The Ritty

Crossvader said:

Can I get a link bro

pm me pls 😃 Thanks.

Skybatman said:

Can you give a link?

pm me pls thank you

DigMod said:

I’m confused. Isn’t this the same project as your other threads?

Yes just updated. I’m not sure how buried the other one was plus all the haters on it…bah I start a new one when I think I’ve done my final edits. This is the last one as I’m burnt out. sorry for confusion, I’m surprised to see people tag me from the other thread been so long now no one has…

Just pm me pls don’t post links that’s a no no here lol Just hit me up.

No the streaming links are down cuz google screwed me. You can still download them though. Try this link. I’ll get everything from Empire onwards uploaded to another site. Let me know if you can dl these ones. I fixed everything I had to so these should be final for now. Thanks!
 

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Still haven’t sorted the issue out with my streaming, my I finished up the left over edits on everything so I will upload them tomorrow and send you the links. They’ll just be for download unfortunately… Going for root canal now so yeah hopefully tomorrow I’ll have them all up. Finished Mandalorian 2 as well.

anakinskywalker said:

Hi your link for the ewok adventures isn’t working

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Everything’s fixed with the new ROTS, etc added. Ewoks still needs work as the quality is just ok since I had to zoom in to make it 'widescreen (from a 4:3 source). It’s just a bonus anyways (but a good family films which I like ALOT). Thanks for your patience.

anakinskywalker said:

Hi your link for the ewok adventures isn’t working

you’re right! My bad, I’ll re-upload it right now. I also changed the endings for Shroud of the Darkside and The Wrong Jedi and also added 3hr 15 mins extended ROTS (with Clone Wars season 7 spliced in)!!!

I’ll fit it right now and send u new links!

DigMod said:

Are you open to feedback this go around?

Yes, but judge THESE versions please lol IMO you have to go through it ALL upto The Last Jedi and then - take it all in.
I stick to my guns on that though because if you don’t go through the whole STORY - it’s not all clear. Once you’ve gone through it once with ALL the changes then (hopefully) you can/will bounce back and forth lol

Again, I’m not concerned with how things look because I didn’t get paid, this isn’t official - it’s just a what should/could have been… It’s impossible to ever be fully satisfied with a star wars edit because of the wipes. So I left that vanity behind and it’s all STORY. The Skywalker story. Father, then Son, then their Legacy. And it ALL connects. Enjoy or hate away lol My goal was just to LOVE these movies like I did and FEEL like I did when I was 8, and hopefully make others feel that way again…cuz the studio never will. They COULD and this is the point of my edits…but they won’t lol So head canon is the only canon now imo 😃

You can skip the Ewok movie if you don’t have kids lol but it’s a great family movie - I wish they’d originally been in widescreen.

two notes - TPM is a lil rough - the hindi audio track was crap an not my fault and nothing can be done - it WORKS though and that’s all that’s important to me. also the ending to The Wrong Jedi is only a placeholder until the final season of TCW airs.

Also TCW is a lil rough because I spliced two eps in, so the story lines don’t all resolve in the best of sync/order so
if anyone has any ideas on re-ordering etc… I’m all ears. Again, it works enough that you get the idea lol

Everything else I’m pretty happy with.

I tried to keep them at under 2hrs 5 mins but the rebels and resistance are a bit longer so if anyone can see anything else to be cut in the ones over 2hrs 5 mins lemme know pls

Plus if anyone can think of better phrasing or words for the crawls fel free to post that too. My memory loss has diminished my big words lol Thanks. Also, the only thing I couldn’t add was HOW Rex and his troops are still around in Rebels. I just had no way of putting it in so if anyone can think of a way, PLEASE do. It’s addressed in The Clone Wars movie (which I’ll be honest I was a bit burnt out on lol) so I just assume we/you can figure it out lol

I’m always changing them too - every time I watch them. I’m TIRED now though… like an example is in II - the I hate the sand scene lol Anakin says ‘and smooth’ and his mouth doesn’t move because I used a diff shot…now ONE DAY I will find out how to add his mouth speaking (hopefully), but there’s little things like that you know - this IS Star Wars though, so use that imagination we once had lol 😉

Fire away!

P.S. sorry if I double responded to anyone personally - the old grey matter just ain’t what she used to be 😉 Thanks.

EDIT

I found an ERROR in The Clone Wars - I cut off the subtitles…CRAP. I’ll fix it soon as I can. My bad.

DigMod said:

What’s your sample size that called these “genious”? Are the film’s any different than your initial edits of them?

I feel this quote is summing up my response.

towne32 said:

It’s not completely clear what this is, but the vague description alludes to it being a massive, enormous, and ambitious series of edits. But the details just suggest ‘no Jar Jar, some splicing of clone war episodes, new crawls, and DVD quality, but maybe just a blueprint’.

