GoodMusician said:a more radical cut? Oh you mean like completely restructuring the films? Yea... I've seen some... I guess I'm just the kind of guy who prefers something a little more...cinematic.
Most people would hope to maintain the cinematic sweep (or put it in depending on your point of view) even if they are making really dramatic changes.
As for your edited sequences, the music (as one would expect) fits so much better, most of your restructuring decisions are very successful.
I would be even more bold with cutting away the the more silly aspects of Palpatine/Sidious.
As the puppeter Ian McDiamid can't be beat as the mad raving drooling loon he is far less interesting.
I wish Lucas had come up with a different explanation of why Palpatine looks the way he does in ROTJ (it would have made so much more sense if that was his true face which is eaten away by the power he wields and the less weird one was a mask, than a nasty accident with a lightning blow back).
Perhaps a Mr Hyde morph would work better?
Mace too could be cut down even more to make him genuinely surprised that Anakin has done the right thing in reporting Palpatine to him and even show respect for him. Later do we need to see him crying out so much (it doesn't seem like pain either more like Sithish rage)? Just have Anakin disarm him and then have Palpatine shoot him out of the window. The more sudden and violent the betrayal the more shocking for Anakin the aftershock. He is suddenly in too deep to step back from the abyss.
The battle droids really need shutting up and toning down, I'd rather have a real Anakin looking down a lift shaft twice as long than an obviously CGI droid hitting another while sounding like cartoon character. I'm going to copy this over to the Radical Redux Thread too because much of your editing choices are really worth looking at even if you are looking to really shake the films up.