Watching All Six Star Wars Movies Simultaneously

DavidSJ writes "WeirdHat created a video of all Star Wars movies being played simultaneously, side-by-side, and then watched it. Some notable finds: the first appearance of Palpatine in The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones is on the same frame. Also, the Jedi Rocks music in Episode VI provides amusing accompaniment to the Anakain/Obi-Wan vs. Dooku fight in Episode III."

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Drain Bramage

[Hank Chinaski]

Guess he also got a nice little hemorrhage ...

Re:Drain Bramage

[LTC_Kilgore]

With all the video files on that page his server is about to suffer more than a little hemorrhage...

Re:Drain Bramage

[nametaken]

Okay, hey folks. Seems I've been put on the front page of digg, which I'd never even heard of before this happened, and now suddenly a whole bunch of people are visiting my site.

What self-respecting geek would say such a thing?! I'm revoking his Star Wars privileges.

Re:Drain Bramage

[NanoGator]

"What self-respecting geek would say such a thing?! I'm revoking his Star Wars privileges."

That's very nice of you to restore his self-respect!

Re:Drain Bramage

[Anonymous Coward]

I did this with a vibrating butt plugg hooked to the surround sound. Jedilicious!

Pretty Clever

[JoeShmoe950]

If only Jar Jar could be to the side of the Death Star as it explodes...

Re:Pretty Clever

[laughingcoyote]

Nah, just put him riiiiiiight in front of Alderaan...

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Re:Pretty Clever

[IdleTime]

The only thing wrong with Star Wars is that there is too little Jar-Jar!

Re:Pretty Clever

[JoeShmoe950]

If I had a nickel every time I wished I had a shot gun...

Re:Pretty Clever

[CriminalNerd]

If I had a nickel every time I wished I had a shot gun...

You'd have a nickel!

Re:Pretty Clever

[IdleTime]

To whoever modded my comment as a flamebait: Just because you don't like Jar-Jar doesn't make it a flamebait to express ones love for a movie character. Bro, seriously, you need to smoke some Purple Haze and then watch Jar-Jar THEN come back and mod me flamebait! ;-)

Re:Pretty Clever

[g-san]

If you hate Jar Jar and his ilk... I recommend you play Starwars Battlefront I. In one scenario there is a field of a hundred or so Gungan for you to pick off. And you can even shoot them if you are on their side!!

It's very refreshing.

Re:Pretty Clever

[Thnikkaman]

The mod just wanted to meet your sister. They rarely get to interact with "females"

Re:Pretty Clever

[kfaroo]

If I had a nickel every time I wished I had a shot gun...

... I wouldn't need a shotgun.

Re:Pretty Clever

[Chadhulhu]

Oh yes, very refreshing.. tho I enjoy offing the ewoks even more.. Ahh heck, I love it both.. :) I am so Sith.. LOL

Great for the right eye 4 , 5 and 6

[external400kdiskette]

But i assume his left eye went blind from episodes 1,2,3 being played simultaneously?

Re:Great for the right eye 4 , 5 and 6

[rpresser]

No, he had them arranged with 1,2,3 above 4,5,6. Go read TFA.

Re:Great for the right eye 4 , 5 and 6

[Landshark17]

I just finished watching The Empire Strikes Back. Then The Last Temptation of Christ. Then Donnie Darko. Then some episodes of "Titus"

Man, I'm gonna have weird dreams tonight...

Re:Great for the right eye 4 , 5 and 6

[nacturation]

No, he had them arranged with 1,2,3 above 4,5,6. Go read TFA.

In this case, accuracy would have made for a very lousy joke.

Re:Great for the right eye 4 , 5 and 6

[rpresser]

The joke was pretty lousy even without accuracy.

Coincidences

[JonN]

Are we bringing back the days of Dark Side of the Moon - Wizard of Oz coincidences?

Re:Coincidences

[Monkelectric]

I'm sorry ... there is nothing about the Floyd/Oz thing thats a coincedence. It was a clever marketing tactic by Pink Floyd as we're still talkng about it 30 years later.

Re:Coincidences

[NitsujTPU]

Agreed, and it totally rocks too.

Re:Coincidences

[smclean]

Too bad their clever marketing tactic was only unveiled 23 years after it was released to the public, in 1995, when a stoner was listening to Dark Side on headphones while his little sister watched Wizard of Oz.

Some lesser known discoveries by this pioneer include the correlation between 'Detachable Penis' by King Missile and the trailer for 'The Crying Game', and the uncanny choreography of Slayer's 'Reign in Blood' with the second half of 'Shallow Hal'. Try it yourself, you'll be AMAZED!

Re:Coincidences

[DeDmeTe]

omg, I wish I had mod points for ya... I was thinking the SAME THING!

Re:Coincidences

[speed_of_light]

Sort of. But we have to be careful with the material we choose or else people might think we're cool.

Re:Coincidences

[dupper]

Bringing back? Have you been high in university, any time recently? Kid Dracula is also pretty sweet.

Re:Coincidences

[Anonymous Coward]

Stoners 1
Geeks 0 ;p

Re:Coincidences

[panth0r]

If I could, I'd mod you up, that's exactly what I was thinking as I read the article, and I really think that'd be cool, it'd give these kids in pop-culture these days something to talk about that I could relate to...

Re:Coincidences

[JExtine]

"Some lesser known discoveries by this pioneer include the correlation between 'Detachable Penis' by King Missile and the trailer for 'The Crying Game', and the uncanny choreography of Slayer's 'Reign in Blood' with the second half of 'Shallow Hal'. Try it yourself, you'll be AMAZED!"

Must.... resist... urge.... to try....

Re:Coincidences

[Anonymous Coward]

Also the correlation between the opening of the Klingon Battle in Star Trek:The Motion Picture, and Melissa Auf der Maur's song "Followed the Wave" (put the song on a half-second after the establishing shot of V'Ger appears).

Re:Coincidences

[Solder Fumes]

You want to REALLY blow your mind? As the Blizzard logo fades to black on the intro movie to Starcraft: Brood War, hit play on R.E.M. It's the End of the World as We Know It.

Re:Coincidences

[PolysyllabicMan]

These similarities only prove that Lucas uses a rather strict formula for his script. He probably cues fights at generally the same time, and those times probably coincide with the end of an act, etc. All this proves is that Lucas, rather than being exceptionally clever, is incredibly limited in his creative abilities.

Re:Coincidences

[RyLaN]

You want to REALLY blow your mind? As the Blizzard logo fades to black on the intro movie to Starcraft: Brood War, hit play on R.E.M. It's the End of the World as We Know It.

Heh heh, so I tried it.. some of the missles line up nicely with the drums, and they sing about fire at the same time as a firebat gets ripped apart. I give it a four out of five, as in you should go try it because you know you have Starcraft installeds still.

Re:Coincidences

[Anonymous Coward]

that was fun ;-) nearly pee'd me pants. Especially Slayer ... i saw pictures for a moment ...

Lame.

[Seumas]

I know I'm out of date here and all what with having only watched the first three original films (which I was not particularly impressed by) int he late 1990s, when I was about 20 and having only seen one of the three new films.

However, what on earth draws this kind of thoughtless, stupified devotion to such a mediocre franchise? I'm not saying the movies sucked - but they're only great in the way that Knight Rider seemed like a great TV show when you were five years old and doesn't hold up today, when you're 30.

Re:Lame.

[AuMatar]

Whatever man. That fucking car is still cool.

Re:Lame.

[FinestLittleSpace]

Michael... Michael... MICHAEL

Re:Lame.

[LnxAddct]

If you have to ask then its not for you.
Regards,
Steve

Re:Lame.

[Hatta]

Hey, I get modded down every time I remind people that Shakespeare's plays are nothing but overblown 17th century soap opera.

Re:Lame.

[CaptainCarrot]

You're not going to get an answer to your question. People like me who agree with you don't understand it either, and to everyone else you're a blasphemer, as the current moderation on this question indicates.

I saw Star Wars (I suppose they're calling it "ANH" or Episode 4 these days, although there was no hint of that in the titles at the time) in the theaters when it first came out, and it was really cool!. But I was 14 at the time, so that's to be expected. Now? Meh. The writing is vapid, the acting (with notable exceptions for the older actors) is wooden, and there are plot holes you could drive a truck through. The special effects were good though.

Re:Lame.

[MS-06FZ]

I wouldn't want to disappoint you, so I'll mod you down as soon as I finish this post! ...Aw, crap.

Re:Lame.

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree with you completely. All six of the Star Wars films are complete garbage. However, I realize that people here are way too obsessed with it and that they will systematically mod anything against Star Wars down. I find it hilarious that a grown man can watch these movies and honestly think that they are watching an amazing piece of cinema. At least most females see them for the garbage they are.

Remember, a lot of these people are the same idiots who camped out in front of the movie theatre to see episode 3 even after watching episode 1 and 2 and hating them. They will also be the same people who in a few years (when George Lucas gets offered another big cash sum that he can't refuse) that will camp out for the next installment of this atrocious series.

