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Cook 09-07-2011 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by hipster.doofus7 (Post 5171298)
Meh, there are plenty of plausible explanations why a 14-year old might get elected.

For instance, eligible candidates for the election might only come from a small pool of people with royal lineage. Padme was elected as a Queen after all, not as a president. If you only have a handful of eligible candidates for Queen, it wouldn't be surprising if a 14-year old was somehow elected.

Padme says in AOTC that she chose politics. She was someone who chose it. She wasn't born into it. She also studied in the senate first. If there was a limited number of people elligible for the leadership she would have been forced. Lucas modeled their system after Americas but changed the title of Presisent to King/Queen to make it different. What you call the leader isn't important anyways. At one time some in congress thought of calling the executive office of America king/queen. Just because she is called queen doesn't make her special especially considering they are a democracy as is stated in TPM. Its just a title. She is a normal child elected to rule.

earmullet 09-07-2011 03:54 AM

Didn't see if this was answered or not, but did the sudden appearing tie-fighter in Jedi get fixed? Or Luke's phantom kick? Just a random couple. Seems like they were too busy mucking up some stuff, they didn't even try and correct the actual technical issues.

nathan_393 09-07-2011 03:56 AM

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Originally Posted by HandyDandy (Post 5171044)
THX MEDIA DIRECTOR COMING TO STAR WARS BLU-RAY DISCS:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/06/t...blu-ray-discs/

Somebody explain to me what this means.

Does this mean that all TVs will be adjusted to have the same settings, even though each TV is independent and none should be calibrated to the same settings?

I'm so confused....

Wth is a media director??

earmullet 09-07-2011 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by JamesKurtovich (Post 5170052)
She lost the will to live even though she knew Anakin was still good and had two kids to care of. Makes sense to me.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2496/...b3b96c1d47.jpg

This cartoon is awesome.

Cook 09-07-2011 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by nathan_393 (Post 5171347)
Somebody explain to me what this means.

Does this mean that all TVs will be adjusted to have the same settings, even though each TV is independent and none should be calibrated to the same settings?

I'm so confused....

Wth is a media director??

Any bluray that automatically calibrates my tv isn't going anywhere near my bluray player.

AlexSing 09-07-2011 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by octagon (Post 5170112)
A) The fact that she loved him at all was only marginally believable in the first place.

B) Padme was a queen and a senator and a warrior. Not a Winston Churchill 'fight from a bunker' type warrior but a blaster in hand type warrior. But we're supposed to believe this noble character would orphan her newborn twins? Because she just couldn't go on without her man?

Please.

I'm not up to date on feminist scholarship but I believe the technical term for that is 'bullshit'.

Best post in approx 649 pages

JamesKurtovich 09-07-2011 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by earmullet (Post 5171337)
Didn't see if this got answered or not, but did the sudden appearing tie-fighter in Jedi get fixed? Or Luke's phantom kick? Just a random couple. Seems like they were too busy mucking up some stuff, they didn't even try and correct the actual technical issues.

That seems to be there intent. Ignore the problems that are there and create new ones, because it's their "right" and dammit because they can!

Leia's bikini being "iconic" means nothing to Lucas, his Yes Men, or his fanbase. The character in my avatar is also iconic yet there have been several members of this forum calling for his digital replacement. I'd say Vader's redemption scene was also very iconic. There is no sacred ground here.

nathan_393 09-07-2011 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Cook (Post 5171358)
Any bluray that automatically calibrates my tv isn't going anywhere near my bluray player.

I googled it. It sounds absolutely insipid and to me seems like just another way to get control out of the viewers. It'd work great if people were technically incompetent - but all of us here aren't.

jala12 09-07-2011 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by NexusVerbal (Post 5171209)
Hmm . . . You're absolutely right.

Well, with Padme dead, perhaps Yoda and Obi-Wan would have taken it upon themselves to name the babies. Or maybe their adoptive parents would just name them, which make sense too.

And the whole thing about Leia having memories of her mother is just another one of Lucas's messups. At this point in time, people have just accepted that Leia's probably referring to her adoptive mother.

