Cameron Samurai

sade1212 said:

I really like the idea of delaying the return of Ben and then ending the movie with/near that scene. But you irised the wrong way 😉 (the final shot is supposed to disappear as a small circle shrinking into the middle of the screen). Unless, of course, it was stylistically designed to be that way.

Total blunder on my part, though I kind of like reversing the iris, when timed with the music it does make look like the iconic fanfare is coming at you.

idir_hh said:

You could have the celebration go like in the film, destroyers being downed etc, when finn and Poe are searching for Rey you could then cut to the shot of Ben’s hand rising up the cliff and saving Rey.
The rise of skywalker.

I’ll try out your suggestions, I’ve had a lot of fun today experimenting with different takes on scenes.

idir_hh said:

Cameron Samurai said:

Ed Slushie said:

I like the execution of Ben surviving in this version, but what would happen next?

Different editor here, but the two options could be

-End the movie almost as soon as the kiss happens

-Edit it so kylo is on Tatoonie with Rey as she buries the lightsabers, using footage of him from the desert earlier.

I chose the former for my try-out edits

https://vimeo.com/405878913

password: fanedit

That worked surprisingly well, you could save the scenes with Ben and Rey till after the celebration, making it the the final scene.

Thanks, and yeah, as nice as it is to close on the falcon, it’s Rey and Kylo’s story and they should be highlighted, feels kinds of random to have Poe be the last character you see.

Ed Slushie said:

I like the execution of Ben surviving in this version, but what would happen next?

Different editor here, but the two options could be

-End the movie almost as soon as the kiss happens

-Edit it so kylo is on Tatoonie with Rey as she buries the lightsabers, using footage of him from the desert earlier.

I chose the former for my try-out edits

https://vimeo.com/405878913

password: fanedit

adobewan said:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sRpQONcb6qwy3CvHbFSq00lkaPN0yRkK
Here is a very rough look at my removal of Leia’s ghost. It doesn’t look great yet but this shows that it is possible!

I didn’t notice anything too rough there, either I need to go to specsavers or you did a good job there

This sounds amazing, a real rethink of the movie, I’d love to see it if possible

Why don’t you kill Leia off in this film? Have her be the one that calls out to Ben in Snoke’s throne room and she then keels over…that would make it all the more tragic as Ben still picks the dark side afterwards.

Obviously I missed my Christmas release window, that’s because the DVD came a little late (sometime around mid-January), and I got caught up with other projects. I recently found the time the last few weeks, I pieced together the edit on it’s own, but then a different idea occurred to me, and I might end up combining it with Infinity War.

I’m probably going to do a combined 2-in-one edit where past Thanos doesn’t show up after Thor kills the present version , and when the world is restored by Hulk, there is no final showdown.

I’ve been working on a new Deadpool 2 edit. Instead of making use of deleted scenes, I made use of some of the promotional material, some of which was also in widescreen, which allowed for easier integration.

X-Tra Dead includes the following

-The “No Good Deed” Short as the opening scene
-Celine Dion in person performing “Ashes” (the music video has been edited to reduce the amount of film scenes)
-Cameo from Diplo, French Montana and Lil Pump
-Alternative end credits sequence using a TV spot
-Some footage lifted from “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” (not that much, just enough for an additional McAvoy cameo)

Here’s a sample utilising the Dark Phoenix footage. Password to access is fanedit.

https://vimeo.com/403963178

A brand new extended cut is coming called The Definitively Dead Phoenix (update: decided not to go through with it)

I decided to re-edit the Eleventh Hour, and for a bit of fun, inserted the promotional trailer they ran for series five (the one where 11 and Amy are pulled into the vortex) into the episode in place of what Amy is actually dreaming about (her waiting on The Doctor as a child), it works surprisingly well as a replacement dream.

I recently rewatched WhoFlix’s edit of this episode, looking to see what he had done here that I could differently, he had used all five instalments of the minisode series Pond Life as well as the DVD exclusive Asylum prequel to create an extensive pre-title sequence. I came away from the edit thinking not all of Pond Life ought to have been used, particularly the nonsense with the Ood on the Loo and his housekeeping role, or the bits that led into Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.

I made the decision to use the first and the last of the Pond Life shorts, in this case reversing them in order so as to create a brand new ending for the episode. The months that date the shorts can easily be interpreted as being part of a prior year and the early stages of the next, seeing as no actual year is specified.