Honestly, I can't blame Lucas either. I would keep making these movies and raking in the money as a lot of these idiots would watch another 20 terrible Star Wars movies, bitch and moan about them, and yet still continue to pay for them and their associated merchandise.

Re:Lame.

[Anonymous Coward]

I saw it at roughly the same age you did, and my experience then and now also matches yours. It was cool when I was a teen, in 197whatever. Now? Meh. There's way, way better sci-fi out there. I still like the first one in that "Indiana Jones in Space" kind of way, but it ain't no fantastic film, and the recent ones are abominations.

I don't *dislike* it or anything, mind you. I just see it for what it is: a good popcorn movie and not much more.

Re:Lame.

[Generic Guy]

I saw Star Wars (I suppose they're calling it "ANH" or Episode 4 these days, although there was no hint of that in the titles at the time)

I saw this first when I was about 9. It was a big deal to me because it was the first "PG" movie my folks ever let me go see. Anyways that aside, I remember being confused during to opening prologue scrolling text thingie, because it clearly showed something like "Episode 4, A New Hope" and in my 9 year-old mind I was all like "What? Did we miss 1 through 3, are we late to the theater or something???"

I agree that in its time it was The Best Thing Ever!!!111!!one and it is still a decent popcorn movie. But today I see it as B-grade fare, matched with still-impressive special FX. Lucas' dogmatic dedication to continually "clean up, fix up" the movie actually takes away from its original impressiveness. Still way better than the current Episodes 1-3 junk, of which I just began to watch III for the first time, and (literally) fell alseep halfway through because the acting is so wooden and the story is mostly boring. I have yet to see the end of III.

Re:Lame.

[QMO]

So, now I'm curious.

If you think that "All six of the Star Wars films are complete garbage," what movies do you think are good?

I ask this fully expecting you to name some movies that are garbage from my point of view, but hoping you won't.

Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[BeerMilkshake]

Apparently you can watch Wizard of Oz and start Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album, and all kinds of stuff magically matches up. Never tried it myself.

Roger Waters denied setting it up that way, but it would be genius if he did.

Heh.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Anonymous Coward]

Supposedly the same thing with 2001: Space Odyssey

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[rco3]

Did it at our Halloween party one year (I was Dorothy). People who remembered the next day said there were some interesting things, but nothing astonishing. I don't remember any of it.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Radical Rad]

I've heard about this myself. A woman I used to date said it is absolutely true. I wonder if using the CD instead of an album would screw up the timing. I just looked up a page that describes the synchronicity in detail including when to start the album.

Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) - Wizard of Oz Synchronization

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Elwood P Dowd]

Any recent release of The Wizard Of Oz has a several second long text overlay in the beginning, so the old method of pressing play when the lion roared is no longer effective. It's tricky, but still it's at least as much fun as listening to Dark Side of the Moon without a video to go along, and that's a lot of fun.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[pyrrhonist]

I wonder if using the CD instead of an album would screw up the timing.

No, it doesn't. Just start the CD on the MGM lion's third roar.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[AdmiralWeirdbeard]

not to get too technical, but you press play on the third roar of the lion, there's a several second delay between 2nd and 3rd roars, so this is key.

those who have not done the combo viewing should definitely do so at their earliest conveniece. there are some rather amazing synchronicities, both in terms of rhythym and content.

obviously this experience could be enhanced with the addition of the proper preparation on your part.

"is there a guy behind the bush? I dunno!!! RED TEAM GO!!!! RED TEAM GO!!!"
-jon stewart

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[MoneyT]

It's not nearly as impressive or creepy as people say it is.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[mpathetiq]

Pink Floyd's Echoes + 3rd Act of 2001: A Space Odyssey = AWESOME++

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Elwood P Dowd]

Seriously, though, whatever your timing plan is, it's going to be screwed up by them adding 15 seconds to they inform you about the wonderous classic movie that everyone loves that you are about to watch.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[aywwts4]

Then you weren't nearly as stoned or high as people who say it is generally are.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[LakeSolon]

I've never done the Wizard of Oz one, but I just recently tried Pink Floyd's Echoes with 2001: A Space Odyssey and the "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" sequence. It's uncanny, and really works much better than the existing soundtrack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey #Trivia

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[FauxReal]

I was at a party where this was tried with the CD and it worked quite well. I wouldn't say they planned it, but it turned out pretty cool. We were also smoking large amounts of pot and drinking alcohol, but I think it would be just as good sober. I heard something about a band who recorded their albums in a way that they could be played together? I wanna say it's Radiohead but I'm not certain.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Anonymous Coward]

If you were to search for a torrent you can find a rip with the music already in the proper place for you. You know, if anyone were in to such deviant behavior...

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[prockcore]

A woman I used to date said it is absolutely true. I wonder if using the CD instead of an album would screw up the timing.

We did it at the college movie theater when I was in college. Called it Dark Side of the Rainbow, sold tickets. We used the CD, it worked great.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[doxology]

I believe Neurosis has done that.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Jettamann]

Correction, Roger Waters _is_ a genius in my books; at least a musical one!

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[mixmasterjake]

The amount of correlation between the Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon is directly proportional to the amount of acid that you drop. That's what I hear, anyway.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Tmack]

Done it many times, and while it is better the more wasted you are (within ability to still watch, of course), even sober some of the stuff that syncs is almost too creepy to have been unintentional. The first sign of a good sync is that the Directors name fades in just as the screams break through to the music of the first track. Another sync is when she falls off the fence the music picks up pace instantly and changes to a more sinester tune, and probably the most notable are the two scene changes that sync directly with track changes: the bells chime when the old lady/witch comes on screen on her bike, and the track "Money" starts the cashregister sounds as Dorithy opens the door to the full color land of Oz. Other stuff to look for include the background voices in the songs matching on screen conversations, the drum hits matching when the old lady is arguing with her family over the dog, and the thunder/rain drops in the music as the tornado scene approaches as well as the singer's voice as Dorithy is running around/gets knocked out, and the house gets taken up and away. It does work slightly after repeating, though not nearly as well as the first time around.

There are alot of sites out there with theories and more details of the stuff to look for, most of this I picked out before visiting them as its quite obvious if the sync is good. Some even go into more detail such as the names of songs vs whats on screen, such as "Balanced on the biggest wave" playing while Dorithy is walking on the fence, or that Side1 of the original vinyl was exactly as long as the B/W part of the movie, with side2 picking up in the full color land of oz (also with "money" playing as noted above).

Tm

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[honestmonkey]

Soryy it's just your brain that finds the coincidences. There were few if any VCRs in the 1973 when Alan Parsons engineered the album. There certainly were no copies of Wizard of Oz on tape (near as I can find, the first VHS version was released in the late 1980's). The band would have had to care about the movie, find a film print, watch it, write and play and engineer all the songs to somehow "fit" the movie, and to what end? Wouldn't they have wanted to tell someone about it after going to all the trouble? Some mention about it on the album?

I imagine there are lots of albums that could be used to similar effect.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey! don't harsh my mellow!

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[pimpsoftcom]

To the people who do not get it: The parent post is funny because his profile says he is a thirty year old male.. and he just admitted to dressing up as Dorthy, a young girl.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Junichiro Koizumi]

Pink Floyd + Anything = Total shit.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

We're all friends of Dorothy in one way or another...

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Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[The Amazing Fish Boy]

Radiohead's Kid A album syncs with itself if you start a second copy of the album 17 seconds later. It's been dubbed Kid 17. It only works for a few songs, apparently.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't recommend using the CD in place of the album. It totally messes up the cartridge.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[AdmiralWeirdbeard]

... yes, that certainly would fuck things up.
however, if I'm remembering right, and this is of course not guaranteed in any way, those 15 seconds are actually before the original lion's roars. I'm pretty sure that there's new lion roars, the wonderful public service announcement that you're about to watch a cool movie, and then the original feature, as it originally played, beginning with the original lion's roars. the lion is different, a little more scraggly, and roared with a different cadence.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[Elwood P Dowd]

Oh. And that would work. I guess I dunno.

Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon

[sinsofthedove]

It's really not that exciting. However, you can also try playing the film against one of Paula Abdul's albums...we got to watch the Lion dancing and swinging his tail to lyrics that went something like "I'm So Pretty". That, my friends, is a true miracle of coincidence.

Re:Yayyyyy...

[TheWanderingHermit]

It's not useless if you have as much time to kill as anyone who spends time doing this kind of thing obviously does.

Can Men Multitask?

[ztransform]

This story would be more believable if it was a female watching all 6 episodes at once..

I mean, how did this guy pay attention to all 6 screens at once, if he has a 1-track mind??

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[external400kdiskette]

Do everything, focus on nothing.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Dr Damage I]

If you beleive anything that feminists (or their paid flunkies) tell you about men, I have a bridge in Sydney I'd like to sell you.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Namronorman]

I have 90 dollars that says that bridge is mine

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Anonymous Coward]

Men and women are equally capable of multitasking according to all reliable studies by psychologists/neurologists.

