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#1215908
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The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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You could cut out pretty much every lightsaber duel, lose every scene with count dooku, lose every reference to general grievous, lose the yoda vs. sidious duel with no additional cuts, and you could reduce the windu vs palpatine fight down to nothing. You just have to remove multiple plot threads from the movie, it would be really short and tight but not bad either.

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#1211871
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SOLO: A Star Wars Story - Fan Edit Ideas Thread
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I’d approach this as a 4-part TV series or something, episode 1 being Han leaves his girl behind and joins the empire then meets Woody Harrelson. episode 2 would be him getting thrown into the cage with Chewie and escaping with him and joining up with Woody Harrelson and failing their first mission. Episode 3 would consist of our protagonists trying to get the supplies by teaming up with lando. Episode 4 would be the end result of the girl leaving, woody harrelson dying, and han winning the ship. I dunno, just thoughts

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#1211829
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<em>Solo: A Star Wars Story</em> — Official Review and Opinions Thread — <strong>SPOILERS</strong>
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DZ-330 said:

Smithers said:

That’s like one of my major issues, Han bounced back and forth from coward to Mr smug dude but never actually developed or changed…

I didn’t mind that because that’s how he was at the start of ANH, his arc is there, not here.

If he only has an arc in the next movie then why would you make this one? Like I’m not saying he should have the same arc twice but he has to be well written for the movie to work, right?

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#1211731
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<em>Solo: A Star Wars Story</em> — Official Review and Opinions Thread — <strong>SPOILERS</strong>
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darthrush said:

I also want to hit on how Han Solo really has no consistent development in the movie. I did not see a big arc for him in the movie. And when he said “No, I’m a terrible person”, I was just flabbergasted. The whole exchange there was trying to paint Han Solo in this jaded anti-hero way, when really, in the context of his actions in Solo, there is absolutely no reason to see him as anything else than a good guy. Not even close to an anti-hero, or the roguish, jaded Han Solo that we meet in A New Hope. It felt like the movie was trying to shove it down our throats that yeah, Han Solo is jaded and not a good person!

And how stupid is it that Solo is basically the one who helped jumpstart the Rebellion at the end of the movie.

Sorry for my complaining, I genuinely understand how people enjoyed it, but many aspects of how they dealt with Solo as a character felt off to me. I’d love to hear how some of you guys interpreted things differently from me.

That’s like one of my major issues, Han bounced back and forth from coward to Mr smug dude but never actually developed or changed, to be honest I think the most dynamic character was Chewie!

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#1211688
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<em>Solo: A Star Wars Story</em> — Official Review and Opinions Thread — <strong>SPOILERS</strong>
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SilverWook said:

Do you always care what the rest of the audience thinks? People cracked up in mine. YMMV

Nah I just didn’t enjoy a lot of the humour and the audience’s disdain for it gave me the energy that it was that bad

He doesn’t speak Shyriiwook very well, (which was really funny) just enough that a pissed off mud covered Wookiee becomes the best friend a guy could ever have. 😃

The humour there is subjective, I would’ve preferred to see them stick together because they’re chained up for a good period but bond while on their mission, deciding at the end to stick together

Han briefly served in the Empire in the later Han Solo books, so this concept is hardly new. He met Chewie as a result of that as well.

Groan

I didn’t count the number of dice shots.

Too many XD

He had to get the name from somewhere. Maybe he hated his father’s last name?

Just an awful scene man, we don’t need an explanation to begin with but that was an awful choice

The thermal detonator ruse worked, didn’t it?

Sure, cringey humour and obvious callbacks bother me though

Pretty sure being given your signature gun is an old western movie trope.

That’s why I find it bothersome

It’s a sentient droid who’s really pissed off about other droids being slaves. A refreshing change from the usual obedient droids we’ve had in 99% of Star Wars. G E T O V E R I T

Hey I didn’t mind the character or her motivations whatsoever, she’s better than K2SO and BB-8 by a long shot but some of her lines won’t stand the test of time

They didn’t die until near the end of the train heist. I was sad monkey man didn’t make it. I liked Woody’s lady friend too.

Meh, agree to disagree?

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#1211376
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<em>Solo: A Star Wars Story</em> — Official Review and Opinions Thread — <strong>SPOILERS</strong>
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MEH, started off really really bad. 40 minutes in, I was in agony, every line was cringe-worthy, there were too many references/fan-service moments, and characters spent a lot of time talking about things vs. letting the audience see it. Once we meet Lando the movie really picks up, lots of fun moments are sprinkled throughout and the action scenes were shockingly suspenseful as well! I liked how they DIDN’T include Jabba, Boba Fett, Leia, young Luke, or any of that kinda crap in there. The actor playing Han Solo was all over the place though, he wasn’t written to have an arc and the character seemed to constantly shift from coward to clever over and over again. I liked that there were a few genuine surprises in there near the third act and I thought it was great that the mentor dude gets shot (first) and the girl completely screws Han over, that was very anti-Hollywood of them. The Darth Maul scene was dumb and ill-fitting, I’m sure it’s just set-up for the Obi-Wan movie or something. Saw Gerrara’s humanized extremist rebels was a cool addition, I like Now I’ll just list all the things that really pissed me off:

  • the humour (the theatre didn’t laugh once it was that bad)
  • Han speaks wookie
  • Solo is a name made up by a random imperial guy
  • Han works for the empire
  • Han putting the dice on the mirror 2900 times
  • Han getting his signature blaster from the mentor dude
  • Han pretending a rock was a thermal detonator
  • Lando’s droid talking about equal rights (the audience groaned) P O L I T I C A L C O M M E N T A R Y
  • Woody Harrelson’s crew showing up and then dying right away
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#1207434
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Smithers needs <em>your</em> help!! - A Radical Collaborative Project -
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NeverarGreat said:

Smithers said:

Also MAJOR UPDATE: I’ll be recording Anakin’s dialogue with a child actor soon, the equipment’s all pretty good and my lines are all written. If anyone wants their own lines recorded; just ask and I’ll supply the goods.

Excellent!

Just thinking out loud here: If the line delivery ends up being substantially better than the original versions, it might be a very useful resource to have all of the original Anakin dialogue re-recorded. It would be quite the endeavor, but just having an isolated voice track for a major character would be useful for faneditors.

Defenitely some of it will be the same just for the sake of convenience to other editors, but i won’t be including some of the more awful stuff (ex: are you an angel) but yea I’ll record most of the stuff that moves the plot along

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#1207130
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Smithers needs <em>your</em> help!! - A Radical Collaborative Project -
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SUP3RDeathStar said:

Can’t say I can offer much help, but it’s good to see ya back Smithers!

Thank you!! I’m gonna be a lot more active soon, I’m not letting this project fade away.

snooker said:

I’ll help with whatever I can!

Right on! PMs will be sent out soon.

LordZerome1080 said:

My voice acting skills are at your command!!

Pleasant surprise! I’ll see soon enough if I can use you!!

I’d like to make this thread a collection of random resources for prequel faneditors to use, all special effects that I have done myself or have done for me will be collected in my own little database of editing resources, I will include some really obscure stuff in there too which I can be useful. I hope that by the time the edit is done, if someone doesn’t like it and thinks they can do it better, they’ll be free to access all of the bonus material that I’m able to gather, hopefully spawning more radical and creative edits.

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#1206507
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The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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RogueLeader said:

Ending II with Anakin turning is a pretty interesting idea. I always wished there was a sequence where we actually saw Anakin, as Darth Vader, killing Jedi. The closest we ever get to that is the security hologram.

I like your idea for an alternate episode III as well Smithers. I think we will be getting an Obi-Wan movie (I think we’ll hear about it before the end of the year), but if for some reason it never comes to fruition, I think it would be possible to rework some material from Ewan McGregor’s film Last Days in the Desert as well.

In my ideal trilogy, we don’t even see Vader’s suit on, the third film would open with the physical transformation followed by an attack on Coruscant, there’s plenty of footage from the old republic trailer ‘Deceived’ that can be repurposed for that as well. The force unleashed 2 also has a few cutscenes where CGI Vader looks pretty good, adding some grain would make a few shots blend right in I believe.

Also, this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=LmOPXhFensg) can be used as an Obi-Wan dream sequence where he sees the future, we still have some time to see the final result of that whole project, though.

I’m hard-pressed to believe that Disney couldn’t help but put Darth Vader scenes in the Obi-Wan movie, possibly even having them communicate using the force just like Kylo and Rey did. Just for editing purposes I hope they do tbh.

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#1206490
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The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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Radical idea: my edits are gonna be two movies (I believe a few other projects are as well) so how about this:

Episode 1: The Phantom Menace Edit
Episode 2: AOTC/ROTS edit
Episode 3: An amalgamation of the Solo movie, Rogue One, and predominantly the Obi-Wan movie.

This would work really well if you used all if the darth vader and miscellaneous material from rogue one, whatever you can/want from Solo (anything that excludes Han Solo himself preferably), use the solo Obi-Wan movie as the main story. It would be awfully convenient if Obi-Wan were played by Ewan McGregor!

Also you could flashback to ROTS deleted scenes of the rebellion being born, the same actress that played Mon Mothma in those plays Mon Mothma in Rogue One so some material could be pulled from there, we also have plenty of video game clips of Alderaan and there’s plenty of random extra stuff out there.

The story could be Obi-Wan losing all hope, stranded on Tatooine while the rest of the galaxy falls apart; the death star is being built, Darth Vader is hunting down every last Jedi, and all of the politicians are forced to choose a side while Obi-Wan sits back and sulks in his own guilt, very much mirroring the same concept of Luke being selfish in TLJ.