And also, the acting… besides Ewan and Owen actor this was pathetic. I’ve seen better acting in an epileptic whorehouse (if you know you know).
Tbf everything but the first 10 minutes (including recap) was a disappointment.
I don’t understand why the production quality is so low as well. What the!?
Disney needs to start hiring proper storytellers. This production should have been written by the Breaking Bad writers, directed by Roland Emmerich and envisioned by George Lucas. Then you get a-class storytelling, an eye for cinematography and action and the Star Wars spirit.
This shit needs to be fanedited like it’s a hamburger that fell on the floor.
Sounds amazing.
Big fan of what you have released so far.
Could I make a small suggestion to one of your upcoming edits? During the scene of Daenerys burning down King’s Landing, I always thought the best reason for her to do this was that the bells DIDN’T ring.
I have seen one edit which took this approach but they left in shots of the bells ringing while removing the audio of them from the soundtrack. It would be a relatively easy edit to make and I think, would be more impactful and ultimately, justify her actions somewhat.
What are your thoughts?
In the context of the original structure, then yes - this would be an improvement. However, Dany won’t burn King’s landing in my edits.
I was thinking about following the original structure originally, but then decided against it. Perhaps I will make an alternative version down the line, in which the bells don’t ring - and the cataclysm for Danny’s actions is the result of one of the scorpions hitting her second to last dragon and killing it. I made a work print on this a while back, and received fair praise.
The last four film additions all have their rough cuts done, and scoring and some visual effects work will begin very soon.
The ending to “my” Game of Thrones will hopefully be unique and fulfilling, and I think I have crafted something beautifully dark as the ending - that will leave viewers of the series/films satisfied and hopefully a little bit speechless.
I was supposed to give away some details, but I’ve decided to keep it under wraps so that disappointed GOT fans (like myself) can view the upcoming ending (which is primarily the last two films) with new, suspenseful eyes - and hopefully experience some new heartache, twists and turns that I feel the final seasons failed to deliver.
“There will be deaths”
I am happy to hear that, CMMAP! ❤️ I hope you had a good time.
Also took the time to update A Storm of Swords (GoT OST) with improved video and audio quality. Dialogue is now a lot clearer, and overall audio crisper.
Enjoy.
Thank you once again for your honest and kind review, with a perfect bland of constructive criticism and honesty. I am thrilled to hear that this entry also worked for you, and that the enjoyment factor is high.
As I’ve stated before, the motivation comes from people like you who enjoy my edits and fill me with energy and passion for the project. And also give suggestions! I always love suggestions, and ideas for upcoming edits (and existing ones) are never too late!
And the compliment of these films being more than tv-to-film and being different experiences, is exactly what I strive to achieve and it is the biggest compliment for these films I could’ve received. Thank you.
As for your one gripe with mentioned character (unnamed for spoiler purposes), I do see where you are coming from and I am absolutely considering changing it because of your shared passion and knowledge of films and narrative.
When I edit these films I always watch the final film with my girlfriend before I upload, and for her and for me it worked. This does definitely not mean that it works for anyone else, and all your points I find valid.
The “unnamed character”‘s narrative is indeed a sudden addition to what is else a constructed and hopefully gripping Film 6 narrative, and the exclusion of the Season 4 meeting with the “man in the tree” (spoiler purposes) is indeed to exclude what I see as two awful continuity errors (children and the man).
From films 3 to 6, I always felt that it was very obvious what “unnamed character’s” purpose was - especially in dialogue from film
3 and 4 - so that the scene I mentioned from season 4 actually served little to no purpose.
Also, “unnamed character’s” story continues with more scenes in Film 7 - in what I think is a very gripping opening scene.
And as for your opening suggestion, it was my original opening. I understand where you are coming from, and I will update the film and re-arrange that. I realize this is the better opening.
As for the narrative change with your suggested cliffhanger, that was my original narrative. But because of major events and the runtime of film 7, it is not feasible to do this, and therefore this character’s arc is complete in this film - at the watch. I also find the character’s absence - and surprise (spoiler purposes) - to work very well even though it is not prolonged as to be the ultimate film 6 cliffhanger.
Updated the first film (A Tale of Kings & Honor) with better video quality, a few audio additions and two minor fixes.
