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Seconded.

Any new ADM edits on the horizon?

Sigh. I hate to see these rifts.

the forum is still open.

Bump.

Anyone?

Excellent! If you ever give up on this, I'm more than willing to take up the project.

Focuspuller, how are things going with the Munchausen set?

If you happen to need a cover/disc art, I would be willing to take care of that. Could also make backgrounds for menus if you needed.

I remember reading about these ages ago. Would be curious to see any of them.

Did anyone end up capturing the HDTV broadcast of this? Know where it is? Know if it actually aired?

I've got a place in my heart for "The Touch" too (dig around the Resparked DVD, and you might see what I mean), but you gotta admit, the 1986 movie would be pretty awesome with a huge orchestral score. The pop songs don't really fit the mood of the movie in several parts.

Can you guess what one of my (very distant) future fanedits will consist of? ;)

Yeah, that's a pretty crap-tastic song. Even if you like those songs, what they ultimately do is severely date the movie. See the original Transformers movie to see what what I'm talking about. Just like Lion (Transformers movie theme) and hair metal turned into a punchline, Nu-rock (or whatever it's being called) will the butt of several future jokes.

I don't mind the intro of the song, but I think it's too high in the mix, and when the vocals come in I vomit a little bit. Also the little chugga-chugga guitar bridge is amateurish at best. I'm working on two different versions of this, and will probably have a branching option for all three version on Resparked 1.2 and 2.0 (assuming I can figure out the whole branching thing).

Johnny Ringo said:

I'd be happy for a bit more of the dialgue since there's not really much else going on during it...But I have to say I am impressed with the new ending as is. 

I'm making another attempt at this, that will have some of the Linkin Park song, before the vocals come in, that fades into the orchestral piece. Will post that as soon as I'm done. I might still remove a little bit of the unneeded dialogue to facilitate there being less Linkin Park. It's too bad that every channel in the 5.1 mix has that damn song all over it. There isn't even a single channel that has the entire speech louder than the music.

I may end up just making this ending a branching option (assuming that I can figure out how to do that).

klokwerk said:

The song may not be the best, but I think it works well enough. That one simple line of dialogue is more than adequate I think.

 Yeah, I wish there had been another song playing (or none at all) with the new dialogue that I found (it's actually a different take), but I still think it's a better piece than the Linkin Park song, if not a little too sentimental a piece.

Here is a quick test of an idea I have for the end. Do you guys think that too much information is lost? I know the song is kind of cheesy, but it's the song that is playing during the voiceover from the alternate version I found.

I could also mix the beginning of the linkin puke song into the next song, but I think it would be too harsh of a transition. I kind of feel like the ending should be a little more somber, as they have lost their planet and one of their friends.

Thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrgxqr4OWZ8

Here is the original voiceover in its entirety with my notes:

With the All Spark gone [shown in the movie], we cannot return life to our planet [revealed earlier]. And fate has yielded its reward: a new world to call home [obvious]. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret, waiting, protecting [obvious]. I have witnessed their capacity for courage, and though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye [stated earlier in film].

(my test vid starts the voiceover here)

I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here. We are waiting.

form thedigitalbits.com:

"All right... we've got one last post for you today, because this just couldn't wait until Monday. We've just heard back from our friends over at Kino International. The good news is that they have officially confirmed that the newly-discovered footage from Fritz Lang's original version of Metropolis (which we mentioned yesterday) WILL be a part of the forthcoming special edition Blu-ray Disc release in 2009. What's more, the new special edition will be released on standard DVD format as well on the same day. Watch for more details on this sure-to-be-amazing release in the weeks and months ahead."