@@tborke lmfao you think thats why they cut it ? I think they look a lil silly ? But not bad. It seems out of place even though it does fit. If you are right thats funny haha. Iv never seen these versions ! Love the sound effects its the best
my headcanon has always been that Sebulba drives some sort of muscle car like a Pontiac GTO or a Dodge Challenger while Anakin had something closer to a Ferrari
@@sparking023 funnily enough, the engine Anakin uses has its sound based on a Portia engine while the villain sebulba's engine noise was based on a Ferrari engine.
Yeah, design is tough. However, if it wouldn't be a fairy tale but reality, we could hear only infinite shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggh of jet engines. Btw bow didn't these racers grill themselves alive?😅
@@WoWmakerWT Even jet engines may have a different sound. For example, compare the sound of the F-22 and Su-57 engines, it is impossible to confuse them.
haha agreed. i was thinking it also wouldve been fun if they included a least a few seconds of a pit stop. Would've been fun to see a shot of the pit droids in action.
24 years later and I finally find out why Sebulba's podracer in 'Episode 1: Racer' shoots fire out the side. As with most things starwars, the games were always developed along side the movies. Clearly the game teams got the brief on what all the podracers could do, but either didnt realize the fire attack shots were cut from the movie or just didnt care (because its the game version afterall) - so it was left in! I always wondered where the hell that came from haha
@@amaurythewarrior Very true. Now I really wonder why they cut it. Maybe it just made Sebulba too evil for the race, broke the rules too much when he could just take out other podracers in less direct ways anyway.
@@Alex_DeltaDev The main two reason I could think is that either it would have been considered a step too far to keep the PG rating or they had to reduce the runtime of the movie and thus picked parts of the podrace that otherwise were just vertical worldbuilding.
There's something very intoxicating about the myriad of noises and engine startups at 3:57. Being a gearhead, it ticks a lot of boxes, and I can recognize several engines and interesting remixes of others. The sound engineer/editor did a good job with this whole sequence, and even accounted for the doppler effect on the racers as they sped by.
Phantom Menace was the last SW film shot on film for the longest time. I remember watching it in theaters (when they were still using film projectors!) and then getting the home video to see that the color adjusted for the home release. I loved the harsh, washed out yellows of the podrace scene. Every iteration then has that soft red tone over it and it just makes it feel less hot and arid.
Exactly. It’s super bright and hot feeling. I just like it more.. it’s okay to be outside with the “suns” shining on everything brightly! I don’t want it to be all soft and washed out looking with the “warm” filter on.
The sequel trilogy really made me forget how bizarre Lucas's choices were in the PT. Yes for theatrical let's keep in the cut with the alien camel farting but remove the cut of Anakin's mom speaking to him. The stuff they decided to edit to reduce the runtime just baffles me.
As absurd as it sounds it was more than likely just for the baby kids. He ultimately made these for a new generation of fans. Kind of like the MCU level dialogue in the Sequel trilogy, it’s for a new type of fan.
@@Charon569 Yeah but when those fans get older they're going to roll their eyes when they re-watch the scene. Pod racing by itself was something little kids would enjoy on it's own, they didn't need the fart scene.
@@drosera88 I literally said “as absurd as it sounds.” I’m not saying Lucas made the right choice. How many kids are into formula 1? He also cannot predict manchildren wanting his movies to appease them 20 years after they saw it as kids.
The fart was most likely to appeal to younger audiences, what with the attempt that JarJar being somewhat of an attempt at comic relief. It did make me chuckle when i saw it the first time myself, so i don't know, maybe both could have been kept? *shrugs*
10:30 so you're telling me those Tusken raiders can hit a pod racer moving at a really high speed, but can't hit Jawas? lol But I would honestly love a Pod Racer tv series lol
Well, there's something close to that, which is "Oban star racers", a French anime. :v If you want some sci-fi racing action with some inter-personal drama in-between and a hell of a lot of gorgeous world building, this is the series to go! c:
They should have. Earlier in the film, Anakin says, "Sebulba flashed me with his vents." I always thought he meant exhaust. This is so much more brutal and makes sense why Anakin crashed last time, but also emphasizes his skill in saving not only his own hide but most of the pod.
Flamethrowers are too much. The entire Qui Gon / Watto bet story relies on the Hutt Cartels being an authority which punishes cheaters. If Sebulba is using his racer or his own hands to play dirty, it's very different from having a flame-thrower installed, that wouldn't pass an inspection. Clearly Sebulba is the only one playing dirty in the race and that behaviour is punished by the Hutts, if known. idk, could be just time constraints or concerns about violence/rating.
Interesting to see a scene so changed thats not from the original trilogy. Still probably one of my favorite scenes in the saga. From the editing to the sound design and blend of cgi and practical effects, it’s so well made. There’s a lot to admire here.
@@hyperdunkzhd22 "A pod sound can be powerful, angry, comical, smooth, cool, hip, old-fashioned, goofy, or dangerous. I try to make a sound that will relate to that type of coloration. Pod sounds were made from race cars, boats, warbirds, electric tooth brushes, shavers, motorcycles, rockets, and helicopters." ~Quote from the guy who designed the sound.
@@hyperdunkzhd22 My number one sound is the J-Type Naboo ship. The one in the intro scene of attack of the clones. That engine noise give me the chills...
All the prequel movies have slight edits/changes between the theatrical, DVD, and BluRay releases but it's not nearly as well known as the original trilogy changes
I KNEW I wasn't crazy for thinking the scene with Anakin spinning out of control wasn't originally there! I believe it's in the novelizations though, which I'd read at the time, so my memory of what was in the theatre got all mixed up. I didn't know I needed to see this. Thank you!