The changes

-Added Pond Life episode 5. Removed credits at the end
-Titles now come after Amy says she needs The Doctor.
-Asylum prequel plays after the titles
-Narration and shots of the Dalek statue from the original pre-titles of Asylum have been cut
-First few moments with Oswin removed to omit producer and director credits
-Episode carries on as normal until we see The Doctor operating the console uttering the words “Doctor Who?”
-First episode of Pond Life plays

CamSMurph said:

But there are no more X-Men movies after Dark Phoenix, lol.

New Mutants: I exist.

Watching Picard, I thought up a concept for a non-essential episode one edit. This would not be an ‘go-to version’ that replaces the original episode, but an alternative viewing experience.

Intention

-Use Short Trek’s ‘Children of Mars’ as the pre-titles
-Remove the attack that kills Djaq, keep her alive
-Imply Picard has no problem with getting a mission approved by Starfleet
-Use footage of episode seven to have Picard visit Riker and Troy at the end of the episode, where they see him off.

That’s what I’ve got so far.

There are virtually no attempts to smooth over the hard cuts in this…it makes for a tough watch.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Not worth re-editing for something so minor, honestly, but you do you.

Well…that and removing the line “I’ve had an upgrade”

I thought of a minor trim to Spyfall part one…just have the cliffhanger sting come right on the shot of the plane in free-fall.

Edit is now available

Edit is now available through PM request. Have fun, and happy new year.

Thanks, I’ll let you know when it’s up.

I’m still ironing out the time travel bit at the end, I tried to rewrite young Jean’s past but the footage wasn’t there with the film to sustain that concept. This required simply opting to change the most recent past.

The first version of it still has it at the end, I could change that with an update.

CamSMurph said:

Sounds awesome.

Thanks, I was trying to be a bit more radical with the ending, I knew I wanted to end the film on the shuttle rescue rather than begin it with it, but it meant keeping Raven alive the whole film and there wasn’t much footage for it, plus I’d lose a lot of character motivation at the same time if she were alive. The Deadpool 2 stuff allows me to keep my ending while staying true to most of the film

Months back, clickbait merchants and rumour mongers were keen to share news that there would be some kind of Deadpool connection in the ill-fated Dark Phoenix movie. While this somewhat manifested a year earlier in Deadpool 2 with the X-Men’s cameo in that film, there was no surprise cameo from Wade for this.

So while binging both movies the other day I worked out a way of integrating four choice scenes from Deadpool 2 into a cut of Dark Phoenix. One of those scenes you’ll have to stay 'till the end credits to see

Two other minor tweeks aside, I left the rest of the movie alone

Intention:
Dark Phoenix is a pretty downbeat movie, with barely any humour, so short bursts of Wade provide some light relief.

Cutlist

-Cut the ‘X-Women’ lines from Raven

-Integrated the Deadpool and Colossus scene from Deadpool 2 where the X-Men narrowly avoid being seen by Wade

-Just after we meet the aliens , I Integrated the scene where Colossus tries to persuade Wade into joining the team on a mission, with Wade saying bad things will happen, this leads directly into the scene the X-Men first confront Jean and Raven is killed

-End credits feature a very special performance of Celine Dion’s ‘Ashes’ from Deadpool 2

-Deadpool uses Cable’s time device to change history and undo the events of the film.

-Post-credits is Cable time-jumping from the future to the present to set that part up. The saga continues

I uploaded it to Vimeo (download option disabled and password protected) and am currently hosting this on Archive of Our Own, which allows for edited fanvids

Current Cutlist

-Film opens with SONY HOME ENTERTAINMENT Logo, and end credits repurposed as opening credits
-Molly’s childhood retained
-Main title card comes after she helps the alien escape
-Flash forward to T and H’s mission together against the Hive
-Molly’s civilian life and failed job interviews cut completly
-Molly discovering MIB completely cut, we next see her already accepted as a recruit
-Agents M’s attempts to become Agent H’s back-up for his mission goes a lot smoother
-Agent H mucking about with his shirt outside the nightclub cut
-The alien friend of H no longer wants to seduce Agent M
-H and M arguing in the nightclub cut
-Alien poisoned by dagger retained
-Alien telling M that H has changed cut
-References to something being wrong in MIB cut.
-Meeting in High T’s office trimmed to remove references to the mole within MIB
-Agent H and M no longer discuss the mole when analysing the poison
-More minor mentions of M being told not to let the weapon fall into MIB hands and the mole cut, the edit indicates Molly has trust issues with the london branch per Emma Thompson telling her there was a problem in London (this could mean anything though)
-M and H’s early arguments in the desert trimmed
-High T’s heel turn and final battle completly cut
-First scene with the updated flying car repurposed as the final scene
-Only one minor tweek to the end credits, the use of Will Smith’s “Just Cruising”