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Post #1562443

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kg1977
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The Empire Strikes Back - Expanded Edition (Work in Progress)
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Date created
27-Oct-2023, 1:13 PM

Finally got to watch. Nice work here. I kind of knew going into it that it would be the more raw Renegade Grindhouse version look, which clearly makes it easy to slice in the deleted scenes.

The extra bacta tank scene colorized seemed to be a half and half of red and blue tint (almost a 3D anaglyph feel) as opposed to your other colorized style. I think that was your first years ago maybe?..not sure at this point if worth it to try and do another pass, but it’s a tough scene too from a colorization standpoint.

Creative use of the General veers death. I decided not to even try that in my extended I am still working on due to the storyboard and cartoon elements, but you edited in what you could from that and it worked. I get now why the falling at-at had black smoke around it head crashing due to that removed scene…thought it worked well.

…The restored first kiss looks good, I decided to exclude out of mine and have first kiss be the deleted bespin scene with them, which was decent quality and no coloring required…but either works to include. Not sure if you can use any of that deleted scene minus the kiss or work with it?..just a thought for an additional.

There are also some additional hoth battle scenes (with the canon tank) etc. that you may want to use…For me, I am still deciding if I want to restore them as they are lower quality, but might be ok for grindhouse look.

My personal taste is the adywan/modern/clean version, but I understand what this is trying to achieve and if you do the same for New hope and jedi it will be interesting and very retro and nostalgic way to do a viewing.

Again nice job so far.