I’ll be honest here, I’m losing memory. I have a hard time accessing my brain so I can’t remember if the majority are different or the same. I believe I re-watched them all, took notes and tweaked audio/visual issues but nothing in the story… The biggest changes are the addition of the Rebels movie and two more Clone Wars movies (and eventually Solo). Solo sits on it’s own so it can wait till Sept - we’ve all seen it so we all know the answers to the later questions the OT made. I re-cut all the movies, re cut TCW movie with 2 eps of the show, made a rebels movie and 2 more CW movies out of the tv shows and that’s about it… I edited so much I’m not sure I can list everything but I re-edited and scored most of the deleted scenes and put them back in after gutting the prequels (my first cut of TPM was 1hr 20 mins and it was amazing - but too short) of everything I hated then building them back up. I made at least one cut or change in almost every scene in all the films…it’s a lot to catalogue, especially now. I can remember almost every cut if I had to do it all again but I also thought friday was saturday and couldn’t tell you today’s date if I tried 😦

snooker said:

You have a Solo edit? The Blu-Ray doesn’t come out until September?

Not until September. Hopefully the blu ray will have some cool deleted footage.

Anakin Starkiller said:

I like how you refer to it as your canon. It really wraps in a nice bow.

It’s a self contained saga - no tv, books or comics. Everything you need to know should mostly be in here (hence why I created two more clone wars movies and a rebels movie). That’s why there’s 14 movies, at 2hrs - any longer and it’s too much. I changed a lot of stuff that would negate the continuity of the other properties though. Like in Clone Wars Season 6 - I HATED Yoda’s going to degobah and the priestess’ etc… In MY canon, Yoda is meditating in Ep III (before Obi Wan returns with Padme and the droids) and Qui Gon speaks to him and tells him to go Degobah (‘The answers you see seek, are here’). The CW Season 6 arc doesn’t make sense cuz in Empire R2 acts like he doesn’t know where they are or who Yoda is… It pisses me off lol so I made Qui Gon tell him to go there - makes more sense doesn’t it? So at the end between Leia baby and Luke baby he lands, Qui Gon greet’s him and takes him through Degobah (EXPLAINING force ghosts and medichlorians etc) and leaves him at the cave to face his fears. Then we go to Luke (who is the real hero of the next trilogy) and it ends as normal… We don’t NEED to see Yoda’s experience in the cave because we see it through Luke in Empire (hence why I cut the cave out of TLJ - nothing happens and we’ve seen it already in Empire).

Plus all the little touches that make it mine…

• I moved the Vader breathing at the end of TPM to ROTS
• I added a post credit sequence after Jedi of Snoke calling out to come find him deep in space
• I added Yub Nub to the Jedi end credits as a (now ruined) surprise
• Qui Gon appears at the end of Jedi with the others (I assume Anakin was powerful enough to help give him a form plus I just think he was thrown away after TPM and NEEDED to be there. Everything IS his fault after all lol)
• I added Qui Gon speaking with Vader in ROTJ. As Luke and Vader’s bond strengthens - and why I put back the opening cave scene - the Emperor’s hold on Vader weakens thus allowing Qui Gon to ‘communicate’ with ANAKIN. That cave scene is great because it really sums up WHAT the movie is all about - a father and son. Vader is trying to communicate to Luke across the galaxy. It shows how strong their bond is. I LOVE this scene, it should have never been removed. Lucas didn’t want to spoil the ‘surprise’ of Luke showing up, where as I say it WASN’T a surprise but a ‘it’s about damn time!’ moment lol This way you’re NOT just waiting for him to show up, you know he will so you can really enjoy the opening Jabba stuff instead of being impatient or thinking it’s slow or boring…
• I added a scene from all three preqs to the end of Jedi so we SEE what Anakin is thinking during the electrocution. I don’t believe Vader was just like 'don’t hurt my boy!, lol, Luke represents Padme and EVERYTHING that sack of sh*t in a robe beside him TOOK from him. I also added Quigon asking him ‘Do you believe you are the chosen one?’ and then yelling at him ‘Anakin’ ‘No…’ ‘ANAKIN!’ 'NOOOOOOO!'So it’s really more satisfying when he SPOILER tosses him over the railing.
• I added a Qui gon cameo in Empire (another ruined surprise lol). I took out Yoda’s saying ‘No there is another’ (cuz he acts like Obi Wan doesn’t know - when HE helped deliver the babies ffs) and added Qui Gon instead. OW: “That boy was our last hope…” QJ: “No…” Quigon’s belief in Anakin being the chosen one is the catalyst for everything. I love how even in Jedi, he STILL believes in Anakin. I also removed all the child killing in ROTS so we feel empathy for him when he burns on the beach (one of the most hard to watch scenes ever put in a mainstream family movie) and we can believe in his redemption. It was ok before the preqs cuz we didn’t know WHAT kind of bad things Vader had done but killing a room full of kids is just WAY too much. One of many, many bad decisions Lucas made with the prequels. Vader/Anakin: “Tell your sister you were right about me, except for that room full of toddlers, you were right…” Sorry, that doesn’t work for me lol 😉

just stuff like at all over the place… my own touches lol I reshaped and reconstructed enough so that it’s all here
in these movies. You don’t really need anything else, so I feel this is MY Star Wars and I hope others enjoy it. My cuts are blueprints as to how to fix things (in a perfect world) as opposed to fully polished fan edits. I did a bit of rescoring here and there and added my own crappy visual effects lol so it’s not always pretty - but it works. The STORY comes FIRST. That’s what MY canon is about - making the story connect all the movies in every way.

