Bingowings said:

muddyknees2000 said:

The opening crawl says there's a war on......the reveal is already done....no need to clumsily hide it visually as well.

The only way to keep a reveal would be to completely change the composition of the shot......and that is a LOT of work when all you need to do to remove the error is to put the battle in behind the SD in the pan down.

The only other film to have something interesting happen at the beginning is ANH.

And I don't mean just action I mean visual story telling.

Here we see Coruscant, the crystal calm heart of the Republic and after a second of serenity, the reality, the war has made it even to there.

The PT gets so much wrong and is so visually dull it should be acknowledged when it attempts to do something interesting.

Where it fails it should be helped to succeed.

The baby shouldn't be thrown out with the bath water.

As for the crawl, are those words set in stone?

I really hope the ROTJ crawl is altered as well as pretty much every PT one.

Can't say I disagree...I was simply looking at it from a workload point of view, AND...speaking of re-editing it...the film WILL work better once its been Revisited....so it will have other big moments, thus reducing our need to remain attached to THIS specific one.