So in summing it up… even after
watchingsitting through that 2-hour video linked by G&G-Fan, the RocketJump video is not “literally a lie”, or anything like it.
It is though. They lied about George editing the rough cut (he didn’t; and before you say that they never said Goerge edited the rough cut, it’s heavily implied and it’s what I and everybody else thought upon initially seeing the video), they lied about the reactions of the people who watched the rough cut, they lied about the editors being the ones to decide to remove the early Luke scenes, they lied about the reasons the Death Star scenes were moved later and framed the original arrangement as absolutely ridiculous when in reality, sometimes they actually did work (like having the scene with Vader torturing Leia right after the plea for help), and straight up lied that Marcia Lucas came up with the idea that the Death Star was going to destroy the Rebel base. Many times they credit the editors for “ingenious ideas” and it simply isn’t true.
And if you want to claim that The Making of Star Wars and all of the others books written about the production of Star Wars he referenced (which were all written by people OTHER then George Lucas) are lies and there’s massive conspiracy going on, then fine, but I’m going to trust actual peer-written published material over “Dude(s) trust me”. I guess all of those scripts are lies too. But the 12 minute video that barely bothers to pull quotes, that’s the stuff!
…Does Nerdonymous think that the bloopers should have remained in the movie? I’d really like an explanation from Servii and G&G-Fan for why they think this guy isn’t (pardon my French) a fucking moron.
I’ll probably respond more to this later, but since this one is obvious, I’ll just say it right now. He’s being sarcastic. No, he doesn’t think the bloopers should’ve remained in the movie. He’s pointing out that it isn’t “ingenious” of the editors that they didn’t use those takes.