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Watching All Six Star Wars Movies Simultaneously

Posted by Zonk on from the nice-job-dork dept.

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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  1. Coincidences by JonN · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

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  2. Mostly useless by gilboooo · · Score: 2, Interesting

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

  3. Re:Lame. by Hatta · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

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  4. Re:As my friends would say... by Krach42 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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...

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  5. Yow, someone read my mind... by Blondie-Wan · · Score: 2, Interesting
    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...

  6. Re:Backwards by EvanED · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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...

  7. Re:NERDS! by Blondie-Wan · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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.

  8. News is relative..... by technoextreme · · Score: 2, Interesting
    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.
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  9. Huh???? by technoextreme · · Score: 2, Interesting
    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.
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  10. Robocop in 2 Minutes by CCMCornell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.