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Okay so we have watched the first 90 minutes and took a break, will be watching the rest in another sitting before the end of the week.
We had a lot of fun watching it, I enjoy the story integration and how you pulled Din in compared to the OG series. But, I will say, I was one of the people who told you “Don’t split the films into 6 and 7, do it as one film.”
However, in retrospect, I wanted you to leave a little bit more from BoBF that you cut.
- Cutting around the mods, just introducing them as Boba’s goons, works GREAT. This was the best cut easily.
However, cutting:
- I thought you should have more explicitly included the Bib Fortuna death scene. However where I would recommend putting this is the same place as the actual series. In your book 4, Luke and Grogu get in the elevator, the elevator shuts, cut to black, then, cut to Boba walking into Jabba’s palace and taking out Bib Fortuna. Just how I would do it personally, then the sequence in Book 6 could remain unchanged as just a little flashback. As it is, it feels like we never really got that scene, and it is easy to miss in the flashback sequence. (unless you actually had it in one of the previous Books and I just don’t remember).
- The rancor intro/Hutts out of the series I found odd, I thought there would be some good space there for you to edit their dialogue for sure. Especially since it seems we’re going to see those characters again in the Grogu movie.
- Cutting the mayor plot down was a bit confusing, without seeing the early meeting with him and Boba. I honestly can’t remember how that sequence played out originally.
- I liked Cad Bane’s warning to the town “Boba Fett is a cold blooded killer for the Empire.”
Overall I actually think it was really good but I would have liked it to breathe with maybe 5 or 8 minutes more of content.
But that is in the context of me watching the first half basically as a separate movie from the second half.
Cutting both into one 3 and 1/2 hour, I see why you had to cut down what you could. But as I said, in retrospect, I think this should have been an 1/45 movie by itself. I think the Boba content is not quite enough to fill 2 hours so I see why you did it this way, if you’re trying to make 2 + hour movies out of the series.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes while I do recommend the 90 minute mark for the most natural “pause” in the story, it certainly does not give a complete movie experience to only watch that section. Some more Rancor and Hutt stuff comes later on, so just keep watching 😃 I did only cut one of the mayor scenes, but it’s one that I would’ve had to completely revoice from scratch to even have a chance of using and it would have added a chunk of runtime without a lot of payoff, so for the sake of the 3.5 hour full movie it wasn’t important. With Bib Fortuna, I think having that actually in the film after Luke’s exit with Grogu would really detract from the emotional weight of that moment. There’s a reason they did the Bib thing as an end credits snippet, and I think it really only works in that format or a cut-up flashback sequence like I did. It feels wrong when placed anywhere like an actual scene since it wasn’t filmed with that intention.
And yeah overall my struggle with Book 6 was that I had not enough footage to make two solid films, but too much for one regular runtime one, so we went with the hybrid solution of one long one! I do personally have an editing rule that when I make Star Wars movies it will never be under 2 hours, so it wasn’t possible with the footage I had to work with to make 2 films according to that rule. Let me know what you think of part 2!