I don’t dislike TROS, in fact I really enjoyed the feel of it tonally. However it’s the first SW movie I’ve come out from the first viewing and immediately had things that I could pick apart/question and wish there was more
My primary issue with the whole thing is that, when so many larger ‘A’ plotlines from the overall series needed further exploration or resolving why the movie wasted so much of it’s precious runtime introducing new ‘B’ plotlines that it didn’t even resolve within the movie itself.
As a result the whole movie felt rushed and incomplete. Not BAD just hugely…unsatisfying?
We could go into the ‘why’s’ of it forever, but the fact remains that we got what we got and so as a a SW Fan edit community what can we collectively come up with to hopefully improve upon it?
For me, most of my hope is resting on what deleted or extended scenes we get on the home release, as I don’t think the main problems with the movie are found in what is in the movie, it’s in what isnt’t??
I’d love to be more constructive in what ideas I could throw out to the talented editors out there, but without a sniff of what deleted scenes might get released it’s very hard to do, and I’d be extremely reluctant to suggest making more cuts bar the odd line here or there.
All/most references to Fin’s apparent ‘force sensitivity’ and especially his attempts to confide in Rey are an obvious one I suppose as it’s all goes nowhere.
I don’t like how the Zori and Poe angle also goes nowhere, but I suppose we get a little bit of background on Poe’s character so it might still justify it’s existence?
Jannah and Fin, is the same. Goes nowhere…there might be some scope to play around there.
But unless we get some extra content on the possible Jannah and Lando connection, Lando’s ‘let’s go find out’ has to get thrown out.
(I’m not even sure how that line even made it into the final cut considering that the film makers clearly binned off everything else relating to that plot line?)
I’d really hope there’s more material from Mustafar, Exegol and generally more Rey and Kylo scenes both separate and together.
They have been the central focus of the new trilogy and so they deserve more robust plot lines that we really didn’t get in the theatrical release.
I appreciate that none of what I’ve written above is particularly constructive, but I’m just not scene by scene familiar with it enough yet to properly suggest changes, and I’m really hoping we get more meat in the home release to fill out the existing holes.