Aside from the rebels and 2 extra clone wars movies I edited all 10 films simultaneously so I never lost track of where I was, what I was doing and where i the saga I was and where IT had to be… I hope I stayed true to George’s vision and only made it better (I think he would be extremely happy at the end of Jedi).

I like to think Anakin is a different person in my cuts. You like him as a kid (and believe in him, cheering him on at the end), you understand and feel the frustration of ‘teen’ Anakin (you don’t hate the whiny, angry, stalker), believe in his and Padme’s love (their marriage really works better this way. God I love how Ep II ends) and really see and feel how he’s DUPED in ROTS (he doesn’t just decide "Ok, I think I will turn bad now’ and off with Mace’s hand).

The frankenstein ‘Noooooo’ scene in Ep III should mean something and NOT be something to laugh at. He just lost EVERYTHING - and Anakin’s main problem is - the same one his son faces in TLJ - he cannot let go. He can’t let go of his mom, can’t let go of Asohka, can’t let go of Padme - and finally that one, coupled with the baby pushes him over the edge… The best way put it is maybe that - the theatrical trilogies are one story of anakin and one of luke and I tried to make it all seem like anakin’s story. If that makes any sense, that’s the best way to put it…with a neat little bow on top 😉

SparkySywer said:

Cutlist? Anything that could vaguely describe what’s in these edits?

Aren’t you that guy who said all faneditors are garbage people?

Garbage people lol? Like Oscar? It is possible though, the last time I posted it turned into a mess (and people were hatin just for hatin’s sake - much like nowadays with The Last Jedi). It’s the past, leave it there. If anyone was offended last time I apologize and (as Conrad Thompson would say) let’s move on.

I think everyone who is unhappy with the way Star Wars has gone needs to either watch edits like mine or other people’s or just make your own cuz Star Wars is dead so YOU (or I etc) need to fix it - NOT wait on Disney - cuz you’ll never be happy.

I’m a faneditor so that would make me garbage too lol I think most people GET fanediting wrong though - that I’ve said many times. Like with TPM, most people think just editing Jar Jar out will fix the movie. It doesn’t. I changed his dialogue to the Hindi track and gave him proper eng subs and removed his over the top slapstick crap. He’s a main character so editing him OUT doesn’t fix anything it just creates MORE problems…

Gabagu said:

Can i see your edits, do you have a link or something?

PM me I guess lol…

The funniest thing about star wars is I don’t believe Lucas really cared about these kinds of things. I think he enjoyed it. Much like The Last Jedi - Disney has taken the FUN out of star wars. I’ve been paying for Star Wars since 1983. I OWN thar sh*t lol vhs beta laserdic SPECIAL EDITONS in theaters widescreen vhs special editon ultimate edition The Prequels waiting outside all day dvd special edition dvd blu ray special edtion blu ray… ALL THE TOYS…

Do I not have the right to make my own versions lol? Like c’mon… ROTJ is my fave cuz it’s the first I saw in theaters and afterwards I got a care bare and a Gamorian Guard lol Point is I can remember ever penny Star Wars got from me. I shouldn’t have to pay for it period. Anyone remember when they would play them on tv on a staurday night and youd HAVE to tape it? You know with the machine and tapes they gave us and TOLD us to use? LOL Those were the days…

How many of y’all like TLJ? …and if so then WHY? 😉

ChainsawAsh said:

The Ritty said:

NEW LINKS coming friday! The Last Jedi added.

How? It isn’t available on DVD or Blu-ray yet.

LOL I’m not magic… I don’t even think TLJ is able to be saved 😦 I think TFA might have to just be dropped and all will remain happily ever after, after ROTJ haha

BUT to those had requested the original links for the other films I will be updating those so check you email inboxes (not posting here - lol that’s not what I meant).

NEW LINKS coming friday! The Last Jedi added.

CamSMurph said:

Last time, I shared with you all my ideas for a Batman & Robin recut.

Today, I’m here to announce…

…that I’ve begun development on a another Batman fan edit.

The Batman film, in question?

Batman Forever.

I’ve already discussed this through my buds over on the fanedit.org forums, and overall, they seem to appreciate the idea.

