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Post #359781

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Jedi Dark Knight
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Ideas Thread: for... The Dark Knight edits
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Date created
12-May-2009, 9:14 PM

You see my point now and I agree to most re-edits as long as they fix continuity problems, lousy effects and that kind of thing, which I consider to be improvements that the filmmakers just forgot to address, in that spirit, fan edits can be wonderful. Now you mention that some fan edits can spur from personal taste and the editors desire of changing something that didn't sit well with them, and that case as you elocuently say: "EVERYTHING is about opinion and personal taste". Now I believe that if you disagree with something that is objective (continuity problem) that can be fixed, but if you disagree with a personal taste of the Editor then tough...as I said above nothing can be done, you can reason to a degree, but in the end the taste of the editor is what is going to go down in the edit.

I was indeed against an editing of TDK as I think it is a perfect movie, but now that you mention it there are two ways to go at it: editing mistakes (which I think there are none) or changing out of taste (in that case I can't say a thing). I was as you put it on the "Well, your complaint is unfounded..." mindset because I was going with the "continuity problems" fixes, but I got the idea that you wanted to change plot...that I don't think can be done..or should be done (the only exception being SW since the PT should have obeyed what the OT said about those events *clone wars and the like* but that's a different discussion) because that's the movie in the end...But ok.

I'm sorry I was indeed all jumpy and aggressive too, but you are right, the editor has the right to do whatever he wishes to do....Reasoning tastes is a death-end street.  :)