Hi all.

I’m Chris. Like virtually everyone here I’m interested in watching fan-edits (or de-specialised versions) of films that might’ve been compromised in one way or another. They might’ve been tinkered with by a studio who didn’t like the writer or director’s vision; they might’ve been upscaled with terrible AI that makes everything look like a Eldrich nightmare; they might’ve been “George Lucas’ed”.

The people here are great at keeping the OG versions of films alive - while bringing them into the modern age of hi-def; and at building the kind of edits that fans have always wanted to see (or doing the best to help us un-see things we wish we’d never seen!).

Examples of the the sorts of things I’ve previously enjoyed:

The Spicediver edit of Dune
The Tolkien edit of the 3 Hobbit movies (still has probs, but loads better than the OG trilogy of Hobbit films)
The upscaled and “despecialised” versions of the OG Star Wars Trilogy
The Legion edit of Exorcist III
…and for fun, the “Backstroke of the West” re-dub of Revenge of the Sith (the only version of this film I watch)

What I’m currently particularly interested in is the upscaling of the extended versions of LoTR - without some of the drawbacks of official releasing (eg changed colours, etc). That’s how I found this forum.

Anyway - keep up the good work!