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The Matrix Hacked: Revolutions by Doctor M

This is a bold undertaking, and the true magic of fanediting… taking the narrative as it exists and flipping it on it’s lid. It astonishes me that the Warchowskis accidently stumbled into a near-perfect resolution for the movies and not realize it, and it falls to Doctor M to make the snap judgement in an effective manner. The choices here are most interesting, it covers the crisis in the Matrix in unexpected ways, but in doing so it creates a different reason for Smith’s existence in the real world, and allows the battle for Zion to take center stage. While the ending could be perceived as a bit of a ‘‘fizzling out’’ this cannot be helped due to the footage availible. Nevertheless, it is a fitting ending and the themes of what Neo and Trinity mean to each other get a considerably good pay-off with it.

Matrix Revolutions: Hacked is for all of you that still love some candy.

The first two seasons of the cult show SLIDERS were ahead of it’s time, tackling major issues through the lenses of alternate worlds where said issues make substantial impact on society…but by the third season onwards, the show went down a deep dark rabbit hole…only it didn’t wind up in Wonderland.

In time, beloved fan favourite characters were killed off or written out and a a struggle against dimension-hopping alien warriors stripped the show of all nuance and believably. The fifth season ended on a bitter note, leaving the fates of the characters up in the air.

This short fan-edit looks to try and change that. Made with fans of the show in mind, Revelations: Resolved takes the best moments of an otherwise bait-and-switch story and cuts out everything to do with the twist ending (spoiler: the Mallories are not home), everything plays out like a firm goodbye to most of the cast and gives the sole remaining Slider more of a hopeful ending to his arc.

For fun, I took the final moments of the official episode and repurposed them as a cold open, in keeping with some of the antics the friends would always get up to when we popped in on them before the next big slide.

Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker: The Anti-Cringe Cut by DonKamillo

Rise of Skywalker is a film of many choices, that’s as true to the final official product as it has proven for many faneditors. This one, put together by the maverick anti-cringer DonKamillo, makes the kind of choices that we need a lot of with this: bold ones.

The narrative is altered to remove moments that seem more random in placement and execution, leaving 3-PO without his memory shows a costly side to the quest. Kylo no longer being a lousy (Adam) driver in the desert gives his entrance a much grander sense of menace, where as you were left kind of thinking he was an idiot when he arrived on the scene.

Rey no longer being related to Palpatine yet still have his power kind of goes unexplained, unless we’re meant to take the ‘diad’ line as the explanation, I also feel the footage kind of lets down the line Rey crosses when she kills Kylo and Luke is very relaxed and forgiving. That cannot be helped, and Kylo’s send-off with Han actually works far better in this cut as a moment of passage rather than a plot device to necessitate a random change of heart to further the plot along. It is my choice for the best edited scene of this movie.

I would have preferred if Rey had died defeating The Emperor, as somewhat of a karmic ‘price’ paid for killing Kylo, and the film should have ended with Luke looking out at the suns on the island from Last Jedi. Maybe you could have inserted a force ghost of Leia from the end of ‘Rise’ in that scene. Just a thought.

Overall, while it doesn’t ‘rise’ to the same heights as the tour de force that was The Last Jedi anti-cringe cut, this is still a solid and superior cut to the official release that ended the sequel trilogy on a rather drab note.

It took a few cracks, but I did it…I made Dark Phoenix work with X-Men: The Last Stand, to function as a third in the trilogy that began with Days of Future Past and continued with Apocalypse.

Cut List

-Film begins with the first fifty-four minutes of Dark Phoenix, only without the aliens popping up

-The DP footage comes to an end when Teen Jean departs Magneto’s island, from there Last Stand footage begins with the Danger Room sequence (because it has the line “the not too distant future” at the start to indicate the passage of time)

-Scott’s PTSD over Jean is now repurposed. Instead of seeing her drown, he sees her absorb the Phoenix force in space. Scott departs the X-Mansion to clear his head (we know he returns in DOFP’s final scene so we’re good)

-Logan knows of Jean in this timeline as a continuity nod to their meeting in X-Men Apocalypse. There is no romantic connection between them this time.

-Beast’s visit to the X-Mansion in the present day is now much more formal due to the tension between Hank and Charles in the past. Exchange with Logan shortened

-Instead of seeking out Mystique, Magneto seeks out Jean.

-Xavier ‘sensing’ Jean at the lake moved to after Magneto and Jean have a conversation at Magneto’s base camp. Blackbird arrives at the lake and Logan storms the camp looking for Jean. Gets involved in fights.

-Film proceeds apace, Magneto and his forces attack Alcatraz, X-Men suit up to stop them. We see Warren Worthington, but he has more of a mystery about him, now he’s just a student at Xavier’s school wanting a piece of the action and help out where he can.

-Logan and Jean’s meeting from X-Men Apocalypse inserted into his final battle with Phoenix. Memories of this allows Jean to regain control and beg Logan to save her. He stabs her.

