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Star Wars Uncut Project Complete
An anonymous reader writes "In 2009 we discussed the Star Wars Uncut Project, a crowd-sourced effort to re-create the entirety of Episode IV as series of 15-second clips filmed and submitted by fans. Well, it's done at last, and CmdrTaco has written his review of the two-hour film. He says, 'A great number of shots demonstrate technology well beyond what was available when the original Star Wars was made. Other shots are stylishly animated in CG. Others are rotoscoped in mediums from chalk to pencil to marker. There’s also a plethora of stop motion, claymation, and even some puppetry to go around. [A] few shots are only slightly modified from the originals, but those are the rarity, and generally done to pull off a specific joke. ... It's a glorious achievement.'"
until the copyright U.S. gov't troll arrests them all for illegal profits.
Early reviewers say that the result is worse than the original, but much better than the Special Edition.
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No - great!!!
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Next edit will replace everything with bad CGI, have a crying Han Solo beg Greedo for his life, and feature an extended 3D sequence of an aged Jar Jar Binks dancing a jig and flipping off the camera.
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Does Han shoot first?
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Overall, I found it hysterical and very creative. 2 of my favorite parts: After the initial iconic text scrolls off the screen, there appear several Facebook-like comments, one of which is by Alderon_Dude, "Thank god I live on a peaceful planet!" The other is when Obi Won first shows Luke his father's lightsaber, done in a noir setting, apparently done just so he can say, "in a more civilized age" like Humphrey Bogart. There's a few Kill Bill references sprinkled here and there, a scene done like The Big Lebowski, etc. I loved it.
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Here's the link to the project. Very considerate of the OP and SoulSkill to not provide it with the post :S
Oh GEMA, how I hate you.
"This video is unavailable in Germany since it might possibly contain music for which the necessary rights have not been granted by GEMA" (my translation).
Does Hans shoot first in this version?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
So where do we get it?
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...and why do his posts jump to the front page?
Man, how many more people is Slashdot going to auto-post (I mean, how many more people beyond Ian McAllister and this "CmdrTaco" )?
This is totally unfair
*ducks*runs* :)
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Come on nerds stop wasting your time with this! You are overloading the server and I'm trying to watch it.
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Hilarious
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"This video contains content from SME. It is restricted from playback on certain sites."
Fuck you, Youtube. ContentID and your CMS is shit and you know it.
I doubt I could be amused enough to watch it. If it had some sexy women in it, maybe.
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Is a great example on why SOPA, PIPA and all the bunch should not exist. There is a whole world of crazy things like this that could be done and won't because this kind of laws, that could enrich us all (and yes, i saw it). I think that George Lucas approved that this could be done, but there are too much other things that this kind of idea could be applied.
Just awful. What it achieves that is so incredible, I don't know.
Reading the summary I thought some fans had seriously redone the movie, with actors, costumes, special effects, etc.
But it's none of that. It's bad acting, costumes made out of paper, filmed in bars and dorm rooms. There's even a scene where they printed and glued character faces on beer bottles and shot it in stop-motion.
And don't tell me it's art, it's just what a bunch of elementary/middle schoolers would do if they tried making their own movie.
This thing takes "shitting in a jar and calling it art" to a whole new level.
Oh. Thanks. I was going to watch Star Wars again tonight. But now, thanks to the anon....
You know. Nevermind. I'm too bored to actually finish this post.
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I thought this was user created content?
Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights.
Turns out in relative terms not so much.
"I can’t imagine another movie bringing together fans like this"
For what it's worth, a similar fan-made remake of Footloose was released online a year or two ago. Equally ridiculous, although I think participants were assigned a bit more than 15 seconds.
The part starting at 49:30... what he says doesn't correspond to the subtitles. He's using very informal manner of speech so I find it a bit difficult to translate properly but it's something along the lines of "Solo, son of a bitch, you owe me. You haven't paid your debts. Scoundrel! Wanker! Mother of all clows! Minion of a capitalist! Fuck! Hell!".
I kinda like what they're doing: They're obviously having fun, have made an effort and the result is kinda stylish... Very interesting concept to bring some 70s class warfare flavor to the scene about paying debts. Even so, I wish they wouldn't have altered the content so much (=leaving out the mention of bounty hunters seeking Solo and leaving out the offer that Solo could just pay the bounty hunter to get out of the situation), especially when it doesn't make sense (It would make sense for Solo to call the bounty hunter a minion of a capitalist but not the other way around, I think).
That's almost as bad as Solo not shooting first.
In the Star Wars Uncut: Special Edition, not only does Han shoot first, he then goes on to shoot George Lucas several times, and then fits Lucas with a Colombian Necktie. Like a boss!
Alternate ending: Han Solo teams up with Boba Fett and Darth Maul to hunt down Lucas and toss him in the Sarlacc, after fitting him with a restraining bolt.
Nerds!
A masterpiece. Hopefully George lets it live.
/comical hat=on
You watched 5 minutes, and expected what: brilliance?
To be honest, the first 15 minutes WAS abyssmal. Honestly, it really did take a bit for it to get going.
