going at each other with everything they had, with billions loosing their lives in the process.
@PedroOrtega1993 The destruction of Alderaan is one single planet that the Empire kept in the dark from the average people, while the Clone Wars saw the deaths of billions even trillions across the entire Galaxy.
Dont see how that combats my initial comment.
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Either way, at least it’s better than the sequels riding space horses on top of star destroyers that don’t know how to just go up
100 precent....@@gplgs4640 Dont remind me of that cesspit of a scene....lol
2:00 Mace Windu is like oh hell naw! Yeah if I saw a ship get blown out of the sky directly in front of me, I’d want off as well 😂
Funny enough that transport was actually carrying Eeth Koth, a fellow Master of the Jedi council on it. I'll be honest his reaction time was good but he seemed to show little emotion for the supposed death of his comrade even though he actually did end up surviving.
I always got sad when I saw that as a kid
Now I yell at the droids saying "You clanker bastards!"
@@canadianbacon9819 If you wanna play it like that, Windu would have sensed that his fellow Master was still alive. So why mourn him prematurely.
@@Alexander_Kale I'm not insulting the man. Most Jedi aren't emotionally connected like that. Whenever you see a Jedi showing that level of emotional reaction it's usually reserved for a Master and Padawan relationship. You see Windu checking on a dead Jedi on the floor of the Colosseum during episode 2. He does seem to care but he doesn't show any signs of visible anger or pain. But I agree with you he could have sensed that he was still alive. But I do believe if he had, they would have launched a rescue operation much sooner. So it's more than likely that is just a a case of classic Jedi stoicism.
@@canadianbacon9819 He knew his fellow was alive and he had greater problems. There was no reason to assume that he would be caught in the future. AFTER the battle, when his friend went missing, then would be the appropriate time to show concern.
And, as you said, he does show concern for the dead.
I am not saying this was intentional, at the time the movie was made, chances ware whatever jedi on that trasnport were unnamed, but the way you tell it, his behaviour is consistent.
Love when they do that zoom in 4:19 makes the battle seem more immersive
It's just a nod to the zoom during the Battle of Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back.
More immersive? Are you a pretentious film director? Crash zooms do nothing but actually take you out of the film because it looks like someone is having trouble focusing the camera, the exact opposite of what you just said.
@@johnb1150Actually I agree with @NoodleBoy26 here.
It makes the battle feel more lively and not like it's a simulation or something like that.
@@johnb1150Actually I agree with @NoodleBoy26 here.
It makes the battle feel more lively and not like it's a simulation or something like that.
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I always like Maces reaction to hearing the commander talks he’s like “hold up didn’t I just chop yo head off a little bit ago”?
I never noticed that before until now. He did his "Excuse me, Mothafucka" narrowed eyes look😂.
@@CaptpolakI DON'T REMEMBER ASKING YOU A GODDAM THING
I guess he didn't notice the Pilot had the same voice too.
Jajajaja yea
0:48 here the first Clone Trooper gets killed! Only lasted a few seconds but he was the first Clone to get killed!
He will be missed.
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All those years in the academy wasted
@@granalmirantethrawn2972 Fr!
@@granalmirantethrawn2972 Imagine training your entire life just to die 2 seconds later on your first mission!
It makes you wonder if the dropships little green laser you see at 0:25 was the first secret prototype for a slightly larger laser made a few decades later.
It wouldn’t surprise me. Palpatine engineered the entire Clone Wars in order to secure the foundation for his Galactic Empire. As seen earlier in Attack of the Clones, Poggle the Lesser hands over the Death Star plans to Count Dooku, who says he’ll take the plans to Coruscant for safe keeping. Coruscant is of course where Palpatine, aka Darth Sidious, spends much of his time during his time as Chancellor, and later on as Emperor. At this point in the Galactic timeline, Sidious still had to keep his Sith identity a secret, as did Count Dooku, aka Darth Tyrannus. Geonosis wasn’t actually the planned ignition point for the Clone Wars, so when a Jedi strike team, led by Obi Wan Kenobi, was found and captured on the planet, Dooku and Palpatine had to change their initial plans. As for the turbo laser on the LAAT gunship being a potential prototype of the planet killer, Palpatine and Dooku probably wanted to see if the prototype was a viable option for larger scale projects. Given the fact that the mini composite laser weapon obliterated droids that the beam hit, it was a success, and would therefore be the basis for super laser weapons years later.
i always wondered that as a kid, same technology for sure
And was never use again, even the back turred of the LA-AT was never used even when minutes later they are chased by the genosian fighters
It kinda reminds me of the Darth Star.
