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aGreatHumanBeing said:

I would very much like to check out this edit. Thanks 😃

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‘Alien Resurrection’ (1997) is my favourite of the Alien tetralogy, but with the exception of a few small moments, I feel that the 2003 Special Edition is a largely inferior cut. This fanedit amalgamates the SE’s brief worthwhile additions to the film into the original theatrical release, with its “less is more” opening and ending sequences and generally more understated approach to some scenes.

Sources

• Alien Resurrection (1997) [Theatrical Cut/TE]
• Alien Resurrection (1997) [2003 Special Edition Cut/SE]

Edits

• Restored original title sequence, removing additional sound effects in favor of the original score up until the shot of the Auriga
• Cut Ripley waking after surgery
• Cut Gediman making explicit mention of “Fury 16”
• Cut Wren making reference to the Company’s acquisition by Walmart
• Restored the order of scenes introducing the crew of the Betty from the TE, as well as TE’s stripped back version of Vreiss/Johner/Call’s exchange in the cargo bay
• Cut Perez and Elgyn’s extended exchange about Call
• Cut Wren’s lines added in the SE during the argument with/about Purvis and what to do with him
• Cleaned up audio in the extended SE chapel scene with Ripley and Call where Distephano’s footsteps can be heard as TE usually cuts
• Restored TE’s more ambiguous and bittersweet ending, rolling shots of earth mirroring the alien-flesh from the opening titles.

Thank you, very kind.

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PM’s sent. The full quality version is up at the moment, the smaller size two-part files are encoding now and will be up shortly.

This isn’t that much of a stretch as it’s supported by the new comic books and bits of context from the films but I fully believe Snoke is a homunculus made from a fairly equal mix of Palpatine’s and Luke Skywalker’s DNA.

The reason he’s so hellbent on destroying Luke and his legacy, other than Palpy’s manipulations, is because some part of him knows what he is and hates himself for it, but is so twisted by the dark side that killing his unwitting progenitor seems like the only thing worth living for. Snoke to me is this tragic, insane, artificially-aged, perverted amalgam of Palpatine, and the one man he hates most in the universe.

His monologues in TLJ have a real sadness to them for me now tbh.

Hal 9000 said:

I just need to swap the audio channels and adjust sync to fit.

Ah,

Hal 9000 said:

Mustafar sequence, proposed as final:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UJwqxMyGw1DnzUXtjjo0Lc0wuyDdMvZD/view?usp=sharing

It’s got skenera’s LUT applied as well, so it’d be about how the final, cc’d fan edit will be.

This is stellar work everyone. Not to be nitpicky but I miss the very pronounced audio hit on that cut to Kylo, I think it was a mix of music and SFX. Gives it a nice impact.

Just my $0.02 as an audio nerd! Other than that it’s an enormous improvement over the theatrical opening.

Take care of you and yours, Cap. Thanks for all your hard work!

jrs81 said:

The REAL reason she was dying was because they had no more Carrie Fisher footage and they had to do something to force her death and this was their choice. I always assumed the strength she took to reach out to him and interrupt him mid-fight was beyond her normal capabilities. May have been that she helped in the healing as well on top of that, but either way it feels forced. At some point the light side of the force, his death, and Leia together were able to bring him back to the light side. The talk with Han was the representation of him coming back.

1. “You’re not doing this, the effort would kill you.”

2. She got shot into space, dude. That’ll do a number on the ol’ internals, no matter how force-y you are. Her days were numbered.

3. The other two carked it in the two previous films, it seemed inevitable that she would in this one, too.

hansolox73 said:

I think I watched an earlier version but the links I have don’t work anymore, could you PM me the latest version?

Thank you so much and great work!!!

Thanks! Sent you another PM

Hi I would LOVE a link to your regrade of FotR, please! The green tinted bluray makes my eyes and brain very sad.

For anyone that was understandably intimidated by the single 30GB file that’s in the Google drive, I’ve now encoded and compressed this edit down to two separate H.264 files of around 4GB each.

If you have a link to the folder this should still work, otherwise drop a reply and I’ll send you a PM.

Would love a link to this, please! Great work.

JumpyLion said:

Can I have a link to this edit, this looks really good

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sherlockpotter said:

I was rewatching some clips from V1, and something stood out to me right at the end - when it goes from Rey’s Theme to the End Credit fanfare, it’s like there’s an extra note in there or something? So rather than hitting the end credits immediately, it’s almost like it hiccups a wee bit? Am I imagining it?

This is the end of the Force theme that goes all the way over the start of the credits theme for a bar or so, crossfading it in harder just makes the fade sound strange and unnatural. Spent a loooong time trying to get it passable. Am more than happy for someone to have another go, though!

sherlockpotter said:
The vision…I’m less certain about. I still love the idea, and it’s something I’ve been meaning to work on myself; but something about it feels too subtle here, I think. I’m worried it doesn’t quite jive with the hyper-agressive way J.J. films his vision sequences in the other parts of the movie, so instead it feels like a nice, tranquil shot of the Death Star. That said, if it matches the tone you’re looking for in your edit, that’s what matters. I do think the concept is effective, and it’s great to see an example of it!

Thanks! It does fit more or less with the rest of the edit, I’ve added other visions and insert shots around the place (see here) that gesture at this kind of style rather than the more frenetic one JJ is fond of. I will definitely be tweaking this a lot more, though.

Just cross-posting this stuff from my edit’s thread should anyone find it useful:

No more dagger screams

After it was mentioned here I’ve been trying for a while to remove the connection of Rey’s psychometry with the murder of her parents, and more strongly to the Death Star and the Sith whisper MacGuffin. I’ve achieved this by both editing around the “no” screams in the cave, and adding a vision of the Death Star in Ren’s quarters on Kijimi.

A) No “no” screams in the Pasaana cave: https://streamable.com/5r05z9

B) Death Star vision on Kijimi: https://streamable.com/qiaazu

Just cross-posting this stuff from my edit’s thread:

No more dagger screams

I’ve been trying for a while to remove the connection of Rey’s psychometry with the murder of her parents, and more strongly to the Death Star and the Sith whisper MacGuffin from TRoS: Ascendant. I’ve achieved this by both editing around the “no” screams in the cave, and adding a vision of the Death Star in Ren’s quarters on Kijimi.

A) No “no” screams in the Pasaana cave: https://streamable.com/5r05z9

B) Death Star vision on Kijimi: https://streamable.com/qiaazu

Anakin Starkiller said:

An idea I had today was to make the reveal that Kylo and Rey are a dyad. Could that work?

I feel like it would fall flat. The audience doesn’t know what “a dyad in the Force” even is, let alone its significance to them as characters.