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My DVD player has a one-quarter time feature
« on: April 07, 2006, 10:29:25 am »
I always knew you could fast forward through things at different speeds (2x, 4x, 6x, and 8x) but I didn't know you could ssssssllllllooooooowwwwww them down, too. Guess I never wanted to watch anything at one-quarter time, but now I realize I can make the 75 seconds of the second tent scene last a whole lot longer. Try it, folks, that little string of saliva looks awfully good.  >:D

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Re: My DVD player has a one-quarter time feature
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2006, 10:47:39 am »
Yes, I've been watching certain scenes at 8x slow.  Which helps me realize that it has not been my imagination that we see much less of Heath's face and eyes than we do of Jack's in "those" scenes.  Deliberate on Ang's part, I s'pose, to keep us, like Jack, wantin more than we're gettin.

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Re: My DVD player has a one-quarter time feature
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2006, 10:51:34 am »
Yes, I've been watching certain scenes at 8x slow.  Which helps me realize that it has not been my imagination that we see much less of Heath's face and eyes than we do of Jack's in "those" scenes.  Deliberate on Ang's part, I s'pose, to keep us, like Jack, wantin more than we're gettin.
You think? Wow! I've never thought of that!

I'm definitely going to watch some of the scenes in slow motion!!  ;D

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Re: My DVD player has a one-quarter time feature
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2006, 10:53:26 am »
It's great to see the scenes in slo-mo to catch all the details.  But one scene is very hard to watch that way--Jack's murder.  Still, it does answer the question of whether that was Jake or a double.  At least one shot is definitely Jake.  :(

It also answered the wood or bacon question for me.  Bacon it is.  ;D
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Re: My DVD player has a one-quarter time feature
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2006, 10:56:22 am »
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It's great to see the scenes in slo-mo to catch all the details.  But one scene is very hard to watch that way--Jack's murder.  Still, it does answer the question of whether that was Jake or a double.  At least one shot is definitely Jake.
Meryl, Jake must be in it (at least some of the time), because I recall reading somewhere that his sister Maggie, had a very hard time watching that scene - seeing her brother been 'beaten up'..

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Re: My DVD player has a one-quarter time feature
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2006, 11:00:44 am »
It also answered the wood or bacon question for me.  Bacon it is.  ;D

Op, I missed that one.  Whassat?

Can anybody keep up with all the posts here?

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Re: My DVD player has a one-quarter time feature
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2006, 11:05:38 am »
I love how everyone's getting Ennis/Heath avatars! ;D
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Re: My DVD player has a one-quarter time feature
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2006, 11:15:11 am »
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It also answered the wood or bacon question for me.  Bacon it is. 
ok, clue me in as I don't remember anything about bacon in the movie......................
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Re: My DVD player has a one-quarter time feature
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2006, 11:18:06 am »
It also answered the wood or bacon question for me.  Bacon it is.  ;D

Op, I missed that one.  Whassat?

Can anybody keep up with all the posts here?

I had asked, a couple of days ago--when they are setting up camp, Jack put "something" in a bag and hauled it up in  teepee like thing. I commented that when camping at Glacier Nat'l Park, they told us to hang our food in the air to keep it from bears (being city campers, we just kept the food in the trunk of the car). My question to the group--I thought it looked like wood and was wondering why Jack was hanging wood in the air? This turned into a lively discussion and now Meryl says it was definitelyl bacon. I'll need to go home and watch that scene slow to convince myself.

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Re: My DVD player has a one-quarter time feature
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2006, 11:28:59 am »
I love how everyone's getting Ennis/Heath avatars! ;D
Why is that then, Brandon?  ;D ;D

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