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bad_karma24

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#259938
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About the cave on Dagobah...
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
In the Zahn trilogy, Luke theorizes that a "dark Jedi" lived in that cave before Yoda arrived, and, upon arriving, Yoda killed him. But the existence of a strong presence of both the light and dark side of the force neutralized each other, thus making it a perfect hiding place from the Empire, and it also explains why Luke wasn't able to sense Yoda.



That's exactly the explanation. Though I'll admit I don't know how Kenobi stayed hidden...
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#259818
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"Banning of OCPMovie"
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I enjoy his work too, I think he has done some rather great stuff for the community. Though I do have to say I had no intention whatsoever of dropping $20 for the 2.0 CE... I'll wait for the torrent thank you very much. As for his hostility towards the X0 project, well, I'll be honest here and say that I do agree with him somewhat on the outcome of the project (though I don't know why he would think it was a publicity stunt) I don't agree with him taking it on them like that. My 2 cents... whatever... I have bigger things to worry about right now.
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#259625
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Left-Handed Explanation for accents in the PT
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Yeah, I find it more interesting that it seems every alien race can interpret any other language thrown at them.


It seems to me that that the vast majority simply speak their native language, but they all understand Basic (which, AFIAIK, is foreign as well, its just translated to English for our ease). When I went through Europe I was hard pressed to find someone who didn't understand English (useful... as I only know German).
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#258665
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Twilight Zone The Movie HD2DVD (Released)
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Originally posted by: Spock
Originally posted by: dark_jedi
"when you say that King Kong (1933) is 16x9, does that mean that it is pillar boxed?"

yes,so is creature from the black lagoon,and revenge of the creature,so these titles wont look good on a 4:3 TV,there will be black bars all around.
DJ


So you mean that they cropped it? That's a shame but that won't put me off from seeing it in HD.


If they showed them in 1.66:1 though, it shouldn't be a huge problem. I don't know what they're in though...
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#258379
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DVD Video in Powerpoint
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Basically just like the title says... I have a project for school in which I need to insert clips from a DVD into a Powerpoint, and I was wondering if anyone in here knew of the best way to do this. The only two options I have are a program that does it (but costs $$) or ripping the entire thing into an AVI and editing in clips from that (which costs time ). Thanks in advance for any help!
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#256481
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Best battle of the Original Trilogy?
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Hard to say... I voted for the Death Star I battle mainly because of the great attention to detail that was given to the effects. Unlike in ROTJ, the ships don't simply explode into a fireball when hit, they each go down in their own individual way. My favorite would have to be Gold 5(?), whose right engine spins off when hit before he goes down in flames.

That having been said, the Battle of Hoth is an amazing technical achievement, and the Death Star II battle is amazingly simple to follow considering it uses all three axis' and multiple ships (unlike say, Independence Day, in which it's very confusing to tell who is who).

I don't have much to say for the Episode II and III battles but the lightsaber dual in Episode I had some great stuntwork and coreography.