« The thing that bugged me the most about the Night Kings death is not so much how it happened its when it happened. I haven’t read the books but the impression i got from watching the show was that you have all these rulers fighting over the throne with the petty bickering and back stabbing. And while all this is going on the real threat to everyone is the mysterious Night King and the white walkers. But, by not having the Night King as the final boss of the show they’re basically saying…nah the show actually is just about fighting over the throne, the Night King and the white walkers was just some under developed side plot that was fairly easily resolved and was ultimately unnecessary the overall plot of the show. If I was to pick out one thing I hated most about the final season it would be this because it retroactively ruins your whole perception of the series right from scene 1 of the show.»
I found this quote on a YouTube video, and found it to perfectly sum up my feelings on why I feel the need to end my GoT franchise on a very dark ending with the Night King winning.
I doubt Adywan is going to add a secret room off the end of one of the spires that you can see from space.
He should def add an exterior shot of Palpatine’s bedroom tower as well. I hate how impersonal Palpatine’s life is in ROTJ.
And if anyone could bother to do English subtitles for some of the films, I would reward with a bag of gold.
Well, thank you so much for that. I look forward to watching your Stranger Things edits one day with my girlfriend. We have thought many a time about giving the show a watch but havent gotten there yet.
I am thrilled for your excitement, and hope it doesn’t disappoint. The work continues!
I finally sat and watched your much anticipated fifth instalment and, I have to say, that you did once again a brilliant job.
I will also compliment on your opening montage of Sansa’s story. The narration with the music and the intermediary scenes were a nice way to catch up with her journey from where we left her in the previous film, leaving out any unnecessary bits.
Overall, I liked that this film focuses mainly on what happens on the North and Beyond the Wall, following Jon in this very important part of his story, while summarizing Tyrion’s journey to Meereen. You also did an exceptional job on “un-cringing” the events in Dorne. That was a major issue for me on Season 5 and I am very happy with what you did.Again, as in your previous films, the editing and the transitions were flawless. I took the time to make subtitles for this film (not in English though), so I think I took a good glimpse on how you managed some dialouges and plotlines, so once again I applaud your effort. Also, the addition of extra music was a nice touch that gave a more cinematic feel to the film.
If I had to nitpick, I found odd a certain transition somewhere around 01:57 in which Ollena chats with Margaery in King’s Landing and the scene cuts to Dorne. I wonder if that was a choise of yours or a mistake you didn’t notice. I would also have liked to have seen a bit more of the whole Faith Militant thing and what happened to Margaery in this film, but I am not complaining. 3 hours is a perfect runntime for this kind of projects and a man can only fit certain things into one narration.
Once again, great job. I am so grateful for your efforts and I am super pumped about the next instalment.
Thank you so much, my friend. This was a great message to read after a very long and hard week.
The nitpick you mention is actually a very weird one; you see - that is actually there in the original footage. For some reason the editors cut away from The Queen of Thorns and jump to a wide shot of King’s Landing i believe. This do of course work a little bit better as a transition as the scene with Margarey and her take place there, but it was still a very odd transition. My guess is that something about the scene looked wrong in post (one of the actors dropping the mask a little bit too quick perhaps?) and therefore they jump to another scene mid-dialogue. It is a very weird one, and I did as best I could to “make it work”. But yeah, it is a weird one and I am not surprised that was found a little jarring. I would of liked to know myself why this was done.
You will see a lot more of the Faith in the next film, and a lot more Margarey in the film after there again (the seventh).
As you yourself so easily figured out, keeping one 3-hour long narrative is the goal and also the hustle - and therefore, when characters of importance are for instance imprisoned, or held hostage, or kidnapped - or whatever - leaving them for a while also serves to heighten the tension of said events, but also gives me as an editor a great possibility to include other - often more urgent - plot points to emerge or at least start the foreshadowing of upcoming events.
Take Maragery for instance. She is mentioned by name I think thirty times in the upcoming Film - but we only have one scene with her (and the High Sparrow). But in the seventh film, we get her plan to fool the High Sparrow and the Faith Militant because it becomes relevant to the third act of that film. But as for this next one, she is only relevant to two main characters; Tommen and Cersei, and both have a lot going on that I find more important to focus on than Margarey sitting in a cell. So it’s so much trying to balance that I sometimes find myself scratching my head for days, but I have found this approach to work the best having now edited five “film versions” of the seasons.
Woah. That was a long answer, I hope it was satisfying.
And once again, thank you for your very kind words. It is always a huge compliment I do not take for granted when something I edit is appreciated. It makes all the countless hours of a hobby so worth it.
Interesting to do (possibly) ten films for a series with eighth seasons (despite the fact they should have gone with more). You´ll have to get creative with movie titles, i guess 😄 The sixth will be “A Dance with dragons”?, the seventh “Winds of Winter”?, 8-10 “A dream of spring Part 1-3”?^^
I share your reasoning for more movies than seasons, though i´m curious how you´ll expand the travel time between them. Hard task^^.
