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Post #321279

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Darth Stewie
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STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
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20-Jun-2008, 10:45 AM
I'm totally against removing the balcony. In fact, I'm totally against removing most of the cloud city additions. Unlike the wampa additions, I think that most of these were great. Just because they were in the special edition doesn't mean that it was bad or even unnecessary. I never liked the claustrophobic feel of cloud city. To me, it always seemed like a compromise of film making for the time. In 97', I went "Ah Ha! They finally fixed that!" when I saw it on screen. We can't be such purists since this series of fan edits are altering the original in a ton of different ways, not just fixing errors.

And by the by, I was thinking last night about whether or not Ady would indeed do his edit for the entire saga and it got me thinking about what that thread would be like for The Phantom Menace. I've noticed that we're all pretty civilized here but that conversation would be a bloodbath I think. I don't even want to think of the JarJar conversations or the debate over midicholorians. I've read some of the other threads that I was not involved in for other edits and those got pretty nasty at times. Since his edits are merely trying to "fix" the saga without necessarily "changing" them like all the other TPM edits, it makes me wonder what road that edit will go down. With Empire, we're pretty much all nice people here and we treat Ady with kid gloves because our fandom is hoping he can pull off the same magic he did again and we're all afraid of something bad happening (don't worry, I have faith but shit happens sometimes). But we're all talking about the "Best" movie in the series, what happens when we talk about the "worst"?

Of course, anything done to TPM will be an improvement. I've seen a couple of the edits but really, all those do is cut stuff and maybe add poorly done alien languages over Jar Jar and the Nemoidians. I can cut a movie and I'm a total amateur. I don't want a new cut, I want the movie to be "fixed". Don't ask what that means. You either know what I mean or you don't.

Ahh, I better stop. Its starting to go off on a tangent.