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D'oh... figures that no one used 'Lego' anywhere on that page ;-) Sorry folks.

Treehouse Animation has put together a pretty cool animation of a Lego Darth Vader conducting his theme. (It can be found on the internet for download too, but I won't provide a link 'cause I don't know if they mean it for anything but online viewing.) [i don't think this has been posted before... I searched both stories and threads for 'Lego' and didn't see it. If it has, I apologize for the dupe.]

I voted for option 1, but not so much because I think that it as I think number 2 would be silly. If he's just commenting that it's the same type of weapon, the first part of the quote is enough, so the second part is redundant. Of COURSE it is like his fathers if he meant it that way; there's no way it COULDN'T be. But I think he's just more taunting Luke than saying anything specific. This is why I voted for option 1; the Emperor could have completely ignored whether the lightsabers were similar and said it anyway to add to his attempt to show that he and his father are not all that different. BTW, check out this parody of RotJ if you have'nt seen it. I think it's different from the one that was posted before...

<i>Now here's some food for thought...did Vader have Owen murdered? Was he trying to get to Obi Wan through the Larses? Was he trying to get to Luke? (Since he figured Obi Wan would probably know about his kid, since it was in his dream.)</i> No, it was just coincidence that they were killed. If Vader knew they were there, he wouldn't have waited until they happen to be going by two decades after Luke's birth, and would have tried harder after they failed. BTW, thanks for the info regarding the history of the Owen=Obi-Wan's brother idea.

There is a door around the right side (stage left) of the Koussa-whatever* music shed. This is where a line always forms for it, and where they tell you to wait. BUT, I've been there three times with no success. * I can say it, I just can't spell it, and I'm too lazy to look it up. ;-)

I was always under the impression (as Cerrabore mentions as a possibility) that Owen was Obi-Wan's brother. I don't know if Luke knew they were related or not.

I have a recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos on period instruments that sounds fabulous. I'm pretty sure it's by the Boston Baroque/Pearlman, but I'm not 100% positive.

Man, and just after I finally get the Bruno Walter/Columbia Symphony cycle. ;-)

Me, but I will be soon and I have a Napster subscription that has all but I think the first and last tracks.

I don't have the musical ability or the time to do it, but what's the reasoning behind not releasing the video until the end?

Can I just suggest sometime you watch a foreign film with both subtitles and dubbing in your language at the same time? Just to compare. I saw the first few scenes of Hero (good movie BTW) like that, and the differences were rather striking, because the dubbed versions had to be length-matched to the original cuts.

Okay, gotcha. That was sorta my best guess. You wouldn't happen to know if it's stored on the DVD as two separate audio stream or if there's a switch somewhere that can just tell it to use the same stream for two channels would you?

Can someone explain what a 2.0 mono mix is? That sounds like an oxymoron to me...

I watched the OT Star Wars DVDs last weekend. I must say they looked fantastic. I never quite got the OT v. SE debate. There are some effects that "I could do without" understates, but really, I'd still take the SE any day. This may be because I first saw Star Wars in the theatre when it was released as the special edition, but looking at some of the original footage is painful. My three biggest complaints about the DVDs are all about RotJ. The replacement of the Jabba music was silly. And the rancor scenes *still* look like they were done by the South Park people, just with fancier cutouts. And the replacement of Anakin at the end of the movie is blasphemous. (Jabba in ANH is a very close 4th.)

Thanks for the welcome. I'll try to be a regular over summer again.

Congrats! (And I wondered if the name had anything to do with Mockingbird as soon as I saw it. Man, I love that book and movie...)

These are also quite funny, though they don't have the Star Wars trilogy. But they have quite a few books, and many of those are downright hilarious.

Keep in mind that with stuff like Gladiator and LotR, the scores are a lot fresher in the minds of the people doing the poll than is the original Star Wars Trilogy, where most of the best music is from.

