MalàStrana

Nothing can make him change his mind.

TPM - Andy Secombe
AOTC - Christopher Lee
TCW - Matt Lanter
ROTS - Ian McDiarmid
SOLO - Sam Witwer
RO - James Earl Jones
ANH - Alec Guiness / Peter Cushing (sorry, I can’t choose)
ESB - Frank Oz / all the people involved in/with Darth Vader
ROTJ - Ian McDiarmid
TFA - Max von Sydow
TLJ - Adam Driver

And you would be right to do so ! Thanks for taking the time to create this mockup which shows the idea indeed doesn’t work at all. Audiences should just pay attention to the rebel symbol displayed on every single rebel uniform since ANH 😃

I don’t have any more suggestions 😄

Just in case, a few very light suggestions 😃

Would you be considering to reinstate this as well ?

Removed the detail from Kylo Ren that Rey’s parents are buried in the Jakku desert, as this seems at odds with the vision we saw in The Force Awakens.

I don’t think it’s inconsistent with TFA, besides it ends once and for all the “Rey parents” subtheme.

The deleted shuttle scene of Finn and Rose heading back “where we belong” was restored here as well. Not only does it give more resolution to Finn and Rose’s now-trimmed escape, it’s also a callback to the restored deleted scene when Poe gives Finn his jacket

I believe it would work fine to conclude Finn’s arc.

Reinstate Hux being berated by Snoke after the opening battle. This cut felt conspicuous upon my last viewing.

Yeah I kinda agree the cut might feel hard on this one. Would a compromise be found with the scene ending when Hux is notified Snoke wants to talk with him ? (which is exactly what we see later, Hux leaving Snoke HQ).

And since you’re making a v2, I quote my own previous post 😄 :

MalàStrana said:

Ok, just a little something, an idea in case it would be possible to implement it in a v2 (if there is at some point a v2, of course), in order to smoother the only issue I have with this edit, ie the close up on the ring at the end of the movie. When I’ve watched the edit with people who’ve only seen the movie once a few month ago in theater and forgot quite a bit about it, there was a single question: not “who’s this boy?”, no, but “what’s this ring?”. So, I’ve found a solution. Good or bad, tell me, here it is:

• just before the fathier chase, Rose shows this ring to the kid via a close up on it (around 1:06:25 of the theatrical cut);

• even long before this scene (around 0:36:00 of the edit), Holdo’s “state of the Resistance” speech evoques their symbol.

What about inserting the shot on Rose’s ring when Holdo mentions the symbol ? If you look at the Canto Bight ring shot, you only see the hands and the ring, nothing else. The close up on Poe at 0:36:40 should be replaced or shortened with the implementation of the close up on Rose’s ring.

Just an idea that would fix the only moment of the edit where people may say “hey, there is something missing for me to fully understand the ending !”.

That’s being said, good luck ! (and don’t hesitate to ask me if you need to alter the subtitles)

I sense a trap !

(let’s spring the trap ! 😄)

Will wonders never cease ?

Hal 9000 said:

MalàStrana said:

Brillant 😃 Tell me, is your audio of this scene compliant with the theatrical cut (and Hal9000’s edit as well) ? I’d like to use your audio alteration on Hal9000 edit.

Don’t exert yourself on that one, my friend.

Nice 😉

(looking forward to remuxing the files 😃)

I haven’t got time to watch the whole flick but I watched most of it, including all the changes. It’s a very nice edit, I guess most ideas work fine, even if I must admit that I don’t agree on the most radical (but for people who can’t stand Leia’s spacewalk, this is the best that can be done).

I particularly love the following changes :

Tweaked Music during Luke’s saber toss so it’s not a joke

Brillant 😃 Tell me, is your audio of this scene compliant with the theatrical cut (and Hal9000’s edit as well) ? I’d like to use your audio alteration on Hal9000 edit.

Cut Luke drinking milk (just that shot, not the scene)

I no longer mind the weird Luke’s drinking milk shot but this is a very fine way ot deal with it. I probably like it best than the theatrical cut of the scene.

Cut Maz’s line about having a physical relationship with the codebreaker

Excellent !

