NeverarGreat

I’d be interested in this as well.

adywan said:

Now this is good 😉

https://imgur.com/a/6smO9

Yeah, people need to remember that these are just fantasy movies in space and enjoy them without feeling the need to explain every nitpick and fix every continuity error and improve every shoddy, unconvincing effect. I mean, who spends years of their life doing that?!

😉

And we complained about Han robbing the cradle. Sheesh.

And their donors have basically said that the Republicans had better give them their tax cuts or face re-election without their help.

TV’s Frink said:

doubleofive said:

Or just further distort Kylo’s voice so that you can’t understand anything he says.

I like this.

JEDIT: Probably better for TLRJ since he doesn’t have the helmet on long.

Spoiler Warning for Frink

Didn’t this basically happen in the original TLJ anyway?

chyron8472 said:

doubleofive said:

TV’s Frink said:

The coins are dumb too. I’ll have to watch the scene again but I’d like to remove that bit if possible, which would also allow the removal of the dumb CGI alien that feeds the coins into him in the first place. I liked most of the humor in TLJ but that bit didn’t work for me.

you wouldn’t have the sound of coins jangling inside of him later, which I found really funny.

Same.

I assume that BB-8 is mostly storage space based on this scene.

ElectroDroid said:

darthrush said:

My preferred Episode 9 would be Chewie dying with the Falcon, Finn dying, Hux trying to overthrow Kylo, Luke haunting Kylo, and I have no idea what they should do with Rey.

Overall, I’m not super excited since TLJ tied up so many plot threads.

The thing is, it seems like Rey’s arc is over to me. She seems to be in the same place Luke was at the end of ROTJ.

This is why I’m hopeful for 9, since Rian turned ROTJ into the end of the middle chapter of the saga, complete with a philosophical quandary. How can a person become a Jedi and return hope to the galaxy while also knowing that the Jedi as a religious institution must end? Either she becomes a Jedi and goes against Luke’s wishes (and perhaps dooms the galaxy in the process), or she goes her own way and fails to inspire hope (for the galaxy is still in love with the Jedi).

As long as this trilogy continues to be a meta-commentary on Star Wars fandom itself, I’ll be satisfied.

moviefreakedmind said:

NeverarGreat said:

My parents had a Dave Barry book which I read in my impressionable youth (I thought it was hilarious), and now whenever I bring it up I get strange looks from my peers.

This…except for the part about how my parents had a Dave Barry book which I read in my impressionable youth (I thought it was hilarious), and now whenever I bring it up I get strange looks from my peers.

It’s like we’re identical twins, separated at birth.

DominicCobb said:

NeverarGreat said:

If we’d gotten even a minute of broom boy in the Casino Bight scenes his ending would be much more defensible.

Um… what?

I’m saying that his part in the movie was rushed, just like the rest of Casino Bight. Just because it’s essential to the theme of the movie to place a character with little plot significance into strong focus in the final shot doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t have an arc. For example, when we are first introduced to him tending the animals, his abusive master could have knocked him to the ground and broken the Luke Skywalker toy, where he abandons it in shame. Then we would have all of the pieces of his arc in place after Rose and Finn restore his faith in the Resistance and the Jedi, and we’d see the repaired figure at the end. It doesn’t take much.

If we’d gotten even a minute of broom boy in the Casino Bight scenes his ending would be much more defensible.

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

My parents had a Dave Barry book which I read in my impressionable youth (I thought it was hilarious), and now whenever I bring it up I get strange looks from my peers.

This…except for the part where I bring it up now.

Well I’ve only made that mistake about twice.

My parents had a Dave Barry book which I read in my impressionable youth (I thought it was hilarious), and now whenever I bring it up I get strange looks from my peers.

The article just proves that 2017 has made it a whole lot harder to write something more absurd than current events.

Stumbled across this. Kinda weird, but less cluttered and more painterly than the original.

DuracellEnergizer said:

So tempted to make “We Are Doom” my sock now.