No, you should watch it to see how creative, or generic people got with which scenes. Overall, the clips were over the entire spectrum of production. Ranging from, 'dear lord what idiot chose those 10 seconds' to , 'wow, that section was just as good as the original'. For that concept anyways...
I would fast forward a bit though. There are gems to be had, but they're few and far between.
/comical hat=off
Those were good too. They actually fooled some viewers on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/op2ep/the_final_version_of_star_warsuncut_is_up_for/c3ixgdd ...
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The first 20th Century Fox movie I ever saw was Star Wars; so, as a little kid I always thought the spot lights in the into/logo were light sabers.
I watched the first 30 minutes of this over the weekend.
Having done a few film projects of my own, including a parody of The Twilight Zone, I appreciate the efforts of all involved.
Kudos.
I am my own gestalt.
Sorry dude, but Star Trek and Star Wars will always be to popular SciFi TV and Film what Homer and Shakespeare have been to drama and literature. They set the benchmark a magnitude higher than the previous works and future works are and will be graded by how they compare to these great standards.
What sets Star Trek and Star Wars apart from the classical works of centuries ago of course are the roles played by realistic props, special effects, and theatrical musical scores. John Williams is known first and foremost as the composer of the Star Wars anthem, and achievement that has entitled him to compose the scores of dozens of other top rated films. History will probably remember him as the greatest composer of the 20th century and for making classical orchestra fun again for the masses.
When you watch the latest action packed scifi movie years from now with your grandkids, you will still be able to point out which ideas first came from Star Trek or Star Wars. At some point movies might reach a level of quality such that teenagers would be too bored to watch classic Star Trek or Star Wars, but not any worse than youth for decades have been bored by mandatory school studies in Homer and Shakespeare. But the truth will be undeniable, that these great works introduced new concepts that are still borrowed from today by writers, artists, actors, and producers.
Of course, a movie is just a movie and a play is just a play. Changing the world with real inventions and technology is way cooler, so back to work for me.
Except they're mostly crap.
Star Wars.
Star Trek
4 good movies out of a 40 years franchises do not make them good. They actually make it pretty bad.
Even Macross has a much better batting record, and its a fucking cartoon. Hell Macross 7 was a better watch than Gilligan's Starship, that's some pretty low hanging fruit.
...shouldn't even be an issue. Episodes 4-6 should already be in the public domain. And would be, if it weren't for infinite copyright.
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The most obvious problem is that in Episode IV, Darth Vader killed Luke's Father. In Episode V, it's "revealed" that Darth is Luke's father. It's not "impossible" to reconcile, but Obi-wan saying "what I told you was true, from a certain point of view", is an obvious attempt to wallpaper over this inconsistency. Best case, it just makes Obi-wan look like a liar and untrustworthy.
Another issue comes up when Obi-wan's ghost and Yoda are discussing Luke's running off to save his friends at Cloud City:
Yoda: Told you I did. Reckless is he. Now, matters are worse.
Obi-Wan: That boy is our last hope.
Yoda: No. There is another.
Seriously? Obi-wan doesn't remember that Luke has a twin sister?
Anyway, those are just off the top of my head. Nothing like the horrible plot holes ewhen you try to connect the prequels with the original movies, but not great for movies that were made one after the other, a couple of years apart.
To what extent does German copyright law permit parody? U.S. fair use originally developed as a judicial reconciliation of copyright with the First Amendment; is the free press guarantee under German law as strong as the First Amendment?
And if you look closely at the background in my scene, you'll find a disk, a back flap, and a scorpion.
When you watch the latest action packed scifi movie years from now with your grandkids, you will still be able to point out which ideas first came from Star Trek or Star Wars.
Except they didn't.
The original was the result of a lot of talented people, many barely recognized by the casual fan, coming together and doing what they do best without to many pressures to deliver because nobody expected a Sci-Fi movie to do all that well in the late 70's.
The next two movies were made with bigger budgets but also greater expectations, partly this was delivered on with greater special effects and better writing in the second, even better special effects in the third but at that time the demand for merchandise had overridden the need for a good story and so we got the ewoks.
Then insane demand for more with extreem greed and no budget gave us the Holiday Special when the entire US was consumed with the idea that you could continue outsourcing animation to the lowest bidder and still have the old school classic quality of 30 years before.
Then the special editions hit which was basically one of the talented guy's who made the original crapping over the rest of the teams work.
The prequels of course never happened so they cannot be discussed here but if they had been made it would be by the one guy who was very good at getting a team together not getting a team together and doing everything himself...
Rule34 then came along and redid star wars if it was a porn story.
And now this movie shows what the original would have been like if social media users had made it... Star Wars: The Greater Internet Fuckwad cut.
The only people that find this funny are Family Guy fans. I get the joke, doing a classic scene in another format, haha... that is funny for about 10 seconds and then it is time to cut to the next joke. It has been done! We have had lego Star Wars, ascii Star Wars and even Family Guy Star Wars (granted only watched a bit until I realized that the entire singe joke was that Family Guy did Star Wars and that parodie apparently is some kind of bird to the writers).
