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#1553427
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His Dark Materials: Film Edition (Released)
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Loving your work Thanos! I’ve watched all five features over the last couple weeks and wanted to congratulate you on a superb effort. Sticking predominantly with Lyra’s POV, cutting the early Will and Boreal appearances, and cutting various subplots/sideplots worked brilliantly; makes total sense and makes for better pacing to meet these characters and discover the worlds as the main character/s do. Pretty much everything that was needed to tell a complete and cohesive narrative was included, great use and placement of new and existing montages, and I didn’t find myself missing what was ‘missing’.

Perhaps one of the only moments I found myself pondering, narratively speaking, is how Lee Scoresby encounters the name ‘Stanislaus Grumman’ and decides to search for him…I know he announces it to the witches in the third film, but maybe I missed what gave Lee that idea and impetus (aside, of course, from being ‘summoned’ by Grumman/Jopari)…it’s been a while since I watched the original series, so can’t remember if there is a scene that indicates as much to the audience…but honestly, that’s a minor nitpick…

All-in-all, an excellent job in delivering a streamlined, alternative way of watching the series! Thank you!

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#1549742
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X-Men: The Dark Stand (released)
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Hey Cameron Samurai, just wanted to give you props too for another great edit…on paper its a crazy idea to try and stitch together two/three films made nearly 15 years apart, but you found the common threads, and somehow it works!

A couple of thoughts I had while watching…

  • to give more weight to Scott & Jean’s relationship and their reunion at the end where they look into each other’s eyes, I would’ve liked to see more young Scott/Jean earlier on…after opening credits, maybe have the scene I think from Apocalypse where Scott’s brother has brought him to the School and he bumps into Jean in the hallway where they have a heated discussion, followed by later when they’re outside and Hank gives Scott the glasses he made, and Scott sees Jean for the first time and they talk about both being outsiders…nice to see where they started, and where they end up

  • this intro could then be followed by a short montage of training / team-building before the X-Men are called upon to go into space [nicely echoed by the Danger Room training bit later in the edit with the next gen X-Men]…in my mind, this montage could possibly replace the flash-forward, though elements could be brought in later…rather than have this ‘flash’ this early in the film, echoing AhsokatheChosenOne’s comments, perhaps add a scene of Logan waking up from a nightmare at the Mansion later in the edit (utilising the Weapon X experiment scenes from Origins / X-Men 1, inserting a flash of Jean calming his mind)…so the fragmented sequence is from his perspective, not Jean’s…maybe it happened, maybe it didn’t…

  • I’d almost forgotten the Logan forest fight scene in X3, but seeing he’s running in a white vest, I thought there’s gotta be a way of editing in the forest Beserker scenes from the Logan film, where he’s running in a white vest! It may not be the cleanest AND I know he’s aged AND his vest is more bloody in Logan…but with some quick clever editing, I’m sure there’s a way of punching up your edit to a R rating!

Really appreciate your efforts dude. Thank you!

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#1499176
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Alternative Star Wars Movie Titles - Keep Checking the First Post!
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Offering 2 …inspired by the ‘Journal of the Whills’ originally-intended frame story, and also by suggestions from previous posters, here’s a re-tooling of the saga as THE JEDI CHRONICLES (with the titles reflecting a greater focus on the Jedi’s specific role / function / purpose / circumstances through the series)…

Bk.1 – Keepers of the Peace
Bk.2 – Knights of the Republic
Bk.3 – Guardians of the Temple

Bk.4 – Outlaws of the Empire
Bk.5 – Friends of the Rebellion
Bk.6 – Spectres of the Force

Bk.7 – Scavenger of the Sands
Bk.8 – Warden of the Scrolls
Bk.9 – Beacon of the Light

P.S. going down a rabbit-hole right now as I start thinking about flipping the POV for what could be called the ANNALS OF THE SITH

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#1498509
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Alternative Star Wars Movie Titles - Keep Checking the First Post!
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my offering for the ‘Skywalker Saga’…

Ep.1 - Star Wars: Resurgence
Ep.2 - Star Wars: Republic
Ep.3 - Star Wars: Renegade

Ep.4 - Star Wars: Rebellion
Ep.5 - Star Wars: Revelation
Ep.6 - Star Wars: Reckoning

Ep.7 - Star Wars: Relics
Ep.8 - Star Wars: Revenant
Ep.9 - Star Wars: Resistance

other randoms, in no particular order:
Dawn of Resistance / Ashes of the Empire / Ruins of the Empire / Shadow Apprentice / Dark Disciple / Shadow Recruit / Rebel Alliance / Rebel Scum / Search for Skywalker / Peacekeeper / Last Orders / Star Wars: Requiem / Reyn / Bloodlines / Ties that Bind / Whispers in the Dark

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#1498271
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Star Wars: The Last Skywalker Awakens - A sequel trilogy &quot;mega-edit&quot; (<em>RELEASED</em>)
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PM received with thanks ghost 😃

Just finished Part I … and its a job very well done; a brilliantly executed edit of the narrative delivering a satisfying movie experience. If I was pressed to give your Part I its own subtitle (while paying homage to / significantly ripping off another space opera franchise) then I would have to call it “The Search for Skywalker”…its how the film opens, what drives Kylo and Rey [+ Rebel Fleet + First Order] forward throughout while dealing with respective absentee parents, and when Rey finally finds him at Ach-To, we follow Luke eventually having to find himself (again).

I was of the camp that felt Abrams’ TFA was too derivative of the originals, while appreciating RJ’s attempt to open up the lore and mythos with TLJ. And I kinda feel now that TSLA Part I goes a long way to bridging that divide, and is the transition movie I’d been waiting for; finely balancing the old guard (essentially Han Act 1, Leia Act II, Luke Act III), and more successful in introducing and passing the baton to the new (Rey, Finn, Poe). Removal of the Starkiller base trash gets a big thumbs up; didn’t miss the Caretakers; enough humour peppered throughout. I was curious from the outset where Part I might finish, and now having watched it, I could not think of a better place! Everything is up for grabs!

So, again, great job ghost; excited to get into Part II!

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#1375487
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The Matrix: Édition Noir et Néon (WIP)
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Hey RoccondilRinon

So I was thinking if you’re trying to match dialogue duration to existing footage, the altered text you’ve drafted may be a bit wordy…and perhaps contains too much exposition. Taking the simplicity of the original text, and the new context of your altered draft, would something like this work:

The human brain is more powerful than any computer ever built by man or Machine. Unable to replicate the complex network of a billion firing neurons, the Machines, in time, found a way to harness the near limitless processing power of our conscious minds…

What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream-world, built to keep our sleeping consciousness under control, in order to change a human being… [holds up a pocket calculator] …into this.

Does this cover what you’re trying to convey?

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#1373550
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❕ <strong>Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com |</strong> Introduce yourself in here | <strong>Useful info within</strong> ❕
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Hey OT community, new member here. Big fan of movies, and storytelling in general, and I salute the passion, dedication and creativity of the editors and broader community, helping to evolve our contemporary stories. Found my way into the world of fanediting looking for digestible versions of The Hobbit (so far, have seen the Maple Films version, and sethlinson’s Bread and Butter Edit, both very good…parts I love, parts I would tweak, of course, if had the skills!), and looking forward to getting stuck in to some other classics, Star Wars, Matrix to name but a few! Will be exploring the OT site, please feel free to get in touch with thread recommendations and projects to keep an eye on. Cheers!