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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly picture

Easter egg: On the special edition DVD there are 3 easter eggs. Both are on the extras disk (as opposed to the film disk). (1)On the first page of extras, highlight the first (top) extra. Press left and a noose will appear, press enter on it. (2) Again highlight the first extra but this time press right and another noose will appear. Press enter to access another secret. (3) On the second page of extras highlight the top extra and press left OR right. Both will lead you to a noose (same secret on both sides). Press enter to access.

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Easter egg: On the opening menu for the full screen version DVD, you have two options, to either Convert or Fight. The Easter Egg is available on both options. If you chose Convert and after the menu loads press the up arrow, you will highlight a part of the pedestal where Riddick stands in the movie. The scene available is a behind the scenes look between Riddick and the Lord Marshal. The scene is also available if you chose the Fight option; you just have to press the left arrow and highlight one of the knives to watch the same scene.

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Easter egg: On the second disc of the special edition enter "The Star Trek universe", go to "A Star Trek family's final journey", click left to highlight the top of the rotunda. When you enter, you can watch X-Men director Bryan Singer talk about his cameo.

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Easter egg: Collector's Edition First disk: On the main menu, highlight the eye shape in the middle of the menu. Press OK and the credits scene with the Baudelaires shifts to the next part. There are several scenes to go through by pushing OK at each scene. Second disk: Go to Gruesome Galleries. Highlight Woeful World and press the right arrow. An eye should appear on the cutout of Olaf. Press OK to see a short feature entitled "Eyes are Everywhere". Second disk: On Gruesome Galleries, highlight the words Main Menu at the bottom. Press the right arrow and the swirl will light up. Press OK to see a short feature entitled "Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Man".

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Easter egg: When you go to Special Features, you see the back of Daphne's chair. If you go onto that you can see the audition for Peach and Pear.

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Easter egg: Easter Egg on the 2-disc Special Edition Region 1 DVD: Go to Special Features, then Deleted Scenes. Place the cursor on "Features" at the bottom and then press Down once. A red Superman logo will appear below "Features" and "Menu." Now select the red logo and press Enter and you will see some funny outtakes of Kevin Spacey doing his "Wrong." scene.

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Easter egg: On the main menu screen, go down to scene selection and go to the right. A small circle will appear on one of the gauges. Press enter and you get a little drawing sequence.

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Easter egg: On the Full Throttle DVD, there are six Easter eggs that I have managed to find so far, but I think there is one more. The Easter eggs refer to the normal widescreen DVD. 1. Go to the commentaries screen (Linked from the Special Features Page) and highlight Special Features at the bottom. Press right, right, down, down and Drew Barrymore hat should be highlighted with a white line. If you press action (X on PS2 controller) you should see a short film of McG and two stunt doubles, plus some behind the scenes footage of Madison and Cameron's entrance into the LA Theatre. 2. On page 1 of special features, select the Angel Vision Trivia Track option. When you get to the screen giving you the option of turning trivia track on and off, highlight special features and press down, left, left. Cameron Diaz's earring should be highlighted with a pink or white line. Pressing Action should reveal a short film of McG and Christine Birch discussing the game plan for the publicity of the film. 3. On page 1 of the Featurettes (Linked from the Special Features page), highlight Special Features at the bottom. Press left, left, down, down and Bosley's bow tie should be highlighted with a pink line. Pressing action should play a clip of McG and Aldolfo Martinez-Perez showing the storyboards and comparisons for Natalie's cowbirth scene in the "Three very different women" part of the introduction to the girls at the beginning of the movie. 4. Go to screen 2 of Featurettes (Linked from the Special Features page) and highlight Special Features. Pressing right, right, down should highlight the champagne bottle with a pink line. Pressing action will show a short film of McG and Tricia Ronten talking about the script supervision for the film. 5. On page 2 of Special Features, highlight Main Menu at the bottom. Press down, down, up, right, right will cause pink halos to appear over the girls' heads. Pressing action will show a shortish film of McG and Matt Sweeny looking at a hydraulic rotator for Madison Lee's cobra (The stunt one of course). It contains some behind the scene footage of the making of the fight in the car between Cameron and Demi, and also some that was in the Full Throttle featurette. 6.Again go to screen 2 of Special Features and again highlight Main Menu. Press up, up, down, down, left should make Cameron Diaz's missing right earring be highlighted with a pink line. Pressing action should trigger a short clip of McG asking Mark Cotane how he got into the biz.

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Easter egg: On the main menu, go to "Innstillinger" (Settings), press Up and Enter on your DVD remote control to see a selection of outtakes from the movie.

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Easter egg: In the special features on the DVD, there's a section on how to launch a muscle car 175 feet in four seconds, showing how they did the freeway jump without a driver in the car.

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Easter egg: In The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Special Two-Disc Collector's Edition DVD, in the second disk, choose the section "Creating Narnia." That menu will have three features; select the one entitled "Evolution of an Epic." When scrolling up an down, a flower will come up on the picture of the director's chair. Click that to see a clip of Skandar Keynes' experiences with eating much Turkish Delight.

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Easter egg: On Disk 3, "The Lost Disk," select "More Fly on the Set." Go up twice. You will hear the original radio advertisement of the Pirates of the Caribbean - the ride.

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Easter egg: On the second disc, the Special Features, select "Making of Alpha and Omega" (the first thing on the top of the screen). Press your right button to highlight an icon of the wolf (Kate). Press your Enter button and you can browse through three screens of DVD credits.

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Easter egg: From the main menu, scroll to special features. Hit the up button twice and then hit enter.

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Easter egg: On the special collector's edition, in the Special Features second menu (go to Special Features then go to MORE - its the menu with the gag reel and deleted scenes) then press 1 on your remote. The EXTRA written on the upper-left of the newspaper should light up and you will get a 2 minute clip entitled "Secret behind the scenes look at the animation department, by Steve Meyer". There's a surprise ending so go watch it.

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Easter egg: On the Extras menu, you will see a list of extras, some thunder, and the close-up of a dragon. As soon as you get to the extras menu, immediately press left on the directional pad on your DVD remote. The dragon's eye is now highlighted like any other text. Click on the dragon's eye, and the mini-game, Save Kitana, will open. When you win the game, you will see a scene of Lui Kang defeating Baraka, Sheeva, and rescuing Kitana.

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Easter egg: In the DVD Menu, go to "Extras." This menu should have the Gingerbread Man on it. Move around and hit right to select the Gumdrop buttons. You can now see various bits of trivia from the production of "Shrek." This easter egg is found only in the Region 1 DVD.

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Easter egg: In the Special Edition DVD (with the white slipcover), in the Imaging Station, if you go to the top of the stack of the videotapes and hit the right arrow button, the TV screen changes to say, "They mostly come at night. Mostly." Hit "enter" to see a trailer for "Aliens," a movie James Cameron directed.

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Easter egg: On wide screen version go to upgrades, Highlight commentaries then click left, two wrenches crossed will appear, Then hit enter.

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Easter egg: On the second disk go to "The Borg Collective" and highlight Main Menu and press the left button on your remote to change the white and green button to red. You will be taken to a feature of the concept artwork of the destruction of the Borg Queen.

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