SparkySywer

This is a pretty muted response to GOD HIMSELF returning

I like very

I don’t think that effect would be possible on the amateur level.

One of us has Lucas in their name, a picture of Lucas as their profile pic…

Did you do color correction yourself or am I forgetting what colors are in the scene normally?

They’re worth playing around with. Back in 2016 I made a clip of Kylo Ren with a yellow lightsaber. I’d show it, but I must have taken it off of my youtube, and I know for sure I deleted it off of my computer. So it’s gone.

I prefer Kylo Ren with a red lightsaber, so I wouldn’t actually replace it, but it’s still cool seeing what could be. Anyway VFX for the sake of VFX isn’t a bad thing.

The Burning Homestead is in the Force Awakens when Rey picks up the lightsaber from Kylo Ren. That could work.

JEdit: Although it doesn’t have the fanfare, which felt important in the video.

Also I’m pretty sure that’s Obi-Wan’s actor from the 2008 Clone Wars cartoon.

Just remembered this video

IIRC, the Phantom Edit was made using VHS, so I doubt it.

I was thinking the Special Edition trailer, but it doesn’t have the shot of Yoda and the X-Wing.

Weird discovery though that it doesn’t have explosion rings either.

SilverWook said:

Hopefully, they never dare do that to the Indiana Jones films, as the dissolve from the Paramount logo into the prologue is a signature of the series!

I can live with the 20th Century Fox logo gone from Star Wars.

But this is just offensive.

Snooker is the new Messiah of the prequel fanediting religion

That’s definitely it.

Octorox said:

Here’s an open question: how ruthless should I be with excising the Battle Droid’s vocalizations and humor?

This will absolutely destroy your goal of not being too radical but you could have people dub them.

Bluto said:

What is going on in the second half of this thread… I sense some usage of the Chewbacca defence.

What happened was I said something dumb but quickly edited it into a shitpost, which derailed the thread a little bit but now I wish to own up to my crimes and right my wrongs.

It really does look a lot like CGI, which confused me when I first saw Harmy Despecialized (as someone who’s young enough to not remember a time before the Special Editions), but even without proving it was in the original movie by showing pictures from GOUT or a Laserdisc or film scan, it makes sense that it was in the original movie because it’s not exactly something easy to miss on Harmy’s part.

I am confused by this thread’s title. There is CGI in Harmy Despecialized on purpose, the effect for the Death Star plans was the second ever use of CGI in a theatrically released movie.

Someone needs to learn that in the Simpsons canon, the mid 80s only semi-happened. They just skipped from 1980 to 1990, except for a few events in the 80s, and that’s their explanation for why the Simpson’s aging is weird instead of just saying it’s a god damn cartoon.

Fun fact: The Special Editions came out closer to WWI than to the present day

I feel a little bad for criticizing this, because it’s better than any work I’ve ever put out, but you asked for comments so here’s some stuff I noticed:

I personally and subjectively just don’t like the music used in the opening text, and I really don’t like the idea of force sensitivity, but those really feel like me things, so I don’t hold it against you or the fanedit in any way.

I really do like the way setting cards were used, adding the year was a good idea. Although it’s not obvious to everyone what BBY means. It limits accessibility a little bit.

Really like the way you cut out the podrace. Starting the movie where you did was effective. Additionally, cutting right from the Phantom Menace to Revenge of the Sith is also something that works pretty well.

The color correction in the Battle of Coruscant looks great. Love it! The lightsabers look a little washed out in the hangar scenes though. Color correction elsewhere also looks great. Especially in the scene where Anakin confronts Padme.

The dream effect doesn’t work so well in that one shot where Padme, Anakin, Owen and Beru are all in shot, because Padme and Beru are still visible, but awkwardly cut off. It’s like in a Pan and Scan if two characters were right next to each other in the original or in previous shots, but one was just off screen. Feels weird. There are a few more shots like this, but that’s the first thing I saw. Additionally, there being two different dream effects is a little weird, maybe (if you plan on making a second version) recreate the second dream using your effect? I’m pretty sure it’s possible using footage from later in the movie.

The last scene with Vader is a little tonally weird. Definitely less cringey than the original, and more accurate to Vader’s character, but it doesn’t fit very well in the otherwise kinda chill ending.

I love the voiceover in the last scene. It’s not the first time I’ve seen something like this in a prequel fanedit, but I fall for it every time.

I normally don’t think that you can make good prequel fanedits without straying far away from the Star Wars formula. This doesn’t really disprove that, because it does stray away from it, but it was surprisingly good and could act as a good replacement for Revenge of the Sith.

I do like to believe it will happen someday. But I don’t think it will happen any time soon.

Man, my heart sunk just reading that. Sorry dude.

If you go by the half-plus-seven rule, it would be creepy for them to have been smashing for any time before AotC itself, but you could just cut out the 10 years line and say that AotC takes place 15 or however many years after TPM. Or if it’s in pairing with a TPM fanedit, there might already be some age-messing-with.

Is there a way to make it seem like Anakin and Padme have secretly been smashing for a while before AotC?

I’ve never watched the whole thing through, and I don’t plan to ever do that, but I’m sure you could make an hour long short movie fanedit if you select an interesting plot line, and cut out all the dumb stuff.