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Thanks, MalàStrana, for sharing your family’s thoughts on seeing it. And I’d be glad to share your french subtitles too.
Little Nemo, thanks for your feedback as well. Not being able to hear discussion of Padme allowing the twins to be split up is a shortcoming of this approach. Assuming, as it seems clear Lucas did, that the audience is already familiar with the films that came out prior, we already know from Ben Kenobi that they were split up for their protection.
I would really have liked to have an establishing shot just before the roundtable discussion about the twins of Padme elsewhere on the ship.
Whales biologically jumping into hyperspace.
Why do I put myself through this? I just don’t want to miss anything big in my favorite fictional world.
Now now, children. Play nice.
No thanks.
yeah kid play nice
Not sure what clever gif to put in here, but this should become a thing we all say when Frink gets rambunctious.
Lapti Nek was the highlight for me. First time in my 33 years really “seeing” it. The detail is amazing!
Hear, hear. We have a beautiful home video release of Return of the Jedi now. It is qualitatively better than v1.0 because it’s more or less entirely HD material.
While I still doubt the effectiveness of trying to make the existing prequels into edits preserving OT surprises/structure, I will say this: Q2’s and AEmovieguy’s (and perhaps others’) edits of Episode III go a long way to undermine the rapidfire slideshow of morphing things into how they look in ANH.
Curious to hear more about your ideas.
“Sanded Down,” good one.
Space whales that organically jump into hyperspace as a biological process? I think I’ve finally found the point I stop watching altogether.
Man, little is right. Sounds like a small pop.
JEDIT: For clarification, this pop is audible in at least V3 (and probably V1 and V2 as well). It’s in my source file, being the DVD audio upsampled to lossless (to avoid generational loss when I synced it to the BR partway through production to save myself a heap of work).
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All movie become subservient to needs of Star Wars.
Hal is the only one who properly implements the Palpatine Sith-reveal and also does everything else well. L8wrtr and Stanckpac implement it wrong
I don’t have a copy of L8wrtr’s edits on hand, but as far as I remember, mine and his were pretty close? Maybe?
In case it escapes notice while you’re here again, check your PMs.
No, just the NTSC DVDs that I have. Hadn’t even considered using the PAL.
I am so ready to do these in HD and BETTER but I’m super into reincorporating some of the deleted scenes that aren’t on the blu-rays and finding the best possible version of these for upscaling (namely PAL versions of the bonus materials) is a real stumbling block for me.
Hopefully in just a couple of weeks I can put out what I used for my edits (Episodes I and III upscaled by DrDre, II by me using similar methods).
Thanks very much. I’m obligated to insist that most of what I did was coalesce others’ prior ideas. But it’s always nice to hear the effort was worthwhile.
LOE is certainly a bolder edit than the other two, and mixing and matching my cuts of I and II with L8wrtr’s III is totally legit.
The points you two raise and more are addressed in the commentary, too. I did indeed try to mediate the earlier idea of Anakin’s turn by downplaying the role of his premonitions about Padme’s death, largely because she doesn’t die in my cut anyway.
I am of two minds regarding the Death Star scene. I’m erring on the side of caution, I guess. It’s not part of the story of the prequels, and only appears during the pre-ANH traileresque ending montage. (There’s no reason to involve Geonosis or Dooku; at least here it remains an Imperial project.) I prefer to have Coruscant, technically, but emotionally feel the Death Star is what gives the scene its weight.
However, anyone wanting to hack at my cuts to tweak to their liking, it’d be a quick fix.
(The commentary track was finished before deciding to go with the Russian scream.)
Yeah, I thought the commentary for Ep3 was more negative than the others. I did it after hitting some cider. I had also just reread the novelization, and so had a fresh sense of disappointment in how the film was executed. In fairness, ROTS leaves many things to complain about.
I don’t know, man. The prequels are like aggravating family members. Someone doing what I’ve done has to see the good in them. A conflict.
Did you upscale the deleted scenes yourself? They look really good!
I only had to do them myself for Ep2; Ep1 and Ep3 were done by DrDre. I was pretty impressed with how they look too!
JEDIT: And once the dust settles, I do still plan on syncing the audio to them and releasing the upscaled deleted scenes along with any odds and ends that others might find useful.
Sounds… kind of awesome.
Yes, these commentary tracks are new for V4. And FanEdit.info is the best place to get these, though it often takes a while for the admin to update the listing.
Harmy, you spectacular bastard! I have never seen Return of the Jedi look so good. Everything about this feels so right.
If there’s any justice in the world, Lucasfilm should award you $100,000 for making you do this once they release the OOT.
V4 of LOE has been submitted to FanEdit.info, and should be appearing there soon.
Not quite yet. Should be finished and up either this week or next.