I wasn't trying to bash faneditor with this thread. It is just something I used to think was a revolutionary idea, but now that I am seeing it in action it rarely makes sense. ADM's stuff is always surefire. I haven't seen one of his that doesn't make sense. I know I mentioned Pearl Harbor as not being quite right, but I also said the trouble was with the source material, not the editor. So far I have only heard people saying either that fan editing is the greatest thing in the world, or that it should be illegal. I was curious is anybody else felt the way I do. I think one thing they suffer from, is being in the hands of two small a group. When a movie is originally cut it passes the eyes of a good number of people, which would obviously cut down on bias and a lot of awkwardnesses. When you have just one or a few people editing, and nobody else seeing it until it comes out, you run the risk of a lot more awkward scenes, and you can fall victim to your own creative bias. The biggest problem I see with some fan edits, is that they take a scene that they want to fix, and once they fix it the proceed to tinker too much and push it to far making the film feel much less professional. George comes to mind when I think of this, there were some things he didn't like about his films personally, and when he went back to fix the things that needed fixing (matt lines, orange blobs, gay Ewok song, etc.) he pushed it over the top and over tinkered. Something may be too bland and need a dash or two of salt, but when you go an dump the whole shaker on it, you'll find your food was better when it was bland.
I wasn't trying to bash faneditor with this thread. It is just something I used to think was a revolutionary idea, but now that I am seeing it in action it rarely makes sense. ADM's stuff is always surefire. I haven't seen one of his that doesn't make sense. I know I mentioned Pearl Harbor as not being quite right, but I also said the trouble was with the source material, not the editor. So far I have only heard people saying either that fan editing is the greatest thing in the world, or that it should be illegal. I was curious is anybody else felt the way I do. I think one thing they suffer from, is being in the hands of two small a group. When a movie is originally cut it passes the eyes of a good number of people, which would obviously cut down on bias and a lot of awkwardnesses. When you have just one or a few people editing, and nobody else seeing it until it comes out, you run the risk of a lot more awkward scenes, and you can fall victim to your own creative bias. The biggest problem I see with some fan edits, is that they take a scene that they want to fix, and once they fix it the proceed to tinker too much and push it to far making the film feel much less professional. George comes to mind when I think of this, there were some things he didn't like about his films personally, and when he went back to fix the things that needed fixing (matt lines, orange blobs, gay Ewok song, etc.) he pushed it over the top and over tinkered. Something may be too bland and need a dash or two of salt, but when you go an dump the whole shaker on it, you'll find your food was better when it was bland.