Uh, didn't Padme herself already name the babies as she was giving birth? She was muttering their names as each one was delivered.

RodChester 09-07-2011 04:07 AM

Argh...why cant i view page 1452?

killermike2178 09-07-2011 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Blu-Benny (Post 5171160)
my 2006 dvd of A New Hope showed up today!! :rock:

totally forgot what it looked like when han shot 1st!!!

so when people say they want the unaltered original trilogy....are they wanting the 2.0 stereo audio as well?? :D

^^^^post # 15,000!!! :jawdrop:

The UOT was in surround sound. The 2006 bonus DVD's were just ports of a '93 laserdisc. There are some changes on those discs that were not in their UOT form, therefore, they are not the UOT. Still nice to have for comparison.

frogmort 09-07-2011 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Cook (Post 5171358)
Any bluray that automatically calibrates my tv isn't going anywhere near my bluray player.

Tired of sweating over trying to make the Star Wars blu-ray look good on your tv?

http://static.egeszsegkalauz.hu/db/0...25eaddaa40.jpg

Well, thankfully, along comes this crazy fully-automated crap!

Why couldn't they just have included a brand new THX Optomizer, specifically created for blu-ray?

Falaskan 09-07-2011 04:09 AM

most blu-rays are that way aren't they? who wants to recalibrate their tv for every movie?

NexusVerbal 09-07-2011 04:12 AM

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Originally Posted by jala12 (Post 5171374)
Uh, didn't Padme herself already name the babies as she was giving birth? She was muttering their names as each one was delivered.

I was just talking about some differences that would occur if I were to write ROTS. Check out some of my previous comments for clarification.

nathan_393 09-07-2011 04:12 AM

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Originally Posted by frogmort (Post 5171385)
Tired of sweating over trying to make the Star Wars blu-ray look good on your tv?

http://static.egeszsegkalauz.hu/db/0...25eaddaa40.jpg

Well, thankfully, along comes this crazy fully-automated crap!

Why couldn't they just have included a brand new THX Optomizer, specifically created for blu-ray?

Well, y'know, the Star Wars blu-rays looked so terrible I was just losing sleep! I'm grateful for this crap!
:rolleyes:

Moviefan2k4 09-07-2011 04:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Cook (Post 5171296)
It doesn't reveal anything.

Allow me to be blunt, okay? Neither do pasties, but I surely wouldn't want that kind of thing presented in any kind of movie that kids were sure to watch. In my opinion, if the so-called "neckline" is nowhere near the neck, its too low, and the same for the lower half, too.

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The designers themselves said they wanted to show Leia was growing up and maturing.
How does wearing less equal genuine maturity?

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Not too mention plenty of fantasy stories have a damsel in skimpy clothes at some point.
I'm not familiar with many stories like that.

frogmort 09-07-2011 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Falaskan (Post 5171392)
most blu-rays are that way aren't they? who wants to recalibrate their tv for every movie?

Yes, most blu-rays do not contain a calibration option, but this seemed like a good opportunity to me to include one. It's the THX guys after all. :)

Breather 09-07-2011 04:17 AM

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Originally Posted by retablo (Post 5171246)
Not only is this abomination of Yoda mislabeled, he looks stoned out of his mind. Gotta love Star Warrio!

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6072/...20d9003bc8.jpg

The one with Jedi director Richard Marquand on the card. Well, this time with Yoda. :D

Here's the right one:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xvJBWbJ4Vz.../AT-ST%2B1.JPG

leem6453 09-07-2011 04:18 AM

I decided to go through the UOT before the blu-ray comes out. Just finished watching Star Wars (before it was called "A New Hope"). It's still a great movie. It's fun to make fun of the fighter pilots at the end...especially Porkins and that other fat dude who says "watch for enemy fighters."

Cook 09-07-2011 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by nathan_393 (Post 5171373)
I googled it. It sounds absolutely insipid and to me seems like just another way to get control out of the viewers. It'd work great if people were technically incompetent - but all of us here aren't.

Bleh, how did **** up a release so monumentally bad?


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