The myth that only women can multitask is propagated mainly by feminists with inferiority complexes who believe that to make themselves better they must put down others. The obvious counterexamples (men being leading chefs, highstress jobs like pilots, etc) serve to make a mockery out of it.

If you don't believe me, you can do a quick search on PubMed for "multitask" and "gender".

I know you were joking, but please don't continue the stereotype - it's as damaging as saying "a woman's place is in the home"...

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Elwood P Dowd]

If you think that feminists are the ones saying that women are better at multitasking, then you are an idiot.

Keep your stupid bridge.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Random832]

Who are you implying are? What would anyone else have to gain from spreading such claims?

Not saying it's true or false - I for one have never even heard it, but I don't understand what's your game here

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[hrvatska]

Oh, lighten up. I think it was that paid feminist flunky Robin Williams that said something to the effect that while men have two heads they only have enough blood to use one at a time.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is a threesome with Natalie Portman and Princess Leia considered multi-tasking?

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[JasonEngel]

I mean, how did this guy pay attention to all 6 screens at once, if he has a 1-track mind??

I think you failed to complete that thought. How did this guy pay attention to all 6 screens if he has a 1-track mind, and we all know what that one track is usually stuck on?

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one welcome our new vaginal overlords!

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[AndreiK]

A woman watching Star Wars for fun. Yup, believable.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[J_Darnley]

Depends on the situation. You can only have your cock in one of them at a time.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Anonymous Coward]

I was making love to Natalie Portman the other day, trying to eat hot grits at the same time... you can guess what happened after that.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Elwood P Dowd]

Idiots. No one has anything to gain from that idiotic claim, including feminists. Since it's just plain bullshit, the only people that spout that crap also tend to be big fans of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Unless you consider that a feminist work, in which case I have no hope for you.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Viper Daimao]

Hey! I resent that rem-OH look a blue car!

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Random832]

So you're saying it's crap. Where exactly does said crap come from? People regurgitating it from something else don't count.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[NanoGator]

"Is a threesome with Natalie Portman and Princess Leia considered multi-tasking?"

I don't see how, you're still only using one hand.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[bohemian72]

Clearly you've never been to a sports bar. Six screen? Six different events? No problem.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Anonymous Coward]

You remembered the sausage but forgot the beans -- some people do multitask and work both of them simultaneously.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Anonymous Coward]

Read a story to a group of men and women.

ask them to count the number of times "the" is said.

guess who gets consistently more accurate results.

Men.

Now, ask them afterwords (with them having no idea that this would be asked) what the story was about. Women will have retained more of the story then men. Its not a major gap, but it is a consistent result, and shows that men and women do think differently, if only marginally.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Elwood P Dowd]

I have no idea where that bullshit originated. Some idiot pop-psychologist, or one research study that was misinterpreted and blown out of proportion.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[Anonymous Coward]

Bwaa haaa !!!!!!

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[radtea]

Men are much better at multi-tasking than women.

Think about it: if a woman is doing two tasks, she's thinking about two things, so she's doing twice as much work as when she was doing one task.

But if a man is doing two tasks, he's thinking about three things, so he's only doing half-again as much work as when he was doing one task.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[covertbadger]

"Is a threesome with Natalie Portman and Princess Leia considered multi-tasking?"

I don't see how, you're still only using one hand.

Funniest. Comment. Ever. Oh for modpoints today.

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[jred]

Maybe *you* only need one hand. Others might be more generously endowed...

Re:Can Men Multitask?

[NanoGator]

"Maybe *you* only need one hand. Others might be more generously endowed..."

If I were going to brag about having a partner to multi-task like that with, I'd do it anonymously.

Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I have something to do this weekend! God, I need a life away from Slashdot.

Patterns in the clouds...

[xappax]

I wonder how long before someone "discovers" a Da Vinci-code-syle pattern in the Star Wars movies fortelling the future of civilization? After all, Star Wars is this generation's Bible - complete with people who only acknowlegde the divinity of the "Old Testament" (original trilogy) ;)

Re:Patterns in the clouds...

[Joe the Lesser]

R2-D2 beeps three times in scene 14, which clearly means take every 3rd word on every 14th page, giving the message 'blast asteroid now' which is obviously a warning about an incoming object from space.

Re:Patterns in the clouds...

[mogalpha]

Modded +5 informative... wow. Great job you guys with mod points :)

Re:Patterns in the clouds...

[bahwi]

Takei: You see, the show was banned after the Star Trek wars.
Zapp: You mean after the vast migration of Star Wars fans?
Nichols: No, that was the Star Wars trek.

Re:Patterns in the clouds...

[fermion]

for this to work, you would have to oraly relate the story to a sequence of serveral dozen people, have the last one down the chain write the story from memory, then have other people translate it through a sequence of various languages, with often ambiguous words and a shortage of vowels.

At that point on could probably have enough credibility to get to get the desperate masses to believe anything.

Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[Nova Express]

Jar-Jar Binks: Luke, I am your father!

Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[codergeek42]

"Meesa you fatha, Lookie!" o_O

Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[DisturbanceInTheForc]

Yeah? And what seventh film containing the line "Luke, I am your father" are you watching? The correct The Empire Strikes Back quote is "No, I am your father."

Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[stox]

Speaking of bad nightmares, I recently found out that the person who played Jar-Jar was from my home town. Oh, the shame of it all.

Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[mj_sklar]

Actually, that's wrong too. The line was "No, Luke, I am your father," with emphasis on the 'I'.

Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[DisturbanceInTheForc]

No, actually, you are still wrong. It's as I said it was -- "No, I am your father."

Whip out a copy of Episode V in whatever format you choose and you will see without any doubt that you are dead wrong.

The fact that it's commonly misquoted as "Luke, I am your father" doesn't make that the correct quote.

Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[pboulang]

Totally!

And Captain Kirk could fucking kick Jean-Luc Picard's ASS!

Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[mj_sklar]

Well, you know what, you are right. I just watched that scene, he does say "No, I am your father,". Guess I was wrong, sorry about that. Moving along now.

Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[Anonymous Coward]

How the hell does this happen where phrases that are never actually spoken become staples of the movie/show?

Btw, I've found that a lot of people didn't pay attention to Ep V. Yoda clearly states that Luke is too old to become a Jedi (a highly debated topic in Ep I) and Obi Wan tells Yoda where to stick it. The of course the "No, I am your father" line. Scheesh.

While I'm at it, "beam me up Scotty".

Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[75th Trombone]

No, the correct The Empire Strikes Back quote is "No, Luke. I am your father." So those words are in fact spoken in that sequence, though not with that punctuation.

Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[DisturbanceInTheForc]

No. Seriously. You're wrong. Take out your movie right now.


Vader: "Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father." Luke: "He told me enough! He told me you killed him!" Vader: "No. I am your father.

Vader does NOT say LUKE before the "I AM YOUR FATHER" quote. He just doesn't. It's a complete myth. Don't believe me? Go look at your copy of ESB, I don't know what else I can say.

Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True!

[Anonymous Coward]

I think Lucas should have done something like that for Episode III.

We all knew what was going happen in Episode III, right?

But, imagine if, like, Jar Jar kills Anakin halfway through the movie. Everyone's brain would melt. Lucas would've had us all going "Holy crap, what the hell just happened? Who the hell is Darth Vader then?"

It would have been awesome, even if it made no sense at all.

How fascinating.

[Limburgher]

I just hope we don't have a resurgence of the "George Lucas is raping my childhood" posts. Only this time, it'll be "George Lucas is gang-banging my childhood".

Seriously though, this'd be a cool thing to watch, but distribution has got to be WAY illegal.

Re:How fascinating.

[Anonymous Coward]

George Lucas is gang-banging my childhood!

Re:How fascinating.

[speed_of_light]

And your point would be. . .?

Re:How fascinating.

[NitsujTPU]

Gang bangers are rapping my childhood.

Don't hate the player... hate the game.

Re:How fascinating.

[dswensen]

I just hope we don't have a resurgence of the "George Lucas is raping my childhood"

You must be new here. We get "George Lucas is raping my childhood" posts in stories about Sun Microsystems.

Re:How fascinating.

[Anonymous Coward]

Distribution of the "Jedi Rocks" music is what should be way illegal.

In addition, Lucas should be charged with crimes against humanity for his attempts to 'disappear' the great song Lapti Nek as performed by The Max Rebo Band.

These days Lapti Nek survives only by skulking in the dark recesses of P2P, but it is said that one day it shall burst forth again upon the earth to claim its rightful place in the Star Wars universe.

Re:How fascinating.

[game kid]

You must be new here. We get "George Lucas is raping my childhood" posts in stories about Sun Microsystems.

*gets new sig*

Re:How fascinating.

[Anonymous Coward]

Only this time, it'll be "George Lucas is gang-banging my childhood". Seriously though, this'd be a cool thing to watch, but distribution has got to be WAY illegal.

