CaptainFaraday

Eyepainter said:

CaptainFaraday said:

The water trough that Finn drinks from in TFA is colour corrected to look like Coke and has the in-universe logo on the side of it.

Plus, instead of Finn grossing out, he is digitally manipulated so that he gets up and says, “ahh…” from the refreshing taste.

Or, alternatively, change the fountain to a Pepsi fountain, leave his revulsion, and add “sponsored by Coca-Cola” disclaimers all over the start of the movie and end credits.

Do you have any plans for changing up the Death Star explosion? I did my own edit to make it look less like a balloon abruptly going pop, but it was very fanedit-y because I didn’t make it with any particular usage in mind beyond a fun little experiment.

The water trough that Finn drinks from in TFA is colour corrected to look like Coke and has the in-universe logo on the side of it.

Anakin Starkiller said:

https://youtu.be/mlFjSE4QFks

Btw, does this thread replace the Worst Edit Ideas Thread or is it just reserved for ideas you’d genuinely see people implementing unironically?

I think there’s a difference between making something overtly for comedy (eg. cutting the throne room fight scene to a Beastie Boys song), and suggesting an idea for satirical purposes that someone might feasibly suggest unironically (eg. colour correcting Holdo’s hair so it’s not purple).

Like, nobody would ever actually suggest adding Mr Bean to that scene, so it’s not really a satirical bad edit idea. It is funny, though.

This is so good.

jrs81 said:

Peter Pan said:

There is the really dirty option to just trim the reaction shot of maul. Its the only shot the blood is in, you could easily shorten it by a second and skip the blood. You would only need to fix the audio afterwards to get rid of mauls grunt when the saber hits him. That could be a little tricky, but not really time consuming. At worst you would have to redo the saber-slashing sound effect and find a clean recording of the score.

Here was my attempt at getting rid of the blood splatter which I included in my episode edits.
https://youtu.be/wFXkYhRAXRc

That looks great!

EddieDean said:

Folks, I need to officially take a break from this project for a while. I’ve got too many spinning plates in life right now and a lot of mental overhead, so I need to say out loud that I need to put this to one side so that I can take the pressure off. The project isn’t dead, but 16 months straight on one obligation is heavy, and I need a breather. I’ll be back as soon as I can be.

Master Lawdog said:

It’s too bad the extended talk about Dooku between Obi-Wan and Jocasta Nu didn’t have finished VFX, as you said in your commentary, Hal.

I wish someone would finish it. In the theatrical, we go from namedropping Dooku in the opening crawl, to radio silence, and then he shows up at the end with no real context to his character. That 30 seconds in the middle of the film are so important, and it got cut in favour of what - droid factory antics or something.

I like doing foley work. I also stitched together a couple of fight scenes when moving stuff around for my TLJ edit, so, it can be done.

I don’t have time right now to attempt to do either thing, so, I only mention it here to be a tease, I guess. 😂

I think no music could work really well - as RL said, like a samurai movie.

I was starting to think that a seamless, theatrical release quality Rey Nobody was probably impossible, but after seeing this new stuff, to quote the disembodied floating CGI head of Carrie Fisher, “nothing’s impossible.”

Using audio clips from Marriage Story and About Time, imply Kylo and Hux are going through a messy divorce in TLJ.

I remember floating that idea ages ago, not long after first seeing the movie. I’m glad someone else came up with it too, and someone actually did it!

I actually think connecting the plotlines like this would make it feel simpler, not more complicated. Human brains are good at retaining information when it relates to other information; we’re less good at remembering multiple pieces of unrelated information (thus the existence of mnemonics, for instance). Having a moment where the audience goes “ah, that’s why I was being shown four different things” will - in my opinion - make those four endings feel less scattered and narratively chaotic.

NeverarGreat said:

As good as the previous crawl was, I didn’t like how the senators calling for the Resistance were implied to be the ones in endless division. Here’s a new attempt:

The last Jedi has vanished. In his absence, a sinister Imperial power has risen to threaten the galaxy.

As the Republic fractures under the threat of war, a few brave senators have secretly called upon a daring RESISTANCE to find Luke Skywalker before the light of the legendary Jedi is lost forever.

Emerging from its hidden Imperial fortress, the evil FIRST ORDER hastens toward the wasteland of Jakku, sanctuary of the true believers who have discovered a key to the Jedi’s return…

I think ‘a few brave senators’ casts the Republic in the light of being worth saving while also recognizing that the Senate will be unable to directly help the Resistance. I also wanted to lead into the third paragraph by subtly implying that Luke (or the idea of the Jedi in general) is under imminent threat.

Just a look at where things are, and I’ll be moving on to addressing other issues in the film.

I’d suggest “Emerging from a hidden Imperial fortress”. The pronoun sounds initially like it’s going to refer back to the previous sentence (the Resistance), rather than refer forwards to a new noun (the First Order). The indefinite article removes that ambiguity.

I’m astonished that people have been editing this movie for over twenty years and nobody’s done that before. It seems so obvious now it’s been said, but I’d never have thought of it.

Your mileage might vary making a group called the Confederacy the ones opposing slavery. Besides, as has been said, I like the thematic dissonance with the clone army, and how it adds to Palpatine’s cover and gives the Jedi extremely bad optics for trying to depose him.

arabian said:

I just read this whole thread (over the course of 3 days here and there) and a big bravo to you Eddie! Fabulous idea, fabulous putting it together.

I love the invasion idea to begin the film, and identifying the core issues. I kinda want to try and tackle this now. I’m really excited about this monthly focus plan!

If you started actively putting together an edit using these ideas, I think it would reinvigorate the thread for sure - plus it would be an edit I’d definitely watch!

At this point it feels like the all the big ideas have emerged and been fleshed out a bit, so it might be the perfect time to start an edit that aims to accomplish them. Maybe that could be one of the soft goals of these months, depending on whether there’s someone interested in helming each of them!

The first ones are definitely better in my opinion.

Anakin Starkiller said:

I can’t help but feeling like calling this edit “Untold” implies you’re gonna be revealing more information to the viewer than the canon cut, leaving me scratching my head at the removal of Rey’s parentage. You sure you don’t want a different subtitle?

“Untold” simply means a story that hasn’t previously been told. This version of TROS hasn’t been told yet. The amount of information present is irrelevant; I could do a one-page adaptation of Dracula and it would still be a previously untold version of the story.

bbghost said:

Painstakingly rotoscope Luke’s saber in RotJ to be blue again.

To make it easier to see, change Tattooine’s sky to green.

I agree that “Jedi No More” reads more easily for the meaning you want to convey.

This is my first time seeing your “quiet” ending; I think it works really well! I’d personally cut to black and then fade the first title in, kind of like No Country For Old Men, but I really like the concept for the exact reasons you’ve explained above. I wonder if there’s a way to keep the Old Woman and the Force Ghosts and still do quiet credits?

Change Greedo’s subtitles to state that he’s a good guy and he and Han are actually friends. Trim shots of Han unholstering his gun and shooting, but add new insert shot of a drink getting knocked over. After Han throws some coins to Wuher and says “Sorry about the mess,” dub in a new Greedo line and subtitle saying “Thank you for covering that Han, I owe you for next time.”

Maybe it’s because I know what’s been removed and I feel their absence, but it feels incomplete without the ghosts to me. Nice editing work though!

It still displays as IG11 for me, so, I like to imagine that Octorox subtly edited it to make the eponymous toaster into a bounty hunting murder droid with a heart of gold.