Wow, I can't believe that people are ranking Can You Read My Mind up there... The music leading up to the part where the "lyrics" start is quite good, but geez, once the lyrics kick in... I dunno if I have ever listened to any version of that straight through outside of the movie proper. (BTW, I agree that the scene works really well, I just don't care for the music. At all.) Anyway, I'm always a fan of Hook, but ET is of course right up there too. Hard to say.

I'm going to break from EVERYONE ELSE HERE and put Jedi first. Keep in mind that I tend to watch movies at a reasonably superficial level, and Jedi was (IMO) just plain fun. I tend to not enjoy tragedies (I hate Shakespere), so this is probably why ESB drops lower in the list than most people would like. So my list is as follows: Return of the Jedi The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars (TIE) Revenge of the Sith The Phantom Menace Attack of the Clones (which I really didn't like at all) The top four movies were difficult to order. It's very easy to see Jedi and Empire swapping places, as well as Revenge and Star Wars. About the only things I can say with certainty is that Empire is better than Revenge, Jedi is better than Star Wars, all four of those are better than TPM, and all five of those are better than Clones.

/me makes his annual appearance... Hi All! Here are my thoughts: I voted for the Darth Maul duel from TPM, and while I had second thoughts after reading the thread and thinking about it some more, I'm going to stick with it. However, I think the answer depends on what your criteria are. So I'm going to go through each of the movies, and their merits. First, I've only seen RotS once opening night, so it's hard to compare. Because of that, RotS is out of the running. It's possible that it would put up a good fight (haha) if it was fresher in my mind. In much the same way EPII's fights are out of the running, though I do remember enjoying the lightsabre part of the final Dooku duel. (I don't think I've seen it since it was in theatres.) So we're left with a contest between, essentially, the OT and TPM. The Vader/Obi-Wan duel at the end of Star Wars is out of the running immediately. Batmanand said iit with "ANH is, let's face it, rubbish unless you "were there". And I wasn't." It fit well with the movie, but in terms of "wow, that's impressive" it scores about a 2 for me. (I saw it for the first time when the Special Editions were released to the theatres.) ESB scores a bunch of votes, and I fully understand why. I agree that it's one of cinema's finest moments. Nevertheless, the actual duel isn't very... impressive. It's reasonably slow, interrupted by Luke wondering around, getting hit with flying stuff, etc. I'm looking at this question from the perspective of what is the most intense fight. And the same things that make it so impressive from the point of view of the story and movie in general -- Luke not being all that skilled yet, Vader trying not to kill Luke, and the one-sidedness -- mean that the fighting isn't very intense. RotJ puts up a very good fight. While most of the final duel is again not very intense, the segment from "you have a twin sister... If you will not join the dark side, then perhaps she will" to when Luke chops off Vader's hand is. Combined with the placement in the story and what is IMO the finest 45 seconds of music Williams has ever written, this is way up there. The reason it loses out to TPM is because it's not very long. And finally we get to TPM. This fight is fast and furious. The fact that it's 2 against 1 for a lot of it contributes to the excitement. I just think that it's horribly impressive. I've watched the fight scene for just the fight scene on a couple occasions.

All we need to do is fly around the earth a few times really fast, right? Right?

I agree, but if you're a big movie fan as well as a music fan, probably the 5.1 would be a better option so you have it for movies. But yeah, for most music I don't think there would really be a need for anything beyond like 2.1

Yeah, it is. The original release is pretty crummy actually. It's double-sided, and the movie is split between the sides. There are almost no extras. And it comes in a snap case. The special edition is nicer; two discs, double layered so no swapping, three doumentaries, commentaries (though the movie is really too long to watch them :-p), etc. Comes in a case like X-Men if you have it... like a cardboard sleeve with a cardboard and plastic insert that holds the discs.

SA-CD is "super audio" CD. It's a standard that competes with DVD Audio (as distinct from the audio portion of a DVD Video disc...) for the replacement to CDs. Many audiophiles still prefer the sound of a good unscratched LP to a CD, and SACDs and DVD audios are meant to "fix" this. They both support 5.1 sound (I think) and each channel also has significantly higher quality than CDs.