Absolutely. Hate to sound impatient or entitled but I’d much rather have them be released as they’re done so I can watch them as soon as possible.
Aren’t visions of the future a power every force user has? Luke had them too and he was very novice.
I liked how it further showcased that Anakin had every reason to be worried about Padme in Revenge of the Sith. It bugs me when people say “He turned to the dark side because of a vague dream”. Well, he had the same visions about his mother and those came true, and Ahsoka’s were going to come true before she did something to stop them. It further shows that Anakin had more reason to believe that Padme would die in childbirth then that she wouldn’t.
Regarding #7, of course back when the original trilogy was being made it was about Luke and he was the main character. George has never denied that. He even admitted in one of the ROTS featurettes that Vader was originally just going to be a pathetic henchmen, but because he became so iconic he eventually grew to be the amazing complex character we have today that is now the most well-developed in all of Star Wars. After George made the prequels it become the story of Anakin/Vader as the prequels focused on him and he was a prominent figure in the original trilogy, his character journey being concluded in those three movies (which by the way, just shows how good the original trilogy is; it satisfyingly concludes a character journey created 20 years later). You can’t say the entire saga is about Luke when he’s only present in 4/6 movies, and he’s a very very very minor part at the very end of one of those four, so really only half of the saga.
Luke may be the protagonist of the original trilogy alone, but the whole overarching (pre-Disney) saga is about the rise, fall, and redemption of Anakin.
So are you going to be recreating this extended edition?
Before the dark times… before Master Yoda
Wait, ANH:R has been released in 720p?
Throughout the entire saga Yoda is reedited to be his meme self: a crazy ketamine addict who likes to run over people with his Honda Civic and committed many war crimes that were instrumental to the downfall of Yugoslavia.
Damn some people just don’t understand Return of the Jedi don’t they 😂
I fully understood this shit when I was fucking 13. Two words: CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. Why tf is Birdwatcher whining that the characters aren’t exactly the same they are in ESB? LUKE MATURED AND IS NO LONGER SCARED OF VADER, MOVIE BAD. Like darn it’s not like a whole lot has happened since then in-universe. It’s not like the Emperor is evil and likes to torment people, Vader is conflicted and Luke is trying to redeem is father. Nooooooo…
Also before he was redeemed Vader still wanted to overthrow the Emperor with Luke. But the Emperor wasn’t just going to let Luke kill him right there. If anything Vader saved Luke from the Emperor’s wrath.
Hamill showed a lot of emotion on the bridge scene. The delivery of “Search your feelings father, you can’t do this. I feel the conflict within you let go of your hate” is perfect.
Luke threw away his lightsaber to show defiantly that he wouldn’t kill his father.
Can’t wait! You’re easily the most dedicated and talented fan-editor around and your edits are the best of the original trilogy by far. The new visuals are stunning and your attention to detail is astounding. I’m so excited to watch all three.
Hey guys. I got ESB:R back when it came out and loved it. I recently heard there was an upscale to 1080p somewhere. Does anybody know anything about this?
bryantmh made it. I can send you the link if you’d like.
This is a really good edit, my only problem is that even though it has 6 channel sound only 3 of the channels actually play audio. I would like to use this as the base for my edit and I’d like my saga to have consistently 6 channel sound, would you be able to fix it?
Replace every mention of “the force” with “the horny”
You have to DM him for the link. You can’t just post links to full movies on a public forum. It has to be private.
Uhhhh, try again.
He wasn’t shocked when he was looking at the corpses in the temple because he already felt their deaths. But in the temple scene he was clearly sad and hurt. Just the way he says “Padawan” makes it so obvious.
This image is technically from a later scene but he makes the same kind of expressions, and this also shows that he was clearly distraught that Anakin fell to the dark side and murdered Jedi.
He went to fight Palpatine because they needed to destroy the Sith to try and bring back the Republic as soon as possible. I’m surprised your faulting the guy who’s famous for saying “Do, or do not, there is no try” for actually attempting to DO something about the horrible things that have transpired. You’re seriously suggesting the two remaining Jedi should’ve just never tried to stop the Emperor? “Screw this, go get drinks, we should, Obi-Wan. Forget the Sith wreaking havoc on the galaxy, we should. Only allowed to sit on cushions, we are.” Like, how DARE the heroes try to stop the villains!
It was only after realizing that the Emperor already won and that he can’t beat him that he flees, that it would be better for him to exile himself so there’s hope for a future for the Jedi.