Here is my proposed cutslist:

1. CG Warner Bros. logo.
2. Arkham Asylum new opening.
3. Opening titles sequence, matching that of Batman '89 and Returns.
4. Wayne Enterprises exterior shot.
5. Bruce Wayne meets Edward Nygma.
6. Suit-up sequence.
7. Alfred’s “Can I persuade you to take a sandwich with you, sir?” and Batman’s “I’ll get drive-thru” replaced with “Do try and bring this one back in one piece, sir” from B&R.
8. Two-Face introduction.
9. Batman and Chase introduction. Cut Chase’s “hot entrance”.
10. Batman’s first fight. Alternate angles and extra dialogue.
11. Bank vault escape. Cut the guard’s moaning, including “Hey! That’s my hearing aid!” and “My shoes are melting!”. Added brief alternate angle of Batman aiming his grappling gun.
12. Helicopter fight. “This’ll fix him!” replaced with “If the Bat wants to play, we’ll play!”. Reinserted extended fight between Batman and Two-Face.
13. Cut Two-Face’s parachute.
14. Added flashbacks from B89 to the underwater shot.
15. Nygma experiments on Mr. Stickley. His “game show” and surfing gags are cut.
16. Bruce watches GNN news report and goes to Wayne Enterprises for the investigation. Gordon’s “Yep, definitely suicide” is cut.
17. “Bad Days” by The Flaming Lips is retained.
18. Edward plants the second riddle at Wayne Manor. His “Wayne Manor…” and “Hmph!” are cut.
19. Bruce arrives at Chase’s study and asks her out to the circus.
20. Circus raid plays out mostly the same. Gossip Gerty’s lines are cut.
21. Bruce takes Dick in as a ward. Clips from B89 added to the Flashback sequence.
22. Batman meets Chase on the rooftop. Chase’s “Last night at the bank I noticed something about Two-Face” is shortened. Batman’s “It’s the car, right? Chicks love the car” is cut.
23. Entire car chase between Batman and Two-Face is gone.
24. Bruce checks up on Dick at the gym.
25. Edward becomes the Riddler. His “Question Mark Man?” is cut.
26. Riddler and Two-Face team up.
27. Casino heist sequences removed.
28. Dick helps Alfred with the washing.
29. Batman ends up at the beauty salon.
30. Riddler and Two-Face escape with the jewels.
31. Bruce and Alfred solve the third riddle.
32. Nygmatech press conference. Montage of Two-Face and Riddler taking hits from the box is cut.
33. Dick discovers the Batcave.
34. Chase gives Bruce a present.
35. Dick’s drive in the Batmobile is maintained. It brings wit and charm to the film.
36. Bruce’s “terrible morning” speech now features cameos from Returns.
37. Nygmatech party. U2’s “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” plays during the party. Edward and Two-Face’s bickering about whose entrance was better is cut. Alternate angles of Batman’s fight are added.
38. Batman’s close encounter with Death at the abandoned subway station.
39. Bruce and Dick at the Batcave. Bruce watches the GNN news report and contemplates on his parents’ wake.
40. Batman arrives at Chase’s apartment.
41. “Bats on the Brain” scene at the Riddler’s lair altered.
42. Bruce quits as Batman.
43. Chase comes over for dinner.
44. Bruce tells Chase about his childhood fears.
45. Two-Face and Riddler’s raid on Wanye Manor. Two-Face’s first flip is cut.
46. The giant bat scene plays out as Bruce’s nightmare.
47. Bruce wakes up.
48. Chase chained to the couch.
49. Bruce and Alfred solve the final riddle.
50. Batman suits up, sans butt shot.
51. Robin and Batman team up.
52. The climax plays out mostly the same. Robin’s 60’s Batman reference remains. Riddler’s “Was that OTT? I can never tell” and “Bummer!” are cut.
53. Two-Face’s death at the capable hands of Batman.
54. Edward is taken to Arkham.
55. Batman and Chase kiss outside the asylum.
56. New Burton-style ending.
57. Michael Gough and Pat Hingle dedication cards.
58. End credits.
59. New closing logos.

So, have any suggestions? Feel free to leave them below. 😃

I’ll watch! I started my own 2 weeks ago and gave up lol I agree with a lot of the cuts like the hot entrance the sandwhich line… I think personally I gave up when we got to twoface lair with sugar and spice… Is it available to watch? Thanks.

ChainsawAsh said:

The Ritty said:

Tell me what Fan edits are really good.

This will probably be the last thing I say as a reply, because you’re being very negative toward everybody and I think it’s very immature that you seem to think your edit is so perfect you’re unwilling to check out any others, BUT I’m going to give you some examples of fanedits that are the cream of the crop in my opinion:

• Adywan’s A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back Revisited (which are both on another level to any other fan edit to date)
• HAL 9000’s Star Wars prequels (Cloak of Deception, The Approaching Storm, Labyrinth of Evil)
• L8wrtr’s Star Wars prequels (whose titles escape me at the moment)
• Uncanny Antman’s Terminator 3: The Coming Storm
• Spence’s Frank Herbert’s Dune (movie edit of the 2000 SciFi channel miniseries)
• TM2YC’s Star Trek: Vengeance (edit of Star Trek Into Darkness)
• Various Hobbit edits are good (Maple Films, l8wrtr, Spence)

And SO many others. That’s just what comes to mind that I’ve personally seen. Spend some time browsing through IFDb (the fanedit database on fanedit.org), organize them by rating (both directions) to see what edits people have responded to positively for examples of what to do and negatively for examples of what not to do.

