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A Machete Order Prequel edit - (parts of) all 3 movies down to 1 (Released) — Page 2

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Sirius said:

One question, have you watched other fan edits, like the one from Hal9000? Some edits make very subtle changes, but they make a huge difference in the final result.The inclusion of some deleted scenes also ends up greatly improving the story, being more important than other scenes in the movies.

I’ve never seen Hals edits of the individual prequel movies but I would be open to a watch in the near future. The things I’ve heard are quite good, particularly splicing in a scene from The Other Boleyn Girl to extend Padme’s pregnancy and match Leia’s description of knowing her mother.

Do you know which deleted scenes people are using? I’ve looked through all of them for the prequels and most had temp VFX or seemed to be cut for a reason. I’m sure there are some VFX wizards in our ranks who could fix the limited VFX. Unfortunately not my strongest area!

I will say, I’m working on adding a small scene with a hologram effect that explains Kenobi getting to Kamino without the investigations and missing planet business. It’s the one plot hole in my version that I’ve always been a little disappointed with. Should be live by the end of this weekend.

My current edit is just under 3 hours and while I feel I could shave a bit off, I’m quite happy with where it’s at narratively. It was my first ever fan edit about 8 years ago, so my ambition was less to make sweeping changes and more to condense while learning from the process.

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First Order, Last Jedi - A Star Wars Story (the first Sequel Trilogy 3-to-1)
Star Wars Episodes I-III: A Machete Order Edit
Lord of the Rings: The Less Extended Editions
Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 0 (a Discovery S2 edit)
Watchmen (2019): The Bass Reeves Cut
Watchmen (2009): The Squid Cut
Blade Runner 2049: The Joi-less Cut
The Watcher in the Woods: Best of Both Worlds
The Fall (2006) 4k Upscale

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About the deleted scenes, the people who use these scenes in their edits usually manage to improve the quality of the scenes themselves, or get them from a source that has these scenes sort of “remastered”. I think Hal9000 is one of the most requested guys here, he probably has these deleted scenes improved, or knows someone who has them.

About the “subtle changes” thing I mentioned, I suggested this because some editors here can do magic just by switching scenes around or cutting a few lines. They often manage to set a much better tone than the films, while still maintaining canonical consistency in much of these changes. Hal did this kind of thing in his Attack of The Clones edit, and a Revenge of The Sith edit called “The New Canon Cut”, by NFBisms, adds some lines to the characters, but was very good too. The Phantom Menace edit by Dazman substantially improves the film’s special effects, including the fight scenes against Darth Maul (If you can, check out the pictures he posted about his edit through the edit thread, it’s really impressive). These are examples of some that I have seen and enjoyed.

For the Attack of the Clones edits, I see people using a lot of deleted scenes of Anakin meeting Padmé’s family and things like that. This helps to improve the romance part between them.