War of the Stars: A New Hope Grindhoused

September 26, 2011 @ 1:46 am

What’s to say about this that hasn’t been said before?

Great fanedit. A little bizarre when you start it off – we’re not used to seeing such music being used on a Star Wars film. So the beginning was a mixture of laughs and wtf moments for me. Laughs that were either very intentional or very subtle, depending on the context. Some of it worked, some of it didn’t but after a while I realized that I was being completely entertained and let go of my nitpicking. I just strapped myself to my seat and let myself be taken on a ride my TMBTM’s imagination.

This is one fanedit that just gets better and better as the running time goes by, and the finale is nothing short of hilarious. This is one of the better fanedits I’ve seen this year despite its “flaws” which are not really flaws but artistic decisions on the editor’s part.

I give this fanedit 9/10 and hope TMBTM will eventually make a sequel.

September 18, 2011 @ 3:28 pm

*This rating was given before reviews were required*

September 18, 2011 @ 10:53 am

There's a good reason this is one of the best fanedits ever. If it looks like a quick hack job was done to your favorite movie, that's because you weren't paying attention.

March 5, 2011 @ 12:23 am

I like this, I like it a lot.

It works on so many levels for me:

1. I like to see fan-edits that take a movie and do something really different from the original format of the movie, it’s creative and done well like it is here makes a fun alternative way to view the movie.

2. In this case it was also a way of inserting some of the unused footage that was originally cut from the movie or never used – so retro’ising the existing footage was a good way of not having the inserted footage stand out too much.

3. when filmstudios are trying as hard as they can to present flawless picture quality its refreshing to see a good movie emulating an older less polished look – but from an artistic perspective.

Using other dialogue from Jame Earl Jones was also unexpected! I laughed out loud the first time i heard the changes and still do everytime a watch it – but also Darth Vader is supposed to be evil right? so in this version he is deffinately more pyscho! (sorry, my bad this is a kind of spoiler i guess??)

Also look out for Obi-Wans off the cuff remark when him and Luke are overlooking Mos Eisley lol

ok running out of what to say, except:

overall 10/10!

November 8, 2010 @ 12:56 pm

Simply incredible!

There probably isn’t much that I could say that hasn’t been said about this.

So I’ll just chime in that IMO this is the first SW “spoof” to equal Hardware Wars 30 years ago.

Simply incredible!!!