Movies Remastered

Anjohan said:

I hoped someone would do this to see if this show is salvageable, so here is a copy-paste from my review thread, a wish-you-well and some ideas I think would greatly improve your film;

Copy-Paste review:

"Just watched a 20-minute recap of season 1 with scenes to accompany it, and my few cents are the same as my thoughts before the series’ premiere;

the acting (oh my god, the acting), the dialogue and at times the location designs are what is really ruining current Star Wars and this series. Dialogue and acting has to be a dance between the two professions, but here it comes across as your drunk uncle dancing with your cat at your sister’s wedding. It’s just not good, but it is hilarious.

And for the budget this thing had, with most of the location designs they create and use… and costumes… I’m… speechless… It’s literally Disney Channel from 2012 sometimes. Like, I’ve seen clips that make me think “that could’ve been from Hannah Montana”.

I will also say, from the 20 minutes I’ve watched, I did like 60% of the Sith executing the Jedi sequence. They have held some of the fighting on this show to a high standard. But when many of the actors can’t pull of a believable face of dread or sorrow in a scene of pure chaos and horror… then it becomes a comedy, doesn’t it.

Closing Note:
They wanted to make a drama mystery series for all the ages, but instead they created the Tommy Wiseau of Star Wars."

My ideas and thoughts

So yeah… that’s how I feel I, and how it seems like many others interpret this… this… thing.

Now, that’s not to say that this amazing community of editors can’t remove a lot of what makes this show into a meme, and craft it into something worthy of two and more eyes and the attention span and love of a Star Wars fan.

I hope and think that with removing horrible facial expressions, dialogue that does not belong or is delivered badly, and structure the series to an actual mystery - I think you could hit a jackpot in terms of being “the faneditor that made something horrible watchable”. Say what you will about Star Wars - only this has been truly horrible. The Rise of The Sith, The Last Jedi and Boba Fett were issued and badly executed, but they weren’t horrible.

I wish you good luck, and I will be one of the first to watch this in a film format from you - if you have the courage, time and patience to do so. We will not fault you if you choose to give up.

Sorry, I missed to reply to your message as it got lost.

Indeed you are correct! This show was full of bad acting and terrible dialogue but thankfully the sound edit left the centre channel pretty clean so we could get around almost off of it.

100% not going up as it’s been finished for around a week. We’re just tweaking a few VFX shots and I went a little crazy at 5am this morning and I’m now making 2 different versions from this one series. First one if for myself, running in around 2:30h without flashbacks, second will be the two parter many people have asked me to create.

I’m just waiting on the collab work to come in and this will be released asap…

DarthWolvo said:

Sounds like you are removing some of the good bits tbh

Well, let’s hope someone else makes an edit closer to your needs. 😃

cooleyo14 said:

When will this be out? And where will I be able to find it?

All up to date release info will be on the MR Discord thread. Link in the main post.

Patali said:

So this is going to be two movies?

Technically, for the most part it’s one film but then people have asked me to edit the flashbacks into another, and this finale kinda helps marry those two episodes together. I think the second part will only be around 1:15h tops so I wouldn’t count it as a movie.

Part 1 is solid and is finished. Loads of conversations going on about part 2 in MR Discord so we’ll see what direction that goes after I release part 1 in a few days.

idir_hh said:

Jar Jar Bricks said:

EDIT: The guy above me beat me to it, lol.

I agree. Either remove the flash back episodes completely or sprinkle in relevant parts of the flashbacks from the prospectives of Mae and OSHA respectively. At least you could put the excessive wake up shots to use !

I deliberately didn’t include the flashbacks in part 1, mostly because they are pointless to this edits storyline and the story is wrapped up in the first film edit. Having this as a 2 parter now gives the audience a choice to watch part 2 or leave it on a cliffhanger, if we even get a season 2. If Velma got a season 2, I’m sure this one will eventually.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Very bizarre that they reveal Osha and Mae are the same person, and yet they chose two very distinctly different child actors for the flashbacks.

I think I’d be most interested in an edit of this show which completely removes both flashback episodes, but still includes episode 8 - which it doesn’t look like you’re doing here. I think letting the audience decide what happened that night completely on their own is much more satisfying than whatever the hell all that was. As it stands, Torbin doesn’t have sufficient motivations to end himself, the leader of the coven is to blame for her own death by not explaining her decision upfront, and Sol doesn’t explain himself to Osha for some reason. It’s just so much easier to remove all of this problematic writing and let the audience come up with their own explanations.

One other cool change I’d like to see someone make is shifting the Plagueis cameo to the very end of the edit, so that he is watching Osha and his apprentice instead of just watching their ship take off earlier. I think it would be pretty easy to digitally paint out the ship leaving in that shot. And then completely remove the Yoda cameo, since no matter what she says to him, Yoda either becomes an idiot or complicit in all this.

EDIT: The guy above me beat me to it, lol.

I had exactly the same thought and goals but people kept asking me to include the flashbacks, which is why I’m now making this a 2 parter.

I was hoping to have Osha and Mae appear more like fight club style but the fact they were in two places at the same time and other people see them in the same place ruined that option for me. I’m not sure there is any way around editing that. My brains been fried getting it to a film length and watchable on rewatch.

