Vladius

I think that's the best way to do it.

I really liked it, actually. It's very good at showing the Clone Wars as an event.
Here we have some clones, we have some Jedi - BAM - this is what they look like in action.

The only thing that concerns me is that some of the footage, particularly of Order 66, might need to be used elsewhere in its original context.

I always got the impression that Leia was just ignorant of the real power dynamics in the Empire. Vader is clearly working for somebody, but nobody really knows that the Emperor is a crazy evil wizard, so they pin it on Tarkin and lower-level types.

Has anyone considered incorporating other movies/TV shows into Star Wars? Not just in the shots used, but linking the stories together or substituting plot elements.
I think it'd be really cool to not only keep the good elements of the prequels, but to also tie them in with another story, science fiction or not. Stargate SG-1 in particular can have a similar tone to the OT at times, and uses a lot more practical effects. You could really use a lot of science fiction and fantasy for this purpose.
If we're talking really radical ideas, find two characters that fall in love and have them be Owen and Beru.

There are plenty of movies that are not very well liked, but have good effects or cinematography. You could have space battles from Star Trek films, or explosions from Transformers. There's no reason to limit the toolbox to what the prequels already have in them, especially since they don't match the style of what we're aiming for anyway.

"Too much time on your hands" is a lazy excuse people make to shelter themselves from knowing that they're not as creative or hardworking as someone else.

On the other hand, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that scene and you spent way too much of the time on your hands, however much that is, working on things that people will not notice.

I avoided using the actual titles as the names of the videos for a number of reasons, including that one. It's not necessarily unique to call Darth Vader "The Black Knight," but kudos for the good idea.

Hello there!
This is an edit of the prequels as a sort of miniseries, but you can watch them all at once as a single movie.

The plot is radically altered. Darth Vader is a body-hopping evil spirit (created by Darth Plageuis) and mastermind kept alive by the dark side, and serves as narrator. Darth Maul and Grievous act as his first and second “bodies,” though they are both called Darth Vader. Padme is alive at the end; Anakin and Palpatine succeed at reviving her through the murder of Mace Windu. All the very family-unfriendly moments are taken out - most of Anakin’s “fall” is allowing Palpatine to do his work unhindered, no child-murder necessary. The focus of the story is on the flaws of the main characters. Obi Wan continually seeks revenge, neglecting his apprentice and leading to his eventual downfall. Anakin is easily duped, and Padme’s use of Anakin as a servant proves to be her undoing.

Anakin is kind of a dunce, but overall a nice guy, and the final Darth Vader we see in the OT is a mix of his capacity for servitude and the spirit’s powerful mind. Padme herself is a warmonger who jump-starts the creation of the clone army in response to Alderaan (Naboo, I guess) being attacked. She wins over Anakin very easily, and she’s kind of a sugar mama. Obi-Wan and Qui Gon are brothers, and Obi Wan and Anakin are roughly the same age. The Clone Wars involve a lot more versatile uses for clones - as laborers to build the droid armies, as an insect colony (the geonosians,) as Padme’s decoys, and so on.

This edit uses both work and ideas from numerous sources, including but not limited to the Cutter, Spence, JasonN, and Kerr.
This is not an edit you watch as the Star Wars experience, because it has numerous technical issues. It was all done in Windows Movie Maker. There are jarring cuts, sound problems, and continuity errors (whoops, R2 is in two places at once.) I recommend you watch it with headphones. However, I did this edit mainly for myself and for posterity, and it’s the most satisfying version of the story for me. I will be revising it at some point when I have more experience, but for right now, I would like the critique to be focused on story elements.

Episode I Part 1: The Queen’s Courtship
http://vimeo.com/31564209

Episode I Part 2: The Copied Soldiers March
http://vimeo.com/31566620

Episode II: Agents of Evil
http://vimeo.com/32085237

Episode III: The Knight in Black
http://vimeo.com/32267063

That's a great idea!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Kerr used it to the same effect in his Episode III edit, which helped put it down at an hour and a half. Everyone's voice sounds a little bit higher.

I'd say it works better without. That music is for a scene with a much greater emotional impact. Not that Qui Gon's death is bad for it, but this is the end of one movie, not three.

Yes, he was sucked in, otherwise he would have fallen into the bottomless pit below him.

I think that the choice of music can fix a lot of the issues with it. The Dan Edit by Yads has the Luke and Leia theme instead, which works much, much better.

Return of the Jedi is about everything being set right at the end. The sad part is Darth Vader being redeemed and then dying in front of his son. :(

Clearly it is emotional enough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_K4mAD8xnc (wink)

That sounds cool. What I meant was that it's too epic, there's billions of CGI objects, lava everywhere, so many blue and orange things to look at, and it's a little bit of a distraction from the characters. I'm sure you'll do a good job though.

The current footage won't cut it?

I think it cuts it too much. What did you have in mind?

I would also recommend it, but you have to pay if you're using more than 500 megabytes a week.

I like it! Do the other episodes.

Sepharih said:

Vladius said:

Wouldn't that contribute to him feeling underdeveloped?

What?  Dooku having a theme?  How so?

I'm saying it might feel undeserved if there's not enough character development through the scenes in the movie to begin with.

Wouldn't that contribute to him feeling underdeveloped?

Any spoilers? :)

I would also suggest, for story reasons, that you try to address some of the things in the Episode III Red Letter Media review. If it's possible, make the actions of the characters make more sense.

It looks great!

Is it just for example purposes, or are you using the Yoda v. Emperor duel?

Harmy said:

Vladius said:

Edit each of the extended Lord of the Rings movies into their respective three hour epic.

If you mean to re-edit the LOTR EEs back into the theatrical versions, then that would actually be a great idea in case of FOTR, because the theatrical version has a badly DVNRed older master for Blu-Ray, so a colour corrected original version of FOTR using the EE Blu-Ray would be something I'd be very interested in actually ;-)

The idea is that there's a lot of edit ideas on here and FE for every kind of movie imaginable that boil down to that pitch: "Editing all of the _________ movies into one 3/4/5 hour epic." LOTR is already 3 hours long for each movie, already has its own extended edition, and some have already edited it into smaller blocks or purist versions.
The only logical thing left is to edit the smaller chunks of extended editions into three hour epics. :D

Edit each of the extended Lord of the Rings movies into their respective three hour epic.

The Corporate Sector Authority was a major power, too.

Practical effects, like the kind Adywan is good at, would go a long way to giving the PT the same feel.

"Even Master Yoda doesn't have a sperm count that high..."