@@Revenante_of_Asylum yea that's not a reason to cut it most kids wouldn't have cared and wouldn't have even noticed. The few who would have should not be catered too.
@shaynemhopkins It's not even about just kids. It's about a joke not overdoing its premise. Small creature turns his head, makes silly panicked noise, then crashes and blows up? That's already a riot. Oh, he brought his family here to? Oh no, the hubris! Surrre hope nothing bad happens, golly gee willickers... Oh, his wife just got out of the hospital with her newborn baby whose birthday will now be synonymous with the death of her husband? Now you're getting gratuitous, taking the wind out of the slapstick, and really straining the pace of the extended racer intros. Past a point, the additional setup can detract from the humor.
The 1999 theatrical cut and the 2019 Disney+ edition have the best coloration. The 2001 DVD release and its "deleted scenes" counterpart are too red-ified.
Disney's version (at least, here) looks good at times, but it's really inconsistent. Sometimes the sky looks red instead of blue. They sucked out a ton of contrast and sometimes it helps add detail, other times it just looks washed out. The sand mostly looks white, but not as "sand white" as the theatrical version, just... Colorless. It's very weird to me. Edit: maybe they just recolored the DVD versions instead of an original master. If they'd tinted everything red for the DVDs, then tried to tone it back for D+, they wouldn't have had much color data to work with since a lot of it was removed earlier anyways
Yeah, Disney+ also have good colors, but looks like semi-cloudy day in Europe, not freaking desert planet. So dark! And it's not even filter over whole movie, interior scenes seem fine.
I know that it can be a bit of a slog for many, but IMO the pod racing scene is probably the single most thrilling sequence not involving a lightsaber or blaster in the entire Star Wars saga. Everything about it just makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand straight up. It is just so friggin' cool!
@@Ikouy The added podrace scenes were present in all versions from the DVD release onwards-including the Blu-ray / 3D / 4K versions that had the CGI Yoda added (which is what the 25th version is using).
To the creator and editor of this video. Thank you. Truly! You have justified my suspicions that I’ve had for over a decade. This was my first Star Wars movie in a theater as a kid and when it was released on VHS I must have watched it hundreds of times. But once it was released on DVD and available for streaming I knew the barrel roll Anakin does over the other racer and the sequence where he uses that magnet to grab his unhooked cable was not theatrical. I’ve watched the race so many times that when I did see those two additions, they stuck out like a sore thumb. But I never had any proof as my VHS is lost to time. You have lifted a weight off my shoulders and pulled out this splinter in my mind. You are a gentleman and a scholar. Cheers 🍻
Anybody else think it would be dope if they made an actual spinoff series exclusively about an up and coming podracing champion? Cuz I have always thought this whole bit was one of the coolest things Star Wars has ever done.
That’s the dream. Hopefully disney will let go of their failed post empire timeline and indulge us with podracing and more prequel and pre prequel stories
Like what some of the others have said, the extended scenes with Ratts Tyrell made his death more sad. In the theatrical version I believe only his crash is shown. They try to show you the background of the character, and mentioning his wife just got out of the hospital with a newborn was brutal.
I remember the original Star Wars changes videos you made. They're some of the most detailed videos on the subject, and I learned about the Mono and Stereo mixes of Star Wars and Empire because of them! I'm excited to see the new ones coming January!
At 6:58 you can see how Sebulba sets on fire Clegg Holdfast's podracer, but later at 7:30 Anakin Skywalker passes by right next to Clegg Holdfast's podracer. A small mistake...
I never noticed the sounds of the podracers themselves... there's like inline 6 noises, old ford V8 noises. F1 V12 noises... Motorcycle inline four, [probably GP bikes, as we just got away from two stroke into 4 stroke.] and there's also honda's CBX [inline 6 motor] sprinkled in... lol
It's fun to think that the race in Ep.1 was inspired by "Flåklypa (Pinchville) Grand Prix" Many similarities between them. Not to mention the sabotage being done to the protagonist's vehicle.
Good old George Lucas always tweaking these movies. I find it interesting that not only were the colors quite different between the theatrical & DVD, he decided to mess around with them again to bring them closer to the theatrical version. Quite a lot of...interesting moments were cut, surprised at how complete they are as instead of being storyboards or animatics, the CGI just varies in quality and not by much. Pretty much all of these look finalized besides some wonky character lighting in some shots, everything is animated properly and overall fit pretty seamlessly with the other footage. I feel like a few of those scenes could've been added back in although most have little relevance to the rest of the podrace...except for that one racer whose family showed up, probably cut because it completely recontextualizes his death scene. Wonder when & why George decided to remove them since like the other scenes, the CGI was complete so they must've been cut late in production. I also find it interesting how much was added in the DVD release, I knew the rereleases had some scenes added/extended for each movie but the podrace alone was decently longer.
George had his people go back and finish various deleted scenes for the DVD release, even if they weren’t included during the actual film. A bunch of unfinished stuff later made it to the Blu Ray release however
If you watch the documentary on episode 1, George essentially directed the film from the editing chair. First time that was ever done with using the computer to splice takes together. He filmed everything with that in mind so I think he overshot with the idea he could just make a movie form the pieces
There's actually a lot of fascinating methodology behind grading colors differently for different release media. I work with an old school tv production guy, and stuff for broadcast was routinely over-saturated because you couldn't count on the viewer having proper color settings on their tvs. Better to be oversaturated than flat. The DVD era kind of takes after the VHS era, where colors were oversaturated because they'd be going to (primarily) CRT tvs. You didn't care about lcd screens because in the 90's, most of them were on laptops and were active matrix, and watching video at all on them wasn't a pleasant experience. As things moved to HD/4K and high bitrate streaming, the colors normalized because editors assumed HD and 4K panels had a more neutral color profile out of the box.
