darthrush

Ya’ll can look forward to some more rescoring in my Last Jedi edit 😉

I’ve got some good surprises ahead…

I tried rescoring the Han death scene with the “Immolation Scene” music track from Episode 3 and I find it works spectacularly.

I have rebuilt the sfx and used noise reduction on the dialogue to get it just right. PM me if you want a high quality to use.

https://vimeo.com/251085076

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Overwritten at times but overall, a very engaging story with wonderful performances and very satisfying themes that play out.

Lady Bird

Classic coming of age tale. Couldn’t ask for more from this.

Call me by your name

Beautiful flick with absolutely gorgeous scenery.

Snoke&mirrors said:

darthrush said:

Hal 9000 said:

I’d like to somehow extend the final shot of the Yoda scene to allow a few seconds more for the score to wind down and let it all sink in before being jerked back to Finn and Rose.

My idea is to put it right after Kylo declares himself the Emperor. This means that after the Yoda scene we would transition to Crait. I think that would help the Yoda scene feel more in place. We hit the low point in the movie, and that’s when we get Yoda’s speech about failure. And then it is followed with the rest of our characters rising up to the mantle, especially Luke.

This sounds very intriguing. It might slightly foreshadow Luke’s entrance too on the nose but I think it’ll allow the scene to breath better

That’s actually part of the reason for it. I like having Luke feel like he is a part of the movie for the entire story. In the theatrical cut he kind of drops out of the main picture for a while but if you move the Yoda scene then his decision to leave and help his friends feels a lot more natural.

Thanks! Yeah, it really stuck out to me as a good spot for it. It’s probably my favorite scene in the whole movie and I felt it deserved better than being put right before a scene with DJ 😉

Django Unchained

My first taste of Tarantino. Really great fun.

Hal 9000 said:

I’d like to somehow extend the final shot of the Yoda scene to allow a few seconds more for the score to wind down and let it all sink in before being jerked back to Finn and Rose.

My idea is to put it right after Kylo declares himself the Emperor. This means that after the Yoda scene we would transition to Crait. I think that would help the Yoda scene feel more in place. We hit the low point in the movie, and that’s when we get Yoda’s speech about failure. And then it is followed with the rest of our characters rising up to the mantle, especially Luke.

Looking forward to the final product!

Your restructure sounds pretty creative. Looking forward to how it works in execution.

DominicCobb said:

Dunkirk is one of the most purely cinematic films made in recent memory. The sheer tension and emotion Nolan squeezes out of fairly basic story with fairly basic characters is incredibly impressive. A true experience film, and easily one of the best of the year (currently my second favorite, and unlikely to budge).

Nice to hear your thoughts! I have noticed that there are a few people I’ve talked to who fall on both ends of the spectrum for liking the movie or not. I guess it just didn’t click with me the first time I saw it. I will try to watch it a second time with a closer eye and get back to ya on it.

snooker said:

Dunkirk put me into the war rather then seeing some other guy going through the war.

I watched Schindler’s List (1993) for the first time the other day. Holy shit, it is clearly Spielberg’s best film but I will never watch it again.

I will have to muster up a lot of courage to watch it again too myself. And yes, easily his finest work in my opinion. It is probably one of the most emotional movies I have ever seen.

The part of Luke tickling Rey is quite funny I will admit. It always does get a big laugh out of me. I just wonder if the scene maybe would work better as a whole without it. I’ll explore both options but I do agree it was one of the more charming jokes in the film.

paja said:

Dunkirk. Just blew me away.

I give this Masterpiece a 5 out of 5.

I disagree a lot here. What gripped you throughout and made it stand out so much?

I thought it was incredibly disappointing. Paper thin characters and odd narrative structural choices that didn’t benefit the film. For liking Nolan’s movies as much as I do, I was pretty surprised with my reaction to Dunkirk.

Snoke&mirrors said:

Hey peeps, this is my first post and to be honest my first time on this site but after seeing this film I’ve come to the conclusion it really needs an edit to change the one problem I have with the film, which is its tone. Yes, Space Leia and possibly fathiers need to go but for me the tone really turns this from a naturally darker second movie, with elements of fun to a mixed, messy confusing affair. My ideal edit would lose a lot of the humour that pertains to the elements of the film that are supposed to be more serious, the antagonists and the Luke/Rey scenes. For me, ridiculing hux, and having our Jedi that has lost faith telling jokes really confuses the scenes and the emotion in them. Off the top of my head scenes to be cut:

1. Second half of huxs interaction with Poe, not entirely as I want to keep the Poe delaying tactic in but get rid of the overacting from Gleeson.

2. Cut Luke’s “Go away” to Rey as it comes across more like a grumpy neighbour who won’t give you your football back.

3. Cut the scene with Luke tickling Reys hand, it takes away the dramatic tension even though I giggle at Hamill.

4. Trim the scene where Rey tells Luke she was cleaning her blaster and it went off, sounds crude and again makes it feel pedestrian like Luke is her flat mate.

5. Cut the “Jakku is nowhere” line a really interesting scene cut short by a dumb joke.

6. Cut the iron Easter egg for Hardware walls, it’s really jarring.

7. Cut Luke winking at c3po, and him dusting his shoulder, he’s going to face the man that killed Han Solo and he’s quipping?!

For me, these changes alone would really help the film feel darker. I don’t mind even the dumb humour of Canto Bight because the jokes are with characters we aren’t supposed to fear or be emotionally tangled with.

