Bored at 3AM

These are the newst additions to the collection of superhero edits for my ESL students. As a result, they each have hardcoded English subtitles.

BATMAN ‘66 is a minor edit of the movie released in between the first and second seasons of the show. Aside from a few trims for pacing, the big difference is the addition of the traditional opening that the film lacks. The new running time is 1 hour 40 minutes.

WONDER WOMAN ‘75 is a heavily trimmed edit of the pilot movie for the Lynda Carter show. The intent here is to keep the focus mostly on Diana herself and less on the uninteresting ‘comedic’ shenanigans of the Nazis. New running time is about 49 minutes.

BATMAN [Comic Cut] is a more streamlined edit of ParanoidAndroid’s HD remake of Dwight Fry’s Descent into Mystery, which eliminated the uninteresting Vicki Vale romance as well as any instances of Batman killing and Joker being the Wayne’s murderer. Inspired by Silent Pete’s even brisker version of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film, my edit trims out most of the scenes with the mayor. New running time is 1 hour 26 minutes.

BATMAN RETURNS [Comic Cut] similarly cuts the two instances of Batman murdering guys (at least on-screen, I wouldn’t dream of cutting Keaton’s smile at putting the bomb in that guy’s pants). I also scale back a bit of Devito’s Penguin. I think less is more with him. I also used ForceGhostRecon’s fix for Keaton’s missing eye make-up right before he unmasks. New running time is 1 hour 55 minutes.

WONDER WOMAN ‘84 is slight re-edit of Wakeupkeo’s absolutely revelatory Wonder Woman: The Excellent Edit, which fixes most of the film’s problems and replaces the soundtrack with 80s hard rock classics. All I’ve done here is swap out the Middle East action sequence with the theatrical version because I prefer it. New running time is 1 hour 51 minutes.

As a bonus, I’ve included a short film of WW84’s opening 10 minutes called DIANA & THE TRIALS. Wakeupkeo wisely cut it from his edit, but I think it’s a fun action sequence that works well on its own.

None of these edits would be possible without the hard work of the people whose material I’m building on. I encourage anyone who doesn’t like my hardcoded subtitles to seek out their original versions. They’re all worth your time.

If you already have the link to my edits, use that. Otherwise, please send me a PRIVATE MESSAGE for the link. As always, suggestions are welcome.

This is a slightly trimmed and reordered version of MightyAttackTribble’s already excellent edit. I wanted something a bit faster paced with a stronger 3rd act for my teenaged students.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/comments/1ii2lo5/star_trek_regenerations_revision_20/

For my version, I’ve cut down some of the scenes between Picard & Soran on the planet while moving the crashing of the Enterprise to the film’s climax. Otherwise, this is unchanged from MightyAttackTribble’s edit. The new running time is about 1 hour 54 minutes. This is for ESL students so there are hardcoded English subtitles and an ESL reader.

If you don’t already have the link to my edits, please contact me through a PRIVATE MESSAGE. As always, suggestions are welcome.

A 15 minute cut of the first episode of Legend of Prince Valiant animated series has been added, along with a collection of a few of the earliest Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant comics strips.

A cut of 1998’s Quest for Camelot has been added that’s about an hour.

I’ve added a 1 hour edit of The Green Knight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/comments/1lk6xem/contactthe_ambiguity_cut_revisited_by_jayxtended/

The editor jayxtended over on Reddit has given this edit a fresh coat of paint with 5.1 audio and better picture quality. If you are interested in checking out this edit, this would be your best option.

A less is more approach to Jyn sounds good to me. Jones is clearly a talented actress, but the script really doesn’t seem to know what to do with her.

I hadn’t heard anything great about 2010’s Wolfman so I steered clear of it in the theaters. However, I’ve always found Joe Johnston to be a fun director so, when the director’s cut was released later, I finally checked it out.

I liked it well enough, but I thought that it took a bit too long to get going. I later learned that the theatrical cut didn’t have that problem. So, this is a pretty straight-forward combo of the theatrical cut’s quicker opening act and the refinements of the director’s cut.

The theatrical cut was 1 hour 42 minutes. The Director’s Cut is 1 hour 58 minutes. Mine is 1 hour 43 minutes.

The prologue is the Director’s Cut. Then, from the title card to when Gwen’s about to leave for the inn, it’s the Theatrical Cut. After that, it’s all Director’s Cut. These cuts were relatively simple so I’ve made two versions, one with hardcoded subtitles for my ESL students and one without.

