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#1311522
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Clone Wars Movie Series - Episodes (Seasons) I to V released...
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Hi Everyone

I am currently toiling with the idea of picking up where Smudger left off.
I’ve previously done a movie edit of Rebels (which I definetly plan to do more of…eventually) so I understand and am experienced with the difficulty that comes with weaving together loosely linked episodes.
But before I make any promises, I wanted to ask all of you what story arcs you all think are essential to the clone wars. So that I can start planning what will and won’t be included.
Basically, I want this movie series to provide a streamlined watching experience replacing the need to watch the clone wars episode to episode.

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#1222188
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Clone Wars Movie Series - Episodes (Seasons) I to V released...
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With the rebels movies, both of them combined turn about 6 hours of the show to about 3 hours 30 mins of movies.
Here’s the link to the first movies IFDB page, made by HarryBowls: https://ifdb.fanedit.org/star-wars-rebels-episode-i-spark-of-rebellion/.
The movies basically focus on the core story and try to cut out as much ‘filler’ as possible.
PM me for further questions so that we don’t flood the Clone Wars forum with Rebels stuff.

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#1222185
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Clone Wars Movie Series - Episodes (Seasons) I to V released...
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Can’t wait Smudger!
For those of you wanting Star Wars Rebels movies private message me for download links for 2 of them.

The first movie is HarryBowls’ ‘Star Wars: Rebels - Episode I: Spark of Rebellion’ (which I’ve also fixed up some technical issues for). This covers the first half of season 1.
The second movie is ‘Star Wars: Rebels - Episode II: A Call For Hope’ made by me. This covers the second half of season 1.

I haven’t got around to creating an IFDB page for A Call For Hope as I ran into some issues converting Rebels from 16:9 to 21:9, hopefully, you won’t even notice though.

Really looking forward to the next Clone Wars movie (and Darth Maul arcs when you get to it). Also, additional support for poster 4.

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#1143019
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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joefavs said:

Hey you guys, WHERE WAS SNAP WEXLEY?! Are we to believe he died in the opening space battle without any acknowledgement?

I remember seeing him killed off.
It was early on. I think during the bombing run on the dreadnaught, he was escorting bombers in an x-wing and there was a half second long shot of his face in the cockpit as the ship blew up.

Really disappointing the way they treated a main character from the new eu.

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#1142333
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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BobaJett said:

I had to sstop reading, I didnt want to completely reveal the entire movie to myself. I see several of you saying you liked TFA better. WHY?? I will be seeing tomorrow afternoon, so Ill definitely post my opinions. One last question though, out of all these first impressions, is it the you of now? Or the 12 yr old you? Everytime one of these films approaches I try and emulate the excitement 10 or 13 yr old me had when ESB & ROTJ came out. Its tough, but I try.

It will probably take some more viewings of TLJ before I can say which I prefer of the sequel movies. But ultimately, TFA was more of an adventure whereas TLJ more or less told you at the start that they need to just keep the ship alive long enough to escape the enemy. They set up and play out differently so it’s difficult to compare them.
I’m a 19 year old who vaguely remembers when the prequels came out. I have no nostalgia for any Star Wars movies but have been swept up in the culture of the franchise due to sequel movies so I might be a bit bias towards the sequel trilogy.

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#1142050
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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Full Spoilers Opinion Rant Incoming (sorry for length):

After 1 viewing (at midnight when I was tired for full disclosure) here are my thoughts and personal opinions.
Note that I am not a critique or an OT purist. I like all the fun adventure of TFA, the political intrigue and eye candy of the prequels and the classicness of the OT (sue me).
Overall I liked it, its great. But there are some weird things which I’m just not sure about.

The comedy didn’t feel forced but natural and made me laugh. I especially liked Hux and his comedic conflicts with Poe and later Ren.
But, the Porgs felt unnecessary. I didn’t find them to be cute (I’m cuteness intolerant in general) but they weren’t annoying either. Maybe made me chuckle once or twice. However, their CG design just wasn’t up to scratch and became an eyesore when they were just sitting there on a real set.

