SparkySywer

Snooker please come back

Do you think you could upload a sample?

OutboundFlight said:

JakeRyan17 said:

Except, again looking at Star Wars/A New Hope, they mention an Old Republic. What happened to that Old Republic? Why is there a senate to be dissolved if this Republic has been gone for so long? Is the Empire new? How’s it gain so much power so quickly?

Snoke doesn’t undo anything of the original trilogy. Palpatine not being defeated does, but a new threat coming from the Unknown Regions does not.

It’s not any more or less established in universe, your need for every answer coming from a 30 year gap is not the same as a flaw in storytelling.

Imagine in Episode V’s crawl opened with the New Republic many years after the defeat of the Empire. It wouldn’t make any sense and would make ANH feel pointless in retrospect.

I mean… Until a sequel was announced, most people just kind of assumed that the Death Star getting destroyed meant the Empire was gone too. They put all their eggs in one basket, banking on this Death Star thing so hard they dissolved the Senate that was so critical to their control of the galaxy, and it all fell apart.

If Star Wars 2 had such a wildly different setting I don’t think it would have worked, but not because the setting doesn’t make sense.

A few years back, there was an “Erasing the Prequels Entirely” thread, where I made something like that by masking out the Episode Numbers.

The people in the thread thought it would be a better idea to have no episode title in the crawl at all, and to change the logos. I agree that would be a better idea, but doing that with Blender or something like it kind of always makes it look out of place. At least in my opinion.

Maybe I’m just not an audiophile, but I don’t think I could tell the difference in quality.

I don’t plan on continuing to update this project. It took way longer than I thought to do, and at a certain point it kind of outlived the novelty it had after Endgame came out. If you want to take over and have me to give you everything I had made for it, I will, but I don’t think it’ll be super impressive.

As for the inconsistencies, yeah, the MCU is held together by a thread. I just kinda made calls for whatever I thought was right when there was a contradiction, which happened a lot especially with Phase One stuff. That’s what I recommend you do as well.

JakeRyan17 said:

Writing should focus on story and character first, I don’t even know if I’d put filling out Wookieepedia pages as secondary…

That’s really what it comes down to, isn’t it? The fandom’s obsession with lore for lore’s sake.

Lore is only interesting or cool or valuable in service of a story. Neutering Snoke just for the sake of some technical backstory is a horrible idea.

Marquand as a director is a lot like Gareth Edwards. Good with action and special effects, lackluster on characters. Return of the Jedi has that aspect to it that I don’t think would have been there without him.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Then it iris wipes to a ska rendition of the main theme.

Not the main titles but

TestingOutTheTest said:

Anakin Starkiller said:

Does it really need an explanation? Mustafar has trees now, after all.

A contradiction needs an explanation for the story to be coherent and consistent. Also, it was never implied in TRoS that, that specific planet was Mustafar, it was only stated in ancillary material.

Even so, it’s a big planet. Not all of it’s going to look identical to how it does in Revenge of the Sith.

Plum said:

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade is my favourite film of the trilogy.

Not ‘as’ controversial as saying Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is, but I’ve honestly never seen someone say that was their favourite over Raiders or Temple.

Definitely not my favorite Indiana Jones movie, it’s the worst of the four, but I still like Crystal Skull a little bit.

I’ve heard a lot of people say Crusade is their favorite, though. Not as many as Raiders, but still.

Well, it’s not like a fanedit has to adhere to canon anyway lol

Hal 9000 said:

Or perhaps dub only dialogue that comes through Fett’s helmet, regardless of whose.

Good possibility

Would despecializing Mando Season 2 be viable?

-Pre Special Edition footage of the Death Star

-Redub Boba since he’s inevitably going to talk (definitely difficult, probably impossible)

-There’s a third Special Edition thing but I don’t remember what it is lol

Fortunately the Krayt dragon scream is more similar to the pre-Special Edition one.

INT. TEMPLE OF MORTIS - NIGHT
Kylo feels the very thing that destroyed Anakin. But doesn’t
make him feel weak.
He looks at Rey’s outstretched hand…and TAKES IT.
THE LIVING FORCE FLOWS BACK INTO HER.
Both light and dark swirl within Rey as Kylo is reduced to an
empty shell. A man without power. A frightened boy.
Kylo and Rey collapse into one another, each propping the
other up on their knees.
Rey is close to him now. Their foreheads touching.
He is weakened, spent. In the last moments of his life.
KYLO
McScriff.
Rey is stunned to hear her name. Distant, like a memory.
KYLO (CONT’D)
Your name.
(last breath)
Rey McScriff.
Those words are Ben Solo’s last.

Gotta give some respect to one of the OGs

Replace all 3PO dialogue with text to speech

This was a pipe dream in 2011, but in 2020 this might actually be feasible. It would be an assload of work, but it’s absolutely doable.

BB-Rey said:

I really get the impression from taking into account this, George’s conversation with James Cameron, and the Yoda arc that they’re Immortal beings who study and watch the events of the mortal beings and they are the Force. They created Anakin to combat the growing threat of the Dark Side which took the Force out of Balance as it may have always been told by a central Whill. It makes me wonder if part of the journey of the Sequel Trilogy would’ve been about the grandchildren of Anakin discovering their deeper connection to the Force. Similar in a way to the Ones on Mortis. They’d become the embodiments of Light and Dark to maintain long term balance with Anakin serving as Father.

Thank God we never got George Lucas’s sequel trilogy

I’m a fan

The controversy over how Dooku died, in Episode III, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Anakin to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Dooku is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Anakin just cut off his head, because they wanted to think that he actually just murdered him in cold blood.

Knight of Kalee said:

SparkySywer said:

Love the Cantina color correction. Hal’s is also fantastic, but I’m not sure if I could tell the difference between the unaltered movie and Hal’s color correction.

Take a look to the skin colors especially on character faces. The original blue or greenish hue made them look sickly in some shots.

What, you mean to tell me that Kylo Ren doesn’t have cancer?

Love the Cantina color correction. Hal’s is also fantastic, but I’m not sure if I could tell the difference between the unaltered movie and Hal’s color correction.

Jedi Rocks is downright embarrassing and is reason #1 that if anyone tells me about watching Star Wars for the first time, I make absolutely fucking sure they watch the unaltered movies.

Lapti Nek all the way!

Eyepainter said:

Willrow-Hood said:

Anyone is free to try and make this happen, because I don’t have the prowess, but what if every Star Wars movie had its own post credit scene? What scene would you give to each movie? Personally, I think this would work great for ROTJ: https://vimeo.com/137925493
The deleted scene of Yoda on Dagobah would be cool for ROTS as well.

I might be a jerk for saying this, but I would never have a post credits scene for any Star Wars movie. Period. To me, post credits scenes are better served in Marvel movies where the whole point is to entice you with sneak peeks into future movies. It works in a comic book sort of way, since a lot of comics end with cliffhangers. Star Wars, while it does share influence with comics, is better off without them. The only place where it could work might be in The Mandalorian, but only because it’s a TV show that promises episode after episode after episode. But as for the franchise itself, it’s just three movies every 10 to 20 years. What’s the point?

Yeah. Star Wars movies don’t really work in the same way as Marvel movies, and setting up future movies wouldn’t work in Star Wars post-credits scenes. Cross-trilogy stuff, like RotS setting up ANH or RotJ setting up TFA, especially doesn’t work because despite the marketing, every trilogy is an entirely atomized story.

I still think though some scenes like Rey going to Ahch-To could be moved to after the credits, or a more light-hearted post-credits scene could work in movies like ANH, RotJ, TPM, or TRoS, but not at all in the other ones obviously.