PalpySomehow said:

Could I get a link?

Sorry mate, I took the films offline. Unfortunately, they were shared several times outside of this forum. I never agreed to such a type of publication. Luckily there are many other fan edits for The Last Jedi.

Because links to my films were shared again, I decided to take the films offline. Sorry guys

Because links to my films were shared again, I decided to take the films offline. Sorry guys

They are still using direct links to all of my edits on their site. But I already removed all of my edits. Outrageous behavior.

Hello friends and editors,
I just found out that the site “the fanedit network” offers public download links to all of my fan edits without my permission and outside of Original Trilogy. This caused me to take all my edits offline. Do you know who passed on the links? Did that happen to other editors?

Important Announcement:
Since download links to my fan edits have been shared on other sites, I have made the decision that I will no longer share my projects.
Many thanks to everyone who has rated my films positively or written a short review. I really appreciated that!

Important Announcement:
Since download links to my fan edits have been shared on other sites, I have made the decision that I will no longer share my projects.
Many thanks to everyone who has rated my films positively or written a short review. I really appreciated that!

Tellan_3397 said:

Yes. I have to echo that review. Just watched it this morning and it’s flows better. Everything just feels tighter. Prairie dog elimination also good.

No Tarzan. A good edit. Can something similar be done with dial of destiny?

Hmm, maybe…but I won’t make any edit.
I didn’t watch Indy 5 because Indy 4 had a satisfying ending for me. What I’ve heard about the film so far is very disappointing. That’s why I won’t even watch the film, but let Indy age gracefully.
I’m not saying it’s impossible to improve the film, I can’t judge that. But someone else should do it. I’m out.
15MaF did a really nice edit of Indy4. Maybe he can torment himself and do a Indy5 Fan-Edit 😃

hk47awesome said:

This fan edit was a delight. Does it truly turn KotCS into a genuinely worthy successor to Last Crusade? No, not really… And part of the problem is that Last Crusade is just such a perfect ending that nothing short of a miracle would have resulted in a film that would be the perfect follow-up. But this edit does make it a much more watchable version of the film and a fun adventure in its own right especially since I enjoy the happy ending.

I started watching CS fanedits because after watching Dial of Destiny (which I didn’t like whatsoever; whole other story) I decided to give KotCS another shot and while it was still VERY bad in a LOT of places, I realized that if I compared both films with all of the stuff I disliked cut out, I was left with at least a fun adventure film with KotCS and… I’m not really sure what with DoD.

Just considering the released/theatrical/official KotCS – the first half was already much stronger overall IMO. The 50s vibes, the hangar discovery/fight, the G-Men interrogation, Indy at school, meeting Mutt & the Greaser vs Jocks, the city chase… all of that to me felt like great Indy action-adventure in a new era. The latter half of the film at once veers closer to the original trilogy and feels even further: it mostly loses any and all 50s flair other than Greaser-Mutt & Commies since it’s in an area totally reminiscent of classic Indy… and yet, it features more egregious and over-the-top barfed up CGI effects in the jungle chase, Mutt’s terrible swordfight to splits to getting hit in the nuts repeatedly, the absurd CG monkey swinging, the ants, the triple waterfall sequence, the “interdimensional” alien closeups, etc. All just one after the other. This edit proves that the first half is stronger yet still manages to pull the latter half closer to the first which is a great feat.

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FIRST HALF
Right off the bat, the opening is fantastic. I like the “making a molehill out of a mountain” transition sans gopher/prairie dog created by 15 MaF – actually all of the small visual edits made by 15 MaF are utilized well here but /their/ fan edit removed a few more things than I’d have liked that weren’t really part of the problem IMO (i.e. the “you don’t 'Im!!!” or “damn, thought that was closer” which feels all fairly standard Indy to me) and so I’m glad MMP preserved a lot more of the smaller interactions.

This entire portion of the film focuses primarily on minor minor MINOR edits to just strengthen the otherwise already pretty solid chunk. It’s cleaner, it’s nicer. The first big (ish) edit is removing the alien corpse hand which is nice to not just immediately “show the goods” so to speak.

By far the biggest edit of the first half is the removal of the nuke town which is a mixed bag for me. I, like many, thought the sequence was absolutely dumb when I watched it, but I do like how that town adds to the 50s vibe, especially since we lose most of that in the second half. I think I’d have preferred a way of keeping it but toning down the unbelievability factor, but the editing does a fantastic job of switching over to the military base regardless.

