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soldatipokhod
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The Last Jedi : a Fan Edit Ideas thread
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19-Dec-2017, 10:51 PM

Just discovered this site. What TLJ got right it got so right to me, but what it got wrong it got so wrong. Still, I thought the positives outweighed the negatives. I thought the movie was about 20-30 minutes too long to begin with and is just begging for a fan edit, here’s what I intend to do when I do mine:

  • Delete the cancer that is Maz Kanata. “We’re going to need a codebreaker…I think I know someone” Immediately cut to transmission fading out. Who were they talking to? Who cares!
  • “Fix” Canto Bight. Cut alien vomit. Sadly, can’t cut the joke about landing on public beach (are Finn and Rose stupid?) BDT unlocks cell. Reverse the shot of them following him out. Immediately cut to the ship. How did they get there and find BB-8? Who cares! I’m tempted to throw the whole thing out and just cut to BDT’s ship.
  • Cut the shot of the dancing caretakers. I want to get rid of everything involving the caretakers, but I think that’s the only one that can easily go (neither Luke nor Rey is in the shot). I’ll have to see what I can do about the falling rock.
  • Definitely cut the broom kid at the end. It almost seems like they want us to ax that part, the fanfare starts up with the falcon taking off and then we cut to the kid. What?

I think it’s simply to hard too remove a lot of the humor without seriously disrupting the flow of the film, so the jokes will have to stay.

My only other major gripe about the movie is that there is not enough Rey! I really hope the deleted scenes will show more training and that it will be possible to work them in without disrupting the flow too much.

Disney should really have their directors shoot two versions of these films: one for the kids and one for adults. That would fix a lot of the problems.