I’ll have to rewatch it to see how things pan out for part 2. Right now I’m trying to rush out part 1 so people can enjoy the actual murder mystery part as a whole.

Skybatman said:

one thing u could change its that make the sith in the cave be the last scene of this edit

The final scene in Part 1 is Osha putting on the helmet and having the breathing fade to black. Part 2 will pick up from where this scene left off, and then go into the flashback episodes when Osha grabs Sol.

Thanks for the feedback and Ideas. This edit is actually finished apart from the Sith eye VFX. I’ll be leaving the finale and Ep. 3, 7 for part 2.

Full details on viewing this edit will be in The Acolyte thread on MR Discord. Invite here https://discord.gg/EBdQVXhDUh

Ed Slushie said:

Is saying “AI dialogue” based on anything? Or just a vibe?

There’s been a lot of changes. Can you be more specific?

Drumroll for tomorrows episode. If the finale going to pay off?

Faneditor: MoviesRemastered
Fanedit Type: FanFix
Fanedit Release Date: 17th July 2024
Fanedit Runtime: 1h:41m:23s
Time Cut: 0h:5m:38s
Time Added: 0h:3m:27s
Franchise: Terminator
Genre: Action • Adventure • Drama • Horror • Sci-Fi • Thriller
Original Title: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Intentions:

I honestly couldn’t stomach the original movie due to it feeling more like a parody than a sequel to one of my favourite movies, T2 and franchises of all time. So, I took this edit on with the goal of creating something that was a mixture of horror/thriller from T1 and the action of T2. I also wanted to make John Connor more of an empathetic but tougher character instead of the weak loser they portrayed him as in the original release. Also, adding some of the original score to help this feel more in sync with the prequels. Not only have I managed to fix all the issues, but I’ve now created one of my favourite Terminator movies.

Full Change list: https://www.moviesremastered.com/movieinfo.php?id=10729

Poster art: https://moviesremastered.com/images/10730-hiresposterart.png

Additional Notes:

Available only on MR Discord to Initiate members who own can prove ownership of either the original Blu-ray or Digital Amazon receipt. Invite link here: https://discord.gg/EBdQVXhDUh

I agree! I honestly thought there was going to be some huge reveal. Especially a cover up from the Jedi doing wrong but alas. The Jedi did nothing wrong, the castle was set on fire by Mae and somehow rock explodes for no reason.

I started editing these two episodes tonight and it’s not as easy as I thought. Thankfully some of the cut away scenes in 7 can cover the terrible acting in 3…

Editing 3 & 7 together is just for those who have asked. I personally won’t be adding it to my watch list so I don’t feel it necessary. It’s much better leaving it ambiguous with the murder mystery theme from this main film edit.

EddieDean said:

I’d like to see episodes 3 and 7 merged into chronological order as a full standalone thing - the Tragedy of Brendok.

That’s pretty much what I’m going to do. I was gonna have them split into two sides but we didn’t get the 2 perspectives that were suggested. They both seemed like jedi POV.

It’ll be cool to see how both episodes match up in a linear edit. I should have time to work on this today or tomorrow…

Thanks Darth!

As it stands now, the murder mystery could end with Osha putting on the helmet as a cliffhanger and then I could edit both Ep.3 & 7 into a linear timeline for people to have the “mystery” revealed.

I’ve edited this series down to a good 2hr movie so far, so it doesn’t really matter what they give us in the finale.

I’m just waiting on help with the Sith eyes and the last episode, and this should be ready for release shortly after the series closes out…

Updates to change list in main post…

GLogus said:

Good luck. You’ve got your work cut out for you.

haha! I agree! I also didn’t wanna invest too much time into this but with a lot of community feedback and more ideas with the more times I watch it, I’m pretty happy with it already.

We did a watch party for the first 4 episodes edited last night on MR Discord and it was all positive feedback. I just have to finish a few more vfx shots and sound fx now. Ep. 5 seemed to really lack good Saber sounds.

losthead said:

A bit preemptive, no?

Not really. I edited Mando season 3 as they were released, and I was able to predict everything that happened in that series. Pretty much the same here. It’s already working out to be a great 1:38:19 murder mystery film with what we have. Even if the next 3 episodes are garbage, it doesn’t matter at this point.

I release stream only versions until they become available for purchase, then they get a download option.

Thanks guys! I’m hopeful this will remain one movie but I guess we won’t know until the finale. It makes for pretty good viewing so far…

Absolutely incredible work everyone! Who said that much attention to detail and OCD wouldn’t come in handy some day? 😉

Surely this has to be marked down as the greatest collab fanedit ever made? It’s definitely been a labour or love for so many but I bet you’re so glad to put it to bed now, Hal?

As I’ve been accused of copying other editors in my previous projects for not posting my early work here. I thought I’d get ahead of the curve and try to be the first to announce an Acolyte film cut. This may work out to be 2 movies but the way it’s going, I’ll be able to turn this show into a true murder mystery.

I’ve already edited the first 4 episodes the currently run at 1:08:36h so if the next 4 have shorter runtimes it should make a nice single film length.