You want to watch George Lucas gang-banging someone's childhood? That's the sickest thing I've read in the last half hour.

Re:How fascinating.

[SamSim]

To be fair, Lucas's remaster of Solaris is pretty dire.

Re:How fascinating.

[Frumious Wombat]

In the original (Ep 4-6) we have the good guys, despite a bummer of a setback in the middle, triumphing over the forces of the DarkSide, and even deconverting one of them. In the Remaster, now playing in California, we have the good guys, despite a bummer of a setback, trying to play nice with the Dark Side, so they can fight off the other good guys, rather than being simply annihilated.

Re:How fascinating.

[Trogre]

"George Lucas is raping my childhood" - Some geek

"You have done that yourself" - Obi-Wan

Oh my...

[slavemowgli]

Slow news day, is it? Honestly, this is one of the most ridiculous (i.e., uninteresting, uninspired, un-newsworthy) stories I've seen on Slashdot in quite a while.

Re:Oh my...

[tktk]

I don't mind this time, but I fear that this article will spawn copycats.

Next think you know, there will be simultaneous viewings of the Star Trek movies, Indiana Jones, Matrix, and everything else with its sequel.

Re:Oh my...

[eosp]

Honestly, this is one of the most ridiculous (i.e., uninteresting, uninspired, un-newsworthy) stories I've seen on Slashdot in quite a while.

That's sorta redundant...

Re:Oh my...

[thewils]

Yes, apparently we're all ignoring Windows Vista until 2008.

Re:Oh my...

[JPriest]

Submissions with the term "Star Wars" or "Star Trek" are posted directly to the main page rather than going through the submission process.

Re:Oh my...

[Dirtside]

Slow news day, is it? Honestly, this is one of the most ridiculous (i.e., uninteresting, uninspired, un-newsworthy) stories I've seen on Slashdot in quite a while.

That's it. Hand over your geek card, you communist.

Re:Oh my...

[NitsujTPU]

Just wait. Next it will be VMWare's ESX server with every version of Windows ever released on the left, and a random sample of Linux distributions on the right.

Re:Oh my...

[falken0905]

You must not be a regular reader, eh?

Re:Oh my...

[Artifakt]

Revealing that in Star Trek V, the Enterprise main viewer shows a shot of the shuttlecraft landed on the planet as though from a totally non-existant camera, at the exact same moment I walked out of the movie?

Re:Oh my...

[eyeknowkungfu]

This is sorta redundant...

Re:Oh my...

[Xytheril]

I'm already working on doing it with the Matrix and its sequels. ...I think it's time for me to get out of the house...

Re:Oh my...

[Anonymous Coward]

For my next trick, I shall watch all 14 episodes of "Firefly" at the same time!

Re:Oh my...

[eyeknowkungfu]

already been there done that

Been there done that

[Psionicist]

I do that every night!

Oh wait, said Wars.

http://www.dvdworld.co.uk/shopimages/products/norm al/90-99/63497.JPG

Re:Been there done that

[Terranaut]

A NSFW tag would have been appreciated for that link.

Re:Been there done that

[StikyPad]

If I clicked on a link at work preceeded by "I do that every night," and "Oh wait, you said Wars," I'd fire myself.

Another thing we learned...

[birge]

Is that WierdHat hasn't been laid since episode IV.

Re:Another thing we learned...

[tektek]

Informative? :P

Re:Another thing we learned...

[Ceribia]

A joke about Star Wars geeks not getting laid gets +5 Informative? Is it possible to moderate a moderation +5 funny?

Re:Another thing we learned...

[birge]

I can't figure it out, either. If you look at the summary, it's funny, underrated and flamebait. (Who are this prude schmucks who go around abusing the 'flamebait' and 'troll' mods like it's their first day on the net?)

Re:Another thing we learned...

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately, WeirdHat was 7 years old at the time and the only other person in the room at the time was his Uncle Ernie.

Which, of course, explains why he's doing what he's doing.

Re:As my friends would say...

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't the people with "too much free time" be those who watched all six films SEPARATELY? i.e. the ones who spent 12 hours watching them all instead of two?

Comparatively, this seems pretty efficient to me.

ah the human mind

[vena]

what an amusingly little pattern recognition machine we have upstairs.

this post has been brought to you by the number 23.

Re:ah the human mind

[CokeBear]

WoW! Thats exactly my age! How could you have possibly known that!!?? There must some strage meaning we can assign to this coincidence!

Re:ah the human mind

[Anonymous Coward]

what an amusingly little pattern recognition machine we have upstairs.

this post has been brought to you by the number 23.

Wow, is that the 23 from discordianism?

What a coincidence that would be...

Re:ah the human mind

[karnal]

What does World of Warcraft have to do with any of this?

Re:ah the human mind

[Anonymous Coward]

...and the number 4:20.

Re:As my friends would say...

[buck_wild]

Ah, the "Jack of all trades, Master of none" defence in the name of efficiency. Nice.

So you think this was a valuable use of time, watching six films at once? I'd love to see how you studied in high school and college.

Yay! My first response to flamebait!

[Descalzo]

I'm sorry, but if you can't appreciate The Empire Strikes Back as a grown-up, then you grew too far up.

Think about it: It's a funny movie, but it has no gags or outright jokes. It's a romantic movie, with only like 2 quick kisses. It's even an action movie, but there aren't even all of the expolosions like in a Lethal Weapon movie. Every good guy gets the crap kicked out of him, and you still leave it with a hopeful feeling. I have only discussed the story, and haven't even begin to touch the vast differences between the beauty of the worlds created by these people.

I realize that you have a right to an opinion, but I think you were out of line using words like thoughtless or stupefied, especially if you enjoy spending lots of time on other activities, like TV or video games.

Mostly useless

[gilboooo]

The article might seem mostly useless, but it's quite refreshing after weeks of bad science bullshit articles on Slashdot.

The next step...

[BrokenStructure]

is to find all the secret messages about the end of the world, and the truth about the brotherhood of scion and the holy grail.

simultaneously

[Kaetemi]

Watching them all simultaneously? Great idea to save some time! Maybe he should play the whole thing at double speed too :D

Re:simultaneously

[sydres]

no play them in reverse to hear the satanic marketing messeges

Re:simultaneously

[StikyPad]

no play them in reverse to hear the satanic marketing messeges

Is there any other kind?

Hmm...

[cube00]

Was this before, or after he moved out of his parents basement? ;)

Re:Hmm...

[dswensen]

ROTFL HOW UNBELIEVABLY CLEVER

All hail the new King of Comedy!

Slashdot, not again..

[mortrek]

I know its "news for nerds, stuff that matters" and while this article clearly fits the first claim, it really fails the second..

I find that news often shows up more than a day earlier on other sites such as technocrat.net.
And then theres the posts of either flamebait news or completely useless crap.
I suppose if I wasted hours doing some mediocre yet geeky thing I could get it on the front page too?

Also, keep in mind editors, that a LOT of slashdot readers these days are not diehard OSS fans nor Microsoft haters. They just post a few hundred angry messages when you put such articles up...

Of course if its been decided that your readers can go **** themselves, then please ignore all my previous comments..

Re:Slashdot, not again..

[Anonymous Coward]

It doesnt "matter" to you because of your nubian UID.

Re:Slashdot, not again..

[mortrek]

Been reading slashdot for like 6 years thats all..

Re:Slashdot, not again..

[kernel_sid]

Seriously. Just to fetch a few good stories you have to these crap articles which only suit the interests for some.

Re:Slashdot, not again..

[SheeEttin]

I find that news often shows up more than a day earlier on other sites such as technocrat.net

Slashdot, the news 24 hours after it was useful.

Re:Slashdot, not again..

[Scarblac]

They just post a few hundred angry messages when you put such articles up.

Remember, it's not the just editors that put articles up. Users have to submit the articles. If you're just whining about the articles here and never go looking for any news that might be cool to have on /., you're part of the problem.

Re:Slashdot, not again..

[NanoGator]

"They just post a few hundred angry messages when you put such articles up..."

Posts == served ads.

Re:Slashdot, not again..

[SilentOne]

And I'm the Queen of Sheeba...

Opening Crawls...

[antdude]

The opening crawls video clip was the best one to watch. All the others weren't great.

Funniest Dept. Ever

[TheFlyingGoat]

from the nice-job-dork dept.
This is the first time I've ever laughed at the department. Bravo, Zonk. :)

Man..

[Kickboy12]

I'd feel really geeky after doing something like that.

Kind of like the feeling I got when I made a PHP script to automatically download my pr0n. ... now I feel geeky again.

Re:Man..

[kosmicki]

I now have a reason to get on with learnin' PHP.

Re:Man..

[lbrandy]

No kidding.... this just broke my nerd-o-meter.

Re:Man..

[birge]

I can't possibly be the only person who read the last "geeky" as "sticky" upon first skimming it.

Re:Man..

