I hardly think it’s analogous to a scoop of feces. Poppasketti seems to have done a fine job with it.
I think any fanedit made by someone who hates the film they are editing is destined to fail. The best fanedits are made by those who have the ability to be critical but still have at least some respect and affection for the source material, as well as regard for the filmmaker’s vision.
This is a lot nicer than what I would have said…
As a lover of this movie, I’m going to try not to come from a defensive place. It’s fine that it didn’t work for you. But the reason to “fanfix” a film is because you feel the film has potential, and that its potential can be brought out through editing. It sounds like you don’t have respect or admiration for any aspect of this movie, so you might as well save yourself the time by just not watching it.
Wow, I didn’t expect to come back from the move to address some controversy, but I guess I need to talk about this before it gets worse.
Here’s the thing. I am not a big “fan” of the whole “if you were a real fan you would love it” line of logic. I’m sure it’s well-intentioned, but it suffers too much from the “no true scotsman” fallacy, and it raises too many questions on who or what a fan even is. If I were a Batman fan, for example, does that mean I have to like Batman & Robin in order to fix it? Let’s reverse it. If I liked Batman & Robin, but I didn’t like anything else related to Batman, does that mean I’m a “real” fan and all those other people who love the mythology of Bruce Wayne are not? I personally would say no, but that’s debatable. The point is that there is no clear definition of who does and doesn’t count as a fan, and I think it’s arrogant to assume that you know who does.
I’m not going to pretend that I’m editing TLJ because I have warm and fuzzy feelings for it (although I suppose I was being too harsh on the main topic, so I guess it needs a rewrite), but I am editing the film as a Star Wars fan, and as a fan of cinema. Personally, I think those two criteria are good enough to call this a fanfix, which is what the term means. I’m a fan, and I’m fixing it.
Also, any fanedit made by someone who hates the film they are editing is destined to fail? On what evidence? I don’t know what edits you’re watching, GLogus, but we aren’t watching the same ones, honey. I’ve seen plenty of edits that were made by people who weren’t “in love” with the film itself. The Phantom Editor is one notorious example that comes to mind, and he has stated both in his opening crawl and in his own commentary that he edited Episode I due to his own (and many other fans) disappointment with the film. An attitude that I’m utilizing for this version of Episode VIII.