NFBisms

I genuinely think the Walkabout arc is better than Bad Batch but I don’t think you have to include either one.

If you really have to, a heavily edited, shorter version of those arcs would be better.

The prequel planets were fantastical and crazy in theory, but unless they were Earth-y ones like Naboo or Tatooine, in practice they were just live wallpapers behind platforms.

Maybe we could have a Kaminoan just chilling in the background for a similar effect. It could wave to Ben, too.

Unnecessary sidenote: I think it’s funny that you’re using that image as an age-up Anakin since that movie in particular Hayden is promoting in the picture (Little Italy), wants you to believe Hayden is in his mid 20’s lol

this has been another nfbisms-has-seen-every-hayden-movie flex

He looks alright for near-40’s, but how about instead of transposing his late 30’s face onto 23 year old Hayden, why not just use his entire head with a different haircut? And like, the classic white robes? There’s something about his entire Revenge of the Sith look overall that doesn’t feel very ethereal and light side-y. That includes the mullet. Idk why.

I’ve always wanted to change that about ROTJ SE too.

This doesn’t really bother me, but I liked the idea that one could watch The Clone Wars and then the Original Trilogy and it would preserve and even enhance the ESB reveal. But this finale heavily implies it anyway, so ¯\(ツ)/¯

Also Ahsoka agreeing to help Maul was a pretty surprising moment, but then she fought him anyway. It’s a good thing the duel ruled. I predict they’ll help each other during Order 66.

I’ve moved onto working towards exporting a full 1080p file (like I’ve been wanting to do for two years!), and I think that’s likely going to be the thing that gives me closure on this project. Because of that, there are still a lot of little kinks that I’ve just kind of let sit throughout every version that I want to fix before then.

And the fact TCW isn’t over yet also nags at me because with every episode there’s at least something I want to try - not to mention I’d just experiment whenever any new idea comes into my head anyway. (Honestly at the behest of literally anyone’s feedback too sometimes). I didn’t post updates on everything because things would change quite often.

I’ve essentially been using this project as my personal editing exercise - I have upwards of 30 versions on my hard drive which are full of subtle revisions. It’s not really worth uploading all of them, and a lot of the time the “latest version” I had uploaded wasn’t the latest version I would want to show someone after two days. Sometimes people would ask for a link and that’s when I would export whatever was on my timeline just for them.

So instead of maintaining that cycle, I’ve just kept anything offline for now so that I can try everything I want to post-TCW, and have something I can submit to FE. Don’t expect anything until after the show ends. I hope everyone gets it.

I’ll post more clips soon, just so I can get definitive feedback on whether to keep those in the edit or not.

How about deepfaking CGI Yoda with a Yoda face more consistent with the OT?

I think Poe’s tone is the issue for me. In the actual briefing scene, he’s talking authoritatively to a big group, but the relics line is spoken more pensively to one other person. The mix differences wouldn’t be that noticeable if he was speaking the same way.

Delpheas said:
But let’s say it always was supposed to be 3-10 days. Padme really didn’t tell Anakin for 8-9 months that she was pregnant? The way they talk about “going early to naboo to get the baby’s room ready” is not what someone who’s giving birth in two weeks would say. It just doesn’t work based on how pregnancy maps out.

I don’t see why not. It’s news that would warrant being together in person, and Anakin has been in the Outer Rim sieges for months. Padme’s insistence on their responsibilities can even further explain why she wouldn’t tell him; so that he can stay focused on the war at hand.

Idk, it all works out for me. The problems with it are suspension of disbelief things, they don’t actually break continuity.

I don’t really think it’s necessary to have the pregnancy be known prior to the film, regardless of that scene. I easily believe Anakin looking at her face from the front just didn’t notice her belly. And the fact that they don’t know about the twins has always been weird, but I don’t really know if I’m interested in fixing that here. Maybe she just didn’t want to know, or maybe there’s no way to check without compromising the secret, idk. It’s not really in the goals of the edit, more effort than it’s worth, personally.

I would be interested in seeing the proofs of concept, though.

I actually toyed with Anakin saying “Kill me” but I decided against that or “save me.” Subtlety is good and Hayden shines when it comes to his face alone.

I won’t be using Hal’s alt ending since I’m not super convinced by it. It should be pretty easy to insert oneself though.

Same, I was just relating that “worst edit idea” to a personal idea I actually spent any amount of time on with similarly flavored early 2000’s alt-rock music.

everyone’s favorite kowakian monkey-lizard

I actually had a personal edit of Attack of the Clones I was working on that was scored with music from Spider-Man 2, (because Spider-Man 2 is the best movie ever made) and that included songs from Train, Yellowcard, and Dashboard Confessional lmao.

don’t ask me why i did that bc i genuinely couldnt tell you

Yeah, fuck Klaud actually.