Luke and his inner conflict was great. This was also well explored with his relationships with Rey and Ren. Overall the relationships between Luke, Rey and Ren was the best subplot of the film. Really well done.
However, I was disappointed with the lack of backstory to Lukes former Jedi school. While the 3 different versions of what happened on that night was a neat idea, I can imagine it becoming tedious to rewatch what is basically the same tent scene multiple times in future viewings (unconfirmed though). Also, the only Jedi school backstory we saw was that scene in the tent thing, but no Knights of Ren or anything else which felt disappointing and underdeveloped.

The scene in Snokes throne room had good action. I really liked the fighting choreography and I was in suspense on who would turn light side or dark side.
But, Snoke himself was very poorly handled. His CGI face looked ‘off’, his lack of backstory was very disappointing and made him a hard character to connect with, consequently, I didn’t care about his death which should’ve felt more momentous. Also, whats with Snokes shiny gold suit/jacket? It just looked bad.

The Yoda scene was…interesting. I LOVE the way the scene played out: Luke about to burn Jedi history, Yoda confronts him, Yoda burns Jedi history which then makes Luke realise that he does care about the Jedi. Very smart.
But this also left me confused. From memory, it is decided between Luke and Yoda that the Jedi should end, but at the end of the film Luke declares Rey to be the last Jedi (so are the Jedi still a thing or not?). Also, I have no idea if Yoda was a puppet or CG, I mean this in a bad way. Yoda looked like CG made to look like a puppet (my opinion). Yoda just didn’t look quite right to me, but there again he is a little green alien.

Very quickly, I’m torn about Luke’s death. It felt underexplained, out of left field and consequently unfair as it seemed like he died for no reason. But at the same time I can respect the mysteries of the force that the movie earlier set up. The force hologram was cool and made for cool action and reveal, but I’m just still not sure about if I prefer the mysteries of the force or needing new force powers to be better explained and fleshed out.

The visuals, cinematography, music and acting are all masterful! I especially loved the red dust exploding during the Krayt battle, the lightspeed suicide bomber moment and opening bombers attack on the dreadnaught.
My only downside in this department is that while I remember the music sounding good, I can’t remember any new tunes which I can hum (but only after 1 viewing at midnight).

In terms of story; the bad is the entire Finn/Rose/Casino arc, the good is just about everything else.
The entire films pacing felt weird, and while I can appreciate them trying a new sort of story structure it just may take some getting used to. I could’ve sworn that the film was minutes from ending after the throne room battle and then the lightspeed suicide attack. It really did feel like the film was about to end (not remembering that the Krayt battle was still to come).
Also, the film felt really long which may be due to the unfamiliar structure and pacing. It felt like the film was a half hour too long, and it just so happens that there was a half hour arc that was completely uneventful (casino).

Casino/Finn/Rose arc Rant
The Casino arc was pointless!

  1. How does Poe know Maz Kanata and why do him and Finn think she can help.
  2. The arc had lots of real world commentary about animal cruelty and people making money off of war which personally felt out of place but that may be just me.
  3. DJ was uninteresting, had no charisma (again my opinion) and disappeared at the end anyways leaving no impact.
  4. The alien horses didn’t look the best and really felt completely unattached from the rest of the film.
  5. The entire arc accomplished nothing: they didn’t complete their mission, they didn’t interact with other main characters making them feel detached from the main story, and their actions didn’t impact the story (Phasma dying was meaningless).
  6. Finn and Rose didn’t grow at all as characters which was a big missed opportunity and time waster. Finn started off by acting like a cool guy who’s full of himself (acting like a war hero when trying to get to escape pod) and ending acting like a cool guy who’s full of himself (he might as well have said a cheese '90’s action movie line when he killed Phasma), Rose started off by adoring Finn and ended still adoring Finn (granted for 5 seconds she thought he was a traitor but this is very quickly forgotten) while Finn’s feelings toward her barely changed (a glance at her unconcious body doesn’t mean much). And while Finn does learn that greed and gambling is a by-product of War or something, this does not impact the story, his relationships or probably long-term character at all.
    I could go on but ultimately I just felt that the Casino arc was meaningless, uneventful and the least interesting part of the movie.