If you made these for yourself and you’re satisfied with them, then great. But if you want to share them with an established community you have to spend some time acclimating yourself with the community to see what people’s expectations are. If the expectations beyond what you are willing to deal with, that’s fine, but don’t lash out at people in the community for expecting the same shit from you they expect from everyone else.

And maybe be a little more respectful in the future and open to advice and criticism.

Again, I’m not trying to be a dick to ANYONE lol…seriously. I did ask for advice and criticism but towards to edits that’s why I want people to watch them but I just don’t need criticism for nonsense like no cutlist. I will not spoil them that way. But who cares about that anyways. Thanks for the list I’m gonna check of the first two SW ones you mentioned. I won;t do the prequels with all changed titles cuz that puts me off right there. My intention is not to change the movies just make them fit better intot heir places in the over all saga. I changed one name on mine but that’s cuz there literally IS NO ATTACK of the clones lol…but that’s my own personal nonsense choice. I tried to make a T3 once and got close to the end but it just became boring to me and I stopped. The first hour I did was real good so Ii’ll def check that edit out to see how they fixed what I felt I couldn’t. Never cared for dune, not a fan of the hobbit stuff - I’ll never re-visit them (LOTR 1 was good, 2 was great, 3 was shite and hobbit one was shite, two was great and three was half good). Those movies piss me off because they’re really an exact copy of the animated films and I prefer the old 70’s/80’s way of having to MAKE a film work rather than turn it into 5 other movies…If you film the entire book then what’s the point of reading it ever again?

Now let me ask you a question - what didn’t you like about Star Trek 12? Forget the SW nonsense we’ve back and forth’d above - this is about ST. I loved Darkness, I know a lot of people didn’t. I don’t see why a diff edit is needed. Beyond was ok but I don’t think that could even be fixed with a diff edit but what was your take on 12 and was the fan edit radically different or just a tighter, leaner animal?

Thanks - and again please don’t ANYONE be offended by anything I say or presume I’m gonna be an arse to you. I’ve said it before I’m on a LOT of pain meds and from the brain to the keyboard gets messy sometimes. 😉

Cheers and thanks for the heads up on the fan flicks!

DigMod said:

The Ritty said:

I don’t need nerd snobbery lol I need someone who’s tired of watching crap. Again, I haven’t seen any other edits and I don’t care too because I MADE MY OWN. I have no need. IMO there’s nothing major lacking in mine but I’m sure some other maybe had better cuts or ideas for cuts etc…but a polished turd is STILL a turd lol Unless anyone says this guy did a such and such a better way - I’ll check THAT out but…I’m on a different side of the fence.

No offense, but it sounds like this edit was made in a conceptual vacuum. Lots of us have already made our own versions of these films. We watch yours and others to gain new perspectives and approaches to editing. It isn’t nerd snobbery that is being offered, it’s sincere constructive criticism. My own edits aren’t perfect, but they’ve been able to rise above what I thought I could produce because I kept an open mind towards the comments, suggestions and challenges of others to change my approach. One of the reasons why so many people fanedit the prequels is because George Lucas didn’t have a check and balance when making the films. He simply said, I made my own, I have no need. IMO there’s nothing major lacking in mine. I’ll most likely only glance through your edits because you don’t seem to care about getting feedback and improving your skills and abilities. I’m intrigued by your use of other languages for voices. It’s also odd that you seem to refer to your edit as a turd. Not very inviting…anyway, I glance through the edits again.

That’s not what I said at ALL lol I LITERALLY have said in EVERY post I’m looking for feedback (just not in a nitpicky way). THAT was in regards to that fan edit site. Start reading stuff cuz I LITERALLY said exactly what you just posted. It feels like every time you post it’s just to get a reaction cuz you miss the point completely.
Like what am I up for some reward? Are any of us? No. LMAO NO, that’s why I don’t care. I’m don’t need JUDGING (from there) I want constructive criticism (on here). . I only care if the story came off well more or less. ALREADY SAID, can’t change anything technical really I’m at my limits - like I already said. I appreciate this feedback but I’m done with you thank you. I hate being on forums for all this back and forth for no reason b.s.

If you check em out fine, that’s really all I’ve asked and it’s been oddly, REALLY complicated. It’s odd that a star wars forum feels too good for star wars lol Either watch or don’t or ask a question - every thing else has been inane.

Thanks again to those that requested them, hopefully I get something I can use back from any of you. Thank you for just taking the time, the rest can suck a lightsaber cuz you were useless to begin with lol 😉 I don’t get coming into a forum just to tell people you’re NOT gonna watch something - that really helps no one. Not being a dick, just sayin.

If someone asked me to watch something and they thought it was good enough I would prob check it out IF I had any interest in it. Unless it was horrible. Tell me what Fan edits are really good. Like you said - which is what I said - I don’t need to watch cuz I made my own. So it’s the other’s who are the watchers who give us feedback. That’s whom I was talking to - not the ones who just refuse to watch anything. This not to start some wars I’m just tired - and I suggest this may be a tactic of some people to bog down a thread as a way of non verbally trolling. Like who wants to wade through all this diatribe now - sabotage by those with no life lol

Thanks again to those that watched I look forward to the feedback.

