Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi: Anti-Cringe-Cut

Excellent fanedit of the TLJ, I've struggled to find an edit that I could actually watch all the way through and not be able to finish. This edit I was happly able to finish and enjoy. The movie flaws are still around, but the edit decisions really help to make this movie flow much better.

Decent movie. Don't know how to feel about Luke surviving, but, whatever.

As much as anyone else, I was disappointed deeply with Episode VIII to an extent to not care about it anymore.
But I gotta say, DonKamillo's Anti-Cringe Cut is really the spark that lights the fire that... Yes.

Is incredible how much room the movie has to breathe now, and the complete obliteration of the Canto Bight sequence and it's characters is so seamless as to demonstrate how unecessary the whole thing was. It's a much welcome trait now that the movie focus on Luke's downfall and the ways of the Force, finally doing justice to the title. And I gotta say, things get really interesting here, and it might even redeem the original writing for what it was trying to pull off. The Last Jedi and the "let the past die" carry some real weight now that the movie takes itself much more seriously. And I dare say Luke gets a complete character development arc this time around that he never had before in the OT. I got invested in a thought that was always there, in the back of my head, but is completely fleshed out now, that Luke has always been a "grey" Jedi. The dynamics of his emotional burden and his perspective on the "Jedi Religion" start to justify his fall from grace in a way that only the editing could pull off. The fact that he still remains by the end of the cut though, is what gives everything shown before a purpose, that he didn't just vanish after some smoke and mirrors and still has to overcome his failures for the sake of what is right. I never thought I could see it all like this before the Anti-Cringe Cut.

Aside from that newfound focus, that are so many details in there that make the movie so much tighter I probably didn't even notice because of how much I was enjoying it. What did stick out though, was how things started to move incredibly fast by the last act, and made it feel a little off. The Crait sequence, in particular, is somewhat jarring: they land, the First Order prepares the ramming cannon, they attack on those junk ships, they give up on attacking the cannon, the cannon never fires but the Resistance is back to being cornered. It also introduces Rose by the first time in whole run she even gets to keep some of her dialogue, but along with everything, it just feels pointless. Aside from that, I thought there was still some cringe left with porgs, caretakers, and specially, the out-of-fuel and "people sinking with their ships" plot (this one I just can't get over).

Technically, what I did notice was some dropped frames here and there, and the audio gets slightly out of sync by the last 30 minutes or so, I don't recall exactly with which track. It might be on my end, of course, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

All things considered, The Last Jedi Anti-Cringe Cut was a great watch, and really pulled me back to Star Wars fandom and anticipation for what's still to come. Thank you DonKamillo for your work and passion!

I really enjoyed this edit. Everything seemed to flow so much better and I wasn't squirming in my seat watching it. There were only a few minor editing parts where I felt like it was jumpy. I only noticed this twice.

The only cringe stuff that I was mildly bothered by was the porg in the Falcon at the very end. I felt those antics could have been removed or somehow toned down.

The other issue that bothers me in the movie, that still exists in this cut, is that fact they were tracked in light speed. I wish there was a way around this and it was more of a inside traitor/we are out of fuel situation. Or perhaps they had one more jump, and that was the suicide jump.

Fantastic edit of a, in my opinion, less than fantastic film. The editor managed to trim away all the fat, undo the vast majority of the film’s characterization issues, and did so without a hint of an abrupt cut anywhere to be seen. The movie still has it’s issues, such as Finn disappearing for a large chunk of the film, but without any already existing footage to pull from it’s understandable given the purpose of this edit. All in all, fantastic cut of The Last Jedi and will definitely be my go to version of this film!