Overall this edit proposition has me very excited as I see much of our ideas about the movie align. Outright TLJ haters be damned. Many great ideas in this thread already.
Here are some points of contention:
Hal 9000 said:
• Only because I’d already be editing the film at this point and not because this is in any way called for, try to have the first scene with Luke appear overcast as TFA was. Whatever filter used to achieve this could be gradually faded out over the course of the sequence.
Anybody else as confused as I am about this? Could somebody elaborate?
• Cut Luke’s joke about Jakku.
I like to think it’s a point of relation between them as Luke wasn’t fond of his own desert planet upbringing, but I’d be curious to see how it affects the tone without it.
• Trim Snoke’s dialogue pre-death which makes an obvious outcome painfully so.
Very weary about this! You wouldn’t believe how many people were confused by this scene. Although, now that I think about it, perhaps what confused them was the dialogue itself. Usually they’ll say “But snoke is reading his mind so how did he not see this coming!? He can clearly see it coming!”. So they’re misinterpreting the scene in that way. Perhaps without the dialogue it will be more concise after all. Then again, I like to think it’s a key part of his hubris of being able to see so much with the force but still be simply tricked.
• Remove BB8 commandeering an AT-ST, and ensuing jog toward an escape shuttle.
This is of vital importance! Might I add that BB8 with a million arms in the first juggernaut action sequence is also preposterous and should be shortened to only a couple arms, then cut straight to sticking his head into the broken panel. If possible. BB8 is silly and overpowered in TLJ in-general; needs to be scaled back.
Miscellaneous points:
Space Leia should under no circumstances be removed.
Changing Holdo’s hair colour? Really? Let’s not appease the insufferable anti-feminists.
I lean towards keeping Phasma but open to seeing how alternatives play out. Phasma as a kind of recurring ‘Boba Fett’-like arbitrary death is honestly amusing to me.
TiMartyn said:
-No awkward, prolonged milking of the sea cow.
I feel like each Star Wars film deserves a couple memes, I’d rather the odd fishing sequence be gone/trimmed. But I suppose part of that was showing Luke’s x-wing in the water, but I’m not entirely sure what the point of that is, other than to suggest he can get off the planet if he wanted, to fool the audience into thinking he had during the showdown with Kylo I guess. I digress…
-Less of making a point out of the wealthy who make money off war.
Nah, one of the best parts of the film. It’s about time a Star Wars film addressed what actually creates war; the economy.
-Less making a point out of animal cruelty.
I feel like HAL’s proposed edits serve this already. As a 100% biased vegan I implore that at-least some remain. 😉