Idea: Any hope for killing the "NOOOOOOOOOO"? (in the 2011 blu ray)

I’m about to watch ROTJ’s bluray. I’ve dragged my feet as long as possible, hoping that some of the jedi-editers would scrape something together that even faintly resembles past ROTJ goodness of yester-year. But it seems that most are tired and burned out on their previous DVD releases (and rightly so!).

Question – is it possible for me to get rid of Vader’s new “NOOOOOO”? I guess if all else fails, I can just mute it, but I am so terrified of even hearing it ONCE that I’ll have to mute a good chunk before and after, ruining the scene.

I’ve googled for what it would take for me to remux in the sound track for that scene from another release, but I feel I would surely botch it.

Any ideas? All I really care about is just never ever hearing that nooo during that scene, forever tainting it 😕

It is should be possible by splicing in the 2004 mix where Vader would be shouting "NOOOOOO", but yes... it would take a fair bit of meddling.

Stick around a bit - chances are someone here will do it at some point anyway. This one is not exactly a universally loved change!

Thanks for the ideas fellas.

I agree that it's still suffering with the other parts (like Hayden), but not quite like the thousand-years-of-being-digested suffering to hear that "NOOOO".

Anyway, I went ahead and am currently watching the HDTV version.

Fingers crossed on a future blu-day!! :)

Cobra Kai said:

you're still going to have to deal with that awful shot of Hayden Christiansen's ghost at the end as well. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! need to put yourself through that kind of torture.

Fixed.

Any updates on this? Anyone know of any fan edits where Vader's "Noooo" has been wiped?

I'm contemplating just ripping my bluray myself, then trying to splice in old sound. I'm wagering that I'm going to have a hard time laying it in seamlessly, however. But perhaps it's better than simply not watching RotJ bluray (which I still refuse to do, prohibiting my precious childhood memory banks of nostalgia from being overwritten with digital blasphemy :) )

bkev said:

The timing should be identical for the soundmixes regarding the 2004 track and the blue one. It's just an issue of 5.1 vs 7.1, if you care at all.

My choice is the '97 edition and I'm waiting on DJ's upscale.

Ya, I wouldn't mind using 5.1. How would you splice it in without getting a "pop" or crack or any kind of distortion between the cuts?

And what's DJ's upscale? I tried searching, but it's not working (not sure if it's me or the server).