Indeed! I just played through it again recently, and it's wild seeing all the racers here as, like, (somewhat) fleshed-out people rather than just their little blocky animations in the racer select screen and voices.
Man, why are the theatrical cuts always the best. Also, that sequence was absolutly 🤯 back in 1999 in theatres. I'm so grateful to have experienced it.
Hmm i dunno, the others added a lot more cool shots of the race, that weren't in the theatrical (like the part where he's spinning while trying to fix his right engine line). I think it's your nostalgia influencing your opinion on it. Because that was when you first saw it, and it was on a massive screen, of course your feelings towards that version are going to be better. If the DVD cut was in theater you'd probably still think that was the best one.
“The Queen trusts my judgement. You should too,” says the Jedi Knight who couldn’t sense that the young woman he was talking to was holding back a MAJOR secret
@@theblackgus1046 Uh-huh, pretty easy to have "known something all along" after it's publicly revealed. (j/k, i just forgot about that part. I'm not up on my phantom menace lore)
i actually clearly remember seeing anakin lose one of his engines in theater, and was surprized not to see that on VHS the next year. i knew I had not imagined that. I only saw that cut again recently
I also remembered the race being longer in the theater, when I watched it for the first time on video and remember it being shortened (I couldn't remember what was missing though)
This is a really fun watch! I think the Disney+ color correction and up-scaling was well done, but I don’t think it does the CG characters any favors. I’m REALLY glad the full deleted scene cut never made it to the end product though! It has some great content but it’s length boarders on the ridiculous.
6:57 - 7:10: Ok, Sebulba is a straight up Murderer. He took no shame in killing two of his competitors, and we see a great example with this poor soul here.
I remember playing the pod racing game to exaustion xD Soo many cool designs. Also just imagine the IDEA of basically riding 2 (or more) jet engines xD
The vast majority of the prequels doesn't feel like Star Wars to me, but seeing the podrace in isolation like this makes that dichotomy all the more prevalent in my mind - watching this it comes off as some entirely unrelated Saturday morning cartoon.
The modern color-grading disease: Blues spiked to hecc, teal shadows, orange mids, neon green highs... And the wishy-washiest contrast ever... A quarter century ago, when Ep1 released, we still had color grading that tried to mimic real life. Now it tries to capture the "Film look". :P
Book of Boba Fett: Nooo the Tusken Raiders are actually really nice and just misunderstood because their land is being occupied 10:29 : Tusken Raiders shooting at Jawas for literally no reason at all
Love the color timing of the theatrical cut. Though the Disney+ version looks pretty good too. Probably a bit more "natural" but I prefer the blown out look of the theatrical version. Looks like a hot desert. Where was the theatrical version sourced from? Laserdisc?
The sound cue when all the flags are brought out is absolutely thrilling. the little detail of a real sporting event honoring all participants flags, along with the badass orchestra just fuels the immersion
I also think the colouring looks much better on the theatrical release. It seems really blue in the other versions. It's like the difference between the preset picture settings your TV comes with, vs Filmmaker Mode.
I still can’t believe that they haven’t announced a pod racing tv show. No force powers, no super serious plot just a loveable crew doing the best they can, lots of laughs and some white knuckle pod racing.
The Podrace was one of the best parts of the whole Prequal Trilogy and that arcade video game was amazing as well. I had no idea so much wasn't in the theatrical release, I like the added stuff. Also, wew, the guy who blows up brought his whole family there? Harsh. I LOVE the sound design for these things!
Nice job! I saw a fan bootleg a long time ago with the entire pod race in the movie. It’s pretty brutal. Especially without music. Very fast. Very dangerous. Of course I'm the only human who can do it. MTFBWY
this scene still gives me chills like nothing else ever made on this earth. the amount of badassery packed into the concept of podracing may be the peak of human achievement.
Much like many modern Star Wars properties, I feel like an actual series about Podracing would be incredibly cool. How it started, what keeps it going, etc. There's potential, which is what's always great about Star Wars.
Some of the engine sound effects were recorded at the EAA in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They gave the Museum a Millenium Falcon filming model. Harrison Ford is also an EAA member.
Ratts Tyrell DIES and they had a scene showing his family and young children? And his wife just gave birth to another baby? George, you are cruel. Thank you editors for cutting that
I remember when my parents took me to the theater to see this movie as a kid. My heart pounding the whole race from the awesome sound effects. What a experience that was.
The Racers are all in central view of a whole arena of people and on camera and nobody sees Sebulba sabotage another racers vehicle. And also there is just this thing sticking out of the side of the vehicle(on the outer hull no-less) that will ruin everything if a small amount of force is applied donwards to it.
>And also there is just this thing sticking out of the side of the vehicle(on the outer hull no-less) that will ruin everything if a small amount of force is applied donwards to it Like a Pitot tube.
terrible! it was a crime to cut all these scenes!I suppose the theatrical version is the one released on vhs at the time. In fact, although I loved this sequence, I didn't remember all these scenes I must say... and it's a real shame because I would have loved them so much. actually the race is much more complete with all these added sequences, without it seems really incomplete, badly cut. heck, this part of the movie after more than twenty years is still amazing.
Feels so amazing you can tell who the racers are if you played Ep 1 racers before the announcers introduce them, i just can't hear Gasgano's name but the lad is there
I don’t know how… but my Father Managed to get ahold of the Theatrical cut on VHS. It threw me off seeing all these “New” scenes years later having memorized every frame as a Kid XD
So the guy that died in terrible explosion brought his whole family to the race. I think I'm glad I didn't see that as a kid.
