InfoDroid said:TheBoost said:I think what Phantom Editor did was great... he edited the movie as an editor. He didn't try to re-write it...
Well SOMEONE has to. Someone has to make it right. Lucas certainly didn't. The Prequels could have used a few re-writes. And now that the technology is available to us at home, what's wrong with trying to make it better? Of course, "better" is subjective. But what I've noticed over the years is that this board is heavy on people with opinions and light on people with any sort of real technical or artistic skill. So what you end up with is a group of people with talent being critiqued and many times discouraged by those who really don't have much talent at all.
That's kind of my point. I think what Phantom Editor did was can be seen almost objectively as improvements to the film, from a technical film-editing standpoint. I don't know how many other fan-editors could have 4 hours of commentary track justifying each change they made without just voicing their opinions on things.
On the other hand, if someone wants to make Boba Fett a Jedi and have General Grivous beat ObiWan in a fight or whatever, and have the skills to pull it off, more power to them. If you want to digitally paint out Mas Amada or speed up the Asteroid Field chase in ESB and add the Benny Hill music, go for it. I can like or dislike those ideas, and whoever is doing them can tell me to fuck off I suppose. It's all subjective.
I've never made a fan-edit of note. I think a website 100% populated by people who aren't billionaires from creating their own internationally beloved film franchise yet who spend their time critiquing someone who did, cannont play the 'if you can't do it, you can't talk about it' card.
I like spinning starfields, and I hope Adywan decided to leave it in his ESB:R. If I can't express that opinion, then I ask what the point of a disccussion board is? If I'm a dick about it, then I should be ignored for being a dick, not for having a different subjective opinion about a film.
And for what it's worth, I like the PT more than most on this board, yet I am very interested in seeing The Starkiller Sage, just to see what they managed to pull off with their radical ideas.