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CaptainFaraday

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#1464802
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Unusual <strong>Sequel Trilogy</strong> Radical Redux Ideas Thread
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The theatrical feels like a joke because of context. The music builds up then goes silent, with a silly “whoosh” sound effect, then Rey boggles at it like she’s Ernest. Hal’s edit shows that just by having the music continue unbroken with a subtle and organic sound effect, it works fine - and just goes to show what a damn fine actor Mark Hamill is, in my opinion.

That said, I’m still very interested in the new clip, if for no other reason than it’s something new to mess with in TLJ, which I thought had been exhausted after four years.

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#1464492
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<em>REY NOBODY</em> - A Collaborative Thread
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Awesome document! It’s way less dialogue edits than I thought it would be.

For the last one, I had an idea, but your mileage may vary on how it would alter the scene in a practical editing sense. Have Palpatine say, “But the only family you have here…” and then he opens the roof to show all the Resistance losing the battle. He later refers to them as her family too, unless I’m misremembering it, so it would lean into the “found family” theme of the movie to make the villain derisive towards it.

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#1464294
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The Last Jedi: Stoic Edition (WIP)
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This project has been on my mind lately. What I’ve decided to do is create a V1 that I’d be happy with even if a V2 never materialises. So, I’m going to watch through the workprint and note where it works and where it doesn’t work, and patch over the latter with Hal’s Legendary edit (which I used as a base, and is my current go-to version to watch). I do think there’s gold in the hills, but I’ve dug up a bunch of rocks with it in my overzealousness.

(For the record, I do still want to get the “Master Codebreaker was always DJ” change to work eventually; that would be my aim with a V2.)

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#1464292
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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I finally sat and watched V2 with my wife, who saw the theatrical release on its premiere, hated it, and never watched it again. Her comments:

“What you guys did was incredible. Given what you had to work with, you took a plotless mess and made it into something that made sense. All of your additions in the third act were so good, especially the ending - having Ben as a Force Ghost and the better line delivery makes the ending actually work, and I never thought I’d say that about “Rey Skywalker.” As an ending to all nine films in the saga, it gets it right now and I like it.”

She also commented on the colour grading, in particular the scene on Ahch-To, which she said looks beautiful now. She didn’t know which parts I’d worked on, and she even said while watching it “Oh that’s so much better!” at the puppet show and the “I am a Jedi” line. She didn’t even realise the Knights of Ren, the purple saber, or the fleet comms chatter were edits until I told her afterwards.

For me personally, it’s gone from the theatrical release being the only Star Wars movie I actively dislike to being a movie I actually really like. I even feel okay with Rey Palpatine; the way it’s been carefully massaged into better shape is emblematic of how literally everything is quietly improved throughout.

It’s kind of staggering what a good job this whole community has done, and Hal in particular for steering the ship and doing all the convoluted back-end editing to bring it all to life. It’s like a completely different movie.

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#1463425
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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That could definitely be an issue inherited from my handiwork, in which case, my apologies. I listened to it with headphones and without before sending it to Hal and I didn’t notice any issue, however, my hearing isn’t particularly fantastic so it’s possible that it just slipped me by.

Edit: I just thought to point out - the volume levels vary on the Jedi voices in the theatrical version; some of them are very faint to begin with. Is it possible that’s all it is, but were expecting them to be all regular dialogue levels? (I haven’t watched TROSAV2 yet for the record; I’m saving it until I have a day next week when I can watch it uninterrupted.)

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#1463185
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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BrotherOfSasquatch said:

So, I’m going to get real sappy here real quick, but…

As someone who has followed this thread for a while (and in the grand scheme of things, joined in on the fun fairly recently), I just want to say how proud I am of Hal and the rest of you guys for creating this wonder of a fan edit and doing the impossible in a lot of ways in making this film a much better experience. That in itself is the true power of fan editing: taking a film that is broken or misaligned or just an absolute mess and making it whole again through the power of determination, skill and (above all else) love.

Anyways, if this was a bar, I would buy you all a round of drinks for a job well done (barring anyone who’s underage IRL of course). But, yeah… Well done everybody!

Absolutely seconded. I usually think of fanedits as “alternative” versions of movies, rather than “fixed” versions, but this is definitely a fixed version and everyone’s rallied together as a community to make it happen. Star Wars fans get a bad rap, often for a good reason, but there’s a flipside to it, and that’s places like this. Positivity and hard work, people brought together by mutual creativity.

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#1461660
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Godzilla Versus Gigan: Less Talking! More Fighting! More Monsters! (Released)
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oojason said:

Loving that poster, CaptainFaraday. The ‘Less Talking! More Fighting! More Monsters!’ text and font just looks brilliant! 😃
 

Thanks! I don’t remember the name of the font off the top of my head, but I used it on my Godzilla Vs Megalon edit poster and thought it worked so well that I’m using it for all my future Godzilla edits.