The movie lasts 2 hours and 3 minutes, that is 2 hours to long. The joke of a redone Star Wars has been done to death. Let it die, stop beating that dead horse, let it rest, put it out of its misery, don't repeat yourself over and over again... get it?
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That Vader killed Anakin is hardly unknown in story telling, in fact quite a few stories tell that of the adult version killing the child version of the same person.
In Red Dwarf, Rimmers lost good points are shown as graves in his sub concious.
It is a pretty weak attempt to show a loop hole just because someone uses a bit of flowery language. What next, if you found out your grandfather didn't really go to sleep but croaked you are going to claim you parents lied as well? Really kid, read a book. Just one.
The twin sister bit is also easily explained, Leia shows no signs of being a Jedi, Luke does. It isn't until the expanded universe that sorce sensitivity in Leia is ever mentioned let alone developed as her being nearly as powerful.
Granted it is rather sexist but the son following the father and the daughter just being there to look pretty is hardly unheard off in fantasy stories.
Ooh, I got another one for you, how come a Star Destroyer is less powerful then a Death Star that can only kill planets?
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I went to see Star Wars in 1977 at the movie theater, and haven't wanted to spoil the experience by going to any of the sequels.
Star Wars was no more influential in it's era than the Hula Hoop. When Lucas dies, and they can finally screw down the lid over the film, it will be remembered as a phenomena. But so was Gilligans Island and the Dick Van Dyke show.
Is there a link to a complete version of this? The site is hosed....
I think the project could evolve to true greatness if the individual scenes could be put into competition, with the highest voted scenes making the final cut in a monthly release...
I've only watched a couple of minutes as I need to get back to work but there's two things already that are the best thing I've seen/heared all week..
1) As princess leia takes her hand away from R2D2 at the end of recording her message to Obi-Wan you hear the windows "USB device removed" noise
2) The baby stormtrooper that pops into shot behind Darth Vader as he boards the Tantive IV
Is there anywhere I can download the movie in its entirety?
. . . that if an infinite number of nerds were given an infinite amount of time and an infinite amount of bandwidth, they would eventually produce the works of George Lucas.
I just watched the whole thing. I really thought I'd just watch a few minutes and give up but I was charmed by the efforts of the contributors. I'm not much of a Star Wars fan, so I had no concern about the treatment the film got in this piece. The scenes range from the obviously talentless (but usually funny), to the tongue in cheek all the way through to genuinely accomplished. If something like this gets shut down it would be a giant fuck off to the fans of the film who contributed and anyone else who wants to try something similar. I say best of luck to all of them and others who do this sort of thing. Essentially it is harmless fun and I hope it tests the tolerance of the copyright fascists (in a positive way). As others have pointed out, a weakness in this is that they used actual video from the film and also audio. They really didn't need to, so they are asking for trouble. Also included are some obvious brand names and toy lines which would probably have been better left out. This may not be for Star Wars purists, but I enjoyed a few good belly laughs from it.
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All this is missing is James Earl Jones doing voice-over saying "Imagine a world where intellectual property laws didn't exist." Nothing really makes a better argument that if the movie studios couldn't protect their megabuck income, the future of entertainment will be nothing but reality shows and poor quality YouTube "stars" like Fred.
As a parody or "just because we can" undertaking, it's fine. Purely judged on the basis of cinematic quality, however, it makes Disaster Movie look like Gone with the Wind.
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Hey young fella! What about Star Trek TOS? That's the only Star Trek I like and you've completely ignored it. Is this real ignorance or a deliberate omission that reveals that you too love that series as much as people such as myself? Are we kindred spirits? - oh, thought not.
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"Im Urheberrecht versteht man unter ``Parodie'' die antithematische Behandlung eines vorbestehenden Werkes wobei dessen Elemente zwar aufgegriffen, aber in einen anderen Kontext gestellt werden mit dem Ziel, die übernommenen Werkteile komisch oder satirisch wirken zu lassen. Die Parodie stellt eine ``freie Benutzung'' des Ausgangswerkes im Sinne von Â24 Abs. 1 UrhG dar und ist bis zur Grenze der Entstellung auch ohne Zustimmung des ursprünglichen Werkes zulÃssig. "
freely translated : parody takes the same element but in another context for comic and humoristic effect or satyr. Parody is protected in germany too. But this is definitively not a pradody under german law. And thus must require/acquire licence to be shown/bow to the GEMA. Sad but it is the way it works in germany.
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It doesn't matter because of the kind of film it is, but it really amazes me that there are so many that think there is some depth, importance, significance to it. I can understand the nostalgic importance, but really what it is, is not much. The dramatic import in many scenes is thrown away by hurried one liners and a rush to blaster shoot outs. Pure cheese.
So many lost opportunities. Irwin Allen would have been proud. Not saying that is a bad thing, just that Star Wars is in the same league as that kind of thing. At least Irwin Allen used talented actors, though they were so soaked in booze and drugs that they were hit and miss in their performances.
I can't imagine that genuinely talented actors like Peter Cushing and Alec Guinness were the least bit proud of their contributions and instead took the paycheck gladly and forgot they ever made this kind of tat.
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fantastic, thought was a joke to begine with, but its quite good infact, had a few good giggles through it too, great stuff
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