-Jean is only wounded, not killed. We see her back at the mansion being tended to by Xavier. Teen Jean voice-over about evolution plays over Jean’s comatose body as Logan watches her. We’re led to believe Jean will recover and reunite with Scott, which we see in the final scenes of Days of Future Past.

-Last Stand ending is as normal.

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25GK8H_liFo

Clip:

https://vimeo.com/418877204

The file was way too big for me to download, good thing Mega has a streaming option these days.

He made bold choices, there’s things that make the movie feel like it has more stakes, we’re spared some stupidity from Kylo, though there’s still things I would have taken more consideration for (like the line Rey crosses in dealing with Kylo and receiving no karmic comeuppance for it), but it’s a worthy effort and worth your time.

Justice League Reborn by JLfanedit

Leaps better than the theatrical cut. Audio transistions were very smooth and allowed for seamless bridging of the deleted scenes, there were a few abrupt points that have been mentioned already, but some of that was not due to the editor’s fault. Overall JL isn’t a bad movie, but neither is it a remarkable one. The new footage makes it a unique and pleasant watch however…and sometimes in a world where (IMO) mediocre joke-ridden Marvel movies with no soul to them are hailed as masterpieces, sometimes a genuine passable serious DC film with an optimistic tone can be a resounding breath of fresh air.

https://ifdb.fanedit.org/justice-league-reborn/

Well does the job and I can’t fault it on a technical level…if there’s one thing I’d change is that the “rebellion is reborn today” line could be cut, unless you were trying to indicate the rebellion rose up and quickly brought the rest of the First Order to heel…there’s nothing to really rebel against with Snoke gone and Kylo proving to be a feeble obstacle. Might as well just say “I will not be the last jedi”.

Other than that, it’s very good, shows how needless ROS really is, and we’re better without it.

I would not worry much about episodes you’re unsure about suggesting, this isn’t just a “best of…” list, if need be, the episodes suggested can be edited so you can get the outcome you want.

Good list, particularly like the inclusion of the last couple of Mona Simpson episodes. I actually think both could be re-edited into one story, taking the best moments from each and creating the definitive tragic finish to her story.

24 Minutes is another good choice, I remember watching that one summer and really enjoying it, I’d place it closer to the end of the season as it’s a pretty high-stake story and one of the last times, at least as far as I remember, that Bart was sort of a savy psudeo-action hero in the series.

Are there any Sideshow Bob episodes in that list I should be aware of? It’s alright if there isn’t any included, because I always felt his closure came with “Brother From Another Series” and that was covered by a previous season.

Thanks for directing me to the Embiggened project Kaarma, I’ll look into it.

Continuity wise, I would definitely like half of the season to form closure of some sort for characters, as much as the status quo allows really…anything else could just be carefully manipulated editing, taking things from stories that LOOK to disrupt the status quo, and actually do as opposed to being reversed by the end of the episode.

You could always try holding back revealing Palpatine even longer, keep Ren in strict mental communication with him only, and he only confronts him when he and Rey meet him at the end.

Nothing too radical about this one, there’s just one cut, one tiny cut, and the rest of the film is the same and plays as normal. The trim in question was Helga’s reaction to Arnold holding her hand towards the end…in the original version, she plays hard to get and tells Arnold off for touching her before walking ahead of him keeping a smile to herself, with Arnold also smiling and taking the rejection in his stride.

From my understanding, this twist was done as a tease for potential future seasons where Helga would continue to hide her feelings for Arnold from her class and Arnold would have to deal with being in a secret relationship with her, but Nickelodeon passed on the opportunity for future episodes, so the ending comes off as a bit mean-spirited and confusing considering they’d both went through hell in the film and earned their romantic moment.

So yeah, all I did was remove Helga telling Arnold off, after Helga initially swoons happily at the gesture, we cut to the two catching up to Phobe and Gerald just before Arnold’s parents ask if they can follow them to school. That’s it, the show ends with Helga content to be in a relationship with the boy she hates yet loves.

PM me for the link.

I’ve seen this, and…yeah it’s not too bad at all. I had seen a critique of it over on reddit, but chose to view the edit first before comparing mine with it, there were, I feel continuity issues with the intel on the final order, and Kylo’s interaction with Palpatine the first time we see him in this edit didn’t feel right…for example, he’s supposed to be in communication with him early one, then the next he’s looking for a way to find him on Exogel (wayfinder), should’nt he be aware of where he is? Would’nt it be better if you didn’t show Kylo obtaining the wayfinder and he already has it and is simply on his way to visit Palpatine? Could we cut him threatening Palpatine with his sabre while he speaks in that scene?

Wish you could also find ways of having Ben accompany Rey to Tatoonie, several edits have made that appear so, because he just up and vanishes after Rey kisses him.

An interesting video essay on what I feel are the episodes to potentially keep, edit, and/or avoid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=885&v=oHySsRIKhk0&feature=emb_title

Gosh darn would’n’t you know it, I changed my mind on the timeline…and I think I worked out a far superior cutlist in the process.

