The ANH:SE Redux Ideas thread (Radical Ideas Welcome). — Page 19

vaderios said:

Show us your visions with pics or videos ;)

 

-Angel

On its way.

ChainsawAsh said:

That's actually pretty interesting.  Parts of it (I feel) are quite an improvement, but other parts clearly suffer from a lack of additional footage that wasn't included in the movie - there are a lot of jump cuts.  For what the guy had to work with, though, it's very well done.

I agree it seems to avoid all the worst bits (the incomplete twirl etc) and it looks better because no flip shots.

Er, what the hell was that?

The sort of load of shit that cries to be let into the worst edit ideas thread.

We can't repel fan made pointless exposition of that magnitude!

 I love the way Vader flaps like a bat while departing the scene (Tread softly because you tread on my cape).

Yeah, that was a crock, but the guy sitting on the left was kinda cute.

Ah, it's the small pleasures...

I just thought I'd point this out, maybe the bit, just after the Death Star explodes, where Luke clearly says "Carrie" to Leia, should be replaced with "Leia". It would probably require some new voice acting though...

Not that myth again, tell me you are joking, you are joking right?

I really hope that's a joke. Because if we going changing "Carrie" to "Leia" then we'll have to change the line in Empire where Han says to Luke "I must've hit pretty close to Mark..."

Like, he totally calls him Mark.

*sighs*

It's very clearly "Carrie"...

It's not, though.  He just says "HEY!" really loud, and someone thought it sounded like "Carrie," and that someone told someone else, and then everyone started hearing it, even though it's not there.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#3kZJOP/www.rathergood.com/chicken//topic:Humor

It's all Nerdish hypnotic magic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePjESN9pRdg

settled

Continued from the ANHR thread

A: R2 and 3PO never get that amount of time to themselves anywhere else in the saga, they shouldn't be as important as Luke and Biggs. We can assume they got stranded on what we can clearly see is a "desolate place" and somehow ended up in a garbage dump. We don't really need to see it all play out.

B: The Anchorhead scenes add, character development, something that Star Wars is sorely lacking it in that Empire has in droves.

However, I am suggesting this as an alternate cut, not as necessarily "Better" than the original.

I saw that Even Flow thing before, it's really funny. My favourite is the heathen frog and buttered fries.

I saw one of Celine Dion years ago:

"And I know

That

The hot dogs

Go on..."

And Mark Hamill does not say Carrie.

Octorox:

"However, I am suggesting this as an alternate cut, not as necessarily "Better" than the original"

But unless you're generally trying to improve something, then really, what's the point? Surely Star Wars fans know better than all others wher changing things for the sake of it gets you.

Sometimes a change creates a difference which is better for some and not for others (there were a few changes in Blade Runner : The Final Cut that some people love and I can't stand).

I have no objection to alternate cuts in principle (cuts which are neither clearly better or worse but just different) it adds variety to the viewing experience but they still have to make sense, I'm not sure that dropping the droids onto the planet and picking up their story in the Sandcrawler does make sense.

Seeing the Jawas at work makes sense of a situation for major characters and losing that to make room for a group of minor characters doing their thing seems to be cutting Peter's nose off to spite Paul.

I very sceptical if the footage could be restored to even VHS quality so it seems a mute point anyway but I'd love to be proved wrong.

Bingowings said:

Sometimes a change creates a difference which is better for some and not for others (there were a few changes in Blade Runner : The Final Cut that some people love and I can't stand).

I have no objection to alternate cuts in principle (cuts which are neither clearly better or worse but just different) it adds variety to the viewing experience but they still have to make sense, I'm not sure that dropping the droids onto the planet and picking up their story in the Sandcrawler does make sense.

Seeing the Jawas at work makes sense of a situation for major characters and losing that to make room for a group of minor characters doing their thing seems to be cutting Peter's nose off to spite Paul.

I very sceptical if the footage could be restored to even VHS quality so it seems a mute point anyway but I'd love to be proved wrong.

I wouldn't really consider Luke a minor character, and he's really who the scenes are about. Sometimes you need scenes that don't advance the plot but just provide characterization. Star Wars editing is very quick, there's not much down time, it would be nice to have some scenes that are just characters talking

Luke isn't a minor character but everything we see in those scenes he already tells us when he is having his blue milk strop.

So all the scenes do is show us his friends who are minor characters.

If the footage could be cleaned up enough to be presentable it would be interesting to put it back in but removing necessary footage to do it doesn't makes sense to me and I think the capture of the droids is necessary footage.

I agree with your points about cutting the droids. Seeing as the plot follows them until Luke meets them, it'd be dramatically inept to remove them.

I'm very OT interested in what you didn't like about Blade Runner: The Final Cut.