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…what?

^ Reminds me of those old ideas of Mace being called “Darth Vader” in order to throw off the sequential audience.

Terrible idea, but the recolor looks good!

I think the final scene being Obi-Wan and Maul’s rematch from Rebels might work depending on how it’s integrated.

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Drive (2011)

This is my favorite movie of all time. Before I first saw it I thought that nothing could trump Empire. I was wrong. 10/10

The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

Can’t go wrong with a Ryan Gosling crime movie. The first bit was completely great but the quality slowly declined in the latter half. Overall 7.5/10.

Anakin Starkiller said:
You know I really love how the lighting turned out.

Thanks!

Anakin Starkiller said:

Trust me, having her speak only offscreen is not a good idea. It just comes off as really awkward.

It’ll only be one or two lines. Most of her lines will be onscreen (most of her dialogue from the episode II scene won’t be used anyways)

Don’t worry, this is probably the only shot with CG-Dooku.

The queens head from the original Nemoidian conversation will be plastered on a production image of the specific black dress she wears in this scene.

I’m solving the whole queens head thing by having most of this conversation take place in Dookus ship, therefore I can just have her audio come in from offscreen and show Dooku’s reaction.

Another quick preview:

https://gfycat.com/ExaltedEveryArctichare

Here’s a hi-rez screenshot because the gif is so compressed:

NFBisms said:

Still a rough draft for sure, a lot of it is experimentation.

Definitely. And the stuff that does work really works.

Overall I liked it!

I’ll update this as I watch it.

The crawl looks a little off, maybe the font is too small?

The elevator exchange feels better, but I feel like there’s some overlapping music.

I like some of the color correction, but a lot of it completely removes the color black from the frame, making the darkest color a gray. I personally would prefer that the darks be black rather than gray but it isn’t a deal-breaker. Certainly an improvement over the original.

I like Anakin’s “So have you.” It works 10x better than the original, but the laughing sticks out a little. Maybe pitch it down a little.

I like the dreams conversation a lot.

I would cut the Padme packing her bags scene when Anakin sits down and says “I know”. I do really like the way you’ve edited the scene though.

I would cut the librarian asking “are you having a problem Master Kenobi” immediately after asking if he needed assistance.

I would cut the whole Yoda younglings scene, however you’ve made it less unbearable.

I don’t like the landing on Naboo conversation. I never have. I also never liked the Padme’s home deleted scenes.

Padme’s field talk works now. It isn’t completely boring.

The day to night on the nighttime kiss doesn’t work, but it didn’t work in Octorox’s either.

I forget where I first saw it but I loved the little Anakin tusken dream part and him waking up next to Padme.

I don’t like the droid saying “Okie-dokie”

So Owen is straight up Anakin’s brother? That’s interesting. I like the use of Anakin’s theme.

“A thousand more systems” rather than 10 thousand? I guess it’s more realistic.

I liked the cuts to the dinner conversation.

I like the cut to black during the sandpeople slaughter.

What is that shouting when Anakin’s arriving at the homestead?

I like Owen saying “Brother” but I feel like it could be louder.

I really like Padme cutting Anakin off while he’s saying “Strict orders”. That’s genius!

I don’t know why you have Anakin saying see you soon while the ship is flying off, but in any case it is far too quiet to hear.

“Alright let’s do it” sounds nothing like Anakin.

I really don’t like the droid factory sequence but you’ve made it… bearable?

The love pledge is better now.

Obi Wan’s “That was good” should be moved somewhere else.

I really don’t like the 3PO battle droid bits.

I like Obi Wan talking about Anakin at the end. I’m not 100% sure it blends in though.

The movie is good. My only issue is the Opera lady. That is literally the only thing that I would edit. Maybe the “saving what we love” quote. Maybe.

LordPlagueis said:
So we never even see the Clone Wars in your edit?

The people in the Clone armor will never be explicitly called clones. If you want them to be clones, your headcannon is just as good as mine.

LordPlagueis said:
I am confused as to why Anakin turns to the dark side in your version of the prequels. If he is not afraid his wife will die and the war is already over, what would motivate him to turn to the dark side?

Do keep in mind that that first post is probably way off from what will eventually be my cut.

Anakin turning for love is probably the most possibly compelling, but the execution in the film is awful. As soon as Palps is like “Oh yeah by the way I can’t save your wife, the one reason why you just joined me” Anakin would have pulled his saber out and killed the guy. I feel like if Anakin is slowly corrupted by Palpatine, being told that the Council are untrustworthy and whatnot, overtime his takeover won’t be for love of his wife but for his love of the Government. This is more in line with the Vader we see in the OT, calm and collected while enforcing the will of the Empire.

But my Sith edit is years away, let’s not get too carried away with specifics this early on 😛

EDIT: Also P.S. my Clones edit will be completely different from how I initially spoke of it. Just wait and see 😉

Very excited for this!

paja said:

Also what about white for Mauls Lightsaber Color.

That’s what it is in that little gif preview. I think that’s the way I’m gonna go.

I’m not entirely sure. Obviously Force Awakens looks better but Phantom Menace used a lot of miniatures.

Did Force Awakens use any miniatures? Miniatures in a day of photo-realistic CG is kind of a waste, really.

David Bowie - Valentine’s Day

When they infiltrate Snoke’s command ship and DJ does his hacking, add in the jam gag from Spaceballs.

If you keep your expectations low you’ll never be disappointed.
Also, please don’t compare me to Adywan. What he does I could never compare to in a million years.

EDIT:

The droid image is from a test thing I did a while back. During the invasion sequence there will be shots of Naboo civilians being massacred by the battle droids. This both strengthens the droids as a serious threat as well as makes the Separatists a group to be feared.

Still no ETA on the update. Sadly can’t devote much time to the project right now.

Thanks for the enthusiasm!

Anakin Starkiller said:
Will you be scrapping all your previous footage?

A lot of it, yes. Entire sequences that I had started working on have to be unused because of the new story changes.

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Here’s another teaser gif:

https://gfycat.com/ForthrightVapidAlligatorsnappingturtle

The part in the gif is unfinished mind you and I think I’m settled on this color for Mauls saber.

Also:

https://gfycat.com/DefenselessViciousKouprey

Lasers in the second shot are unfinished.

I still don’t know when the update is going to come out.

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

Hey, it was pretty good. 9/10

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I think that was George’s original idea according to an article I read somewhere. Not sure about the novel, haven’t read it.

Especially the Rogue One stuff. The movie was alright (in my opinion) but recently everyone has been saying stuff like “Rogue One is the best shot-- best looking movie in the Star Wars saga” and then they post the same 2 or 3 shots. I’m not saying the movie isn’t well shot but jeez one thread per year is enough.