colubra09

C3PX said:

... if it is a movie as crappy as AotC or ROtS no small amount of editing is going to add up to anything. You have got to remove enough of the bad stuff to make it worth while, otherwise what you leave in there will still be enough to kill the film.

Yes, unfortunately... Perhaps I should shut up as I've only just seen my 3rd fan edit, and started off with Adywan's Star Wars revisited ("A New Hope" will always be just Star Wars for me ;-) So I'm kind of spoiled.

I just watched the opening of the Phantom Editor's take on Episode 1 and... well, just throwing the worst stuff out doesn't improve the movie generally, it makes the average silly things stand out more because there's less information - superfluous or not - and scenes are shorter (George really outdid himself with silly dialogue and silly storylines in Episode 1, IMHO). There's simply nothing there to replace the silly stuff with. It takes a good or oversized movie to begin with, or a storywise stupid thing like "300" with mindblowing visuals. The best thing that can happen to Episode 1 ist the "silent movie" approach ;-//

Same thing with a MATRIX Reloaded/Revolutions fan cut I recently saw (named "Matrix Evolutions"), it even contained new scenes from the video game, but nevertheless it was a butchered effort at storytelling, not to mention music, flow etc. The problem is, no matter how good the ideas, unless fan editors start to raid movie studios for all those deleted scenes there won't be enough material to reshape a story, and then it takes a pro like Adywan to make it into something to rival the official director's cut. I've tried re-cutting the Matrix 2-3 myself and the problem is, what's missing in the original (a decent storyline for Neo) can't be covered up by cutting other stuff away.

These are just some thoughts, real fans won't be discouraged by the obstacles, of course ;-)

I almost dare not ask, but is there a German audio track available?

(I know, what about the Dutch, the French, the Spaniards...)

But as you maybe (don't) know, the Germans were hit especially hard by the Special Edition(s). I'm still hurting all over because of those ghastly redubs of Vader's voice. And then it's OUR HDTV recording that you folks're using over & over ;-)))