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STAR WARS: The Torrents thread — Page 9

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Woah. Balance of the Force is already up? That was quick.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
Woah. Balance of the Force is already up? That was quick.



Nope - it was on time - I had posted a torrent release schedual on myspleen.com.....


AND Myspleen.com is back up the server for myspleen.net is down

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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Cool, Rikter...I got all worried LFL came down with a sickening "thud" on your spleen for providing us with so many goodies.
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I'm in the middle of watching the avi rip of MagnoliaFan's Ep1 edit.

Wow. This is very great editing. I like how he not only *removed* stuff (ala Phantom edit) but added some interesting things in as well.
Things like Jar Jar thinking *he* saved *Qui Gon's* life, adding new minor lines and audio for Watto from the N64 Podracing game, and including the deleted waterfall scene from the DVD.

I'll post a full review when I'm done. I would LOVE to have a DVDr of this. Excellent work, MagnoliaFan.

My stance on revising fan edits.

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I just finished downloading the MagnoliaFan edit in like an hour, but now it doesn't work. How do I get it to play?
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I too, would love a DVDr of this great fan edit.

Glad to see everything is cool with www.myspleen.com. It's one of my favorite sites.
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All right, nevermind, I got it working now.

EDIT: Actually, I can't get any sound on it. Can anyone help me out here?
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Originally posted by: Spyder X
All right, nevermind, I got it working now.

EDIT: Actually, I can't get any sound on it. Can anyone help me out here?


Try playing it with VLC Media Player

Han: Hey Lando! You kept your promise, right? Not a scratch?
Lando: Well, what’s left of her isn’t scratched. All the scratched parts got knocked off along the way.
Han (exasperated): Knocked off?!

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You probably don't have the right codec.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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I got the sound working now. It was indeed a codec problem. Now everything should work normally (but knowing my luck, something else is gonna go wrong and I'm gonna come back here for help and then figure it out again ).
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Originally posted by: Spyder X
All right, nevermind, I got it working now.

EDIT: Actually, I can't get any sound on it. Can anyone help me out here?


I saw that you did get it too play

I just wanted to remind everyone this is a XVID video codec and AC3 digital audio

BY the way does anyone here have a HTPC or a audio card with digital out to check if it is 5.1?

MagnoliaFan was awesome and very supportive of me posting this torrent and help get the DVDr's out.

THANKS MagFan for giving me the okay to post this!

Thanks and Enjoy guys!

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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The Divx player workes GREAT for me!

RiK

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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Originally posted by: Rikter
Okay kids this is my tentative and cvrrent BIT torrent vpload schedvle...

- Sept. 3rd.... The TR47 Return of the Jedi - DVD

- Sept. 10th.... The Phantom Re-Edit 1.2 (MagnoliaFan Remaster) - XVID

- Sept. 18th.... The Journal of the Whills: UNAUTHORIZED MAGNOLIAFAN COLLECTION - EPISODE I: The Balance of the Force - XVID

- Sept. 25th.... The Journal of the Whills: UNAUTHORIZED MAGNOLIAFAN COLLECTION - EPISODE II: The Clone War - XVID

Was the torrent for "The Phantom Re-edit" posted yet? Or should we look for it next week since "The Balance of the Force" is up? Just curious. I'm looking forward to watching all of MagnoliaFan's edits.

BTW, thanks for all your hard work Rikter! If everyone else is only half as appreciative as I am, then I'm twice as appreciative as everyone else. Either way, your efforts are greatly appreciated!
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Originally posted by: Rikter
Okay kids this is my tentative and cvrrent BIT torrent vpload schedvle...

- Sept. 3rd.... The TR47 Return of the Jedi - DVD

- Sept. 10th.... The Phantom Re-Edit 1.2 (MagnoliaFan Remaster) - XVID

- Sept. 18th.... The Journal of the Whills: UNAUTHORIZED MAGNOLIAFAN COLLECTION - EPISODE I: The Balance of the Force - XVID

- Sept. 25th.... The Journal of the Whills: UNAUTHORIZED MAGNOLIAFAN COLLECTION - EPISODE II: The Clone War - XVID


Thats why I was surprised it was up this early.


