lev_arris said:
i was wondering what you think about his take on the prequels. i liked the way he overdubbed gungans and feds, and the story-changes that came along with that. however: since i prefer your edit as a whole, i was just curious to know if you were in any way considering to incorporate some of his ideas into a possible future re-do of your edits?
I'm not really a fan of MagnoliaFan's edits - he had some interesting ideas here and there, but I thought the alien redubbing was poorly executed (it's a nice idea, but my hearing can tell too often when the voices have been changed due to imperfections in the soundtrack, sound effects, etc), I utterly HATED the Jar-Jar dialogue rewrites (no character should be saying "sh*t" or calling a child a "little bastard" in a SW movie, in my opinion), and he should've edited a lot more crap out of the films.
Jedi Dark Knight said:
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.
I mentioned this all before numerous times, but I'm not changing the Trade Federation voices - I felt it was too difficult (if not outright impossible) to do redub the aliens in a 5.1 surround mix at a quality that was 100% seemless and that I was 100% satisfied with (again, it's one of the reasons why I don't care for MF's edit).
Jedi Dark Knight said:
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.
Same reasons that Akwat Kbrana listed.
Jedi Dark Knight said:
You do realize that those arguments actually prevent any improvement? I hate the "pleased to meet you" crap too but something could be done, like cutting the line down to "you are a jedi too?" and then going to Qui-Gon, or cutting it to "pleased to meet you" downing the pitch and leaving it....I mean just cutting won't do it, some "Adywan-style" reworkings (like FX, sound, etc) must be done.....
And the great name of Adywan is brought into the thread, once again making me and all other faneditors seem like complete and utter pigsh*t in the presence of the supreme god-child... :P
On a serious note, just cutting one line out of Anakin's sentence or pitching his voice to be lower does not change the fact that "You're a Jedi too? Please to meet you!" is a terrible crap-ass of a scene and the sequence DOES WORK BETTER without it (I also don't think Qui-Gon's reaction is out of place either, but whatever...)