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#1191233
Topic
The Force Awakens : Fan Edit Ideas
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OutboundFlight said:

Huh… well that is annoying. They went out of their way to sell toys (its not even integrated into the story like ewoks, just “there” like the PT).

Anyway I kind of liked the red arm, gave 3PO more depth. But either way (gold in TFA, red in TLJ) I would of preferred.

That’s really the thing for me. I wouldn’t have minded if they just never even addressed it in story. Like, oh this is just a casualty of war that happened at some point in the last 30 years, like his silver leg in SW. But they go out of their way to draw attention to it “you probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm”, only to have it rendered completely pointless by him ending the film with his regular gold arm. If his arm stayed red for the foreseeable future and it was never really acknowledged or made a big deal of, that would have been fine and added to the realism of the universe.

It’s just easier to make it gold in his few scenes of TFA than to make it red in every film going forward from that point.

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#1190112
Topic
The Force Awakens : Fan Edit Ideas
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Just reigniting an old thread here. Since we’ve found that threepio’s red arm has been rendered completely irrelevant, I suggest removing it entirely.

Before:

After:

Now this was done in photoshop and would be more difficult to do in after effects, but if I take on a TFA edit (which the more I think about it, the more it looks like I might) I will definitely be seeing if it’s a practical change to instate.

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#1188263
Topic
The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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OutboundFlight said:

Darth Lucas said:

I mean, it looks cool, but all you did was shift the hue of the whole image.

Could be useful if it was just anakins lightsaber that was red.

Yeah I’m nowhere near Paja’s skill. I was just changing the hue and once I realized it’s full powe tried to find some good combinations. Wanted to share it considering the current recoloring trend.

No worries. Wasn’t trying to trash it or anything. Just wasn’t sure if there was a point or not.

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#1185057
Topic
The Last Jedi : a Fan Edit <strong>Ideas</strong> thread
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DominicCobb said:

Darth Lucas said:

DominicCobb said:

Darth Lucas said:

DominicCobb said:

Darth Lucas said:

DominicCobb said:

Darth Lucas said:

DominicCobb said:

That seems like an overstatement, my first post was literally just the word no.

You’re right. That was a very well thought out, positive response to a meaningless anecdote.

I didn’t say it wasn’t negative, just not hostile. In my mind a hostile post would have gone through all the ways you were wrong right off the bat, which would have been an overreaction considering your post was, like you say meaningless, so so was mine. I guess I could have said “you’re wrong,” or “that’s incorrect,” instead, might have been a bit more thought out, but I’m not sure how I could have responded in the positive to a post that’s totally inaccurate.

But that’s just the thing. I wasn’t trying to give some long unknown insight into the creative process of this film that needed to have holes poked in it. I was giving a witty remark in response to the comment implying that it was done purposely to please faneditors. You took seriously a comment that was an anecdotal response to a joke and came off as a bit arrogant in the process.

As stated, all I said was the word “no.”

Which speaks volumes about your mentality. Carry on.

Alright man, you’re assuming a lot from a single word, but you do you I guess.

Assumed nothing from no. Learned a lot about you from what followed. Move along.

And yet you said that my “no” response was arrogant and not in line with your apparently “witty remark”? Not sure if you’re learning right.

The “no” was fine, albeit slightly rude. The remarks that came off as mildly arrogant came after.

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#1185024
Topic
The Last Jedi : a Fan Edit <strong>Ideas</strong> thread
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DominicCobb said:

Darth Lucas said:

DominicCobb said:

Darth Lucas said:

DominicCobb said:

Darth Lucas said:

DominicCobb said:

That seems like an overstatement, my first post was literally just the word no.

You’re right. That was a very well thought out, positive response to a meaningless anecdote.

I didn’t say it wasn’t negative, just not hostile. In my mind a hostile post would have gone through all the ways you were wrong right off the bat, which would have been an overreaction considering your post was, like you say meaningless, so so was mine. I guess I could have said “you’re wrong,” or “that’s incorrect,” instead, might have been a bit more thought out, but I’m not sure how I could have responded in the positive to a post that’s totally inaccurate.

But that’s just the thing. I wasn’t trying to give some long unknown insight into the creative process of this film that needed to have holes poked in it. I was giving a witty remark in response to the comment implying that it was done purposely to please faneditors. You took seriously a comment that was an anecdotal response to a joke and came off as a bit arrogant in the process.

As stated, all I said was the word “no.”

Which speaks volumes about your mentality. Carry on.

Alright man, you’re assuming a lot from a single word, but you do you I guess.

Assumed nothing from no. Learned a lot about you from what followed. Move along.