I gotta be real, those lasers always reminded me of Star Trek phasers. 😂
This scene, duel of the fates, and the opening scene to ROTS are the best moments from each of the movies imo.
I love to believe that everyone but Obi-Wan, Mace, and Yoda just feel completely lost as to what is happening but just goes along with in order to survive
Yep, that's more or less the whole deal in the Clone Wars. People are like 'why would they accept this shady Clone army?' and 'because without them, the Jedi Order doesn't make it past Geonosis' is a fine answer.
That's also why a lot of clones were bitter with this battle.
It's obvious the jedi don't really know what they're doing. Mace just gets an army and runs straight at the droids with them. Massive casualties.
@SnillhundReal In the Legends Universe it was said over 10,000 Commandos were used, and over half of them were killed...
This was the first time that we really got to understand the term wars in Star Wars. I remember the first time I saw this on video. I couldn’t think of anything else for many years afterwards, and the clone troopers phase one has always been my all-time favourite! They look so bad ass!!!
Did you not watch Episodes IV V or VI?? This was hardly the first time a battle was fought in Star Wars. This doesn't even look like a battle, it looks like a video game.
@@electricfootballhero1349 Hogg was the only thing that ever resembled a ground battle. and in terms of numbers, it could only really be described as perhaps a large skirmish.
The Battle of Endor was really the only event that felt like a full scale battle. In the end, it makes more sense seeing as how the Rebellion couldn't spare the expense of fighting in larger engagements. That's not to take away from the OT, but the Clone Wars really projected what a galaxy wide war felt like.
@@AnakinSkywakka exactly. I mean, don’t get me wrong The rebel battles were very realistic as well because the only way you could fight against a very aggressive police state like the Empire was through gorilla warfare. But as I said, the clone wars really showed a mess, galactic conflict in proportion.
@@electricfootballhero1349shut the hell up nobody wants to hear you slurp on the OT it’s degrading
Yoda in the originals: hee hee hoo hoo little creature i am. ooooo huuhuhuhu
Yoda in the prequels: backflip i do. responsible for war crimes i am.
He committed no war crimes
@@joshuawillis602 im pretty sure the orb starships are just cargo freighters, especially without the ring module, and thus destroying a running cargo ship could classify as a warcrime
@@mokulectodupa it would if it was civilians. But that’s a military target so no war crime was committed
@@joshuawillis602 im not sure if unarmed ship could be considered military, especially since separatist's crews are all but military personel
@@mokulectodupa if the ship is working toward bolstering the separatists cause then it’s a military target. Especially since the separatists were working hard to defend those spheres.
This whole sequence redeems the entire movie for me🔥🔥🔥
Only good about it. And Anakin and Padme, Obi Wan vs Jango and "This party's over"
The movie was fine.
It’s not that bad. The coruscant chase and atmosphere, obi wan’s investigation on jango and anakins first taste of the dark side is all really good. Literally the Naboo segment is the only bad part and it’s not that long
@@studybooks3395 Only if you're wearing rose-tinted flight goggles. "GOOD CALL MY YOUNG PADAWAN." That's a fine example of how terrible the dialogue is throughout the film. This is a Star Wars film for 3 year-olds.
@@electricfootballhero1349 some of us don't care about the dialogue, some of us don't care about the characters, and some of us, especially myself, absolutely love the in universe politics, warfare and tactics used by both the seperatists and the grand army.
I just love the scene at 3:35 where the LAAT's come in and destroying every vehicle of the separatists
U.S Air Force in a nutshell be like:
The unstoppable power of air superiority
@3:00 yoda who has never commanded an Army acting like he knows what's up
Lol
Tbf He's been in a violent galaxy for hundreds of years, maybe he does actually know whats up lol.
Maybe he knows a litte tad bit about Strategy & Tactics from the old days. But yeah, he doesn't really bother to refining and modernizing it, resulting in dull results on the battlefield.
