miscend wrote: ↑13 Feb 2018
In any case the Star Wars community are working on a fan edit once the Blu-ray comes out. It’s going to be shorter about 90 minutes and more streamlined by cutting a lot of the sub plots.
"The Star Wars community"? What? All of it?! From what I've read on the SW forums it's going to be shorter by simply cutting all the women out.
In any event, of course early cuts were longer, then scenes were removed. Everything I've read indicates the released cut is the director's cut.
The Leia scene for me remains the biggest issue: it was just badly conceived and executed. I don't have a problem at all with Leia using the Force to save herself, and done right it would have been a powerful moment. It was just terribly filmed. And I do wonder about how I'll feel about the the casino stuff on a rewatch: will I be so forgiving of the Canto sequence knowing it's a completely circular storyline?
The opening phone call sequence, I still think that was really funny. People often forget that there's a lot of humour in the OT ("You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" Ok, maybe that's not funny out of context. But it's really funny in... um... other contexts, ooh-er, missus
), but it's a fair cop that much of the humour in TLJ is far broader than has been in the series before and that's annoyed a lot of fans. Even though I laughed my arse off, that opening
does feel more like a comedy sketch rather than an even wryly dramatic scene in a movie. It's almost like, and I can't help feeling this was a big inspiration for that opening, it's making canon Eddie Izzard's classic Death Star Canteen.
(Anyone who's not heard that routine should get thee to YouTube immediately... ).