KingRodan

I am very interested in watching this, however I see that this user’s last activity here was 4 years ago.
If anybody, by any chance, happens to be in possession of this cut, please, PM me the link!

RoccondilRinon said:

Well, that’s not intimidating at all. XD

It wasn’t!! I am a HUGE Matrix nerd, and I am really eager to see what comes out of this, it sounds promising 😄

You are tweaking my favorite movie since I was 11 years old. Please, send me anything you consider worth sharing.

Sounds incredible mate!
PM me the link! 😄

This post assumes that you have already watched the movie, and, to a lesser degree, that you didn’t like it, or liked parts of it. SPOILERS AHEAD.
I have been reading reviews and complaints and applied most of the changes I could to alleviate or even remove the frustrations I felt upon coming out of the theatre.

TO WIT:
:

• Absolutely no kid. No mentions to her character whatsoever. The protagonists only ever had one son.
• Quippy Scientist is now Scientist#546. His only quip is in his very first appearance.
• Almost no human reaction shots in Kaiju battles (the Rodan fight was insufferable with Quippy annoyingly
  commenting on what’s going on).
• Tweaked OST at parts, most noticeably in Ghidorah’s awakening. You can hear the chanting now.
• No Orca fixing in the rain.
• Way fewer shots of people tumbling, shaking or screaming as if they were trying to play Star Trek with a
  video camera.
• Fewer interventions by the Military, which were trying to steal Quippy’s job at times.
• Serizawa’s section (you know what I’m talking about) entirely untouched. Except that now he doesn’t convince
  anybody. He says “I’ll go”, and everybody chills the fuck out because his is the only character arc that
  gets any closure.
• Removed post credits scene. Probably the most unnecessary change of all. After all, it’s just pure,
  unadultered sequel bait.

Lines that are forever gone:

“This is the video with the genitals blurred out”
I’m a fan of your wife. 'S work. Your wife’s work. That came out wrong. The dude gets interrupted when he’s introducing himself and shuts the fuck up for most of the movie.
Ghonorrhea
“That’s messed up, right?”
Oh my god… Zilla
Perhaps they’re looking for something more… intimate.
Hollow Earth, which is now just “we’re following godzilla into a hollow earth tunnel” at the beginning of the third act.
“With parents like you I’d also run away from home” and the absolutely ridiculous realization it leads to.

As a consequence the movie is now about 78% less annoyingly juvenile, and exactly 90 minutes long (without counting the credits).

What to expect
I kept every single monster shot in the movie, except perhaps for trimming a few frames in favor of smoother transitions between shots. Not always did I manage to make it seem flawless, what with keeping Billi Mrown out of frame and being my first fan-edit. Removing the girl has unsurprisingly almost no bearing on the overall plot. The only thing she does is steal a thing that is now in the hands of a different character. The human presence is big enough as it is, and they mostly just speak about monsters: their names, the reasons for the awakenings, what they are doing, etc.
It is possible that one or two jumpy audio cuts might have slipped. My tools and my skills are limited. I an absolute amateur. This is probably one of the biggest files I’ve ever even looked at in my video editor. If I had the macros, different tracks for soundtrack, sound effects and dialogue, as well as the entirety of monster shots, a different movie would have come out. But I believe I did my best with what I have, and I am happy with the overall result, even if it is only for how much I’ve learned about editing. If we ever get ahold of deleted scenes, I will make the 1.1 version of the cut, which will include a flashback to Sherizawa’s watch.