SparkySywer

I’m pretty sure VFP was being sarcastic.

“Code black” and “No blasters” sound very similar.

Linguistic breakdown:

/k/ and /n/ are both common obstruents
Then they both have /o͡ʊ/
There’s /db/ and /b/, but often, /db/ becomes /b/
Then there’s /læ/
/k/ and /s/ are common obstruents commonly mistaken for each other
The “ers” part is kinda quiet, especially on the second yell. Your brain probably thought “Code black”, went with it, and ignored the “ers”.

Those of you who are dank linguists, I know this wasn’t 100% perfect but it gets the point across.

Haarspalter said:

I hope you guys know what i mean. Haydens head footage (played backwards in real time - i know, this is confusing) suggests an unused ROTS scene where Anakin saw Padme in the distance. At first he smils and then reacts with an amorous shy nodding and looks to a person next to him. Maybe Obi-Wan or Bail Organa in an early senate scene shortly after Palpatines rescue?

Anakin is definitely a creep in the prequels, but he isn’t nearly that creepy that he’d look at Padme like that. He looks like a pedophile!

I think he was just kinda standing around making weird faces (as one does) and George just kinda recorded him.

TV’s Frink said:

Can you bring up a boner? Isn’t it already up by definition?

You can bring it up further than it already was.

Other than the opening logos, what are the differences between 2011 and 2015?

I considered both cutting the celebration, and using the Endor scene, and an early version did both, but the Endor scene really doesn’t feel like an intro, it feels like it’s in the middle of a movie. And the celebration, I’m still a little on the fence. I like the scene and feel like it wraps stuff up, but it also feels like extra stuff.

Sorry that nobody’s really responding, but if you want closure as to why, I don’t think anyone else has any idea how to do what you want to do.

I really don’t feel comfortable having Lando in this. When I make and watch fanedits, I try to think of them as if the original work didn’t exist. It would be really weird seeing Lando in the attack without having seen the beginning of Return of the Jedi, after how he left Han to die in Empire. I’m making another version without Lando. The parts outside the Death Star, which previously had Lando, will just show the Rebel fleet being decimated.

The old version will still be up if you want it.

All you need AotC for is to learn what the Separatists are. Explain it in the crawl to RotS and you could even just cut out AotC.

But anyway, I look forward to seeing this. What stuff would you cut/change/etc to fit the movies better?

lovelikewinter said:

Could this possibly be a good thing? A sign that Harmy’s Despecialized might no longer be needed?

It’s a sad sight when hope turns to desperation.

Jesta’ said:

A deep hatred for Disney, the steady realization The Force Awakens was crap

Leaked picture of OP:

Stellar Tier

-The Empire Strikes Back
-Star Wars

Good Tier

-The Force Awakens
-Return of the Jedi

Bad Tier

-The Phantom Menace
-Rogue One

Shit Tier

-Revenge of the Sith
-The Clone Wars
-Attack of the Clones

This is gonna reveal my age, but I got the RotS video game when I was young. Later my parents got the movie for me and I watched it. It makes pretty decent sense on its own, I didn’t even notice that I was missing two previous movies in the trilogy. I guess I didn’t look at the title of the video game or the movie, or the crawl, because I wasn’t phased by it being Episode III.

At a birthday party, in March 2006, I got the Phantom Menace as a gift. Since TPM also stands decently on its own, and has a conclusion, I didn’t feel like I was missing an Episode 2, or the OT. I just assumed they were two standalone movies that happened to have the same characters.

Sometime before Spring 2007, I saw AotC. I know this because I remember walking in the snow with my brother, pretending we were Mace Windu and Obi-Wan from AotC. Sometime before May 2008, I was pretending to be Darth Vader (using my toy helmet), and my mom said “Luke, I am your father”. I didn’t know what she meant so she showed me the OT. I know this was before May 2008, because after the Clone Wars movie came out, I insisted on calling RotS “Episode 4”, SW “Episode 5”, ESB “Episode 6”, and RotJ “Episode 7”. I saw the Clone Wars movie in theatres, but the theatre was pretty empty so it was probably later in its run.

Obviously saw TFA and R1 in theatres.

I believe it is a psychologically accurate portrayal of a woman falling in love with a man suffering from Bipolar Disorder, an occurrence which happens much more frequently than you would imagine.

I’m sure this has been beaten to death, but it’s more like a woman falling in love with a rapist suffering from Bipolar Disorder.

SilverWook said:

Because Lucas gave his kids cameos?

Speaking of that, you know that dude who kills a few clones, but then gets killed by a few clones in RotS, in front of Bail Organa?

This guy:

His name is Lett Jukas. Guess who played him? None other than George’s son Jett Lucas.

Real creative name.

Edit: Double posted I guess, only now noticing a month or so later. Sorry.

LordRorek said:

OH I just heard a great idea I thought you might like to borrow. I heard from somewhere on these forums about replacing Darth Vaders NOOOO at the end of ROTS with Mufasa’s bone chilling scream when he falls in the Lion King.

Since both characters are voiced by James Earl Jones it might actually work.

Honestly, just cut that scene out. No way to fix it, and it doesn’t really add much, anyway.

Shouldn’t Padme survive, anyway, because of RotJ?

Damn, this is what I get for not coming on for a while. I’d be interested in seeing this if you’re still giving out betas.

