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Post #412728

Author
Nicholas J. Michalak
Parent topic
The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Date created
4-May-2010, 12:24 AM

Upon doing my own EPISODE II fan edit, on frame-by-frame analysis, the editing of the Anakin-Dooku lightsaber fight in that movie is atrocious!  NOTHING matches from shot-to-shot.  I mean NOTHING!  The movements and positioning of both changes radically, against the laws of time and physics even, in each cut.  These are precisely choreographed fights with them doing the same moves over and over again in every take from every angle - how do you fuck this up?!  And the CGI pasted face of Christopher Lee over his fight/stunt double is really bad.  It's obviously fake.

I wish someone could grab hold of the raw footage, and re-edit it like a competent editor would.  No real way of fixing this, otherwise.  This is ridiculous, and Ben Burtt should be ashamed of himself!

-NJM