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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."

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  1. Drain Bramage by Hank+Chinaski · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guess he also got a nice little hemorrhage ...

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    1. Re:Drain Bramage by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

      "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!

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  2. Pretty Clever by JoeShmoe950 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    1. Re:Pretty Clever by g-san · · Score: 3, Funny

      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.

  3. Great for the right eye 4 , 5 and 6 by external400kdiskette · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. 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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    1. Re:Coincidences by smclean · · Score: 4, Funny

      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!

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  5. Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon by BeerMilkshake · · Score: 3, Informative
    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.

    1. Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon by rco3 · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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    2. Re:Like Wizard + Dark Side of the Moon by Radical+Rad · · Score: 4, Informative
      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

  6. Can Men Multitask? by ztransform · · Score: 4, Funny
    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??

    1. Re:Can Men Multitask? by Viper+Daimao · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    2. Re:Can Men Multitask? by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

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  7. Patterns in the clouds... by xappax · · Score: 5, Funny

    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) ;)

    1. Re:Patterns in the clouds... by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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  8. Finally, the Nightmare Comes True! by Nova+Express · · Score: 4, Funny
    Jar-Jar Binks: Luke, I am your father!

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    1. Re:Finally, the Nightmare Comes True! by codergeek42 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Meesa you fatha, Lookie!" o_O

  9. How fascinating. by Limburgher · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

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    1. Re:How fascinating. by dswensen · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

  10. Re:Lame. by AuMatar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whatever man. That fucking car is still cool.

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  11. Been there done that by Psionicist · · Score: 4, Funny
  12. Another thing we learned... by birge · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  13. Re:Oh my... by eosp · · Score: 5, Funny
    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...

  14. ah the human mind by vena · · Score: 3, Insightful

    what an amusingly little pattern recognition machine we have upstairs.

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

  15. Yay! My first response to flamebait! by Descalzo · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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.

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  16. Funniest Dept. Ever by TheFlyingGoat · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  17. Man.. by Kickboy12 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Man.. by kosmicki · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  18. 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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  19. Slashdot by technoextreme · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  20. Backwards by Barkley44 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  21. Anybody could beat C-3PO... by MS-06FZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  22. Only three by Kayamon · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    There's only three. Right...?

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  23. Cool idea by fontkick · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  24. Re:Lame. by CaptainCarrot · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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.

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  25. Re:News because it's Star Wars only this is by int19h · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  26. 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.

  27. Re:Lame. by MS-06FZ · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  28. Re:Slashdot, not again.. by Scarblac · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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  29. Re:Yay! My first response to flamebait! by shadowbearer · · Score: 3, Funny

    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

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  30. Re:Lame. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

  31. What about the Princess Leah bikini shot? by joelsanda · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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