The cultist I wanna try (minus any deleted material that may appear on the Blu-Ray):
-Open with our heroes playing dejarik and meeting up with Boolio. The scene is over when they make the first jump to hyperspace.
-Cut to Rey training on Ajan Kloss, with Kylo communing with Vader’s helmet, sparking visions in both of them. (I really want to change the style of flashback in this movie because I think the cuts are too quick and they just hurt my eyes.)
-Cut to Kylo on Mustafar
-In Exegol scene, you don’t see Palpatine’s face, it remains in darkness.
-Cut lines about creating Snoke and digitally alter Snoke tube into Palpatine tube, or maybe just a body-part tube. (Maybe the Sith Acolytes are cloning parts of Palpatine himself just to reattach them)
-End scene with ships erupting from the ice, but remove the Voice Over. That scene felt very very off to me.
-The Falcon lands on Ajan Kloss, and Rey fights with Poe.
-Remove Poe’s verbal reference to Ackbar Junior.
-Re-organize Poe’s briefing to reduce the feeling that Oscar has given up/make things less silly.
-Reduce Leia’s onscreen presense. She feels very off in this movie and there is a very good reason for that!
-Make the ‘leaving for Pasanna’ section of the movie a little slower. (You cut from 3PO saying goodbye to R2 to Rose saying goodbye to Leia saying goodbye to Rey looking at some trees within like a minute.)
-Make Rey’s half of her Force Communication with Kylo less dark? Why is it suddenly night time where she is? I understand the filmmaking reasons for it, but in all other cases of that effect both sides’ environments are unaffected.
-Remove Rey’s “I recognize that ship” moment.
-I like the Pasanna bits for the most part, until Kylo Ren shows up.
-Reduce Finn’s flanderization (cut him yelling REY!!! as much as possible. Maybe keep “They got Chewie!!!”
-Remove Chewie’s reappearance until Rey senses him on Kjimi.
-On Kjimi, remove any explicit mentions to Poe’s romantic past with Zorri, as well as removing the drug runner origin story of the Guatemalen lead actor.
-Remove Kylo saying that Rey is a Palpatine, because she isn’t and that’s silly. Instead have her scene with him in that hanger center on him trying to recruit her to kill Palpatine with her. Because so many lines are removed, play around with the scene being largely silent.
-Remove any later references to Rey’s family, including flashbacks. Rey’s parents abandoned her like garbage and sold her into indentured servitude.
-Remove any implication of romantic chemistry between Finn and Jannah.
-Remove the fact the Leia intentionally is reaching out to Kylo while he fights Rey on the Death Star. It makes it seem like she is trying to distract him and get him killed. Leia just passes away and that distracts Kylo.
-Remove “The weapon of a Jedi deserves more respect” mostly because of the awful delivery.
-Remove flashback to young Luke and Leia.
-Reduce the “remember this?” vibe of the 'lifting the x-wing scene.
-Remove destruction of Kjimi. Mainly to have who’s operating the Sith Star Destroyers be more vague.
-Remove Finn’s VO when Rey is flying to Exegol.
-Remove Nebula around Exegol? To explain all the ships at the end getting there so easily?
-We see Palpatine when Rey first meets him. He doesn’t welcome her home or talk about family. Maybe some of the removed dialogue from the opening can be used here, maybe the name drop of “The Final Order” can be here.
-If it’s at all possible, remove/reduce The Fleet Moment.
-Remove Palpatine shooting lightening up into the sky if possible.
-Remove Ben’s kiss and him fading away.
-Have the movie end with the celebration, with Kylo walking into the distance, or something.
I’m forgetting a lot, so don’t take this as final or even possible.