[Elitist_Phoenix]

Oh yeah, lets see it! Purely for authentication reasons you understand.

Re:Man..

[Anonymous Coward]

Now, you just need to make a PHP script to automatically jerk off to your porn and save yourself hours a week!!

Re:Yay! My first response to flamebait!

[Seumas]

Again, the starwars movies might have seemed amazing back in 1977, but how can you watch them with a straight face today? It's difficult. It's similar to trying to watch Buck Rogers or Battle Star Galactica (the original) with a straight face. The only thing remotely good about the original three was Harrison Ford, because he played that role just perfect (and with a hinted edge of Iniana Jones to come).

And I can't even comment on the most recent films, except that I hope they improved after the first one... which... was just attrocious.

I'm not saying Star Wars isn't good for a boring saturday afternoon. But to watch it more than once? Or repeatedly? Or obsessively? Hell, RHPS folks make even more sense than that. RHPS is a crappy film, too - but at least they indulge in the campiness. Star Wars folks actually believe that Star Wars is the ultimate cinematic masterpiece and that it's such a great and unique (though ripped off) story.

So if you wouldn't call watcdhing all six films simultaneously "thoughtless" what WOULD you call it?

Styx Comes To Mind...

[blueZhift]

Too much time on my hands. I got too much time on my hands...

That Styx song was the first thing to come to mind, but heck, watching all six films simultaneously is actually quite a time saver. In the hurried future, perhaps this will be the preferred mode of receiving entertainment! Hmmm, where did I put those Star Trek Season One DVDs?

Re:Styx Comes To Mind...

[Anonymous Coward]

After he ripped the DVDs, I have to wonder why he wasted time to re-encode the six movies into one file and then arrange them into the 2x3 grid when he could've easily played them in a similar grid with VLC.

Mind you, instead of watching multiple streams at the same time, in practice it saves more time to watch one stream at time at around 4x - 5x speed, depending on how fast you can read the subtitles. Without text one'll have to make do with 2x speed (1.5x with gilmore girls) with (preferably hardware accelerated) pitch correction.

K.I.T.T. could totally whomp C3PO in a fight

[tinrobot]

K.I.T.T. had a V8 engine... what did C3PO have... a fuel cell?

You may be on to something there.

Re:K.I.T.T. could totally whomp C3PO in a fight

[IWorkForMorons]

Yes...a fuel cell is harmless compared to a V8.

Re:K.I.T.T. could totally whomp C3PO in a fight

[Anonymous Coward]

This is just as off-topic, but did it annoy anyone else that C3PO/R2D2 uses an external radio receiver with a speaker to hear Luke and the others? These are intelligent and advanced robots we are talking about. At the very least they should be able to plug the thing into a line input (and avoid problems with Imperial guards investigating noises), and I don't think it is unreasonable to think they have inbuilt radio receivers.

Re:As my friends would say...

[Krach42]

But you have to realize that he had to BUILD that movie also. And at best, he'd have to have lugged six TVs all together, getting them all going in sync. But considering that he knows the Emperor Palpatine entrance to the frame, and TFS (summary) says that he encoded a film with all 6 movies on it...

I'd honestly say the guy spent more time than the 5 shorter movies thinking this crazy stuff up, and in all the logistics.

Anyways, the expression "Too much freetime" refers not to the efficiency of time spent, but rather what that time was spent on. If it's outright frivalous and stupid, then it's too much freetime.

I mean, I can only imagine that someone with tons of idle time on their hands would even THINK of this idea...

Yow, someone read my mind...

[Blondie-Wan]

I swear I was just thinking in the past two or three days about doing this very thing, and I'd never heard of anyone else doing it. There must be just too damn many Star Wars geeks if they all think of things at the same time like this.

Too bad I don't have the equipment to facilitate actually doing this myself. Mind you, I believe I'd have to take it to truly ridiculous extremes with all the TV spinoff material (the Droids, Ewoks and Clone Wars cartoons, the live-action Ewok movies, The Star Wars Holiday Special). I'm sure I can scare more people away from me permanently if I try hard enough...

Re:Yay! My first response to flamebait!

[shotgunefx]

I hate all the new movies, but the first three are still great if imperfect movies.

Comparing it to Battlestar Galactica is a bit of a reach. I loved that show growing up. I recently bought it. Somehow in my memories of the show, I forgot about the trip to the cannibal disco planet. lol

Slashdot

[technoextreme]

Buying books on PHP: $30
Buying robot kits online: $100
Visting robotics confrence: $750
Building a webpage: $75
Realizing there are people more pathetic than you are on Slashdot: Priceless

Re:Slashdot

[eyeknowkungfu]

reading a priceless joke on /. priceless

Re:Slashdot

[athmanb]

A robot kit for just 100 bux? Did it work decently?

Re:Slashdot

[technoextreme]

A robot kit for just 100 bux? Did it work decently?

Whoops. I just made the price up but you might want to try this website for cheap robotics: http://www.solarbotics.com/ They have been mentioned in Make and have a review in the product section so you can find out other people's opinions on their kits.

Star wars references-references

[MS-06FZ]

What's a Nubian?

Backwards

[Barkley44]

He should play them all backwards at the same time and see what kryptic messages he hears ;)

Re:Backwards

[EvanED]

But what if playing ANH forward and ESB backward yields something?

There are 2^6 = 64 possible orderings here! He must watch all to be sure he doesn't miss anything...

Re:Backwards

[eingram]

You both have given me something to do with my free time. Thank you.

I think.

Re:Backwards

[LanMan04]

"Where I come from, the birds sing a pretty song...."

"Meanwhile, LAURALAURALAURAULAURALARUALAURALAURUAUALARL!!!!!"

Agent Cooper: "AAAAAHHHHHH!!!"

Re:Backwards

[Mr. Roadkill]

He should play them all backwards at the same time and see what kryptic messages he hears ;)

"I have been touched by His Noodly Appendage. Chewie, I don't think we're in Kansas any more..."

get a life

[Anonymous Coward]

this is the nerdyist thing yet...

Long movie night

[msbsod]

I still remember my first long Star Trek movie night with the first 6 movies in one night at the local movie, with friends and breakfast in the morning. This time I will organize the same at home for a Star Wars night, with good food and drinks. There are still a lot of people who have not seen all Star Wars movies yet. But somehow I doubt any of my friends likes to watch all 6 movies side-by-side, though.

Re:Long movie night

[pboulang]

What order will you watch them in?

I prefer alphabetical.

Re:Long movie night

[nmb3000]

What order will you watch them in?

I prefer alphabetical.

No, no, no.

I was thinking about it and came up with what I think is the best order in which to watch them (assuming you watch all of them and not only the 3 good ones ;)

1) New Hope - This sets up the story of Luke and foreshadows his parents and background introducing the Empire and Jedi and briefly their past struggles as it did originally

2) Empire Strikes Back - This goes into more detail about Luke and you retain the surprise [well the original surprise] that Vader is Lukes father

3) Phantom Menace - Try to stay awake through the beginning of a flashback that shows how Anakin became Vader. We've just learned about Luke and Vader so I think it works well to jump back now and find out Anakin's history

4) Attack of the Clones - Continue the flashback of Anakin's fall to the Dark Side. Fast forward to the last 45 minutes if you have any respect for good writing

5) Revenge of the Sith - Finish the flashback completing the story of Vader leaving the question of what happens to him for the final film to answer

6) Return of the Jedi - Complete the series on a high note and get the warm fuzzies when you see the dancing Ewoks and Gungans at the end. If you can, watch the original so you don't see that moron Christensen at the end with Obi and Yoda

The only problem with this is that it spoils the original surprise that Luke and Leia are twins. You could watch RotJ before RotS, but I think it's worth it to end with one of the good originals. In addition, we get to see that there is "still good in him" as both Padme and Luke said.

My opinion anyway. Personally I can do without watching Episodes I or II again for a long time.

NERDS!

[Lord Ender]

This truly is the nerdiest thing I have EVER seen.

Re:NERDS!

[bluenirve]

You must be new here...

Re:NERDS!

[Lord Ender]

Actually, I've been here a lot longer than most people (see UID), and this is still the nerdiest.

Re:NERDS!

[Blondie-Wan]

You must have missed the story about Klingon programming languages.

And here's my all-time personal favorite nerdy accomplishment, a functioning LEGO robot that solves a Rubik's Cube - really.

Anybody could beat C-3PO...

[MS-06FZ]

C-3PO was a pussy anyway. Everybody knows that.

But KITT would probably arrive in Mos Eisley and his wheels would do that Back To The Future 2 hover-conversion thing, and he'd fly into space and blow away some TIE fighters with his hidden laser cannons and stuff. But he'd probably wind up getting swayed by the Dark Side of the Force, and become Darth Vader's personal fighter. But he'd watch Vader's back - there'd be none of that crap with the Millennium Falcon flying out of nowhere to shoot his wingman, or his other dur-head wingman running into Vader, KITT would do some evasion and blow Luke to hell, then turn around and blow away Solo and the Wookie - and then Lando, for good measure. I know Lando hadn't gotten involved in the story yet at that point but KITT would've been all over that. It's called a pre-emptive strike. AI knows how to get it done.

