C3PX said:
EyeShotFirst said:
I have a love for Star Wars and I have been a fan since way before special editions or prequels and I can't find a single way to save them. My best idea turns them into an un-soggy shit sandwhich. I guess the best thing to do is what many of the older members like anchorhead do and just forget they even exist. To me and to many others the last Star Wars movie was ROTJ. I tried to defend them. But I cannot any longer.
Bravo! Join the ranks of those of us who have decided not to care about the PT at all. I am sorry I ever spent time caring about them and wishing they were better when it is so easy to just write them off and ignore them. I used to be sure one day some wonderful edit would come along and make them watchable, but I have long since realized there just isn't anything there to work with. There is a good reason we have never seen a Revenge of the Sith edit from the original two best known names in fan editing, Magnoliafan and The Phantom Editor. Other editors have tried, but there is just no way to fix that film. The PT is really in the state where the only fix is to delete and start over, but since that isn't an option, simply deleting it in your own mind is the best option.
I feel fan edits made a lot of us hold onto the prequels far longer than we should have. They gave us this false sense of hope. Remember when other film series had unfortunately bad sequel made for them? Seemed nobody had a problem just forgetting about them and ignoring them. Had the idea of fan edits not come around, many of us would have done the same with the prequels. With a few edits, The Phantom Menace became watchable and even somewhat enjoyable. We were amazed at this, and feeling sure that Ep 2 would be a better film to start with anyway, things looked pretty bright. Unfortunately, the other two films are a whole lot worse and have severe problems that no amount of editing can fix. Almost feels like ol' George felt so urked by fanedits that he decided to set about making Ep3 100% uneditable, saturating it with so much crap and awfulness that no amount of editing could remove anything like a significant amount of it.
It is easier just to let go and forget about them. You'll be a happier person for it.
We were amazed at this, and feeling sure that Ep 2 would be a better film to start with anyway, things looked pretty bright. Unfortunately, the other two films are a whole lot worse and have severe problems that no amount of editing can fix.
Yeah, I don't get the attitude that TPM is the worst and the others are better. Screwed up as TPM is, the other two are light years worse. TPM is a bad film that can't be taken seriously as proper Star Wars, but the later two prequels have a sort of mastery of crappiness that is quite incredible.
Almost feels like ol' George felt so urked by fanedits that he decided to set about making Ep3 100% uneditable, saturating it with so much crap and awfulness that no amount of editing could remove anything like a significant amount of it.
lol.