An ESL reader adaptation of the movie has also been included and I’ve thrown in two more classic monster movie readers just for fun. The first is an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula that blends in elements of the Francis Ford Copola film and the second is Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein that with Bernie Wrightson’s gorgeous illustrations.

All this is in the same folder as my other edits. If you don’t already have the link, please send me a PRIVATE MESSAGE. As always, suggestions are welcome.

Thanks to Utinni, I realized that most of the edits I’ve made were at the ends of episodes, so I wouldn’t need to adjust the SRT files. As a result, I’ve removed the hardcoded subtitles and they can now be turned on and off.

I’ve added Plo Kloon to the first chapter to better establish her relationship with him in Malevolence.

This is a project I’ve put together for my ESL classes. It’s a quick introduction to Ahsoka Tano and her earliest years as Anakin Skywalker’s Padawan. It’s comprised of five chapters covering different aspects of her growth. All the episodes have English subtitles for my students (as SRT files, not hardcoded). A fully-illustrated ESL reader is also included covering each episode.

CHAPTER 1 - LIFE & DEATH (16min)
This is adapted from the Tales of the Jedi episode with a quick bit from the Clone Wars episode ‘The Gathering’. This shows Ahsoka’s birth, the discovery of her Force abilities, and her meeting the Jedi Master Plo Kloon.

CHAPTER 2 - THE NEW PADAWAN (22min)
I’ve adapted this from Utinni’s wonderfut edit of the Clone Wars movie. It covers Ahsoka meeting with Anakin & Obi-Wan and their first adventure together.

CHAPTER 3 - MALEVOLENCE (30min)
I’ve adapted this from Eddie Dean’s excellent The Clone Wars Refocused project. Here, we see Ahsoka’s first big mission with Anakin and her learning to trust her instincts.

CHAPTER 4 - TERROR ON GEONOSIS (40min)
Again, this is adapted from Eddie Dean’s edit. This is the dark crucible part of Ahsoka’s journey. This is full-blown horror movie stuff.

CHAPTER 5 - PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT (9min)
This is adapted from the Tales of the Jedi episode with some minor cuts to the end. Our final chapter takes Ahsoka from fledgling student to hardened warrior thanks to Anakin’s unforgiving training.

There’s also a one hour cut of the Tartakovsky micro-series adapted from Porkula’s Game of Clones that covers Anakin’s evolution from hot-headed Padawan to Jedi Knight. An ESL reader adaptation is included there, too.

The edits are in the same folder as all my other edits. If you don’t alredy have the link, please send me a PRIVATE MESSAGE. As always, suggestions are welcome.

This edit has been updated based upon feedback from my classes.

There’s already multiple edits available that cut Bo Gullet and there’s likely many more coming. I love that crazy scene and I’m glad it’s being kept in.

I’ve come to expect only the highest quality of work from you, and I don’t think this fan edit will disappoint.

This film is kind of forgotten these days, even more so now that James Franco’s finally been exposed as a creep. However, I think there’s a pretty decent film here. Reynolds was clearly trying to recapture the magic of his all-time classic Count of Monte Cristo adaptation, but this just fell short, possibly because of the behind the scenes nonsense that Franco was pulling (according to co-star Sophia Miles, he was refusing to even speak to Reynolds during the filming).

That said, I think Franco does tortured heart-throb pretty well and Miles does a great job of playing a woman stuck in an impossible possition. Also, Rufus Sewel and Henry Cavill give a lot more to their thankless roles as the scorned husband and nephew than expected. The biggest problem, in my estimation at least, is that it’s just too damned long. It should not take 2 hours and 5 minutes to tell a story this straight forward, particularly one as well-troden as this.

So, I’ve aimed to shed the film of some excess weight and hopefully deliver something more satisfying as a result. The biggest cut is the rather pointless prologue. We don’t need to see the deaths of Tristan & Isolde’s father and mother, or how Marke got his hand chopped off. It adds nothing particuarly important to their characters that we don’t already learn later in the movie. We also don’t need to see Tristan and his freinds discover the Roman tunnels as, again, it is revealed later. I’ve also cut Tristan being a dick to Isolde because she’s trying to find happiness in the marriage he told her was so important. It just makes him look like a petulant child.

