That said, listening to the actual audio that's replaced the alien speech is pretty grating after a while.
This is really my only real problem with Magnoliafan's edit. Honestly, I understand the situation he's in. Unless he knows some talented voice actors and feels like redubbing all the alien lines, it's a much easier solution. That said though, I always find reversed dialogue instantly recognizable as such, and it pulls me out of the film a bit.
Also, because of the sheer amount of alien dialogue that your re-write requires, suddenly everyone in the movie seems like an expert in alien languages, answering races they've never met as if they were speaking English. Part of what was cool about Han speaking wookie was that you knew it was rare for a human to do... sort of similar with Anakin speaking Huttese. This isn't a huge deal though.
This is really my only real problem with Magnoliafan's edit. Honestly, I understand the situation he's in. Unless he knows some talented voice actors and feels like redubbing all the alien lines, it's a much easier solution. That said though, I always find reversed dialogue instantly recognizable as such, and it pulls me out of the film a bit.
Also, because of the sheer amount of alien dialogue that your re-write requires, suddenly everyone in the movie seems like an expert in alien languages, answering races they've never met as if they were speaking English. Part of what was cool about Han speaking wookie was that you knew it was rare for a human to do... sort of similar with Anakin speaking Huttese. This isn't a huge deal though.
I have to disagree there. One of my favourite conceipts of the OT was that everybody seemed to understand eachother regardless of languge. Han/Greedo, Han/Chewie, Obiwan/Chewie, Lando/Nien Numb, Luke/Jabba. It's one of the things I missed in the prequels.