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Color Out of Space (Epic Cut) is a fanedit of the Nicolas Cage horror/sci-fi film based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. It’s like the movie Poltergeist meets The Shining.

The main highlights of this edit are (spoilers below):

• Slightly trimmed a few lines of opening narration
• Provided faster scene pacing so the first act isn’t boring and coma inducing (most of the edits are in the first half)
• Lavinia (the daughter) is more mysterious and doesn’t give her name to the stranger or have a contrived, unnecessary fight with her parents
• Tightened up the scenes so we don’t have to constantly linger on someone staring, walking, or literally nothing happening
• Added three time-bending flash-forwards during act 1 so we see brief glimpses of the insanity to come
• #1 Added a quick flash of a mutated alpaca’s eye to the dog staring at the alpacas scene
• #2 Added a quick flash of insane Nathan (Nic Cage) staring at the television as normal Nathan relaxes outside in a rocking chair
• #3 Added a quick flash of Nathan splattered with blood during the calm family dinner scene
• Removed bad and redundant dialogue, dumb things like Nathan chasing after the Mayor asking for a doctor
• Removed bad backstory such as the mayor trying to buy Nathan’s land and Ezra referred to as a squatter

Original length: 1h 50m. Edited length: 1h 41m.
RELEASED IN HD 1080 5.1 AAC

No over the top Nicolas Cage scenes were harmed during the making of this fanedit.

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Thanks for watching my edit of Hannibal Rising, Jimmy. I’m happy you liked it. If you have any criticisms feel free to share as well as this was my second time using Premiere. This is good practice for me preparing for The Rise of Skywalker.

officer, officer those two stole all my midichlorians

It would only be believable for Palpatine to have children while he was a Senator. Thus his son or daughter shown iyn Rey’s flashbacks is waaaay too young. Unless he was having sex while hooked up to that Exegol apparatus. Probably while the minions in the arena watched. What a disgusting thought!

V2 released. Enjoy.

You didn’t miss much. A lot of it was different versions of REV-9 tracking down Dani at the Mexico train station. Longer scene of Grace volunteering to be an augment. Sarah commandeering a vehicle. REV-9 eating at a cafe and not paying. Nothing too special.

Camsmurph yes I have seen them. Mostly redundant or alternate footage imo except for the REV-9 ordering Mexican police/troops in spanish. Why, did you have some favorite deleted scenes?

To inquire about this edit, email krausfadr at gmail dot com and include the word fanedit in the subject line.

The main purpose of this edit is to reduce bad humor and silliness and to improve the pacing of the action scenes. Terminator Dark Fate is a good film which should take itself seriously, not become another joke of the franchise. PM me for link and by doing so you agree you own the HD version of Terminator Dark Fate.

Major changes:

• Removed Carl the friendly neighborhood terminator’s family from appearing in person.
• Carl is more serious now, removed his extra-corny dialogue.
• A lot of the action was slowed by long, unnecessary pauses. This has been fixed.
• Removed a lot of bad dialogue and silly jokes. Kept the humor which was done well.
• Made Sarah more of a cool asshole instead of a sad asshole.
• The fight with the REV-9 on the plane turned into a real shitshow so this was refined and tightened up.

Original Length: 2h 8m
New Length: 1h 57m
4GB 1080p 5.1 AAC

Details of changes:

1. Trimmed the end of Sarah’s T2 rant in the psychiatric hospital and voiced it over into the skull beach scene. James Cameron was proud of this scene from T2 for sure but Tim Miller doesn’t need to replay the whole thing.
2. Trimmed T-800 walking away after killing John Connor so it doesn’t look like he’s strolling, out for a dip in the ocean.
3. Cut Sarah’s dumb VO line “and I am terminated.”
4. Cut Dani’s line referring to her brother as “little brother.” We figure this out soon enough.
5. Trim the REV-9 naked arrival landing and then standing up so he’s posing a little less.
6. Cut Diego’s multiple lines of “Go faster! Go faster!” as they flee in the junky truck. It makes him less annoying and seem more heroic later.
7. Cut slow-mo on Grace’s face as she stands in the back of the pickup truck, ready to hurl the bar at REV-9.
8. Cut Grace’s augmented vision zeroing in on REV-9’s head as he drives the dump truck.
9. Trimmed time of Dani in the truck trying to save her brother so the danger feels more immediate.
10. Trimmed Grace and Dani escaping from the truck so the REV-9 ramming it is more immediate.
11. Trim last several seconds of REV-9 reforming himself then looking around after ramming the truck.
12. Trimmed the REV-9 and endoskeleton just standing there on the road and not attacking.
13. Trimmed the REV-9 endoskeleton reaction to Sarah’s jeep bearing down.
14. Cut REV-9 just standing there admiring Sarah after she runs down the endoskeleton.
15. Trimmed Sarah’s dramatic exit from her vehicle.
16. Trimmed REV-9 reaction to Sarah so he starts his sprint toward Dani sooner.
17. Cut Sarah basically posing with the missile launcher.
18. Cut some of Sarah’s jokes in the motel.
19. Cut Dani questioning how much medicine Sarah is injecting into Grace and cut Sarah’s answer.
20. In Grace’s flashback cut a few parts of the officer giving orders because he looks a bit dorky. Focus should be Grace, not some rando meathead.
21. Same flashback. Cut drawn out close up of the skull.
22. Same flashback. Trimmed a few seconds after the officer ordered Grace to save the commander. They were both moving so slow.
23. Same flashback. Cut Grace saying she volunteers to be an augment. This is strongly implied already.
24. Cut Sarah’s line in the motel “sometimes mommies and daddies have to have grown up discussions.”
25. Cut Grace’s line in the car “You don’t fight it. You run from it.” Too pessimistic, even for Grace, plus it’s her mission to fight the REV-9.
26. Cut Sarah’s wannabe unabomber lines in the car about “America’s Most Wanted” and “get off the grid.”
27. Removed Sarah’s VO during train station establishing shot.
28. Cut Sarah’s jerky expression after she tells Grace “I was her. And it sucks.” Referring to Dani.
29. Trimmed Grace’s juvenile facial response to Sarah.
30. Cut the pause and highlight on the recording of Dani’s face when REV-9 accesses the data center. Also cut obvious references to location.
31. On the train ride cut dialogue about Mother Mary. It almost sounds like Sarah is jealous of Dani.
32. In the detention center after the medic finds the syringes on Grace and says “Nice body search fellas” cut the grimace of the fella who evidently didn’t search properly.
33. Cut Carl’s line “I’m not what you think I am.”
34. Cut Carl the friendly terminator handing out beers.
35. Cut Sarah’s lines about Carl’s wife being a terminator.
36. Cut Carl’s line about Alicia’s husband wanting to kill her child.
37. Cut some of Carl’s lines where he mentions family members by name.
38. Cut Carl the philosophical terminator’s line “Because without purpose we are nothing.”
39. Cut Carl’s line about raising his son.
40. Cut Carl the philosophical terminator’s line “I thought it would bring meaning to your son’s death.”
41. Cut Sarah’s line before she shoots Carl. Her reaction is more immediate.
42. Cut the Alicia reference from Carl’s line after he gets shot multiple times in the chest, bleeding “this will be very hard to explain to Alicia.” Funny line. Just need to reduce references to the wife who we don’t need to see.
43. Cut Carl’s family outside. Get right to the group discussion, planning the fight against REV-9.
44. In Carl’s weapons room cut his reference to protecting his family.
45. After weapons practice, cut the lines with Carl about keeping Sarah’s phone in a bag of potato chips. This recurring old man joke is not all that and a bag of chips.
46. Cut Carl saying goodbye to his family. Feels too silly and they’re just presented as props, not real characters.
47. Trim Carl talking about drapes (his occupation). It’s funny but just needs to be shortened rather than turning Carl into the rain man of drapery.
48. Cut Grace’s narration about the REV-9 coming back soon in the helicopter.
49. Cut Grace making a weird face as she pilots the aircraft, taking off.
50. Cut some of the characters floating around in the nosediving aircraft including Carl’s line “open the cargo bay.” It looks absolutely ridiculous.
51. Cut Grace karate kicking REV-9 in the face. It was kind of cool but edited so badly with the adjacent scenes. It had to go.
52. Cut Sarah messing around trying to open the cargo bay doors and looking very inept.
53. Cut REV-9 attacking the Humvee underwater. If the REV-9 can’t dispatch a target trapped in a vehicle underwater he’s not much of a terminator.
54. When confronting REV-9 inside the dam facility, cut Sarah’s rather weak line “you metal motherfucker.”
55. After the dam turbine blows, cut Sarah declaring “It’s not dead.”
56. Move Grace’s line about using her power source to fry REV-9’s neural net after REV-9 attacks Sarah and it’s clear it’s not dead yet.
57. Sarah yells at Carl to wake up once. This is now done in VO.
58. Cut Carl’s final line “For John.” We’re never going to reach the same level of sentimentality as the T-800’s death in T2 so let’s not milk it.
59. Cut Dani’s line to deceased Grace, “You saved me.” Silence is better here.

It immediately stops the devastating impact of Rey’s loss and separation from Ben. Emotional reversals. Sometimes things are bittersweet.

InitAbsolute said:

2. Some have complained that the Palpatine reveal in TROS would have been better if it were kept a secret and not revealed until during the action of the film itself. This edit seems to almost do the opposite. But at the same time it’s also sorta neat to have a subtle and obscure hint at Palpatine’s existence.