Mace is terrible at first, but he adapts very well into the Clone Wars by just simply learning from mistakes at Geonosis and other Republic Battles.
Yoda has commanded troops before during the Stark Hyperspace war. The clone wars simply refined his approach to command. Yoda was not the Jedi grand master then but became grand master just after the Naboo crisis. Unfortunately Yoda was an armchair general never really venturing out in to the field unless absolutely necessary. He ventured out with the toydarians as diplomatic ties were needed, he destroyed an army on a backwater planet but not with a lightsaber but with special machine cannon, he fought grievous once though that was more a quiet infiltration mission and ran into him, and he fought palpatine. Most of time he was in the temple figuring out troop movements and handling Jedi matters.
I love how aggressive they made the super battle droids
Man, I just love the clean design of the LAAT/i! That's efficiency and beauty rolled into one! And those ball-turrets are just _chef's kiss_ !
Literally one of the coolest ship designs in the movies, if not the entire franchise. Picked up the Lego UCS LAAT/i recently, and I honestly spent an entire weekend just reliving my childhood with a three hour loop of the gunship's engines running in the background.
I was 11 when this came out... this scene meant so much to my imagination as a kid.
I was 8 saw it in the movies.
Its so crazy how everything escalated pretty quickly to a war.
Isn't that how war usually starts? With preemptive strike then it's all hell after that.
Well there had been rising political tension for a decade without even considering the in-universe implications of this film.
Remember that nobody outside the Jedi knows where the Clones came from or anything about them. Also remember that Obi-Wan and Anakin were both acting unilaterally, without Senate approval or oversight.
Obi-Wan committed espionage and sabotage in the sovereign territory of a foreign government. Anakin and Padme, members of the state secret police and legislature respectively, then illegally crossed borders into CIS space, broke into a government site, murdered several civilians and workers, destroyed property and were then captured to have justice done.
Then the Republic sends in its magic secret police, the Grand Master of whom attempts to assassinate the CIS head of state on the balcony, and an army that came out of nowhere to, again, violate a foreign government's borders and laws while massacring civilians and destroying infrastructure (counting Droids).
To the average civilian of the Galaxy, the Republic committed several acts of terrorism followed by launching an invasion, with the Jedi leading it. If anything, war *not* breaking out would've been crazy.
@@tsukopara2054 this is so true!
@@tsukopara2054that is such separatist propaganda and you know it
@@joshuawillis602 It's what the average civilian of the galaxy saw because they didn't see the events we do. We as the audience are privy to the true intentions and plans behind the war, none of the galaxy's populace are.
2:17 "I have five special commando units awaiting your orders, sir" - a reference to Republic Commando ?
yeah delta squad,omega squad,bad patch,arc troopers and the foxtrot commando squad ready for assigments
What makes it even better is that the Clone Commander that said it was Ponds
Yeah and Mace Windu used them as heavy infantry rather than special forces like they actually are. He got a LOT of commandos killed, which is why all the surviving commandos hated Windu with a passion.
@@FrostbiteDigital to be fair to Windu the First Battle of Geonosis was literally the first battle of the Clone Wars so he didn't know how to use Commandos effectively. Windu got better at leading troops after Geonosis, like at Ryloth. The Regs saw Windu as a decent general and respected him. Windu did have bad time dealing with the death of Commander Ponds
But the game was made after the attack of the clones right?
The clones continuing to fight through the dust is one of the most insane moments.
I love how the gunships make ww2 plane engulfing noises remixed with cool sci-fi sounds
The soundscape is fantastic! From the latties to blasters, rockets and then there's the music.
Those Hailfire Droids just unleashing multiple rockets at once is terrifying. A shame they were t used more in the clone wars.
the 2003 series showed more of em
I know it's mostly a cop-out, but they fired diamond-boron missiles, which are incredibly expensive, and the droids themselves were expensive too. The whole shtick of the CIS is that their army was meant to be cheap rapidly built. In-canon the Republic also learned real quick how to counter them with BARC squads carrying explosive tipped lances.
@@lemonwheel6550not to mention they get wiped out easily by the gunships
I love fandom-explanations like that. Another one I've seen is that their AI was too aggressive. Like, they just drive straight at the enemy, basically they're made to run over opponents after they empty those missile racks, but that makes them the most predictable targets.
