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Star Wars Episode I: The Ridiculous Menace

TV's Frink said:
I have to admit some disappointment at hearing this. The video quality is one of the things that delayed the release recently, and several people worked hard to help me fix it. I'll be interested to hear if others share your concern...and there's always the upcoming DVD9 as well.
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For what it's worth, on the main site ku7uk gave a glowing review and said it "looks super sharp on my 52 inch TV." So there's that.
 
It shouldn't look that soft. Was the R1 DVD of TPM used as a source? By all accounts, that was never a good looking DVD in the first place and was worse than the R2 disc.
 
I noticied some comments about video quality, i've only watched this on my computer and on a 22inch wide screen tv but the picture looked just as good as the normal retail PAL version i didnt notice compression artefacts even my dad commented on how good the picture was and he's not that interested in movies or fanediting!
 
I looked up some old reviews that I remember reading at the time. This one in particular shows the quality. I think the problem almost certainly lies in the source, and it probably doesn't matter much for this sort of edit anyway. I'm downloading the edit now. I don't have the R1 DVD to compare, but will let you know what I think of the quality as it stands, Frink.
 
Thanks Captain. I agree that the video quality is a secondary concern for this particular edit, but I'd like for everyone's hard work and assistance (yours included) to have paid off.
 
My review from the main page:

The most fanedited movie of them all gets a completely new approach.

At the time of this writing, The Ridiculous Menace is the 16th fanedit of The Phantom Menace that is listed on FE. It is certainly not going to be the last either. But it is the most unique of them all. Where other edits seek to create something better than the original, something that makes it more ‘Star Wars’ in tone, feel and narrative, this edit says “Yippee!!!” and to hell with that.

This edit will not be for everyone. Audiophiles who demand clear and unambiguous sound will cringe at the sometimes choppy dialog with stray and unrelated background elements. If your brain cannot accept this audio aspect, then sadly I have to recommend skipping this. And that’s a shame because this edit stands out as one of the most unique, bold, and entertaining fanedits around. In the pantheon of spectacular Star Wars fanedits, for me this edit has its place up there with The War of the Stars, and A New Hope Revisited.

About the edit itself. What makes this edit a both a joy as well as an amazing achievement is that it is not simply a collection of cheap gags and isolated laughs, strung together against the backdrop of The Phantom Menace. While there certainly are numerous individual jokes, gags and meme-insertions, the true accomplishment of this edit is that Frink has created several new sub-plots and redefined most of the characters. Like a master comedian, Frink consistently introduces something funny, something that by itself is entertaining and funny. Then he builds on it, re-uses the core of the joke, adds to it and then punctuates it later in the edit, where the final joke is not possible or nearly as funny without the build-up beforehand.

To be fair, I do not love everything about this edit. There are some jokes which, like a Saturday Night Live sketch from the 90s, go on far too long. In particular the Pod Race and Senate sequences both come to mind. The jokes in them are good, but the pacing is long and too repetitive, causing the pacing to slow way down. However those hiccups are very few, and even with the slowed down pace, remain funny and entertaining.

As I said before, in the world of Star Wars fanedits, this has a place as one of my absolute favorites. Completely original, bold, ridiculous.

Overall, I cannot recommend this edit enough. The only thing holding it back from a perfect score are the pacing issues. This get’s a 9 out of 10 Yippees!!!!
 
For what it's worth, on my 52" Plasma, it looked fine. TPM isn't a fantastic SD disk, even the R1 sucks, and this looked on par with the DVD imo.
 
L8wrtr said:
For what it's worth, on my 52" Plasma, it looked fine. TPM isn't a fantastic SD disk, even the R1 sucks, and this looked on par with the DVD imo.
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Very good to hear.
 
L8wrtr said:
this edit stands out as one of the most unique, bold, and entertaining fanedits around. In the pantheon of spectacular Star Wars fanedits, for me this edit has its place up there with The War of the Stars, and A New Hope Revisited.
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Wow, what great praise!

To be fair, I do not love everything about this edit. There are some jokes which, like a Saturday Night Live sketch from the 90s, go on far too long. In particular the Pod Race and Senate sequences both come to mind. The jokes in them are good, but the pacing is long and too repetitive, causing the pacing to slow way down. However those hiccups are very few, and even with the slowed down pace, remain funny and entertaining.
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It's a fair complaint, as you know. Many reviewers mentioned the podrace and Senate sequence (and they have been reworked and/or shortened to lessen the pacing issues). I struggled a lot with how much to keep of those sequences, and in the end I suppose I was guilty of loving them too much to let them go.
 
Frink, the quality seems fine to me. Obviously there are problems that come from the source, but I don't see any particular problems related to re-encoding.

I'll post a review of the edit itself when I have a chance. :)
 
Glad to hear it :)
 
I posted a review and gave the edit a rating on fanedit.info. Am I alone in thinking that the average doesn't look right? I clicked on nine, but the average seemed to decrease rather than increase. I don't see how the current average is possible, unless some people reviewed but didn't click the button and/or clicked the button but didn't review -- or there was a glitch.
 
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Some people indeed rated it without commenting.
I just rated it a nine after you did Captain (and made a comment also), and the rating increased just fine.
 
I still can't download files 13, 14 and 15... I think I must have been on Santa's naughty list this year :(
 
Some people indeed rated it without commenting. I just rated it a nine after you did Captain (and made a comment also), and the rating increased just fine.
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Thanks, TMBTM. I could have sworn I hit nine on the ratings bar -- I'm senile, but not that senile -- and was surprised when it went down. As long as it registered as a nine, all is well.
 
I just have to say that it looks fine on my 32" CRT. ;)
 
Thanks for the great reviews and ratings, guys. :)

LastSurvivor said:
I still can't download files 13, 14 and 15... I think I must have been on Santa's naughty list this year :(
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For anyone who is missing any parts, I'm starting to upload to RS. Please PM me with requests for specific files you haven't been able to get off MU.
 
^^ Rapidshare tends to remove some links faster than any other hosts.
 
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