TV’s Frink said:

If you aren’t concerned with technical quality (which includes video and audio source and conversion quality, no hard audio cuts, no black frames, etc.) then never mind, it won’t get approved if it’s lacking in that department. I know you said you don’t care about other people’s opinion on technical quality, which isn’t the same as not caring about technical quality itself, but that’s still a bit of a red flag to me.

I mean it in regards to with what I have, I’ve done the BEST I can. Like this is it. So anything beyond “maybe cut here instead of here” or the sound is really jarring here is all I can accommodate…little stuff that just lends to nitpicking most of the time. I don’t get paid for this so it is what it is. I don’t need nerd snobbery lol I need someone who’s tired of watching crap. Again, I haven’t seen any other edits and I don’t care too because I MADE MY OWN. I have no need. IMO there’s nothing major lacking in mine but I’m sure some other maybe had better cuts or ideas for cuts etc…but a polished turd is STILL a turd lol Unless anyone says this guy did a such and such a better way - I’ll check THAT out but…I’m on a different side of the fence.

ChainsawAsh said:

If you can’t tell us what makes your version different from HAL’s, or Q2’s, or l8writer’s, or MagnoliaFan’s, or Seciors’, or the TONS of other SW fanedits out there, why should I care about yours if I’ve found the ones I’m happy with already? A cutlist is the best way to do this, especially if you don’t want to watch everyone else’s edits and explain to us how your approach differs.

Something like this is best I can do… I did it as I watched the movie. If you’ve been so desensitized by the films though don’t bother watching…

The Phantom Menace
after CRAWL…

• trimmed scenes of droids and jedi battle, various trims (too much action and jedi babble too soon, loses the mystery
  and mystique), added the music from new hope when they take off their hoods. trimmed as much of Sidous referring to the senate as I could…
• trimmed palace scene before invasion
• changed jar jar to hindi (he’s now NOt an idiot or annoying) and added proper english subs. I also altered some of his dilaogue to refer to his actual backstory
• trimmed jars jars return
• changed nass to hindi and altered dialogue, trimmed scene
• altered some dialogue in sub, changed to hindi, removed 2nd fish scene, various trims
• changed some dialogue, added them walking up palace steps (always hated how they just came outta nowhere), various trims
• trims in fight and hanger, alt jar jar dialogue (if anyone has anything better than 'Wow, these guys are powerful" pls tell me)
• various trims in hangar, cut as much of portman padme that I could so it wasn’t so obvious shes the queen
• cut droids and jar jar scenes, various trims in ship scene
• trimmed sidous and vice roy scene a bit
• anyone got any better dialogue than 'I hate all this sand."? Pls tell me.
• removed jar jar and droid in watto shop, various trims, trimmed jar jar leaving (they made him SO dumb he can’t even exit a door properly!)
• altered dialogue on city streets, trimmed sebulba confrontation
• trimmed in the skywalker house (cut naked part)
• re-edited the lunch scene (if you don’t like ani by the end of THIS scene there’s no hope. Jake lloyd is great here), various trims
• originally when they go back to wattos shop after lunch I changed the sky color but in the end I put that off till later. I changed the sky to purple
  when Shmi is talking to qui-gon. Also trimmed that scene and made it darker to show night coming
• trimmed qui-gon & ani in wattos shop
• trimmed ani/qui-gon night scene a bit
• re-arranged the scene in the hanger right before the race - and trimmed it as well (cut out sebulba)
• extended the race to it’s full length Every racer is introduced and has some moment in the race (big or small). Gave the 2nd commentator
  subtitles since he says some good stuff. I could still trim more in the race intro but I kept most of it for length. I was aiming to have all
  them between 2-2hrs 5mins. Cut Sebulba messing with anis racer - it’s irrelavent.
• Unfortunately the quality dips in the pod race squence for a bit cuz I’m using the del footage. Jabba’s dialogue I did actually lift from someone’s
  youtube video. I have no idea who that was - much like the scene of qui gon in jedi - shouto uts tob oth those people who i forget who they are lol I stoel two lines and 5 secs of footage lol 😉
• trimmed qui gon going back, added greedo scene, trimmed inside the house a little bit, added 3pos POV in three shots.

