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#230169
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27 Days Later (28 Days Later: Soldier Redux Edition) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/230169/action/topic#230169
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Originally posted by: boon23
Originally posted by: iRantanplan
Why is it so small?


yeah. yeah. yeah. <sigh>
why is it so small...
It is actually as big as it needs to be. I used a CCE VBR special setting. It looks good and sounds good. And it is fast to up- and download, even though it is a full DVD.


Don't get so mad at me, it was a simple question.
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#229486
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War of the Worlds the extinctive cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/229486/action/topic#229486
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Wouldn't it be possible to leave out the basement scene completely? I had something like this in mind:
When Ray is forced to decide between his son and his daughter, she is taken away from two older people. At the point where Ray is running after her, one could put in a transition to the scene, where he is looking for his daughter after the basement scene. It would also be pretty devastating, because you would propably imagine, that the tripods slughtered all those people running away during the transition.

That really is something I should exploit....
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#228812
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cheer up, dude
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228812/action/topic#228812
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Originally posted by: Taolar
Originally posted by: cashiers
Now, rather than having a glaring hole in my ST collection -- 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8.... I can fit GENERATIONS (KIRKLESS GENERATIONS) in to that slot without hesitation.

I see that 5 is not in your collection. Have you seen the Star Trek Phase II edit of 5?

-T


I watched the Phase II Edit too, but for me it doesn't work. ST5 does not gain anything from cutting something out of it. I would propably make it longer. Okay, I would cut the crappy vision stuff out when Sybok makes the trio see their past.

Originally posted by: cashiersKIRKLESS is one of the most skilled fan edits that I've seen -- taking out major sections rather than adding in deleted scenes. And, to make a long story short; it works. There are still some logic gaps that come straight from the script but the removal of Kirk makes the movie move a lot faster and keeps it far more interesting.


Initially, Kirk was never part of the next generation part of the movie. He really would have died in the Enterprise B incident. They filmed additional scenes after the first screening, fans didn't like Kirk to die so early in the movie. And then, after a second screening, they reshot some of the Veridian stuff, because fans didn't like Kirk getting shot in the back.
So as you can see, the film definetly works without Kirk in the next generation part, because it was scripted this way. But my favorite cut would leave the Enterprise B stuff still in. Just remove him from the end.
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#228803
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War of the Worlds the extinctive cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/228803/action/topic#228803
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Originally posted by: boon23For "War of the worlds extincitve cut" it was anyway impossible to keep the 5.1 soundtrack, because we remade the audio in a major way, including voiceover and hundreds of sounds. The last 15 minutes were resounded and rescored from scratch.


Hi boon!
I watched this a few minutes ago, and I was really stunned what you have done with it! The basement scene was a bit rough I think, but given the source material, I guess it's the best you can get. There is no break in style now during the last third of the movie, which it really benefits from.

I hope you don't mind if I also put down some (constructive) criticism:
For most of the cuts you used fade transitions which was a pretty good idea, but those transitions seemed a little short. You should have made some of them longer, especially at the end, when you jump through time Maybe even add some artificial slow motion...
Not a real point for criticism, but I would have left out the last "10 billions years later" title. The viewer doesn't have to know how much time has passed, it should have been open to the viewer what to make of it. Slow fade to black after the nukes, 2-3 seconds just black and slow fade in to the epilogue. Perfect.
Same with the "hero" ending. No title card, just make a real blurry image.
Also, maybe you should have colour corrected the new inserted scenes, so they won't stand so much out. Or better, colour correct WOTW and leave the inserted scenes in natural colour

I quoted the above part of your posting for a purpose. When I watched the movie, I thought the basement scene (and the ending for that matter!) were a little obvious because there were some breaks in the score. Maybe you should have used an ongoing piece of score instead of fading from one to the other...[spoiler]The change in music is also very obvious when the aliens die[/spoiler]

In the end, if I would do my own fan cut, it would propably look like yours, maybe with some different transitions and a different score for the ending

By the way, could it be that the source for the mountain scene was non-anamorphic? Because it seemed a little bit blurry...
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#226607
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cheer up, dude
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226607/action/topic#226607
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Originally posted by: blonde_devil
I had a thought today. anybody try doing an edit of "First Contact"? It is a pretty sound movie but i had the idea of removing all of the Data/Borg queen scenes right until the end where Picard goes to Engineering after everyone else abandons ship. While those are good scenes, they can be removed and it doesn't hurt the main story of the movie. plus if you remove it, it makes a bigger impact towards the end when Picard is on the bridge and he hears Data say "Captian". Just like Picard, the audience assumed the worse and now realize he survived. As well, it makes a bigger impact when Picard sees the Borg Queen for the first time. We will have seen her at the beginning of the movie but like Picard, assume she is dead since we didn't see her through out the rest of the movie. then all of a sudden, she is there and Data is assimilated. it means getting rid of some cool scenes but in the end, I don't think it would hurt the movie any. Thoughts?


The idea sounds good, but why edit a movie that is allready good?
However, your idea could be applied to End of Days, revealing not until the very end, that Gabriel Bourne is indeed the Devil...
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#121751
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&quot;Spaceship Surprise&quot; - parody
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121751/action/topic#121751
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Originally posted by: soundtrackmaster
@ iRantanplan

Who says that German Comedies are not funny? They are. And (T)Raumschiff Surprise is really funny!


Nope, they are not. The whole Bully crap is not funny at all, not the "Der Schuh des Manitu" or "Die Bademeister - Weiber, saufen, Leben retten" or the "Bully Parade". You can continue this with the not funny at all Anke Engelke, Markus Maria Profitlich, this Sarah Kuttner Bitch or the whole bunch of "RTL Samstag Nacht" or any of those comedy series.

The only funny germans are Harald Schmidt (but does more like cabarett plus Conan O'Brien ist funnier), Christoph Maria Herbst and Olli Dittrich ("Blind Date and" "Dittsche" rule!).
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#118500
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Sci-Fi rip-offs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/118500/action/topic#118500
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Originally posted by: Jedikev
Turkish Star Wars?

that something i want to see.


http://imdb.com/title/tt0182060

It's a complete rip-off, it uses footage from various films, various soundtracks (i.e. raiders of the lost arc) etc.
Will propably never be released outside Ankara

You can find this through the well known file-share programs
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#116049
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ROTS without timestamp?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/116049/action/topic#116049
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
At least see it as many times in the theater as possible, and when it gets rotated out to make way for new releases, then, maybe it would be okay to download a *ahem* alternate copy.


Why should one go more than one time to see this flick in the theatre? A ticket costs about 6€, than you pay about 6 more € for a coke and some popcorn. You already spent 12€, and you gonna spend about 24€ for the damn dvd. I don't think the movie industry will go bankrupt on this...