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#1607772
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[fill in the blank] Just Died!
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Star Wars teaches us that death is not the end it’s just a different journey. As much as I dislike the PT Hayden is still carrying the torch for the character. Weird as it is JEJ gave living consent to continue to use his voice model. I think if there are real actors providing the framework on which that model is built it would be a suitable legacy for the character. I think the important thing is to defend David Prowse’s memory as JEJ did. It infuriates me when people mock him. Prowse, JEJ, Sebastian Shaw, and Bob Anderson were the Vader we grew up with. It took 5 people to play that one role in the past. It only makes sense that more people will carry that memory on.

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#1605173
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Alien Romulus Edit Ideas. (Spoilers)
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I’d put it just above AvP2 which is a shame as there are some great sequences like the zero G acid avoidance dance. I just didn’t give a damn about the characters. I spent the whole time wanting to see the backstory instead. Everytime the film returned to Rook I was lifted out of the story. Because it made no sense him looking like Ash. Unlike Tarkin in Rogue One which looked just as bad but at least we know Tarkin would have been in that part of the story. It’s just another example of a film lacking the courage to stand on its own feet. There have been lots if Rogue One edits that take out all those unneeded elements. And the film works so much better without them.

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#1604355
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Alien Romulus Edit Ideas. (Spoilers)
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After seeing the film at the weekend and liking some but not much of it I thought it would be a good idea to post possible ways of rescuing this dumpster fire

Obviously remove all vocal callbacks to the other films (Expecially THAT one).

Add more damage to Rook so he looks less obviously like a wonky digitally enhanced puppet of Ian Holm. Ash was meant to be an infiltration unit so making Rook look exactly the same makes zero sense. Considering the purpose of the Romulus lab maybe replacing him with a very damaged (think Bishop in Alien 3) version of a David.
Make Rook deactivate once Andy has his chip.
That might mean moving some scenes around but make the changes to Andy more threatening by having his internal conflict the problem.

Cut the scene where Rain duplicates Rey’s bartering scene from The Force Awakens. Yes it reminds us of how scummy The Company is but after watching the first film we already know this. It’s enough to know the kids will probably die like their parents if the don’t leave.

Have the chestbuster that comes out of Navarro die of exhaustion. It’s had seconds to gestate. Not sure what to do with the wall vagina. I suppose it could be a different alien. This is a thread so new suggestions are welcome.

These are my first thoughts. It’s such a shame they didn’t film the back story instead. The research team finding the original Alien had so much potential.

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#1602564
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The Blackened Mantle - 2023 Kurosawa Edition (a personal update to my favorite Prequel Trilogy fanedit)
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Grimrukh said:

Hey, original BM creator here (formerly “Darth Lunar”). This is fantastic. Honored that you enjoyed BM enough to give it such a lovely treatment 😃

The original is definitely one of my favourite edits. It shows the cast were doing all the right things physically but Sir Alec and Mark were right about George and dialogue. Your subtitles and the voice actors liberated that footage.

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#1582040
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The Dream of the Giant Fractal Woodlouse.
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I had this crazy dream that I was filming in a house which I later realised was where I filmed a notorious found footage ghost story some years previous. I hadn’t recognised it because we approached the house from a different street in broad daylight where as the ghost film was made on consequitive nights. The film was semi improvised with a core of people playing investigators making a so haunted type show and lots of extras playing ghosts and operating the props to scare the cast. It had a reputation for actually scaring the cast so bad the film was tied up with legal issues and hadn’t been seen yet. When we were at the location this time I met lots of other people who were in it and we shared experiences about making it. Even though I knew I was dreaming I was convinced the original film happened for some minutes partly because of how familiar the house was and how convincing the stories were.