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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."
Guess he also got a nice little hemorrhage ...
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If only Jar Jar could be to the side of the Death Star as it explodes...
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But i assume his left eye went blind from episodes 1,2,3 being played simultaneously?
Are we bringing back the days of Dark Side of the Moon - Wizard of Oz coincidences?
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Roger Waters denied setting it up that way, but it would be genius if he did.
Heh.
I mean, how did this guy pay attention to all 6 screens at once, if he has a 1-track mind??
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) ;)
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Seriously though, this'd be a cool thing to watch, but distribution has got to be WAY illegal.
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I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
I do that every night!
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Is that WierdHat hasn't been laid since episode IV.
That's sorta redundant...
what an amusingly little pattern recognition machine we have upstairs.
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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.
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The article might seem mostly useless, but it's quite refreshing after weeks of bad science bullshit articles on Slashdot.
from the nice-job-dork dept. :)
This is the first time I've ever laughed at the department. Bravo, Zonk.
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I'd feel really geeky after doing something like that.
... now I feel geeky again.
Kind of like the feeling I got when I made a PHP script to automatically download my pr0n.
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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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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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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...
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Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
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He should play them all backwards at the same time and see what kryptic messages he hears ;)
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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.
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Surely you mean watching *THREE* Star Wars movies side-by-side.
There's only three. Right...?
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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.
And the brethren went away edified.
Don't Yoda mock, insensitive clod you are!
Write this way some of us might actually do.
And here's my all-time personal favorite nerdy accomplishment, a functioning LEGO robot that solves a Rubik's Cube - really.
I wouldn't want to disappoint you, so I'll mod you down as soon as I finish this post! ...Aw, crap.
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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.
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no play them in reverse to hear the satanic marketing messeges
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.
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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.
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Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
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.
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?
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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.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
Yeah.. Ok.. Fair Enough.. I get second place..
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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.
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