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.
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)
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?
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.
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.
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?
What you had in mind is better than what I put in there, I’ll use your idea.
Squeezing in the clip wouldn’t work, though. I’m using Harmy as a base and I believe you used the 2004 DVD as a base.
I actually used DarthRush’ RotJ Remastered, and he says that he used Despecialized for about 95% of the edit. So it should work, unless the 5% that isn’t Despecialized just happens to be the clips I used, or he did some color correction of his own.
What you had in mind is better than what I put in there, I’ll use your idea.
Squeezing in the clip wouldn’t work, though. I’m using Harmy as a base and I believe you used the 2004 DVD as a base.
I actually used DarthRush’ RotJ Remastered, and he says that he used Despecialized for about 95% of the edit. So it should work, unless the 5% that isn’t Despecialized just happens to be the clips I used, or he did some color correction of his own.
Just checked. It is Harmys.
My bad. It just looked like the 2004 DVD for some reason to me I guess.
What you had in mind is better than what I put in there, I’ll use your idea.
Squeezing in the clip wouldn’t work, though. I’m using Harmy as a base and I believe you used the 2004 DVD as a base.
Edit: Done! It’s got some shots of the battle, and also fixes the continuity error. Also removed “Now Witness the Firepower”.
What’s with the music in the Sith Lords on Tatooine clip? It’s a little weird. And so is the floating blue orb.
Alright. No crawl will be added.
Very well done. I really only put up with the rest of the movie to see Luke fight Vader, so this edit’s a blessing. I only have two problems, and one of them it seems you’re aware of. It may technically break the philosophy of this edit, but perhaps inserting a very small clip of the space battle, between the two scenes where Luke jumps to the window, would work.
“I’m afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.”
Cut to battle outside, just enough to make it clear that things are not going well and that the deflector shields are still up.
Cut back to the throneroom.
“As you can see, my young apprentice, your friends have failed…”
I like it. I’ll make a second version with that.
Edit: Not sure exactly what to put there. Additionally I don’t wanna focus too much on Han, Leia, etc, because they havent’ been introduced in this movie, but there’s a lot of that. I just kinda added a few bits of Ewoks.
My other minor complaint is that when Luke first grabs his saber, it seems like he goes directly for Vader. I tried something similar to this edit once, it didn’t pan out, but I do remember that I had Luke go for the Emperor’s neck with Vader blocking, just as it happens in the unedited movie. Directly following that was a backwards clip of the same clip. So it played out like this; Luke tried to kill the Emperor, Vader blocks, they lock blades for a bit, then they lift them away to begin fighting.
I tried doing that originally but couldn’t get it to look right. I’ll redo it like that, though.
Edit: If you don’t mind me doing that.
Edit again: Should I add an opening crawl or leave it as is?
Sexy
A week or so ago I thought it might be cool to edit RotJ into a short film, focused solely on Luke, Vader, and his redemption. The movie’s 17 minutes and 26 seconds long.
There are no real transitions, except before and after the scene where Vader dies. Everything’s one big long thing, with the scenes flowing into the next as best I could.
Scenes
Luke’s Arrival at the Throne Room
Chunks of the Battle of Endor (By Jeebus’s Suggestion)
Luke attacks the Emperor, beginning of Luke v Vader
Luke v Vader (use your aggressive feelings, boy)
Luke hiding from Vader and Jedi Fury
Luke is zapped, the Emperor dies
Vader dies
Funeral pyre
Other notes:
-I used Harmy Despecialized 2.7 as the basis of the fanedit.
-Vader’s death scene is flipped horizontally to make the transition to the Funeral pyre scene better.
This was mostly just an experiment to see if this was possible. Don’t be expecting a masterpiece orgasmic movie, unfortunately, but I think it still came out decently.
This can not be found in the usual places because I don’t know how to put it there. PM me for a download.
Length: 15m23
File Size: 640 MB
Yes. This approach, the inclusion of more militaristic dialogue and the removal of any references to Anakin as a diminished character makes this edit the most promising ROTS fan-edit since the days of Aalenfae, Cutter and Bob Garcia’s edits.
Yeah, I’m only hoping he does the same for AOTC so that I can have the perfect machete order. 😂
Cut out AotC. It’s doesn’t really add anything, and it’s irrelevant like TPM. Boom perfect machete order* (once this fanedit is done).
*Technically that’s no longer Machete Order, but eat my shorts.
Agreed.
I have always wondered if you could rewrite the crawl and re edit a few things to make episode 3 the only prequel. Not sure how you would be able to do that though.
Easy. The only stuff you’re missing if you cut out AotC is that Dooku is the leader of the Separatists, who are trying to break away from the Republic, which started the Clone Wars. Everything else is implied later.
Here:
The galaxy is in turmoil. Led by the evil Sith Lord Count Dooku, the Separatist Alliance is wreaking havoc all throughout the stars, in an attempt to break away from the Republic and form a Sith Theocracy, in the treacherous Clone Wars.
In a stunning move, the fearsome Separatist General Grievous has attacked the Galactic Republic’s capital of Coruscant, killing millions and kidnapping Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, thrusting the sheltered planet into the reality of the war.
The Jedi, guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, have sent their two most decorated warriors, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, on a daring mission to chase after the fleeing Separatist Army and rescue their captive chancellor…
Here’s one that doesn’t change established facts:
The galaxy is in turmoil. Led by the evil Sith Lord Count Dooku, the Confederacy of Independant Systems is wreaking havoc al throughout the stars, in an attempt to break away from the Republic, creating a pocket of the dark side, in the treacherous Clone Wars.
In a stunning move, the fearsome Separatist General Grievous has attacked the Galactic Republic’s capital of Coruscant, killing millions and kidnapping the Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, thrusting the sheltered planet into the reality of the war.
The Jedi, guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, have sent their two most decorated warriors, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, on a daring mission to chase after the fleeing Separatists Army and rescue their captive chancellor…
I think the idea is interesting, but in execution I don’t see how you could integrate any of the video game footage into any of the films without the switch being incredibly jarring.
What makes you say that?
I don’t know what it is, but it’s very obvious that the footage is from a video game. I’m going with lighting, for the Vader scene linked earlier in the thread, but for other scenes, faces and motion too.
Whoops, this isn’t a RotJ thread. Ignore this comment. I don’t know how to or if you can delete comments.
Do you think you’ll do Rogue One when the prequels are finished? Chances are, that’s a long ways away, but still.
Yes. This approach, the inclusion of more militaristic dialogue and the removal of any references to Anakin as a diminished character makes this edit the most promising ROTS fan-edit since the days of Aalenfae, Cutter and Bob Garcia’s edits.
Yeah, I’m only hoping he does the same for AOTC so that I can have the perfect machete order. 😂
Cut out AotC. It’s doesn’t really add anything, and it’s irrelevant like TPM. Boom perfect machete order* (once this fanedit is done).
*Technically that’s no longer Machete Order, but eat my shorts.
Is it possible to make Starkiller Base not a Death Star III? I’m sure people have already thought of this, but is it possible?