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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   Lewis  spoke these staves:   
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   > Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
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   >> Lewis  spoke these staves:   
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   >>> If you want to see one done right, watch The Empire Strikes   
   >>> Back.   
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   >> I'm wringing my brain to recall what scene you are thinking of --   
   >> I'm sure that once I'm told, I'll be slapping my forehead   
   >> exclaiming "Doh! Of course!" but at the moment it slips my mind   
   >> ;-)   
   >   
   > Luke gets his hand chopped off, drops off the platform (Nooooooo!   
   > That's Impossible!) and into the abyss, then ends up going on a   
   > short slide into ome sort of tube and then drops out of the bottom   
   > of the cloud city.   
   >   
   > The slide is very short, that was sort of my half-serious point.   
      
   OK, thank you.   
      
   I think I had better find the film during the Christmas break -- I   
   can't remember that scene at all  ;-)  (I recall Luke hanging on to the   
   underside of the cloud city, but not at all how he got there).   
      
   Two of my kids have eye problems that make it impossible for them to   
   watch a 3D film, so we watched it in old-fashioned 2D. I got the   
   impression that the whole flight, fight and slide scene was invented   
   mostly to give some (potentially nauseating, I think) 3D effects -- I   
   recall early 3D being used as an entertainment in fun parks with long   
   scenes that were meant mostly to unbalance the audience (this   
   apparently being a part of the "entertainment"), and I got the same   
   impression in this case (I will probably go and watch the film in 3D   
   with my wife during Christmas -- though not IMAX as we don't have any   
   cinema capable of showing IMAX 3D in Denmark . . . unfortunately).   
      
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   Troels Forchhammer   
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