Re:Anybody could beat C-3PO...

[lonesome phreak]

Cruisin mos espa in my delorian
Wars over I'm a peacetime mandalorian
My story has stumped star wars historians
Deep in deabte buffet plate at bennigans
Rhyme renegade sure to penetrate
First and second defense I wont hesitate
Got a job to do and darths the guy that delegates
Got something against skywalker someone he really hates
I dont give a fuck Im after Solo
For all I care he could be hiding at yodas dojo
Gotta make the money credits no good
When the jawas run the shop in your neighborhood
Think you can cook I got a grappling hook
Lets make this quick cuz I'm really booked
I'm a devious degenerate, defender of the devil
Shut down all the trash compactors on the detention level

My backpacks got jets
I'm boba the fett
I bounty hunt for jaba hut
To finance my vette
I chill in deep space
A mask is over my face
I deliver the prize but
I still narrow my eyes
Cuz my time I dont like to waste.
Get down!

Re:Anybody could beat C-3PO...

[shadowbearer]

  KITT, a pupil of a Dark Jedi? Who would've thunk?

SB

Re:Anybody could beat C-3PO...

[Salvo]

Yeah, KITT could've done all that stuff, David Hassellhoff was holding him back...

Re:Anybody could beat C-3PO...

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

Kitt would run like a little girl from the Mach 5!

It's been 14 seconds blah blah blah. Humm de dumm dumm dumb

One minute! Isn't this ever gonna end?!?!?

WTF, it's back down to 16 seconds?!?!? Who's programming this POS?

Ok, new poll: Who's programming this POS?

0 CmdrTaco 14%
0 CmdrTaco 12%
0 CmdrTaco 78%
0 CmdrTaco 33%
0 CmdrTaco 97%
0 CmdrTaco! 5%

Yes I know it doesn't add to 100 -- I'm not the one programming it!

Only three

[Kayamon]

Surely you mean watching *THREE* Star Wars movies side-by-side.

There's only three. Right...?

Re:Only three

[Anonymous Coward]

No. There's some old ones, too.
*runs and hides like the AC I am*

He should watch the original versions with ep 123

[spicydragonz]

Instead of the stupid special editions wheey Gweedo fires first. dumb dumb dumb. I am keeping my old VHS just so I can watch the pure and correct versions of Star Wars. I can't wait for this movie to go public domain so that people will be able ot legally fix the movies and watch them the way they were meant to be seen (without all the stupid animal shots on tatooine and with han Solo Cooly blowing the green snot out of Gweedo.

News because it's Star Wars only this is

[int19h]

... and did you know that in the video of Bill Gates and the Blue Screen of Death, the crash is exactly at the same frame as he gets a pie in his face in this other video?

Come on, anyone can pick one of the topics that are popular on Slashdot, find some video clips, play them simultaneously and make a statement about it.

- That doesn't make it "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."

Re:News because it's Star Wars only this is

[Artifakt]

Talking like Yoda does not your point support!

Re:News because it's Star Wars only this is

[int19h]

Don't Yoda mock, insensitive clod you are!
Write this way some of us might actually do.

"Meesa you fadda!"

[Anonymous Coward]

Say it correctly, please.

Re:As my friends would say...

[dswensen]

If he enjoyed himself, it was a valuable use of his time, Professor Killjoy.

You spend your time acting like a jackhole on Slashdot, this guy does what he does. We all have our hobbies.

WEED!

[Anonymous Coward]

WEED! 'nuff said

Re:Yay! My first response to flamebait!

[dswensen]

Hell no I don't watch them with a straight face. They're good fun.

They might not dramatic masterpieces, very true. But they were hugely influential from a special effects point of view, and are just a treat to watch in a Saturday-afternoon-serial kind of way.

So yeah, watching it with a straight face is watching it wrong, IMHO.

Okay, I want channels 18, 24, 63, 109, 87, and the

[mrchaotica]

In the hurried future, perhaps this will be the preferred mode of receiving entertainment!

"Okay, I want channels 18, 24, 63, 109, 87, and the Weather Channel." -- Marty's future son, Back to the Future II

Cool idea

[fontkick]

Cool idea. Maybe he was inspired by this: http://parisfacial.ytmnd.com/ (warning: automatically plays sound)

Re:Cool idea

[Anonymous Coward]

(warning: automatically plays sound)

Not in Firefox it doesn't. Damn, I love my browser ;;

Re:Cool idea

[pboulang]

I call misleading URL!!!! BASTARD!

Re:Not the futue.

[Bastian]

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

duh.

Re:He should watch the original versions with ep 1

[Supurcell]

Don't forget about Hayden Christensen playing Anakin's ghost in Return of the Jedi.

Now add this...

[Anonymous Coward]

...turn off the sound and fire up Dark Side of the Moon....

get a dictionary

[dswensen]

This is the worst spelling yet...

Re:Yayyyyy...

[Anonymous Coward]

When I saw this article I thought I was reading Digg because it was so utterly stupid. Then I read a few comments and saw that a couple comments weren't completely retarded and realized that this definitely couldn't be Digg.

Weird

[drxenos]

People do weird things with their time. Remember the whole "Darkside of the Rainbow" thing?

Re:Actually not a starwars refrence

[technoextreme]

What's a Nubian? A noob. A beginer. Someone who is new. It's leet speek.

Weird

[lfelipe]

Just last week, I did this with the James Bond movies. There were lots of coincidences there too. Guns getting fire on more than one movie at the EXACT same time.

Something needs to be said.

[Anonymous Coward]

GET A LIFE, LOSER!!!!

Who cares about that

[simpsone]

when you can look at these http://www.leiasmetalbikini.com/members/fansincost ume_intro.html/

Re:Yayyyyy...

[doyoulikegoatseeee]

so true! ++DIGG

pathetic

[etzel]

All you /.'s are pathetic. Here it is friday night when you should be out having some fun and the best that you come up with is writing messages about some geeky post? You should be ash...oh wait. Sorry, never mind.

Re:pathetic

[Anonymous Coward]

1) your also posting
2) gf is at work...

Re:Actually not a starwars refrence

[wirewad]

Damn, you're a retard. It's not leet speak, it's a fucking "real" word.

- a native or inhabitant of Nubia; "Nubians now form an ethnic minority in Egypt"

- Today Nubia is the region in the south of Egypt, along the Nile and in northern Sudan, but in ancient times it was an independent kingdom.
___________

In other words... An African. A NIGGER.

Ahhh

[SsShane]

I love the internet... *wipes tear

Slashdot is finished as the top tech news site

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot is pretty much finished as the top news site in its current form. It needs to reinvent itself. Sites such as Digg are destroying slashdot in readership levels.

For a long time now this site has been falling but the editors won't listen. I've tried time and time again to get something going but the editors just won't listen. Even the slashbot groupthink here won't take it. For instance you've already been modded redundant and off topic as will I most likely. Like any entrenched bureaucracy they hate maverick thoughts and dissident opinions. For me, /. is the ultimate in hypocritical sites, they claim to be the bastion of free thought and open source philosophy but soon as you want to get things moving again, rather than stagnate, they'll come down on you like a ton of bricks.

Slashdot is slowly becoming more like Microsoft: conservative, slow and copying other peoples products (read: news). Whilst Digg is becoming what the open source movement is really about: speed, openess, wisdom of the crowds, and people empowered news reporting.

I imagine the typical responses though: "Don't let the door hit yourself on the way out" or "If you don't like it leave." This is the level of rhetoric and moderation that /. has become.

Re:He should watch the original versions with ep 1

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't wait for this movie to go public domain so that people will be able ot legally fix the movies and watch them the way they were meant to be seen

Yeah, I'll see you in about 225 years. I'll be in my usual pod...

Re:Yay! My first response to flamebait!

[shadowbearer]

but I think you were out of line using words like thoughtless or stupefied, especially if you enjoy spending lots of time on other activities, like TV or video games.

  or Slashdot.

SB

News is relative.....

[technoextreme]

I suppose if I wasted hours doing some mediocre yet geeky thing I could get it on the front page too?

Hey... Hey... Hey.... You can do some mediocre geeky thing and get on the cover of the arts section of the Boston Globe. Star Wars The One Man show was reviewed by the Globe and boy did they talk about how mediocre it was.

Troll

[steppin_razor_LA]

Am I the only one who thinks that this isn't Slashdot worthy "news"?

I'm sure it must have been very technically challenging to manage to connect 6 DVD players to 6 televisions at the same time and play them.

Wow.

