Bored at 3AM

As with nearly all my stuff, this edit of Episode III was made for my ESL students. It is primarily aimed at younger viewers whose attention spans have been obliterated by being exposed almost exclusively to hyper-fast ‘content’ that can’t slow down for a second without throwing something exciting or funny at the audience to make sure they’re paying attention. You and I can hate it all I want, but that is the reality of too many kids with parents letting phones and tablets become subtitutes for genuine human interaction.

But I digress…

So, I show my elementary school ESL students a selection of Clone Wars episodes starting with Broom Kid’s excellent Clone Wars edit, Utinni’s handy ‘pilot episode’ of the movie and continue from there with the primary focus being on Ahsoka and Maul’s journey, culminating with the final four episodes of The Clone Wars (the last of which is an edited version using Bailey’s awesome Shattered Prophecy edit as its base).

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Clone-Wars-The-Legends-Cut-A-2003-2005-Cartoon-Network-2D-Micro-Series-to-Movie-Edit/id/126449
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Clone-Wars-Pilot-Battle-of-Christophsis-Released/id/134671
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Shattered-Prophecy/id/127287/page/1#1652197

Those final four Clone Wars episodes are shown alongside a cut of Revenge of the Sith I made from SiliconMaster’s Rebalanced edit mixed with 21C PeasantFan’s live-action Ahsoka cameo at Padme’s funeral.

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Revenge-of-the-Sith-Rebalanced-Version-1-5-1-Released-Now-with-Subtitles-and-More/id/63587

However, the same thing ends up happening every time I’ve shown this movie to kids…

After the first action sequence, there’s about half an hour of dull talky scenes that Lucas felt obligated to do to set up Anakin’s fall to the Dark Side. And, every damned time, the kids check out of the movie one by one. It’s just painful.

So, I tried cutting that 30 minutes down to about 15 and I think I managed it. Since the Clone Wars show had already done a pretty good job of showing Anakin’s slow disillusionment and frustration with the Jedi Council, the kids already got everything they need to understand why Anakin goes bad. His nightmare about Padme’s pregnancy is just the last straw.

Now, my first attempt at it worked in concept, but my audio transitions were pretty terrible. Thankfully, Bailey jumped in to save the day once again and fixed it up for me.

The new running time is 1hr50min. It also includes two ESL reader adaptations of both the Seige of Mandalore and Revenge of the Sith. It’s got hardcoded English subtitles (unfortunately, I haven’t figured out Spence’s subtitle remapper…yet). However, I’ve also included a subtitle free version of the relevant 15 minute chunk of the film for anyone interest in using it for their own edit.

If you want to see it, please send me a private message, but anyone who’s already got the link fot my edits will find it there. Thanks!

Produced in 1979 by Filmation with an very faithful script by Samuel Peeples, this TV movie was later cut up, censored, and cannibalized as episodes for a TV series.

Unfortunately, there are simply no good copies of the original film available anywhere that I’m aware of. Most versions I’ve found are bootlegs of the Japanese laserdisc with hardcoded Japanese subtitles. I managed to find one with a Spanish srt file, so I’ve retranslated back into English, which I’ll now begin the slow process of rewriting.

What I most need help with is the picture and sound quality. I simply don’t have the technical skill or know-how to do this thing justice.

If anyone would be interested in helping with this, please let me know. Thanks.

There’s a lot of fun to be had in Quentin Tarantino’s 2007 entry to the Grindhouse double feature, but it’s a pretty flabby, self-indulgent flick that only became flabbier and more self-indulgent in his full length cut, which stretched the 96 minute runtime to 113 minutes. For my tastes, this is far too long for a story this slight, so I’ve slimmed it down to a leaner, meaner 64 minutes (the climactic The End hits at 57 minutes and then the credits roll). If you’ve seen Dawnrazor’s similarly-minded edit, mine takes a somewhat different approach towards how much time is spent with the girls. All the cuts are to the first half, but, once the girls arrive to check out the Dodge Challenger, I just let the movie roll, because it is nothing but fun for me from there on out.

If you already have the link to my edits, the folder is in there with my Pulp Fiction edit. If you don’t have the link yet, please send me a PRIVATE MESSAGE. This is for my ESL students so two versions are available. One with hardcoded subtitles and one without. An ESL reader of the story is also provided for anyone interested. As always, suggestions are welcome.

Vectur003 said:

I wish they released the deleted scenes, a lot of them would make this movie easier to edit

I would love to see the post-credits scene with Henry Cavill as Lancelot.

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 😉