Oh good, now I don't have to rent the damn thing.
Pierre Menard works somewhat less well in a visual medium, I guess.
It's good, but not "spend two hours watching it" good.
There are lots of jokes scattered throughout! Ahh, you don't know what you're missing.
Oh, look, they made a "First!" joke! I did not see that coming. Well-played!
It's cute, I guess I'm just not a big enough fan of the Star Wars franchise anymore.
Remember when they did this with Footloose? I just about watched that whole thing.
This project does support the deprecated, but nonetheless correct, view that the first of the Star Wars movies was the best. People would not expend this much time and effort on any of the sequels or prequels.
Watching random parts is funny, and makes me realize that I know the movie better than I thought, since I could pretty much always tell what was going on.
Highlights so far:
• the Banksy-style Jawas
• the number of different trashcan R2D2s.
Also, much later in, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine," played as the chess scene between Death and the Crusader in Seventh Seal.
I was sold from the 20th Century Fox logo with lightsabers. (I also appreciated the Windows USB storage connect/disconnect sound when Leia loads the Death Star plans onto R2.)
Jumping around to various parts, there's some interesting stuff in there. Fundamentally I agree with 5, though.
I wasted enough time over the years watching Star Wars over and over again that another two hours watching this is no biggie.
Is Star Wars different than Star Trek?
I decided recently that copyright protection against derivative work should last no longer than the time between the original star wars and the new trilogy (i.e. 20 years). By the time Lucas was spewing that crap the business of making new star wars movies should be open to competition.
Star Trek is this generation's Star Wars.
The 1st Congress was totes into Star Wars mashups.
On second thought, I guess it's possible to watch 5-10 minutes at a time, especially now that Youtube saves your place. (I find it annoying in medium doses.)
Some good things:
- The training scene aboard the Millenium Falcon
- The beginning of the cantina scene
- C3PO's oil bath
- the books used to create the death star
Lots of good animation, and the variation in the way people "filmed" their scenes (text adventure! This kind of adventure! Comic book!) is neat.
I see youtube's link-to-time feature no longer works accurately.
Anyway, 43:45 to 44:45 is a good minute. Also, the big lebowski.
28: Hmm, I've been continuing to use it and it gets within a second or two,. Segment in 29 for instance.
I'm just a positive person, Minivet.
Whereas it goes to 43:29 for me.
I tried with just seconds, and it was consistently several minutes short—and sometimes increasing the number of seconds (e.g. from 2600 to 2700) made it start at an earlier time.
If I click the link in 31 repeatedly, it goes to different places every time.
hullo clouds hullo sky hullo grass
35: Hmm, trying it now, repeatedly clicking is moving it up 15-30 seconds each time.
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Recently tracked down an obscure PHD thesis in my field. Turns out two of the subsections have "Shearer" in their titles. Sure enough, it's Unfogged's own Shearer. Small world.
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Generally speaking, the segments where they use the original audio with their own animation are boring. The one where C3PO asks "is there anything I can do?" is an exception.
The link in 31 seems to work correctly for me even after clicking it several times.
Ferrets! And the bit with the refrigerator!
41: On this computer it seems to be browser dependent. Firefox is what I normally use and it is doing something which looks like trying to remember where I was and going back 12-30 seconds before that each time I click, while IE and Chrome both seem to go the specified start time consistently even with repeated clicking (relatively small n, however). It may just be something with Fiirefox's plugin-container architecture which still consistently serves me up a prior embedded Unfogged video unless I do a manual forced update.
This project does support the deprecated, but nonetheless correct, view that the first of the Star Wars movies was the best. People would not expend this much time and effort on any of the sequels or prequels.
I don't know about that. I've seen a "Geordie Star Wars" which is mostly from Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
I am reminded of Sloths on a Tank.