SparkySywer

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.

I’m no color grading aficionado, so don’t blame me if this is a dumb question, but could the color grading of TLJ be messed with to be more similar to TFA?

I really think Anakin Starkiller’s criticism was… missing the entire point of charlesdavid08’s idea, but I definitely didn’t read it as mean.

Is there a sharpening filter on the video?

The “Most girls seem nice” line was also really funny, though. Loved it!

Refreshing like I haven’t refreshed since V

Wait hold up that went completely over my head

In the 1900s, the Austro-Hungarian empire had many nationalist movements seeking to achieve independence or greater power within the realm. One of those concerned Bosnia, a region in the Empire with a large Serbian population.

On June 28, 1914, the Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire traveled to Sarajevo, which is now the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, on vacation. June 28 is the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, which became part of the national myth of Serbia, the Serbian equivalent of American Independence Day.

The symbol of Bosnian oppression visiting the city of Bosnia was not taken well with the Bosnian independence movements, including six members of Young Bosnia, a revolutionary movement in Austro-Hungarian Bosnia. They set out to assassinate Franz Ferdinand.

When he finally came to Sarajevo, the boys (none of them were that old) set their plan in motion. Each plan they had, though, and their backup plans, continued to fail. One of them threw an explosive at the open-topped car, but missed, a few others had the opportunity to kill the Archduke, but choked out of remorse, but finally, Gavrilo Princip shot him.

ytttt said:

Totally serious title idea: Bosnian Shot Last

That’s why this could also work as a Prelude-to-WWI movie’s title.

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While retaining the SE version of the Alderaan explosion, manually remove the added shockwave.

Yummy

Could the Blu-Ray also be used as a source? Some of the 70mm was used for the Special Editions.

Edit: This should probably also be in the Restoration subforum.

My stupid comment has been deleted

Can’t help but notice that in the sunset picture, the thing on top of the moisture vaporator changes, but nothing else in the frame does. What happened there?

Is Malà’s soundtrack on the spleen?

NeverarGreat said:

Another idea for the crawl, this time focusing on Finn:

It sounds a little too serious.

Collipso said:

good for you.

Is he keeping that Luke is projecting himself in the fight? If so, it’s a little weird that the blades would touch.

natedeug said:

I’m working on a color correction to remove the magenta overtones in the film. I’m also adding a film grain. Below you can see color comparisons.

It’s times like these that I really wish I was any good at color correction.

The Mentor is a good one.