Subtle hints are best like when people rewatched Fight Club and thought how did I miss that. But using Palpatine’s voice in TJL goes too far imo. My edit of TROS will not have any Palpatine reveals in the crawl or in the beginning of the movie either. Poe won’t even mention him in his intel briefing. In any case, Poppasketti’s releases are always excellent, but for me I’m fine with the current finished version of Rekindled as I want to handle TROS differently and open with Kylo destroying Corellia, rather than visting Palpatine right away in his strobe light Halloween house.

On it’s own adding force ghost Ben with Luke and Leia is nice. BUUUUT with all the reverses: Chewie is dead, just kidding. C3P0 lost his memory, just kidding. Kylo got stabbed, just kidding. Ben fell down a pit, just kidding. Rey died, just kidding. Ben died for real… oh now he’s a force ghost. FML.

The Whispers and Hood (V4) looks fantastic! I’m non-plussed in general about retconning anything for TROS but this is really perfect.

Make two Emperor Palpatines in TROS because he cloned himself. Now they cackle together in full dolby surround sound.

I feel you

Hal 9000 said:

I’m not going back to TLJ, and am not interested in substantial alterations to suit this movie.

The feeling is mutual. Why retcon TLJ because of a faulty storyline. Fix the story first, then see if a retcon is really necessary.

One of the main issues with TROS was the non starwarsy beginning: a music video of Kylo on Mustafar leading to the jolting scenes with the Emperor. The beginning needs breathing room and coherence. This can be fixed.

Ha ha! So that’s what porgs become. We should keep Klaud then and have him be the minister at Finn and Poe’s wedding. To give JJ the ending he wanted.

FreezingTNT2 said:

Same with Billie Lourd.

Billie should stay because to me she’s royalty (and provides continuity). Klaud isn’t so funny since he’s really a repackaged Porg. I was fine with the Porgs in poppasketti’s version of TLJ (the best version of TLJ imo). But Klaud is too distracting much like the monkey elf who welds things…

Yes combining fan edits is a common practice and encouraged, even better if you have a little flair of your own to add in as well.

Yeah 4D V3 is nice!

Anakin Starkiller said:

The biggest difference between the PT and the ST is how much is borrowed from the OT. To make them feel consistent, we would have to make it consistent how much they borrow from the OT. That means make the PT closer to the OT while distancing the ST from it. Any thoughts on how to do that?

Start over.

For the slight update to Option 4D v2 there really seems to be a lot of of cuts back to the radio. It’s almost as if the radio is becoming a new character. I do like the ambiguity as to whether or not it’s a radio broadcast we’re hearing.

Hal 9000 said:

It’s not worlds themselves, sir, it’s their… people.

I think just saying “countless [disparate] worlds” implies organized political actions rather than what the ‘civilian army’ we see at the end.

Star Wars crawls are fun when the grammar is treacherous. I like writing formally and with an archaic flourish when at all appropriate.

Hal for my own personal edit I would like to use this crawl or a variation as long as you don’t mind me using some of your ideas:

The legend of LUKE SKYWALKER has sparked A NEW HOPE across the galaxy. Countless planetary systems now rise up in defiance of the diabolical FIRST ORDER.

REY, the last chance for the survival of the Jedi, seeks to commune with heroes of the past, while Supreme Leader KYLO REN prepares to destroy the planet CORELLIA and with it all memories of his father.

Meanwhile THE RESISTANCE dispatches secret agents to gather intelligence, desperate to end this long war…

The Horror said:

I suggest putting a clone of Luke in a tank on Exogol. That would imply the Luke we saw in TLJ was actually a deranged clone - maybe Luuke from the Thrawn Trilogy survived and tried to train some Jedi.

That’s hilarious and I kind of actually like the idea but would prefer it to be a clone of Palpatine. That way no gravitas is taken away from Snoke while explaining how Palpatine is still annoying the Galaxy.

NeverarGreat said:

Anything to lessen or remove the lightspeed skipping would be a plus. It’s the most patently absurd part of the movie, and that’s saying something.

Agree. But only because Poe keeps doing it over and over. Does he want to die? One skip should be enough to lose the tie fighters who will all kill themselves if they attempt the ill advised stunt. Plus there’s that ridiculous talking tree alien in the last skip who should be cut anyway.

idir_hh said:

Great follow up on his characterisation from TLJ, just wonder how you’re going to implement it.

Having Kylo Ren destroy the planet (now repurposed as Corellia) at the beginning to “let the past die” will be challenging but possible. It will require moving the First Order’s use of the superweapon to the very beginning. The result of the First Order board meeting (where Kylo forces the guy onto the ceiling) would then be to destroy Corellia. The tough part is it’s definitely going to require some dialogue changes.

I considered cutting use of the superweapon altogether since it was so unnecessary. But now making it Kylo trying to destroy his own demons gives it a real dramatic purpose and makes him even darker.

Thanks for your feedback and please keep it coming as we go.