Indeed, no wonder they cut it, that was a bit too dark :D
Eagle eyed viewers could actually see his family mourning him in the background of when Qui Gon is negotiating with Watto in the balcony
@@tborke lmfao you think thats why they cut it ? I think they look a lil silly ? But not bad. It seems out of place even though it does fit. If you are right thats funny haha. Iv never seen these versions ! Love the sound effects its the best
hahahahah
Lol
The thing that really hits me is how good the sound design is. You can identify each racer purely on what it's engine sounds like!
my headcanon has always been that Sebulba drives some sort of muscle car like a Pontiac GTO or a Dodge Challenger while Anakin had something closer to a Ferrari
I use headphones and the fart sound effect was indeed quite pleasant to my ears.
@@sparking023 funnily enough, the engine Anakin uses has its sound based on a Portia engine while the villain sebulba's engine noise was based on a Ferrari engine.
Yeah, design is tough.
However, if it wouldn't be a fairy tale but reality, we could hear only infinite shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggh of jet engines.
Btw bow didn't these racers grill themselves alive?😅
@@WoWmakerWT Even jet engines may have a different sound. For example, compare the sound of the F-22 and Su-57 engines, it is impossible to confuse them.
So the fart scene was so important it made it into every cut unlike so many other scenes giving actual context to the characters in the movie. Awesome
Great point. Fuck that stupid fart scene.
"His family is here to cheer him on."
Me- Uh oh.
Commentator aliens: "We wish her and her family the best of luck today."
Me, seeing that he has 2 young kids and a newborn: 😢
It was obnoxiously obvious how that would end at that point 😅
What makes it worse is that he was considered a gentleman and was apparently one of the nicest racers on the track
I actually don't hate wasting time introducing every single racer. It makes it feel like a real F1 broadcast.
haha agreed. i was thinking it also wouldve been fun if they included a least a few seconds of a pit stop. Would've been fun to see a shot of the pit droids in action.
WE NEED TO MAKE TIME FOR THE ALIEN CAMEL TO FART INTO JAR JAR'S FACE
@@ramonsternsAnd 75% of the things JarJar does in the rest of the movie
lights out and away we go !
Some of those deleted CGI are rough tho. Like they were dropped before any post-processing.
24 years later and I finally find out why Sebulba's podracer in 'Episode 1: Racer' shoots fire out the side. As with most things starwars, the games were always developed along side the movies. Clearly the game teams got the brief on what all the podracers could do, but either didnt realize the fire attack shots were cut from the movie or just didnt care (because its the game version afterall) - so it was left in! I always wondered where the hell that came from haha
well it was not in the final cut, but didn't mean his pod wasn't capable of it. but yeah it's cool to find out where it comes from
That, and it was also shown in the Episode I cross sections book of the ships.
@@amaurythewarrior Very true. Now I really wonder why they cut it. Maybe it just made Sebulba too evil for the race, broke the rules too much when he could just take out other podracers in less direct ways anyway.
@@Alex_DeltaDev The main two reason I could think is that either it would have been considered a step too far to keep the PG rating or they had to reduce the runtime of the movie and thus picked parts of the podrace that otherwise were just vertical worldbuilding.
@@skystryker2300 Dude I have all of those books. So fucking cool
There's something very intoxicating about the myriad of noises and engine startups at 3:57. Being a gearhead, it ticks a lot of boxes, and I can recognize several engines and interesting remixes of others. The sound engineer/editor did a good job with this whole sequence, and even accounted for the doppler effect on the racers as they sped by.
Ben Burtt is the name everyone should know. He's basically the John Williams of the sound design world.
Phantom Menace was the last SW film shot on film for the longest time. I remember watching it in theaters (when they were still using film projectors!) and then getting the home video to see that the color adjusted for the home release. I loved the harsh, washed out yellows of the podrace scene. Every iteration then has that soft red tone over it and it just makes it feel less hot and arid.
Exactly, also makes the footage seem much older.
Exactly. It’s super bright and hot feeling. I just like it more.. it’s okay to be outside with the “suns” shining on everything brightly! I don’t want it to be all soft and washed out looking with the “warm” filter on.
The sequel trilogy really made me forget how bizarre Lucas's choices were in the PT. Yes for theatrical let's keep in the cut with the alien camel farting but remove the cut of Anakin's mom speaking to him. The stuff they decided to edit to reduce the runtime just baffles me.
They? George you mean. He had nobody telling him no. I’ll also remind people nobody wanted to direct the PT with George looming over them.
As absurd as it sounds it was more than likely just for the baby kids. He ultimately made these for a new generation of fans. Kind of like the MCU level dialogue in the Sequel trilogy, it’s for a new type of fan.
@@Charon569 Yeah but when those fans get older they're going to roll their eyes when they re-watch the scene. Pod racing by itself was something little kids would enjoy on it's own, they didn't need the fart scene.
@@drosera88 I literally said “as absurd as it sounds.” I’m not saying Lucas made the right choice. How many kids are into formula 1? He also cannot predict manchildren wanting his movies to appease them 20 years after they saw it as kids.
The fart was most likely to appeal to younger audiences, what with the attempt that JarJar being somewhat of an attempt at comic relief.
It did make me chuckle when i saw it the first time myself, so i don't know, maybe both could have been kept? *shrugs*
10:30 so you're telling me those Tusken raiders can hit a pod racer moving at a really high speed, but can't hit Jawas? lol
But I would honestly love a Pod Racer tv series lol
Just warning shots, the jawas stole "their pieces"
They made a several games for Pod Racing...