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SECOND HALF
This edit streamlines the entire back half which not only makes it flow a bit quicker, but also removes a lot of the unbearably bad sequences. This is made up of far more significant or big cuts. Most of the Indy/Marion reunion is preserved, but the alien corpse is once again cut for the better. The whole snake bit, which in general is kind of bad and an absurd way of handling the snakes joke, is still improved with the removal of Indy needing(?) them t call it a rope, then them calling it a rope, then him grabbing hold of it. THAT is just beyond mind boggingly dumb so the most egregious aspect was removed.

The jungle chase is probably the choppiest and most “fan edit-y” section like someone else said. For instance, after Mutt is swept away, they say that Spalko is getting away but due to all the cuts, the next shot shows the two cars have swapped with Indy’s now in the lead at the cliffside – if that’s how it is in the film as well, I don’t recall it being as obvious. I also find the total removal of the sword fight a bit of a bummer… Mutt mentions fencing earlier on, he clearly gets the sword in the edit still, AND the edit still makes a point of showing Spalko unsheath her sword… so it feels like we should have at least seen Mutt and Spalko lock swords for a second before pushing on. That being said, the removal of the splits, most of the sword fight, AND the monkey swinging is just… it makes that sequence so much more Indiana Jones, y’know? Even with the elements cut that I’d have liked kept some way, this version is far superior because it doesn’t have those in-your-face terrible moments. The chase is now exciting and feels more real as a result.

The ants were surprisingly preserved nearly 1:1 – if there were any edits, they were very minor and I didn’t notice them. I’m not a fan of the ants and if I did my own edit, I’d have likely tried to skip over them with them pretty much driving over the cliff quickly. I think. And that’s why I’m torn – removing the ants entirely would also cut out Indy’s fist fight with the henchman and that’s such a classic Indy bit… I just can’t stand the ants concept or visuals really. I guess I’d prefer it best if we cut most of the closeups of the ants or Spalko squishing them with her knees for instance and keep mostly to Indy and his fight but it is what it is.

Waterfalls: I think the idea is funny and works as well as ToD’s raft fall… but the execution and the triple nature of it is just a bit wonky. I think the biggest issue for me is the way they get into the water with Marion landing in a CGI tree, driving off, and the clearly CGI tree then swinging up and knocking the Commies down. Maybe that could have been edited a bit? I don’t know.

Then whole temple sequence is fine, but the true triumph of this edit is the ending. It preserves the over-the-top “Hoist with his own petard” death of Spalko bursting with flames from her eyes and then disintegrating but completely removes the weird skeleton movement, the skeletons coalescing into that terrible CGI alien, and all of the UFO taking off (the spinning room is already evocative of a spinning saucer in a more subtle way!). The only change I’d have made is to cut Mac’s death scene which never made any sense to me and just felt supremely weird. “I’ll be fine…” and then falling into the swirling death abyss? Why? He never had any sorta redemption where I should feel bad for him, none of his actions seemed to suggest he’d be willing to die, literally the last thing he does is save his own skin before foolishly sticking around to get more treasure. I guess I wish he either got swept up on his own or Indy tries to save him, but we omit his weird comment(s) and he gets dragged away.

I’m glad the little bit with Indy calling Mutt “Junior” is preserved, the randpa comment, AND the wedding. All things some edits remove or heavily alter that I personally don’t think need to be whatsoever.

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Overall, Mutt is DEFINITELY more likable with his outbursts either toned down or cut and the Indy-Marion romance is strengthened by the omission of the random “honey” type comments.

In summary, I can’t imagine rewatching the theatrical cut of KotCS again. This version preserves most of the film as it originally was but removes the most egregious aspects, thus turning it into an immediately more exciting adventure with far less eyeroll-inducing moments. I HIGHLY recommend it as an alternative to the original. But if you truly despise Mutt as Indy’s son or the jokes, it might not be for you. I, for one, am glad it didn’t edit out all the humor like a lot of edits seem to do.

Thank you very much. Nice review!

Links sent. But please: send me a PM If you want a link.

TheIrishMcClay said:

This was an amazing watching experience. Every issue I had with this film is now fixed. This is the definitive version of this film for me. Well done, an amazingly fun movie to watch now. I have easily watched this edit multiple times since and it holds up every time. Thank you!