SIDE NOTE - I HATE the way Qui Gon says “you’re no longer a slave.” He looks so stupid, like he should have added ‘dude or buddy’ after. So bad.
Like surfer-dude Quigon. But I couldn’t edit it out like I couldn’t stop the suns from setting… It’s like the only thing I couldn’t cut that I wanted to lol

• Trimmed ani and shmi, added the del scene with the old lady and the probe droid. This scene NEEDS to be in. It just makes the appearance of
  Maul less jarring(?). I hate these wipes, I’m sorry about those guys - they’re so stiff.
• cut the scene with jar jar aboard the ship. Awful stuff. Cut her recieving the message (again don’t need to blungeom us with the fact she’s the queen).
  At least shse’s not ani’s sister! Trimmed ani and padmes dialogue.
• trimmed the platform scene and re-arranged it slightly. whatever, it ‘works’ lol (we work with what we have)
  I STOLE the edit from the city to the palpatine/queen speech from the phantom edit I believe lol I admit that ONE.
• trimmed the jedi council scene a bit, I HATE the scene where ani goes to see padme (he so much older lol) but I needed the transition…
• trimmed/re-arranged the senate scene
• might have trimmed ani council scene - not sure lol
• changed dialogue to hindi for padme/jarjarscene. Padme was super smart and bad ass…as queen she MIGHT know Gungan. I liked her speaking his
  language so deal with it lol 😉
• trimmed qui gon and ani platform scene, cut the part with obi wan. He’s a total PRICK to obi wan here - so I cut it. I much prefer their talk by the lake
  that foreshadows obis own talk with anakin in III. I like the midichlorian stuff. Everyone wondered howd it be possible. they gave a reason and everyone
  shat on it. It’s the same force as the original trilogy force - yoda and obi just dumb it down for luke. Why go into such detail now…it works for me anyways.
• trimmed the meeting with gungans
• trimmed battle plan meeting scene, cut jarjar and boss nass nonsense
• edited battle scene to remove any jar jar hi jinks except for when he pulls down the back of the cart and the balls fall out. Gave him the
  old “I have a bad feeling about this” line.
• trimmed inside the hangar, moslty ani’s dum dialogue and actions. “Where’s the trigger?” As he pushes the ignition. Come on, how dumb is he?
• trimmed all the rest of the battle scenes. That really has to bee seen as I can’t describe every cut lol
• edited the maul lightsaber fight a bit here and there, cut them ascending - GOD WHAT A DUMB SCENE, added maul saying ‘and they call you master’
• edited the throne room scene a bit, they don’t get the guns out of the throne, they already had them on them (2 small guns no big deal. they laid down their
  big guns already).
• end is pretty much as is from maul getting sliced except for removing obi telling ani he will train him at the funeral (WE know this already lol)
• removed the vader breathing after credits - to part III

so that’s most of it for TPM. LOTS of little cuts here and there and probably full scenes I didn’t mention cuz I forgot I cut them lol
If this helps any let me know I’ll do it for the rest too but this is as in-depth as I’m getting. Thanks, Sorry for spelling errors I’m doing this as I watched the movie. I will REFINE this…just wan to know if this is what you want more or less.

Thanks.

TV’s Frink said:

The Ritty said:

All good but I’ve been working on these for two years. I wouldn’t come in here with crap - I’m pretty confident these are VERY good - I wouldn’t do that people. I don’t think anything else can be fixed story wise in my edits (that I can do, I didn’t get paid for this). Editing previously time, scored and edited footage is not not easy. It’s hard to get in and out of scenes like you’d like too - so I’m confident in them. Others may look prettier lol but I’m just concentrating on the story. I know it’s along haul - 9 movies - but I hope it’s worth it. You have to watch them all, that’s the thing. I tried to make that way (again, hopefully).

We’ve heard this kind of confidence time and time again. Occasionally it’s backed up by the actual product, but most of the time it’s just empty boasting, and that is revealed quite quickly.

If you want more than four people to see it, you should also consider submitting at fanedit.org. We’re reasonably strict on quality control, and have a community (The Academy) whose job it is to review for quality and accept or reject to the site based on quality. So if it’s good, that’s a good way to prove it…and increase your audience.

Lol I’m old, my hips, my back and my knees are shot so I got some spare time lol BUT I did this cuz I wanted too. Cuz I love the films and no one should have to sit through bad ones. That’s not boasting - I want better for everyone. I’m not out to prove how good I am or any b.s. like that. They’re not perfect but the story is all that should matter. I did the best I could with oldish equipment. I’m poor lol, sorry.

So WHAT does QUALITY mean? Is every cut and dub perfectly done what matters or that the movies are actually FUN? I thought the phantom edits were crap so that’s where I stand - my pickiness - those where NO WHERE near good enough. The whole saga is in flames…

Look at the Exorcist III DC… Ive waited forever for it. FINALLY saw it was released and watched it this year. They didn’t even bother to put the black bars over 4:3 footage or anything…just cuts in aspect ratio, quality and even color and black n freakin white! This from an actual studio released blu ray. So…what is quality? That blu ray was pure laziness but I still watched it. I should combine the two - cuz much like Superman II BOTH versions are incomplete without footage form the other - to fix that… But I digress - I still watched it and it wasn’t the end of the world. The extra scenes that connected it to part 1, the music, the mood, THE STORY…all that kept me pretty glued so I don’t know what to say to things like ‘quality’. I watched old wrestling ppvs in black n white scrambled up back in the day lol…just sat there listening more or less.