@@theblackgus1046 yeah, just warning shots, after all that they are/were the same species
@@amoeb81Maybe they just think messing with them is funny. They do make amusing sounds when they panic
Well, there's something close to that, which is "Oban star racers", a French anime. :v
If you want some sci-fi racing action with some inter-personal drama in-between and a hell of a lot of gorgeous world building, this is the series to go! c:
the one dude who brought his family to watch him race, idc what you say, that is peak dark humour right there.
Later you can see his family all being sad while Qui gon and Watto talk.
His name is Ratts Tyrelle who crashed and died in the dark cave and his family is now crying over his tragic death 😢😭
@@Rjay0922 idk man, that sounds like a skill issue
@@Dr.Ruffles Now that's dark humor 🤣
Anakin brought his family, too
Not gonna lie, seeing sebulba use flame torches on the sides to disrupt other racers is pretty awesome imo. Should've left that in
I was wondering where that idea came from in the Podracing game on N64
They should have. Earlier in the film, Anakin says, "Sebulba flashed me with his vents." I always thought he meant exhaust. This is so much more brutal and makes sense why Anakin crashed last time, but also emphasizes his skill in saving not only his own hide but most of the pod.
Flamethrowers are too much. The entire Qui Gon / Watto bet story relies on the Hutt Cartels being an authority which punishes cheaters. If Sebulba is using his racer or his own hands to play dirty, it's very different from having a flame-thrower installed, that wouldn't pass an inspection. Clearly Sebulba is the only one playing dirty in the race and that behaviour is punished by the Hutts, if known. idk, could be just time constraints or concerns about violence/rating.
@@Dominian1 8:32 this dickhead was dirty too it wasn’t just Sebulba
I remember seeing them in one of those star wars picture books and thinking they just added it for the book
Interesting to see a scene so changed thats not from the original trilogy. Still probably one of my favorite scenes in the saga. From the editing to the sound design and blend of cgi and practical effects, it’s so well made. There’s a lot to admire here.
This scene and the Darth Vader scene at the end of Rouge One are the only two scenes in all of Star Wars that hold "Wizard" status.
Forgive the spelling, but sebulba’s pod racer sound is one of the coolest sounds in all of Star Wars imo.
@@hyperdunkzhd22 "A pod sound can be powerful, angry, comical, smooth, cool, hip, old-fashioned, goofy, or dangerous. I try to make a sound that will relate to that type of coloration. Pod sounds were made from race cars, boats, warbirds, electric tooth brushes, shavers, motorcycles, rockets, and helicopters."
~Quote from the guy who designed the sound.
@@hyperdunkzhd22 My number one sound is the J-Type Naboo ship. The one in the intro scene of attack of the clones. That engine noise give me the chills...
All the prequel movies have slight edits/changes between the theatrical, DVD, and BluRay releases but it's not nearly as well known as the original trilogy changes
I KNEW I wasn't crazy for thinking the scene with Anakin spinning out of control wasn't originally there! I believe it's in the novelizations though, which I'd read at the time, so my memory of what was in the theatre got all mixed up. I didn't know I needed to see this. Thank you!
Comrade! Exactly the same for me after 24 years!!!
That extra scene of Quadranero throwing the clipboard is mint
Quadinaros*
That crash at 9:08 has always gotten me. Just so fucking brutal.
I can’t help but laugh at the stereotypical 90s dinosaur with shades going “raur” as his reaction to his imminent death.
I dont think he actually died the only one we know died was rattz terrel
All because Sebulba cheated
RAWR
@@lemonmazter7831 Mars Guo and his pod are my favourite. He didn't die though.
1:58 is SO COLD! I'm crying in my seat in laughter. How I wish that made it into the final cut... the brutality of those writers xD
Yeah, I understand why it was cut and maybe even agree, but the gratuitous amount of death flags right up front for this guy is peak dark humor, lol
@@Revenante_of_Asylum yea that's not a reason to cut it most kids wouldn't have cared and wouldn't have even noticed. The few who would have should not be catered too.
@shaynemhopkins It's not even about just kids. It's about a joke not overdoing its premise.
Small creature turns his head, makes silly panicked noise, then crashes and blows up? That's already a riot.
Oh, he brought his family here to? Oh no, the hubris! Surrre hope nothing bad happens, golly gee willickers...
Oh, his wife just got out of the hospital with her newborn baby whose birthday will now be synonymous with the death of her husband? Now you're getting gratuitous, taking the wind out of the slapstick, and really straining the pace of the extended racer intros.
Past a point, the additional setup can detract from the humor.
The colorgrading on the theatrical version looks the most realistic in my opinion
Yeah the colors look much more sandy rather than redish. IDK how he managed to get it.
The 1999 theatrical cut and the 2019 Disney+ edition have the best coloration. The 2001 DVD release and its "deleted scenes" counterpart are too red-ified.
Disney's version (at least, here) looks good at times, but it's really inconsistent. Sometimes the sky looks red instead of blue. They sucked out a ton of contrast and sometimes it helps add detail, other times it just looks washed out. The sand mostly looks white, but not as "sand white" as the theatrical version, just... Colorless. It's very weird to me.
Edit: maybe they just recolored the DVD versions instead of an original master. If they'd tinted everything red for the DVDs, then tried to tone it back for D+, they wouldn't have had much color data to work with since a lot of it was removed earlier anyways
It makes Jabba look WAY better.
Yeah, Disney+ also have good colors, but looks like semi-cloudy day in Europe, not freaking desert planet. So dark!
And it's not even filter over whole movie, interior scenes seem fine.
I know that it can be a bit of a slog for many, but IMO the pod racing scene is probably the single most thrilling sequence not involving a lightsaber or blaster in the entire Star Wars saga.
Everything about it just makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand straight up. It is just so friggin' cool!
