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Post #359656

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Jedi Dark Knight
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JasonN's PT FanEdits (Attack of the Federation, Twilight of the Republic, & The Black Knight Rises) (Released) ** Revised V3 Cuts In The Works
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Date created
12-May-2009, 1:53 PM

I downloaded AOTF and TOTR and while AOTF was a VERY good fanedit with just a few minor flaws in your work TOTR was more prone to those flaws and I was a bit less satisfied. AOTF is almost flawless and I say almost because there are a couple of moments when you don't understand the reaction of the characters, case in point: when Qui-Gon jumps to the ship he tells about Darth Maul to OB1 and introduces Anakin, in your edit Obi and Ani just shake hands and that's it, but then it cuts to Qui-Gon getting a surprised smile that you don't get where it comes from. Of course you know in the back of your mind it's because Anakin's remark about the Jedi, but in you edit Qui-Gon's reaction seems out of place. Similar things happen in the Jedi Council scenes. As I said I liked AOTF a lot, Anakin seems more mature (in spite of jake lloyds looks and acting) but things like that momentarily take you out of the movie. I would have liked if you had done minor things like adding a droid language to the battledroids like the one the imperial  probe droid had on Hoth, certain scenes look ackward with the droids looking at each other silent, I agree there's no need for those stupid "roger roger" dialogues, but maybe an "alien" language that is creepy enough...like that probe droid sounds....same could go for the Neimoidians, with subtitles, their sounds could be more threatening...and it would enhance your edit more.

Now TOTR is a whole different cookie, you see more and more of those moments I said, especially during the Anaking / Padme scenes. Certain things that are set at the begining of the film are gone, like the whole Kamino finding: since there's no Dex and Obi-Wan can't find the planet at the archives are we to suppose that he just embarked on a wild goose chase? why would he go there? it just doesn't click. It's tricky since while you watch the edits you are playing the originals in your mind so sometimes you complete certain things to understand the plot, other times you just let go and take only your edit and you realize something is not making sense. Same goes for the duel scene. As your edit goes Count Dooku dispatches 2 JEDI single handedly and then for no reason he escapes while Padme is just arriving. In the original we know it's because Yoda just owned him, but since in your edit Yoda never came to the rescue, Dooku could've taken out both Jedi, Padme and the Clones.....it doesn't make sense why he would escape. And there are other moments like that where the editing just doesn't click. Maybe you can look into it and achieve something like AOTF....my 2 cts.