If fake accounts are socks, are our real accounts feet?

TV’s Frink said:

Ok but that wasn’t clear because you didn’t say so.

Top men are working on it.

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

Kylo Puts a Shirt On

Ha!

Although I suppose this could be considered an extraordinarily mild spoiler.

That’s why I only linked to it.

Kylo Puts a Shirt On (Extremely Mild Spoiler For Frink) 😃

Kylo tells her in the red room.

The Maz scene was the only truly offensive thing in this movie. I imagine that this was the intent though, since Rian has no qualms with destroying the stupid aspects of The Force Awakens in the most savage way possible. What better way to tell JJ that Maz is a videogame NPC than by literally putting her in one?

A well-conceived plan. However I would leave the Jakku joke, it really worked for me.

Hal 9000 said:

Have plans for editing the Hobbit already been described somewhere I can reference? I find that interesting.

https://forums.fanedit.org/showthread.php?tid=15702

The main goal would be to make a three-in-one edit that is around 2 hours 30 minutes and recaptures the magical adventure angle that I feel has been missing from both the original movies and all of the edits so far. One idea for this that I haven’t seen anywhere else is that I’m planning on cutting Rivendell entirely and keeping quite a bit from the Mirkwood elves.

Thanks, I’ll let you know in a few years when TFA and the Hobbit edit are done 😉

After seeing this again in the theater, I have further ideas on how to approach this edit.

There’s little reason to keep the opening battle, since the only players of importance in this are Leia and Poe. I believe that it’s still necessary to open the film on Luke’s island, but the film can still have much of its intercutting between the island and the chase. Here’s a rough idea of what the crawl could look like:

Hope is gone. With
the Republic in ruins,
the First Order has
driven the Resistance
from their base and
tracked them across
the galaxy.

Searching for a way
to evade Leader Snoke’s
relentless pursuit,
two Resistance agents
seek the location of a
skilled code slicer and
ally of the Resistance.

Meanwhile, on a solitary
planet in the depths
of uncharted space,
the last Jedi has
finally been found…

The scenes might follow this order (I still don’t have a good memory of every scene, so apologies if there are missing scenes):

-Luke and Rey meet, Luke throws the lightsaber.
-Rey argues with Luke, Chewie breaks down the door, Luke boards the Falcon, meets R2, Rey follows Luke on his daily routine.
-Rey discovers the Jedi Texts.
-Rey practices with the lightsaber, introduced to the Caretakers in this way.
-Luke decides to train Rey, the first lesson.

-Leia in hyperspace, the First Order arrives.
-Attack on the bridge crew, Leia unconscious, Holdo hints at secret sources of hope (It might be possible to make Finn and Rose Holdo’s secret backup plan).

-Rose and Finn arrive on Canto Bight, are put in prison (maybe give Rose a flashback of her sister dying in battle so we understand the significance of her medallion).

-Rey and Ren, darkside cave, Luke’s flashbacks.

…and so forth.

The rest of the movie would play out as it does. It would be simple to cut out Finn’s superfluous battle with Phasma, and cut from them running to the shuttle to escaping the destruction. It would be nice if Luke had his green saber at the end, but it’s probably more work than it’s worth.

ChainsawAsh said:

Okay, last one for a while probably - alternate TLJ with the Dolby Cinema poster on front. I don’t know who did the logo removal on the source I used, but it wasn’t me. It had a prequel-style “Episode VIII” logo on it that I cropped out.

Here’s a textless version of that poster I made using the highest quality sources I could find:

https://mega.nz/#!LM0xFIBK!OE1LrWmMmgXb5DqYHOMzYhLv36gmK7_gU1tSM47j7vc

Now that TLJ has been out for several weeks, it might be good to talk about that penultimate Snoke scene in this edit. In TLJ Hux has a line that would be perfect for the beginning of this scene, so maybe that would be a good v3 addition at some point. 😃