Yeah, true. I loved his cloak with the collar in the Clone Wars cartoon. But... can't change the visuals. 
Hopefully a new voice and more menacing sound effects in general coming from him will give him some more dignity.  

well, maybe he should have LESS dignity. he was supposed to be this big-bad in ROTS, a jedi-killer who would be a real threat to obi-wan later on. yet all that is said of him by the jedi is that he is a coward, and they just send ONE guy to fight him.

giving him a higher raspy voice, and really playing on how greasy he is could strengthen his character alot more. when he suddenly reveals that he can fight later on, it could be a bit of a 'bummer we underestimated him' moment. certain elements would need changing to achieve this, but its worth a thought.

i tried this voice change AGES ago - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znm5AllHbG0

Yeah, I'm really liking this "raspy and menacing" voice. 
I'll see if I can pull something like that off, and I'll have a demo clip up in a bit.  

ha well good! the dialogue itself is from a film right? it fits brilliantly.

I have returned after some absence to show off one of the changes I'm making to the movie:

http://vimeo.com/41937672

I remain a fan of your impressive work!  Nicely done!  I imagine a job like this edit will take some time, but I still look forward to it.

I kind of prefer bobs idea of Duke Dooku coming out of a door at the floor level (thus avoiding the silly gymnastics).

That way you can keep the droids upstairs which is a typical Sith move of backing themselves up with disposable technology.

But it you have found another way of avoiding the 'back flip into the swan' being up above has visual impact.

I hadn't actually considered that - Dooku coming in floor-level. 

Though I've actually always been a fan of Dooku flipping down onto the floor and epically drawing his saber. The sound design is so cool in that shot. 


However, I HAVE cut the fight in such a way that they never go upstairs, which makes it much less silly.  

Amazing! How did you manage to get the background behind the droids?

Removing the droids looks good.

I wish you would remove the flip though. Other edits have done it quite well. It's not a good example of CGI.

Besides he is older than old Ben.

He'll do his hip no end of damage trying a stunt like that.

I will take all of these suggestions into consideration! 

"You must trust me to do what is right" :D 

Alright, in the meantime, I'm going to go back to a previous discussion about General Grievous' voice. I took the liberty of making a little mockup:

http://vimeo.com/42047558

Oh wow, I wasn't expecting people to have a hard time understanding the words. But that's maybe because I'm the one who recorded them, haha. Perhaps once I have some better recording equipment, the higher quality will make it easier to hear.

As far as coughing goes, I've been having trouble thinking of a good replacement. His movements make it hard to be anything else. I was thinking he could be shouting something, but that might be cheesy.

On an entirely different note, here's another video. The first 3:40 of my edit. Sounds still very temporary, and some visuals are incomplete.

http://vimeo.com/42095602

Your keeping the “this is going to be easy” bit in then?