NeverarGreat

It might be confusing, it was just a thought. This edit leaves some holes, and I’m not sure if there’s a way to fix all of them.

And it’s true, Poe’s attack is perfunctory, but it feels similar to Rey’s battle with Kylo. Han isn’t chained up somewhere while Kylo twirls his mustache and laughs maniacally, Han is dead. Rey really has no reason to fight Kylo other than he’s a threat that must be dealt with. All she has is vengeance and the will to survive, there is no way to win everything. Both Rey and Poe can only hope for a Pyrrhic victory at this point.

I would cut as much of Poe’s trench run as possible, to both cut down on ANH references and to downplay the perfunctory nature of the mission.

It’s intended to be a surprise to the Resistance, certainly. But remember, the briefing scene comes directly after Hux’s psychotic rant against the Republic and the senate in particular. So in juxtaposing two conflicting pieces of information, the audience will hopefully understand that the Republic is always the true target, with the Resistance deliberately misinformed so as to lull the Republic into a false sense of security.

As for the problem with blowing up the Starkiller, I assumed that it would have multiple uses after absorbing the star, it is logical to destroy the planet. Also, nobody has called off the Resistance attack, and why would they? Even if the planet had no further shots to fire, there is still a massive amount of FO equipment there.

I see a problem with this edit as it stands now. Since the Republic still stands after the Resistance learns of the Starkiller and its capabilities, there should be some scene where the Resistance warns the Republic, or at least makes some mention of their danger. Otherwise, it seems like the Resistance is extremely negligent in their duties and allows for this atrocity to unfold at such an epic scale. At the very least, if the Republic thought that it was in danger, they would have evacuated the government to a secret location.

There may be a way to easily fix this, however. During the Resistance briefing scene, simply re-insert the line from Leia that ‘our system is the target’ (eliminate ‘next’, obviously). This way, the Republic will assume that the First Order means only to destroy Leia and the Resistance, a group that the Republic dislikes anyway. Then we could record a line that is said by someone in the crowd to the effect of ‘The Republic won’t help us!’, and then re-insert C-3PO’s line: ‘Without the Republic fleet, we’re done for!’.

It’s good. 😃

@sirRidley, yes, the Poe was in motion during ‘weapon’, so there’s little I could do to make that sharper. I tried to make ‘the weapon’ into ‘a weapon’, but it sounded unnatural and I realized that he basically does say ‘a’ since the ‘th’ part is blended with the ‘with’ sound.

Jetrell Fo said:

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/01/31/new-video-shows-planned-parenthood-staffers-saying-they-only-do-ultrasounds-for-abortions/

Anyone see this? I’m looking to see if there is any further info on it.

I don’t know the policy of Planned Parenthood regarding ultrasounds, but it sounds like they are required when having an abortion. I don’t see how this is particularly shocking, but again I don’t know. The comments on the website certainly give me pause.

There’s so much that people assume that they must accomplish/be in a lifetime that it’s good to sometimes consider the only real imperative there is. Anything after that is a bonus, in my book.

Humby said:

I think ‘The Last Jedi’ refers to Luke abandoning the conceptual ideals of the Jedi, which is what led to their downfall in the first place (and possibly what led to his failure with Ben and the loss of his students).

Luke will be the Last Jedi because he abandons those ideals when he trains Rey. Rey’s training will embrace both the dark and the light, but only in an attempt to do what is right and just. We saw him sort of embrace that in ROTJ, and maybe that scared him, but after losing all of his students and reexamineing the ideals of past Jedi, he realizes that suppressing the dark side isn’t the best way to go. So he teaches Rey to embrace love, and to accept possesion and attachment as a natural part of life and the force.

So he, in the end, truly is the last Jedi. That would be a good way to both acknowledge the prequels, but also distance itself from them.

But I do think he will at least make it to Episode IX

If this is how it shakes out, Ep 8 may become one of my favorite Star Wars films. I just hope we’re not building a brilliant movie in our heads only to find out that there’s nothing more to it than Luke deciding not to train Rey. Keep those expectations low!