Jesus Christ. Someone could write a 50,000 word essay on all the different versions of every Star Wars movie, easily!
There's a 12 hour long breakdown video about just The Phantom Menace- several hours spent just on the pod race
That was cool, watching the Jawas scavenge the destroyed pod racer parts while the Raiders shot at them. 10:28
It would have been cool to see the two most iconic species from Tatooine interact
I find it hard to believe that Anakin reconnecting the cable wasn't in the theatrical release. I feel like it really adds to the tension of the race
THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING
It was present in the 25th anniversary re-release.
@@Ikouy The added podrace scenes were present in all versions from the DVD release onwards-including the Blu-ray / 3D / 4K versions that had the CGI Yoda added (which is what the 25th version is using).
It wasn't. I remember watching it on DVD and being really confused why there was a new scene
Although it makes no sense he could suddenly go so fast he could pass everyone else’s top speed who didn’t have any issues.
To the creator and editor of this video. Thank you. Truly! You have justified my suspicions that I’ve had for over a decade.
This was my first Star Wars movie in a theater as a kid and when it was released on VHS I must have watched it hundreds of times. But once it was released on DVD and available for streaming I knew the barrel roll Anakin does over the other racer and the sequence where he uses that magnet to grab his unhooked cable was not theatrical.
I’ve watched the race so many times that when I did see those two additions, they stuck out like a sore thumb. But I never had any proof as my VHS is lost to time.
You have lifted a weight off my shoulders and pulled out this splinter in my mind.
You are a gentleman and a scholar. Cheers 🍻
Glad to know that the VHS is theatrical as it was the last VHS I ever bought.
@@HoorayTV21 The VHS, Laserdisc and Video CD have the theatrical cut. Anything DVD and beyond has the additions.
a splinter of the mind's eye?
Anybody else think it would be dope if they made an actual spinoff series exclusively about an up and coming podracing champion?
Cuz I have always thought this whole bit was one of the coolest things Star Wars has ever done.
Hell yeah
That’s the dream. Hopefully disney will let go of their failed post empire timeline and indulge us with podracing and more prequel and pre prequel stories
There was a pod racing game which is actually really fun.
episode one should have been just Anakin and his Podracing career for his freedom. keep it simple, ya know.
That would be mega dope! It's like Fast and the Furious I N - S P A C E ! ! ! (or in the future lmao)
Like what some of the others have said, the extended scenes with Ratts Tyrell made his death more sad. In the theatrical version I believe only his crash is shown. They try to show you the background of the character, and mentioning his wife just got out of the hospital with a newborn was brutal.
Okay. The surround sound here is impressive, even without headphones.
I remember the original Star Wars changes videos you made. They're some of the most detailed videos on the subject, and I learned about the Mono and Stereo mixes of Star Wars and Empire because of them! I'm excited to see the new ones coming January!
The colors on the theatrical cut are so much better it's wild.
It's almost like George Lucas can't stop ruining things
You think it's better? I think it's too green/ yellow
You must be joking. It looks filtered, as if somenody pissed on the film. The D+version is perfectly white balanced.
@@Wilma_Dickfit_huh just because something is optically perfect doesn't mean it has better atmosphere.
@@SlashCampable I didn't say anything about atmosphere. the D+ version is perfectly color balanced. the original was not.
They really were tryna make that one aliens death really dark by having his family watch
At 6:58 you can see how Sebulba sets on fire Clegg Holdfast's podracer, but later at 7:30 Anakin Skywalker passes by right next to Clegg Holdfast's podracer. A small mistake...
I love those clean-up droids on the track. Excellent worldbuilding. Probably pacing reasons but it would've been worth it.
Oh is that what they were doing? Seemed like they were going to do some further sabotaging to Anakin or any of the other pod racers.
Even if you think the prequals are garbage, you have to admit this was one of the best scenes in the franchise.
Yeah, Phantom Menace is average imo, but this scene is a lot of fun
I love the prequels and the original trilogy. The sequels... meh.
I prefer space fights.
Do I?
Episode I is phenomenal, Episode 2 is meh, Episode 3 is too over reliant on CGI and the sequels are just complete garbage and an insult to Star Wars.
I never noticed the sounds of the podracers themselves... there's like inline 6 noises, old ford V8 noises. F1 V12 noises... Motorcycle inline four, [probably GP bikes, as we just got away from two stroke into 4 stroke.] and there's also honda's CBX [inline 6 motor] sprinkled in... lol
RIP Ratts Tyerell, My condolences to his entire familial line.
It's fun to think that the race in Ep.1 was inspired by "Flåklypa (Pinchville) Grand Prix"
Many similarities between them.
Not to mention the sabotage being done to the protagonist's vehicle.
The deleted scene version is the best version, it makes the world feel alive. It was very gripping.
Good old George Lucas always tweaking these movies. I find it interesting that not only were the colors quite different between the theatrical & DVD, he decided to mess around with them again to bring them closer to the theatrical version.
Quite a lot of...interesting moments were cut, surprised at how complete they are as instead of being storyboards or animatics, the CGI just varies in quality and not by much. Pretty much all of these look finalized besides some wonky character lighting in some shots, everything is animated properly and overall fit pretty seamlessly with the other footage.
I feel like a few of those scenes could've been added back in although most have little relevance to the rest of the podrace...except for that one racer whose family showed up, probably cut because it completely recontextualizes his death scene. Wonder when & why George decided to remove them since like the other scenes, the CGI was complete so they must've been cut late in production.
I also find it interesting how much was added in the DVD release, I knew the rereleases had some scenes added/extended for each movie but the podrace alone was decently longer.