Re:Troll

[Anonymous Coward]

RTFA. he combined them with virtual dub

Re:Actually not a starwars refrence

[technoextreme]

Damn, you're a retard. It's not leet speak, it's a fucking "real" word. - a native or inhabitant of Nubia; "Nubians now form an ethnic minority in Egypt" - Today Nubia is the region in the south of Egypt, along the Nile and in northern Sudan, but in ancient times it was an independent kingdom.

Yeah and I immediatly knew that was the wrong answer.

Ugh...

[JimiSpier]

This has to be the dumbest thing I have read, ever.. What kind of idiot would do that anyway..

Congrats you have just one the "Biggest Retard Of All Time Award"..

Re:Ugh...

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. I love it when someone insults someone else, but can't even spell a three letter word right in their flaming.

No No No...

[Anonymous Coward]

Congrats you have just one the "Biggest Retard Of All Time Award"..

And you have won?

Re:No No No...

[JimiSpier]

Yeah.. Ok.. Fair Enough.. I get second place..

Actually...

[Spy der Mann]

the "Stuff that Matters" is meant to be the +5 Insightfuls,Informatives and Interestings.

What about the Princess Leah bikini shot?

[joelsanda]

Some notable finds: the first appearance of Palpatine in The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones is on the same frame. Also, the Jedi Rocks music in Episode VI provides amusing accompaniment to the Anakain/Obi-Wan vs. Dooku fight in Episode III.

Hmmm. I wonder happens in the other five movies during the frames when Princess Leah is in a bikini there on Jabba's throne? Guess they didn't notice the other five screens?

Re:What about the Princess Leah bikini shot?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder, too. Mostly about why so many Star Wars geeks think she's hot.

Huh????

[technoextreme]

Slashdot is pretty much finished [alexa.com] as the top news site in its current form. It needs to reinvent itself. Sites such as Digg are destroying slashdot in readership levels.

Actually the readership levels appear to be the same. If anyone is not reading Slashdot anymore it doesn't show. Anyway why did both websites readership seem to spike in August. I mean it happened at the same exact time though slashdot's spike was larger.

Re:Huh????

[Anonymous Coward]

Well if you had read the graph dumbass you'd probably notice that Digg is on a mighty upward trend and will take over /. in a matter of months if the trend continues. I guess you didn't do statistics at school eh?

Re:Huh????

[hixie]

As far as I can tell, believe it or not, the August spike was Mozilla Foundation being reorganised. You can also see a clear spike when Firefox 1.0 was released. In fact there is a generally high correlation between Slashdot.org readership and Mozilla.org readership:

http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=900&h=350&r=18m&y =r&u=slashdot.org&u=mozilla.org&u=digg.com
http://www.mozilla.org/news.html

Note that Alexa numbers only count users browsing with IE and with the Alexa toolbar installed.

Re:Huh????

[fossa]

I'd guess that August is when college students returned to their internet connections, but who knows... (there doesn't seem to be such a spike in 2004)

To the anonymous reply: don't be silly. Just because (the relatively new) Digg rose to slashdot's level doesn't mean it will continue to rise forever. Just how many geeks do you think are out there?

Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

What an idiot.

Death of Boba Fett?

[Fett101]

"Luke turns on his lightsaber for the first time at the same time that Han causes the death of Boba Fett." Not quite. The Sarlac found him somewhat indigestible.

watching them backwards

[delphi329]

I see you have so much free time. Why not watch them backwards and report back to us what you find.

Re:watching them backwards

[aasitus]

Nah, actually I think it's the opposite. I mean, he was so busy, he had to watch them simultaneously because he only had a few hours to spare :|

Palpatine in the same frame...

[Agent_9191]

Yeah, if you start watching AOTC a few frames earlier than TPM.... Or if you have a life and don't literally look at it frame by frame...

judging from the vids

[qzulla]

I think the overlaid one would have been more interesting.

qz

Hello, Kettle? This is Pot. You're black.

[Anonymous Coward]

I love all of the posts about how lame this is by people who are at home posting to Slashdot on a Friday night.

SuperShadow was right!

[David Nabbit]

How about a Da Vinci plot formula?

Can also do The Wall and Alice in Wonderland too

[saitoh]

I've found the DSotM and Oz sync to be neat in some sections, but its more of a vibe sync then if you use Alice in Wonderland and Floyd's The Wall. If you have the original album (and I think the original pressing of the CD also has it), then look on the back, there are 1 or 2 songs with little marks at the end (CNumb is one of them), these evidently should be skipped to maintain the sync. If done correctly, near the end of the movie, the card's march to the beat of Run Like Hell which is *really* cool. I've got a DVDR which has it done. Also, the album and movie (after credits) end like 3 seconds appart compared to the DSotM and Oz one where you can repeat the album 2.5 or however many times (although only the first part really syncs well). Not perfect, but IMHO, its a better fit.

Re:As my friends would say...

[buck_wild]

Bah. I'll bet he eats all his meals at the same time too. :)

Re:He should watch the original versions with ep 1

[Anonymous Coward]

Search around you can find DVD versions ripped off the un-edited laser disks. They don't look to shabby either.

Mods must have been...

[Anonymous Coward]

watching five other comments when they decided parent was "Informative" rather than "Funny". Yay mods.

Robocop in 2 Minutes

[CCMCornell]

This reminds me of a little feature on the Criterion Collection laserdisc release of Robocop called "Robocop in Two Minutes" or something like that. The screen was divided into very many little windows, each displaying, in real time, a portion of the movie such that you see and hear every part of the film in two minutes. It was a nifty, yet weird little feature. IIRC, this little feature was not ported to the Criterion Collection DVD version of the film.

Re:Yay! My first response to flamebait!

[Dachannien]

And, of course, the best part of ESB:

Lucas didn't direct.

Re:OT: abusing the majority

[Anonymous Coward]

Those in power... or in the majority... are never really hurt at all by comments or stereotypes.

And does that include that stereotype?

I'm sorry, but that sort of argument is rather hypocritical. It doesn't matter if they do "have the power" as it is just as damaging.

And BTW, since this post was off-topic (and you admit it is) then what's with the use of the +1 karma bonus?

Okay, so I was obsessed with synching...

[Anonymous Coward]

Admittedly, I was a synch nerd for quite some time. Yes, Dark Side of the Rainbow, or DSOTR, as it is referred to by synch nerds, is probably the best. Jovian Echoes (2001: A Space Odyssey, Jupiter & Beyond the Infinite + Echoes) is probably second best, if only because it's much shorter in duration.

http://www.synchronicityarkive.com/ is the place where the synch nerds hang out. Here, you may even come upon shared synch projects on which many people collaborate, like Shared Fantasia. While these aren't quite as amazing as DSOTR because they're done mainly one or two songs at a time instead of a whole album, it becomes obvious that decent synchs aren't too hard to come by. So, it's all just up to coincedence or collective consciousness or what have you.

Even more astounding...

[McFadden]

I recently discovered that if you play any two songs by Dido simulateneously, you will find that they are in fact all practically identical. Of course, you don't actually have to play them at the same time to notice this.

Re:Even more astounding...

[Anonymous Coward]

...Placebo have the same in common, too.

And what the hell is simu-late-neously?

Interesting coincidence

[mh101]

Right now, I am almost done watching all six movies back to back (ROTJ is next up) and I take a quick break, and what do I see but a Slashdot article about watching all six simultaneously. =)

Too bad I didn't think of this... I could have squished an entire day of movie watching down to approx. 2 1/2...

Re:Interesting coincidence

[mh101]

2 1/2 hours, I mean...

This is bad bad idea

[Muhammar]

princess Leia Organa is waiting her well...

Re:He should watch the original versions with ep 1

[Digital Vomit]

I can't wait for this movie to go public domain

You're planning on living forever?

Re:Yay! My first response to flamebait!

[Descalzo]

Agreed! That was my least favorite thing about Ep. III.

Han...

[Maul]

I don't care how you watch the movies. Han still shot first!

Re:Yay! My first response to flamebait!

[flosofl]

Comparing it to Battlestar Galactica is a bit of a reach. I loved that show growing up. I recently bought it. Somehow in my memories of the show, I forgot about the trip to the cannibal disco planet.

Cannibal... Disco... Planet?

I have got to get this!

Re:Yay! My first response to flamebait!

[mybadluck22]

"But they were hugely influential from a special effects point of view" Hugely influential... from a certain point of view. A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW?!

above link NSFW

[xilmaril]

on behalf of the other commentor. myself, I think it's too hilarious to not see at work.

Same Formula

[hey]

All these "coincidences" show that the six movies all follow the same formula.

This is news?

[Tycho_Atreides]

Since when is watching all 6 movies simultaneously "news" ? Any of you can do that at home right now.

Skywalker Paradigm

[Anonymous Coward]

"After reassessing everything in the movies laboriously, I have come to the conclusion that Darth Vader is the true hero of the original Star Wars trilogy. In this analysis, I generally consider only the movies themselves (Star Wars (A New Hope if you believe Lucas), Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi). For this presentation, we will be discussing them much in the same way the Thermians in Galaxy Quest viewed transmissions of Earth-based TV shows, as historical documents.