The new running time is 1 hour 44 minutes. As this is for my ESL students, it has hardcoded English subtitles, although I could make a version without subtitles if I recieve enough polite requests. An ESL reader adaptation will also be included that incorporates elements of the movie with the parts of the original legend like Tristan fighting the dragon (no love potions though, that wasn’t part of the original story but was added later by religious zealots).

The movie will be in the same folder as all my other edits. If you don’t already have the link, please contact me though PRIVATE MESSAGE. As always, suggestions are welcome.

After showing my First Knight edit to one of my classes, I was pleasantly surprised to find that nearly all the students assumed Connery was playing Guinevere’s father, Leondegrance, in his quick cameo at the end. So I’ve added another short scene between them which can also be viewed as a chat between father and daughter about her upcoming marriage.

I’ve given this edit a few test screens and made a few revisions. I’ve further trimmed a few more unnecessary bits and added back a little more action. The new runtime is 1 hour 9 minutes. The new version has hardcoded English subtitles, but a subtitle free version is also available upon request.

Contact me through Private Message if you don’t already have the link.

21C Peasant said:

Bored at 3AM said:

If you wouldn’t mind a suggestion, I don’t think it would be too unreasonable to aim for 3 hours this time around 😉

Yeah, I’m going to be flexible with the time if I must, but the goal is still around 2:30 and no more than 2:40.

We’ll see!

Good luck! If anyone could manage it, it’d be you.

I’ve added a quick 6 minute short with Eva Green’s Morgana poisoning Uther from Starz’s Camelot. The show wasn’t great, but Green is always fun to watch.

Broom Kid said:

Octorox said:

Sounds interesting. Would definitely like to see some clips!

Alright, here’s the halfass clipshow!

https://vimeo.com/1089604497/96ef54b8e8

Just thought it’d be interesting to see some of these ideas up on their feet

This all looks great to me.

I’m still kinda shocked you were able to widdle down the first season in a satisfying 2.5 hour movie, but you did.

If you wouldn’t mind a suggestion, I don’t think it would be too unreasonable to aim for 3 hours this time around 😉

HelenMondor said:

Thanks for sharing your article.

Thanks. Have you watched the edit?

I’ve made some significant changes to this series of edits to better sync up with the Knights of Camelot ESL reader my students are using. The general story remains unchanged, but the order has been rearranged slightly and new cuts of the sections involving the Legend of the Sword edit and the Morgana section have been completely redone.

1981’s Dragonslayer is a somewhat forgotten fantasy film, mostly because the most interesting thing about it is the dragon, whose design has been so influential that pretty much every dragon since then has been at least partially based on it, from Reign of Fire to The Hobbit to Game of Thrones.

The biggest problem with the film, for me, is that it takes too damn long to get to the dragon itself and none of the human characters are particularly compelling. This edit aims to speed things up a bit, trim some of the more annoying bit with your protagonists to hopefully make us care about them more.

Most of the cuts are at the beginnng. A lot of them are micro-cuts here and there to improve the sluggish pace, but others are just plain unnecessary. Much like Marcia Lucas realised in the early cuts of Star Wars, we don’t need nearly as many scenes with Galen at the start before he takes up his quest. I’ve also trimmed a few instances of Valerian being a dummy. She’s an interesting character so I’d rather audiences be rooting for her rather than rolling their eyes at her.

The theatrical cut was 1hr 49min, mine is 1hr 37min (although I may try shaving off a few more minutes after test-screening it a few times with my classes). This is for my ESL students so it has hardcoded English subtitles. An ESL reader adaptation of the film is also included.

The movie is in the same folder as all my other edits. If you don’t already have the link, please send me a Private Message. As always, suggestions are welcome.

I love this film dearly, but I know that, for younger viewers, there are some elements that needed some minor tweaks to help them get into it easier. The first is that the opening credits have been moved to the end of the movie, the second is the ‘Can You Read My Mind’ bit has been trimmed thanks to the work of DIGITALMASTERZ, and the last is the inclusion of the extra action beats when Superman arrives at Luthor’s lair. Aside from that, this masterpeice is untouched.

The new running time is 2hr 13min.

This edit is for my ESL students so it has hardcoded English subtitles. I’ve also included my ESL reader adaptation of the film.

The link is the same as all my other edits, but, if you don’t already have it, please send me a Private Message asking for it. As always, suggestions are welcome.