Topher Grace's Star Wars Prequel edit

[Silent_Bob]

I suppose someone could "steal" a copy and upload it.

Good plan. Then they could get sued for copyright infringement instead.

 

[Peacemaker]

I just want to see a cooking show where Mace Windu shows the public how he can cook many different imaginary starwars creatures rectally with his purple light sabre.

Only if Siri helps him.

Which Siri? http://youtu.be/UhhwqbabxYY

 

[Locutus of Bored]

And whaddayaknow, according to /Film writer Peter Sciretta (who saw a private screening), Grace’s Star Wars III.5: The Editor Strikes Back still manages to tell a complete, surprisingly moving story of Anakin Skywalker’s rise and fall even while making some severe cuts—namely, everything about blockades or taxes or whatever, that whole cloning subplot, the myriad debate scenes in the Galactic Senate, midichlorians, “Noooooo!” and pretty much the entirety of The Phantom Menace, including all of Jake Lloyd’s scenes and most of Jar-Jar, who’s here reduced to a single line of dialogue. As it turns out, many of these things were not entirely necessary.

But are they not entirely necessary because we've already seen the complete Prequels and know the background to all those events, or does he still provide some independent explanation for what's going on? Because to me it almost sounds like his edit jumps from one cool incident to the next without a backstory linking them. I mean, showing the "Clone Wars" without any explanation for why the clones are there? Showing Palpatine's rise to Emperor without any of the political machinations that set it up?

I'll be the first to admit that many of the subplots of the Prequels are lame or could have been modified or excised (the whole ten years earlier and tax blockade plot of TPM could have just started with an older Anakin and the beginning of the Clone Wars with some flashbacks to his early life) in favor of more of the rift forming between Anakin and Obi-Wan, but you can't get rid of everything that's non-actiony without leaving those scenes hollow and pointless. Unless, you already know the background, which is what it sounds like his edit is capitalizing on.

 

[TerraNovan]

I would like to see some fan edits of star trek.


Really curious how seemingly unrelated episodes could be tied together.