Originally posted by: Nanner Split
MagnoliaFan's "Balance of the Force" and "The Clone Wars", which are edits of TPM and AOTC respectively, were my introduction to fan-edits, and they're both fantastic. I'd also keep my eye on Trooperman's "Shroud of the Dark Side" if I were you; it hasn't been released yet (I think the current deadline is March, but TM says he won't release it any later than May 25) but it looks to be the most ambitious fan edit to date.

Plus I provided a voice for it.

Yes, I have kept up on Trooperman's AOTC edit since the beginning. I think that was before I even registered. I remember thinking he was some silly kid who thought he could redub the film with a PC mic. After seeing his first screens of the naboo scene where he color corrected it to be night time, I decided he wasn't as silly as I thought. I am definately looking forward to it.

I never liked Magnolia Fans edits that much. The whole changing the story so much never really seemed to work that well, and the dubbing of Jar Jar was a bit too extreme. Make him tolerable, don't try to make him a badass, it is a step too far in making him something he was never intended to be. The reversed language has always bothered me.

It is interesting to see how many people feel exactly as I do about fanedits. I feel exactly like Reverend Beastly. A lot of films didn't make sense for an edit in the first place. War of the Worlds could have benefited, but instead they pushed it further from the book, even going as far as to remove the few references to the book the movie had.