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Post #789722

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Drakul
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Star Wars Episode III: Labyrinth Of Evil (Released)
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Date created
19-Sep-2015, 1:41 PM

For sure, you wouldn't want your final version to leave anything to desire in technical / visual terms. Just in terms of edits and choices. I read all of your threads for the PT and your changes mostly seems fine to me (hard to say until I watch them of course).

For ep1 it seems you reverted some changes anyway (like the "negotiations were short!", always loved that line) and the rest to me is hit or miss I guess. I actually like the underwater scene, find it visually striking and a nice change of pace (like Kamino in ep2) but I don't like the Gungan antics and the submarine part would make no sense without what follows so I guess it's a casualty of war. Likewise I don't dislike the Numenorians so I don't care either way about those changes but I'm curious to see how it feels with your changes. Most of the rest I approve and excited to check out.

Ep2 is my least favorite of the saga, I dislike how Anakin is such a brat to Obi-Wan and you changed that (btw if you want the best representation of Anakin watch the Clone Wars). I'm not against the romance but the excution left much to be desired especially the frolic in the meadow, the sand and the AWFUL music cut when they stop kissing. ugh. Also not a huge fan of the sequence from the arena to the sandstorm fight, it's too messy, too... 'bullish'. I like the Dex part but that's minor so we'll see.

Ep3 to me doesn't need much changing apart from the way Anakin is acting too angry all the time, feels like a forced thing to justify him becoming Vader by the end of the movie. I'm curious to see the Padme lives ending since I never saw it and the "noooooo" never bothered me as much as others since the visuals of him force breaking everything adds a lot to the gravity of the scene. Likewise the Death Star cameos, while unnecessary are a cool little wink to the OT.

Anyway enough rambling :P

One more question though. I noticed you mentioned in a thread that you recommend the 720p version over the 1080p so that the deleted scenes don't jump out as much. I'm assuming that applies to ep1-3? What I'll probably do is grab the 720p for v3 and then since apparently v4 will have higher res deleted scenes maybe I'll splurge on 1080p bluray burn then.