George had his people go back and finish various deleted scenes for the DVD release, even if they weren’t included during the actual film. A bunch of unfinished stuff later made it to the Blu Ray release however
If you watch the documentary on episode 1, George essentially directed the film from the editing chair. First time that was ever done with using the computer to splice takes together. He filmed everything with that in mind so I think he overshot with the idea he could just make a movie form the pieces
There's actually a lot of fascinating methodology behind grading colors differently for different release media. I work with an old school tv production guy, and stuff for broadcast was routinely over-saturated because you couldn't count on the viewer having proper color settings on their tvs. Better to be oversaturated than flat. The DVD era kind of takes after the VHS era, where colors were oversaturated because they'd be going to (primarily) CRT tvs. You didn't care about lcd screens because in the 90's, most of them were on laptops and were active matrix, and watching video at all on them wasn't a pleasant experience. As things moved to HD/4K and high bitrate streaming, the colors normalized because editors assumed HD and 4K panels had a more neutral color profile out of the box.
Ben Burns is the genius behind the sound of Star Wars, but this scene is just absolute perfection.
So THATS why the lego toy had little vents on the side of Subulba's pod racer engines!
I didn't realize how much was deleted. Cool video thanks for posting
Appreciate your effort in meticulously syncing each version seamlessly. A very well done video.
Really happy to see a new upload. Looking forward to the new videos of all the changes!
Really glad we got that extended fart scene back in 2001. It really clears things up.
Absolutely love the introduction of all the racers in the deleted scenes.
That is some good exposition in my book.
I’m kinda shocked at how much was missing from the theatrical release. I saw it in theaters and I dont remember that much missing. 🤔
Great job! Did not know there were this many different versions.
Oh man so many things from the podracing game that I didn't know where actually meant to be in the movie too! That's pretty awesome.
Indeed! I just played through it again recently, and it's wild seeing all the racers here as, like, (somewhat) fleshed-out people rather than just their little blocky animations in the racer select screen and voices.
That first sequence showing all the racers is like the ultimate glup shitto scene
Man, why are the theatrical cuts always the best. Also, that sequence was absolutly 🤯 back in 1999 in theatres. I'm so grateful to have experienced it.
I’m gonna have to go with dvd on this one
I'll never forget the sound of Sebulba's speeder at my cinema. Not even my expensive home theater can recreate it
@@RingRoadSessions imax?
@@Puppy_Puppington no it was just my local theater
Hmm i dunno, the others added a lot more cool shots of the race, that weren't in the theatrical (like the part where he's spinning while trying to fix his right engine line). I think it's your nostalgia influencing your opinion on it. Because that was when you first saw it, and it was on a massive screen, of course your feelings towards that version are going to be better. If the DVD cut was in theater you'd probably still think that was the best one.
The prequels really did have some of the coolest concepts that were executed insanely well for the franchise. This is one of the best examples.
Wow when I saw this in theaters in 1999 I didn't realize how much was actually cut.
well no shit
@@nicotobiasmusic right because you knew everything that got cut before watching the video you must be a being of superior intelligence.
@@myneckjusbroke3301 No, he says that because no one would have been able to notice except for some people at Lucasarts
I seem to remember it being longer in theater then on the VHS release...
It's amazing how much was cut from the theatrical release...
2:01 omg that's tragic 😂
“The Queen trusts my judgement. You should too,” says the Jedi Knight who couldn’t sense that the young woman he was talking to was holding back a MAJOR secret
Given how crazy Qui-Gon's whole plan is, he might just not care.
He knew it but it was not necessary to reveal it
@@theblackgus1046 Uh-huh, pretty easy to have "known something all along" after it's publicly revealed.
(j/k, i just forgot about that part. I'm not up on my phantom menace lore)
It's Qui-Gon "I don't sense anything." Gin, what do you expect?😂
@@flowers5695
George Lucas said it himself that Qui -igon knew on the DVD commentary.
i actually clearly remember seeing anakin lose one of his engines in theater, and was surprized not to see that on VHS the next year. i knew I had not imagined that. I only saw that cut again recently
I also remembered the race being longer in the theater, when I watched it for the first time on video and remember it being shortened (I couldn't remember what was missing though)
There are many parts missing in this video I guess because they where the same in all 4 versions.
5:04 It's interesting how Anakin's yellow ship markings changed to orange for the DVD but were reverted back for the Disney+ Version.
1:23 “Lookie there it’s Elon Musk!”
LOL I heard the same thing!! :D
Deserves watching regularly just for Sebulba's engine sound.
Now all we need is a extended supercut of all scenes cut together
1:23
"Elon Mach"
did I hear that right?
This is a really fun watch! I think the Disney+ color correction and up-scaling was well done, but I don’t think it does the CG characters any favors. I’m REALLY glad the full deleted scene cut never made it to the end product though! It has some great content but it’s length boarders on the ridiculous.
Glad you’re back!
6:57 - 7:10:
Ok, Sebulba is a straight up Murderer. He took no shame in killing two of his competitors, and we see a great example with this poor soul here.
This video was excellent! The sequencing and annotations made it really easy to follow.
I remember playing the pod racing game to exaustion xD Soo many cool designs.
Also just imagine the IDEA of basically riding 2 (or more) jet engines xD
We need more of your "Star Wars/Lost Cut" videos man.
9:10 RAAAARRRRGGGHH!!
The vast majority of the prequels doesn't feel like Star Wars to me, but seeing the podrace in isolation like this makes that dichotomy all the more prevalent in my mind - watching this it comes off as some entirely unrelated Saturday morning cartoon.
Star wars is entirely Saturday morning cartoon. Ent through a period of watching the originals every Saturday morning.
