Yeah… this project probably won’t ever be completed, as I would feel better about just leaving ROTJ alone. I do like the gonk droid idea, so I should probably at least do that scene and put it out there.
I don’t recall making a DTS for TFA:R, but if Hal can send me the stems for it I’ll happily make one.
PM sent
And I don’t see an issue about the ring for a hypothetical first time audience. Holdo mentions their symbol, then at the end we have the “Everyman” boy with an old school rebel insignia ring, who just heard enjoying a campfire story about Luke Skywalker.
No worries, Ash. Your feedback has been unilaterally helpful, and I wouldn’t want you to watch the final product until you would do so just to enjoy it.
Impossible thought exercise:
If my version is what was literally projected in theaters… What do you think you would have made of the very brief excursion to Canto Bight, especially the abrupt landing and arrest scene? My hope was that it would blend in well with the other 10,000 times the film tries to subvert expectations at every turn and often multiple times within a sequence.
For my part, I would probably have laughed at how short Finn and Rose’s efforts were cut, inferring the sort of sardonic criticism of their plans that the film directs at Poe for his, and also to Luke, Rey, and other characters. I would likely have suspected that some material had been cut in the interest of time/pacing (since it is still a lengthy Star Wars movie), which would have bridged their escape from jail to being in hyperspace. Then the fathier stuff would be one of those “oh man why did they cut this stuff out” things that I would have relented with “oh I guess that makes sense in service to the movie as a whole.”
That was my intent, and it isn’t a slam dunk at all. But I felt if I were to do a fan edit at all, it had to eliminate the fathier chase completely.
I should be able to run over as many children as I want!
Don’t pretend that all of us haven’t individually and collectively played into this. It’s nobody’s and everybody’s fault. He was bound to internalize the criticism regardless of whether it was pointed at him personally or just the character.
Glad to hear it! The Blu-ray does have some ugly compression. A cynical part of me wonders if it was intentionally done poorly in order to make the 4K HDR version compare better.
Well, they are, but I understand what you’re saying. 😉
Those compression things you mention are, to my eye, already present in the source material. DrDre’s LUT appeared to exacerbate these issues, which is why I tweaked the colors myself. I did not adjust anything other than the colors, no contrast or anything else.
Could you look over the scenes you mention on the same TV using the theatrical BluRay? Just to confirm you see it already present there.
I tweaked the colors a little, for lack of being able to use DrDre’s LUT without it causing video problems. It ought to be close to his version, though not as strong of an effect in order to avoid inadvertently going too far.
Just a little less green/yellow, basically.
Thanks for the kind feedback, and I’m glad to have published my thoughts via the commentary.
It’s funny… I felt as though I was emotionally expressive during his death scene, but in listening to myself afterward I sound totally deadpan!
The zip files have been replaced, save for the 1080 version, which is on its way up now.
Who’d have thought the built-in Mac OS zip utility would cause such problems! Recompressing all versions now, and I’ll swap them out on the Google Drive once they are ready, using the same utility I used before.
Hi everyone. Haven’t been on the site in a while, so I wasn’t aware about the progress of the project. I’m excited to hopefully watch this soon! If you still would like me to make a cover, I can do it in a couple of weeks when I get back from holiday.
P.S. Hal, if you do need me to make any posters or Blu-ray covers for an edit, don’t hesitate to PM me.
Sherman! You’re not dead! Where’s my droid?
Natedug put together some terrific cover artwork, modeled after your TFA:R covers. So in a way, you already have.
Well, needless to say, the movie file shouldn’t be corrupt. Are you saying you have a .mkv file but it’s having problems? Can anyone confirm downloading the zip file for the 1080p version and playing it successfully? I can recompress and reupload if needed, but would prefer not to if it won’t help.
The Internet has changed since the days of 2005ish. It seems that the initial reaction to this particular fan edit of TLJ has been to conflate it with the no-women cut, the petition to remake the movie, and other unhelpful garbage.
Even though I think anyone who listens to my commentary track would easily see that those are far from my intentions, I probably could have made the edit’s documentation a little more forthcoming about what the edit is NOT trying to do. Honestly, it didn’t even occur to me that such a thing would be necessary, given what fan edits have been up to this point. With this film’s reader-response dialogue, I should have anticipated the need for doing so.
I have added an addendum to the “intention” portion of the documentation, in the hopes that this project not be so easily assumed the worst of due to an intertextual sense of hatred toward the film for morally questionable reasons.
People are right to point out that most of the changes I’ve made are nitpicky and unnecessary. Of course they are; I wouldn’t have produced this edit if there wasn’t some sort of ‘critical mass’ of changes to get it started. But, while I am at it, I’ll take care of things here and there. I am not going to alter the changelist, as I could type at length for each change. The reality is that people who are predisposed to view any fan edit as anathema will reject it out of hand, and the only way for those interested to assess it is to invest the time into viewing it themselves. It’s merely an alternative; fan edits are not destructive of the original version.
As my commentary track makes clear, I like this film a great deal, which is why I want to produce an edit like this, as opposed to doing nothing. I’m preaching to the choir, but wanted to reflect on the initial reception this edit has gotten on the Internet at large.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Have you seen “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”? There’s a scene in which a British person snaps when the main character refuses to pronounce the word correctly.
This movie is a work of art which was difficult for me to swallow. I’ve come around to it, and now enjoy it quite a bit. Just wanted to let you know that my fan edit, released today, contains a commentary track. If anyone wants to watch the movie while I drone on, you’re welcome.
To sum it up in one sentence: “Luke continues to teach me things.”
Refer to the Reddit post (any of them, since they each contain a link to my master folder) for download links!
The DVD5 version is up, with the 34GB 1080p version to follow. Both are listed via torrents as well. The 720p mp4 and TinyEncode versions are being encoded now, and will probably be along in a few days.
Well, I found myself with more to say than I thought. Since I never shut up, I don’t really need to do much editing of what I recorded! Hopefully you enjoy listening, but at the very least I enjoyed recording it. I’m hoping to get everything together and have these uploaded inside of a week.
Hoping to finally have the chance to record a commentary track tomorrow, then I can get things moving toward distribution.
Haha, wow, crazy to imagine someone in the theater thinking that.
Both edits can be found on Reddit. If you can’t find it through searching, send me a PM. TFA is obviously all finished, and there’s a workprint of TLJ up.
Due to some issues people have been having, I have replaced the multiple zip file archives on the Google Drive with single zip files. Hopefully this will allow people to get them with fewer problems while continuing to avoid copyright takedowns.
Due to some issues people have been having, I have replaced the multiple zip file archives on the Google Drive with single zip files. Hopefully this will allow people to get them with fewer problems while continuing to avoid copyright takedowns.
It’s really old and hasn’t had much activity in a long time.