EDIT

Here are my comments from watching it:

-2 hours and 50 minutes is pretty long.
-If you’re going to have an Episode #, I would make this Episode I, not Episode IV.
-The audio in the crawl seems a little compressed, but it might be my headphones, or maybe it’s just how the Blu-Ray version is and I’m used to Harmy’s Despecialized.
-The cut between the escape pod falling (~7:27) and the next shot is pretty abrupt. If you’re sold on that cut, what I’d recommend you extend the previous shot’s audio so they fade into each other.
-The first transition goes black and silent for too long. I’d have the music come in earlier, and the “32 years earlier…” come in almost immediately after the music starts.
-The audio there sounds kinda compressed too.
-I really like the color correction and film effects you did to TPM.
-Sidious’s dialogue is kinda obviously tampered with, especially “I want her…”. For that line I’d have it be said while you can’t see his face.
-Not a fan of the font you used for subtitles, but it’s no big deal either.
-Jar Jar’s dialogue is also clearly tampered with. I’d use a foreign dub of TPM to replace his dialogue, like Russian or Hindi (although decent quality Hindi dubs are hard to find). That’s what I did. Although, my personal recommendation is to cut the scene entirely.
-There are a few scenes from TPM that should be cut for time. Like the “I’m a person and my name is Anakin” scene, and Obi-Wan in the desert.
-In the transition between the crew leaving Watto’s shop and the ship scene, the audio totally cuts out for a second. Also, it should be a few frames quicker, and the previous scene’s video shouldn’t be translucent. Same with the next transition.
-The transition between TPM and ANH (dinner to garage) has too much lag time, too.

I couldn’t finish it because it’s pretty long. I’ll get around to finishing it, but I skimmed through and here are my comments on what you asked:

-No crawl for TPM is necessary. Just the one for ANH.
-Wipes were too slow. Wipes in my fanedits are about ~21 to ~27 frames long. Hover around there.
-It was absolutely a good idea to cut out C3PO.
-I love the low contrast and film effects, although maybe a little overboard in a few places.
-I would have used Harmy’s Despecialized instead of the Blu-Ray. That kinda bothered me, but I’m probably just really used to Harmy’s at this point. And it’s not a big deal if you like the Blu-Ray better as a source.
-Audio was a bit of a problem around cuts. The problem could be fixed by, whenever there’s a cut, fade in the audio from one side into the audio from the other.
-The audio feels compressed, although my headphones or computer just might be shite.
-I love the music added to the podrace, however there’s some music taken from AotC. One of my problems with that movie, and RotS, is that they reuse music from previous movies. Like literally use the same exact recording, even. If you’re gonna keep the AotC music, I recommend you remove that music from AotC.
-I don’t know what you mean by the Mos Eisley Droids Scene.
-Too many SE SFX.
-The flashback scenes are good foreshadowing. I like them.
-I like the new Alderaan explosion. The remains are a little weird, though.
-I like the new Death Star explosion, too, although the lasers lighting up should have came together, like in the Alderaan destruction.

As for the overall concept, I’m not entirely sure. It would work if you really put a lot of effort into tying TPM with AotC. Personally, I would have put AotC scenes in ANH, RotS scenes in ESB, and left RotJ on its own. But this can work, and I look forward to seeing it.

I’m done with my fanedits, but realized I dedicated a lot of my free time to that and want to get back into that. So I thought of making a Semi-Specialized edition with all the bad changes and none of the good ones.

I don’t know why anyone would watch this. Maybe the US Military will use it during interrogations. Maybe you have a sick curiosity. Maybe you’re a masochist. I don’t know.

Anyway, what changes should be included and what should be excluded?

Contents:
-Jabba will be in the Hanger. 1997 version.
-Greedo will shoot first. 1997 version.
-2004/2011 colors will be used.
-Hayden will be making an appearance in RotJ.
-The original sandcrawler will be used.
-R2 Hides behind Rocks (NevararGreat)

Tyler0013 said:

That Aurebesh replaced English

I really hate this change. Linguistics is a hobby of mine, and Aurebesh is one of the most poorly designed fictional writing systems ever, if not the most poorly designed one. It’s really just the English alphabet, with a few digraphs given their own letter, but the digraph letters are optional, anyway. I’d rather not think about it. I’d honestly prefer changing all the Aurebesh in the movies to the Latin Alphabet over changing that one piece of Latin to Aurebesh. I hate Aurebesh.

Side note: Huttese is one of the most (if not the most) poorly designed conlang, too. Linguistics isn’t Star Wars’s strong suit.

Above, some people were talking about the High Ground bit. I prefer it just removed all together. I think l8wrtr did this, where they both jump, but Anakin’s a little late, and gets cut up on his way down.

Unfortunately there aren’t any more seeders on this project. Could anyone who has this seed it?

Ryan-SWI said:

or one word of the title, ie; “Menace, Clones, Sith, Hope, Empire, Jedi, Awakens.”

That works for Clones, Sith, Empire, and Jedi, but definitely not for Menace, Hope, or Awakens.

Looking at the galleries, turns out I actually do have the most recent versions of SW and ESB. I didn’t think so because a few months ago I had RotJ 1.0, and I kinda assumed I had SW and ESB 1.0 too.

towne32 said:

SparkySywer said:

I have SW and ESB 1.0, and RotJ 2.7. I’m thinking about replacing SW and eSB with 2.7, what are the differences between them?

Well, SW 1.0 is extremely out of date. Just about everything has been improved dramatically since then. ESB 1.0 isn’t terrible, but 2.0 uses much higher quality sources. The encodings of all the 1.0s are also lower quality (low bitrate, a bit more pixelated).

As for Jedi 2.7, it doesn’t exist which is problematic for comparisons. But Jedi 2.5 is out, and ESB 2.5 will be someday in the hopefully-not-too-distant future.

My bad. Jedi 2.5, then. Is there anywhere I can see comparisons between them? All I know that’s different between ANH 1.0 and ANH 2.7 is that the Leia hologram is different.