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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Just finished it. It's actually a really good fan edit. Tells the fall of Anakin into Vader in a fairly concise way, though still 2 hours 40 minutes. If you wanted to show someone this part of the story, but not suffer through 3 movies it's actually really good. The quality is somewhere between DVD and blu-ray though, so you have to leave your A/V snob at home for his one.
+Virtually no Jar Jar or Episode One
+Fairly tight story
+short compared to prequels, don't miss much important
+clone crap on water world totally gone
+no pod racing or kiddie Anakin
+good way to show non-superfans the rise of Vader
+ a lot of the gorgeous matt paintings are shown, still look great
-quality
-still has ham fisted writing
-some minor continuity due to removed content
-Anakin's rat-tail
-questionable scene choices early on, it gets better in hour 2.
+funny how the prequels look more dated than the originals, due to so much CGI looking phony now. A lot of it is just ugly. Sorry Yoda, you look more real as a puppet.
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I'm watching this now and it's frankly hilarious how much episode 2 looks like it's actually made for youtube, as an online fan-made backstory thing rather than a real movie. Just horrendous.
But this actually works, particularly if your watching order is A New Hope, Empire, Phantom Edit, ROTJ. If you had no knowledge of anything star wars related and came into the thing blind, you'd come out of Empire shocked at the Vader reveal, and then get his whole backstory. Also, since the Emperor isn't named in Empire, you also get to find out sort of organically who Palpatine is without knowing going in.