AT-TE was made only for supporting clones while attacking, not for dealing with such machines as Hailfire tanks. You can actually see a moment when AT-TE explodes from just one rocket
There's a lot of cool, subtle stuff here - if Obi Wan had not been so hasty in wasting his ship's rockets attacking the federation starship (which did nothing against a ship so huge) then they'd have been able to shoot dooku down. Hastily rushing to random violence in the opening battle lost them the war. I also love how the moment they touch down, the Jedi are in command, leading troops into battle when no formal declaration of war has taken place, and no one has even taken a second to figure out who they are attacking or what their objectives are- the jedi were far too ready to step into this war, and it led to their doom.
As Revan figured out thousands of years before Yavin, Jedi who actively choose to go to war don't stay Jedi very long.
The Clone Wars were mentioned as early as Episode IV. They were mere imagination... until Episode II came out. Then we saw, at last, the incredible scale of this Galactic War, in all of its glory.
Nah, I think that was the 2008 TV-show.
@@Lr.Laecro.Lirus3445Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were released in 2002 and 2005. The Clone Wars tv series you mention came out way later.
hey, why is it called the "clone wars" if only one side used clones?
@@blueshit199 droids were basically machine clones, the clones all had the same genetic blueprint and so did the droids
@@PotatoMan555 they dont have a DNA ToT
2:14 Commander Ponds says “Sir, I have five special Commando Units awaiting your orders, Sir” (Boss, Fixer, Gregor, Scorch and Sev from Delta Squad)
He's saying "Commander". Not Commando. And Gregor was never part of Delta Squad.
@Richardblue1963 no he actually says comando
During Sarrish, Gregor’s Foxtrot group was eliminated and he met the Delta Squad on Abafar
@manuelgrothe608 actually that was d squad not delta squad
@@sovietgamer5222 R2’s D Squad from season 5 Of TCW
I don’t see how anyone could hate this movie…especially with the clones going ham for the first time. Never get enough of them
It's terrible
@ultrabrian8151 it's objectively terrible. Not everyone that dislikes something is a hater. The only people that like this film are the ones that watched it as a small child and couldn't grasp how bad large chunks of it are, but liked the lasers and explosions.
@@kb5509 i watched bot original and prequels when young. the prequels just have a way better world setting than the original. besides episode 1 they just got hated from old fans for no reason. The story with its politic and military aspect are way more dynamic than the originals. In the originals its just the underdog destroying a death star and the next biger death star woooow... Let alone the useless stormtroopers. At least the prequels felt like an even match between the parties.
@misterrex684 Yeah the boomers hated the prequels. The sequels? I'd rather pretend they did not exist, with its lazy rehashed Rebels versus Empire 2.0 and blow up a Death Star expy BS, and don't get me started on "Somehow Palpatine returned".
Everyone hates on something….noting is universal love.
I love how at 1:35, Anakin just gave an order like it was nothing, and the clones obeyed without question. And this was even before anyone thought up the inhibitor chips.
The inhibitor chips are a stupid concept anyway. Dave ruined so much of the lore surrounding Clone Troopers.
@@RichardHunslet1963so you would rather the clones just kill the Jedi with no remorse?
@@RichardHunslet1963no he didn’t lol
@@RichardHunslet1963Said no one ever.
The old canon still let significant number of clones to disobey Order 66. The inhibitor chips made sure NO CLONE disobeys.....unless there is no inhibitor chip in them whatsoever.
Yeah, keep whining you insolent swine.
Well, the Kaminoans did say that they would obey any order without question
To really appreciate how well this movie's vfx still hold up, remember this was released in 2002. Yeah, 2002, barely not-the-90s.
Yes and? I'm sposed to applaud the fact george sat on his arse and played on a computer and green screen, big deal...
Yes. The VFX in this movie were groundbreaking in 2002. @@johnb1150
Better than the shit in the sequels
@@johnb1150 The PT used a lot of practical effects. While DIsney uses crap tons of CGI
@@RichardHunslet1963 How old are you? Because I remember when the Prequels were held up (or down?) as the pinnacle of bloated computer-generated empty spectacle, and The Force Awakens was being praised for actually using practical sets and going back to puppets and costumes for aliens.
