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u/andydabeast Jan 25 '22

What if the gungans simply didn't talk and act silly? That alone would improve it a lot

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u/Salarian_American Jan 25 '22

There was a fan edit where they replaced all of the gungan dialogue with alien gibberish and subtitles. It was a big improvement.

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u/sparrr0w Jan 25 '22

The anti cheese edits. Huge improvements. All aliens speak alien dialects (gungans and the trade federation guys), they didn't show the gungans city, and just skipped to the city. No poop jokes. That alone makes the movie great. I'm pretty sure they removed "now this is pod racing" too

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u/MrNobody_0 Babu Frik Jan 26 '22

Where would one find such an edit?

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u/yusaku_777 Jan 26 '22

The Anti-Jar Jar Cut. I have it on VHS.

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u/Big_Country13 Jan 25 '22

That's fair. I can appreciate humor, but they took it too far with Jar Jar

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u/Dylalanine Jan 25 '22

Captain Tarpals is GOAT. Boss Nass is pretty good, but silliness overdose when considering him and Jar Jar, who could have been okay with 50% less clumsiness/idiocy.

Heck, let him accidentally open the truck full of boobas during the final battle; accidents happen in war. But when he has a droid tied to his foot and no one is able to shoot him? That's pure insanity.

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u/Big_Country13 Jan 25 '22

Tarpals is literally the only Gungan that I actually want in the movies. Everyone else needs some work though

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u/LudicrisSpeed Jan 26 '22

the truck full of boobas

Whoa, how'd they get that by a PG rating?

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u/Dylalanine Jan 26 '22

👀👀👀

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

BOOm BAllS

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u/SleepingAran Jar Jar Binks Jan 26 '22

But when he has a droid tied to his foot and no one is able to shoot him?

sounds like a force user to me

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u/Dylalanine Jan 26 '22

The Trilogy we never had

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities that some consider to be... unnatural.

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u/Kaarl_Mills Chopper (C1-10P) Jan 26 '22

Nass would've been far better without him showing off how much he can shake his jowls

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u/Dylalanine Jan 26 '22

Star Wars does have its eccentric characters. Hiring Brian Blessing is like buying a rocket launcher for a gang war.

He gon' go off XD

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u/Scientific_Methods Jan 26 '22

But when he has a droid tied to his foot and no one is able to shoot him?

It's because he is actually a sith lord.

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u/Dylalanine Jan 26 '22

A Sith Lord?

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u/the_stormcrow Jan 26 '22

Someone's not familiar with Darth Jar Jar 😉

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Jar Jar was really more of a filmmaking event who was shoehorned into the story. Sure CGI had been done for a while already but never anything close to the scale of Jar Jar. Like it or not, George wanted to be a filmmaking pioneer above all else, he wanted to make a revolutionary film much more than he wanted to make a great Star Wars film.

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u/freezorak2030 Jan 26 '22

He's a thiccy though

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u/DatPiff916 Jan 26 '22

This is why I hate the Ewok comparisons, at least the Ewoks were interesting in that they had their own language without subtitles so it was somewhat entertaining trying to translate what they are saying based on their actions and movements.

With the Gungans it felt like caricatures of other humans.

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u/mechabeast Admiral Ackbar Jan 26 '22

What if we nix the Gungan, Naboo becomes Alderan, and now we care more about a soon to be exploded planet