Don’t forget, in the original trilogy he wanted Luke to kill Vader and the Emperor. The Jedi are not above killing Sith when they need to.
So I skimmed through the version with the Boba Fett subplot. The plot itself is absolutely genius; from a writing perspective every new scene of Boba is great, especially the point him and Han’s final confrontation happens and having him be killed by the AT-ST controlled by Chewie. That should’ve been in the actual movie (though that would present problems for The Mandalorian). I also love the graphics for the views from inside the helmet (like when he’s watching Vader and Luke leave Endor). The only problem is the visual execution. It’s not so much the fan-film footage itself, which is good, but it’s implementation. It should’ve been color corrected to match the rest of the movie. The only part where it didn’t look off was when Boba watches Vader leave with Luke on Endor. There’s also the problem that there aren’t voice lines for Boba for most of the movie. There is one scene (when he asks a dead storm trooper where Han is) and the dude who voiced him did a good job, though I’m guessing that they weren’t able to get the person who voiced him in that to do the rest, as the line probably came from the fan-film they got the footage from. But the rest of his scenes just have text with what he’s supposed to say. The lines themselves are good. However, it is a workprint so I will give that a pass. It’s just a shame that it was cut and never polished, since I was thinking about possibly trying to put the subplot into my own ROTJ edit in the future. I won’t hold it against this edit though.
I’m really glad I got two copies of the edit, as in the Boba version the entire movie is sped up slightly. This is very noticeable because every voice is in a higher pitch. There were also some other things that were very well improved in the newer workprint, like the scene with Vader communicating with Luke after they leave Tatooine; in the Boba version, the footage of Vader is very squished to avoid seeing General Veers. However, the most recent version convincingly cuts Veers out without the footage of Vader being scrunched.
I will definitely applaud the editor here for the effort. Even if it doesn’t always look the best, it was really ambitious, creative, the idea was brilliant, and it looks like they did the best they could with what they had. I’m also very grateful to stretch for being able to provide both versions of the edit. You’re awesome.
Neither Han nor Greedo shoots. Instead, Luke comes crashing into the bar with his landspeeder, killing Greedo.
For any of you who don’t get the reference: https://youtu.be/F2bKVEVUOPg?t=483
So you upscaled ANH:R? I’d be interested in seeing that.
There’s already an MKV floating around made from the PAL DVD9 that basically does everything I mentioned minus the upscaling part.
I must find this.
Isn’t the video in 480p to start? Why would you need to upscale it to that?
How does it look? Are you willing to share your upscale? I would be curious to see it in 1080p or at least 720p.
Also, there was someone who made this. Apparently they upscaled it to 4K and it looks absolutely incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6mA1U3lUVc
Bad Batch arc was fun, so I liked it.
My main problems with the sisters is that one of them was really annoying (she wouldn’t ever shut up about her ship to the point where it was beyond obnoxious; and again, literally the worst decision they could’ve made in that situation was dropping the freakin’ spice) and the arc dragged out for way too long. It felt like filler and nothing important was happening. And Knight said another reason why it bothers me: they legit neglected doing an animated Son of Dathomir or a Canon Invasion of Coruscant by Grievous to do… this. Those two would’ve been amazing and are stuff I’d actually like to see. The latter could’ve been a good opportunity to portray Grievous as an actual badass instead of a loser and it would’ve shown off the awesome new model they made for him too (speaking of putting good models to use, let’s just say I hope the ending of Clone Wars isn’t the last time we’ll see that Vader model). And I don’t need to explain why they should’ve adapted Son of Dathomir.
It wouldn’t bother me so much if they had more episodes and therefore were able to do those two arcs plus the three in the actual season, but limiting it to three arcs and choosing the Martez Sisters one over Son of Dathomir is just beyond stupid, especially since Son of Dathomir has LEGIT ACTUAL IMPORTANT PLOT DETAILS THAT ARE NEEDED IN ORDER FOR SIEGE OF MANDALORE AND THE END OF SEASON 5 TO MAKE SENSE. You shouldn’t have to read a comic book in order to understand the plot of the series. I have absolutely nothing against comic books (Vader comics are my favorite Star Wars thing Disney has put out period) but when making a series you need everything important to be in the series itself, not supplemental material. Anybody who doesn’t know that the Son of Dathomir comic exists will be left super confused by Season 5’s ending and then suddenly Maul is back running Mandalore in Season 7. Besides Son of Dathomir is incredible and deserves to be animated.
Like seriously, is it me or is all of the best new Star Wars stuff in the comics?