He tickles me on an animalistic level, but him, DO, Greg Grunberg, and Merry being so prominent over the heart of the last film makes me sad. I honestly really loved Rose’s character.

Klaud deserved a better movie, at least.

Why do so many editors want to remove Klaud? Poor Klaud.

Thanks!

RogueLeader said:
I actually think “your padawan” fits less now, in comparison. Was that the best version of “padawan” you could find?
I’m guessing you may have already tried to have him say “Ahsoka”? I wonder if it would fit better, because of course we know who Ahsoka is, but it might feel weird for Obi-Wan to refer to Ahsoka as his padawan, because a hypothetical non-Clone Wars watcher might be like “wait, Anakin has a padawan?”
Plus, is she still technically his padawan? But people wouldn’t necessarily question it if he just said “Ahsoka”.

pfft plebs don’t even know about Jedi Master Yorp Adywan?

I toyed with a “your captain” I found from TCW, but that really didn’t work. And “Ahsoka” from JAT never sounds like Ewan, much less Ewan in this particular scene.

But Ewan says “padawan” like 3 times in Attack of the Clones, and that’s it for the trilogy. xP

So I’m stuck with that one instance of it, but I think I found a way to make it work?
Here’s another go at it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rQ55sV6qLhA49hMVySz_NtvKiMWXtths/view?usp=sharing

(ignore the masking fuck-up towards the end, it’s a side effect of me extending a shot, I’ve fixed it in my editor)

Alright, this is the best I’ll get for this idea, I think.

EDIT: I was being a negative nancy here~

If Order 66 is declared en route back to Coruscant, I don’t imagine Maul should be fallen yet, this early into RotS?

I really just need to change Boz Pity into something related to the Siege of Mandalore, or not at all if we can just assume Boz Pity is the name of some Mandalorian city or province that Ahsoka and the 501st have moved into. Even if that’s not what Boz Pity is canonically. “Sundari” - the Mandalorian capital Bo Katan and co. is sieging - has the same syllables as Boz Pity, so maybe I can change it to that.

It’s just a tiny detail in the grand scheme; explicitly referencing Ahsoka and what she’s doing is already way more than I imagined I would ever pull off.

Here’s a quick mockup of the idea.

The problem I run into is that it kind of relies on us not knowing what the hell “Boz Pity” is in actual canon, (which I don’t to be frank) - we have to assume with its context that it’s like a part of Mandalore or something. Or that Ahsoka has finished up on Mandalore by this point and has sent some troops back to another front? Idk.

And even if you liked stuff since then, this was still better. xP

Things just hit different when you care about the characters.

EDIT: oh right, RotS is what’s bad

You can bet I already tried to find something for that a while ago. I toyed with replacing “Saleucami” with “Mandalore” or “Master Vos” with “your padawan” but it never sounded natural. If I can find appropriately toned clips of Ewan saying “Man”, “Da”, and “lore” it might work out better than JAT clips I tried using before. I just don’t know every line Ewan’s ever said in a movie like I do Hayden’s filmography since 2002. And with a similar accent to his Obi-Wan lines.

I’m watching Christopher Robin later today, so I’ll definitely give that idea another go. It really seems like something that should be discussed in light of the new episode.

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Oh and for anyone with the link, the folder will be empty for a few days, as I put up a new revision in light of some really bad audio problems, and maybe whatever new changes I come up with.

do you ever have selfish, irresponsible, anti-intellectual family that makes you want to die of covid, because that’s the only thing it will take for them to finally understand your sheer anger and frustration with their awful shitty decisions

My hot take is that the sequel trilogy are the least political Star Wars movies that exist.

¯\(ツ)/¯

EDIT: also counting ewok adventures

ray_afraid said:

Plinkett (Mike) went to film school & knows what he’s talking about. Yeah, his reviews are entertaining, but they’re also full of solid points &, yeah, a little nitpicking, which he always points out.
NosalgiaCritic & CinemaSins on the other hand… garbage.
I agree with Broom Kid. Film making itself is an attempt to trick you. Sometimes it works, some times it don’t.

Operative phrasing being he went to film school. People should have let Plinkett’s schtick be his schtick. He created a character/voice for the reviews - a unique (at the time) vessel for his own opinions and analyses.

But that’s not how you analyze film. That part of it was comedy.

YouTube film criticism has become mostly insufferable because a lot of people thought looking for the joke or scathing take a.l.a Plinkett was film criticism or analysis. It’s not like the kid in the video isn’t discussing something interesting to point out, it’s not like a lot of YouTubers don’t have a point sometimes - but their smug emulation of that style is unnecessary and has fostered a terrible mainstream moviegoing culture.