Bah, I’ve worked for hours on this, and nothing fits. It’s fine though, I’ve realized that ‘Finn’s familiar with the weapon system, he worked on the base’ is audibly identical to ‘Finn’s familiar with a weapon system, he worked on the base’.

So I’m fine with leaving it as it is, and leave it up to interpretation as to whether or not Leia was aware of its existence before this moment.

Not a slight to your writing, that place just feels like the Dagobah tree. And I say that as someone who has written a few things there. 😃

But that’s where writing goes to die.

This point about banning countries he doesn’t have business dealings in is probably a bit coincidental, since his Executive order used an Obama-era list to determine the countries to ban. This list merely compiled countries with significant terrorist activity, and was forced past Obama’s desk on an omnibus spending bill by congress.
http://www.snopes.com/trump-immigration-order-obama/

The thing with Executive Orders is that they must reference specific legislation, since it is not (supposedly) in the Executive’s power to legislate. Now I would bet that if Trump didn’t have business in Saudi Arabia or the UAE, he would have found some legislation which included those countries. As it is, we can only speculate as to the why of all this.

NeverarGreat said:

Here it is with the truncated line:

https://mega.nz/#!jc0QGAZB!O8P8q_gTpxa5tXwtlk8ypPUEUAc59gUxFrCbpxhwtlc

I uploaded it to Mega because Vimeo crashes Firefox when I go to the upload page. Apparently it works fine with IE.

The last video I posted removes that reference. 😃

If that word change tips the scales to including it in the edit, I’ll give it another try 😃

The Project Blu GOUT upscale was still my go-to version of Star Wars for my pre-TFA marathon. I guess that’s just sooooo 2015.

JEDIT: Dre, your LUT may over-represent the green just a tad.

It would be very useful in plenty of edits, so I’d say if you’re already altering the film to suit your desires, why not use the technology? Faneditors already alter character lines, dub in their own, etc. Where I can see this being really problematic is in the realm of video/audio evidence used in court. When you can mimic anyone, you can frame anyone.

DuracellEnergizer said:

EXT. NABOO – NABOO PUBLIC CEMETERY – EVENING

Deep in the silent, empty cemetery, working alone under the cold evening light of Naboo’s three moons, DARK LORD OF THE SITH DARTH VADER is busy exhuming a months-old grave.

With the SCRAPE of metal against wood, Vader realizes he has finally reached the coffin. Clearing earth away with his shovel, he uncovers the lid of the casket. Then wedging the blade of the shovel under the lid, he pries it open. White moonlight falls into the open casket, illuminating the pale form of PADME AMIDALA’S WORM-RIDDEN DECAYING CORPSE.

Tossing the shovel aside, Vader reaches down and takes hold of his dead wife. Hefting the cadaver out of the hole, he begins to waltz about the cemetery grounds with the limp figure in his arms.

DARTH VADER: Dance with the dead in my dreams. Listen to their hallowed screams. The dead have taken my soul. Temptation’s lost all control.

PADME’S CORPSE: This is no dream! This is real happening!

DARTH VADER: NOOOOOOOOOO!

“^He’s embraced the absurd. Don’t expect to gain any conventional understanding from his posts.”

-Duracell

The circle is now complete.

Sorry? This is exactly what I wanted.

Mua ha ha.

Time to throw that GOUT superresolution and LUT together, render it out, and call it a day. 😉

Perhaps we should simply list the films with legitimate cliffhangers, since everyone is so hung up on the definition.

That’s a lovely poster.

Mike O said:

I’m almost 30, I live with my parents, I’ve fucked up my life, pissed away 30 years and a college education, and work a shitty dead-end job because I’m a cowardly piece of shit.

In terms of evolution, your first and only priority is to survive, and you have done this admirably. People forget that this is most of the test of life, and is pass/fail.

Should have sent a poet.

It was too good/bad to pass up.

DominicCobb said:

This is a fun read: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/

From the article:
“As for refugees, Nowrasteh writes, Trump’s action ‘is a response to a phantom menace.’”