The deleted shuttle scene of Finn and Rose heading back “where we belong” was restored here as well. Not only does it give more resolution to Finn and Rose’s now-trimmed escape, it’s also a callback to the restored deleted scene when Poe gives Finn his jacket.

I fully agree. But I guess it would work better if you had kept the final confrontation with Phasma 😕

I like the following reinsertions as well :

Reinsert Kylo’s line about Rey’s parents in the Jakku desert

Added back Poe’s “A what now?” when talking about the battering ram cannon

Yeah, very good call here ! You remove the lame “Death star” reference while keeping a line that bears no issue on itself.

Reinsert Rey’s triple-tie combo

• I like this shot, and while it may be a little “too good” on Rey’s part, it works for me as the Falcon’s entrance to Crait.

I think the same after watching this shot again. Besides the shot looks great.

Reinsert Finn’s full effort to sacrifice himself

I don’t really see the benefits of the previous change so it’s cool to add it back.

(this would be very close to be the cutlist of my “perfect edit” mixing yours and Hal’s that I will likely never do 😄 )

Hum… you got my interest man. Poppasketti, could you PM me a link ? Thanks in advance !

Telion said:

How does this guy have 100% positive feedback, that shouldn’t be possible.

Well, people receive what they paid him to receive, that’s all. Most people just don’t know it’s not legal to sell them. Otherwise, they wouldn’t buy these items… and then wouldn’t have the possibility to rate the guy 1/5. It’s just pure logic 😕

The quality loss is huge 😕

Brillant attempt ! If you could make a finished and usable version to bend into the movie, it would be awesome !

ChainsawAsh said:
I should also note that MalaStrana has made an alternate audio track for Hal’s Episode III that takes some cues from NFBism’s edit as well, though I don’t know how widely available that audio track is yet (I only recently converted it to DTS and sent that encode back to Mala and Hal for distribution).

Thanks for mentioning them ! I think if anyone is interested, just ask Hal9000 for a link to his “Master google drive folder” containing all his edits (PT, OT, PT) (or you can ask me directly for a mega link ?)

These tracks have already been made available a few months ago, but I took the opportunity offered by Ash to render them in dts to make a 2.0 version, so if you got the previous versions I would advise to get these new ones that are way improved over the previous iterations (more altered stuff and more polished changes).

Considering no one here mentioned or said anything about the regrade (even 005) such as “watched it yestarday, it’s awesome, etc.”, I assume no one got it.

The 26GB 1080p regrade is now available in alt.binaries.starwars. You can use these instructions to get it, or wait for someone else to distribute them another way.

I really wonder why distributing it this way (which is near impossible to understand) 😕

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/02/star-wars-the-last-jedi-rian-johnson-abuse-politically-motivated-russian-trolls

I’ll just leave this here

The “I’ll just leave this here” attitude is so cliché… (get over this kind of passive-agressive behavior, it would be nice)

(please, try not to leave this kind totally biased/trash article more often, especially when already discussed a week ago…)

Check your PM for, maybe, one PM from me sent 2 days ago 😕

TV’s Frink said:

Best US president ever 😉

snooker said:

What has Favreau ever done to you, Mala?

Iron Man 2 😕

Nice idea. Good thing to explore the post-ROTJ era. Only bad idea: Jon Favreau is involved 😕

“An academic paper finds that half of criticism aimed at director Rian Johnson was politically motivated”

so I assume that people who like it aren’t political about the movie ? (this must be a joke, this paper is totally ridiculous)

(I’m highly disappointed that Rian Johnson retweets this kind of paper)

https://www.mintinbox.net/accueil/dossiers/the-making-of-the-empire-strikes-back-par-michel-parbot/

Would you have a cutlist of the changes/choices you’ve made ?

screams in the void said:

I wonder if some were in this very thread that seemed to come out of the woodwork , think I may have come across a few on Facebook as well …https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-last-jedi-was-targeted-by-russian-trolls-study-says-1148475

These russian bots are really convenient to explain aything those days…

Retcon in the sense they just are random props in the background of ANH, nothing of value attached to them, and suddenly they get some kind of narrative meaning out of the blue, as if they meant something. Their use in TLJ already was kinda weak, in Solo it was just insufferable.

And what about giving good ideas and not using retcons from the new movies ? 😄

(Han’s dice, seriously guys…)