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Simple explanation: the Star Destroyer is made of explodium.

Has there been any word on whether Ady is planning to restructure the opening of ROTJ:R this way? I hope he's planning something similar.

LOL. Nice use of his theme tune.

It's no worse than what's there in the SE :p

Suggestion: how's this for a replacement scene (the first minute, at least, after the silly stuff right at the beginning).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHJjY0Lj1oA

Double negative alert!

Sevb32 said:

I know he probably won't but begging never hurts.

You'll see soon enough, I'm surprised you don't have scabby knees already :p

(I kid, I'd have directed that at anybody)

Nice work Davnes007, but the way I see it, the hologram distracts us from the actors and the exposition a lot more than a couple of 3-second cutaways would.

Do you have access to a 24fps version of AOTC? Or can you just slow it down to the requisite speed?

Leia isn't looking at it. The point where the lines their eyes are looking along converge is offscreen, so that doesn't work for me.

Lame? I think it's sweet. And maybe a little slap in the face for those of us who take it too seriously. Oh wait. This is ADYWAN we're talking about. Nobody takes it more seriously. He'll probably end up putting more man-hours into Star Wars than anybody save Lucas himself.

Still, it's sweet.

For me, there will be two versions of each film: the OUT and the Revisited films. I'll never watch the SEs again, but I have to say the originals have a special place in my heart — even though the first version I saw was the '97 SE in the cinemas at age 9. My parents insisted that my first experience of seeing SW be in the cinema and didn't let me watch our videotapes of the sequels until I'd seen them at the theatre first. Those were the longest four weeks of my young life. :p

A-Man, you have a PM.

I vote for A, or else D: Celebration > (maybe Wedding >) Assembly. I think it has to end on a cliffhanger, given the nature of this edit (the assembly isn't a plot cliffhanger but it has the same effect in emotional terms). It'd be nice to keep the throne room celebration if possible, however.

There are several camera shakes in that (asteroid) sequence that were always there.

Because it's out of focus and/or still falling?

Only after threatening them with a trip to Consumer Affairs, and after I'd gone and bought a new one in frustration.

Oh yes, I'm not objecting to killing off Lando, but I'd be hesitant about ben_danger's idea of killing him off in an accident. I'd rather his death be an heroic sacrifice.

I thought it worked, because that's the kind of movie Serenity is. Star Wars is more romantic, though; a Whedonesque death could stick out in a bad way.

Also, how can you say that? You'd rather see Kaylee dead?!

If you kill him on the way out, it turns into Return of the Jedi: Joss Whedon Edition. I love Whedon's work but is that really what we want in Star Wars? It would be jarring (which it would be supposed to be) but would it be too jarring, perhaps?

Yet ANOTHER hard drive borked on me. Thankfully everything was backed up this time.

Only recently discovered that the original plan for the story had the humans' brains being used as part of a giant computer system, rather than the bodies being used for energy. This makes so much more sense that it infuriates me that it wasn't done that way; I don't know how yet but this edit will change the scenario back.

I don't mind it, but I prefer the cases where the "translating" character does more than just repeat the lines for the audience. Lando's half of the conversation does tend to advance it, so that's OK.

Lando: "We've got to be able to get some kind of reading on that shield, up or down."
Nien: [Our sensors are jammed.]
Lando: "But how could they be jamming us if they don't know if... if we're coming." 

This reads like a normal conversation. The exception is when the character is also translating for another character — eg. in ESB Han translating Chewbacca's lines for Leia's benefit ("Found him in a junk pile").

Come to think of it, a line I wouldn't mind seeing cut from ESB:R is one of these lines. "The city's central computer told you?" is purely repetition-for-the-audience, as seen if we translate R2's lines based on 3PO's replies:

C-3PO: "How would you know the hyperdrive is deactivated?"
R2-D2: [The city's central computer told me.]
C-3PO: "The city's central computer told you?"
R2-D2: [That's what I just said, stupid.]
C-3PO: "R2-D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!"

3PO comes across as obtuse and slow; omitting the second line rectifies this. The third line gives us all the information we need to know from the second line, particularly given we saw R2 interfacing with the Cloud City computer and he mentioned the Falcon's hyperdrive (translated by 3PO in a non-repetitive way) then.

Yeah, I showed a mate of mine ANH:R and he said "Amazing talent that guy has. What's he doing wasting his time on this? He should be making his own movies." Except for the fact that I really REALLY want to see the Revisited saga completed, I would have agreed with him.

We won't have an absolutely confirmed release date until the film is actually finished.