Hal 9000

Well, hurry up, goldenrod!

Fake EDIT: Yknow, because you said something similar to that line…

ziggyonice said:

I just wanted to say I love you, NeverarGreat.

I’m with you, too.

No rush; worth the wait!

Poppasketti’s edit has a couple of those ideas manifested, but I agree that perhaps Ivan’s re-edit might be a better fit outright.

Combining the scenes you suggest combining would be odd choices if you ask me, and I can’t see them feeling right.

I appreciate the Yoda scene all the more today after stumbling onto a video about the concept of “kill the Buddha,” which I won’t expound upon here.

I guess that scene, and the movie as a whole, is intended as a shock to our system, and one that I’ve come to love. I still feel that some of the window dressing and techniques aren’t all that great, but I appreciate the core messages. Iconoclasm, tearing down, rebuilding, letting go, finding balance. I’m glad to have more from Luke to learn from and alongside, even as my own religious and philosophical beliefs remain in a state of uncomfortable upheaval.

Well, I don’t plan to remove Phasma or the fight between her and Finn, so there’s nothing to worry about there.

The Luke Jakku quip is something I’ve hemmed and hawed over but I think it’s just not something that we would have seen in the OT, but that we have seen in the ST. So I’d prefer to keep Luke away from it since he doesn’t do it much. The reed gag later on seems more consequential and part of the point being made, so it feels different to me.

Whatever happens, I’ll get a solid workprint out before IX for anyone interested in having it for a countdown viewing.

Interesting idea, especially with an ‘authentic’ resource like that to potentially plug in. I can’t say his voice really bothers me in the first place, and each trilogy needs one film without subtitles! (And a crawl with no CAPS.)

Okay, those last two points are in jest.

What all aliens speak English in the films?

• Nemoidians - sound like Asian accents
• Gungans - fake dialect or accent
• Watto - what I sound like trying to do either an Italian or NY Jewish voice because, while I like to have fun, I’m not an actor
• Mas Amedda - British, speaking from behind makeup
• Malastare senator - sounds like a female voice from the news
• Yoda - odd voice and syntax
• Ki Adi Mundi - British
• Zam - sounds like a human lady while in human form, then with an audio filter while in normal form
• Dex - fat guy from a sitcom
• San Hill - oldish sounding voice
• Techno Union guy - filtered
• Grievous - filtered Eastern European voice
• Utupau guy - odd voice
• Unklar Plutt - slightly filtered British voice

I might have missed a few but it seems there’s plenty of precedent for this sort of thing so I’m not sure why it’s a problem, beyond some of your subjective impressions, which is fair enough.

I don’t have access to the binaries anymore, but I’ll try Myspleen. Any idea what it was called?

I’ll send you a PM. If anyone already knows how to find a link to my other edits, it’s the same one link that takes you to all of my Star Wars stuff.

Ha, that bear typo is funny.

I don’t think any of those things fit for me, Abram. Luke drinking the milk rubs into Rey’s face the sort of thing that she looks away from.
Maz’s sex line is the best part of what is unhelpably a silly scene, so I don’t want to remove it.

I’ll have to take a look at the detonator from poppasketti’s edit, though.

I can’t post a clip right now, but it goes:

Luke calls back to a knock on the door with “go AWAY.”

Chewie’s grenade blows the door against the far wall, and could have easily killed Luke.

Chewie steps in, roaring angrily.

Luke asks “Chewie, what are you doing here?”

Chewie growls and speaks in a medium tone.”

Luke asks “The Falcon?” A bear passes. “Where’s Han?”

CourtlyHades296 said:

Somebody posted a 3PO Audio archive a while back that could be scoured for lines.

I repeat so that this unanswered question doesn’t get buried: does anyone know where to find this?

I was impressed by how the scene played without Rey interpreting for Chewie, but I’ll see what I think in a while.

Maz’s comment and Rey asking about a cowl are both part of the film’s sexual undertones. I still really dislike the entire Maz scene, but if it must be kept then I want to keep the sexual humor.
Rey’s question to Ren is another example of her being somewhat prudish or new to sexuality, just like how she looks away from the walrus that Luke milks.

The door is not shut on this, but here’s my current changelist for a V3. (Some of these ideas are from krlozdac’s newly published TLJ edit.)

• Remove the silly mugshot of Hux after commenting on Poe’s X-wing approaching
• Remove Rey interpreting Chewbacca to Luke (He just responds with “The Falcon?”)
• Remove Luke’s quip about Jakku being “pretty much nowhere” (the new movies are somewhat snarky in ways the OT never was IMHO, and so I’d rather keep Luke away from that - humor, but not gags)
• Remove Rose responding to Finn’s “MTFBWY” with “you too.”
• Tighten up Finn and Rose’s reaction to Maz’s “Oh yes, he can” for better timing
• Reinstate a trimmed version of the balcony scene overlooking kids and horses being beaten on Canto Bight
• Reinstate Rey asking Kylo Ren if he has a cowl to put on

Here’s my version of the balcony scene section. Nothing revolutionary, but keeping the germ of the coin gag provides enough filler to represent time passing for Finn and Rose to search the place and allows the jingling from BB8 afterward to remain.

https://vimeo.com/346999083
password: fanedit

Removing Phasma is an interesting idea, and I might be able to take a cursory glance at what might be needed. But, I’m inclined to just leave it as is, just because I’m skeptical that it would be convincing.

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Yeah, the audio is a no-go. There are clearly two wookiees audible in all but the LFE audio track.

I think both approaches look amazing! We are really in business now.
Let me see what can be done about the audio side of things, though it may be a couple days before I can. Even if that can’t be helped, I’m okay with at worst assuming a second Wookiee climbed up to have a word with the grand poobah.

chemicalsam said:

Where can we actually download this?

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I think it’s deliberately stilted to show how naive she is in Luke’s eyes.

Now that sounds like an interesting take on things. Seems like a very worthwhile edit. Glad you were able to use my lossless audio output as a starting place. If this is what was put out there wouldn’t be much left for us to do.

In order to have this project consistent with the current best video formatting presentation, Adywan would have to perpetually hold off on ever beginning it. That, or dedicate the rest of his life to constantly redoing the same work.
I feel the pain, or at least a dimmer reflection of it, associated with my own projects. There’s only so far we can go.

No, I have no issue with that at all. It may be unofficial, but consider it sanctioned.

Now that I am starting to turn some of my attention to THE LAST JEDI, I hate to make this edit much longer than it already is. It’s already the longest Star Wars movie, and when I consider that my prequel edits clock it at as low as 1 hour and 50 minutes, I am wondering what else could be trimmed.

I am just tossing this around, but what do you guys think of the idea to borrow poppasketti’s approach to removing the Finn vs. Phasma duel? Compared to the theatrical TLJ, this hypothetical version of Finn’s journey would…

• Add the orientation early on from the deleted scene with Poe’s jacket
• Reinstate a sense of “wow I guess people get oppressed” from the Canto Bight balcony (compared to TLJ:L V2, anyway)
• Remove Finn and Rose racking up insurance claims across Space Vegas
• Remove his fight with Phasma, but reinstating the scene that demonstrates his resolve and references the earlier deleted scene

It seems like Finn would still have a good arc this way. The only concern that sticks out to me about the idea is that Phasma gets reintroduced only to die offscreen. I’d rather she not appear in the film at all if we go this way, but this is the way it would have to be. For this reason, I am leaning away from making this change, but I felt it was worthwhile to toss out there for discussion.