Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith [ADM Edit]

Review by searcher — January 22, 2009 @ 7:01 pm

I thought the ROTS was one of the best fan edits I have ever seen, and adding Qui Gons voice was a touch of genius.

Thanks ADM once again a great very enjoyable movie.

Review by gorbash — July 15, 2008 @ 6:08 am

This comment will cover all the prequel edits for ADM.

I came to download these versions of the prequel trilogy after watching The Phantom Editor’s versions of Episode 1 and 2, and while he still has Midichlorians in his flick, he doesn’t have a version of Episode 3, and I’m a bit of a completest. I’m now in the process of downloading your versions of the original trilogy, for completeness sake.

First off with what you had to work with, it’s like you made apple pie with something not so pleasant. I don’t consider myself a Star Wars purist, I want Han to shoot first, and I wish the word Midichlorian was never uttered.

That said, is it possible to make these three films cannon? Officially and not just by those of us who care about the Star Wars story? All of the tweaks and edits were near perfection, making the best out of what was given and adding back in what should have been in there in the first place. Shaak-Ti being killed for one, and the subsequent escape through the coolant tank. Trimming out the whiny emo Anikan, less Jar-Jar (actually did this better in places than The Phantom Editor did). I almost expected to see a ghostly image of Qui-Gon appear to Obi Won, or even to Yoda when he lands on Dagoba, but that is just wishful thinking, the voice over was great, except it was a little loud compared to the rest of the movie.

And while nothing is perfect, this unfortunately had some flaws. Most notably they appear in Episode I where you remove Jar-Jar’s lines in the Gungan sub, and one line wasn’t totally removed at one scene and sounded like a whisper. I’m not familiar with editing software, so I suspect it might not have been possible to remove that line completely. However, the character still moves his mouth, it would have been better to just cut the scene completely. It happens again in Episode III when Gen Grevious’s ship is being attacked by the Jedi, one of the Trade Federation people, with the werid sounding voices talks, but the line is removed, in fact I think a lot of the lines are cut, kind of making the scene drag.

Poor R2-D2. He gets turned into slapstick comedy in Episode III. Lost of your edits work very well, except for one scene with R2. The scene where he comes blasting out of the elevator and slams into the wall. You tried valiantly to give some dignity back to this pivotal character, but at the expense to a jarring edit. R2 must have some powerful 4 disk brakes to stop moving so fast. A better scene to have cut would have been the Battle Droid kicking over R2.

Overall a phenomenal job editing these three films, and bringing some greatness back to a seminal scifi film series.

Review by Hrumpff — April 12, 2010 @ 4:43 pm

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Review by Matt_Jensen — April 12, 2010 @ 4:26 pm

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Review by white43 — February 15, 2009 @ 10:21 pm

So I’ve been looking around for a decent ROTS edit – not that it’s a bad film, but one that might cut down the bad dialogue or unnecessarily long scenes.

Thought I’d give this one a try as I liked the look of the re-integrated scenes.

What I liked:

Battle droids & Nemoidian captain voices modulated to sound deeper and less silly. Yes, good
The re-insertion of the deleted scenes, esp Yoda going to Dagobah
Jar Jar Who?
Anakin more readily chooses the Dark Side
Despite the comments above – the R2D2 not slamming into a wall isn’t a jarring cut. I barely noticed it.
Editing was fairly seamless

What I didn’t like:
There is still far too much bad dialogue around – the ending is horrible for all this ‘Sith’s deal in Absolutes’ or ‘Anakin I have the higher ground’…less talkie talkie, more fighting. ‘Another happy landing’? WTF?
At the end of the third scene of the birth of the rebellion, the dramatic music for the next scene comes in way too early
Qui Gonn’s voice doesn’t seem to work for me, but it’s a nice idea.
There appears to be a couple plotholes – Sidious and Yoda are fighting and in the next shot – Sidious is above him throwing things down.Or Anakin and Obi-Wan are suddenly in water near the start, I didn’t quite understand why.
Padmes death – she says Leia a bit quick for me.

The sound and picture are both excellent.

I was mildly disappointed in this edit, I thought it would go much further than it did, but I’m beginning to see that ADM fanedits tend to be quite minimal in removal. This seems to be the case here. Good effort, but not my cup of tea.