Thank you very much! This means a lot to me. I still see some little flaws, especialy some sound effects, but nothing I can’t live with.

Thank you very much 😃

Doctor M said:

I got called away part way through, but so far, I really love the improvements. Every time I was ready to grit my teeth at something, I found you already fixed it.

I did think that the crate should have had the ‘Roswell, NM 1947’ removed. It’s a real in your face alien reference.

I do wish there was something that could be done with that whole scene with the magnetism at the warehouse. It just always seems randomly handled. Sometimes the crate is EXTREMELY magnetic, attracting metal objects from an insane distance. Other times it’s lightly attractive or not at all to objects near by.
I suppose since the crystal skull found later attracts gold, I guess we can excuse the randomness of it.

Still, it just feels like it was filmed wrong.

I know what you mean, there are many scenes that could not be fixed. Thats why the film will never have the quality of the first three.

CaptainFaraday said:

I remember Hal saying that soaring majestic music from the final TROS trailer sadly didn’t fit over the climax of the movie, but I don’t remember actually seeing test footage of it myself. Did anyone ever actually make and export an attempt at adding it? (I rewatched the trailer and that soundtrack is just fantastic, and I think it’s a real shame it can’t fit into the movie.)

I used it in my edit of The Last Jedi. Worked fine (for me). Samples in the Thread (Link in Signature)

hinventon said:

I think that would be a cool place to insert the World Between Worlds clip of Luke if anywhere. Also I can’t really tell what Leia is saying, but I like the concept.

I would not do that. Jonh’s work is incredible, but I think the scene would be out of place.

MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN MATURE CUT

Introduction:

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a 1994 science fiction horror film directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter. The film is considered the most faithful film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein”. In the film, Frankenstein brings his fiancee Elizabeth back to life. In the book, this does not happen at all. This caused criticism, but I think that such changes are perfectly acceptable in a film adaptation.
I have always been a big fan of the film. Especially because when I was a child I always played with a pinball machine that came out with the film.
When I was watching the film again after a while, however, I noticed some negative things. Kenneth Branagh’s acting is exaggerated and the film had some ridiculous moments. As I removed these scenes, the film is now a bit tighter, more serious and the story progresses quickly. I also changed the soundtrack in some places to make the moments of Elisabeth and Victor more emotional.
My goal was NOT to make a version that is as close as possible to the book, but to make the film as good as possible. That’s why I didn’t take the original novel into account when editing.

As German is my mother tongue I have made a German audio track in addition to the English version. It’s not included in the MKV but can be downloaded as a separate AC3 file.

Important notes:

Special thanks go to the YouTuber Mercuziopianist. With his permission, I used his piano solo “The Wedding Night, Frankenstein OST”, for a scene in which Elisabeth plays the piano.

Prior Changes:

• I removed most of Kenneth Branagh’s overacting.
• Removed Victor’s Childhood. This includes his mother’s death. Although these scenes explain his later motives, most of them were exaggerated and therefore couldn’t be fixed. Moreover, they unnecessarily prolonged the film.
• Elisabeth is not Victor’s sister. I’ve always found it awkward that Victor marries his sister, especially in the scenes in which he talks about his sister becoming his wife.
• I used Patrick Doyle’s piece “The Wedding Night” as a theme for Victor and Elisabeth. I think this makes their scenes together more emotional and easy to remember.
• Removed Victor’s and Elisabeth’s dance after he revived her. I’ve always thought this scene was kind of strange and awkward.

Detailed changes:

Beginning:

• removed the opening prologue. The film starts directly in the arctic sea.
• removed Victor’s childhood.
• removed the silly scene in which a lightning bolt strikes next to Victor and Elisabeth.

The Ball:

• removed some of Victor’s and Elisabeth’s dialogue in which they say they are siblings.
• inserted Patrick Doyle’s piece “I Won’t If You Won’t”.

Frankenstein’s Laboratory:

• removed a scene in which Frankenstein resurrects a frog.
• removed a scene in which Elisabeth runs through Ingolstadt crying.
• I have cut/trimmed some scenes of the creation of Frankenstein’s creature. Especially because Branagh acted over the top here again.

Victor’s and Elisabeth’s reunion:

• I changed the song which Elisabeth plays on the piano. I used the piano solo “The Wedding Night, Frankenstein OST” from the YouTuber Mercuziopianist. In my opinion this song fits much better. I also use this theme or a variation of it in most of Victor’s and Elisabeth’s romantic scenes.
• after Elisabeth stops playing the piano, I used Patrick Doyles piece “The Wedding Night”.

