Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi: Anti-Cringe-Cut

This review will come from someone who actually appreciates what Rian Johnson gave us, but I'm always open for fresh new views.

Being a professional editor I can tell you a lot of work went into this and was very well-made.

This was a fun watch and almost replaces the original film for me.

It's definitely worth a look!

Certainly much more enjoyable than the theatrical release. Nice to see that the entire Canto Bight subplot has been removed. IMO that's the only way to deal with that. Not only does it remove awful and unnecessary content, but it serves to focus attention where it belongs, on the Rey / Luke story. Nice choice on the Leia spacewalk as well, although it does present complications with TROS, same with Luke at the end, but for the sake of this edit I thought it worked. However, it did look like her finger twitched a bit before it cut back to Luke, might be worth a double check. While I'm nitpicking, I didn't think it was necessary to redo the crawl. It wasn't changed significantly from the original. Also, I think the Luke fishing scene could be cut along with the milking scene. Doesn't seem like necessary content.
As for technical aspects, it looked good. No weird looking edits took me out of the movie. Audio was nice and clear with the dialog nice and up front in the mix.
So far this is the most satisfying TLJ edit I've watched.

I loved it, the only changes i in my preference would be
to make Leia the sacrifice,
take out the holdo stuff,
luke still dies but at the end is more impactful,
add the voice of palpatine somewhere maybe in the rey darkside scene now that we have it,
add the green lightsaber hilt to the green blade, although the blue blade/saber never bothered me but then again why didnt kylo remember destroying the blue saber
keep leia poppins out though

You did fantastic and its much much better. As good as the TLJ:REcut from earlier this year.

Thank you!

I appreciate the ballzyness of this edit and what was done to get rid of many of the more unpleasant edits. The characters in the film feel less foolish at all points and there is a greater focus on many of the good bits Rian Johnson managed to create, and it's clear a lot of good work was done here, I saw no real technical issues apart from some iffy audio bits, such as Yoda's voiceover during the Luke/Rey fight.

My only problem is, without the admittingly BAD subplot, there's a sense of something missing. The resistance feels ignored much of the movie, like they're barely even in the movie at all, and so you kind of just get the sense that you've been with Rey/Luke for a really long time and that you're missing...something. That's not necessarily the editor's fault, it's the fact that the original film had to pad itself in such a way that when the subplot is cut out there's just nothing happening on the Resistance side of things. They feel like window dressing, and don't even have character arcs anymore. It's kind of a shame, but you can't magically edit in a better subplot.

I'm kind of a fan of the various edits to Luke's subplot though, although my only issue is it almost doesn't seem to make sense for Luke to suddenly want the Jedi to die because it wasn't his failing that caused Kylo to turn. Then again, it doesn't make sense in the original film either, and his out of character moment of igniting his saber on someone defenseless sure as heck doesn't make sense, so you're kind of stuck.

Lastly, there's not much to explain how the FO finds the cloaked ships, they just kind of do. I guess the plan failed anyway? That also didn't make much sense in the original why they wouldn't just see the transports in space.

I definitely appreciated what you were going for, it does make some of the better bits from the film shine, though it can't save a badly written movie. I feel like you might fix some issues if you kept Canto Blight out but could somehow have Finn and Rose go on the ship straight away? I don't know if that's possible to do, but that's my only suggestion if there were to be a revision. It would give the rebels more to do in the movie while keeping out the most egregious bit.

Very glad I watched this, and thanks for your work!

Don't feel I have much to add, as many others have revieed this edit.

But will be interesting how some of your more "daring" decisions will hold up when the next movie comes.

So thank you very much DonKamillo, finally found some enjoyment with this film.