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MagnoliaFan
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MagnoliaFan Edits: Ep I "Balance Of The Force", and Ep II "The Clone War" (Released)
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21-Oct-2005, 8:24 PM
That version of Clone War is actually pretty obselete now. I began working on what was intended to be a cleaned up DL dvd release of the original edit and suddenly found myself going in a re-editing my re-edit. Since I completed CW before Balance, my skills weren't exactly at their peak when I made it the first time. There were a lot of bad dialogue moments that I couldn't think of ways to tighten up at the time, which came pretty easily now. The new CW will be out in the relatively near future.

But I have another DVDR+DL piece of childhood raping fun that will be out much sooner:

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - MAGNOLIAFAN SPECIAL EDITION
The film itself is the 2004 dvd version with a subtle overhaul.
There are two versions of the score to choose from (more info below).
Two lines were trimmed a tad to fit with the whole concept of viewing 1-6 in order and preserving what was voted as the second greatest moment in the history of cinema. The omissions are not really all that noticable.
The Wampa scene has been recut to match the original theatrical version stylistically but with the visual effects (well, 1 shot, anyway) of the Special Edition, and all of the sound effects have been resynched, as most of the scene's sound effects were all screwed up.
Han gets "the shelter built".
Obi-Wan's ghost now has an alternate line, telling Luke of Yoda, "A Jedi Master that instructed me".
The "first transport is away" voice from the theatrical version has been restored.
Artoo "doesn't taste very good".
Two versions of the Fett man to choose from. (more info below)
Vader's audience with the Emperor has been re-cut to match the flow of the original, and the Emperor's hologram has been darkened to better match the look of the original scene. Also, though completely by accident, a new plot twist was introduced to the OT. The reason why the Emperor has no problem letting Vader and Luke potentially kill each other makes a little more sense.
The "Who are you!?" stormtrooper who blasts Threepio's voice has been restored from the original edition.
The amazing disappearing window in Cloud City has been removed.
The sabers are all fixed.
Vader no longer asks to "Alert his star destroyer". The original "bring my shuttle" line has been restored. The last few frames of the shot are cut so that he is no longer walking out to the landing platform. All of the SE "Vader travelling to the Star Destroyer" scenes are cut except one shot of the shuttle in flight.
There are a few other little things here and there, but that is all of the noticable stuff.

Special Features thus far Include:
-Watch the film with the vintage Boba Fett voice or a digitally tweaked version of Morrison's 2004 voice, altered to closer match the original in speech patterns and performance
-Watch the film with either Boba Fett voice and your choice of the original theatrical score, or with all of the deleted music cues restored into the film
- Vintage Laserdisc Audio Commentary Track
- 2004 Audio Commentary Track
- Isolated Score
- 2 Deleted / Alternate Scenes
- A Couple Goofy Easter Eggs

The one thing I was thinking about working more on is that the LD commentary is pretty weak. There are LONG stretches of silence between comments. Anyone around here have any good sound bites from the cast and/or crew to add into the dead spaces to fill it out? Hammil, Ford, Fisher, and Billy Dee would be especially great to mix into it.