Honourable mentions for cuts would be the milking scene and the light saber toss but they fit the tone of Luke being a weird old hermit who has given up the Jedi and the weapons of their order.

I cannot wait to see the edits I’ve seen on here. I’ve never tried to do anything like this before but I enjoy the movie (I know it seems I’m in the minority) I think it’s a fan edit away from being a great film.

Hopefully I can use this site to help me learn and fix my gripes with TLJ

I really like almost all of your ideas here and agree with your take on the movie. I do however have a soft spot for Luke winking 😉 But dusting off the shoulder can definitely go.

Audio Technica M50-x’s. Great price point for high quality of sound.

I tried accessing on mobile earlier today and it was being weird but it seems to work on my computer now.

Collipso said:

darthrush said:

Collipso said:

I really liked this idea you previously had, darthrush. I think removing canto bight completely might hurt the film.

I’m thinking of doing this idea. What reasons do you have for why removing Canto Bight entirely would have a negative effect on the movie? I’m torn between these two options.

Besides the runtime, it gives a better sense of time and space to the rest of the movie, and develops Rose and her relationship with Finn. Plus just for the fun of it. What really hurt Canto Bight in the final cut is that it kills the pacing and the oversilliness, and if you stick to your original idea, you’d be dealing with both without hurting too much of the movie.

Edit: and the runtime.

Alright. I will be trying both routes and possibly have some test viewings from people willing to do so and see who liked what restructure more.

honestly, screw the prequels. I just don’t want Luke Skywalker referring to Darth Sidious. I’d rather have him talk about his legacy of saving his father and that effect on him. Him referring to things that worked well for me emotionally from the OT, and not from the PT, where I saw a bunch of souless monks get offed by troopers when they were meant to be skilled protectors of peace and justice.

Collipso said:

I really liked this idea you previously had, darthrush. I think removing canto bight completely might hurt the film.

I’m thinking of doing this idea. What reasons do you have for why removing Canto Bight entirely would have a negative effect on the movie? I’m torn between these two options.

LordRorek said:

Would it be possible to move back and restructure the scene with Yoda?

I imagine repurposing the scene as Yoda telling Luke that he needs to train Rey. Kind of like a call back to how Obi-Wan told Yoda that he needed to train Luke.

Like you have the scene where he shows her the books and tells her that the Jedi have to end. Then the next night he is going to burn the books once and has his momment with Yoda.

I think it fits in with the general theme of his conversation with Yoda being that as a teacher we must let our students make thier own mistakes otherwise how will they learn?

I also imagine reworking Lukes character arc in this movie to be more like Phil from the beginning of the movie Hercules. The person who has given up trying to train heroes because his students failed him but now is forced to reluctantly train one last promising student.

I also plan on moving the Yoda scene but later in the movie. Preferably right after Kylo declares himself Supreme Leader and before Crait. I like that since after all hope seems absolutely lost, your able to get the hopeful scene with Yoda about failure and then it signals what will happen with Luke better. I just feel it would be more emotionally poignant that way.

Cutting out the voice over dialogue during the mirror scene actually doesn’t sound half bad of a change.

ImperialFighter said:

Thankyou Jeebus for my first big belly-laugh of the year around these parts. 😃

Either of those ideas would make worthy candidates for TF’s eventual ‘Ep. III: The Last Ridiculous Jedi’ edit I reckon.

(or should that be ‘Ep. III: The Not Quite Last Ridiculous Jedi’, seeing as we don’t know what’s going to happen in J.J.'s NEXT movie?)

---

…And just thinking aloud, but I quite like how the latest movie’s view of random, NON-'Jedi-trained ‘Force-sensitives’ appearing here-and-there in the Star Wars galaxy can retro-actively apply to Donnie Yen’s ultra-skilled ROGUE ONE character also. Personally, it helps me to accept his exceptional abilities much easier now, considering he was totally blind…and the way he managed to walk through all those shots unscathed - so I’ll definately consider Chirrut Imwe as indeed being someone who was ‘one with the Force’ in the truest sense, the next time I watch that movie.

I’m still going to lose that ‘broom lad’ ending from my own cutlist though - not saying that the funny ‘child-scaring monster’ moment and ‘Spielberg-ian’ final shot were a bad way to end things for audiences…but I’d just prefer to have that last hyperspace shot of the Falcon as the ending for myself as it leads us to the next instalment…to give this a more sombre finale, considering we effectively lost the Leia and Luke characters during this…and because I want reminded of ‘younglings’ as little as possible in my own version. 😃

Good articulation for why you want to delete the broom boy ending. You put my own reasoning perfectly into words.

BMadden said:

NeverarGreat said:

The Maz scene was the only truly offensive thing in this movie. I imagine that this was the intent though, since Rian has no qualms with destroying the stupid aspects of The Force Awakens in the most savage way possible. What better way to tell JJ that Maz is a videogame NPC than by literally putting her in one?

I hated the Maz scene too, but to say it was the only truly offensive thing in this movie is some serious FAKE NEWS!

Sad!

TV’s Frink said:

^Hard disagree.

+1

One thing I don’t understand is how people think that Rey beat Luke. Luke was barely exerting any effort and easily bested her. It ended when he grabbed her weapon right out of her hand. Then she just used a cheap move and grabbed the saber. If Luke hadn’t chosen already to not use his old saber or have it on him, then she would have never been able to get the upper ground. I thought the film made it clear that Luke is clearly the vast superior to Rey and that she simply took advantage of Luke’s self imposed disconnection from everything involving the Jedi, including his saber.