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MalàStrana

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#1210933
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<em>Solo: A Star Wars Story</em> — Official Review and Opinions Thread — <strong>SPOILERS</strong>
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Something new by the way with this SW: for the first time, I find it ugly. Very ugly. And cheap (the imperial battle front at the beginning looks like Starship troopers 2…). All the other episodes look good (OT, TPM, ROTS, TLJ, R1) or good enough (TFA and AOTC), but this one is so ugly it’s gonna be easy to remove it from my headcanon.

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#1210932
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Ranking the Star Wars Soundtracks
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Solo is a very fine swashbuckling score. Like Giacchino with his own SW score, I only wish Powell could have made it without any OT theme references. But his own material, somewhere between Pan and How to train your dragon, is excellent.

Some SW movies are great, others are bad, others are in the middle. But when it comes to the scores, I love all of them. Don’t know how I would rank them, but it would be something like that:

  1. Masterpiece: ANH/TESB/ROTJ
  2. Almost perfect: TPM/ROTS
  3. Very good: ATOC/TFA/TLJ/R1/Solo
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#1210916
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<em>Solo: A Star Wars Story</em> — Official Review and Opinions Thread — <strong>SPOILERS</strong>
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Young Anakin is alone in the streets. He wants to leave Tatooine so much, there is nothing left for him there. While walking in the streets, he sees a tv propaganda spot to join the Republican Air Force. The spot consists of X-Wing flying with the Force theme in media res (which mean the characters in the movie HEAR the Force theme cue used in the tv spot). Anakin is convinced: he’s going to enroll.

Republican officer: What’s your name kid?
Young Anakin: I’m a person, and my name is Anakin.
Republican officer: Ok kiddo. Why do you want to enroll in the Republican Academy?
Young Anakin: I have the dream to walk in the sky, sir.
Republican officer: Walk in the sky, really? Ok kiddo… have a last name?
Young Anakin: No sir. I have no last name, only my dreams.
Republican officer: Hum… ok then, young Anakin… Skywalker. Welcome in the Republican Air Force.

(yeah, too bad Disney and Kasdan didn’t make the PT, it would have been sooooooooo much better… 😦)

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#1210912
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi - The Dark Cut (* unfinished project *)
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darthrush said:

-Editing episode 9 crawl to imply that now Luke can project himself across the galaxy without dying. Makes him more powerful and a way to explain his scenes in 9.

Dude, be serious one second. The “let’s rewrite the crawl to accomodate every change” is a running joke on the fanedit section.

STAR WARS

EPISODE IX

THE LAST ORDER

Luke can project himself ACROSS THE GALAXY.
The BLUE AURA around him is NORMAL.
LUKE is NOT DEAD, I MEAN IT guys.
He’s even MORE POWERFUL.
Like Ben when he dies in EPISODE IV.
BUT LUKE IS NOT DEAD, STOP ASKING ME !

Meanwhile, the Knights of Ren have begun
the construction of a second STARKILLER BASE.
Little does Rey know that her almost boyfriend Ren

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#1210734
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SOLO: A Star Wars Story - Fan Edit Ideas Thread
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DominicCobb said:

MalàStrana said:

Imagine what I think about the rest of the movie then 😦

As usual, your opinion proves to be about as far away from my own as possible.

Well, lucky for you. I wish I had also fallen in love with this new movie, but I don’t. At least the soundtrack is cool, very Pan vs How to train your dragon oriented, good Powell work here.

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#1210729
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SOLO: A Star Wars Story - Fan Edit Ideas Thread
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But it’s logical I liked the Maul caméo since I find the “alternative” SW (TCW, Rebels) more interesting than the new movies. If you don’t like the tvseries, the caméo can seem weird but as a matter of fact if you’re dealing with the underworld between Ep3&4 Maul is somewhere pulling strings. Palpatine has the galaxy, Maul the underworld, Sith have won on all fronts. I love the idea.

I wish Maul had been a real actor 'cause it seemed he was CGI, right ?

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#1210727
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<em>Solo: A Star Wars Story</em> — Official Review and Opinions Thread — <strong>SPOILERS</strong>
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snooker said:

Pretty sure when Threepio says “Your ship has a most peculiar dialect” in Episode V it’s now referring to L3 being part of the Falcon.

Yeah it’s probably what they had in mind shooting the scene around 1979… (I need to forget this movie… TLJ was a happy accident…)

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#1209443
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The Last Jedi- Full Movie Re-Edit
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The only thing I don’t like of the theatrical duel is the bullet-time effect which is dated and ridiculous. We don’t need duel of the fates or battle of the heroes in every SW, the red guards is a very good action scene, Ben v Luke doesn’t need more but less. Either way, I’m very intrigued to check the final version of Ivan’s edit, everything put together might work, I don’t know, and his skills in editing are very good so at least I’m confident there won’t be real video/audio jarring issues.

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#1209377
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The Last Jedi: Legendary (Released)
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Hal 9000 said:

https://vimeo.com/271494997
password: fanedit

Here’s another test with the Luke moment scene, taking feedback into account.

Best version so far. The audio transition is way better, especially the beginning. I still feel the fade out would be seamless if it was sync with the light speed sound… I wonder if removing a few frames (maybe a complete second) from Leia (with audio) could do the trick (around 0:39 and 0:40).

Good news for the kick ladder scene ! I also agree with the fact the passing remote shot is essential and should not be altered.

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#1209302
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The Last Jedi- Full Movie Re-Edit
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Trying to fix Ackbar death is a great idea. But introducing a “spy” subplot out of the blue that would have no conclusion in order to fix plot holes feels like digging a new hole to fill another.

This radical edit seems very ambitious but I’m pretty sure many ideas won’t work and are gonna create more plot issues than fixing the existent ones. And changing Luke’s saber from blue to green is very wrong (unless many changes I’m not aware of are going to make it seem logicial, because in the theatricul cut it does make perfect sense the saber is blue).

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#1209300
Topic
The Last Jedi- Full Movie Re-Edit
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darthrush said:

Since it seems he isn’t posting updates here, I can throw up links for his new videos.

Luke’s Saber Toss Fixed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aIxYInj0uo

It doesn’t really work. I understand it’s not finished, but the way the scene is performed by Hamill and Daisy doesn’t support this complete change. Besides, there isn’t material to create the needed dialogues, which are by the way in total contradiction with the Luke-R2 scene (which is one of the best moments of the movie, so removing it to accomodate an idea that doesn’t work would feel very strange to me).

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#1209298
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The Last Jedi: Legendary (Released)
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Guys, very good mockups for the Luke moment scene ! It seems you won’t need my help at all ! (which is fine, very busy week for me and you’re better than me at this anyway 😃). The music works well and works even better that the original does (which is, if I’m not mistaken, the music from TFA when the Republic is destroyed, right ?). Only very small issue being the fade out when Leia’s shot begins. I would personnaly have tried to get to the “light speed” sound as the Leia’s shot begins, so the fade out/fade in would begin around one second sooner.

Also, I love the idea of trimming the bomb scene. I love this scene but it’s a little bit too long for no real good reason.