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

We have to go back to the 17th of December, 2015 when a not even 20 year old boy sat in a theatre at midnight, crying through the entire title crawl of The Force Awakens 'cause he loves Star Wars since he was 6 years old but never thought he‘d see the premiere of a Star Wars Episode at the theatre. And boy oh boy, did this boy love that movie.

Two years went by and it was the 14th of December, 2017 - again at midnight. I was hyped like only a few times before in my life. And maybe that was the ultimate reason for the utter and bitter devastation that followed. How I hated that movie. How I hated everyone that defended it.

Fast forward again two years. After seeing The Rise of Skywalker I decided to give this another go. It had been the only Star Wars movie I‘ve only ever watched once. I couldn‘t get myself to and I didn‘t want to watch the movie in it‘s original form again. So I‘ve searched for a fanedit and found „The Fallen Knight“ which doesn‘t change the movie from the ground up but removes most of the shenanigans that bothered me so much and left me with a version of the film I neither love or hate. Instead it left me like Luke at the end of his life: in peace.

I was beginning to wonder if there could be even more done with the source material. So this time around I went with DonKamillos "Definitive Anti-Cringe-Cut". The first and second act are perfect. Seemless editing and a narrative which made me really enjoy this film.

Because hidden under all the unanswered questions/unsatisfying answers (Who are the Knights of Ren?, Who is Snoke?, Who are Rey‘s parents?), all the dumb humour ('Yo Mamma' jokes, porgs and the mighty Luke sucking space milk from an alien tiddy), all the aimless storylines (Finn/Rose/Rey love triangle, Canto Bright, DJ, Captain Phasma) and all the other mischiefs (CARRIE f*cking POPPINS and Luke tossing away the lightsaber after THE most anticipated cliffhanger ever) lies an amazing movie after all!

Unfortunately for this edit there were some choices made for last half hour which change the story in such a major way that it even effects the continuity of the next film so this can't be the replacement I'm looking for. It just wasn‘t for me.

Overall this was a great improvement over the theatrical cut and I'm really beginning to enjoy this film. Next up I'm gonna give "The Last Jedi Reimagined" by tiMartyn a shot seeing if it'll become my go-to version for the future.

My 2nd time around for TLJ-ACC, this time I watched the DACC!
I agree with those here who highly recommend this edit - The Don has actually made a godawful film into a decent Star Wars story and one that's, importantly, worth watching, well paced and has a 'proper' narrative that comes dangerously close to making sense and actually 'drawing' in the viewer!
I still can't stand the 'hooley around the camp fire' scene [even though the 'reason' for it is sound-ish] and, I can't BUT cringe at Snoke's ridiculous red painted throne room with the 'poseur' 2-legged lobster 'guards' ['guards'??? snigger!] - I'm glad it got burned down in the film!
WATCH THIS - DON'T watch ANY other version of TLJ [esp. the Theatrical Release!] unless of course you're a die-hard lover of Christmas Pageant-esque Paint jobs!!
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Let’s just say that to me, TLJ is the worst Star Wars movie ever and that I don’t consider it even a Star Wars movie.
With that said, this edit is better than the theatrical cut, but that was so bad it’d be hard not to.
So I’ll go with what a liked and disliked about this edit.

Good:

- Luke lived
- Casino, Finn Rose gone
- most of Holdo Poe gone
- Leia dies in space

Bad
- without the casino scenes the movie is a complete bore as it focuses on Rey/Kylo/Luke etc too much and barely anything happens at all.
Again this is Rian’s fault and not the edit.

I plan never to watch any version of this movie ever again.

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!

"Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi: Anti-Cringe-Cut" is a masterpiece. All the praise for DonKamillo is well deserved. If anyone hasn't seen this cut yet please try to avoid spoilers about it. There are surprises in store for you.