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Monday, January 23, 2012

Nerd If You Love Star Wars...

Posted by Mary Traverse on Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:33 AM

…then you owe it to yourself to watch Star Wars Uncut, a crowd-sourced production that will fill any true fan with an indescribable joy. (Every fan I know who's watched it has had the same giddy reaction.) You may remember this project from a few years ago:

In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake Star Wars: A New Hope into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted.

Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.

…Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The Director's Cut is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.

Here is the finished product, two hours of unadulterated happiness:

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I was lucky enough to run across it this weekend. What a labor of love! So many wondrous, hilarious moments.

Posted by gloomy gus on January 23, 2012 at 10:41 AM

Is there any chance this won't be squelched by Lucas et al.?

Posted by Levislade

on January 23, 2012 at 10:47 AM

@Levislade: George Lucas gave the project his blessing, and John Williams allowed the use of his complete score. (The score running throughout is the main reason the edits flow as seemlessly as they do.) I watched the whole thing this weekend, and it was great fun. My favorite parts were the different interpretations of R2-D2, although [SPOILER ALERT] Alfalfa as Luke Skywalker made me laugh the loudest.

Posted by Bub on January 23, 2012 at 10:53 AM

Wow, that's amazing! Surprising and cool; looking forward to watching it.

Posted by Levislade

on January 23, 2012 at 10:58 AM

When is this playing at the Central Cinema? I'm there.

Posted by zachd

on January 23, 2012 at 11:01 AM

Wow! I'm about ten minutes in. Blown away already!

(I'm kind of hoping we see the human Jabba the Hut.)

Posted by seatackled on January 23, 2012 at 11:01 AM

This is definitely a movie night get-together thing with a lot of people.

Posted by Joe Szilagyi

on January 23, 2012 at 11:14 AM

Say, how do you get the ads not to pop up? I checked out the Youtube page that this is embedded from and got an ad, which this copy thankfully doesn't have.

Posted by seatackled on January 23, 2012 at 1:30 PM

Sweet!!! and I can download this on my mac. YES!

Posted by Simone on January 23, 2012 at 3:05 PM

Star Wars sweded! Yes!

Posted by SPG on January 23, 2012 at 3:41 PM

Most importantly: Han shots first!

Posted by bhowie on January 23, 2012 at 3:42 PM

Watching this was the best Saturday morning I've spent in months.

Posted by dubeats on January 23, 2012 at 4:15 PM

I am watching this and just smiling.

Posted by Thyme on January 23, 2012 at 9:10 PM

not enough time to watch to watch it all right now , but hat's off to all involved . many brilliant interpretations here . can't wait to watch it all .

Posted by whatsbeckgottadowithit on January 23, 2012 at 10:40 PM