djplaeskool
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I always hated that fat gungans shaking his face BRRRRRRBRBRRRBR
Boss Nass is bombad as hell. Love that character for some reason.
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Star Wars Ep 1 - 3 Anti-Cheese Editions
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Boss Nass is bombad as hell. Love that character for some reason.
Good acting and direction can sell poorly written scripts; bad acting and direction can ruin good ones.
True.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
CloudyTuba
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Meh. I'll stick with Hal9000's versions. They are easily the best prequel edits hands down.
I'll be watching his ep3 for the first time tomorrow night in my daily star wars leading up to TFA
Aaron Strife
Banned
The OT does have bad dialogue but it also doesn't take itself that seriously. And when it does (particularly in the latter two films) it knows how to play drama without going to melodrama. We also have a stronger connection to the characters which makes their stories more compelling when it starts moving towards that direction.
The prequels spoonfeed every minute of Anakin and Padme's hokey romance, Anakin's fall from grace and Anakin and Obi-Wan's friendship as if it's supposed to be treated like this great tragedy. And nothing in the OT sinks to the level of the dialogue in the prequels ("Only Sith deal in absolutes," "I don't like sand," "I wish I could just wish away my feelings" etc. etc. etc.). As a result you have movies that have their heads up their own asses without being good enough to justify said head-assery.
Also silly humor... Maybe in the special editions where they add some slapstick but most of the jokes in Star Wars involve the characters snarking about their current predicaments. Nothing like Jar Jar stepping in poop or electrocuting himself with the pod racer.
Well, you can improved scripts and mitigate a lot of acting issues with re-dubbed and subtitled dialogue, which he has attempted in some places here. YMMV on whether or not he achieved that.
C00kie M0nster
Member
I was surprised how much he improved the film. I won't go into details so I don't spoil it for you but you'll enjoy it. My girlfriend refuses to watch any other versions of the prequels but these now. Anyone I've shown his cuts to asks me to burn them a copy so they can replace their current discs. It's almost surprising how well they've been accepted by people who aren't even major Star Wars fans.
His Episode II might be his best "work" though. I'd suggest watching his other two edits when you get a chance.
The only other edits I'd recommend are Adywan's Episode IV. The blu-rays of Episode V and VI are fine although Q2's Episode VI edit is still pretty great (replaces the Jabba song with the original, gets rid of Vader's "No" at the end, replaces Hayden ghost with Sebastian ghost and some other minor changes).
Adywan's Episode V is coming out next year which I'm very excited for.
George Oscar Bluth II
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The Silver
Member
pod race still in? get this crap out of my face
goldenpp72
Member
I don't like the changed dialogue and such after the first 15 minutes, seems pretentious to me.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Truth.
Inb4
Trade disputes
burned up bodies
hands getting cut off
decapitation
murder of kids
Isn't that the MO for anyone who's evil in Star Wars? They're always visually evil.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
ehhh. Watched the Vader noooo scene just to test this out and it just made an awkward scene worse. Instead of a build up to a cry of anguish its just James Earl Jones mumbling and grumbling.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
All of those things are perfectly valid reasons as to why these movies aren't for kids, except for the first one where the target audience was specifically first and foremost children.
ClosingADoor
Member
Let it go man. You get a new Star Wars movie in a few days. It's really amazing people are still trying to "save" these movies 15 years later. We get it, they suck, move on.
Skipped to some Jar Jar scene in The Phantom Menace. This just sounds stupid and makes no sense.
Skipped to some Jar Jar scene in The Phantom Menace. This just sounds stupid and makes no sense.
Team Alucard
Banned
So he removed almost all the dialogue during the Anakin/Obi-Wan fight (which wasn't even that bad) but left this in?
Arthr2ShdsJcksn
Banned
Can't turn shit into champagne no matter how you ferment it.
The time spent editing and/or watching these would be better spent doing literally anything else, including if you spent the time advocating genocide.
The time spent editing and/or watching these would be better spent doing literally anything else, including if you spent the time advocating genocide.
UnluckyKate
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never noticed you can see the power cord for Amidala's dress lamps in the shot :
between the pillars and across the ground
between the pillars and across the ground
never noticed you can see the power cord for Amidala's dress lamps in the shot :
between the pillars and across the ground
wow
similarly, there's a point in the original SW where you could see Vader holding a plain white stick instead of a saber
never noticed you can see the power cord for Amidala's dress lamps in the shot :
between the pillars and across the ground
Disney, where are my prequel special editions?
This is hilarious to me, because I can imagine it happening. And the Cantina theme is one of my favorite parts of the Star Wars series.
For all the shitty things about Episode 1, the costume design was amazing.never noticed you can see the power cord for Amidala's dress lamps in the shot :
between the pillars and across the ground
Spieler Eins
Member
never noticed you can see the power cord for Amidala's dress lamps in the shot :
between the pillars and across the ground
And I never noticed that there were lamps on her dress. lol what is this?
maquiladora
Member
Episode 5 will blow your mind.
a wizard did it
Sapiens
Member
Yes?
You can make children's stories violent. See Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Disney is no stranger to violence in its movies either:
Another good example of violence in a kids move is Watershed Down:
Dont kid yourself about Star Wars - primary audience is kids. The people who are most nostalgic about it and base their lives around it today are in their 40s/50s and were the target demographic in the 70s/80s.
Yes, it is a family picture.
I'd argue that live-action violent deaths have different weight than imagination or Disney animation, especially in the state of Hollywood criteria for kids' censorship in the past 15 or so years.
I see your point though.
So he removed almost all the dialogue during the Anakin/Obi-Wan fight (which wasn't even that bad) but left this in?
There is nothing wrong about that shot, other than the internet's over-use of it.
Two Jedi at their prime probing for weaknesses is not a choreography problem.
Sapiens
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The visuals in Star Wars (especially the prequels) are so cartoonish and fantastic, that there is an argument to be made that the realism is kept at bay and controlled. In a movie where super men jedi can jump 100 feet in the air and evade lasers, getting burned by lava is only an injury to them.
It is clearly not played out as "only an injury".
Uh he was the only one (barring the animation VOs)
dehydratedbabies
Member
It sounds like this guy became increasingly pissed off as he went haha.
McDiarmid was the only Palpatine...
The Last One
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So many unnecessary edits. Horrible idea if it's done like that.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
i dont know how they did it, but it sounds like they just made it worse
never noticed you can see the power cord for Amidala's dress lamps in the shot :
between the pillars and across the ground
Look at Obi Wan's sleeve
It's like poetry
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