Fan Films Catch-all Discussion Thread

I haven't seen any discussion yet about the new fan film, Birth of a Monster - A Star Wars Story. It really is excellent and could easily be mistaken for being an official Star Wars production. It absolutely nails the look, feel and sound of the OT movies. This should be in everybodys head canon.

 

The only problem I have with the film is the clone trooper helmet. Why did they add that? It forces the film to be taking place during or after the clone wars, 22 BBY or more probably (from the look of the helmet) a number of years later. The kid is 6 or 7 in this film? In Return of the Jedi he clearly isn't almost 30, he looks more like 40-45. Tatooine must age humans so fast.

Oh and the cantina band has also had a long old career.

 

This one was good . The acting is very good for fan films . The effects were decent . The story was a pretty interesting look at a possible introduction to Mara Jade in nu canon . The girl who plays her was decent . I think how soft spoken she was actually added to the scenes where she uses the dark side training. The scene at the end where she talks to palpatine was heart breaking in my opinion. The guy who plays Kanan was decent but I still missed the official voice . Its post rebels season 1 so I liked him kinda being a mentor to her . I my one nitpick was that they shoulda set it after Ezra dabbled in the dark side then kanan probably coulda talked Mara down quicker

 

This is just awesome work.

 

We should do a petition to get this amazing stuff reworked into the original movie!

 

Maybe they are like Menudo? They just replace members every few years?

 

What a phenomenal job. I'm so impressed with the whole look and emotion. And the fight choreography is excellent! They took Vader to a whole new level.

 

My only slight niggle is the lightsabre lens flares. Don't do it.

 

Dare I say the choreography is better than the ST? I mean in almost 5 hours of film we’ve barely had any lightsaber action. This duel tops all of it.

 

I really find this dreadful. Whoever made this totally missed the point of the original scene in the first place.

 

Couldn't disagree more. Loved it!

 

In this version, Obi-Wan ends up getting his butt royally kicked, and seems to give up because he's going to die anyway. He's a chump in this version, whereas before he and Vader were sizing each other up, taking their time, and then Obi-Wan quite calmly and intentionally lets Vader strike him down after he sees Luke. It played that way just fine and was very powerful in 1977, regardless of any behind-the-scenes fact about how they were careful so the props wouldn't break. Also the timing is all out of wack in this version, as our heroes make their way to the hanger while Obi-Wan and Vader duke it out. And the music choices don't work. And why add and remove dialogue? And just imagine if George Lucas had done anything at all like this in the Special Editions. The poodoo would have hit the fan like never before.

 

Lucas did a lot more in the Special editions. (Boba Fett in Ep1, Han stepping on Jabba, etc.)
For the music: My guess is that John Williams had no time to join the project so the cousin's nephew of the creator had to step in with his old Roland sound engine.

 

I meant for this particular scene.

 

It isn't intended to be a full replacement scene though. It is a parallel scene that purposely focuses on the lightsabre fight with overlaps to what we see in the movie. We don't know what Vader and Ben were doing while we were watching Luke and Leia swinging across the missing bridge in the movie, for example. This fan film gives us a look at what could have been happening.

 

Too fanboy service for me. Not my cup of team. Really corny. Much prefer the clumsy original in this case.

 

Vader’s movements and power level are more accurate in this one. He wasn’t washed up in ANH. And he should have been significantly stronger than Kenobi.