So if quality means it’s a good watch then I might submit it but if people aren’t gonna let themselves be sucked in and really give a crap about ALL the films and the big picture then it’s useless to me. I don’t a give shit about anyone’s opinion on anything technical - I used a free copy of PD to make this - their wipes are SHIT and I know it (that really pissed me off that I couldn’t do the same wipes but again - technical b.s.) so get over it. If I failed either anis story or luke’s story (or even rey and jynn) then let me know…that’s what I’m concerned about. I want the entire thing to feel like that moment in TFA when she gets the saber. When the music slowly kicks in after it flies by Kylo’s face. That little moment is star wars gold right there.

So who’s to say what’s quality and what’s nitpicking? …well ME. That’s why I await comments. Oh and two more people asked for links 😛 So there! LOL A little chill that runs up your back.

😃 Thanks to those two btw, ya’all are awesome.

P.S. If I sound like a nutjob sometimes I apologize. I’m on lyrica, morphine and cortizone shots so I can walk… I also smoke weed for my chronic knee pain, etc etc…so I’m a lil doped up sometimes lol, FYI

Thanks, I just don’t want to come off as rude to anyone - it’s so hard nowadays without typing a 😃 or 😉 besid everything you write.

TV’s Frink said:

ChainsawAsh said:

The Ritty said:

I do not want to put any kind of cut scenes list because that will RUIN everything.

That’s kind of a standard thing for fan edits. Very few people will want to commit to watching hours upon hours of edits of films they’ve seen multiple times in many forms, official and fan edited, without a cutlist.

I know I won’t, especially after I’ve already seen about 5-10 fan edits of each prequel and have finally settled on the ones I like the most.

All of this, except for me it’s more like 15-20. And the fact that I’ve decided, after years of fooling myself, that “liking the most” is too low of a bar to bother with.

See I can’t hate on that - I’d be worn out too LOL Honestly. I’ve watched my edits for two years over and over and over and over…I can only imagine if I didn’t like it lol So I get it…but that sucks. It’s too bad I got here late lol I’ve offered these to people and had them simply shake their head at me furiously…like Jerry and Audrey and the apple pie. So I get it…hey it took me a while to begin to attempt this. These movie are honestly pretty bad (the preqs)… It’s a shame we got stuck with them cuz they really just bogged everything down. Lucas, Hoawrd and Spielberg should have all callabo’d and each done one. Would have been perfect. Leaving george up to his own devices…not so good.What can I say they’ve become a chore that’s why I say you have to unlearn what you have learned cuz it’s SO HARD to go into these abominations fresh.

ChainsawAsh said:

The Ritty said:

I do not want to put any kind of cut scenes list because that will RUIN everything.

That’s kind of a standard thing for fan edits. Very few people will want to commit to watching hours upon hours of edits of films they’ve seen multiple times in many forms, official and fan edited, without a cutlist.

I know I won’t, especially after I’ve already seen about 5-10 fan edits of each prequel and have finally settled on the ones I like the most.

Well then only you lose in this situation. I’ve never watched anyone else’s except the two phantom edits - and they were just so so. Removing JarJar doesn’t fix the movie - and those two edits failed to FIX the movies. Changing Jar Jar voice and giving him proper eng subs ‘fixes’ his character. If he’s not a total moron then you do;t hate him - and he has CRUCIAL moments in the story. In a perfect world, he’d have his own eng style proper voice and not mesa wesa yousa…for now, it’s subtitles.

The only way to fix AOTC is to gather everything off the cutting room floor. AOTC is the most poorly edited film I’ve ever seen. The heart and soul are LITERALLY on the cutting room floor. That’s just sad and shameful. Professional people made that movie, people long time in the industry. WOW.

So I didn’t watch anyone’s - I just made my my own. I think I’ve done the overall story justice. I get that you don’t want to check it out without a list telling you EVERYTHING I’ve done and thus ruining the experience but that’s your call, completely. Like I said though - only you lose in that situation. But thanks for coming here to tell me you wont watch it. Instead of just wasting your time (apparently with my edits) now you’ve wasted BOTH of ours. lol 😉

All good but I’ve been working on these for two years. I wouldn’t come in here with crap - I’m pretty confident these are VERY good - I wouldn’t do that people. I don’t think anything else can be fixed story wise in my edits (that I can do, I didn’t get paid for this). Editing previously time, scored and edited footage is not not easy. It’s hard to get in and out of scenes like you’d like too - so I’m confident in them. Others may look prettier lol but I’m just concentrating on the story. I know it’s along haul - 9 movies - but I hope it’s worth it. You have to watch them all, that’s the thing. I tried to make that way (again, hopefully).

Hopefully you change your mind one day…or maybe I’ll try and come up with some kind of changes list. Ugh, I should have done it while I watched them all again last weekend… “We shall see…we shall see…”

Oh if any one wants to see a sample of a rough cut scene I added to Force Awakens (maybe to get a taste) go youtube ‘SNOKE DELETED SCENE’, look for ‘Dj Ritty’ beside it and click that (it’s got 290K views I think). It’s an early rough cut cuz everything i’ve put up after gets deleted.