I have, at times, garnered some supporting info from the Expanded Universe of novels, comics, games, trading cards, and the many tech and art books on the subject. I delve a little into the new movies (Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith (or their more appropriate titles, 'Clone Wars' and 'Rise of the Sith')), but I tend to view them as a re-telling of history. A fabricated story told to the peoples of the galaxy after the events in the original trilogy. This analysis doesn't include the 'Dark Luke' saga of comics and books chronicling the events after Return of the Jedi. Many have pointed out that Luke's turn toward evil in those stories would support the theories presented here. My contention is that Luke was evil to begin with, that he is the true villain of the Star Wars universe."

With screengrabs:

http://www.ammon-ra.com/skywalkerparadigm/

Re:As my friends would say...

[ruprechtjones]

Anybody working in a production house, or with a little money and knowledge of video systems, can easily synch 6 movies together with frame accuracy. As soon as I read this, I brought all 6 DVDs in to my work to check his results.

We're a small niche, but don't think we don't have a life when all this equipment is just sitting here after hours for us to play with.

Bow down

[TheScorpion420]

I for one bow down to his uber geekness.

Okay, that's it...

[Anonymous Coward]

No more caffeine for you.

The Ultimate in Useless Trivia!!

[Anonymous Coward]

the first appearance of Palpatine in The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones is on the same frame.

Good job guys, I really needed that piece of info to sleep well at night.

Re:Yay! My first response to flamebait!

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

> It's similar to trying to watch Buck Rogers or Battle Star Galactica (the original) with a straight face.

Actually, those are easier to watch with a straight face than Babylon 5 or Stargate SG1: Mars Needs Women

I wonder...

[kensan]

if anybody has tried this with the Matrix Trilogy... The Wachowski-Brothers are pretty geeky so I've heard.. they might just have thought about that. Oh and there's something interesting to do for all Lord of the Rings Fans. So many possibilities with all the Super-Director-Extremely-Extended-With-Alternative -Storie-Editions.

That's nothing

[Nerdposeur]

Clearly, you have not seen "Star Wars: The Musical".

(Actually, neither have I, but I can imagine. [shudder])

Actual lyrics follow.

STORM TROOPER:
Darth Vader - dark Darth Vader -
dark lord of the Sith.
Darth Vader - dark Darth Vader -
this guy isn't a myth.

VADER:
Tear this ship apart until you've found those plans!
Bring me the passengers - every child woman and man!

(And from another scene...)

Uncle Ben:
Do you speak Bocce?

C3PO: I do -
not Splocce, not Blocce,
not Crocce.
Oh I speak Bocce.

UNCLE BEN:
What I need is a droid who understands my machines.
But what I need, most of all, is someone who understands me.

Re:That's nothing

[VENONA]

I'm astounded. That may be the lamest thing I've ever encountered. I have _got_ to get off this benighted planet. So many people devoting time to producing brain-damaged crap.

Orthodox thinking. . .

[Fantastic Lad]

WoW! Thats exactly my age! How could you have possibly known that!!?? There must some strage meaning we can assign to this coincidence!

Meaning implies an intelligence attempting to communicate through pattern. Otherwise, patterns simply 'are'.

Even without an attempt to communicate, however, recognizing a pattern in a seemingly chaotic system allows one to become aware of an underlying structure, from which various further insights and knowledge can be obtained.

Sometimes patterns will show up in ways which suggest underlying structures which do not fit into current orthodox thinking. Such patterns challenge people to grow and to consider new possibilities which exist beyond the boundaries of orthodox thinking.

People who feel the need to ridicule all that falls outside the orthodox boundaries of 'reality' (as dictated by the authority figures), are those who will be unable to function when those same boundaries fail to keep out the wolves.

Sticking one's head in the sand only makes one's bottom a juicy target, and severely limits the range one can move, see and explore.

Not all patterns are worth exploring, it is true. But many people hide from extremely significant patterns at their own peril.

-FL

Re:Orthodox thinking. . .

[Anonymous Coward]

You make some great insights for intelligent design there.

Other fun ones

[flink]

Terminator 1 + Predator line up in several places, including the monster in each getting crushed at the same time.

Also, I have a friend who really haes Tom Hanks, so at one of his birthdays, we setup 5 TVs playing The Green Mile, You've Got Mail, Saving Private Ryan, Philadelphia, and Sleepless in Seattle. You had to drink whenever he made a self-rightious speech or cried. If both were going on at the same time, you had to slam a beer. I think at one point he was doing one or the other on all 5...

i know I'm ganna get marked troll but....

[johnnyR]

i know i'm ganna get marked troll for having an opinion, but i never really liked any of these movies, now 6 at once........

Re:i know I'm ganna get marked troll but....

[Anonymous Coward]

I know what you mean. I remember reading some puff-piece about 'the end of an era' as Star Trek Enterprise was cancelled, and the last Star Wars film ended it's theater run.

In the back of my mind was a hope that I'd finally seen the last /. posts about these franchises. I guess not. I have now accepted that they will never end. Curse you both, Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas.

A few episodes of the original Star Trek television series have stood the test of time. That's about it, for either of these franchises. That last word is so appropriate. They're so like McDonalds. Fodder for the crap-seeking masses.

The last three Star Wars films haven't even been good at time zero. The first three were good if you were a child when they were released, or otherwise very uncritical.

Sorry, but what is RHPS?

[colinrichardday]

Sorry, but what is RHPS?

Neato

[StopSayingYouSir]

Can I just say something?

FOREHEAD *L*

That is all.

Re:As my friends would say...

[khedron the jester]

Ah, yes, the personal efficiency thing.

Re:As my friends would say...

[Krach42]

We're a small niche, but don't think we don't have a life when all this equipment is just sitting here after hours for us to play with.

Well, my friends didn't think I didn't have a life because I like to program as my hobby.

The point is that it was a humorous poke at the person, and not at all intended seriously.

I mean, seriously, some people need to just grow a sense of humor, and understand that not every insult is malicious.

Intelligent Design. . .

[Fantastic Lad]

You make some great insights for intelligent design there.

I find the argument for Intelligent Design to be one of those ironies which makes me want to shake somebody. --Aspects of the argument are on the right track, but for all the entirely wrong reasons. For instance, when an entity like Monsanto genetically engineers a crop species, such as corn, I wouldn't blame the result on that silly cult version of 'God' the Christians are so hopelessly enthralled with. Being the herd-control program religion is. . .

Hm. Or now that I think about it. . . But then people keep suggesting I invest in tin-foil.

Funny.

The same mechanics of the Intelligent Design argument could be used to argue that Religion is a giant mind-control project. --How could anything so invasive, destructive and wide-spread not be the result of a deliberate effort to curtail human awareness?

-FL

CD vs Album okay, but PAL DVD Wizard of Oz not

[michaeldot]

> I wonder if using the CD instead of an album would screw up the timing.

Unlikely unless the vinyl was snagging or the record player motor was worn, but something that definitely would affect the timing is watching in Europe or Australia where they have the PAL video system.

PAL runs at 25 fps (vs. NTSC which runs at 29.97 fps). This means that for easier compatibility, most DVDs are re-timed to run at 25 fps instead of the cinematic 24 fps. The result is a 4% speedup.

Usually unnoticeable, but for something like this, it would throw off the timing.

Re:Yay! My first response to flamebait!

[dswensen]

"From my point of view, they weren't influential!"

"WELL THEN YOU ARE LOST!"

Well, I'll be missing this experience

[TheVampire]

This should give you a hint as to why.

# times viewed ( by episode )

Episode 4: hundreds
Episode 5: hundreds
Episode 6: hundreds
Episode 1: once
Episode 2: zero
Episode 3: zero

Simultaneous Star Wars

[Shifty inNumbers]

Yes, but the important question that hasn't been answered is what happens when you play all six Star Wars movie to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Huh? Ehh? See what I'm gettin' at?

Re:Simultaneous Star Wars

[chawly]

To be honest, no. But I know that I should. Excuse me, I've got to rush out and get some sack-cloth and also some ashes. See what I'm getting at ?

Good movies:

[Anonymous Coward]

Since you asked, here are some movies I think are good:

The Legend of Johnny Lingo
Anything on SciFi channel on the weekends
Debbie Does Dallas
The Godfather parts I and II (but not 3)
Titanic
Bridge over the River Kwai
Patton
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Gor
Cinematics from Knights of the Old Republic
Man of La Mancha
Papelucho: The Movie
The Hudsucker Proxy

What do you have to say about that?

Re:Good movies:

[QMO]

My expectations won.
(Though I do like Man of La Mancha and The Hudsucker Proxy.)

There was a Papelucho movie???
I have all 12 books, but never heard of a movie.

LOL! Mod parent up!!!

[jred]

harhar

Re:He should watch the original versions with ep 1

[StikyPad]

You're planning on living forever?
--
It is as impossible to steal "intellectual property" as it is to steal fire.