Using this scene to talk about an excess of CGI in the post-acquisition projects is hilarious, because if you stripped away the CG this entire battle would be Samuel L Jackson standing in a blank green box. Not a single one of the clones or droids in the Prequels are really there, every real actor in this sequence is talking at empty space. But every live-action clone in a Disney-produced project has been actual people in actual costumes.
02:38 - 02:48 the camera work and the zooming in is awesome!
0:47 bro just finished the intro cutscene just to get killed💀
Bro got spawn camped 💀
Turns out gunships with heavy artillery are much more effective than a bunch of dudes with magic sticks
Depends on the mission I’d say!
"I find your lack of faith disturbing... "
3:58 Died of laughter from Yoda talking normal, I did.
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It's really amazing the amount of details and events that happen in the background of the arena battle. Years stopping and repeating it, I see something that my eye didn't caught since I was a kid.
This one battle, probably even just this five minutes of footage, inspired an entire expansion for Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, and 90% of all the units it had for the Republic and Separatists. Although hilariously, all the fighters and bombers for the Republic were LAAT gunship variants. Still, it did make prominent use of the Diamond-class courier ship (the giant fanblade-shaped vessel which you can see way in the background at 3:40), and introduced the Corporate Alliance Persuader-class droid enforcer that got cut from Attack of the Clones, three years before it finally made it into Revenge of the Sith.
I remember watching this scene in theaters. Everyone cheered seeing Yoda come in like a total bad ass!
The LAAT Gunship has the same laser pattern as the deathstar
It's a useful setup. Not a lot of length needed meaning the weapon is shorter for faster swing to a new target, but I'd expect some sort of inefficiency due to needing to change the direction of the beam.
I remember seeing this in theaters and being absolutely mesmerized by the sequence.
I know people harp on the prequels but I enjoyed this sequence.
Seeing this in theaters as a kid was one of the greatest joys for me. I had watched the original trilogy on VHS and to see the a trilogy series come out in my lifetime was awesome. And then years later the animated series StarWars: Clone Wars came out and it expanded further into the lore of the Clone Wars as a whole.
sam L jackson’s acting with the clones is so funny
Nothing will ever top the original Battlefront’s map for this. Literally just like the movies
Idk why the second one has such a shitty small Geonosis map
Something weird happened with the maps on the second one, the ones that weren't just rips from the first that is, and even then...
Tattoine Dune Sea is also better on Battlefront. And the Kashykk docks.
I like a lot of the old maps
@@RoyalFusilier you can always use mods to port the original maps into the second one
0:52 The Clone stepping up into the shot is probably the best of the scene; perfectly symbolizing exactly who and what they'd be. Not to mention, it's totally badass.
0:21 I like how some clone troop ships have small "death star" cannons
POV: You are at a family reunion getting swarmed by boring old ass family members and the cool cousins arrive just in time.
notice how obi wan called anakin his "young padawan" and he started frowning a tiny bit.... forshadowing how he always wanted more, and he felt belittled....
He didn’t frown at all lol it’s just a terrible line
Lmao. Ani is a padawan here, and masters usually calls them padawan, what are you talking about.
Well after two years of hardwork and suffering he eventually got promoted to knighthood and got the respect and recognition he always wanted from obi-wan, and already had to but wasn't aware of it.
Before you bring up TCW, that show sucks and is the blue print for the mess that star wars is in now with bullshit like people coming back from the dead, EU wasn't perfect but it tried to be new, might not have always paid off but when it was a hit, it hit hard.
imagine being born/created to be a fierce soldier, one of the best the galaxy never knew, going through rigurous years of training and learning combat skills all of that and more....
just to 0:47
Oh and just a fact, more than half of republic commandos, clones breed to do STEALTH and BEHIND enemy lines operations died in this battle, why? because the jedis ordered them to launch a forward attack against a big army of droids.