Men in Black: Intergalactic Duology by Bobson Dugnutt

A favourite of mine, Men In Black is just one of those movies that only ever worked properly with just the one entry, all the other sequels, while enjoyable, often fall short of the mark, the edit for the first of these movies enhances and adds to what is already a very good and workable movie, Bobson adds in alternate scenes and expands others to give you an insight into the film’s original vision. The scenes added are of a more raw visual quality but do not distract and are very well integrated.

This is definitely one of a thousand memories that I still want.

Perhaps we could even take one of Bart’s many love interest episodes and re-jigger it so he settles with one of them?

Here’s a sample, the repowering scene (password: fanedit)

https://vimeo.com/411961034

I’ve always wanted to give Christopher Reeve’s Superman saga some genuine climax, so I decided to create a proof-of-concept workprint edition of Superman IV using some of the deleted scenes (I don’t have the skills to polish them up, so if you do see this, you’ll just have to grin and bear it) as well as some footage from the Richard Donner Cut of Superman II. As a result, the workprint requires a significant amount of suspension of disbelief to buy into the narrative being told. Wardrobe continuity is taken for granted here.

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls - Slavery & Sorcery by Lapis Molari

This edit provides yet another bang for your Buck (oh me and my puns), a lot of very professional adjustments are made to this version, you would think it was a minimalist edit given how seamless it all meshes. The final battle changes in particular were a delight as the use of shots from other episodes are used to enhance, add, replace and improve on the established shots in a very creative way. There are also continuity patches that show a considerate attention to detail and respect for the audience’s intelligence. This is definitely one of the best Buck Rogers edits you’ll find out there.

Good idea for a thread, I’ll leave some of my recent recommendations

Ghostbusters 2: Time is But a Window by Bobson Dugnutt

Bobson’s skills are put to good use on another memorable movie…Ghostbusters 2 is just as much fun as the original in my opinion, and the enhancements made to the feature here provide more mayhem and fun to a feature already packed with both punch and punchline. The skill in which the Louis and Slimer scenes are realised compared to the original workprint is a masterclass.

The integrated scenes can’t unfortunately be entirely cleared of visible workprint scratches, and they provide a tiny little distraction, and from them you can easily tell when you’re watching something added in, but what makes all the difference is the consistency of the audio quality bridging it all together, they’re crisp and clear.

If you’re a fan of Ghostbusters 2 and wish to see even more of it, I would recommend tracking this down.

I’m currently editing several Power Rangers episodes, and the one I’ve been most pleased so far with is the one I’ve done for “Forever Red” the 10th anniversary story from 2002. I’ve repurposed it so it now serves not just as a finale to Power Rangers Wild Force (in place of the “Tnd of the Power Rangers” two-parter) but also a prequel to 2009’s Power Rangers RPM, which at the time was intended to be the last season.

Changes

1. Added “Previously On…” montage depicting Master Org’s ultimate defeat

2. Added Cole saying goodbye to Red Lion

3. Forever Red plays as normal

4. Added scenes of Cole making peace with his parents’ memory as well as Victor Adlers’ as well Allisa telling the class of what happened to the Rangers afterwards, all taken from “The End of the Power Rangers Part Two”. The scenes where they give up their growl phones and powers has been removed to give you the hope they will eventually return to active Ranger duty.

5. Special epilogue created for the ending using footage and audio from the RPM title sequence and the episode “Road to Corinth”

Here’s the ‘next time’ I used (password: fanedit)

https://vimeo.com/411016885

Great list there, I’ve fortunately managed to see about 25% of the episodes listed there. I’d probably still swap around some of the episodes so there’s a stronger lead-up to “Behind The Laughter”, maybe “The Cartridge Family” before it, and I’d probably shift “City of New York Vs Homer Simpson” in there too as a penultimate episode, since the car gets totalled.

For the “Sexy Flanders” scene, maybe we could edit in a brief sub-plot for the Simpsons where they find Ned on the slope and him fitting into the jumpsuit is one of his ways of ‘coping’ with Maude’s death?

I tried asking around on r/simpsons but noone was too keen on it over there, ah well, I still feel it’s worth pursuing somehow.

Thought I’d drop by with a few thoughts

I don’t mind the Morbius Doctors inclusion or the lore alterations, but I also understand how deeply upsetting it is for many fans who have grown up with the show facing a change on this scale. It’s the most sizemic we’ve had since the publication of Lungbarrow. Some believe this will go away like the half-human thing did, but I don’t personally feel like there’s a point to decanonising something of this size. Better to embrace a new idea than hold on so tightly to lore that at one point, was also pulled out of nowhere to keep the show interesting.

Jodie unfortunately hasn’t been ‘owning it’ as The Doctor all season and I fail to see how anyone is getting the impression she is putting in an effort. She is a woefully unprepared actress and Jo Martin’s Ruth Doctor acted the socks off of her in comparison. The Doctor had very little authority in this series and felt too much like a victim of circumstances. Ruth’s Doctor was in far more control of a room and a situation that she was.