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A much faster paced, more focused cut of Peter Jackson’s King Kong (We get to the Island in only 20 minutes.)

Most people will agree that Peter Jackson’s Kong was much too bloated for so little story. It also suffered from scenes that go on way too long. By cutting some of the sub plots and trimming down almost every scene, I took the running time from the extended cut down from 3 hours and 20 minutes to only 1 hour and 45 minutes. I think this makes King Kong a much more enjoyable watch.
Skipping the whole first act, we open at the docks with the “Is this the movie picture ship?” line just like the 1933 original did.

Got rid of out of place humor

No cabin boy sub plot

Trimmed down countless scenes

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@ stevepaynter Thanks for your extensive feedback, I will take your suggestions into consideration, as I do plan on tweaking this edit some over the coming weeks.

• Leia’s introduction should be in the tree with Lola watching the ships so there is some context when Bail asks her “Anything good today” and she lists of the ships.

I will try this and see how it turns out

• In the conversation hologram with Bail, It seemed like Obi Wan was too easily convinced to go after Leia. Instead of finishing the scene with Obi Wan saying “What about the Senate”, I think it would work better to finish the scene with Bail saying “Only you know how important she really is.”

I will also give this a try

• When Obi-Wan arrives on Daiyu he says “If ever I need guidance Master, it’s now”, however as you do not plan to have the force ghost of Qui-Gon in this edit it feel like this is a setup with no payoff for the audience. That line suggests we may see Qui-Gon’s force ghost in the future. I think either remove that line or add Qui-Gon force ghost at the end.

Agreed this line will be cut

• I’ve read you comment about removing \ hiding the Leia’s adoption storyline from this edit. I think this is a mistake. There are two emotional moments between Leia and Obi Wan discussing Leia’s real parents. One on the truck transport on the planet Mapuzo, where they talk about Padme. The other is towards the end where Obi Wan speak about the quality’s of both Padme and Anakin. If you only consider re-adding one of these scenes I would choose the second on.

I will take a look at the truck scene and see what I can do with it. I will pass on the scene at the end where Kenobi is praising Lea, that scene felt very cringe to me.

• The scene of Reva not being promoted to Grand Inquisitor by Vader was cut so could be confusing to the audience when she is referred to as Grand Inquisitor.

This I will fix

• Also, the original Grand Inquisitor is cut from making an appearance after Reva is stabbed by Vader which breaks Canon for Rebels that he is still alive.

The way I cut it Reva dies after Vader pulls back his saber, I won’t change that, Rebels fans can assume he is recovering in an imperial hospital somewhere planning his return 😉

• With all subtle hints of John Williams music in the edit, I was surprised that we didn’t get Duel of the Fates theme for final fight between Obi-Wan and Vader. I also feel like the fight was trimmed a bit too much but I understand why you did that.

I agree with the fight being cut a little too short, I plan on fixing this. There will be no rock throwing scenes though. I don’t know about using the doing Duel of the Fates theme. I’ve seen it used in other edits but to me it feels a little of. In my opinion it will never match the impact of how it’s used in ROTS.

I would also enjoy a link to your prequel edits 😃

Had a lot of fun watching the first part of your edit! I liked how you cut together Kenobi’s working days and nightly terrors, I thought that was very creative. When it comes to trying to tell the story of a man who is tortured by his past, you paint a better picture then Disney did.

Connecting the Daiyu sewers to the Inquisitor fortress I found very creative and funny.

It’s when we get to Mapuzo, I feel your edit loses steam. We kind of follow the original show from then on and the editing frequency seems to take a hit. I think your edit would improve a lot by trimming down some of the more let we say “not so good” scenes. For example, you kept the whole “Frick and the stormtroopers” scene, without editing anything. I feel if you can shave of about 15 minutes of the total running time from scenes likes that, your edit would improve vastly.

Nevertheless very nice effort, good watch!

Thanks for your review Mario, much appreciated!

When I edited this cut of the Kenobi series I did so with the original trilogy in mind.

From watching the OT I never got the idea that Lea knew she was adopted when growing up, probably because George came up with the idea of Luke and Lea being twins when he did ROTJ 😊. When Bail takes Lea to look after at the end of ROTS I always figured he and his wife would raise her as their own child, and only they would know that she wasn’t. That would serve as a much better cover. To me the way the writers went with it in the Obi Wan series didn’t make much sense. This is of course just my opinion but that’s why I cut all the talk about Lea’s real parents.

I cut the Vader Kenobi fight short because it feels so overpowered when compared to ANH. The best part of the fight to me is when we see Anakin’s face and they have their little talk. So I looked for a way to get there a little quicker.

After 55+ hours of editing the Kenobi series, my movie cut is finally done! I started working on this as soon as the first episode got released. This gave me the time to really polish this edit and still be able to put it out not long after the show finished.

If you’ve seen any of my other STAR WARS edits you know what to expect here. By cutting the ‘out of character’ Kenobi scenes, out of place humor, bad over the top acting (Reva) and the annoying Lea stuff, I turned the series into a 1 hour and 45 minutes fast paced fun STAR WARS movie.

I did all that was possible to keep Obi Wan’s character in line with what we know about him from the original and prequel trilogy. The end result is a highly enjoyable Kenobi movie that I encourage any STAR WARS fan to watch.

To give you an idea of what was used and what was not here is a list of how many minutes per episode were used making this fanedit:

Episode 1 - used 17 minutes

Episode 2 - used 19 minutes

Episode 3 - used 25 minutes

Episode 4 - used 15 minutes

Episode 5 - used 12 minutes

Episode 6 - used 12 minutes

I will make a list with all the changes within a week or two but for now just go in fresh and enjoy the movie!

Besides the usual editing I also did some very much needed color grading on the Tatooine and Mapuzo scenes. Reframed some shots, did some shaky-cam stabilizing here and there and added some of John Williams score to give it that original STAR WARS feel.

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