It’s war. Causalities are COMPLETELY unavoidable. Also the Jedi just met the clones in this battle so they’re not used to the individual unique skills each clone possesses. Also the Jedi weren’t hypocrites they too were charging towards the army themselves despite how dangerous it was
@@joshuawillis602 if you dont know how to be a commander, leave that to someone more capable
@@Brandelwyn who’s to say that didn’t happen during the clone wars where leaders were switched out? That doesn’t relate here however. Not only this is the very first battle of the 3 year clone wars, it’s also the very first time the Jedi worked with clones. Everyone here is inexperienced and not yet used to things. Experience takes time
@@joshuawillis602 clone officers had leadership training at least, they shouldve done all the planning instead of letting jedi to send them all to slaughter
@@Brandelwyn I just told you the Jedi weren’t doing that on purpose and they were not hypocrites they were right beside them in this battle fighting the droid army. Even clone officers need experience. None of the clones fought the separatists droids before
2:17
CC-411 “Ponds” reported for duty.
RIP Ponds.
@@cooperchance7720 I watched the final three episodes of Season 2 of The Clone Wars and it was very sad for Ponds. 😢💔
And you tell me this movie is from 2002? The CGI looks good even in 2023
4:01 first and only time yoda ever speaks normal😂
cut so good that my RTX 4090 can't handle this greatness...
4:34 FUCK ME THATS INTENSE.
Malevelon Creek vibes.
I always have loved how the battle droids move systematically to provide straight passage to their Hailfire Droids
I wonder if it is the Hailfire droid calculating its path and telling the respective B1 droids to move out of the way.
God, the sound design in this battle alone puts the entire Disney trilogy to shame, no contest.
One of my favorite scenes of Attack of the Clones of all times (specially for the Jedi Order and The Grand Army of the Republic)!!!. May the Force be with this movie, ALWAYS AND FOREVER!!!.
The way that core ship crashes back on land 4:20 might be how a wreckage of the Death Star ended up on Kef Bir during the Battle of Endor
Fuck that movie
@@porkchop8500 how rude!
@@joshhendley4437 How?
@@porkchop8500 I know it’s a boring movie as well as The Phantom Menace and the sequel trilogy
@@joshhendley4437 how was I rude tho?
1:09
Poor Boba. 😢💔
Sad way to end “Bring your Kid to Work Day”
It would have killed to see Jango’s head fall out, be honest
@@matthewa9987 We did see it. Went Mace sliced off Jango's head, you can see a shadow leaving the helmet before the helmet comes into frame.
3:11 - 3:34 is just pure ecstasy
"So Do You Like Heat?"
"Not At All."
"Well Then You Might Want To Get Out Quick."
3:33
This is probably the only part of this Episode I'll watch over and over!
Besides the epic sounds, scenes and everything. My god, the crush i got for Natalie Portman from this movie when it came out was crazy 🤣
This was one of my first dvd movies I bought as a kid, and mostly for the geonosis battle
Middle School was a big Star Wars heavy time for me back in 2008-2013. I watched them Clone Wars when it first came out when i was in Elementary School and i was watching season 2 on CN when i was in Middle School. in the 7th grade, I got all 6 films and Season 1 of the Clone Wars on DVD as well as the Clone Wars Plug in and Play game for Christmas. I got to see all these background Jedi in the movie and go "Hey I know who that is!" and rewatching this video just takes me back to simplier times 💜💜💜
I once had a dream where I was on that battle. The very epic thing I won’t forget was when there was Juggernaut going on full speed and ground behind him was ripping and falling down when the LAAT’S ships just flew next to him it was totally inaccurate but so epic like in movie
this scene is childhood core memory for me. playing with Star Wars figures this was what i was thinking about and i watched this scene so many times.
Awesome work!
After religiously playing the campaign of the 2004 Battlefront game as a kid, and seeing the cinematic cutscenes pulled from this sequence, it always feels weird to see the "extended" full-length version of it.
"Hey Clanka Guess What?"
"What?"
"Chicken Butt."
0:24
I don't get it 😕
@@porkchop8500 Every time someone says that to someone, they either do something bad or something good to them.
@@dukejordan8147 OhhhHHhHhHhhhHhhHhH
Love how the 2002 CW game expands upon the battle and chronicles Mace's actions before and afterwards.
Fond memories of that hovertank, playing as the gunship ofc...
Such great soldiers the Clones were. Active listeners, dont hesitate too take orders. Wish they stayed longer instead of 2 episodes. Not counting the animated series.
