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So I finally sat down to watch it and…
buddy, you NAILED IT. Made the movie so much more enjoyable. Kudos to you, really! This is 100% my definitive version of TFA to have on my collection from now on.
Out of all things, I was vastly impressed on how much better the climax / final act got to be with the rearranging. Rey’s sith eyes was the cherry on the cake.Hope you don’t mind some nitpicks, those are my notes of things I thought could be improved whilst watching it:
The “from the shadows of an imperial fortress” at the opening crawl doesn’t make any sense. What fortress? There’s never been anything in that regard afaik. Also, this kinda of implies that they all came suddenly from a single place at a specific time, and there’s no way the first order hasn’t been around for at least a good while and scattered all around. I mean, they turned Ilum into a giant space weapon, right? So I feel like something on the likes of “from the shadows of imperial remnants” would be more simple and effective, and less in-universe confusing.
Literally the only rough edit I noticed in the entire flick was the first time Rey interacted with Unkar Plutt. Could really tell something was amiss there.
It’s been a while since I’ve watched the original, so maybe that’s on me, but I didn’t really notice much difference on Jakku’s new color grade, still looked the same to me.
With this new AI voiceover around, would it be possible to change “the republic” to “the new republic” whenever it’s said during the movie? Or at least here and there, a couple times? I think they only say NEW REPUBLIC once, and that’s kinda of the name of the new regime, so it always bothered me.
Any way to improve / modify the infamous “a good question. for another time” line? Still feels like a middle finger hurled at the spectator’s face that went absolutely nowhere at the end.
The one big change I would suggest. The reveal of Kylo being Han/Leia’s son when these two first gather didn’t really do it for me. Hard to explain, maybe the soundtrack, the pacing, the cinematography, but to me that was blatantly not the intended moment of the reveal. If you take their conversation - “I saw him. Leia, I saw our son. He was here” - and remove the middle (leaving “I saw him. Leia, he was here”) to keep the suspense for a little longer and then reveal it to the audience when Snoke teases Kylo be calling him Solo, I feel like that would be way more impactful. Again, just a suggestion. Maybe it wouldn’t work at all, idk lmao.
How does Finn know that Rey was taken specifically to Starkiller base and that they must go there to rescue her?
Possible to reduce the massive THUMP sound effect from when Kylo first puts his mask down? That exaggerated sound effect made it look like he wears a helmet that weights about 2000 pounds.
Kylo’s “forgive me” while visiting the falcon is SO unnecessary and it really ruined the moment to me. It was a very strong scene that needed absolutely nothing said. It actually reminded me of Vader’s infamous “no…! noooo…!!” from RotJ bluray.
TOO much time between Chewie blowing up the oscilator and the x-wings noticing the new hole they could now enter to attack. Maybe split that scene up and put the first half before Rey and Finn face off against Kylo?
I loved the MCUish dumb humor trimmed down. Only joke I would have tried to remove was the “that one, no! no!, no!” between Rey and Finn at the falcon. But I know that humor is extremely subjective.
Anyways, I hope you don’t take these “criticisms” the wrong way. Just trying to get us fans the most absolutely perfect version of TFA possible. But you already made a marvelous job, have no doubt!
Hey mr. Nev, wondering if any of this that I posted earlier this year was of any use in the plans of your v2? Can’t state how much I loved your work with TFA!
