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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
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     Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
   > In message    
   > Lewis  spoke these staves:   
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   >> In message    
   >> Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
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   >>> In message    
   >>> Lewis  spoke these staves:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If you want to see one done right, watch The Empire Strikes   
   >>>> Back.   
   >>>   
   >>> 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).   
      
   Dad slapped him on the back of the hand for being a whiny little brat;   
   sadly, he was holding a lightsaber at the time.   
      
   > 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).   
      
   I found the 3D in The Hobbit to be quite good in most cases and not   
   especially 'pointy', with a few exceptions.   
      
   --   
   The night is always old. He'd walked too often down dark streets in the   
   secret hours and felt the night stretching away, and known in his blood   
   that while days and kings and empires come and go, the night is always   
   the same age, always aeons deep. Terrors unfolded in the velvet shadows   
   and while the nature of the talons may change, the nature of the beast   
   does not. --Jingo   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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