MRDb CHANGE LIST : https://www.moviesremastered.com/movieinfo.php?id=10807

NEW TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIImgPdg8uU

UPDATE: After watching the finale, this edit will now be in 2 parts.

NEW UPDATE: I’ve being asked for so many version of this cut so here’s what I’m going to do.
・1st, I will finished the single film I wanted to crate for myself
Part 1: Ep. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8. 2:30:51

・2nd, I will create the 2 parter including both flashback episode in the 2nd part.
Part 1: Ep. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6. 1:58:16h
Part 2: Ep. 3, 7, 8. TBA

Some of what I’ve fixed so far.
・Add traditional Star Wars opening crawl. (Thanks to Acbagel)
・Removed Matrix opening fight.
・Removed Fire in space.
・Removed Them taking bar man on his word.
・Merged Double attack on Jedi temple in to once scene using night LUT.
・Removed loads of exposition dumps.
・Removed Failed attempt at killing the Jedi first time.
・Removed terrible English actors.
・Removed as many terrible delivered lines as I could with it still making sense.
・Removed Sol overly explaining himself in almost every scene.
・Removed Unnecessary naked Jedi.
・Removed mind reading.
・Removed Awkward “I’m flexible” line.
・Removed Failed attempt at main character using Jedi powers.
・Removed Ai written dialogue and scene feature Smylo Ren.
・Removed most of Mae’s scenes (The less we see the more mysterious she is).
・Removed Mae fighting with Torbin forcefield and his death.
・Removed Mae and poison shop keeper scene.
・Removed most of Mae dialogue in forest.
・Removed entire Episode. 3.
・Rearrange entire end sequence of episode 4.
・Rearrange Sol vs Smylo Ren fight scene as one long scene.
・Rearrange Mae vs Jecki fight as one long scene.
・Make Yord seen smarter by saying less.
・Sol recognising Mae as an imposter but quicker.
・Cut out all the sexual tension and nudity.
・Removed silly slapstick jokes and foolery.
・Removed Most of Vernestra subplot.
・Removed all Planet name text.
・Removed entire Episode. 7.
・Removed Basil shorting out the ship (Why did he do that?)
・Gave Plagueis a better location and apprentice
・Removed Yoda end scene.
・I won’t spoil them all but this film cut is shaping up to be awesome pretty cool.
・Give Pip a voice and more endearing personality. (Test footage here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBVy31q22BU)

VFX we’re working on:
・Traditional opening crawl [Done]
・Fixed the opening Pan down to planet [Done]
・Removed all planet names [Done]
・Alien closing their eyes. (Thanks to Theesm) [Done]
・Fix Binocular continuity error between scenes. [Done]
・Making Jedi older with a 10 year old beard. (No longer needed)
・Qimir Sith eyes. [Done] Example here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_B2xFF7NiDuQ7nyt35oRw/community?lb=Ugkx9qryAIvLKF59pcIaxoderrdTg-5VenoC
・Removed Plagueis from current location [Done]
・Add Plagueis on new location [Done]
more but won’t spoilt the surprise…

More updates to coming soon…

Live progress as edits are brainstormed and executed on MR Discord https://discord.com/channels/730523754727211109/1249045388799901717
Invite here if you’re not already a member https://discord.gg/EBdQVXhDUh

I’m 15 mins in to the workprint and I’m already amazed at how many differences you guys have achieved since I helped with V1 and V2. Absolutely awesome! Who did the new Rey darkside flashback and the healing graphics in the book? I had to compare to the original just to double check.

Most impressive!

Coming Home in a Bodybag (Changes)

Original Runtime: 8:53:08
MR Cut Runtime: 3:19:22
1920x800p
h264 encoder
AC3 5.1 Surround Sound
Fanedit Type: FanMix

INTENTIONS: Some of you may be familiar with the title of this movie but for those that aren’t, this was the name of the Vietnam movie mentioned in True Romance. It was never meant to be a real Quentin Tarantino film but after a great brainstorming session during the MR True Romance watch party, I thought I’d give it a go. I aim to make a coherent movie using as many scenes from popular Vietnam films during the late 70s and 80s. The intention is to create the most expensive War movie ever made, not only with Hollywood’s biggest star studded line-up but also including some of the largest explosions and battle scenes caught on film during this era. Along with a killer soundtrack.

MOVIES USED: Full Metal Jacket, Born of the 4th July, Forrest Gump, Platoon, Good Morning Vietnam, Casualties of War, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Jacob’s Ladder.

MRDb LINK: https://www.moviesremastered.com/movieinfo.php?id=10557

This release is now available to ALL MR Discord members for a limited time only.
DISCORD LINK: https://discord.gg/EBdQVXhDUh

Part 2 & 3 COMING SOON…

haha! We’re all holding out for those deleted scenes. Think they’ll have to lose a few more billion til they release them for coin 😉

Could you hit me up with a workprint link, please Hal? I’d love to see what everyone’s been achieving here during my hiatus.

Wow! I’m 59 pages behind. Can anyone give me a brief recap. How many versions of this are out now?