Think about how it would feel in the larger context, watching the entire scene, let alone the entire movie, would you really notice if Disney released it that way and that’s what was official?
100% yes. Sorry. Just being honest.
You excluded the second part of my comment where I explained that I only think that one first line works fine “there’s been a lot of that”, and that yes obviously some of the other dialogue tests were too noticable. I still think the one where she gets cut off also has potential.
But still, I’m inclined to disagree with you. You truly believe that if you walked into that theater absolutely clueless of any edits, lets also say Carrie Fisher was alive, and so when you heard the first line I talked about it would instantly take you out of the movie and you’d throw your finger at the screen “that’s been edited!”? Overdubs and vocal performances in movies aren’t always pitch perfect with so many factors that go into making a movie and they slip through into so many scenes that we don’t even usually notice, for example I was watching over the hobbit and there’s an audible dub mistake when Thranduil says “I can see you know nothing of wizards” where it’s clearly been spliced together with ADR, yet, not a single soul on the YouTube comments has ever mentioned it, not a single person walked out of that theater thinking, hmm, the dialogue recording seemed off, and the only way you’ll notice is if you pull it and play it over and over analyzing the audio, basically like what we’re doing right now. This’ll be my last comment on the matter as Hal doesn’t want to include these but I felt like it did deserve some discussion and defense of Jar Jar, instead of just jumping to “it’s terrible.” Just like real editors and filmmakers (who can’t always reshoot and rerecord), sometimes it’s okay to have a trade off of boosting the narrative and characters while subtracting some technical perfection, but a certain bar still has to be met, which I think is possible with one or two of the discussed dialogue additions.