I have frequently wished for good writers to rewrite movies with good premises but bad execution. At last, here’s a taste:
Line from Revenge of the Sith: “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything’s soft… and [touching her skin] smooth…”
Line as rewritten by James Lileks: “I hate sand. I was born on a planet of sand. It got in your eyes and your food and your clothes. It stank with whomprat piss. It was in your shoes when you woke in the morning and it was in your sheets when you went to bed at night. You grew up a slave, you grew up in a world of sand.”
The Phantom Edit was good, but needed to be even more invasive. Will someone please make these movies good? Maybe as a silent movie: put music over the awful dialogue and put some good dialogue up on cards?