Hal 9000

Good.

It helps to have such a supportive community. I mean, it’s great that my and poppasketti’s TLJ edits both exist, right? Even though they share a lot of their DNA, each was worth producing.

TFA has that elegant idea emerge from across the Internet: move Hosnian destruction to third act. TLJ was mostly addressing unrelated things a given editor saw fit to change.

TROS seems so very cramped, but I shouldn’t underestimate the creativity and genius that will likely be applied to this in time. And with any luck, the act of doing fan editing work on this one will represent making the best of it and help accept it for future enjoyment.

Still that fiery spit of hope. You have the spirit of a true SW fan editor!

And for that… you must suffer.

But, I can think of few more qualified than you to take something like this on.

And because I’m an exceedingly weird guy, here’s this thought: TROS used the same font in the crawl for the title as TFA, which was distinct from the one used for TLJ and most of the others. If, and I’d say only if, ‘Rey Palpatine’ is undone, change it to that other font.

I’m fairly confident that ‘Rey Palpatine’ can safely be excised from TROS.

However, if it is to be left, I wonder if TLJ should be adjusted. TROS really weaves around TLJ to make it all work: Kylo pulls out a ‘certain point of view’ about Rey’s parents being nobodies, and Luke clarifies that somehow Leia knew Rey was a Palpatine while he did not.

I wonder if merely removing the second-or-two of TLJ in which she admits to Kylo, “They were nobody,” would be enough. TLJ makes an ironclad case for ‘Rey Nobody’ because she searches her feelings and reluctantly admits it, even stating it on her own before Kylo does. Then TROS does almost the same thing, except this time Rey was suppressing the truth that she is a Palpatine.

This way, Kylo still goads her to admit something, but provides the answer himself, making him even more deceptive.

The other issue that jumps out at me is the dark side… hole. But, I suppose it might just never reveal anything of substance to anyone who would venture within. Maybe it doesn’t really give new information. However, thematically it reinforces Rey Nobody.

God damn, Rey Palpatine seems stupid, and just very thematically astray. It’s like they thought, “Well, let’s just make the last movie complete trash and be done with it.”

I feel obligated to do some sort of project for IX, if for no other reason than to complete the set. But I am uniquely stifled for time, energy, etc. compared even to when I was working on TLJ. Everything I’ve done since having kids has been somewhat modular, making it doable.

I need to let this movie exist for a while and maybe do some desensitization therapy. But who knows? Maybe it’d be better to sort of ‘endorse’ or adopt the work of another editor, depending on what ends up being produced.

Eh, I’m sure I’ll do something. But it sure isn’t going to be my brainchild from start to finish. I know full well it’ll be a compendium of good ideas from the collective.

rtrindade31 said:

-Lando saying to the horse girl “LETS FIND OUT TOGETHER” or something like that. He sounded like an old pervert.

RIGHT?

Well, maybe an early comic. Or those ‘Glove of Darth Vader’ kid books.

JEDIT: (Regarding NeverArGreat)

Spot on. Thanks for writing it.

The only hope for this film would be for that older cut to be finished and presented as an extended cut, but there’s no chance of that.

As the Jedi speak to Rey, add a new Sam Jackson line: “Waste the motherfucker.”

I’m sure I’ll find my footing and gain a sense of fan-editor-optimism with time, but my first reaction to the movie (with regards to this sort of thing) is, to quote Luke, “If you’re not going to take this seriously, I’m out.”

PM sent

Yes, indeed.

What rumors?

This movie needs an extended cut. It’s far too fast paced.

And for a ‘ridiculous’ edit, Mace Windu could tell Rey to, “Waste the motherfucker.”

Broom Kid said:

I think that’s his daughter?

Nothing in the body of the movie suggests this.

I couldn’t make this up: there was only one person in front of me in the theater (far from a packed house this morning), and when it was revealed that Rey was a Palpatine, he muttered something under his breath, got up, and left.
I stifled a laugh and let it out once he was far enough away.

JEDIT: God damn all these Star Wars… please don’t make me do it…

Also, are we gonna just pretend that Lando wasn’t hitting on Jannah at the end? I LOL’d so hard.

Dirty old man.

xxtelecine 7xx said:

I am sure you will try to fix it Hal.

Movie felt like it was directed by this guy:

About to see it. Bracing for impact.

That’s why nuEU stuff usually feels off to me; it doesn’t look like Star Wars.

Make things look like this, and do traditional animation. Especially for book covers.

NeverarGreat said:

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m going to watch both. On the one hand, a film so horrifying in conception and execution that I will question my very existence, and on the other, Cats.

Lol

None of Luke’s actions are excluded, just the one close-up.

This is TiMartyn’s clip, and the cut takes place right at the 5:05 mark. https://youtu.be/S15MehypNpo

I had the chance to look over TiMartyn’s work and he had a neat little idea to remove Luke’s ‘Matrix’ style duck as Kylo swipes at him during the duel. The shots align almost perfectly once it and one other are removed.
Just like the iron, I don’t really mind it but it does feel outside the normal scope of what Star Wars does. I like it better without the shot now, even so.