Hal 9000 said:
This trilogy of edits just seems to have a checklist of disliked moments cut out. I wouldn’t expect someone to see this and feel like they just watched a polished film.
I kept Vader’s “NOOO” precisely because it was too jarring to remove while keeping the rest of the scene. Most YouTube work I’ve seen (at least for single film edits; I don’t really care for 3-in-1’s) just cuts things wherever and may or may not smooth over the audio and apply a wipe transition. The Anti-Cheese versions are far from the worst, but the murky world of FE.org has collectively put out much better work, though aren’t as enticing as clicking on a YouTube link.
ImperialFighter, please let us know if you find anything in YouTube that’s well done, though.
Hal 9000, I haven’t had a chance to fully check out these ‘anti-cheese’ versions yet, as I said…so can’t comment on how ‘polished’ the choices and editing will seem to me - but I reckon the merits of every fan edit is very ‘subjective’ to different people anyway, and that their view of an edit’s quality will depend largely on what they personally think should be removed from each prequel’s footage - and some will be far more specific than others about what they wish to see included or excluded.
There seems to be so many shots and lines of dialogue that different people dislike about them, that they lend themselves to a multitude of re-editing possibilities - and in addition to that, there also seems to be numerous ways to alter some of the most commonly re-edited sequences too - for instance, the various ‘end’ scenes to REVENGE OF THE SITH are but one example of where different fan editors have very differing ideas on how they ‘should’ be done.
In fact, my own planned sequence of re-cuts for these various ‘end’ scenes differ quite a bit from other ROTS edits I’ve come across so far…although I realise that I may be the only one that will enjoy seeing it done my way! - which is fine, as the time I spent working out various alternatives that I liked, eventually threw up the version I was most happy with personally - which doesn’t happen to include Vader’s “NOOO” however.
(by the way, I’ve actually got a copy of your ROTS edit, and I look forward to checking out your other 2 well-received prequel edits too, sometime)
However, while there are some other well-known prequel edits around, I thought I’d take the time to list the various ones I came across on YouTube recently, while they are still there…as this seems to be the only place where the majority of these are available, to my knowledge. Some of them may be of interest to others, although I don’t know what footage has been included or excluded from any of them, at this point.
For those interested, just type these particular titles into the YouTube ‘searchbox’ exactly as I’ve written them out in upper and lower case letters, as I’m not going to type out all the direct links (however, I’ll include the names of the editors and the running times too, so that you have an idea what you’re in for) - So in no particular order of preference whatsoever (as I haven’t watched any of them yet) -
Phantom Menace - Anti-Cheese Edit (by JeremyMWest-Esquire - features ‘creepy puppet Yoda’ - 1:40:49)
Phantom Menace - Anti Cheese Edit 1080 HD (by JeremyMWest-Esquire - features ‘CGI Yoda’ - 1:32:36, as he’s re-edited certain scenes since his initial version)
Attack of the Clones - Anti Cheese Edit (by JeremyMWest-Esquire - 1:58:10)
Revenge Of The Sith Anti-Cheese Edit (by JeremyMWest-Esquire - 2:05:45)
Star Wars The Phantom Menace Mature Edition (by matthew fisher - 1:51:27)
Star Wars Attack Of The Clones Mature Edition (by matthew fisher - 2:00:14)
Star Wars Revenge Of The Sith Mature Edition (by matthew fisher - 1:56:22)
Star Wars: The Last Turn to the Darkside (A Fan-Edit of the Prequels) (by GratefulDeadpool - 2:42:39)
Star Wars: The Blackened Mantle (The Prequels Rewritten / Recut) (by Darth Lunar - 2:46:39)
Star Wars: Neon Noir (Fan Edit) (by Only Yoda Forgives - 1:40:41)
FALL OF THE JEDI - A Unique Star Wars Prequel Edit (by Greg Bartlett - 2:29:04)
Star Wars I-III A Phantom Edit 1080p (by Andrew Kwan - 2:05:25)
Star Wars: A Vergence in the Force [Episodes I-III Fanedit] (by Editor Binks - 2:19:09)
Star Wars: The Fall of the Galactic Republic (by TJTheEmperor - 3:28:20)
Star Wars Episode I-III Rise of the Empire (Fan Edit) (by JXEditor - 2:02:35)
STAR WARS ORIGINS (Prequel Edit) (by Nico Negron - 2:31:27)
Star Wars Prequels Edited: Ep 2 & 3 (by Hijorn Bjorn - 2:26:04)
STAR WARS Episode I-III The Fall of The Jedi Order (Fan Edit) Prequels (by zaandarbrow 2nd Channel - 4:19:50)
Star Wars: The Fate of the Chosen (PREQUELS RECUT 2015) (by Taylor Melnik - 2:52:02)
STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE: FORCE SPEED EDITION (by Crashlander - 1:11:55)
Star Wars Retake: I-III Fan Edit (by C. S. Wagner - 3:11:18)
Star Wars 1-3 Revenge of the Re-Edit (by B Visser - 2:02:21)
Star Wars: Episode I-III Flashback to the Dark Side (by Luke Skywalker - 26:41) - now that’s short!
And in addition to all the above, there was also one called Star Wars Prequels Fan-Edit: Order 66 1080p - but I never got a chance to see who it was by, or how long it was, as it seems to be gone now - and there will be other edits not listed above which will appear eventually too, no doubt.
While I know that none of these will organise the footage in precisely the way I want to see, there may be a moment or two that inspires me to tweak my preferred alterations a little - but that’s a lot of footage to trawl through, regardless of quality! 😉
(by the way, does anyone know how come a lot of these full-length edits manage to stay up on YouTube for so long, while other edited snippets and clips seem to be removed very quickly?)