^ Case in point
People hated Rose and Holdo because Rose is an obnoxious, annoying hypocrite (zaps Finn for trying to abandon the resistance but then runs him over when he tries to save everyone, dooming them all) and Holdo is unreasonable, legit hides her plan from everyone for no reason (imagine if Mon Mothma in ROTJ just hid her plan from everyone and nobody knew what was going on; Han or Luke would have every right to try and prosecute her if her plan looked like it was going to get everybody killed. Or if in ANH Jan Dodonna only said “Just send a bunch of X-Wings out at the Death Star.” Of course people are going to rebel, it looks like you’re just incompetent and getting a bunch of people killed) and the “moral” of her hiding the plan from everybody else was dumb political stuff I won’t bring up because I don’t want this thread to become all political. Watch Vito’s video on The Last Jedi, it’s pretty much perfect. Sure people made fun of Holdo’s hair but that’s because they hated the character anyway for other reasons and were therefore prompted to make fun of her more, if she was a well written character they wouldn’t have done that. Like think about it, when you hate someone because of who they are as a person, you’re more likely to make fun of things like their appearance. It’s really that simple.
What about the Bad Batch arc? I scrolled up and I can’t find it.
For a second when you put the Martez sisters arc as important I thought it was a joke. I honestly hated it. I don’t think I’ve ever been more exasperated while watching this show then when they dropped the spice. I thought for sure it would be excluded.
First of all, neither of those links work, and second, I don’t really think the logo is anything anybody is really concerned about.
Add this into ROTJ
Kinda late to introduce myself but my name is Alex and I’m 18. I go by G&G-Fan as I used to be a gigantic fan of Godzilla and Gamera when I was younger so I used that username on every site I registered on, especially YouTube, and since pretty much everyone calls me G&G unless they’re a close friend I’ve stuck with the name, even though I’m more into paleontology (especially dinosaurs and other Mesozoic animals), Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe now, though I still have an interest in kaiju (mostly Godzilla).
I came because I have a huge interest in fan-edits; I generally think the idea of reediting a movie to improve it is awesome. I first got into fan-editing when I started reediting some of the Heisei Godzilla movies for myself (though I never finished any of them, but it’s something I’m planning on doing in the future), I completed an edit combining the Japanes and American versions of the original Godzilla, and I came back because I wanted to make my own Star Wars fan-edits so I could shape the films however I wanted.
I had a mild interest in Star Wars when I was younger; it really wasn’t until TFA and Rogue One that I actually really got into it. I started watching the prequels and originals again as a result and really got into the lore. My favorites have always been Revenge of the Sith, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. A New Hope is great as well but it’s never been a huge favorite of mine. My favorite Star Wars character and favorite fictional character ever is Anakin/Vader (not only because he’s a badass but because I feel like I can relate to certain traits of him; I feel like I could do an entire psychological analysis of him), and I’m also a fan of Qui-Gon, Sidious, Luke, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Maul. I guess you could probably call me a “prequel fan” as I enjoy all three prequels, I generally defend them (Hayden Christensen did a good job and was perfect for the role of Anakin, don’t @ me), have an addiction to prequel memes, and get giddy whenever original trilogy stuff ties in with the prequels. Nevertheless, I do prefer the original trilogy between the two as it’s overall a better trilogy, though I consider Revenge of the Sith to be on the same tier as the OT movies. I despise the sequels but I think that Disney’s acquisition of Star Wars was overall a great thing, as we got The Mandalorian, Rogue One, and I generally prefer the Disney Canon when it comes to the stuff that came between the films. Disney’s portrayal of Vader especially I think is way better then Legends. My favorite Star Wars thing Disney has put out is actually the Vader comics, and I’d kill for a movie that’s just like them. I also have a more positive view of the special editions then most may have: while some changes are downright stupid and bad, I think they had all the right ideas, even if they were sometimes misguided and/or lacking in terms of execution. I do also support the original versions of the films being released in a presentable quality.
And on an unrelated note I also created and am leading the development of an upcoming dinosaur wildlife documentary called Dinosauria: Ascension, Domination, Downfall. It’s progressing slowly but surely, I’m very proud of the work me and my team has done so far and I’m excited for it to be finished, everyone involved is putting a lot of hard work into it. My goal with it is for it to be the most scientifically accurate and beautifully made dinosaur documentary since Walking with Dinosaurs.
Also, I actually came here because I have a question; how do you put a link in words? Like you did for every link in the first post (the link to the discord server, about and help pages, etc.). I’d like to change my signature so I don’t have the full link in there.