Was anyone else just in awe when they saw a Droideka, the most terrifying droid of ep. 1, be destroyed in a single shot in ep. 2? I can see now that it obviously didn't have its shield up, but it took a star fighter to take one out.
4:33 this shot, alone, is better that all sequels 😂
3:21 to 3:28 is my favourite scene, I love the Hailfire missiles.
Ofc I was super excited and invested with this scene as a kid but now, this entire sequence is insane 😭
2:13 I vote Delta Squad: A Star Wars Story Live Action Movie takes place in Comic Books, Republic Commando Video Game, TCW’s Unfinished Episodes and Chapter Book Memoirs about Boss, Fixer, Gregor, Scorch, and Sev
He said Commander. Not Commando
As a STAR WARS fan, how the fuck do you not get goosebumps from seeing this?!
Battle time 3:11
This whole sequence lead to the creation of The Clone Wars Series one of the best CG ANIMATED shows of all time
2:15 "Sir, I have five special commando units awaiting your order - what? Full-on frontal attack? Where are you from, the Somme?"
Rest in peace for the Jedi who went with the ship, more like popped like popcorn. Didn’t even know who that Jedi was.
Just more souls for the force to swallow up
It was Eeth Koth, before the Clone Wars series resurrected him.
At 1:14, behind the gunships to the right, near the stadium, appears to be a battle going on. Maybe a ground assault was also made to secure the stadium. Saw this movie in theaters in 2002 and since then, I've never noticed that.
This is just a mix of awesomeness and battle and good characters and just FUCKING STAR WARS
Seeing Kit Fisto randomly charge into battle first every time, makes me giggle @2:42
looking back on this battle is any army general worst cane scenario fighting on a massive open field with zero to no cover
That could have been what the ship destruction was for - takes out a lot of line of sight, the dust in the air makes comms difficult, and wrecks a major enemy control computer. In exchange the Jedi don't need line of sight or comms to coordinate themselves and their assigned Clones. So any ambushes that are thought up by the local droids are easily avoided/countered, while the Jedi and Clones are able to take every strategic point that would give them an advantage.
the designs of the prequels really are unparalleled. from the Gen 1 clone armor, the ships, the sounds, the droids, aliens...
4:22 Imagine a 2,300 foot metal ball falling on you
The most "Shouldn't atleast the Space Wizards knew what they're do- *crunch sounds*" reaction.
2:04 Commander Ponds
2:07
In just a few minutes we get introduced to a whole array of new vehicles, sounds, droid types and landscapes that will become iconic and stick around in the minds of fans forever. Lucas may not have been the best scriptwriter, but he was a legendary visionary and master of imagination
I was 10 when this came out and nothing comes close to the feeling of excitement I had when watching this in theater. I remembered it being a big deal at my local cinema because they had the only digital version within a 300 mile radius and I remembered it being so full.
Is the thumbnail a battlefront II trailer screenshot?
It came from an archive of images I had, but probably got mixed up, so most likely yes.
That first scene of the Jedi leading Clones into battle is when Mace's statement of "We're keepers of the peace, not soldiers." was null, it was that moment they became soldiers and i love it.
Luke Skywalker: YOU fought in the CLONE WARS???
Obi-wan: yes...I was once a Jedi knight, same as your father...
Say what you want about the prequels but the battle of geonosis was incredible especially the scene at 4:35 - 4:45.
My favourite star wars movie. Definitely influenced me to get into the VFX industry.
The Republic Gunship Landing 0:33
the 4k re enhancement was actually really good 😮
2:17 Mace Windu will be responsible for decimating those five elite clone commando units. This will also be why clone commandos hated Mace Windu throughout the war, he led the first commando units to their needless deaths for operations they were not specialized for.
1:09 I vote Jango: A Star Wars Story Live Action Movie takes place in Comic Books, Bounty Hunter Video Game, CW 2003, TCW’s Unfinished Episodes and Chapter Book Memoirs about Jango Fett, Aurra Sing, Zam Wessel, Embo, Greedo, and more of your favorite characters that is before Attack of The Clones/Clone Wars Era
3:53 is my idea or Aayla secura is not moving but is "running"
Probably a greenscreen error.