Ewoks are cartoon that plays when all the kids are at school
The colorgrading on the theatrical version is the best one and then the Disney+ version.
The modern color-grading disease: Blues spiked to hecc, teal shadows, orange mids, neon green highs... And the wishy-washiest contrast ever...
A quarter century ago, when Ep1 released, we still had color grading that tried to mimic real life. Now it tries to capture the "Film look". :P
Book of Boba Fett: Nooo the Tusken Raiders are actually really nice and just misunderstood because their land is being occupied
10:29 : Tusken Raiders shooting at Jawas for literally no reason at all
Love the color timing of the theatrical cut. Though the Disney+ version looks pretty good too. Probably a bit more "natural" but I prefer the blown out look of the theatrical version. Looks like a hot desert. Where was the theatrical version sourced from? Laserdisc?
yeah looks like the japanese laserdisc was the only home video release of the theatrical cut
@@mrteatime I also had the theatrical cut on VHS and I'm from Denmark :)
The sound cue when all the flags are brought out is absolutely thrilling. the little detail of a real sporting event honoring all participants flags, along with the badass orchestra just fuels the immersion
theatrical is my favorite, alot of the new inclusions look less real, seems like in the shorter version they only kept the best looking parts
The new inclusions weren’t finished till the DVD release.
Yeah, there was no point extended what is already a long scene.
I also think the colouring looks much better on the theatrical release. It seems really blue in the other versions. It's like the difference between the preset picture settings your TV comes with, vs Filmmaker Mode.
they arent cut because they look bad. they look bad because they werent given the final touches.
I still can’t believe that they haven’t announced a pod racing tv show. No force powers, no super serious plot just a loveable crew doing the best they can, lots of laughs and some white knuckle pod racing.
I’d love to see these compared to the Blu-ray edition from the Complete Saga Box Set, and see which edit made it to that version.
The Podrace was one of the best parts of the whole Prequal Trilogy and that arcade video game was amazing as well.
I had no idea so much wasn't in the theatrical release, I like the added stuff.
Also, wew, the guy who blows up brought his whole family there? Harsh.
I LOVE the sound design for these things!
Nice job! I saw a fan bootleg a long time ago with the entire pod race in the movie. It’s pretty brutal. Especially without music. Very fast. Very dangerous. Of course I'm the only human who can do it. MTFBWY
this scene still gives me chills like nothing else ever made on this earth. the amount of badassery packed into the concept of podracing may be the peak of human achievement.
Much like many modern Star Wars properties, I feel like an actual series about Podracing would be incredibly cool.
How it started, what keeps it going, etc.
There's potential, which is what's always great about Star Wars.
Best part of the movie!
They could make it in sort of a Fast and Furious type of series. I'd watch that
I maintain that one of several major flaws of The Last Jedi was not putting a podracing sequence in.
Some of the engine sound effects were recorded at the EAA in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They gave the Museum a Millenium Falcon filming model. Harrison Ford is also an EAA member.
Podracing is so cool.
I like the yellow tint of the theatrical version. it gives the scene a warmer look, and you can feel how intense the sun is beaming on everyone
Gasgano and Aldar Beedo are my favourites.
Gasgano was always my favorite too. I always wished that we would've seen a 6-limbed jedi of his species acrobatting around.
Clegg Holdfast reminds me of Captain Peacock from the classic British sitcom "Are You Being Served?"
Ratts Tyrell DIES and they had a scene showing his family and young children? And his wife just gave birth to another baby? George, you are cruel. Thank you editors for cutting that
Maybe don't race Darth Vader?
Similar tragedies have happened before in many racing disciplines. Heck, when Dale Earnhardt died his son was on the track racing with him.
I remember when my parents took me to the theater to see this movie as a kid. My heart pounding the whole race from the awesome sound effects. What a experience that was.
The Racers are all in central view of a whole arena of people and on camera and nobody sees Sebulba sabotage another racers vehicle. And also there is just this thing sticking out of the side of the vehicle(on the outer hull no-less) that will ruin everything if a small amount of force is applied donwards to it.
>And also there is just this thing sticking out of the side of the vehicle(on the outer hull no-less) that will ruin everything if a small amount of force is applied donwards to it
Like a Pitot tube.
You are a godsend sir, this is amazing to see in quadview!
terrible! it was a crime to cut all these scenes!I suppose the theatrical version is the one released on vhs at the time. In fact, although I loved this sequence, I didn't remember all these scenes I must say... and it's a real shame because I would have loved them so much. actually the race is much more complete with all these added sequences, without it seems really incomplete, badly cut. heck, this part of the movie after more than twenty years is still amazing.
The farting animal should not be a part in any film, disgusting lol
I wish things like the creature farting 2:59 and the creature's face before Jabba bit his head off 6:24 was added
Same. That fart scene is hilarious. 😂
why all the aliens look like the kids in my school? 💀👽
Feels so amazing you can tell who the racers are if you played Ep 1 racers before the announcers introduce them, i just can't hear Gasgano's name but the lad is there
"she just got out of the hospital" JFC that's brutal
Man, this is excellently edited together👏
2:14 ARK BUMPY ROOSE!
crazy elon musk was in the delete scenes version at 1:22
I prefer the theatrical version. Because it's more consistent and shorter.
I don’t know how… but my Father Managed to get ahold of the Theatrical cut on VHS. It threw me off seeing all these “New” scenes years later having memorized every frame as a Kid XD
@@4aw50fGold longer?
@@maryellenrieger1874 all the New scenes made it longer, it was very confusing
I've always loved the sound design. All the futuristic engine sounds are so much fun!
You can’t have the 4 square opening and not add “This is podracing” at the end!
Aw man the sound of those engines roaring up is something special