Hal 9000

Worst line was the one about the “big ass door.”

I’d be interested even in just that audio!
Didn’t know that was out there at all.

From the top, purely the music on its own

ESB
ANH
TPM
ROTJ
TFA
AOTC
ROTS
RO
TLJ

Yes, that better expresses what I was trying to say. 😃

Yes, MagnoliaFan has an edge by at least a decade on that idea for certain.

JEDIT: Actually, I think this idea goes back to “The Phantom Re-Edit” of 2001.

Since TFA establishes that they discovered the location of the Resistance base and TLJ relies on that, seems better to keep that plot point if at all possible. V1 felt off, and it was in part due to the Resistance just keeping on their attack for seemingly no reason when they ought to retreat. V2’s structure lets the movie stick closer to the theatrical TFA while keeping all the intended gains. I suppose one could make an argument for the ‘revenge’ angle, but I feel it’s more complete the way we did it for V2.

Ah, gotcha.

The First Order was equally diverse as the Resistance, if not more so.

Kerr’s Ep3 is a lot of fun, sort of a showcase, though I agree that it feels rather quick for a ‘replacement’ edit.

Oh yeah, that’s much better. Thanks for doing this.

Nice! Just wondering if you plan on revisiting AOTC, or if that one’s finished. What you’ve already done passes all scrutiny I’ve put it through at any rate. 😉

Seems like it would remove the “we’re making our landing approach at lightspeed?!” thing.
Would you remove Leia’s line, “Han, how?” and “If I told you you wouldn’t like it”?

In this version it is implied that it gets multiple shots out of “the Sun” it has drained, so something different is going on to prepare for the second shot than the first.

NeverarGreat said:

As I reflect, I agree that the Leia spacewalk scene cannot be separated from her ejection into space in the first place by more than one brief scene, not the two TLJ separates them by.
And I love the idea of cutting from the shot of the Jedi tree burning after the Yoda scene to the establishing shot of Crait right before Leia tells them to close the door.

Thanks for sharing that! Your experience of the theatrical TFA is pretty close to my own, and the simple idea of moving Hosnian Prime’s destruction to after Han’s death seemed to be a linchpin for a lot (though certainly not all) of my issues with the movie. (Well, I guess it’s fair to say that it handles most of the problems that bother me even after I have settled into accepting the movie for what it is going for.)

As I’ve said before, V1 was lackluster, and I’ve been thrilled with the turnout of V2 due to some incredible peers who swept in. I am very glad others are enjoying it. Prequel edits are one thing, and it’s impossible to find one that hits the spot for any given viewer, but TFA:R V2(.1) is the outworking of a single (or maybe like 3) elegant idea(s).

Good change list! Really looking forward to what you produce.

Very glad you enjoyed the project! I can’t speak much to the special effects, and I’m just as awed as you are by what Sir Ridley and NeverarGreat did.
Off the top of my head, the only special effect I did was recoloring the star sucking up after Hux’s speech, and that was just a color correction tweak.
I’m not sure about the changes proposed here, or why they would be necessary. Part of this particular project’s stated goal is to stick close to the theatrical except for the few areas targeted for alteration.
Thanks for the feedback and welcome!

I’d be okay with a percentage based ignore dial.

I.e., “ignore 63% of _____’s posts.”

Last Christmastime, I sat down and watched the whole Holiday Special with three boys aged 8 to 13 that we were babysitting. An unironic good time was had by all. Everyone was engaged from start to finish, which is a little unusual for them.
The night gave rise to a few in-jokes based off the film and our nonsensical commentary.

10/10, would watch again

In answer to this thread’s title, my answer is perpetually “just a few more.”

I like the idea. Whatever doesn’t sell BURNS.

I can’t help but think the movie would be much stronger if most of those fan servicey things were not included. But, those things are the impetus for such a film, so it always would have been that way.
Star Wars needs to start branching out and defining itself apart from what came before, and not in the way TLJ feaux-tried to, if it’s going to be viable going forward (artistically, not financially, of course).

And FFS, this is just my opinion. Just needs to be said around here.

I assume he means that both the Rebels and the Empire are a bunch of white dudes.

Seems like we are trying to thread the needle with fine points about this movie and it’s characrers and somehow wound up defending explicit misogyny in the process.

I’m not outraged by this edit. Indeed, I chuckled at the idea, perceiving the inherent joke and enjoying the dig at the people who brought us TLJ. The edit itself is a ‘television hour’-length parody, though whether of the movie or of its detractors isn’t easy to tell. Either way, it seemed mean-spirited to me as I flipped through it briefly.

My point is, it’s fine in my book to get a laugh out of this, but it’s no cause to defend actual misogyny in the world. We get enough of that irrational thought in politics.

What I DID unequivocally enjoy, however, is the subsequent 15-minutes ‘Androgenous Cut,’ featuring no humans at all.