Star Wars Episode IX: The Final Order

I had to go back and check the original version to see what had been changed. I found the editing changes to be very clever and seemless. I particularly liked the changes to the sith dagger and the delay in finding out chewie was still alive. The theatrical version I found to be the worst of the sequel trillogy but I would now rate this better than the last jedi but still not as good as the force awakens (but it comes a very close 2nd).

I'm not a fan of the sequel trilogy, especially ep 8 and 9, that being said i don't have high hopes for edits of said movies, but i was quite impressed by this edit. By removing Palpatine/Rey kinship and Snoke being created by Palpatine, it works much better. The feeling I had when watching this edit was that Palpatine was bidding his time in the shadows while the First Order was waging war to the New Republic and the Resistance.

Some things I'd like to see removed or corrected:
- More OT sounds (especially turbolaser sounds)
- Some of Hux scenes (I hate what they've done with this character)
- "Use Ion cannons" either remove this line or correct all green turbolasers to blue
- TIE scout, I admit that to the common person that would seem a regular TIE but having it replaced by the TIE X1, people will associate it to Vader's fighter. Of course that it could be another fighter hanging in the Death Star, but to me you could either leave at is is or replacing by a TIE Vangard or a legends TIE/sr Scout

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Scout_ship_(TIE_model) (seen in the movie)

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/TIE_Vanguard?so=search
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/TIE/sr_starfighter

All in all I like this edit, and even though I have some issues with the movie itself it has nothing to do with the edit (apart from the TIE Scout). Good work

I've now watched a handful of edits of this film. And, sadly, I think I'm at the point where I'm ready to concede that, like the prequels, this just can't be fixed to my satisfaction. This is in no way a criticism of Spence's work. I'm not an editor, but I didn't notice any real issues. He makes some definite improvements and I prefer the direction he take--trying to keep it in line with TLJ--to other edits that seem to more embrace the idea that bloodline is what the Force is all about, Unfortunately, the edit doesn't go far enough for me. To be fair, at this point I'm watching this movie with an eye towards how much could be changed without creating massive narrative issues and I'm not sure much more COULD have been done. Hence my coming to terms with the fact this movie can't be fixed. As it stands I think this edit has some unique ideas that could be merged with other editors' ideas to create something tolerable, if not satisfying. Spence's edit is certainly that for me as it at least de-emphasized some of the more egregious issues, if not eliminated them. It's a well polished turd, but for me still a turd.

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Let me start of by saying that the editing in this is pretty much seamless. Very very few times have I noticed anything that was missing within the movie or anything that felt choppy or out of the ordinary. When I saw the movie back in cinemas, I had a good time. But as it was finished I couldn't help but notice that focus to erase TLJ or invalidate its existence was quite distracting in a way that made me feel like there was a less focused story on Rey and Ben Solo and made me feel like their characters weren't as important and their stories had no weight to them. I am proud to say that this edit made me care a lot about their story a lot more than the theatrical cut did and not gonna lie, I did shed a tear or two by the time the movie was over. Overall, this was a pretty stellar edit.

one thing that I did notice was that the audio on the left side of my headphones was ever so slightly lower than the audio on my right side, but as the movie went on I couldn't tell much as I was pretty much engrossed into the narrative. The choices to restructure scenes in the beginning was pretty much pretty well done. No cringe dialogue for the most part and I buy into both Rey and Ben's bond continuing from TLJ and forming into some sort of tragic yet endearing ending to that storyline.

overall, I would recommend this edit to anyone who enjoys TLJ and would like to see a continuation of that storyline.

Keep up the good work dude. Can't wait to see what else you have in store!!

I much prefered watching this version of TRoS than when I saw it originally in the Cinema. Gone are most of the cringy lines, The narrative is much clearer and peoples motivations are able to be understood. This is certainly the best fan edit of this film I have seen so far. I still found myself wishing a couple of moments weren't in the film, but it's what he had to work with. But the improvements are really worthwhile. Additional footage of places in the galaxy make it feel like it's connected to the Star Wars universe we know, Many moments of added or changed dialog and re-ordered scenes made me care more about the characters. And I was pleasently surprised by how well the removal of the Jedi voices worked to make Rey's character feel more fulfilled and the scene more poignent. It shows how much extra rubbish they tried to shoehorn into this movie. Not perfect, but a very watchable Star Wars movie, well done.