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#1185018
Topic
The Last Jedi : a Fan Edit <strong>Ideas</strong> thread
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DominicCobb said:

Darth Lucas said:

DominicCobb said:

Darth Lucas said:

DominicCobb said:

That seems like an overstatement, my first post was literally just the word no.

You’re right. That was a very well thought out, positive response to a meaningless anecdote.

I didn’t say it wasn’t negative, just not hostile. In my mind a hostile post would have gone through all the ways you were wrong right off the bat, which would have been an overreaction considering your post was, like you say meaningless, so so was mine. I guess I could have said “you’re wrong,” or “that’s incorrect,” instead, might have been a bit more thought out, but I’m not sure how I could have responded in the positive to a post that’s totally inaccurate.

But that’s just the thing. I wasn’t trying to give some long unknown insight into the creative process of this film that needed to have holes poked in it. I was giving a witty remark in response to the comment implying that it was done purposely to please faneditors. You took seriously a comment that was an anecdotal response to a joke and came off as a bit arrogant in the process.

As stated, all I said was the word “no.”

Which speaks volumes about your mentality. Carry on.

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#1185009
Topic
The Last Jedi : a Fan Edit <strong>Ideas</strong> thread
Time

DominicCobb said:

Darth Lucas said:

DominicCobb said:

That seems like an overstatement, my first post was literally just the word no.

You’re right. That was a very well thought out, positive response to a meaningless anecdote.

I didn’t say it wasn’t negative, just not hostile. In my mind a hostile post would have gone through all the ways you were wrong right off the bat, which would have been an overreaction considering your post was, like you say meaningless, so so was mine. I guess I could have said “you’re wrong,” or “that’s incorrect,” instead, might have been a bit more thought out, but I’m not sure how I could have responded in the positive to a post that’s totally inaccurate.

But that’s just the thing. I wasn’t trying to give some long unknown insight into the creative process of this film that needed to have holes poked in it. I was giving a witty remark in response to the comment implying that it was done purposely to please faneditors. You took seriously a comment that was an anecdotal response to a joke and came off as a bit arrogant in the process.

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#1184982
Topic
The Last Jedi : a Fan Edit <strong>Ideas</strong> thread
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ChainsawAsh said:

The Phasma scene proves pretty clearly that BB-8 driving the AT-ST was always a thing, and the elevator scene has way more out of place comedy than the replacement infiltration scenes that were in the movie, so I don’t really buy the “reshoots to add more comedy” thesis.

The “add more comedy” statement was more of an example of general studio interference. “We didn’t like x about this, so add y”

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#1184980
Topic
The Last Jedi : a Fan Edit <strong>Ideas</strong> thread
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DominicCobb said:

Darth Lucas said:

DominicCobb said:

Didn’t realize you were involved in the production and in the know about what Disney requested, cool, my bad.

Was not saying that. I was merely wagering a guess as to why scenes were changed.

Considering the scenes in question had humor added to the version that was released, it stands to reason the people involved saw the rough cut and said there needs to be a humor beat here.

I think your first mistake is thinking those scenes were changed. Seems like those deleted scenes were in addition to, not instead of what’s there in the theatrical.

(second mistake would be assuming that if something got changed it had to be someone other than Rian making that decision)

I’m not assuming anything. I’m taking an educated guess based on my own industry experience and a knowledge of Johnson’s previous work. He’s not known for the kind of humor presented here, whereas its present in every new Star Wars release thus far, so it’s reasonable those kinds of decisions were made at a corporate level. And many scenes were very clearly alternate, if not necessarily the ones in question.

At the end of the day I was nonchalantly wagering an educated guess to the behind the scenes thinking behind these particular changes and I still can’t wrap my head around why you’re responding with so much negative hostility.

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#1184927
Topic
The Last Jedi : a Fan Edit <strong>Ideas</strong> thread
Time

DominicCobb said:

Didn’t realize you were involved in the production and in the know about what Disney requested, cool, my bad.

Was not saying that. I was merely wagering a guess as to why scenes were changed.

Considering the scenes in question had humor added to the version that was released, it stands to reason the people involved saw the rough cut and said there needs to be a humor beat here.

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#1178430
Topic
STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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Jackpumpkinhead said:

This may or may not have been discussed, but what is everyone’s thoughts on using Han’s theme in Revisited. John Williams is recording a theme for Han for the SOLO movie.

If it’s a good theme that meshes well, I see no reason not to include it in some Han moments if it works well in context. But again, it very may well not mesh well with the non-musically-scored scenes, and I definitely wouldn’t be in favor of replacing existing music in the film with it.

On a side note, has Ady officially confirmed that no version of Battle of the Heroes will appear in this version? I seem to remember him saying something about it, but can’t remember what. Someone at one point posted an instrumental version without the chorus that I think would work, and I’m one of the (maybe few) people who really liked that addition to ANH-R.