Any concrete ideas how you´ll structure the finale? Or it is to soon to ask?^^
I have a draft for Bran being the Night King going. I hope it will work.
Mate, what did you do with the beginning of your fifth movie? How you chose to tell the story where Sansa was in such a brief time is damn brilliant!
5th movie also flawless in my book.Will be looking forward to what‘ll you do with light of the seven when everything is blown up with wildfire.
Do you already have in mind how to tackle the last two seasons?
Thank you once again, my friend! I am happy my opening caught you by a happy surprise! I wanted the film to begin with a sort of murder mystery vibe.
There will (most likely) be ten films. The sixth one will tackle parts of Season 5 and Season 6, and the seventh one the latter part of Season 6.
Film 8, 9 and 10 will cover the remaining material left over from Season 6 and of course the contents of Season 7 and 8. There are reasons for this.
To give more “meat” to the last two films (/seasons), so as to remove as much fast travel, uninteresting side plots and stupid dialogue as possible.
To create an epic finale worth of three film’s content.
I am so delighted to hear that, my friend. Thank you for taking your time to write such a compliment.
Would love to see these! Must be hard work cutting so much
It is. But it is also a thrill. I literally get to make awesome films with a lot of depth. An editor’s gift. And hopefully, when i get to the last two seasons (which is soon actually), I will be able to hopefully massively improve them.
I will now prioritize the GoT editions, and then continue the LOTR-scored once. I need to focus on one of the “properties” in order to streamline a good narrative and working environment.
They are in the Google Drive folder - so no need to request a new PM.
Watched A Feast for Crows with the GoT Soundtrack. I think you nailed the narrative as far as it was possible and i thoroughly enjoyed watching it.
Your re-iterations for the soundtrack were well and almost fitting perfectly with the exception of the red wedding. In particular i wondered if it would be possible to let Serj Tankians masterpiece of Rains of Castemere play out fully, because the transition at 2:51:07 felt weird. Also i think the first vocal at 2:49:35 isn’t necessary, only the instrumental of that. Serjs vocal would hit even harder and deeper, in my opinion.But to choose Serjs iteration is just a brilliant idea!
Technical wise: I would loved to have a 5.1 surround or 3.0 track not a stereo. Because sometimes your music iterations swallow up the dialogue and i think this could be fixed with a center channel on its own. But i don’t know how you timeline looks like, perhaps an volume adjustment on the music would be suffice.
Other than that, i really don’t have anything to say but praises 😃 Thank you!
Thank you and thank you.
As for the Red Wedding bit, I can definitely smooth that out. I did find it to work for me, but that does not mean that I can approach it in a way less discoherent as it sounded for you and therefore also possibly others. I will do a tweak update to this, and re-release as a fix. Thank you for pointing that out. And I am very glad you liked the Lannister Theme in all its glory for that scene! I found it to really hit the heart strings.
As for sound - well, that’s always a hard one. You see - I play all my edits through my own 9.1 Atmos Soundbar, in which both Stereo Mode and 9.1 mode works brilliantly and dialogue and music worked very well for me. The same on my Surround Sound on my editing laptop. But! That does not mean that other sound systems and computers have the same balance or performance or even optimization as my systems do, and therefore this one is always a little tricky.
But! When i do re-release with the musical alteration to said bit, I will do something that has worked before - I can up the center channel (dialogue) with a slight adjustment to put it a little bit more above the rest. That should solve some of the problem. The second bit I will do, is add a “Surround” element to the entire Master Audio. I did this for my Hobbit edit, and it worked for most like a charm. It also improves audio quality.
I will do this for Film V as well (as I just did it for Film IV).
As for why I haven’t done 5.1 releases yet is simply because of the added work it will take me. Because of new SFX and music for several scenes, adjusting all of them to a 5.1 surround that flows balanced and fluently is hard. I do hope that when I have done all the GoT edits, I might go in and bother to do the work for the 5.1.
And thank you for your valuable time watching my edits! I do it for everyone else as well as me, and the greatest compliments are comments like these!
So thank you 😃
Like the previous two, it does not replace the LOTR-scored once. Both are obtainable, and both have been through excessive work to feel epic and emotional in scale and tone.
Remember to own the original movie(s).
If you have my Google Drive link, you won’t need a new one. 😃
And remember! ALWAYS own the original film(s) or TV-series before watching and/or downloading any of my edits.