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Info Wanted: Any highly recommended fan edits (non SW) ?

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I was wondering if there any fan edits that are really considered the best re-invention of films that needed “a little helping hand”.
They dont have to necessairilly come from this forum , just ones you may have come across yourselves.

After watching ADYWAN’s excellent re-mix of star wars new hope Ive kinda got the bug for them and wanna see what else has been done. But again I guess adywan has set a pretty high standard here. I recently watched t3 tope edition but found the editing a little badly done in the middle parts of the film (the scene in the van going to future battle comes to mind). Which was a shame cause i was enjoying it up to that point… Ive tried to watch numerous prequel edits of star wars but so far no one has been able to turn bad films into good ones for me yet.

Ive noticed quite a few matrix ones and superman 1 and 2 cuts, but have no idea which are good. And im not sure what other films peopel have attempted ?

So are there any classics out there?

Thankyou in adavance

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The issue on some fan edits is that a bad film, is simply, well...bad. An edit can't really save it, because its problems go deeper than deleting scenes, rearranging scenes, etc. It goes deep into the plot, or lack thereof. Its hard to add plot by editing, remove a crappy plot, etc, by just editing.

A fan edit that I liked was Magnoliafan's Star Wars Episode 1. It made that flim better than before. I think it is avalable on torrents. The Phantom Edit is also good, but I personally perfer Magnoliafan's version.
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allreplies are welcome

Im currently looking at the Matrix reinventions.
Was dezionised any good or is there better ?
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People seem to like my edit of "Dune". I think it's the best thing I have done so far.

Look for FanFiltration's DUNE.

You can find info about how to get it at www.fanedit.org

FF

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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ADigitalMan - Pearl Harbor. This edit took a pretty cringe-inducing movie, and made it into something actually moving.

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After experiencing my first episode one edit, I decided that fan edits where incredible things that could really make a lot of improvements to certian movies. After having checked out a number of non-Star Wars fan edits, I have decided that there are very few that are worth downloading. Now after years of fan editing, we have a huge ocean of fan edits, and since just anyone can decide to make a fan edit, most of them are very amaturish and a lot of them just plain suck. I do not mean to discourage people from doing edits, or to discourage anyone from checking out some fan edits, but this is how I feel about the majority of them.

With that said, among the best non SW edits are ADM's unofficial extended editions, they are usually quite good. Usually his are good movies to start with though, he just reinserts the deleted scenes into the appropriate spots. ADM (ADigitalMan) has some true fan edits he has done as well, since he knows what he is doing when it comes to editing, you are probably safe with just about anything by him. Special projects like Jambe's Building Empire and Returning to Jedi, while more documentaries than fan edits, they are certianly some of the best things to come out of this community (both Star Wars related though). If you like Evil Dead, Ridgeshark recently released his Primitive Screwhead Edition of Army of Darkness. It is a more of an extended cut, but there is also a great deal of editing and other work that went into it. It is top notch. I know there are a few others I would like to mention, but I can quite think of them at the moment.

For it to be a good edit, the editor really needs to put their heart into it, as adywan has done with Star Wars Revisted. When people are editing movies that they sorta kinda liked, you cannot expect them to put that much love into their edit. You read the descriptions of many FEs and read the editor saying things like "I remember the first time I saw this dog of a film in the theater. I nearly puked! But what we should have now is something that might actually be bearable to watch."
To me those kinds of descriptions are like saying, "Well, here is a sake full of dog crap. I left it in the sun for a bit so it would dry out, then I went out and bought a bottle of cheap perfume and dumped it on it. I am actually quite pleased with the outcome. I feel like I have turned this piece of dog crap into something that people might not mind smelling."
Why waste your time on purfume coated dog crap when there are plenty of things in the world that actually smell good to start with?

I think the reason why some Star Wars fanedits come out as good as they do, is that it is something people really have a strong connection with. These guys editing Ep. I - III are not doing so because they want to show that they have such good taste that they can turn something bad into something good, it is because they know it sucks, but they have always wanted to like it, and since it isn't going to get any better on its own, they want to try snip it, beat it, cut it, mold it, into something that fits with the movies they love so much. They really put their heart into it.

With that said, I am absolutely certian there are some edits out there of films other than Star Wars that have had that kind of love and care applied to them. Those are the ones you want to find. I am afraid I gave up on fan edits in general (one or two still pick my interest from time to time) after having enthusiastically downloaded a few and been disappointed by some really akward editing choices, or just downright bad editing (much like your experience with that T3 edit). Here, http://fanedits.com/fan-project-list.cfm you can find a very helpful list of fan edits with some details about them. Happy hunting and good luck.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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To repeat what reave said, ADM's Pearl Harbor is highly recommended. IIRC, it gained the highest score in the ot.com fan edit contest.

I lent the DVD to a work colleague who remarked that the edit worked so well, it made him think that it was originally intended to be seen that way - and the romantic sub-plot was added on to the theatrical release as an afterthought.

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Thanks i might check it out, ! i had avoided pearl harbour bfore this, i had heard it was historicllly inaccurate and ever since that submarne film (U571) where they had changed the crew from british to american i have tended to stay away from films that are disrespectful to those who died.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/781858.stm