So at least for this nerf herder, I might prefer an edit that doesn’t remove nearly as much (and that’s coming from someone who’s actually okay with excising existing shots/scenes [within reason of course, lol]) as I’d want certain scenes to have both flow and still make enough sense for a first-time viewer - even if it might mean keeping some of the flaws (and that’s where Ady often applies his magical brush at concealing much of that!). Otherwise, I still very much enjoyed this, Joy! Thank you for sharing it and I’m sure Ady will see something in there that works for his vision 😉 I look forward to seeing more of your clips!
And Joy, if you’re at all interested and have plenty of free time (emphasis on “plenty”), I invite you to take a gander through my ROTJ wishlist. There you can see much of my thoughts regarding ROTJ and understand my take on certain scenes (including what I think can be deleted/trimmed) and, who knows, perhaps there’s something in there you’ll like for your future editing 😃
Haha, I totally get y’all’s concerns on the pacing/lack of setup. I think the thing to keep in mind with my cuts are that I’m doing all six of Georges films at the same time to align all of them, so the Jabba setup has already happened in the Phantom Menace’s Podrace scene. I also MASSIVELY reworked Dagobah in Empire, so that the single scene of Yoda’s Death would make sense in Jedi (I’m trying to do a Dark Crystal style setup where the first scene sets up the Emperor, and the second scene is the death of the eldest mystic (Yoda)). Because you’ve seen so much of Yoda in the Prequels, and you know from the Prequels that Vader is Luke’s daddy, you don’t need the bit where Yoda confirms this (I’m pretty sure that scene was put into Vanilla Jedi because so many folks were convinced Vader was lying at the end of Empire). In short, the Yoda scene doesn’t feel too short in the scale of the full saga, but it would be WAY too short/unsatisfying, if you don’t have the Prequels.
FYI I was never actually arguing that Ady should use my recut for his version of Jedi (I don’t think it will match at all with the other two, lol). I was just trying to give an example of how you can indeed effectively start on Dagobah, if you want to. 😉
I don’t have a ton of free time at the moment, but go on you can PM me anyway. I just can’t promise that I’ll look it over in a timely manner.
As far as Jedi being the best of all six, I know that sounds ridiculous, but I think you can actually get it pretty stinking close to the level of VI and V, with the just the material from the Vanilla Cut. If you wanna see more of that, I’d hop over to my thread (right now we’re talking Attack of the Clones, but we’ll eventually get to recutting the Sail Barge, the Final Duel, and other cool Jedi stuff, and I really don’t wanna sidetrack Ady’s thread down a rabbit hole, haha!).
Cheers!
-JoE