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If anyone wishes to watch them - PM and I will send you the links. Took 20-25 out of each film, put alot of deleted footage back in. I haven’t seen any other fan edit besides the 2 phantom edits so this is all my own editing. My only gripe with the phantom edit was that just removing obviously bad things doesn’t make it a better film. I consider these workprints but I’m happy with the way they play out. I now love the prequel trilogy just as much as the originals. Above all, I wanted to keep George Lucas vision alive and help it along a bit. I kept the movies basically the same as they were intended (only shorter).
changes include:
The Phantom Menace - changed Jar Jar to Hindi and gave him proper english subtitles. This helps the movie SO much. I did hear about someone else doing something similar so this is not 100% my idea. I also removed all the extra stuff (extended shots, silly droid nonsense, jar jar shenanigans, lil ani nonsense - that kid did a GREAT job, Lucas just cut him all wrong and used the worst takes - and expository dialogue). I put more of the podrace BACK IN. The problems with these film are not fixed by just deleting things. Jaj Jar is a main character - you can’t just cut him out. Now he works, because now he’s not a complete tool. The Podrace is not BAD. It was surrounded by a bad movie. You’re bored and disinterested by the time it pops up and by then it’s just long and boring. Not anymore. I LOVE TPM now. Love it. 1hr 57 mins
Shroud of the Darkside - added all deleted footage back in (gave some of the scenes so missing music) of anakin and padme. Re-edited (poorly I admit - but it’s the only bad spot in the series) their love confession (worst dialogue ive ever hear in a movie, like ever) The problem with 2 is that you have to believe these two fall in love and Lucas goes and deletes all the love footage. Terrible move. The title Attak of the Clones is stupid - it should have been called Shroud of the Darkside. Now I feel I can at least buy that they feel something for each other. I love the wedding ending - the music is so great. In the theatrical you just couldn’t care less about these two. After fixing that, it was just editing the extra stuff out that was left. 1hr 58 mins
Revenge of the Sith. Added some deleted footage to the beginnig, and some other parts. I added/re-created the missing scene at the end with Quigon (without this scene the tilogy doesn’t come full circle), this scene should have been in the theatrical cut. Trimmed up the extras, and added Quigon in the ending to too. I put Yoda landing on Degobah and then quigon speaking to him. 2hrs
A New Hope. Just trimmed things, put the biggs scene back in. That should always have been in. Put Han shooting first back in, trimmed the extras and that’s it. Oh I also fixed up obi wans dialogue so it’s not all negating the prequels. I didn’t ‘do’ much the originals except for Jedi - even though I did cut 20 mins out of each too 2hrs
The Empire Strikes Back - Basically just trimmed some fat. This was the hardest to edit. Finding little stuff to cut to bring it down to 2hrs. BTW, imo 2hrs is roughly the max these movies should have been. 2hrs 3mins
Return of the Jedi - removed the dance number and put the original scene back in. This one I changed a great deal. I removed the ewok battle completely. I tried matching everything up best I could. That battle was fine for kids back in the day but wow is it ever bad… Trained soldiers getting beat by rock throwing muppets? No thanks. Plus it’s distracting. Now the movie ends with luke, vader and emps and the battle outside. Changed the ending a bit by inserting shots of padme as vader turns sides and added qui gon’s voice again (I f’ing LOVE this moment and it gives me chills every time). 2hrs 5 mins
The Force Awakens - Just trimmed the fat. This one was hard too. Just cut out all the silliness and american sterotype crap they had fin do and say “Droid, please!?” Yuck. 2hrs 5 mins
Like I said some parts are raw but considering I did this with free software on an old laptop…I’m pretty impressed. I compare them to workprints but I consider them more like blueprints. If only I had the real footage… I hope someone watches them, thank you.
I made these ‘for my father’ - who passed away 3 years ago. He loved the Star Wars movies, he watched them any and every time they were on tv. Even if he’d watched Jedi on monday and it was repeated on thursday - he’d watch it. Does’t matter where he came in lol… alot of times it might just be on in the background. Anyways, he sat through those godawful prequels so many times god bless him. Nobody should have to sit through those ever again. There are gems in those rocks. Once you ‘fix them’ they’re just as great as the rest. Enjoy (hopefully!)
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I consider my edits ‘blueprints’…not fan edits. They represent what could have been… 😉