As the final chapter in my Prequel Anti-Cheese anthology, I present to you my edit of
Revenge of the Sith. Before you ask, yes- I took out
Vader screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" at the end.
Honestly, I thought that was about all I needed to do, because
Jar Jar only said 2 words in this film so I thought it would be an easy edit. Turns out that I needed to cut about
15 minutes of cheese in order to get this baby down to about 2 hours and 5 minutes.
I won't give a full cut list, but here's some of the major stuff gone:
- Most of the childish dialog from the battle droids on
Grevious' ship at the beginning is out.
-
Dooku's unnecessary flip off the balcony-gone.
- The Nemoidian pilot's voice was changed and subtitled. He sounded exactly like
Grandpa Simpson to me, so he had to go.
- Removed some of Grevious' over-the-top dialog
- Removed the incredibly awkward balcony scene of Anakin and
Padme saying they're so in love because they're so beautiful because they're so in love.
Good grief.
- Midichlorian reference is gone
- The
Tarzan Wookies are gone- I'm sure that made someone laugh, but not me.
-
Nute Gunray's voice is changed and subtitled
- Sidious' cork-screw jumping attack is gone, and frankly he's scarier without it.
Unfortunately, I couldn't make the other
Jedi with
Mace fight any better than they did. They Lightsaber about as good as
Stormtroopers shoot.
- Sidious' horrible delivery of "No-No-No! You will die!" has been edited.
-
Obi Wan's awkward line about Anakin killing younglings is gone. I think it played better knowing that he didn't have the heart to tell her exactly what he saw because it was too horrible.
- Padme's embarrassing line about liberty dying to thunderous applause is out.
- Several cheesy lines during Obi Wan and Anakin's fight are gone.
- Anakin's
Darth Maul eyes are unnecessary and deleted.
- Padme dying because she lost the will to live is dumb and gone. She just dies because Anakin kills her, OK!?!
- Vader screaming "NOOOOOOOOOO!"
- Jar Jar is removed from Padme's funeral just because.
Whew! OK, I'm done. And for the love of sweet baby
Jesus, I hope I don't have to do an Anti-Cheese edit of
The Force Awakens.
I'm all setup to watch the Anti-Cheese edits and then the de-specialized editions in the run-up to Dec
18th.
Hope you guys enjoy it!
UPDATE- I want to thank the guys over at
Collider's
Jedi Council for the shout-out in their video on 12-3-15. It was a real honor to be mentioned on the show. You can see the clip here: https://youtu.be/o0tmy0lrrvk?t=1h4m43s
Also, I will be working on a commentary track for each video to answer a lot of the questions that have come up. I'm out of commission right now with tonsil surgery, so make sure to subscribe and I hope to have something released in the next month.
- published: 12 Nov 2015
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