Hal 9000

Nope.

I don’t want to include it as an alternate track, but to see whether there are any tweaks that would be good to make that would utilize it.

Nothing to worry about; there may be nothing to gain from it but I thought it’s worth asking about. 😉

Thanks!

Anybody have any ideas for potential uses for an isolated score track? Any dialogue removal requests?
My brain is fried most days right now but wanted to ask for any input in case anything good comes up.

Is anyone here in a position to update me on the Skymaster project? Is it still set for an imminent release?

I could imagine a ‘2010: The Year We Made Contact’ David Bowman-esque ghost, morphing or changing appearance of age every time we see him. They could have Luke do the same to help normalize it. (Hell, or Obi-Wan, too, I guess. Might be a little weird for Yoda to, but still possible.)

https://youtu.be/HUT4ua-D33Y

^ Someone should try DeepFakes for that Mace scene.

I can say that TPM does look and feel like a movie, if a boring one at times. It has a little of that feeling that older classic film productions used to.
The other two feel video gamey to me, and it can’t just be 35mm vs ‘Cool For The Time But Probably Not The Best Choice For A Highly Anticipated Blockbuster Super Duper Digital Camera.’

The soundtrack doesn’t have an appropriately low-key rendition that fit nicely into the scene. At least not that I remember. It was a while ago.

Yeah, I couldn’t find anything that seemed better. It transitions during the point at which the music came to an abrupt halt anyway, to coincide with the kiss being cut off suddenly.

It’s the HDTV capture from schorman13, for reasons expressed earlier. Given the look of TAS, the deleted scenes used, and even the brief Boleyn footage, I think it’s a little better source to use. Not all-around better, but better for cohesion.

Looks great to me, too, especially since it’s only a brief two shots it needs to work for.

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+1 for TPM as best and ROTS as worst prequels

This is an enormous “if,” but if they do, may as well go balls to the wall.

To me it’s too late for IX to introduce or do anything radically new, so I’m just hoping for a thematically appropriate conclusion to the stupidly-now-called “Skywalker Saga” (“because now we want Star Wars to include space-stuff that has nothing else in common but their titles”) in the vein of “see, kid,
I knew you could do it, and the lessons you learned along the way will always help you.”
Basically, if the whole saga is ANH, IX would be the part when Luke flies back down to the Rebel base and hears Ben tell him, and the audience, “The Force will be with you… always.”

“It just isn’t fair! Why can’t Uncle Owen afford a time machine?”

I’ll make a promise right now: if IX makes plot-central use of time travel, such that our characters literally go into the past and either alter or substantially interact with it, I will stand up out of my seat, drive back home, and none of you will ever hear from me again.

That would be the most bankrupt thing they could possibly do, and I don’t believe it.

No way.

Fair enough, on all points, I suppose. But I know they aren’t changes I would like to make.
And I don’t think Snoke was on the ship with Hux. The officer tells him Snoke is “making contact from his ship,” which we later see is the enormous paper airplane-looking ship.

LordPlagueis, thanks for clarifying. If one moved the two Snoke/Hux scenes back to back it would have to imply a timejump since there’s a change of location. It’d also push back the reintroduction of Luke and Rey further.

The ‘Luke mourns Han’ scene was reinserted where the deleted scenes reel has it, and with the footage available I’m not sure how one could go from “Where’s Han” immediately into him crying. Rey is in the room at first, then suddenly not, and Luke processes things rather suddenly. I think as things stand Luke putting up a front and retreating allows him to cry in private about what’s built up, and cutting directly to Leia implies Han is at the center of it for both of them.
I agree that it’s a stronger cut (or radial wipe, but you know what I mean) from Rey’s line about not leaving without him to her following him around the island, though. I wonder if RJ was right to cut the snippet along with the Finn and Poe scene. I at least see why, even if they’re worth including for the sheer value of this edit bring ‘alternative.’ V3 will be a few minutes longer than V2, and neither features the callback to Poe’s line about where Finn belongs. If one can only have both or neither of these scenes, perhaps the original film is a better option.

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!