On the good side, the film had lots of really cool moments that I just loved. I loved all of the battles and again the lightspeed suicide attack (although this does bring up plotholes about it being an overpowered but underutilised attack method).

I could probably go on but I’m starting to forget some things. I really want to see the film again just to grasp my head around everything.
I will conclude by saying that the film is great but for each group of great stuff there is a section of it that feels not fleshed out. I.e. lots of great characters and relationships but Finn, Rose, DJ and Snoke fail in many reagrds, and the overall story is good but the Casino just doesn’t work for me.

Also the final shot is absolute bulls&*% (broom boy). It’s barely relevant to the film (and only relevant to, in my opinion, the worst part of the film), If there is a message about ‘hope’ or ‘legends never dying’ it was never fleshed out enough, I feel like it’s just trying to sell toys or is at least focused towards kids only, and I am 99% sure that they are trying to shoehorn in a tease for episodes 10/11/12 which is far too soon and uneccessary.

Thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts!

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#1066933
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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - Faster, More Intense! (Released)
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I made myself an edit of Ep3 about a year ago but never got around to uploading it. One thing that I tried to do in my edits was work on the music during fights to make it seem all the more ‘epic’. Something that I would absolutely love is for one of the music mixes I added onto the mustafar fight in ep3 to end up in your edit Octorox. The link below shows this in action. PM me if you want the audio which I added to the scene.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ikl2r_mustafar-fight-better-music_shortfilms

I mixed together Duel of the fates and battle of heroes and timed it to the lava explosion whilst adding a lightsaber sound effect and lowering the volume of the original music.

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#986223
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Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers
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Hey Guys got some updated versions of the ANH Blu-Ray Cover
I’ve done some more touchups on stuff and changed some of the back cover information
Please let me know of any possible improvements

Note: These continue using the existing works of nei1b (http://nei1b.deviantart.com/art/Star-Wars-Saga-Fan-Made-Blu-Ray-DVD-Box-Covers-352111675), sirota554 (http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/959267) and phildesfr (https://s14.postimg.io/i1dxqk3ht/DISPLAY_cases.jpg).

Since there are already a bunch of covers out there you can only do so many before you’re copying someone else so Im trying to combine the best of whats available. These are meant to look like legitimate individual replacements to the combined blu ray box set. Let me know your thoughts

A New Hope V1.png

A New Hope V2.png

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#985932
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Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers
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Hey Everyone
I’ve created a new blu-ray cover for the A New Hope Bluray to replace the collective box set.
Right now I’ve just got the ANH cover but plan to make covers for the other 5 (probs not TFA)
Wondering for suggestions on improvements.

NOTE: This is a combination of the works of nei1b (http://nei1b.deviantart.com/art/Star-Wars-Saga-Fan-Made-Blu-Ray-DVD-Box-Covers-352111675) and sirota554 (http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/959267) as well as some other really minor stuff I added.
This is meant to be a combination of two great existing covers that I thought I might share and I have no intentions of taking credit for all of this.

Please let me know what you all think.

A New Hope BluRay.png

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#919891
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//RETURNING TO JEDI\\: NTSC &amp; PAL DVD
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TV’s Frink said:

benduwan said:

delet

Someone started with the end but didn’t get very far.

FWIW, all three docs should also be available on fanedit_info but are no longer listed. If someone can put a request for them in my thread, I will see about reuploading them to Megashares.

I would love to have the DVD iso files for all three of the docs. If they could be reuploaded or if someone could share them with me that would be great.