In the mountains:

• I have removed the scenes in which Victor climbs the summit. These scenes weren’t too realistic.
• changed the dialogue between Victor and his creature. The creature doesn’t want a wife in my edit, it just asks for a companion. This creates a higher level of drama in later scenes in which the creature hands over Justine’s body to Frankenstein. This shock has a stronger effect on him because he wasn’t expecting a woman, and certainly not Justine.

Wedding Night:

• removed some of Victor’s and Elisabeth’s dialogue in which they talk about being siblings.

Elisabeth’s resurrection:

• trimmed some of the scenes of Elisabeth’s resurrection.
• removed Victor’s and Elisabeth’s dance after he revived her.
• trimmed the dialogue between Victor, Elisabeth and the creature.

Ending:

• removed some of the dialogue between the captain and his crew.
• used a part of Patrick Doyles piece “What’s Out There?”
• changed the ending of the film. In my edit the captain doesn’t say he’s going to sail back. Instead, he leaves this open and turns away from the crew. The film shows the madness that arises when you push the limits of science further and further, not learning from mistakes. I therefore found it important to consistently pursue this approach to the end. A happy ending would have had a negative impact on the film’s message.

There are for sure many more little changes, but these were the significant ones!

Final Version & Format:

The final runtime for the movie is 107 minutes (102 min without end credits).

1080p High Quality MKV (20,0gb)
Video: H.264 at 25-30mbps VBR
Audio: - English 5.1 DTS, 5.1 Dolby Digital, Stereo
Extra: Chapter markers

German 5.1 Dolby Digital (AC3) audio track separately available as a download.

Feel free to tell me about any mistakes, I will take a look and try to improve.

Blu-Ray-Cover:

Because links to my films were shared again, I decided to take the films offline. Sorry guys

MMP (ManiacMovieProductions)

THE LONE RANGER ESSENTIAL CUT

Introduction:

The Lone Ranger is a 2013 American Western action film directed by Gore Verbinski. The film stars Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as John Reid, the Lone Ranger.
The film received generally negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, so I didn’t expect much when seeing it for the first time. But after having seen it, I was very surprised that it wasn’t as bad as I had expected. Sure, it had some flaws, especially the “Old Tonto” and “nature out of balance” scenes, but the core of the film is fun to watch. The finale is gorgeous and I think, contrary to the opinion of the critics, Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp gave a very good performance.
The film’s biggest problem were huge amounts of unnecessary content which made the film boring, especially in the middle part. I removed about 30 minutes and I think it’s a lot more fun to watch it now.

As German is my mother tongue I have made a German audio track in addition to the English version. It’s not included in the MKV but can be downloaded as a separate AC3 file.

Prior Changes:

• I removed the whole “Old Tonto” sub-plot. These scenes repeatedly interrupted the film’s flow and weren’t funny at all.
• I removed the “nature out of balance” scenes. Without these fantasy-scenes the film becomes more realistic and feels more like a traditional western film. I kept the scenes with the spirit horse.
• I removed some of Red’s scenes. She doesn’t have an ivory-leg and she doesn’t have a built in shotgun.
• I removed some scenes where the comanches buried Tonto and John.

Detailed changes:

Beginning:

• removed the first “Old Tonto” scene, the film starts on a railway construction site.
• removed the Bank-robbery scene as well. This scene is used later in the film.

Derailed train:

• removed the scene in which Tonto is arrested after the train got off the rails. In the original version it’s never explained how he fled from jail, so I removed his arrest. Tonto just walks away from the train.

John meets Rebecca:

• removed every scene in which you can see Tonto in jail. I had to cut and rearrange some of the dialogue between John and Rebecca.

Canyons:

• removed the next “Old Tonto” scene. After the Rangers got killed, Tonto appears and digs graves.
• removed the scene in which John wakes up on a huge wooden construction. I think this scene made no sense and wasn’t funny.

Campfire:

• removed the rabbits killing each other. The entire “nature out of balance” scenes seemed out of place for me.
• removed/trimmed some of the dialogue

Red’s scenes:

• removed a scene in which Red shoots with her shotgun-leg. I thought the scenes with the leg-gun were stupid.
• removed much of the dialogue between Red, John and Tonto.
• trimmed the scene in which John touches the silver clump.