"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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THANKS GUYS for the very awesome support!

Yea, I had to shuffle them around a bit for reasons that get too nutty to get into

I will be posting a new schedule soon

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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Hmm... think you could bump Clone War up to the 18th? Anyway awesome editing, Magnolia, and of course Rik, you're awesome for letting this out for free. That really is a huge improvement over TPM, however no amount of editing can ever make that film "good" to me. But at least this is adequately passable compared to TPM (which was shit). Again, no offense whatsoever to Magnolia, he did an amazing job, it is a problem in the source material entirely.

One complaint: how many "Hell's," "Bastards" and "Shits" were you planning on inserting into a Star Wars movie? That one film had more swearing than the entire OT! And all by, of all creatures, Jar Jar! I don't mind the first two as much, but JJ's "Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!" during the Battle of Naboo was a little much for me. Not that I mind swearing, Pulp Fiction and Scarface were fuckin' awesome, but not in a Star Wars movie...

--edit--

Oh, and is your torrent of Clone War going to have the corrected opening crawl? I heard the original (Magnolia's original, that is) spelled a word as "seceed" when it should be "secede" and I also heard he made a new version which corrects this. Is that the one you have or not?
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This is the best of any sort of re-edit of TPM I've ever seen. By far.

The traditional "Phantom Edit" (which looks to have the quality of a VHS tape recovered from the 1920s) simply cuts and swipes to cut out annoying or pointless contect.
But Blance of the Force not only removes, it changes and even adds as well. I like how he modified Neimendions (however you spell) dialogue to suggest further brutallity towards the Naboo people. And THANK YOU for making the Gunguns bearable. I can hardly beleive it... JAR JAR DOESN'T SUCK IN THIS VERSION!! Hehe.
I'm not really sure if the podrace was *improved* or not, but it was different. I think the added shots form the deleted scene was a good idea. By the way, does anyone know where the new podrace musical score came from?
I like how he didn't cut the *entire* 'planet core' sequence, as most do. But simply cutting the last part, once it starts to get pointless. And nice inclusion of the waterfall scene from Disc 2.

The only thing I find "non-SW-ish" about it is the excessive cursing.
No Star Wars film cursed that much. And I would've kept it to "hell" and "damn". "bastard" and "shit" don't really seem Star Wars-ish to be yelling in one. But overall, 'Balance of the Force' is much better than 'The Phantom Menace'.


(And I'm glad this Phantom Edit had a decent opening crawl. I didn't like the original edit b/c it spent the valuable introduction time in BSing about how they made their edit)

My stance on revising fan edits.

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By the way, does anyone know where the new podrace musical score came from?


I think it came from the Shadows of the Empire soundtrack.
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I covered the swearing issue before...
Essentially, some of it went in since there was cursing in the OT and some of it went in as a joke in a rough cut, but got such huge laughs from the people I screened it to that when I cut it, that was their main complaint.
Besides, I figured the original Jar Jar was the most vulgar thing ever to happen to SW, so he might as well be the most vulgar character as well...
He's still well within 80's PG boundaries.

The torrent of CW will probably be delayed, as I asked Rikter not to put it up quite yet, as I am making a new version, fixing the crawl and making a few tweaks here and there....
He should have it soon, and you guys of course shortly thereafter.

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thanks alot for posting this! Can't wait...

"For Star Wars to return to its roots it must be based more on emotion than explanation."  -- J.J. Abrams

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I just put up my remix CD all by itself on myspleen.com

JUST in case anyone is interested

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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If you're tweaking Clone War, might I make a suggestion if you haven't done this already? I thought that at the end of ROTJ the Force-lightning effect was much more powerful at the end of everything (coupled with "Only now, at the end, do you understand") and having it in the prequels ruined that. Can you somehow remove all of Dooku's (rather annoyingly nonchlant, I might add) lightning? Might not be too easy, but that's my suggestion.