Desert:

• removed some of the conversation between John and Tonto.
• removed the next “Old Tonto” interruption.

Comanche camp:

• after telling John Tonto’s story, the comanches do not dig our heroes. It didn’t make sense that the comanches turned against John and Tonto, especially because they were friends with John’s brother. My version gives the impression that they made an agreement and let them free.
• removed the whole scene in which John and Tonto are buried. Unfortunately, I also had to remove the cavalry attack. But in the end, I’m glad I removed this whole part. It just unnecessarily elongated the film.

Silver mine:

• removed the scenes that took place in the mine. These were kind of weird.

Lathan Cole’s Train:

• removed/trimmed some of the dialogue between Letham, Rebecca and Danny.
• removed/trimmed some of the dialogue between John, Latham & Captain Fuller.

John’s attempted execution:

• removed/trimmed some of the scenes. They were much too long in the original, especially Tonto’s scene in the mine.

Bank robbery:

• removed the next “Old Tonto” scene.
• after the comanche attack I inserted the bank robbery scene which I removed from the beginning of the film to give it a more linear narrative.

Railroad Corporation Celebration:
I did many changes here. It would be too time-consuming to list all of them, so I only name the most important ones:

• changed the background music in some scenes.
• trimmed Lathans attempt to take over the railroad company.
• trimmed Red’s scenes (she doesn’t have a shotgun-leg in my edit, so she can’t shoot with it either).

Lathams fate:

• removed “Old Tonto” interrupting the great finale.

Ending:

• removed the rabbit killing a scorpion.
• removed the part of the end credits in which Old Tonto walks through the desert. Therefore unfortunately, I couldn’t show all of the end credits.

There are for sure many more little changes, but these were the significant ones!

Final Version & Format:

The final runtime for the movie is 118 minutes (115 min without end credits).

1080p High Quality MKV (21,4gb)
Video: H.264 at 23-28mbps VBR
Audio: - English 5.1 DTS, 5.1 Dolby Digital, Stereo
Extra: Chapter markers

German 5.1 Dolby Digital (AC3) audio track separately available as a download.

Feel free to tell me about any mistakes, I will take a look and try to improve.

Blu-Ray-Cover:

Because links to my films were shared again, I decided to take the films offline. Sorry guys

MMP (ManiacMovieProductions)

Upload is still ongoing, I think PMs will go out tomorrow 😃

I have very good news for anyone looking for the best possible quality!! I just bought 100 gigabytes (google drive) for one year, so I can upload the 20+gb versions of “The Last Jedi Reforged” and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Revitalized”.
I think the files will be online the next days. PM me if you own the original movie and want a link. The 14gb files on Mega will still be available for those who like smaller file sizes.
The increased storage space also allows me to publish more of my fan edits, so I will upload my versions of “The Lone Ranger” and “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” in the next few days.
As german is my mother tongue I have made a german audio track in addition to the english version of Indiana Jones 4. It’s not included in the MKV but it can be downloaded as a separate AC3 file.

I have very good news for anyone looking for the best possible quality!! I just bought 100 gigabytes (google drive) for one year, so I can upload the 20+gb versions of “The Last Jedi Reforged” and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Revitalized”.
I think the files will be online the next days. PM me if you own the original movie and want a link. The 14gb files on Mega will still be available for those who like smaller file sizes.
The increased storage space also allows me to publish more of my fan edits, so I will upload my versions of “The Lone Ranger” and “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” in the next few days.

PMs sent

PMs sent

In think that would be nearly impossible to do because you would have to make new scenes with actors and green screen 😕

Darth Sadifous said:

MMP said:

I don’t think I will edit another Star Wars film in the near future. I love L8WRTR & Hals’ versions of I-III and I don’t think there is much room for improvement.
I will for sure continue making fan edits but I’m not sure if I will upload them. I think there is not much interest in Fan edits that have nothing to do with Star Wars.

I personally would be interested in any fan edit you work on FYI. Keep up the good work and may the force be with you!

May the force be with you!

I don’t think I will edit another Star Wars film in the near future. I love L8WRTR & Hals’ versions of I-III and I don’t think there is much room for improvement.
I will for sure continue making fan edits but I’m not sure if I will upload them. I think there is not much interest in Fan edits that have nothing to do with Star Wars.